FOX NEWS — DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is citing an "acute and immediate need" to waive dozens of federal laws to build a border wall in south Texas where illegal migration has surged. It's a sharp contrast to dismissals of the use of such barriers in the early days of the administration. The agency posted an announcement on the U.S. Federal Register that outlines construction in Starr County in the Rio Grande Valley Sector, where the administration says there is "high illegal entry." The agency says there have been over 245,000 migrant encounters in the sector this fiscal year.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Pope Francis called on “irresponsible” Western nations Wednesday to implement a “broad” lifestyle switch to halt the advance of climate change, according to a letter from the Vatican. In his Apostolic Exhortation, Francis discussed the “suffering” of the planet and warned that the world is “collapsing” due to “extreme weather phenomena, frequent periods of unusual heat, drought and other cries of protest on the part of the earth,” according to the letter. The pope went on to say that the U.S. emissions per capita were “two times greater” than China and argued that the “irresponsible lifestyle” of the West needed to be reigned in.... (more)

YOUTUBE — A week after ditching its formal dress code, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution to bring back business attire for male senators. It comes after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer had loosened rules after Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman was seen wearing shorts and hoodies around the Senate.... (more)

AP NEWS — Speaker Kevin McCarthy was voted out of the job Tuesday in an extraordinary showdown — a first in U.S. history, forced by a contingent of hard-right conservatives and throwing the House and its Republican leadership into chaos. It’s the end of the political line for McCarthy, who has said repeatedly that he never gives up, but found himself with almost no options remaining. Neither the right-flank Republicans who engineered his ouster nor the Democrats who piled on seem open to negotiating.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — As abortion rights are being heatedly debated across the nation in the wake of the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, Democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has suggested that it is better for families to destroy the lives of their unborn babies than it is to struggle economically. “Abortion rights are a class struggle too,” the New York congresswoman tweeted last week.... (more)

YOUTUBE — 60’s folksinger Joan Baez performs her friend Bob Dylan’s touching song "Forever Young," written in tribute to his first son, Jesse. The song is based on Numbers 6:24-26.... (more)

THE FEDERALIST — The corporate news media all but refused to cover the opening hearing of the House impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden on Thursday, and to the extent they did, it was only to repeat, at the behest of the White House, the exhausted mantra that there’s “no evidence” connecting Biden to his son Hunter’s international bribery scheme.... (more)

FOX NEWS — The Biden administration announced its latest regulatory action targeting home appliances late Friday, this time targeting popular home gas-powered furnaces. The Department of Energy (DOE) said the energy efficiency regulations would slash household utility costs by $1.5 billion on an annual basis while reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the residential sector. The proposal, according to the agency, require non-weatherized gas furnaces and those used in mobile homes to achieve a far higher level of efficiency than cheaper models on the market.... (more)

YOUTUBE — An enormous tower filled with 100 tons of bronze bells, some the size of a car, that you play with a massive keyboard at the top of the tower. Joey Brink is the University Carillonneur at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel at the University of Chicago.... (more)

PETER LEMISKA — Democrat politicians endlessly warn us about the “threat to our democracy” posed by Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans. Of course, that claim is patently absurd on two fronts. First of all, as most Americans know, we live under a constitutional republic, not a democracy, per se.... (more)

YOUTUBE — In his 85 years, constitutional scholar and legal expert Alan Dershowitz has played a role in some of the biggest legal and political moments of our time — basically every “trial of the century.” On this episode of "The Glenn Beck Podcast," Glenn gets a deep look at the most controversial case Alan has tackled yet. Dershowitz has said that two of the most unpopular people he has defended were O.J. Simpson and Jeffrey Epstein, but neither compares to his defense of Donald Trump. And the consequences of defending Trump have been catastrophic, not only for him, but for everyone he loves.... (more)

YOUTUBE — Over the years, Hoover senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson has graced Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson many times, often referring to his family home and farm outside of Selma, in California’s Central Valley. So for this interview, we decided to go to Selma and see where Hanson grew up and still lives and where several generations of his family—going back to the mid-19th century—have lived and worked the land.... (more)

YOUTUBE — Recorded on April 20, 2022, as part of a Classical Liberalism Seminar at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. By any measure, Dr. Jordan Peterson is the most famous (now former—as is discussed in this interview) Canadian professor of clinical psychology in the world. He’s also a deep thinker and a best-selling author of multiple books, and has amassed a huge following through podcasts, YouTube videos, and public speaking. Today, Jordan Peterson is one of the most influential voices in the “anti-woke” movement and this powerful interview with Peter Robinson of Stanford's Hoover Institution demonstrates why.... (more)

YOUTUBE — In "Library Time With Mrs. Poole," Mrs. Poole reads a short story that describes the controlling teaching methods of an unwise teacher that stifle—rather than encourage—genuine learning, which arguably always involves freedom of choice by the learner and wise guidance by anyone who would attempt to teach another. A classic tale by Helen Buckley.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — A major study shows that dozens of major school districts cross the nation have biases in their teaching hiring procedures, making sure that leftist ideologies are embedded in their classrooms. The study from the National Opportunity Project said its findings "raise serious legal questions in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision outlawing race-based college admissions. Employment policies in K-12 public schools that consider race, creed, and political ideology and are infused with biased language and decision-making processes unfairly, and sometimes illegally, skew hiring in favor of certain candidates."... (more)

BOB UNRUH — It was Francis Collins, who was Joe Biden's director of the National Institutes of Health, who demanded a "swift and devastating takedown" when experts in the field of medicine suggested that the Biden administration's lockdowns, shutdowns, social distancing and masking demands weren't really needed to deal with COVID-19. Collins falsely characterized those physicians as "fringe epidemiologists."... (more)

JERRY NEWCOMBE — September 9, Communists were burning flags in Chicago. They were “trying that in a large town” in their protests at a Jason Aldean concert in the Windy City. Aldean is best known for his hit “Try That in a Small Town.” FoxNews.com reports, “The protesters were raising awareness of RevCom (Revolutionary Communist Party), which believes in creating a Marxist revolution in America, calling the USA ‘the belly of the beast.’”... (more)

YOUTUBE — Jordan Peterson interviews Eric Metaxas on his DailyWire show and asks Eric, "why did you become a Christian?" Eric shares the story of how he turned to God, after attending Yale as an English major, around the time of his 25th birthday. In the story, Eric retells the dramatic and miraculous dream that brought him to life-altering faith in Jesus. "It was like going to bed single and waking up married" says Eric.... (more)

YOUTUBE — Jeff Sandefer is an entrepreneur and Socratic teacher. He started his first business at 16 and graduated from Harvard Business School. Jeff has started and runs many successful companies, his most recent being Sandefer Capital Partners, an oil and gas investment firm with several billion dollars in assets. He has also started multiple academic programs and schools, such as the Acton School of Business, whose students were named the “most competitive MBAs in the nation” by the Princeton Review. This has since extended into k-12 with the Acton Academy, a cutting-edge program that blends a one-room schoolhouse, the Socratic Method, and 21st-century technology to empower each student to change the world.... (more)

HILLSDALE COLLEGE — In 2020, members of the world’s elite met at the World Economic Forum and launched the Great Reset initiative to transform the world economy. Klaus Schwab, the founder and executive director of the Forum, wrote, “Every country, from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed. In short, we need a ‘Great Reset’ of capitalism.” In a recent issue of Imprimis—Hillsdale College’s digest of liberty—author Michael Rectenwald described the economic goal of the Great Reset as “‘capitalism with Chinese characteristics’—a two-tiered economy, with profitable monopolies and the state on top and socialism for the majority below.”... (more)

YOUTUBE — The Epoch Times film 'Gender Transformation' is a docudrama based on true stories about young people who transitioned to the opposite sex. One commenter wrote, "It’s like a picture book in documentary form."... (more)

YOUTUBE — Actor Dennis Quaid and producer David Tice discuss their new documentary 'Grid Down, Power Up,' which explores what would happen if all of the power in the U.S. went out, on 'Hannity.'... (more)

DEBRA HEINE — Federal prosecutors have finally filed a criminal charge against prominent January 6 protester Ray Epps. Epps, a former Oath Keepers member from Arizona, was charged with a single misdemeanor count of disruptive or disorderly conduct in a restricted area in U.S. District Court in Washington on Tuesday, despite his lead role in orchestrating chaos on that day. The charge carries a maximum punishment of a year in prison.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The House will be sending out several subpoenas now that it has announced an impeachment inquiry, and now, "we're all waiting to see" if they'll be enforced by the courts, one former acting atorney general, Matthew Whitaker, said on Newsmax Sunday. "What is going to happen now is they're going to develop the evidence and figure out how they can possibly file articles of impeachment against Joe Biden," Whitaker commented during Newsmax's "Wake Up America." "I think the most interesting thing is there's going to be a lot of subpoenas going out from the House now, and they're going to have the stamp of an impeachment inquiry."... (more)

NEWSMAX — Public schools across the country are approaching a “make or break moment,” Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona told Politico on Sunday. Cardona and other Democrats told the news outlet that public schools are facing a widespread crisis over the increased popularity of private schools and homeschooling in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Urban Institute found that enrollment in public K-12 schools dropped by over 1.2 million students during the first two school years of the pandemic, while enrollment at private schools rose particularly among kindergarten students and those in early grades of elementary school.... (more)