On a small vegetable farm in Lal-lo town in the northern Philippine province of Cagayan, Eduardo Pamittan starts his day before dawn. Since April, the middle-aged farmer has been trying to finish all his work between 4 a.m. and 10 a.m., before the late morning sun and humidity become “unbearable.”  “I have to wake up so early each day,” he says. “It is really unsafe to work under the unrelenting heat.”  And unrelenting it is, as record-breaking heat There are downsides. Rinaliza Alvarez, mother of a fourth grader who’s attended morning classes this past month, worried that “my daughter would…

Ukraine sent untrained recruits into the battle of Bakhmut to save its professional soldiers for an expected counteroffensive, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The Journal spoke with men who were part of a small group that was sent into Bakhmut, which became known as the meat grinder, just a few days after being mobilized. Out of 16 men in the group of draftees, 11 were either killed or captured. The Journal described them as “mostly poor men from villages in the northeastern Kharkiv region, many of them unemployed, doing odd jobs as handymen or shift work at factories in the regional capital.” Some of the…

As Israel’s hardline coalition government is ramming through legislation that would radically alter the country’s political character and system of government, alarm bells are finally ringing in Washington. Even President Joe Biden has finally picked up the phone and expressed his concern to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about his anti-democratic agenda. The growing American apprehension, however, has yet to be translated into meaningful policy action. So far, Washington has displayed its concern mostly with words. Senior Biden administration officials, including now the president himself, have emphasized the importance of safeguarding democracy for the future of U.S.-Israeli relations; Jewish members of Congress, both…

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is reportedly set to announce his candidacy for president next week. He’s currently trailing Donald Trump by 36.1 percent in RealClearPolitics polling averages, and his setbacks and challenges have been widely discussed. But beyond questions about his heavy-handed policy or supposedly chilly demeanor, he faces a more peculiar problem: The man hasn’t even announced yet and Americans may already be a little sick of him. He’s heading into his campaign announcement overexposed. A candidate can only enter a race once, so he should do it on his own terms. But whatever the date of DeSantis’s official announcement, that…

Friend, the Marxist Left is on a mission to tear down the United States Supreme Court.  Senate Democrats are calling to expand and pack the Court with radical justices.  Merrick Garland refuses to lock up the left-wing mobs harassing Justices and their families at their homes… even after one of those lunatics tried to assassinate Justice Kavanaugh.  And their liberal media allies are running one hit piece after another attacking Justice Clarence Thomas. This is all about one thing: power. The Supreme Court is the one institution liberals don’t control.