There goes Senator Tommy Tuberville again, having the audacity to do his job. In Washington, D.C. these days you can be assured you’re doing something right if you find yourself being criticized by career politicians from both parties for taking a principled stand on an issue that gets in the way of business as usual in Washington.
This time it’s Alabama’s senior senator having the gall to call out the Department of Defense and its unlawful policy of paying for personnel to travel out of state to have an abortion. Senator Tuberville has stepped up and placed a hold on all Pentagon promotions until the important issue gets resolved through the normal legislative process.
When former Auburn head football Coach Tuberville is attacked from all sides for simply asking for regular order, you begin to understand why America under the leadership of Joe Biden and Senator Majority leader Chuck Schumer is so badly off the rails. A recent Reuters survey found that a whopping 72 percent of those polled believe we’re headed in the wrong direction as a country, as opposed to 13 percent who think we’re on the right track.
The policy unilaterally put into place by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin (Auburn Alumni) is the latest example of the Biden Administration bowing to the radical left at every turn and abusing power in the process. Senator Tuberville is arguing that if President Biden and Secretary Austin want their wrongheaded policy to continue, they need Congress to pass it into law. Just like in the case of Biden’s illegal student loan program that was recently blocked by the U.S. Supreme Court, the executive branch doesn’t make the law; that power rests with the legislative branch, per the U.S. Constitution. We’re talking about Politics 101 here. And sadly, scores of our leaders in Washington could use a refresher course.
Common sense demands such as this have been known to make the D.C. uni-party throw a temper tantrum and Senator Tuberville’s courageous stand is no exception. Tuberville deserves praise for standing up for life and asking inconvenient questions in a forum that was once known for robust debate: the United States Senate. He’s asking about fundamental things like, why has the Pentagon gotten itself into the abortion business in the first place?
No serious person can argue that this isn’t a legitimate point. The Defense Department is supposed to be fixated on keeping our country safe, not consumed with enacting the agenda of the woke leftist mob. That chuckle you hear is from Communist China as they remain laser focused on becoming the world’s next superpower.
The position of Senator Schumer and his swamp agents is as pathetic as it is predictable. The nominations and promotions that Senator Tuberville is holding up can be moved if the Democrat majority in the U.S. Senate would just roll up its sleeves and actually do some hard work for a change. For example, the Democrat chairman of the Armed Services Committee said recently that clearing the 260 blocked nominations “through the regular procedure would take 27 days with the Senate working ‘around the clock’ or 84 days if the Senate worked eight hours a day.”
You see, in Joe Biden’s broken Washington, working eight hours a day is a terrifying thought. This is precisely the tone deaf behavior that disgusts hardworking taxpayers and the reason why 80 percent of the American people support term limits for Members of Congress.
Just like when establishment politicians threaten that a government shutdown would cause the world to come to an end if their latest multi-trillion dollar omnibus spending bill doesn’t pass, those same voices are now claiming that Senator Tuberville’s actions weaken us on the world stage. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, getting back to some sanity and regular order in Washington would make our beloved constitutional republic far stronger.
So, if woke stooges Biden and Austin want their Pentagon abortion on demand policy to continue, they need to get it codified into law. Until then, the Senate should debate each nominee on the merits and vote on them one by one. Thank you Coach Tuberville for your inspirational leadership — and doing your job.
David N. Bossie is president of Citizens United, and he served as deputy campaign manager for Donald J. Trump for President in 2016. @David_Bossie @Citizens_United
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
Families looking for a straightforward place to start can visit Heaven’s Harvest and use promo code Patriot for 15 percent off long-term storable food. The forecasts may yet soften, the strait may yet reopen, and we should pray they do. But hope is a fine thing to hold and a foolish thing to eat.
Well, Sen. T is certainly NOT affecting any military leadership as there is ZERO, as clearly evidenced by Milley, Gilday, Brown, Austin, Saltzman, DeAnna DeAnna Rosanna Bert and all the other fleabrains in uniform!
Any familiar with the recent Bonhomme Richard fire or the USS Connecticut Incident knows the military is over, and it’s strictly the Milleytary today!!! Unrecognizable!
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/shaving-ryans-privates-female-military-recruits-forced-shower-sleep-between-transitioning