Residents in a small New Jersey township are outraged after they were treated to a post-election surprise: Some $26 million was stolen in a fraudulent wire transfer and was kept secret for weeks until after they decided who would run the municipality at the polls.

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Two exceptionally experienced skydivers died this weekend in a freak accident when their parachutes became entangled, causing them to plummet helplessly some 150 feet to the ground.

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One person was killed and three others wounded in shootings on Winston-Salem State University's campus Saturday night shortly before 10 p.m.

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How can I achieve happiness? 

This is a crucial question in human life, but it can be a difficult one to answer. Thankfully, we can learn much from the great philosophers and theologians of the Western tradition when trying to understand how to be happy. 

For many of these figures, including the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle and the medieval Catholic theologian St. Thomas Aquinas, happiness is intimately related to morality. 

For Aristotle and Aquinas, to understand morality one must understand the human person.  

Man is a rational creature, meaning that, unlike animals, he can reason about his goals and decide how he should act. That said, even though different people have different proximate goals—one wants to be a teacher while another wants to be a firefighter—all people have the same ultimate goal or “final end”: happiness.  

In order to achieve this end, human beings act, and actions are based on beliefs, especially beliefs concerning what is truly good. Therefore, it is crucial to sort out what is good in order to know what actions to take. 

Aristotle begins his “Nicomachean Ethics” by saying that “every action and choice is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.”  

He argues that the good at which all action and choice aims is happiness. Whether you are choosing what to eat for dinner or what to major in at college, you make your choice because you believe that it will help make you happy. One may decide to pursue a multitude of actions, but behind every decision is the pursuit of happiness.  

This might all be common sense. Perhaps the issue regarding morality and happiness has more to do with what, precisely, happiness is.  

Aquinas agrees with Aristotle that “happiness is activity flowing from virtue.” If we want to be happy, we must be good. If we desire to be good, we act in accord with the truth. When we live as if there is no truth, we become unhappy. 

Today, the world is awash with moral relativism. This is the belief that one cannot actually know what is right or wrong because these ideas are merely relative.  

According to Lifeway Research, 57% of Americans wonder how they can live more meaningful lives at least once a month. We live in the most comfortable society in world history, but we are unhappy. We desire to be happy, but we have forgotten that to be happy, we must be good, which also means that we need truth.  

The pursuit of happiness is not some abstract moral theory, but a matter of fact. Each decision made by a human being is made in order to achieve some good that he or she believes will ultimately lead to happiness.  

A moral relativist would not necessarily disagree that people want to be happy, but the relativist would say that happiness can be determined by each individual to be whatever he or she wishes. Maybe virtue makes one person happy, but another person finds happiness in vice, the theory goes.  

However, our actions can be measured against whether or not they lead to genuine happiness, which Aristotle argues is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue. Virtue, then, is the true path to happiness.  

In order to defeat moral relativism, we must be willing to speak the truth, which also means that we must be ready to face rejection. We should not speak the truth because we want to annoy or demean people. Instead, we should speak the truth because we love others and the truth. In loving, we must be willing to sacrifice. If we do so, we will become good—and happy.  

For this reason, Jesus preached: “Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness” (Matthew 5:10).  

Perhaps much of our culture’s decline is the result of relativism—a mindset that champions tolerance and false love. In order to be truly happy, we must remain rooted in reality; we must cling to the truth even when others misunderstand or even hate us. For the human person was made for truth. Clinging to it will never leave us dissatisfied.  

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A Nigerian op-ed offers a pointed observation about constitutional rights before questioning how the Supreme Court should approach AR-15 bans and Second Amendment protections.

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A Russian drone struck emergency workers on rescue missions in southern Ukraine on Sunday, hitting a former school and nearby shelter that had been earlier blasted by multiple Russian guided bombs as residents waited for humanitarian aid, authorities said.

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Canceled “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert (remember him?) fled an event at Harvard after someone triggered a fire alarm while liberal union protesters shouted outside over his decision to defy their picket line Thursday night and give a talk at the school.

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National Rally party leader Jordan Bardella will look to designate Antifa and related ultra-leftist groups as banned terror organisations in France should he and Marine Le Pen come to power at the presidential election.

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Texas has built a reputation as a bastion of freedom. No state income tax, a low cost of living, and huge corporate growth have drawn millions of people, adding 2.6 million residents since 2020 alone. The Dallas area has even taken the moniker “Y’all Street,” championed as a capitalist refuge from socialism in New York City.

But now, the policies that made the Lone Star State prosperous are under attack.

In the midterm election, Democrat Gina Hinojosa defeated three-term Republican incumbent Gov. Greg Abbott, becoming the state’s first Democrat governor since Ann Richards in 1990. Democrat James Talarico defeated Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, delivering the state’s first Senate Democrat victory since 1988.

Unfortunately for Texas, Hinojosa and Talarico are much more radical and unhinged than their predecessors.

Hinojosa has often defended illegal aliens instead of law enforcement, opposed the ban on state income tax, and pushed for unrestricted abortion. Talarico once claimed there are six genders, characterized Immigration and Customs Enforcement as a secret police force, and even called to “dismantle” capitalism.

This is a stark clash with Texas values. As Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson said at the Republican midterm convention, “Welcome to America’s sanctuary city from socialism. … Here, our actual political goal is to become America’s safest and most business-friendly city.”

In large part, people move to Texas for capitalism. The state consistently ranks first in the nation for job growth, with more than 14.4 million jobs in industries like manufacturing, aerospace, and life sciences. Low taxes and light regulation keep creating the opportunity that draws workers and companies. 

Despite this, Talarico will go on to represent the state in the Senate after having called capitalism an oppressive system linked to climate change and white supremacy.  

“I think only [by] ending the ways that all three of those oppressive systems work together are we going to be able to begin the process of dismantling them,” he said.  

Another reason why so many people love and move to Texas is because there is no state income tax. In her campaign, Hinojosa denied wanting a state income tax, but her record raises concerns. In 2019, she voted against HJR 38, a proposed constitutional amendment to ban an individual state income tax.  

“We rely so heavily in this state on property taxes, too heavily in my opinion, because we don’t have the third leg of that stool that’s required to have a robust and strong and resilient economy, which would include income taxes,” Hinojosa said.  

Hinojosa has also supported allowing illegal immigrants to stay in the country, consistently placing them above law enforcement, and even more importantly, everyday Texans. 

As recently as 2025, she voted against creating a homeland security division in the Texas Department of Public Safety. And in 2023, she voted against a bill to build the Texas border wall and pay law enforcement. The same year, she opposed a bill making it a state crime to illegally enter Texas from another country, and she opposed a bill to raise criminal penalties for human smuggling and running a stash house. As far back as 2017, Hinojosa voted against banning sanctuary cities in Texas.  

Despite coverage from legacy media, this immigration extremism also clashes with the Texan value of citizenship. According to one 2025 survey, 60% of Texans supported the mass deportation of most illegal aliens, 72% supported increasing targeted deportations of illegal aliens with denied asylum claims, and 73% supported limiting the number of asylum claims.  

Hinojosa’s support of keeping illegal aliens in the country could potentially make living more expensive, due to a shortage of housing. In September 2026, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed that states with higher illegal alien deportations are seeing the largest rent decreases.  

“Research shows that illegal-worker inflows push rents and home prices up. That inflow has been reversed in the states running the hardest interior enforcement,” the agency posted on X. “Want lower cost of living: support mass deportations.” 

State Rep. Brian Harrison called on Abbott to convene a special session to rein in executive emergency powers before Hinojosa takes office. He said he filed legislation to limit Texas governors’ emergency powers starting in 2022, after he was elected.  

“People are shocked to learn that in Texas we have these absurd and unconstitutional laws that give the governor the power to just govern by edict the way Joe Biden did and govern by executive fiat,” Harrison told the Daily Signal. “Hinojosa has pledged to use them starting on day one to manipulate our electricity markets.”  

Harrison also said when he served with Hinojosa, she wanted to work with him to repeal these laws, but we will see whether she was sincere or not when she takes office.

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