As a general rule, writers — especially those of us trying to exist in the modern internet age — tend to employ hyperbole. After all, it’s much more fun to argue that the conspiracy theories around Charlie Kirk’s death and the squabbling over this country’s support of Israel are dismantling the conservative movement as we know it than to adopt the far more reasonable stance that these debates are the inevitable result of shoving a coalition of people used to questioning narratives into a tent and hoping the canvas doesn’t rip in a few places. With that disclaimer out of the way, please allow me to engage in what may sound like a bit of hyperbole, but isn’t. There are few political issues quite as abhorrent to the properly calibrated moral compass as assisted suicide. The idea that doctors, whose profession ought to involve fighting for life even when life seems impossible, would then engage in killing their patients, should cause your stomach to turn. The concept that the state would encourage whole groups of people — the elderly, the mentally distressed — to conveniently euthanize themselves should seem preposterous. (READ MORE: Is Healthcare ‘Burning’ Yet?) Nevertheless, laws with euphemistic names like “death with dignity” and “medical aid in dying” are advancing like a shroud over the West. Most recently, they’re trying to make their way to England. This summer afforded so many things to talk about in English politics (especially among Americans who tend to ignore the existence of their patrimonial island unless absolutely necessary) that, when the British House of Commons passed a vague bill that would make assisted suicide a “right” over the course of the next four years, we ignored it. As in American politics, that didn’t make the bill a law. Back in June, the Guardian predicted that, while it’s possible the House of Lords could block or delay the bill long enough to force the House of Commons to start the process all over again, it’s likely that — with a couple of amendments — it’ll eventually get royal approval. This week, of course, the bill came up for debate in the House of Lords, affording us a revolting video of Lord Charlie Falconer informing legislators that “we take the view that pregnancy should not be a bar to [assisted suicide].” (READ MORE: Texas Might Be the Only State Strong Enough to Face Real Evil) To be clear, the esteemed Falconer believes that a woman carrying an unborn and innocent child in her womb should be allowed not only to commit suicide herself, but also to take her child with her. Of course, the whole thing makes perfect sense if we embrace the internal logic of liberalism. Remember, a child is not a child until he takes his first breath; once life has been established (although it’s somewhat unclear exactly when that happens), the individual has complete and utter autonomy. He is his own god. He’s in control of his own life and death. If he finds life too onerous, he can simply end it, so long as he harms no one else in doing so. My body, my choice. This is the horrifying result of a creed rooted in radical individualism. It begins with the belief that the individual is the central “building block” of society, the nucleus around which everything — the family, religion, healthcare, and the state — revolves. Society must bend to fit our whims; it must die at the altar of our rights. If you think that’s just a British or Canadian problem, think again. Radical individualism is, perhaps uniquely, an American infection — and not just one afflicting the American Left. Libertarians and conservatives more broadly buy into it. This, of course, makes it quite difficult to discuss assisted suicide, even among conservatives. While we like to speak about a “Right to Life,” we never talk about our responsibility to life. Responsibilities, after all, aren’t quite as exciting to the general public as rights. Suicide is fundamentally an issue of justice. While the individual does have a right to life, that doesn’t mean his life is solely his own to do with whatever he wishes. He owes it to his family, to his communities, to his society, and to his state to continue living. Most importantly, he owes it to his God. READ MORE from Aubrey Harris: Australia Does the Social Media Thing Every Country Should Be Doing

A striking headline can distill an entire saga into a single, timeless line without a plot or nuance; just pure drama etched in ink.  Case in point: the New York Post’s legendary April 15, 1983, masterpiece, “Headless Body in Topless Bar,” which proved, once again, truth is stranger than fiction.   Recently, a similar but more discerning headline ran in the Wall Street Journal: “The Chinese Billionaires Having Dozens of U.S.-Born Babies Via Surrogate.” Chinese billionaires are using surrogacy laws in the United States to construct family dynasties, while raising significant ethical, legal, and national security concerns in the process. The most prolific case that highlighted this growing and largely unregulated surrogacy marketplace was that of Xu Bo, a billionaire Chinese video game mogul who has fathered over 100 children.  Yes, you read that right.  Xu treats his offspring as business assets, saying he favors “superior” male children. Xu is having these boys raised by nannies and eventually sent to China to run his businesses, a stark exploitation of both surrogacy and the children themselves.  Yet silence from American feminists.  Surrogacy is considered a legal way to build a family for those couples who cannot conceive. However, the scale of these efforts and their underlying motivations by foreign nationals pose troubling implications for a moral and thus civil society. At the core is the ethical problem of commodifying reproduction that has seemingly evolved into a marketplace for the wealthy, who exploit loose American laws through “regulatory arbitrage.” Such extremes are a troubling trend: The wealthy are treating surrogacy like a mail-order catalog by hiring multiple surrogates that meet expectations in order to engineer a “superior” bloodline for personal and business interests. America should not be a global haven for surrogacy when it risks reducing parenthood to a business transaction. The legal stakes are high: The 14th Amendment of the Constitution grants automatic U.S. citizenship to anyone born on American soil, so children born here via surrogacy receive citizenship, which defies the amendment’s intended purpose. Realizing what is at stake, Sen. Rick Scott introduced the SAFE KIDS Act to stop foreign nationals from exploiting birthright citizenship and address related national security concerns. The bill would void such contracts and impose penalties on brokers facilitating these agreements. As marriage and the family are deconstructed and redefined, the demand for surrogacy will only increase. Instead of a baby being the fruit of marital love, he or she will become the product of a business transaction. Surrogacy strips women of identity, casting them as mere carriers, a corporate label that commodifies life itself, which is able to be bought, sold, or discarded at will in an ever-changing world where convenience is king. The womb is rented out, the contract notarized, and just like that the most intimate mystery of human existence takes on the feel of an Amazon Prime delivery. A woman’s body is treated as a means rather than an end, and motherhood becomes just another side hustle of the gig economy rather than a lifetime vocation.   Children are gifts, not entitlements. No one has a right to have a child. Surrogacy flips that script, making the child the fulfillment of a want rather than a divine gift. Parenthood is reception, not acquisition. To frame human birth as the outcome of a contract perverts the meaning of family, while violating natural law.  Human life is not a service you can outsource like lawn care. Humanity is made in the image and likeness of God, and as such life must be safeguarded from conception to natural death. Life’s integrity, dignity, and mystery is a gift from God that cannot be contracted. When society loses sight of this truth, its foundation crumbles, and the weight of its impending collapse falls on everyone — Chinese billionaires included.   READ MORE: Pedophiles Are Buying Children. Does Surrogacy Deserve More Scrutiny? Woman Who Gave Birth at 62 Via IVF Accused of Committing Fraud to Get More Children Another Actress Is Glamorizing Surrogacy

The latest good news comes from Chile. José Antonio Kast is the new president. The European press has already labeled him “far-right,” which undoubtedly means he’s a normal, conservative guy with common sense who will do things right. Sometimes I wonder what headlines the Left will use the day a truly far-right leader emerges; perhaps they’ll need a compound word that takes up three lines of space. Let’s raise a glass to Kast and to Chile, which has renounced misery and corruption. Chile joins the long list of countries around the world that, in the new balance of power, are aligning themselves with the Right. The explanation is simpler than it seems. We’ve always believed that the postmodern Left declared war on the Right, on freedom, on private property, and on the most basic morality. But there’s something more important: It declared war on nature. And however arrogant a political stance may seem, you can never win a war against all of nature. The Left has tried to tell nature that it’s wrong about everything. It has even denied biology. And it has even tried to explain to nature that it’s also wrong about its perception of the climate, and that any warming it might be experiencing is the work of minuscule humankind. Nature doesn’t speak, but every now and then it laughs in the face of fools. The hatred of science wielded by the Left over the last two decades is astonishing. Consider economics. Socialism is a scientifically failed plan in every laboratory where it has been tested. But the Left says otherwise. And as for the social sciences (as a sociologist, I maintain that this is the first lie: calling something that isn’t science a science), they have been, from the beginning, the great ideological breeding ground for lazy progressives who, incapable of completing a real humanities degree or failing a science degree, invented a lesser qualification that lumps together nonsense from a bunch of subjects. Even granting the notion that sociology is a science, the Left has stubbornly fought head-on against its empirical truth: Men are not inherently violent or sexist, the difference between men and women is not a social construct, and the crimes of the poor are not the fault of the rich oppressing them. The list of absurdities defended by progressive sociologists for a century would fill a long essay, a long series of articles, which I promise to tackle someday if my friends at The American Spectator approve the idea. Medicine deserves special mention, where the entire body of knowledge accumulated over centuries has been overturned, demonstrating that the Left, if it were a single entity, would pat itself on the back every morning, delighted with its self-discovery. Sex reassignment is a lie; such a possibility does not exist, and yet they have insisted on practicing it. Hormone therapy makes people sick, not cures them. Abortion is not a medical option, but murder, something that goes directly against the very reason for medicine’s existence, which is to save lives. And euthanasia doesn’t alleviate any pain; it is also murder. I would have liked some consistent leftist to defend this position naturally and without euphemisms, to tell us, “I am in favor of killing the elderly and the sick,” and for the debate to begin there. The Left has fought tooth and nail against another empirical truth, this time from the scientific field of demography: that the family is the most successful model for building strong and stable societies. In criminology, they have denied the scientific evidence that punishing crimes is more effective in combating crime than the obsession with reintegrating individuals with a high probability of reoffending into society. Language isn’t technically a science, but they’ve tried to pervert its most basic rules to use it as an ideological weapon, tearing down what academics and the very evolution of speech over the centuries had built. And perhaps you don’t know this, but at the moment the wokeist structure collapsed, eminent left-wing thinkers were also working to dismantle mathematics. I know for a fact that in several European schools, a tagline has been added to the subject, and it’s now called “mathematics with a gender perspective,” which I suppose means that 1 + 1 equals 2 if you’re a boy, and any number you like if you’re a girl. Even engineering. There was a lot of laughter when a European minister announced a national plan to thoroughly analyze whether roads, tunnels, and bridges were built with a gender perspective. There wasn’t so much laughter when he announced the budget allocation he would dedicate to such nonsense. Anyway, friends, welcome to the new politics of common sense. Now all that remains is for the Christian Democrats in all those European nations where the Right has won the last elections to stop joining forces with the Left to prevent them from forming a government. Because at this point in history, I am more infuriated by those who boast of their common sense yet insist on striking deals with the deranged Left than by the leftists themselves, who inhabit a universe as lush and dreamlike as that of professional hallucinogenic mushroom testers. READ MORE by Itxu Díaz: The Sixth Annual Idiot of the Year Awards Give Me War and Give Me Castles Sánchez’s Spain Is a Caricature of Political Corruption

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by Martin Armstrong, Armstrong Economics: QUESTION: Marty, Socrates has forecast a global recession into 2028. Unemployment remains low, yet layoffs continue to make headlines. Inflation has slowed, but grocery prices keep rising. Corporate profits have climbed, but small businesses are struggling. Europe is imploding as you warned they would face a depression, while we have stagflation. […]

by J.B. Shurk, All News Pipeline: People often advise me not to engage in debate with leftists because there’s simply no point: Their beliefs are too dogmatic for their minds to be changed. Although I believe rational debate is like a healthy supply of water for any society, I understand the sentiment. It is incredibly […]

Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar is big mad about President Trump’s expanded travel ban for 3rd world countries. Today, President Trump added 20 additional countries to a travel ban list. More on that here: President Trump Adds New Countries To Travel Ban List, Here’s All 39 Countries Somalia, Ilhan Omar's home country, was already on the original travel ban list. After the extended list dropped today, Omar went on CNN to rage about how "cruel and inhumane" it is. Watch her full reaction here for yourself: Backup here, if needed: JUST IN: Ilhan Omar is PANICKING after Trump’s massive 3rd world travel ban, calling it “cruel and inhumane” We are keeping TERRORISTS out of America for good! It’s a good sign she is fuming. pic.twitter.com/DKCLpsE5gr — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 17, 2025 What's really "cruel and inhumane" is how these third-worlders wreak havoc on the West, through terrorism, fraud, and stealing from the taxpayer. If Ilhan Omar is against this travel ban, that's a pretty good sign that President Trump is doing something right to fix this mess created by previous administrations! If she is against it, then it was the right thing to do. — Thomad (@LundThomad) December 17, 2025 Your thoughts?

We have some potentially very big news to report… Tucker Carlson just said that Congress has been briefed that a war is happening. According to Tucker, President Trump will make the announcement during tonight’s White House address. Watch for yourself: Backup here, if needed: BREAKING: TRUMP TO ANNOUNCE WAR TONIGHT? Tucker Carlson dropped a bombshell on Judge Napolitano’s show: a congressional source told him lawmakers were briefed yesterday that a war might be coming. Tucker: “I don’t know the answer. here’s what I know so far, which is… pic.twitter.com/Lfhhl2exz3 — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) December 17, 2025 BREAKING: TRUMP TO ANNOUNCE WAR TONIGHT? Tucker Carlson dropped a bombshell on Judge Napolitano’s show: a congressional source told him lawmakers were briefed yesterday that a war might be coming. Tucker: “I don’t know the answer. here’s what I know so far, which is that members of Congress were briefed yesterday that a war is coming and it’ll be announced in the address to the nation tonight at 9 o’clock by the president. Who knows, by the way, if that will actually happen? I don’t know. And I never want to overstate what I know, which is pretty limited in general.” This drops during Trump’s ramp-up on Maduro: naval blockade on sanctioned tankers, strikes on drug boats killing 11, and troop buildup in the Caribbean, escalating over Maduro, oil, and cartels. Of course, news of a potential war comes as things have been dramatically escalating with Venezuela. The U.S. military has continued to unleash strikes on narco-terrorist drug boats carrying dangerous substances to the U.S. Just today, President Trump ordered a blockade of oil tankers to and from Venezuela, after seizing a tanker last week. CNBC reported: At least 34 U.S.-sanctioned oil tankers with a history of carrying Venezuelan oil are currently at sea in the Caribbean, according to a new analysis obtained by CNBC on Wednesday. And at least 12 of those tankers appear to be filled with crude oil from Venezuela, according to vessel location data from Kpler, a global trade intelligence company. One of the tankers, Skipper, was seized by the U.S. forces in the Caribbean last week and was being taken to the United States. Kpler provided the analysis a day after President Donald Trump vowed to impose a “complete and total blockade” on sanctioned oil tankers moving in and out of Venezuela. Trump also deemed the nation’s ruling Maduro regime a foreign terrorist organization. The U.S. is expected to block only sanctioned tankers carrying oil from Venezuela, not similar vessels that have other nations’ crude, including oil from Iran and Russia, according to Kpler. “In light of President Trump’s recent announcement, these tankers may be exposed to heightened scrutiny and potential enforcement actions by U.S. authorities,” Dimitris Ampatzidis, senior risk and compliance Analyst at Kpler, told CNBC. We’ll find out for sure if the U.S. is going to launch a full-scale war in Venezuela in just a few hours. President Trump is scheduled to address the nation live tonight from the White House at 9 PM. More details on that here: BREAKING: President Trump to Address the Nation from White House — Here’s When Stay tuned.

As we move deeper into the winter months, doctors are sounding the alarm about a more aggressive flu season already spreading across the globe. According to a recent report from Fox News, a new strain of Influenza A — H3N2, subclade K — is driving a surge in cases, including here in the United States. Public health experts are calling it a “perfect storm” strain due to its severity, rapid spread, and the fact that this year’s flu vaccine does not directly match the variant. Symptoms are familiar—fever, chills, fatigue, cough, sore throat—but reports suggest they are more intense and longer-lasting than what many people are used to. While mainstream media outlets like Fox News are just now reporting on this new variant, The Wellness Company’s Dr. Peter McCullough has been warning about it for weeks. Weeks ago, Dr. Peter McCullough warned on Real America’s Voice that we were heading into a difficult respiratory season — not just with flu, but alongside RSV and COVID-19. Dr. McCullough not only warned about this new variant but warned that the flu vaccine would be even less effective than usual against it. Telling Real America’s Voice: “This year’s dominant H3N2 strain is unlikely to respond well to the current flu vaccine formulation, despite millions of Americans receiving it.” STEP 1:  PREVENTION Dr. McCullough has consistently emphasized strengthening first-line defenses, especially during travel, holiday gatherings, and time spent in crowded indoor spaces. That’s why he recommends Immune Defense nasal spray and throat spray, used daily to help support the body’s natural defenses where viruses most often enter — the nose and throat.* These sprays are designed to help support protection against: Common cold viruses Influenza RSV COVID-19 They are especially important if you’re flying, using public transportation, shopping indoors, going to the gym, or gathering with family during the holidays. STEP 2:  EARLY TREATMENT While prevention is critical, sometimes nothing you do can prevent you from getting sick, that’s when early treatment becomes so important. That’s why many families choose to keep the Contagion Emergency Kit on hand. It includes physician-prescribed antiviral options—including Tamiflu, when appropriate—so treatment can begin at the first sign of illness, not days later after pharmacy delays or packed urgent care visits. When flu hits hard, timing can make a real difference. ACT TODAY TO BE PREPARED! This winter isn’t about fear — it’s about being informed and prepared. Flu strains change Vaccine effectiveness varies Respiratory viruses surge during travel and indoor gatherings Be prepared for whatever this flu season brings. Follow Dr. McCullough’s 2-step process to staying safe and healthy! First, with TWC’s Immune Defense Nasal spray and Throat spray – to avoid getting sick to begin with! Second, access to early treatment with TWC’s Contagion Emergency Kit. Two easy steps that you can take today to keep you and your family healthy! (Note: The information provided is intended for generalized informational purposes only and should not be considered personal medical advice or used as a substitute for professional healthcare guidance. It is your responsibility to comply with all applicable laws, regulations, and guidelines regarding the purchase, possession, and use of prescription medications. Thank you for supporting businesses like the one presenting a sponsored message in this article and ordering through the links provided, which benefits WLTReport. We appreciate your support and the opportunity to keep you SAFE and HEALTY!)