American culture has become obsessed with sexual identity confusion. This obsession has affected almost every aspect of public life, from sports (in a multitude of ways) to retail companies to beer. It has become such an obsession that a massive swath of corporate America will soon transform their branding into the symbol of this obsession for an entire month.
As the 2024 presidential primary begins to take shape, pundits of all descriptions treat their readers to theories of whether this or that candidate can hold onto the partisan base or persuade independents. Strangely, many corporations - all Democrats, apparently - are behaving in the same, partisan way. Their unbusinesslike behavior is hurting their bottom line.
When members of Congress started boarding their flights home Thursday, not one of them knew how long they'd be gone. The possibility of a shorter-than-usual Memorial Day recess looms large as negotiators desperately try to hammer out a deal on the debt ceiling before June 1. "Every hour matters," House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told ABC. "That's why the White House has to become very serious about this." To the average observer, it sounds ominous. But as Americans prep for the long weekend, plenty are wondering, how does any of this affect me?
The Biden administration approved tens of thousands of dollars in grants to a program that once taught watching the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) eased conservatives onto the path to become a neo-Nazi, a new report has found.
A Louisiana bill (HB 648) to protect minors from puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender transition procedures died in a Senate committee Wednesday after the Republican committee chairman voted with Democrats to sideline the bill in committee. On May 3, the bill passed the House on a bipartisan basis by nearly a 3-to-1 margin (71-24), but Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards (D) heavily lobbied against the bill before the fatal committee vote.
Disney just announced the cancellation of their $1 billion construction complex in Florida in response to their ongoing battle with Governor Ron DeSantis (R). The project would have included a new office compound that would relocate 2,000 jobs from California to Florida and would substantially advance the development of Orlando's Walt Disney World and the surrounding areas.
On Tuesday, a group of six Christian and Muslim parents filed a federal lawsuit against the Montgomery County Board of Education over the Maryland school district's decision to revoke the right of parents to be able to opt their children out of lessons that include the use of books promoting gender ideology and other sexual themes.
With less than a week to go until the June 1 deadline to raise the debt ceiling, negotiations between President Biden and House Republicans remain far from a resolution, and House progressives are shackling their party leader's maneuverability with their own demands.
The president of the Taiwan Legislature, Speaker You Si-kun, recently visited the United States. As an essential part of Speaker You's trip, he held a private reception to deliver a prestigious award to individuals who took a bold stand for human rights and religious liberty in China. Taiwanese leaders know better than most the importance of standing up to one of the world's top human rights violators. The island country stands as a bulwark of freedom in the shadow of communist China.
"How do you not understand that's unfair?" It's a question parents across the country are asking, as more and more of their daughters watch everything they train for vanish. For moms and dads at California's CIF-North Coast Section Meet, the outrage reverberated across the stands. They watched as Adeline Johnson, an 18-year-old senior, was eliminated from the state track and field championships - all because a biological boy decided to compete as a girl. "There's no way this should be allowed," one parent fumed. And yet, if Joe Biden has his way, it will be the future of sports for every girl in America.
The art professor fired for holding a machete to a reporter's throat and throwing a pro-life campus display on the ground is a self-described "black Marxist" who posted violent poetry on her personal website and said she identified with "real drag queens, real street dykes" and "risk-taking, sexually free nihilistic utopians."
On Tuesday, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy issued an extensive report warning that social media use poses a "profound risk of harm to the mental health and well-being of children and adolescents." The advisory marks the first time that the nation's top health official has formally addressed the issue, possibly signaling a watershed moment for a growing movement of parents, researchers, clinicians, and other health care experts who say that social media addiction is devastating the mental and emotional health of America's youth.
A Norway government watchdog agency has recommended the country revise its gender transition guidelines for youth after a review found the standards were based on inadequate scientific evidence. The Norwegian Healthcare Investigation Board (NHIB, abbreviated UKOM in Norwegian) said in its March report that "research-based knowledge for gender-affirming treatment (hormonal and surgical), is insufficient and the long-term effects are little known."
Approximately 36% of young Americans, ages 18 to 22, hold a positive view of socialism. However, for exiled Cuban journalist Yoe Suarez, this positive view of socialism is not based on reality. On a recent episode of the Outstanding podcast hosted by Joseph Backholm, Suarez and Washington Stand Editor-in-Chief Jared Bridges discuss their firsthand experiences with socialism and its wide-ranging consequences.
Robert Lachky was at the top of the corporate heap at Anheuser-Busch for 20 years. Like most people, he can't believe that the brand he helped bring into the modern era would commit financial suicide over a trans fad with zero American appeal. "That's insanity," he said of the Bud Light-Dylan Mulvaney partnership. "That's marketing incompetence." Well, if Target's latest decisions are any indication, the incompetence is contagious. And, as investors are finding out, so is the fallout.
On Monday, Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.) announced his run for president and officially launched his campaign. During his speech on the campus of Charleston Southern University - his alma mater - he warned Americans that, "our party and our nation are standing at a time for choosing: victimhood or victory." Scott's unique position as the Senate's only black Christian conservative immediately snagged the attention of hosts on ABC's "The View."
As part of its month-long focus on adolescent health, the Biden administration is promoting a document that tells Planned Parenthood and other taxpayer-funded family planning offices how to talk to minors about sex without their parents overhearing, and how to secretly deliver birth control to adolescents without parental knowledge or consent.
North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper (D) wants to abuse his emergency powers as an override-proof veto. A red banner over the governor's website warns, "Gov. Cooper has declared that public education in North Carolina is facing a state of emergency and he urges North Carolinians to contact legislators."
Former congresswoman Michele Bachmann sounded the alarm Monday about developments coming out of the World Health Assembly that suggest that the World Health Organization (WHO) is intent on establishing "a platform for global governance through health care" in the wake of the COVID pandemic.
China is an unjust autocracy that is threatening Taiwan, a free and democratic country. During his recent trip, Taiwan Legislative Speaker You Si-kun repeatedly cited Micah 6:8 from the Bible, "Do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with God," to tell those in D.C. that the world cannot do without leadership of the U.S. in the future.
From The New York Times to Fox News, Houghton University is now a hot media topic. The reason, as readers of The Washington Stand might well expect, has to do with the unyielding demands of sexual radicalism.
Republicans and one of the nation's most prominent Democrats agree on one issue: America's open border with Mexico has created a humanitarian crisis that has stretched multiple cities' resources to the breaking point. Yet while Republicans focus on increased border security, at least one Democrat wants the Biden administration to adopt a comprehensive plan to settle illegal immigrants in every city, town, and village in the United States.
Before her 10 month imprisonment in Russia, lesbian-identifying Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) star Brittney Griner was an avid national anthem protestor before her games. She had previously vocalized opposition to the anthem, claiming that the song was not representative of black Americans and went so far as to say that the anthem should not even be played at games. In a surprising turn of events - after her release from Russian custody - she both verbally and physically expressed a changed perspective, capturing America's attention.
Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen (R) on Monday signed a combination bill (LB574) protecting minors from gender transitions and protecting unborn babies after 12 weeks' gestation. The measure provoked several extremely pro-trans Democratic senators to engage in an unprecedented filibuster of the entire legislative session and barrage the bill with unserious procedural motions designed to bog the process down.
On May 12, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) signed into law a bill that requires pornography websites to prompt perspective users to verify their age before being granted access to the site. The legislation is the latest in a growing movement of states that are enacting regulations aimed at protecting minors from sexually explicit content online.
United States Agency for International Development (USAID) recently released a new draft "LGBTQI+ Inclusive Development Policy" aimed at "championing LGBTQI+ inclusive development and the human rights of LGBTQI+ people as part of a coordinated, whole-of-U.S. government effort with our partners on the ground." If enacted, the policy would be the first of its kind for USAID.
Even people paying close attention to the debt ceiling drama would've had a hard time keeping up with the weekend's on-again, off-again headlines. In the handful of days since Joe Biden left for Japan, the see-saw messaging was a show of extremes. One minute, the two sides are trading barbs; the next, they're making progress. All Americans really seem to know for sure is a) the June 1 deadline isn't flexible; b) the GOP is the only party with a plan; and c) far-Left Democrats don't like it - and they're willing to default on our loans to prove it.
"Does not compute." That catchphrase from the 1960s show "Lost in Space" certainly captures the Biden administration's decision-making of late. After a years-long process to find the perfect spot for America's Space Command, the most radical president in history seems to be hanging his final choice on a completely unrelated policy: abortion. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that the two issues have nothing to do with each other - unless you're a part of the new Left-driven Democratic Party, where social extremism eclipses everything.
Out of the presidency for two years, in early 1911, Theodore Roosevelt reflected on his long career in public service. Essential to any representative of the people, he wrote in The Outlook magazine, was to "never put holding his office above keeping straight with his conscience." Instead, "he should be prepared to go out of office rather than surrender on a matter of vital principle." Were Teddy alive today, he no doubt would honor Republican members of the Oregon State Senate who are refusing to return to their chamber until their far-Left colleagues come to their senses on gender "affirming" care for children.
Although contemporary feminist messaging considers abortion part of women's "liberation," a majority of women who identify as pro-choice suffered from worse mental health after an abortion, a new survey has found.
JPMorgan Chase & Company has been accused by 19 Republican states of "debanking" (the involuntary cancellation of bank accounts) members of conservative or religious groups. With rising frequency, clients associated with conservative or religious beliefs are reporting being expelled from financial institutions, including Sam Brownback, former U.S. Ambassador for Religious Freedom and current head of the nonprofit National Committee for Religious Freedom. "We've just heard of way too many groups and entities, particularly religious-associated ones, that have been canceled by their providers, and we want to start seeing some of these cases investigated," Brownback commented.
"A year or two back if you'd asked me whether graphic design was a safe job, I'd have said, yes, it was [a] pretty safe job - anything in the creative industries is a pretty safe job from racing against the machines. But now, actually, I would be somewhat worried if I was a graphic designer."
The State Department's latest woke move backfired so spectacularly it could have been manufactured by A.C.M.E. Around noon on Thursday, pronouns began to appear in the "From" line of email sent by all State Department employees. The problem was, many of the pronouns were wrong. Associated Press reporter Matt Lee raised the issue during a briefing by Principal Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel, who wasn't aware of the change. Within three hours, the State Department's Bureau of Information Resource Management (IRM) was "working to correct this immediately," according to a State Department spokesperson.
As concerns grow over the potential impact that harmful social media content is having on the psychological health of minors, a bipartisan bill has been introduced in the Senate that would require social media platforms to increase their built-in safety features and give parents increased control over what their children are exposed to.
Earlier this month, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned the U.S. could run out of money to pay its bills by June 1 if Congress does not raise the debt ceiling. This has led to a game of chicken between the White House and the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has a long and unfortunate history of targeting pro-life advocates for their beliefs. From arresting a pro-life father at gunpoint in front of his six children at their home to allowing violent attacks on churches and pregnancy centers to go unpunished, the Biden FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) are clear in their mission to destroy the unborn.
According to sexual abuse expert Conrad Woodall, many parents fail to realize that when they send their young children off to public school every morning, they send them into a sexual grooming abyss, with public school curriculums in America growing egregiously descriptive of sexual methods in recent years. Consequently, he says that children have been desensitized, and their vulnerability for sexual abuse has heightened.
With just two weeks left on the clock, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is finally admitting that "bipartisanship is needed" on the debt ceiling. But is it possible? After weeks of freezing out Republicans, President Joe Biden may be warming to the idea of a deal. Hinting at a new willingness to negotiate, the president told reporters, "... We're going to come together because there's no alternative," agreeing that "it would be catastrophic for the American economy and the American people if we didn't pay our bills. We have to do the right thing for our country. We have to move on."
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) signed five bills protecting women and children from the harmful implications of transgender ideology on Wednesday at Cambridge Christian School in Hillsborough County, most notably one that "will permanent outlaw the mutilation of minors," said DeSantis. Florida will "remain a refuge of sanity and a citadel of normalcy," DeSantis insisted, "and kids should have an upbringing that reflects that."
As the Los Angeles (LA) Dodgers prepare "to host sports' largest Pride Night of the year" on June 16th, the team has faced severe pushback for their announcement of an annual "Community Hero Award" recipient. Among the list of honorees, the team included the controversial Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (SPI), a "queer and trans nuns" activist group that claims to use "humor and irreverent wit" to call out "bigotry, complacency and guilt ..." After an uproar of opposition, the team reluctantly removed the activist group from their list.
As Senator Tommy Tuberville's (R-Ala.) public fight to reverse a Department of Defense policy that unilaterally expanded abortion in the military enters its 12th week, a burgeoning grassroots movement is blossoming in support of the senator's stand, and a growing number of fellow lawmakers on the Hill are also voicing their solidarity.
The North Carolina legislature voted Tuesday to prohibit elective abortions after 12 weeks, up from the previous limit of 20 weeks, overriding a veto from Governor Roy Cooper (D) by the slimmest possible margin. Republicans described the measure as a "compromise" bill designed to retain the support of their entire coalition, which had recently expanded to give their party a super-majority, while a Democratic senator called the bill "unthinkable and cruel." But state Senator Joyce Kraweic, who sponsored the bill, said on "Washington Watch," "it's a great day in North Carolina, for sure."
The Democratic Party has burrowed so deeply into the federal bureaucracy that it conducts "one continuous operation" of disinformation designed "to impact and interfere in our election using falsehoods across the board, election after election," said Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.).
During Tuesday's House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on the implications of the FACE Act, several very revealing moments occurred regarding the Left's public position on abortion. The hearing exhibited yet again that when it comes to late-term abortion and the possibility of placing limits on procedures that crush the intact skulls and tear the limbs from unborn babies, the Left's strategy is to evade, evade, and keep evading specifics.
After a Tuesday meeting with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), President Joe Biden agreed to streamline negotiations on the debt ceiling by deputizing close advisors to communicate directly. "Now we have a format, a structure," said McCarthy, although he said the two sides remain far apart with only days before a June 1 deadline. "What we're trying to do is end the wasteful use of dollars," Representative Chip Roy (R-Texas) said on "Washington Watch," that "funds the very tyranny of government that's undermining our liberty and undermining our way of life."
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) on Monday signed three bills to excise woke ideology from state higher education institutions and promote productive education goals.
Theology is always closer to the surface of the day's headlines than you might think. And theology usually has a way of intruding into our lives, often in unexpected places. A recent example of theology bubbling up to the surface in the entertainment world occurred in the most recent episode of NBC's long-running drama "The Blacklist."
We offer those who dislike their sex no service in affirming or condoning their tragic misconceptions, especially given that they cannot define what maleness and femaleness even are. Redefining sin is no answer to either emotional distress or, more importantly, separation from God.
Although Americans have known for years that the 2016 Trump campaign did not collude with Russian intelligence, the Durham Report "should shock every American," because it revealed the anti-Trump plot reached all the way to President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, a U.S. senator told "Washington Watch with Tony Perkins."
While major banks downgrade Anheuser-Busch's stock and Bud Light becomes a corporate punch line, a quartet of CEOs seem all too happy to join them. As the beer company implodes under the weight of a national boycott, their cautionary tale seems lost on four companies, who've decided to follow transgender advocacy straight to financial insolvency. Who are the brands foolish enough to ride Bud Light's tattered coattails?
The Biden administration has reached a new low in their war on the unborn and those who hold a pro-life position. Allegedly, they are now targeting pro-life mothers and other individuals whom the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deems to be "radicalized suspects."
On Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee held a subcommittee hearing to address the federal government's lack of prosecution of perpetrators of the dozens of attacks that have taken place against pregnancy resource centers and churches in the wake of the leaked Dobbs Supreme Court decision last May, despite statutory authority to do so under the FACE Act, as well as the targeting of pro-life activists.
Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) and Representative Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.) on Monday introduced two bills aimed at protecting children from gender transition procedures into the Senate and House of Representatives, respectively. While the bills have been introduced into Congress before, in this session they follow a wave of state legislation designed to protect children in response to increasing awareness of the extent and harm of gender transition procedures on minors.
For months, the Alabama Republican has waged a fight against the Defense Department's woke agenda by blocking the Senate's approval of nearly 200 promotions for military generals and flag officers. The military establishment, Senate Democrats, and the Biden administration have resorted to name-calling and unfounded warnings - even though Tuberville insists he won't budge until the Pentagon reverses its policy subsidizing abortions.
Maybe President Joe Biden isn't the only one with cognitive deficits. At a fundraising event in Atlanta Friday, his "border czar," Vice President Kamala Harris, insisted that everything on the border is "going rather smoothly" - an absurd assessment for a country that just watched more migrants cross the border last week than fits in Dallas's AT&T Stadium (83,000). While our country is overrun by terror suspects and drug smugglers, the crisis earned barely a shrug from the two leaders, who spent their weekends either lounging by the beach or raising money for the party defending this lawlessness.
On September 27, 2019, Judge Darrin P. Gayles cracked the gavel in a historic sentence: six months in prison, two years of probation, and the restitution of $12,522 for Sa\u00FAl Santos Ferro, among other charges, for failing to indicate his ties to Castro's Ministry of the Interior (MININT) when completing his application to reside in the United States.
Kristi Brown, executive director of a crisis pregnancy center in Asheville, North Carolina that was vandalized in June of 2022 by a group of abortion extremists, recently told Fox News that politicians, like city and county leaders, still have not spoken up about the crimes committed last summer.
If you want more voters to support Democrats in a given area, empty its churches, says an expert new analysis. Every 10 years, the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies counts the number of people in each county who belong to a church, synagogue, or mosque. Ryan Burge, an associate professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University and research director for Faith Counts, overlayed that data with partisan voting patterns and came to one clear and inescapable conclusion.
A new study out of Denmark has revealed that up to 30% of schizophrenia cases in young men may be linked to marijuana use. The findings coincide with the steady increase in cannabis use over the last decade as more and more states legalize recreational use of the drug. Experts say a combination of cultural and legal shifts have prompted people to see marijuana in a more positive light and have led to a sharp increase in addiction and related health problems.
Leadership is essential, and we admire those who lead well. That's been true throughout history, as we see in the Bible's account of the first two kings of Israel, David, and Saul.
Government collusion with Planned Parenthood now has a price tag: $1.4 million. Last week, an eight-year legal battle finally ended after the state of California agreed to pay a hefty sum in attorneys' fees to Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF). The state was ordered to foot ADF's legal fees for illegally forcing ADF's clients - Skyline Wesleyan Church, Foothill Church, Calvary Chapel Chino Hills, and The Shepherd of the Hills Church - to finance abortion in its employee health insurance plans.
The married couple of Ivette Bermello and Edgerton Ivor Levy crossed with their son in the shark-infested waters of the Florida Straits in a boat. They arrived in the southern keys in 1993, pretending to seek political refuge. They were actually part of the Wasp Network, a Cuban group of spies that monitored military installations and contributed to the murder of four Americans who were guiding rafters to the mainland.
The humanitarian and security crisis on the U.S. border with Mexico is a direct result of the Biden administration's failure - if not refusal - to put in place responsible immigration policies, Chad Wolf said Thursday on "Washington Watch." "This is a crisis that didn't need to occur. This is a crisis not because of a lack of resources or authorities," Wolf told host and Family Research Council President Tony Perkins. "This is a crisis because of bad policies that were put in place almost two years ago."
After combing through thousands of financial records linking a web of shell companies and foreign interests to the president's family, a congressman has come to a conclusion: "The Biden family is a syndicate," Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas) told "Washington Watch with Tony Perkins" on Thursday. "You could liken this to Watergate," Fallon said. "The more we investigate, the more we find."
"There is no such thing as someone else's child. ... Our nation's children are all our children," President Biden said recently during a speech honoring the 2023 national and state teachers of the year. These words may not seem all that significant. After all, as people who care about our neighbors, community, and country, we want to have a positive impact on children's lives. What parents do not want the love and support of extended family, church family, friends, and teachers?
Today, the federal government faces an impasse, with Democrats - who control the White House and Senate - and Republicans - who control the House - unable to reach an agreement on raising the debt ceiling and reforming spending - at least so far. Prayer can and should be part of the solution. Here are a few reasons why.
A recent poll conducted by The Economist/YouGov found that only four in 10 Americans claim religion is "very important" in their life. The survey also addressed the participants' thoughts regarding the stock market, the next presidential election, and inflation.
Today, messages of "trying times" are echoing across the planet - and particularly among Christian believers. These really are times of trial, testing the souls of Christians in every corner of the world. And believers are not only experiencing spiritual battles. In countless places, they are facing the edge of the sword, the blazing fire of arson in their homes and churches, and the death or disappearance of their loved ones.
Major nations spy on one another. We spy on China, Russia, North Korea, and many other countries. What's remarkable about China and the "weather balloon" that wafted gently across American skies is the contempt Beijing showed for the United States in venturing to send a sophisticated data collection tool right over our homeland. China's brazenness spoke to something that must not go unnoticed: Their disdain for President Biden.
Among the 300,000 Cubans who in just one year ran to the other side of the U.S. border and the thousands more on rafts, there are also servants of totalitarianism. Not simple employees, but officials of state institutions or participants in the repressive propaganda machinery of the regime - wolves among sheep.
After a fruitless meeting Tuesday, the debt ceiling negotiations that were set to resume at the White House Friday have been postponed, a Biden official confirmed. With the date of a June 1 default date looming large, the delay puts leaders in an even tighter time crunch to resolve the biggest crisis outside the southern border. Thanks to conflicting schedules, the days are dwindling for both sides to wheel and deal - a high-stakes situation that Republicans insist the country should have never been in. "We've done our part," Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) insisted on "Washington Watch." "... [W]e need [the president] to come to the table in good faith."
In a recent official government report, the Biden administration has warned that Americans' "health may be undermined" due to their "decline in participation" in church services and other religious activities. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued the first-ever government advisory on the "epidemic of loneliness and isolation" earlier this month, calling persistent isolation an "urgent public health issue" that impacts the physical and mental health of millions.
On Tuesday, news broke that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded a study on mostly minors who purported to identify as transgender, in which they were given cross-sex hormones over the course of two years. Two of the study's participants ended up committing suicide, and 11 more experienced suicidal ideation. Lawmakers and doctors are expressing outrage that taxpayer dollars were used to fund a study that caused death and irreversible harm to children.
On May 17, the U.S Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will hear Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA, the case determining whether the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) approval of the abortion drug, mifepristone, will be reversed. Since this lawsuit was filed, the abortion lobby has spread lies, telling people that the reversal of mifepristone's approval would jeopardize the use of birth control (it doesn't), make miscarriage management dangerous (another lie), and attack women's health (which is straight-up dishonest). FRC's Mary Szoch takes a look at the facts of the case.
It is encouraging to see that Mr. Trump remains committed to defending the little ones in the womb. But how much more heartening it is to know the God Who gives us the privilege of protecting them and their mother from the abortion industry. That's a high calling, and we'll never retreat from it.
Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) once again stymied his Democrat colleagues from approving nearly 200 promotions for military generals and flag officers - while also picking up an ally in his ongoing dispute with the Pentagon over its new abortion policy. The latest standoff took place Wednesday evening when Senator Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) asked for unanimous consent to move forward with the nominations.
The United States has opened its arms to Cuban exiles since 1959, but the current crisis on the southern border and the lack of control in legal migration processes attract servants of the socialist tyranny and violators of human rights to the same country where the regime's victims found refuge.
There's a reason men like Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) are so popular: they lead without apology. After years of timidity from the Republican Party, they've been a refreshing change from the hand-wringing GOP who wilted under cultural pressure. For a while, it looked like Republicans had really leaned into this warrior mentality, refusing to be intimidated in the toughest of debates. Then Dobbs happened - and the old reflex of cowardice is back, threatening to undo every pro-life stand the party has ever taken.
On Tuesday, President Biden stated that the U.S. southern border was "going to be chaotic for a while" days before Title 42 was set to expire on May 11. But in a surprise move, the Biden administration resurrected a Trump-era immigration regulation on Wednesday that tightens restrictions on migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. The measure comes amid law enforcement officials along the border reporting being overwhelmed by the surge of humanity.
Family Research Council President Tony Perkins has shared the details about his meeting with former President Donald Trump amid media reports the Republican front-runner had backed away from the pro-life issue ahead of the 2024 presidential election." The purpose of the meeting was simply to encourage the president to stay strong on the issue of the sanctity of human life. And I can report that the former president, Donald Trump, has not changed his position," Perkins told listeners of "Washington Watch" on Tuesday.
The Tuesday meeting between congressional leaders and President Biden to discuss the debt ceiling and budget cuts went well or poorly, depending on whom you ask. Biden said the talks were "productive," while House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said he "didn't see any new movement" towards a negotiated solution to the debt ceiling impasse. Treasury Secretary Yellen has warned the U.S. could miss payments on its debt by June 1 unless the debt ceiling is raised, and President Biden has refused to consider any plan to raise the debt ceiling that includes spending cuts.
President Joe Biden's family received more than $10 million from foreign entities - mostly while he was vice president, according to information released Wednesday.
In recent months, several politicians have left the Democratic Party on both the federal and state levels, choosing the so-called "lesser of two evils."
Waves of grief continue to break over Texas, as the tight-knit Allen community comes to grip with the weekend's senseless shooting. As the names and pictures of Saturday's victims were released by police, hearts across the country shattered at the news that two families had lost multiple loved ones. A six-year-old boy, orphaned by the death of his parents and brother, is all that remains of the Cho family. Other moms and dads reeled at the horror of losing two elementary-aged daughters as the Mendozas did. After Nashville, Louisville, and so many other devastating tragedies this spring, people are desperate for answers. When will it end - and what can we possibly do to stop it?
After threatening a Catholic hospital's accreditation on April 20 over a glass-enclosed candle kept burning in a chapel, the Biden administration has abruptly folded. Last Tuesday, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty warned it would pursue legal action on the hospital's behalf unless the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) relented from its demand that the hospital extinguish the flame. Last Thursday, CMS clarified in a conference call that it would not require the hospital to extinguish the flame.
Critics are calling a Texas bill that would require the Ten Commandments to be posted in public school classrooms an example of "Christian nationalism." But the bill's sponsors say the legislation is needed to help remind students of America's biblical foundations.
President Joe Biden will host House and Senate leaders from both parties on Tuesday afternoon to discuss urgent plans to raise the debt ceiling before a June 1 deadline. Biden has not met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) since February 1, but McCarthy's negotiating position grew much stronger after House Republicans in late April passed a bill tying a temporary debt ceiling increase to spending cuts.
Grand Forks, North Dakota is, as they might say out west, a far piece from Beijing, China. Yet the Chinese communist government has an unusual interest in one of the more obscure regions of North America.
If Joe Biden's team drew up a nightmare scenario for his reelection announcement, even they couldn't have predicted something this awful. A string of crises, policy failures, and negative polling have all combined to make the rollout a complete dud by most pundits' standards - and the idea of a second term unimaginable by most voters. Is two years already too much? The majority of Americans seem to be saying yes.
After Bud Light's "ill-fated marketing campaign" that featured a transgender woman, it appears that Smirnoff, a brand of vodka produced by the British company Diageo, has made a failed attempt to keep their partnership with Texan drag queen and transgender-identifying woman Maxine St. James LaQueene quiet.
Americans overwhelmingly oppose hormonal gender transition procedures for minors, according to a Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation (WaPo/KFF) poll publicized Friday. According to the published results, 68% of U.S. adults oppose children ages 10-14 having access to puberty blockers, and 58% oppose children ages 15-17 having access to hormonal treatments (which would include puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones). The surprising statistics come despite relentless cultural pressure promoting transgender ideology and opposing state legislation to protect children.
On Friday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas claimed on "NBC Nightly News" that "the border is secure." The statement comes as the number of apprehensions at the U.S.'s southern border has spiked to record highs, with an additional surge expected in the coming days when Title 42 expires. In response, border state officials say they are preparing to take immigration enforcement into their own hands due to a lack of effort from the federal government.
In a move that has critics crying "socialism," the Biden administration created a new policy that will raise mortgage fees on low-risk borrowers so high-risk borrowers can pay less. They call it "equity."
According to the American Civil Liberties Union, a new Indiana law that prohibits teaching on human sexuality to children in pre-kindergarten through third grade is designed to "control what youth can and cannot read, what they can and cannot learn, and - most troublingly - who they can and cannot be." Perhaps I have lived too long in a deep and unlit cave, but is it not true that we prevent small children from reading about sadomasochism, bestiality, and Stalinist torture techniques? Is this not a form of "control?"
Anheuser-Busch hasn't exactly been teaching a master class on marketing after its poisonous partnership with Dylan Mulvaney. When sales crashed, CEO Michel Doukeris tried the "It wasn't a campaign - it was just a can" excuse for Bud Light's relationship with the trans influencer, but it was $6 billion too late. Now, the U.S. Navy seems to be floating the same alibi for its drag queen recruiting videos. "The program has concluded, and the Navy is evaluating it," Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin claimed. Well, the evaluation from House and Senate Republicans is in, and if this doesn't stop, "heads will roll."
The Senate Judiciary Committee held a Tuesday hearing on "Supreme Court Ethics Reform" - as part of a discreditation campaign National Review's Andy McCarthy likens to "a multifront jihad." The hearing followed a series of hit-pieces released across various left-wing outlets based upon the slimmest possible evidence, all carefully calculated to portray the court's conservative justices as unethical slimeballs.
As millions around the world tune in to watch the once-in-a-lifetime coronation of King Charles III, others will turn their eyes to the Kentucky Derby to see a less prestigious king crowned. The contest, the highlight of the horse racing year, represents one-third of the Triple Crown ... and its garland of roses virtually always crowns a king. Today, biological reality dominates horse racing as fully as it disappears from human society.
On Thursday, news broke that the Biden administration's Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is threatening to revoke the accreditation of a Catholic hospital in Oklahoma for allegedly presenting a safety hazard with a burning candle in the hospital's chapel. The directive is being challenged by religious freedom and legal experts on the grounds that it violates the hospital's right to religious free exercise.
Receiving more than $100 billion in funding since just 2013, the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is the most substantial governmental effort to address a single disease. President George W. Bush launched the initiative in 2003 to fight the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. Now, however, the Biden administration seems to be circumventing the initiative's original intent of treating and preventing HIV/AIDS and using the program as a channel to fund abortion overseas.
As many as one out of every seven American men have experienced worsened mental health due to losing a child through abortion - including a majority of men who describe their views on abortion as "pro-choice," a new study finds. In all, 83% of such men said they either sought help or could have benefited from talking to someone about their emotions, according to a new study commissioned by Support After Abortion and conducted by ShapardResearch of Oklahoma City.
When King Charles became Britain's monarch upon the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, he took an oath to uphold "the true Protestant religion." Charles has for years taken pains to say that he prizes the "inclusion of other people's faiths and their freedom to worship" in the United Kingdom. In other words, as he has said, "While at the same time being Defender of the Faith, you can also be protector of faiths."
President Joe Biden may have invited the top four congressional leaders to the White House, but no one is quite sure why. According to the White House, he has no intentions of debating the budget bill that House Republicans passed earlier this month. Despite the ticking time bomb of a national default, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre insisted Biden "is not going to negotiate on the debt ceiling." Republicans need to "do their job," she argued. But Republicans have, Rep. Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) fired back. "[We] put forth a budget," she said. "We've done our job. Now it's the president's job and the Democrats' job, quite frankly, to do theirs."
The Federal Reserve Board voted unanimously on Wednesday to raise interest rates for the 10th straight time to the highest rate since 2006, before the Great Recession. Days before the Fed's meeting, a third (since March) large bank failure shook markets and investor confidence, making the Fed's quest to "return inflation to its 2 percent objective" an increasingly delicate operation.
On Monday, state legislators in Arizona filed an ethics complaint against state Rep. Stephanie Stahl Hamilton (D-Tucson) after she was caught on tape hiding Bibles in the House lawmakers' lounge. Stahl Hamilton, who is a Presbyterian minister and attended Princeton Theological Seminary, apologized last week and characterized her actions as "playful." But disrespectful acts toward Holy Scripture that take place in a state capitol building are far more serious than that, and it is good to see the lawmakers who filed the complaint recognize it.
While there were once many in Congress dedicated to federal protections for the unborn, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins recently expressed concern that a growing number of Republicans in D.C. seem content to move the fight to the state level now that the Supreme Court has struck down Roe v. Wade.
As news broke that Chinese authorities are branding members of the Uyghur ethnic minority in Xinjiang as "extremist" for simply having a copy of the Quran, a U.S. congressman is warning of ongoing espionage efforts conducted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to infiltrate American universities, as well as U.S. trade and financial sectors.
In a rare move, Colorado lawyers have promised a judge not to enforce a recently passed law banning medication to reverse abortions, rather than try to defend it in court. "We do think it's very telling [that], when presented the opportunity to defend the law that the state had just passed, the state chose to run away," said Becket Fund counsel Rebekah Ricketts, who is representing Catholic health care provider Bella Health and Wellness, in their lawsuit.
The Biden administration made "sexual and reproductive health" the focus of the first week of National Adolescent Health Month, highlighting a federal website that connects teenagers and minors - "especially" low-income and minority Americans - to Planned Parenthood facilities at taxpayer expense.
The Biden 2024 campaign announcement video makes it clear that Team Biden plans to double and triple down on his "battle for the soul of America" messaging. The term "MAGA extremist" must poll well for them, and we can expect to see more and more traditional views attacked as "MAGA extremism." Team Biden is determined to smear parents as "book banners" linked to "MAGA extremists" like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-Ga.) and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R). (Oh, the horror.)
In response to a Utah law set to go into effect Wednesday requiring pornography sites to verify the age of users in order to block access to minors, MindGeek, one of the world's largest pornography companies, has blocked all Utahans from accessing their flagship site Pornhub, along with a number of other porn sites owned by the company. In light of MindGeek's move, experts are pointing to a potential sea change that could occur in internet safety for minors if more states follow Utah's lead.
A new Biden policy represents a significant shift from USAID's gender policy released by the Trump administration in 2020. Rather than simply affirming the inherent worth and dignity of women and girls, the Biden administration's new policy devalues women and girls by espousing a radical gender ideology as well as overt sexualization by championing the global use of contraception and abortion, even for young girls.
A Montana judge on Tuesday denied Montana Representative Zooey Zephyr's (D) Monday request for an injunction against the House's censure vote, which would have allowed him to return to the House floor.
A U.S. grant worth $500,000 designed to promote English language instruction and professional development in Pakistan somehow shoehorns the transgender agenda in as an essential program requirement. To win the grant, an applicant must detail a plan to "Strengthen English capacity and professional capability of Pakistani transgender youth and of Afghan teachers, students, and young professionals residing in Pakistan." An estimated 10,000 Pakistanis identify as transgender, or 0.004% of the population.
One year after the leak of the Dobbs decision, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said the pro-life ruling made the conservative majority "targets of assassination" - a deadly outcome which a legal expert described as the "ultimate purpose" of the unauthorized disclosure.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released its 2023 Annual Report, highlighting religious oppression taking place in dozens of nations around the world. In the report, the independent watchdog "sound[ed] the alarm regarding the deterioration of religious freedom conditions," then outlined policy recommendations for the U.S. government in response to their findings.
We need to abandon the idea that if only evangelicals were kinder and more understanding, opposition to our convictions would vanish. There is no question that our speech must be "seasoned with salt" (Colossians 4:6), an ancient metaphor for winsomeness and wit. Paul writes that Christians are to "persuade" others to come to the Savior (II Corinthians 5:11). However, refusing to budge from culturally unpopular convictions brings antagonism.
The military's frenetic embrace of transgender ideology is being implemented too slowly, complained a team of five researchers led by Air Force Colonel Dr. David A. Klein, in an article presenting eight policy recommendations to expand gender transition procedures for minors in the military hospital system.
Today's map of the world reveals explosive conflicts, crumbling alliances, and features three huge countries led by men of international significance. These world leaders' names are persistently in the headlines: Xi, Putin, and Biden. Unfortunately, only two of them appear to be successfully maintaining global power and influence.
While the percentage of high school students who reported they had ever had sex fell from 47% in 2011 to 30% in 2021, a growing number of young people appear to be rejecting heterosexuality, according to a survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
It is becoming increasingly impossible for churches and denominations to remain noncommittal on the moral issues of the day. On this point, the Christian Reformed Church in North America (CRCNA) offers a particularly intriguing case study.
Years after many declared the debate on same-sex marriage closed, a chapter of the Republican Party has passed a resolution defining marriage exclusively as the union of one man and one woman based on nature and the testimony of Scripture.
There seems to be an increase in claims that conservatives and Republicans want to "ban books" - especially since Florida signed the Parental Rights in Education bill into law in March of 2022. The phrase "banned books" can lead people to think of book burnings. But are sexually explicit and critical theory books in schools really something to be concerned about?
Paul Stanley, co-founder and frontman of the iconic hard rock band KISS, recently stepped outside of the musical lane and gave his two cents about a social issue: gender transition surgery on minors. In his tweet posted Sunday that he titled "My Thoughts On What I'm Seeing," the musician deemed parents normalizing sex changes for children "a sad and dangerous fad." His "thoughts" raised an array of rather controversial responses across several social media platforms.
On April 28, Montana Governor Greg Gianforte (R) signed into law SB 99, a bill that prohibits puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and genital-mutilating surgeries for minors. A similar bill was sent to the governor's desk in Oklahoma on April 27. Both pieces of legislation passed their respective state legislatures by a wide margin, signaling the broad public support that these types of laws are receiving despite intense pressure from left-wing activists to torpedo the bills.
Exposing trans madness in education doesn't require advanced degrees, political influence, charisma, or even 18 years of life, as one plucky middle-schooler demonstrated. At the April 13 School Committee Meeting for Middleboro, Mass. Public Schools, 7th grader Liam Morrison, a student at Nichols Middle School, stepped up to the microphone for two minutes of public comment - and then reached up to turn it down towards his mouth. He then narrated for the school committee what might be the silliest reason any student has ever been sent home from school: wearing a shirt conveying factually accurate information.
In the past roughly 40 years, we've seen the rise of the "gay rights" movement. Its latest iteration, transgenderism, has risen so rapidly we are awash in reports of gay pride marches and drag queen story hours. Debates about transgenderism are raging in state legislatures and on college campuses. Many people, especially young ones, are searching desperately for a place to belong, to be part of a community, to obtain some kind of affirmation from their peers.
In an age of rapidly declining happiness and rising anxiety, those who embrace the biblical values of faith and family are far more likely to thrive, a new secular survey has found.
Not surprisingly, brothers and sisters play an important role in influencing each others' behavior. Research shows that siblings generally spend more time together than with parents or friends, and the bonds between siblings often outlast spouses or parents. Though siblings' roles in the family are often overlooked by scholars, the impact of siblings on development and wellbeing (both positive and negative) are substantial.
The Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision was historic - a victory that the pro-life movement had been working towards for nearly 50 years! Yet as Family Research Council and its allies emphasized, the work is not done. Continued advocacy is needed to protect the unborn and to support their mothers and fathers - especially in states where abortion is legal. Several of these states don't even ensure that infants who survive abortion are given proper medical care.
Are ordinary people capable of doing extraordinary things? Was Jesus merely a really nice guy who gave some great advice on being kind, or was his life and mission an unprecedented revolution that challenges the very limits of the human heart? These are some of the profound questions explored in Season 3 of "The Chosen," a crowdfunded and free-to-stream series depicting the life of Christ and his disciples.
The North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday issued two opinions upholding the legislature's election laws and reversing the court's previous decisions. The reversals come after Republicans flipped the two seats on the seven-member court up for election in 2022, creating a 5-2 majority.
On Thursday, the Kansas State Senate voted 29-11 to override Governor Laura Kelly's (D) veto of a bill that will require women seeking chemical abortion to be informed about the possibility of reversing the effects of the abortion pill. Pro-life advocates are applauding the legislation as an important step toward protecting unborn life and ensuring that women are fully aware of their options when considering abortion.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a complaint Wednesday, alleging that a new Tennessee law (SB 1) protecting children from gender transition procedures violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. The complaint alleges the Tennessee law "denies necessary medical care to children based solely on who they are" - thus imputing to SB 1 an objective more inhumane than any law from America's century of racial segregation.
She was ranked second in the world in women's road running, but today? "I would be a complete nobody," the U.K.'s Mara Yamauchi told Dana Perino. Like a lot of the sports world, she watched in disgust as Glenique Frank, a biological man, ran the London Marathon in the women's category, beating out 14,000 actual females in his sports bra and rainbow gear last weekend. "It's absolutely unfair," two-time Olympian Yamauchi argued. Pretty soon, she lamented, we won't have real women in sports at all. And Lia Thomas's Democratic apologists seem just fine with that.
Planned Parenthood's latest annual report reveals that the multi-billion-dollar business has diversified its portfolio beyond abortion, pushing deeply into the transgender industry by offering puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to young adults and minors - often while explicitly withholding this information from parents.
Oh, the preening of some academic scholars. Advanced degrees, tenure, and insulation from market-based competition create within them a sense of superiority which to challenge is like questioning the rotation of the earth around the sun. Occasionally, though, the scholastic earth can be thrown off its axis.
On Monday, North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum (R) signed S.B. 2150 into law, a measure that protects most unborn babies from abortion at the moment of conception. Republican lawmakers are hailing the legislation as a bold step toward instilling a strong pro-life, pro-woman culture in America.
The Montana House of Representatives voted Wednesday to censure Representative Zooey Zephyr, who alleged that lawmakers voting to protect minors from gender transition procedures (in SB 99) had "blood on your hands." At first, House Speaker Matt Regier (R) simply refused to recognize Zephyr until he apologized for breaking the House rules of decorum, but on Monday Zephyr encouraged disruptive protestors in the balcony, refused the sergeant-at-arms' request to settle things down, and visited the arrested disruptors at the county jail. For the remainder of the 2023 session, Zephyr will be allowed to vote remotely, but he will be barred from the House floor.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) hasn't had an easy path. After painstakingly working through conservatives' gripes with House leadership this January, he finally squeaked out the votes he needed to assume the third most powerful job in Washington. But even after that chaos died down, questions loomed. Was he cut out to be speaker? Would he bring the fractious, competing corners of the GOP together? In a staring contest with Democrats, could he win? The answer, Americans learned from a hard-won victory on the budget bill, is a resounding yes.
We know America is experiencing a mental health crisis, but the Youth Risk Behavior Survey recently released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) illustrates just how serious the problem has become for America's young people. In 2021, almost three in five teenage girls felt persistent sadness. Girls are twice as likely to be depressed as boys, and one in three girls said they seriously considered suicide. This is a real crisis, and several factors are relevant.
The Supreme Court's Dobbs decision has already impacted Planned Parenthood according to its newly released annual report, which shows the group committed thousands fewer abortions in the year justices delivered the landmark human rights ruling. Yet the amount of taxpayer dollars flowing to the nation's largest abortion business increased by tens of millions.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted (7-4) on Tuesday to repeal a 2016 law forbidding city-funded travel to and requiring city agencies to boycott businesses in states with laws that protect unborn life, women, children, and religious liberty. "It's not achieving the goal we want to achieve," admitted Supervisor Rafael Mandelman.
The Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization has been met with a wide range of responses by pro-abortion activists desperate to maintain America's status as the country with the most radical abortion law in the world. Jackie DesForges, an artist living in California, created the "Church of Potential Life" where she developed a "new, imaginary religion that sort of worships abortion and female autonomy."
A new study on the worldview of Americans reveals that the number of people who identify with a religious faith is continuing to drop, concurrent with an ongoing decline in a sense of purpose among millennials. At the same time, polling research also shows that political participation among religious conservatives is at an all-time high.
Is Fox News intentionally trying to go the way of BuzzFeed News? Why does it seem that Fox is intentionally handicapping their network to give CNN a fighting chance?
In the military, most men and women would do anything to save a life. They'll jump on grenades, parachute into enemy territory, walk across landmines. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) isn't asking them to do any of that for the lives on the line with Pentagon's new abortion policy. All he's requesting is that a couple hundred flag officers wait a little longer for their promotions - an inconvenience that could save as many as 4,000 innocent lives. Who could possibly object to that? Radical Democrats, of course.
Far-left Democrat Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) raised eyebrows - not to mention blood pressures - with her response to Tucker Carlson's abrupt departure from Fox News. Her most offensive comment was not the mean-spirited joke, "couldn't have happened to a better guy," nor the possibly libelous claim that Carlson was "arguably responsible for driving some of the most amounts of death threats, violent threats, not just to my office but to plenty of people across the country," but the political conclusion she drew, "deplatforming works, and it is important, and there you go."
President Joe Biden officially announced he plans to seek reelection in an online video message that indicates he plans to wage a social issues-focused campaign that presents unrestricted abortion-on-demand and same-sex marriage as "our rights" to "personal freedom."
A new study conducted by Brigham Young University's Wheatley Institute has found that individuals who saved sex for marriage have significantly higher levels of marital satisfaction than those who had multiple sexual partners before marriage, confirming what numerous previous studies also found.
Left-wing protestors disrupted the Montana House of Representatives from the balcony for half an hour on Monday, chanting in support of state Representative Zooey Zephyr (D). Zephyr, who identifies as transgender, lost his speaking rights after claiming last week that lawmakers who voted to protect children from gender transition procedures had "blood on your hands." The disruption ended after police arrested seven protestors and cleared the building in riot gear.
"We're hoping they don't notice." That's what a handful of GOP operatives told Rolling Stone when they were asked what pro-life voters would think about Republicans ignoring the abortion issue. We're "advising [our] candidates to talk as little as possible about abortion proposals at this time," they said. That's horrible advice, movement leaders fired back. "Not only has the pro-life position historically provided more voter enthusiasm," Kristan Hawkins argued, but "it remains a core distinction between the two parties, for those with the skill and fearlessness to make the case." To the relief of pro-lifers, RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel doesn't just agree - she's on a mission to prove why.
"We cannot escape history," Abraham Lincoln wrote in his December 1862 message to Congress. He was right: Reality tends to be persistent - fond wishing to the contrary aside. And the reality is that America is facing an increasingly hostile world. Whether you think of China, Russia, North Korea, or a number of lesser militant powers and movements, resentment of the land of the free is rising to a boil in a cauldron of violence, jealousy, and power-lust.
Fox News Channel announced it cut ties with the top-rated host in cable news, Tucker Carlson, on Monday, just days after he gave a widely praised speech imploring leaders to pray that God will preserve America from the progressive movement's "evil" agenda.
While Anheuser-Busch reels from the backlash over its partnership with Dylan Mulvaney, another brand is jumping feet-first into the fire. Over the weekend, media personality Oli London retweeted a post of Mulvaney "getting glam" with Maybelline, which has apparently joined the ranks of companies like Nike who think the best way to sell products to women is by mocking them. But if Bud Light's $6 billion nosedive is any indication, the damages will be much more than cosmetic.
Chris Tyson, 26, is a popular YouTube personality whom many young children and teenagers have come to know on MrBeast's channel. It is very likely that your kids know who Tyson is because the channel has 146 million subscribers; in fact, MrBeast is the most-followed individual on YouTube. Recently, Tyson has been receiving a lot more media attention because he revealed that he identifies as transgender.
The Supreme Court on Friday temporarily restored new FDA rules permitting the widespread distribution of the chemical abortion drug, mifepristone. The brief order, from which Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented, granted without comment two "applications for stays" brought by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Danco Laboratories, LLC., which manufactures abortion pills.
With pressure mounting on President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to reach a deal to raise the debt ceiling before an unprecedented default on the federal government's debt sometime this summer, House Republicans are urging McCarthy to stand his ground on demanding government spending cuts before agreeing to raising the debt ceiling.
Project Veritas's Wednesday expose uncovers the subtle, persistent culture of "affirmation," which sacrifices medical prudence and the child's well-being to the selfish interests of the transgender cult.
After a deflating 2022 midterm election, the surest path to lose the White House would come from Republicans refusing to speak on the issue of abortion, the party's chair told aspiring candidates.
"There's a man in the hot tub." A middle-aged woman, hair still soaked with pool water, pointed down the gym hallway toward the women's locker room. The man at the front desk glanced uneasily at us, then back at the woman wrapped in a towel. She was visibly upset, repeatedly insisting that she was uncomfortable with a biological male using the hot tub in the women's locker room. She argued it wasn't safe for the young girls there. I shouldn't have been surprised to see this direct exchange, but to be honest, I was.
If one didn't know any better, one might think this was the day Don McClean sang about when he said it was the day the music died. Instead of saying "Bye, bye Miss American Pie," we were all saying our farewells to the last vestige of a twenty-first century caste system: the venerable Twitter Blue Check.
The implications of a massive shift away from religious faith are troubling. If God is only a malleable concept, one defined by subjective desires or chosen from a buffet of equally palatable religious options, His interaction with our lives becomes largely therapeutic instead of authoritative. Morality becomes negotiable, a matter of your divinity and you deciding what's best for your preferred style of life. Is it any wonder why we are living in an era of social incoherence?
Detransitioner Prisha Mosley said she "was given no choice" about transitioning to identify as a man, socially, medically, and even surgically, in Part One of "Too Young," a new series released by undercover journalism group Project Veritas (PV). At every step of her journey, "gender affirming" therapists, endocrinologists, and surgeons rushed her into the next stage of transition with little time to reflect. "They said it was transition or suicide. Like, I was given no choice. I was told, 'You will kill yourself if you don't go through with these treatments,'" said Mosley.
New undercover videos filmed by Project Veritas (PV) reveal transgender centers are pressing medical and surgical gender transition procedures upon minors who may later regret the "permanent effects," claiming that 14-year-olds are "mature enough" to "make a reasonably informed decision." According to a Part One of PV's "Too Young" series released Wednesday, a major New York hospital is fudging the definition of consent, as well as medical guidelines created by a transgender advocacy group, to place 14-year-olds on cross-sex hormones.
Transgender clinics across the country are willing to prescribe hormones to children or perform surgeries on them at ages much younger than publicly advertised, according to a new undercover videos filmed by Project Veritas (PV). Part One of PV's "Too Young" series was released on Wednesday. In one of the transgender centers exposed in the video, a social worker says the center has children starting at eight or nine years old, and that a prescription for puberty blockers "might be appropriate after one" appointment because "it's not something that we want to gatekeep."
"You asked for a single word answer 'yes' or 'no' if we're going to be at war with China. My view is that China's already at war with us," author Peter Schweizer said referring to podcast host Liz Wheeler's question, "In our lifetime, are we going to face war with China?"
"Why is Pride Month celebrated in June yearly, but practicing Christians don't have their own month to celebrate their faith?" thought Penny Nance, CEO and president of Concerned Women for America as her Peloton bike asked if she would like to participate in a "Pride Ride" to celebrate LGBT identity.
Despite the billion-dollar foreign aid check the U.S. cuts Nigeria every year, there are horrendous atrocities taking place in the country. According to one group monitoring the situation, Open Doors International, "In Nigeria, a Christian is killed for their faith every two hours; that's nearly 13 Christians a day and 372 Christians a month." Their research shows that "in 2021, more Christians were murdered for their faith in Nigeria than in any other country."
The state of Florida has closed the schoolhouse door to extreme gender ideology, preventing K-12 teachers from indoctrinating students in LGBTQ theories regarding sexual orientation and gender identity. Teachers who break the law could be prevented from teaching in the state.
When House Democrats go home this weekend, every one of them should have trouble looking their daughters in the eye. In one of the clearest indications of what the president's party has become, not even one had the backbone to buck the extremists and protect Title IX. Sticking a knife in the backs of the women's movement they've claimed to champion, Democrats showed the country whose side they're on. And it's not America's girls.
This is probably my favorite of Dr. Charles Stanley's "30 Life Principles," and it represents a life completely abandoned to the will of God. I've never been a fan of megachurch pastors, mainly because many of them preach a prosperity gospel directly contrary to Scripture. But Charles Stanley was different. I grew up watching "In Touch" services with my parents, listening to cassettes with my dad in his 1983 Honda Accord, and reading just a few of the many books Dr. Stanley authored on practical Christian living. On Tuesday, God called this incredible man of God home to his eternal reward.
In a blockbuster settlement announced Tuesday, Fox News agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787.5 million. Dominion sued Fox News in 2021 for $1.6 billion in March 2021, alleging that the cable news giant in 2020 "gave life to a manufactured story line about election fraud that cast a then-little-known voting machine company called Dominion as the villain."
Do you think parents should have a say in their children's education, that kids shouldn't be judged according to the color of their skin, that parents should know if their children say they identify as transgender, or that books with explicit sexual images should be removed from school libraries? If so, you represent a threat to civil rights tracing back to the "Uptown Klans" of white Southerners trying to maintain segregation after the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, according to a researcher with the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kans.) on Monday released a 301-page report concluding that COVID-19 "most likely" leaked from a lab weeks before China's official narrative as the result of "one or possibly two" lab accidents. "We won't be able to prove this in a criminal trial. But I do think there's enough evidence, if this was a civil case, that we would convince a jury," said Marshall of the report fittingly titled, "Muddy Waters."
In the wake of the arrests of two alleged Chinese operatives who managed a clandestine "police station" in New York City earlier this week, U.S. lawmakers are expressing alarm about the Chinese government's increased efforts to infiltrate American society on a variety of fronts, due in part to perceived weakness on the part of the Biden administration as well as financial ties between Chinese actors and American companies and officials.
On Tuesday, the House Homeland Security Subcommittee held a hearing to further investigate the Biden administration's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan in the summer of 2021. Rep. Elijah Crane (R-Ariz.), who serves on the Homeland Security Committee, joined Family Research Council President Tony Perkins on "Washington Watch" to further discuss the details of the hearing.
On Wednesday, SCOTUS will review whether the Fifth Circuit decision to restore critical safeguards to the distribution of mifepristone will remain in effect as the case makes its way through legal proceedings. As the lawsuit unfolds, the pro-abortion industry is perpetuating a number of myths as to why the Fifth Circuit decision should not go into effect. Here are the facts.
"It's OK to be angry about capitalism," declares "democratic socialist" Bernie Sanders in a new book. "The older I get, the angrier I become about the uber-capitalist system under which we live." This, from a man whose net worth in 2020 was estimated by "Forbes Magazine" to be $2.5 million.
It's Public Relations 101. When you're getting hammered by critics, distract. If you can't change the narrative, try changing the subject. Unfortunately, that trick doesn't always work, as the big cheeses at Anheuser-Busch are quickly learning. After the worst two weeks in the company's 171-year history, CEO Brendan Whitworth did his best "Hey, look over here!" moment. But it, like their low-level decision to debase women and alienate core consumers, bombed.
After Disney admitted to their goal of "queering" kids, they are now, quite literally, paying the price. As a result of their plummeting financial returns, "Entertainment giant Disney is set to eliminate up to 4,000 jobs as part of new CEO Bob Iger's $5.5 billion budget cut plan as the company faces repeated box office bombs, billions in losses over its streaming service, and political setbacks due to its radical left-wing policies in Florida."
In the wake of mounting violence and lawlessness across America's largest cities, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on Tuesday in New York City to address the concerns of citizens affected by criminal activity, which observers say is being abetted by the leftist policies of mayors and prosecutors.
Hundreds of people blocking streets, looting stores, and destroying property should not be normal occurrences. They are not normal in a peaceful, prosperous society. Alas, they are increasingly normal in America's large cities. Unusually violent street incidents in Chicago and Los Angeles over the weekend illustrate the nation's civilizational decline and point to at least one of the (many) causes.
The State of Washington recently made news with legislation allowing the state to give so-called "gender affirming care" to minors who run away from home. "Permissible interventions" include surgeries to cut off the children's genitalia. Perhaps the most outrageous part of the legislation is that it specifically allows the state to withhold information from parents about what's happening to their child. The bill does not admit it legalizes kidnapping, but if you're the parent who is looking for your child - and the state knows where that child is and won't tell you - it's going to feel an awful lot like kidnapping.
In 2022, Open Doors reported that in 2021, Nigeria accounted for nearly 80% of Christian deaths worldwide. It's time we assertively reminded our elected representatives - in the Senate and House - about the bloodshed in Nigeria. Let's demand American action.
The IRS released its strategic operating plan on April 6, describing its intentions for spending the nearly $80 billion of supplemental funding it's receiving under the so-called Inflation Reduction Act.
"Why is it always women fighting against sex-based protections?" Riley Gaines wondered. "That will forever be beyond me." The former All-American swimmer could only shake her head at the latest attack on girls' sports by Congresswoman Katie Porter (D-Calif.), the latest high-profile Democrat to throw her sex overboard in the raging battle for transgenderism.
Socialism has failed so much and in so many ways that, as Thomas Sowell said, only an intellectual would be unable to see it. The Cuban State cries about the embargo and paints it as a "blockade," but the only blockade that exists is that of the State against the citizen, and it is the one that takes its toll, leaving land without crops and stomachs without food.
As tensions between the United States and China simmer along the Taiwan Strait, various reports have surfaced showing the communist country's continued efforts to weaken America through surrogate births, the supplying of chemicals used to manufacture fentanyl, and fake social media accounts used to harass critics of China's policies. At the same time, a recent poll shows that almost two-thirds of Americans do not have confidence in President Biden's ability to effectively counter Chinese hostility.
House Republicans are calling for major fiscal reforms in exchange for raising the debt ceiling through May of 2024. Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) laid out his case on Monday at the New York Stock Exchange, choosing that location because he said a discussion over the national debt is "the debate that's not happening in Washington - but should be happening."
George Verwer was one of the most passionate people I have ever known. I suspect he and Paul the apostle would have made great teammates. In 1957, George had a dramatic conversion at a Billy Graham crusade and never looked back.
Last Thursday, former AIP-ASA Congressional Fellow Dr. Makenzie Lystrup made headlines as she was sworn in as the new director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, which is "home to the nation's largest organization of scientists, engineers and technologists." While some fixate on the 45-year-old's distinction as the first woman to lead the Maryland space center, others have focused on her unconventional choice when it came to taking an oath.
It's no secret that we live in a very dark and confused world. The Left is pushing their genderless agenda down the throats of schoolchildren across America. Pro-abortionists are fighting to legalize abortion up until the day of birth across all 50 states. And a former president of the United States is currently the subject of a political witch hunt like no other politician in American history.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) on Thursday approved Florida SB 300, the "Heartbeat Protection Act," which in most cases protects the life of unborn babies after six weeks of pregnancy, after both chambers of the legislature passed it by a wide margin. Florida law previously protected unborn life after 15 weeks. The bill marks substantial progress toward protecting unborn life in one of the nation's largest states, even as the national media tries to frame a narrative that pro-life policies are political losers.
Parents at a Hernando County, Florida middle school are demanding that a teacher be fired after it was discovered that the teacher was allowed to continue teaching for weeks despite making alarming comments to a guidance counselor that he wanted to "shoot some students."
The shock still hasn't worn off from the shooting rampage that killed six innocent children and staff at Nashville's Covenant Christian School. For some, that raw emotion has turned to rage, as people frantically look for someone to blame other than the killer. That's resulted in some clearly drawn battlelines in the business community, where at least one local florist has decided the blood is on the GOP's hands and has vowed to stop accepting jobs from the Republican Party. While liberals applauded the move, some Christians can't help but notice the double standard. How can the Left praise progressives for bringing their views into the workplace, then turn around and sue believers who do the same?
An investigation led by Missouri's state attorney general's office has uncovered a "shadowy network" of so-called transgender children's medical clinics in the state that are leaving children with permanent disabilities and suffering from "debilitating consequences."
The company's shares promptly nosedived after an ill-fated marketing campaign featured spokesman Dylan Mulvaney, a male who identifies as female, on their flagship beer: Bud Light.
The Florida legislature is now considering a measure that calls for American students to be taught about America. The bill, in the typically cumbersome language of most proposed laws, is titled "Public Postsecondary Educational Institutions." Formally introduced as H.B. 999, the bill would give greater power to boards that oversee Florida's public colleges and eliminate funding for "diversity, equity, and inclusion" programs at public universities. But these are not the aspects of the bill that most caught my eye.
Reading some news stories will leave you less informed than if you hadn't. Politico Magazine ran such a piece last week, which began with this whopper, "Tennessee Republicans really went there. Despite the outcry, the GOP-controlled state legislature expelled two Democrats Thursday for engaging in a boisterous protest against gun violence."
On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit sided in part with the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, a group of pro-life physicians being represented by Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), in a lawsuit seeking to revoke Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of the chemical abortion drug regimen. The Fifth Circuit ruling comes in response to the FDA's appeal of a ruling from a Texas federal judge who sided with the plaintiffs against the FDA.
Only two weeks after the Covenant School shooting in Nashville, another mass murderer killed six people and wounded nine at a shooting at Old National Bank in Louisville, Ky. The incident was "absolutely horrifying and frightening," Dr. Al Mohler, president of Southern Theological Seminary in Louisville, said on "Washington Watch," but that should make it a call to action for Christians.
On Monday, Representative Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) issued a subpoena to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to demand information about the Richmond FBI field office's reconnaissance efforts targeting Catholic churches. The letter, addressed to FBI Director Christopher Wray, was aimed at providing congressional oversight to the FBI's investigation into "Catholic Americans and its affect on protected First Amendment activity." There is clearly more to the story here, and Jordan's efforts to uncover the truth are critical.
The Biden administration's Department of Justice is recommending no jail time for a 31-year-old man who identifies as transgender in a case centering on the vandalization of a Catholic church, as well as the assault of a church employee.
"I can respect opinions that differ from my own and everyone is entitled to think/speak independently, but I can't help but think Megan Rapinoe would genuinely shiv any male who tried to take her spot on the US Women's National Team," former NCAA swimming champion Riley Gaines quipped in a now-deleted tweet. Gaines's shots at professional soccer player Megan Rapinoe were in response to a tweet from the OL Reign winger that condemned newly proposed legislation in the House protecting girls' sports.
Sometimes news flashes repeat the same details so often that you can't help but notice the pattern. And the unmistakable pattern in recent days is that leftists will immediately claim to be the victims, even when they are, in fact, the party intimidating or committing violence upon another.
Homeschool mother, author, and speaker Rosaria Butterfield did not always associate with the title "follower of Christ." In fact, her identity was formed by feminist philosophy and LGBTQ+ advocacy as she pursued her career as a tenured radical professor and identified as a proud lesbian. But in 1999, she had an encounter with Christ and shortly after converted to Christianity, leaving her old identity behind. Early last week, Reformation 21 published one of her pieces titled "Why I No Longer Use Preferred Pronouns - And Why You Shouldn't, Either." Butterfield joined "Washington Watch" guest host Jody Hice to expand on this topic as well as emphasize the need of repentance.
A new report released Tuesday revealed that in the six months following the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, over 32,000 fewer abortions were carried out in the U.S. compared to the average monthly number that occurred before Dobbs. While pro-life advocates are praising the news as compelling proof that pro-life state laws passed in the wake of Dobbs are saving lives, medical experts are also expressing concern that the decrease in surgical abortions is leading to an increase in dangerous chemical abortions.
It's springtime in Oklahoma, and we're already seeing severe storms, flooding, drought, wildfires, tornadoes, and other natural disasters and emergencies where our families and businesses need our help. Our families, churches, and nonprofits are the first safety nets Oklahomans turn to when they need help. It's our job to make sure they're strong enough to do theirs.
America is experiencing a crisis. Only days after a 28-year-old young woman killed six, including three children, at a Christian elementary school in Nashville, a shooter in Louisville, Kentucky killed five co-workers at the bank where he worked. There have been more than 600 mass shootings in the U.S. for each of the past three years, double the annual number from less than a decade ago. There is no consensus about the right response to this crisis. But for Christians, the goal is not only to think constitutionally but to think biblically.
Public schools would teach children as young as 12 about abortion as part of the middle and high school sex education curriculum, give them a list of abortion businesses, and inculcate an attitude of "inclusivity and support in conversations surrounding abortion," if a new bill passes the California legislature. The legislation is one of 17 new abortion-related bills Democratic lawmakers have introduced to enhance the state's self-identity as an "abortion sanctuary."
This week, Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace (S.C.) once again brought shame on her party by vocally advocating for the White House and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ignore a ruling from a Texas federal judge that revokes FDA approval for the chemical abortion regimen. According to Mace in several interviews, the Texas ruling is "unconstitutional," adding that "it's not up to us to decide as legislators ... whether or not this is the right drug to use or not, number one. I agree with ignoring it at this point."
The Biden White House on Monday published the shortest press statement I've ever seen: "On Monday, April 10, 2023, the President signed into law: H.J. Res. 7, which terminates the national emergency related to the COVID-19 pandemic." No victory lap, no elaboration, no fanfare. It's almost like the White House doesn't want to talk about it, like Biden's signature on H.J. Res. 7 put them in a bad mood.
In the wake of last Friday's district court decision ruling that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) illegally ignored its own rules to fast-track the approval of the abortion pill regimen, legal experts are calling the judgment one of the most momentous rulings in the history of the pro-life movement and vindication for doctors and medical associations who spent two decades pointing out the dangers of the drugs for women's health.
It was a day that Pastor Pan Yongguang believed might never come. Draped in an American flag, after a harrowing escape from Thailand, the Chinese refugees known as the Mayflower Church finally stepped foot on American soil Friday, a journey thousands of miles - and more than three years - in the making.
As is often the case with unrestrained government power, the overreaching scrutiny produced by the Patriot Act is no longer enough. There is a new and disturbing movement to provide Big Brother even more access into your private life.
Calls to prayer are quite common in the Middle East, where they emanate from churches, synagogues, and mosques on a regular basis. However, specific requests for prayer are being repeated more urgently in Israel these days, thanks to ceaseless warnings and near-constant bursts of gunfire and rocketry exploding across their troubled neighborhoods. Any of today's flare-ups could pose a genuine threat to the Jewish State.
It isn't just women's sports that needs protecting in this diabolical war for trans extremism. It's women themselves. Former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines made that abundantly clear in a visit to the campus of San Francisco State University last Thursday, where she was physically attacked for suggesting girls deserve a safe space to compete. Turns out, there are no safe spaces - not when you spurn the mob.
When it comes to brand marketing to 21st century Americans, one of the most significant factors at play is trust. According to a 2021 survey of 1,000 consumers, more than 80% felt that trust was a key component in their purchasing decisions. As public trust in the government to do what is right falls to one of its all-time lowest points in U.S. history, it is more important than ever that American consumers believe they can trust the brands that get their money. The problem is - woke corporate activism has compromised corporate America.
A Republican congressman who voted twice in favor of a bill foisting same-sex marriage on the whole country has denounced efforts to secure America's southern border with Mexico as "unchristian." "Bring unchristian anti-immigrant bills to the floor and I am a NO on the debt ceiling," Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) threatened Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Twitter.
Since the launch of The Washington Stand's (TWS) new podcast, "Outstanding," experts have tackled issues like the "trans patriarchy," the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, and artificial intelligence. The podcast's most recent episode tackles the pronoun debate and how Christians should approach the idea of "pronoun hospitality" and what it means to stand for truth in a world increasingly led by lies.
In a move that has stunned Catholics and religious freedom advocates, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. issued a "cease and desist order" just before Holy Week to a community of Franciscan Catholic priests from Holy Name College that had been serving servicemembers and their families at the center for almost two decades.
Chinese fighters and warships deployed all around Taiwan over the weekend, during a three-day war game dubbed Operation "Joint Sword." The People's Liberation Army (PLA) and People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) deployed to the north, south, east, and west of the independent island nation, only hours after French President Emmanuel Macron left Chinese airspace.
Friday afternoon, a U.S. district court judge in Texas issued a long-awaited ruling in the case Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The judge decided in favor of the plaintiff, agreeing that the FDA's approval of the chemical abortion drug regimen was politicized and bypassed safety concerns in the rush to put abortion drugs on the U.S. market. The judge gave the federal government one week to file an appeal before the ruling would go into effect, revoking FDA approval of the chemical abortion regimen and removing it from the market.
The glorious resurrection of Jesus came as a shock to those who had followed Him. Mourning and despair were the lot of the men and women who knew and loved the Galilean rabbi Whose death seemed to have crushed their hopes. Yet once the reality of His conquest of death sunk in, joy, relief, and gratitude supplanted their grief.
We all need hope in these challenging days. There's a popular saying about hope that goes something like this: "People can live about 40 days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for a few seconds without hope." At Easter, Christians celebrate the resurrection of Christ, and the resurrection is all about hope.
The Biden administration has turned the federal government into a "vast censorship enterprise" intent on silencing dissenting opinions, U.S. Senator Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) said Thursday. In a suit Schmitt filed against the federal government while he was attorney general of Missouri, he alleged the Biden administration had "colluded with/and or coerced social media companies to suppress disfavored speakers, viewpoints, and content on social media platforms."
The Biden administration has proposed new federal guidelines that would politicize the civil service and potentially bar Christians and others who hold disfavored opinions from government employment. Critics say the president's proposal essentially states, "Conservatives need not apply."
In an increasingly fast-paced culture, "His Only Son," the biblical drama from the studio behind "The Chosen," is encouraging audiences to pause, reflect, and meditate on the power of the Gospel ahead of Easter. From Angel Studios, "His Only Son" hit theaters on March 31 and dramatizes Genesis 22, the biblical passage in which God commands Abraham to sacrifice his beloved son, Isaac, on the mountain of Moriah.
On the eve of two major religious holidays, the Biden administration unveiled a proposed federal regulation that would override state laws protecting school-aged female athletes from having to compete against, or get undressed in front of, men. The proposed federal rule would bar any federally funded educational institution - from elementary school through college - from enforcing a "categorical ban" on males who identify as female from taking part in girls' sports.
We only know Good Friday as good through the lens of Sunday's resurrection. That's why pausing too long on Good Friday is dangerous for our souls. God in his mercy moved the focal point of the fullness of time from Friday to Sunday. If we lag too long on Friday, we miss the movement of resurrection. If it all ends on Friday, our souls are stunted, and Friday is not good. The only hope for our souls lies on Sunday with Friday behind it.
While the victory of liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Janet Protasiewicz grabbed most of the election headlines on Tuesday, news of the significant number of wins by conservative school board candidates across the country flew under the radar. Experts say the victories are further proof of a growing and energized conservative parental rights movement.
In the last week, trans-identifying activist Dylan Mulvaney, a man who dons makeup and dresses while documenting his journey to "girlhood" on social media, announced paid partnerships with Bud Light and Nike. Thankfully, it appears that the more companies that hire Mulvaney to parody women in order to sell their product, the more ire they draw as Americans become increasingly fed up with corporate trans activism.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Wednesday that a minor's gender transition is "something for a child and their parents to decide" and certainly "not something we believe should be decided by legislators." Yet a growing number of reports indicate that parents often are either pressured to approve a gender transition or cut out of the process entirely. Such reports have prompted state legislators and other officials to take action.
Disney CEO Bob Iger graciously took time out of his public feud with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) to talk about a topic House Republicans are done tiptoeing around: China. On Wednesday, a group led by Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) made the long trek to Los Angeles to sit down with Iger, who's enraged more than a few Republicans over the years. But for all of their political disagreements, Gallagher is hoping this rare social call will help them get to the bottom of a very important question - just how much influence does the communist regime have on Hollywood?
The state of Oregon refused to allow a Christian mother of five to adopt two children after she said her religion would not let her take a young minor to receive cross-hormone injections - a policy that could prevent up to 78% of Americans from adopting children. Requiring adoptive parents to facilitate transgender procedures acts as a form of religious discrimination against many world religions, her attorneys say.
When Title IX was enacted in 1972, the goal was to end sex-based discrimination in public schools and universities that receive federal dollars. The 50-year-old policy took center stage on Sunday at the NCAA Women's Championship game when First Lady Jill Biden, who attended the game, praised the policy for elevating female athletes, while her husband systematically tries to dismantle it.
Former president Donald Trump was indicted Tuesday on 34 felony counts by a Manhattan-based grand jury, in what Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton on "Washington Watch" called an "unprecedented indictment" of a former president. "The two-tiered system of law that is unfolding here is disturbing and just outright wrong," said former Congressman Jody Hice.
On March 31, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) released an extensive report describing counseling or therapy designed to help those with unwanted same-sex attractions or gender confusion overcome these feelings as "harmful." Mental health and policy experts are decrying the report, pointing to how it distorts data and ignores individuals who have successfully left unwanted homosexual and transgender lifestyles voluntarily with the help of this kind of therapy, as well as those currently seeking the therapy.
A New York grand jury has formally indicted former president Donald Trump on 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. Trump arrived at the Manhattan courthouse on Tuesday and pled "not guilty" to all the charges.
A school district in Virginia has garnered controversy for refusing to allow a teacher to include a Bible verse in her email signature. Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) has barred an unnamed teacher from putting John 3:16 in her email signature, with Liberty Counsel becoming involved in the situation on behalf of the teacher.
Last week's mass murder of six people at a church-run Christian school constitutes 2023's deadliest act of violence against churches, which have increased nearly three times this year compared to last year, a new report from Family Research Council finds. The number of anti-church attacks in 2022 had already tripled over four years, a previous report found.
Last week, hundreds or thousands of left-wing protestors entered capitol buildings in four separate states, disrupting legislative chambers holding session in at least two of them. In three out of four incidents, the protestors explicitly opposed legislation to defend children, families, and women from the harmful effects of transgender ideology; in the other incident, a protest for gun control lapsed into pro-transgender overtones. The strange, unprecedented nature of these capitol occupations renders the media's near-silence on them only more astounding.
Why are we seeing a rise of intolerance and even violence for the cause of "social justice?" Consider these events that took place just in March.
There's only a week and a half left in the NHL's regular season, and no one is happier about it than the league's PR machine. The headaches continue at hockey headquarters, where two more teams - the St. Louis Blues and Toronto Maple Leafs - both dropped the hammer on player Pride jerseys ahead of Tuesday's games. The addition of the Leafs is especially significant, since not only are they the first Canadian team to break with the mob, but Toronto also happens to be home to the league's War Room and Hockey Hall of Fame. If pulling the plug in the sport's capital doesn't make a statement, I don't know what will.
A week after a string of catastrophic tornadoes took the lives of at least 26 people in Mississippi and neighboring states, another devastating storm system left a massive path of destruction and death across Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi (again), Illinois, Indiana, and Delaware, leaving at least 32 dead. The abnormally high death tolls, the ferocity of the storms, and the extent of the devastation has left many searching for both much needed material aid and for answers as to what God might be trying to say amidst the tragedy.
In the feud between Disney and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R), one thing's clear: tempers haven't cooled. The two sides, who've been at odds since the company openly attacked parents' rights in education, are back at each other's throats now that CEO Bob Iger secretly undermined the state's plans to have a seat at the company's table. But if the Mouse House thinks it's outmaneuvered conservatives, Republicans say they have another thing coming.
Drag queens and ghost guns are two phrases not usually referenced in the same sentence - until this week. While recent events on the campus of Forsyth Technical Community College (FTCC) make headlines, school officials scramble to maintain composure. The college in Winston Salem, North Carolina has faced a series of problems within a matter of days: a drag queen caught straddling a female student, while an armed student walked around the campus before he reportedly shot himself in the second-floor bathroom.
The ill-timed CMT drag show misread the room and made a spectacle of it its own spectacle. But it won't be the last push of this revolution. It's just a matter of time. And wishful thinking won't make this cultural totalitarianism go away. We cannot let it creep in unnoticed.
Angry transgender activists surrounded a Canadian conservative and punched his throat; in America, LGBT demonstrators physically or verbally harassed conservative counter-protesters; and two Christian schools canceled classes due to violent threats issued in the shadow of a mass murder. These scenes of mayhem played out as a spate of violence, intimidation, and threats spanning at least two countries marked the annual "Transgender Day of Visibility" held each March 31.
On Monday, reports surfaced that the Chinese spy balloon that encroached into U.S. airspace in February and was allowed to float over the country for days before being shot down did in fact collect sensitive military intelligence that was transmitted to China. Nevertheless, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley said over the weekend that the "rhetoric" surrounding ongoing tensions with China "can overheat the environment."
In an age when presidential candidates of both parties ignore the will of the majority to cater to an infinitesimal minority, it is noteworthy when a politician takes an uncompromisingly biblical stand on public issues. It is more remarkable when that leader represents a secular nation, cites the Bible on a national platform, and has a delightful British accent. Yet a member of the U.K.'s Parliament made a statement that should serve as a model for any American leader.
Her nightmare started a few years ago, when her son, Casey, turned 13. When he announced he was "gender fluid," Caroline assumed it was a phase. His father didn't necessarily disagree but thought he should try counseling at The Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's hospital. It's a decision that haunts them to this day.
Two federal appellate judges have announced that they "will not hire any student who chooses to attend Stanford Law School in the future," after the administration failed to crack down on students who disrupted an event featuring a U.S. circuit judge. The boycott aims to correct a lack of discipline among top law schools, who tolerate religious discrimination among the country's future lawyers and judges, a deficiency one judge said is "tearing our country apart."
Over the past two weeks, state legislatures have accelerated their push to protect children from gender transition procedures, including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and non-genital and genital surgeries. On March 2, four state legislatures had enacted laws prohibiting gender transition procedures for children, but since mid-March that number has swollen to eight, with bills awaiting governors' signatures in two additional states.
One of the most solemn votes that a member of Congress can take is to send Americans into harm's way. That right is granted to Congress by Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 of the U.S. Constitution. However, Congress hasn't issued a formal declaration of war since World War II, and yet the United States has still sent thousands of men and women to foreign conflicts. Why is this happening?
After the Nashville tragedy, how can we as parents help our children in this increasingly confused and chaotic culture to be salt and light? FRC's Kathy Athearn offers her advice to moms and dads.
This Thursday, following weeks of rumors swirling about a potential indictment by a New York grand jury, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg led the indictment of former U.S. President Donald Trump. The indictment centers on more than 30 counts related to business fraud over alleged hush money paid to a pornography actress known as Stormy Daniels with the intentions of hiding a prior affair while he campaigned president in 2016.
Prior to the Nashville shooting on Monday, Transgender Radical Activist Network (TRAN) had planned an organized protest to take place outside of the U.S. Supreme Court on Saturday called "Day of Vengeance." News of the event's cancelation broke Friday morning when Our Rights D.C., a co-organizer of the event, announced in a series of tweets that they had received a "credible threat to life and safety, which they claimed was a "direct result of the flood of raw hatred directed toward the trans community after the Tennessee shooting."
On Sunday March 26, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) signed HB 2171 into law. This new statute ensures that houses of worship are not subject to unequal restrictions compared to those placed on other businesses, organizations, and activities in the commonwealth of Virginia.
In light of the recent events surrounding the Nashville shooting that resulted in the death of three children and three adults, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Family Research Council President Tony Perkins on "Washington Watch" to discuss the vital role of parental influence in the school systems.
Every day, we learn more information about the identity and motivation of Audrey Hale, the 28-year-old woman who shot and killed three children and three adults at a private Christian school in Nashville on Monday. We know that Hale was formerly a student at the school, that she identified as transgender in recent months, and that she messaged a friend minutes before the shooting, "I don't want to live." One detail not yet publicly reported is Hale's exact motive for targeting The Covenant School.
When San Diego State University heads to the Final Four in Houston this weekend, it won't be because California sent them. Under the Democrats' red-state boycott, Texas is on the no-travel list. The team got around the law, a school official said, because the NCAA was footing the bill. But this is an example of the kinds of headaches Californians have been facing since their 2016 tantrum over conservative policies in other states. Seven years later, the number of banned states is so wildly out of control that even Democrats are saying, "Enough."
The U.S. military under President Joe Biden has hosted numerous drag queen events for children on military bases, advertising the story hours alongside promises of "bouncy houses," face painting, and "goodie-bags." After public backlash, one base's spokesman called gender-bending events "essential" to military morale and readiness.
At the age of six, like many other children growing up in the idyllic county of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, a school shooting and its aftermath became one of my earliest childhood memories. Though I remember very little of what occurred on October 2, 2006, the details I do recall are etched irrevocably into my mind.
In the wake of national security concerns over Chinese-owned companies purchasing U.S. land near military bases and other critical infrastructure, Senator James Lankford (R-Okla.) has introduced a bill that would restrict adversarial countries like China from being able to acquire the strategic land.
On Tuesday, April 4, Wisconsin will hold one of the most important state Supreme Court elections in several years. This election has been all over the news, not only in Wisconsin, but nationwide. Why? Because of one central issue - abortion. Abortion has been illegal in Wisconsin (with only a life-of-the-mother exception) since the Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade last June. In fact, as a result of Dobbs, in the first two months alone, it is estimated that more than 10,000 babies' lives were saved from abortion.
"I don't want to live," mass murderer Audrey Hale messaged a former basketball teammate minutes before killing six Christians inside Nashville's Covenant School on March 27. "I just want to die." A series of heartbreaking studies show how far she was from alone. Americans who identify as LGBTQ suffer from mental illness, depression, and suicidal thoughts at far higher rates than their peers, multiple reports have confirmed.
Wednesday morning, The Washington Stand visited Cleveland Park Library in Washington, D.C., where Christian actor and speaker Kirk Cameron partnered with Brave Books to host a children's story hour to promote books that encourage loving God, family, and our country. The event featured Brave Books authors, including Libs of TikTok account owner Chaya Raichik, former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, and Human Events Senior Editor Jack Posobiec reading their books out loud to a group of attentive children.
The recent uptick in attacks on American military outposts in Syria, the most recent of which killed an American citizen, was likely sparked by the renewal of diplomatic relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia in an agreement brokered by China, said Lt. Gen. (Ret.) William Boykin.
On Wednesday, Spotsylvania County Public Schools (SCPS) in Fredericksburg, Va. announced that it would be removing 14 books that "contain sexually explicit content and themes that are inappropriate for young persons" from the school district's libraries. With the move, SCPS joins a growing list of school districts around the country that have opted to remove school library books that contain graphic sexual content amid a growing movement of parents decrying the availability of "pornographic" books to minors.
We kid ourselves if we think that grounding in Judeo-Christian conviction is unimportant to the freedoms we enjoy. The American founding was animated by the belief that no one should be governed without his or her consent. Why? Because the Founders recognized that our dignity and value have been bestowed by God, not any earthly monarch or authority. They are woven into our very nature and, therefore, "unalienable."
The four-part bill upholds parents' right to know how their child identifies at school, restricts sex education curriculum with parental consent, grade, and content limits, protects student privacy from members of the opposite sex in bathrooms and locker rooms, and forbids gender transition procedures on minors.
The Washington Stand's (TWS) new podcast is now available. The podcast, called "Outstanding," will feature TWS writers and others exploring the news from a biblical worldview. With the aim of having critical conversations on the news of the day and the issues that shape us, the podcast is hosted by Joseph Backholm, Family Research Council's senior fellow for Biblical Worldview and Strategic Engagement.
Monday's tragic shooting at The Covenant School, a Presbyterian private school in Nashville, Tennessee, is exposing the sobering reality that what is being marketed to the public as "gender-affirming care" is not doing what we were told it would do - alleviate mental health issues and gender confusion.
If someone had asked what the biggest storyline of hockey would be heading into 2023, an uprising over the NHL's Pride jerseys wouldn't have been it. But what started as a one-man stand with the Flyers' Ivan Provorov has turned into a full-blown rebellion against one of the most powerful agendas in the world. Two months into the no-pride tide that's rolled through New York (twice), Minnesota, California, Illinois, and Florida, the league may have arrived at a point no one thought possible: surrender.
The inclination in the wake of the Nashville shooting will be to move away from biblical truth, the very source of hope and freedom that confused and troubled souls like Audrey Hale need. But that's not the way forward in a nation broken and bleeding. As much as the other side would like to manage the chaos by indulging these delusions and passing meaningless legislation, the problem isn't the state of our laws; it's the condition of the heart.
A new poll from The Wall Street Journal in conjunction with the National Opinion Research Center, a nonpartisan research group, uncovered shocking new statistics regarding American attitudes toward values like patriotism, religion, and having children.
The Nashville shooter carried out a horrific act of evil. Sudden, devastating loss is hard to process at any time. But, under such circumstances, it can cause us to doubt the goodness of God or provoke us to respond in sinful anger. Thinking through three questions can help us to shape a more biblical perspective on tragedies like the Nashville shooting.
This week, Google featured imagery in the "Google Doodle" that conveyed overtly pro-life themes: a fully formed, distinctly human unborn child in utero, an image of 17th century midwife Justine Siegemund, and a mother sweetly smiling down at a newborn baby in her arms. It was an interesting choice for a publicly pro-abortion corporation to willingly promote imagery of unborn children in the womb, especially in the context of celebrating a woman who helped them be born.
On Monday, Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) reiterated his intention to continue to block the promotions of military personnel that are sent to the Senate Armed Services Committee for approval, despite intense pushback from Senate Democrats and some Republicans. So far, the senator has blocked 160 promotions in response to a controversial policy directive put in place by the Pentagon in February that allows servicemembers to receive paid time off and travel expenses for having an abortion, funded by taxpayer dollars.
Although it's only Tuesday, Americans have lived through several sobering breaking news stories already this week, ranging from the aftermath of the tornado that ripped through Mississippi to the Nashville school shooting that left three adults and three children dead. And based on the Left's latest call to action, leaders worry the violence may very well continue.
The socialist fight against tradition, conventions, reason, and reality - even when it claims to be the revolutionary champion of consensus, science, or a superior morality - is essentially a continuous spiral: the endless process of the "Revolution."
The Biden administration owes Americans an apology for its "unreasonable, arbitrary, and capricious" decision to roll back a Trump-era regulation protecting religious liberty on campus - a move First Amendment advocates described as a "petty, mean-spirited attack on religious believers."
If ESPN is indeed headed for layoffs, then the women of America know a good place to start: anyone involved in the decision to feature male swimmer Lia Thomas in its series on Women's History Month. "Oh H--- NO!" CNN's Megyn Kelly tweeted when the network included Thomas at the expense of real female athletes. "If I was a woman working at ESPN," 12-time NCAA champion Riley Gaines said, "I would walk out. You're spineless, ESPN."
In a Wednesday letter to the Stanford Law School community, Dean Jenny Martinez presented a case for reconciling diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) with free speech and announced the school's next steps after heckling students and a school administrator derailed federal judge Kyle Duncan's March 9 presentation. We "cannot function as a lawschool from the premise ... that speakers, texts, or ideas believed by some to be harmful ... justify a heckler's veto," she said.
A woman who identifies as a transgender man murdered six people inside a Christian school in Nashville Monday morning before police killed her - an assault that a U.S. congressman attributed to potentially "some sort of demonic possession." The United States "needs revival," he said, before such targeted shootings become a heartbreaking new normal.
This week, Americans have watched with devastated empathy as a horrific tornado ripped through Mississippi, taking the lives of at least 26 individuals and leaving a path of destruction in its wake. In times of such loss and hardship, it is natural for many people, even those who don't consider themselves to have a personal relationship with God, to turn to Him for comfort or guidance. However, when Matt Laubhan, a Christian and chief meteorologist at WTVA Weather Authority, began to pray on air for those who would be victimized by the tornado, he had no idea of the tangible impact that his prayer would have.
Upon learning of an upcoming Kirk Cameron book tour stop at a Washington, D.C. public library on March 29, LGBT activists launched a campaign to try to have the event shut down. So far, however, the event is still scheduled to proceed as planned, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to The Washington Stand.
House Democrats unanimously opposed a bill requiring schools to tell parents if their children are transitioning to another gender, as well as inform them of the materials their children read in class and allow parents to comment at school board meetings without being labeled domestic terrorists.
By the time the congressional hearing on the social media platform TikTok was over, you almost felt sorry for the company's CEO, Shou Zi Chew. He was grilled, hectored, continuously interrupted, and even called a liar. But please note the word "almost." Mr. Chew's "non-denial denials" - his continuous and artful misdirection and carefully nuanced responses to yes-and-no questions - gave the lie to his faux sincerity.
On Thursday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken testified at a hearing of the House Appropriations Committee regarding the State Department's 2024 budget. In one particularly revealing interaction, Blinken was asked about a State Department grant that was approved for an LGBT project in Ecuador and a grant offer in Botswana.
Over the last few years, I've noticed a phenomenon happening within the conservative movement that continually vexes me. It is this: Staunchly conservative commentators - who otherwise would be the first to condemn sexual immorality and abuse as well as murderous violence that happens in real life - are continually taken in by fictional movies and TV shows that prominently feature said content, so much so that they produce articles and videos that publicly sing the praises of these movies and shows.
This week, at Family Policy Alliance's SoConCon Social Conservative Policy Conference, TWS's Joy Stockbauer sat down with Lori Kuykendall, president of Beacon Health Education Resources. In this conversation, we explore how her organization is fighting back against exploitative progressive sexual education curricula - and teaching kids about the beauty of God's creation.
On a recent panel at Family Policy Alliance's SoConCon Social Conservative Policy Conference, Family Research Council hosted a discussion between detransitioners Chloe Cole and Walt Heyer as well as FRC's director of the Center for Biblical Worldview, David Closson. The panel, titled "From Woodstock to Bostock: Is the Sexual Revolution Derailing?" centered on the roots of gender ideology - both in the culture due to the influence of the sexual revolution and in the personal lives of those taken in by gender ideology.
Sterilization, electric shock torture, and brainwashing are hallmarks of the Chinese Communist Party's treatment of the Uyghur people, according to prison camp survivors. "Genocide is occurring. This time at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party," Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., said at the start of the Select Committee on the CCP hearing Thursday night.
On Thursday mornings, DirecTV subscribers turned on their screens and saw something they hadn't seen in a while: Newsmax. After 81 days, and the delivery of more than 17,000 signed petitions from Family Research Council, cable provider DirecTV has restored Newsmax, which vanished from its channel lineup at the stroke of midnight on January 25.
There may be a "Glam-boni" at the Chicago Blackhawks' game this Sunday, but there won't be a parade of Pride jerseys. Incredibly, management in a fourth NHL city has called off the special warm-ups, proving to everyone in pro sports that this isn't just a one-off. This is a movement - and it's changing everything.
This week, at Family Policy Alliance's SoConCon Social Conservative Policy Conference, TWS's Joy Stockbauer sat down with Erin Brewer, co-founder and president of Advocates Protecting Children. This nonprofit organization is "dedicated to fighting the gender industry, and especially its predation on children in the form of unethical social and medical transition for the sake of political and financial profit."
Chinese President Xi Jinping ended a three-day visit to Russia Wednesday pledging to "safeguard the international system." Experts, however, point out that no meaningful progress was made between Xi and Russian President Vladimir Putin to broker an end to Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Meanwhile, lawmakers on Capitol Hill point to China's ongoing internal human rights abuses as a sign that the communist country cannot be trusted in negotiating peace in Ukraine.
If it's hard to pass laws, fewer bad ones will be passed. That's a basic idea underlying the elaborate legislative system framed in the U.S. Constitution. But this principle is increasingly ignored and undermined by a thriving shadow-legislature in the executive branch.
President Biden made his first ever veto of a bill (H.J. Res. 30) on Monday upholding a retirement investment rule that allows asset managers of retirement funds to consider environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations when picking investments. Despite the bipartisan bill passing both the House and the Senate, Biden remained steadfastly behind the rule when its reversal landed on his desk.
Tuesday, the State Department released its 2022 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. The extensive annual reports cover the human rights record of every country in the world. If that was all it did, this would be an immensely helpful tool for human rights advocates around the world. But over the years, progressive social agenda items - including LGBT policies - have been added to these reports, sending a not-so-subtle message to world leaders: if you do not embrace woke policies, your country will be deemed a human rights violator.
The Department of Justice "extensively colluded" with a special interest group to "manufacture" a supposedly sweeping threat against school personnel posed by parents, a House Subcommittee interim staff report has found. Experts say the findings further confirm what DOJ officials have denied - that the government worked behind the scenes to undermine a grassroots movement of outspoken parents concerned about their children being exposed to controversial racial and gender theories and mask mandates at school.
This week, at Family Policy Alliance's SoConCon Social Conservative Policy Conference, TWS's Joy Stockbauer sat down with Paul Dans, director of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project at The Heritage Foundation. In this conversation, we explore Project 2025, which seeks to "build on four pillars that will, collectively, pave the way for an effective conservative administration: a policy agenda, personnel, training, and a 180-day playbook."
In the conservative bastion of Arkansas, a new statute has been signed into law by Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) in honor of the unborn. Senate Bill 307, introduced by Sen. Kim Hammer (R) and Rep. Mary Bentley (R), became law on March 16, authorizing the creation of a monument to commemorate the 236,243 unborn lives lost between the Roe v. Wade and Dobbs v. Jackson decisions.
The United States has made great progress in its war against all manner of pollution. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, since the enactment of the Clean Air Act in 1970 through 2019, "the combined emissions of the six common pollutants (PM2.5 and PM10, SO2, NOx, VOCs, CO and Pb) dropped by 77 percent." But America still needs oil. A lot of oil. We will continue to need oil for decades to come. That is, unless we want to commit economic suicide.
President Biden issued his first presidential veto on Monday, blocking a bipartisan resolution of disapproval (H.J. Res. 30) that would nullify a Labor Department rule (titled "Prudence and Loyalty in Selecting Plan Investments and Exercising Shareholder Rights") allowing investment managers to "include the economic effects of climate change and other ESG [environmental, social, and governance] considerations" on investment decisions.
On Monday, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey (R) announced that his office would file an emergency regulation that would restrict access to controversial gender transition procedures for minors, including the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries to remove healthy organs. The move comes amid growing concerns over clinical gender transition practices in the state as well as a rise in lawsuits from former trans-identifying teenagers who cite physical and psychological harms from life-altering medical interventions.
The U.S. Supreme Court has vacated a lower court's opinion asserting that underage girls possess a constitutional right to have an abortion without notifying their parents. Only one justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissented that her colleagues effectively erased the pro-abortion decision from the books, preventing lawyers from citing it as a binding legal precedent in future cases.
You won't find many fans of the Pentagon's radical new abortion policy among the 200 senior officers waiting on their promotions. Those celebrations are on hold, thanks to the GOP's outrage over the Defense Department's latest power grab. If the president wants to turn our Armed Forces into an "abortion travel agency" without consulting Congress, Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) warned, then Republicans will make it hurt.
The Kentucky legislature passed a bill (SB 150) on Thursday advancing parental rights in education and prohibiting gender transition procedures on minors, largely along party lines. The bill now heads to the desk of Governor Andy Beshear, the first Democratic governor to be presented with a bill to protect minors from gender transition procedures.
In recent years, it has become fashionable to offer "land acknowledgements" prior to everything from "soccer games and performing arts productions to city council meetings and corporate conferences." These "acknowledgments" are "formal statements recognizing Indigenous communities' rights to territories seized by colonial powers."
Since late last year, the international Christian community has been praying and fasting for three missionary aviators who were jailed for many weeks in Mozambique, East Africa. Thankfully, on March 15, Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAP) announced the good news that their pilot, Ryan Koher, had been granted a "provisional" release from prison in Mozambique. Although Koher and his colleagues are still required to remain in Mozambique, they have been released from imprisonment.
Wyoming became the first state to explicitly ban abortion pills the same day it enacted a pro-life law protecting nearly all unborn children and another act barring middle- and high-school-aged boys from participating in girls' sports.
Turns out, the rainbow-colored sushi wasn't the biggest buzz at San Jose's "shark tank" Saturday night. Unfortunately for the NHL, neither was the team's Pride Night. What was supposed to be a return to the league's woke normal managed to prove that - at least for some players - there's no going back.
The New York Post reported Sunday that almost 70 individuals on the FBI's terror watch list have been caught attempting to cross the southern border illegally since last October. The number will likely easily exceed the number apprehended during the last fiscal year, which some lawmakers say is a further symptom of the increased numbers of encounters since President Biden took office.
Halfway through Nebraska's 90-day legislative session, the unicameral Senate has not passed a single bill. The glacial pace is due to Nebraska Senator Machaela Cavanaugh (D), who has pledged to filibuster every single bill - including those she agrees with - over the Let Them Grow Act, a bill (LB574) that would prohibit minors from gender transition procedures such as the amputation of healthy organs, which Cavanaugh said legislated "hate." This week, that might come to an end.
Seventy-two percent of Americans say we're headed in the wrong direction under President Biden's leadership. I am one of them, and it's pretty likely you are too. In Oklahoma, and much of the nation, everyday life is harder and less safe under President Biden's economy and policies.
The disturbing actions of students and faculty deriding and disrupting a federal judge at a California law school earlier this month smacks of Marxist practices, Mike Davis warned on Friday's "Washington Watch." "It's not free speech to show up and shout someone down. That is not free speech; that's what Marxists do. And we cannot tolerate this in America. They've crossed a red line here."
Like most grandmothers, Carolyn Pettiford thought she was done raising children. A horrible February night in 2022 changed that. Her daughter, Ashley, had been parked on the street when a man walked up, leaned into the car, and fired a gun twice. When police arrived, they found Ashley and her boyfriend dead, and Carolyn's terrified five-year-old grandson alive, but shot badly in the face in the backseat. "He's a pretty strong kid," Carolyn says. But "to have to tell a five-year-old that he won't be able to talk to his mother... it's hard." There are 20,138 families like Carolyn's who lost someone to gun violence last year. And while everyone's stories are different, they all have one thing in common.
A conservative state's supreme court has "taken on the role of a legislative body" by halting the state's pro-life protection law for violating a constitutional "right" that does not exist, the state's attorney general has said.
The Tampa Bay Times "exclusively" published an op-ed Wednesday written by U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, which stated, "As US education secretary, I want us to enrich public schools, not ban books and topics." The content of the column - not to mention its very existence - reveals the Left's desperate realization that they are losing the battle over education, which they have long presumed was settled.
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that, in 2021, the United States suffered its worst maternal mortality rate since 1965. The 2021 rate was 32.9 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births; this rate marks a 40% increase from the rate of 23.8 the previous year.
After Texas officials announced earlier this week that the state would be taking over the Houston public school district due to underperforming schools and state and federal law violations committed by the school board, reports from the Associated Press and other outlets pointed to race and political affiliation as driving factors in the decision. Local school board members, however, are insisting that the state action was needed to help underserved students.
Nigeria has become a hotbed of mistreatment and extermination of religious minorities, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins warned on Tuesday. "Observers of the situation in Nigeria have noted how northern Nigeria has become a frontier for Islamic extremist groups, warlords and violence under the watch of the country's outgoing president, Muhammadu Buhari." And it's only getting worse, experts warn.
The state of Utah will ban all abortion facilities from the state by requiring abortionists to meet the same quality standards as hospitals, a step abortion facilities call a backdoor ban on elective abortions. Utah Governor Spencer Cox (R) signed H.B. 467, introduced by Majority Assistant Whip Rep. Karianne Lisonbee (R-Clearfield), on Wednesday.
As revelations continue to emerge about the controversial corporate policies that Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) practiced in the wake of the bank's collapse last Friday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) on Thursday announced a newly formed alliance between 18 states with the expressed goal of "push[ing] back against President Biden's environmental, social, corporate governance (ESG) agenda."
In a recent video that has gone viral on social media, Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan (D) discusses an executive order that Governor Tim Walz (D) signed last week reaffirming the legality of gender transition treatments, including for children. In the clip, the lieutenant governor says, "When our children tell us who they are, it is our job as grown-ups to listen and to believe them. That's what it means to be a good parent."
The Department of Defense released footage Thursday morning showing Russian jets conducting an "unsafe and unprofessional intercept" of a U.S. drone operating in international waters over the Black Sea. Two Russian fighters harassed a U.S. drone into a watery crash landing on Tuesday, sending $56 million (in 2011 dollars) worth of equipment quite literally to the sea floor.
The Biden administration is days away from revoking a federal regulation defending religious liberty on campus, even though critics say the president has offered "no evidence" that religious student groups may not lose their First Amendment rights as a result.
New York and Florida may be 1,000 miles apart, but that doesn't begin to describe the distance between them in leadership. The best illustration of that may have been this week, when Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) made headlines for punishing a kids' drag event - and New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) decided to host one.
If there's anything more inappropriately disrespectful than future lawyers shouting down a federal judge, it's not-yet-credentialed (or supposedly educated) law students creating a "hostile environment" for their own professor and dean. Yet that's exactly what happened Monday at Stanford Law School.
This week, in a stunning display of allegiance to men who identify as transgender women, actress Drew Barrymore literally got down from her seat to kneel before guest Dylan Mulvaney on an episode of her talk show. Trans activists like Dylan Mulvaney, whose painfully offensive internet content shows each day of his life of "girlhood" using outdated female stereotypes, may merit our compassion and an invitation to redemption - but Barrymore's behavior was more akin to worship.
As studies confirm the rise of controversial and highly disputed ideas based in critical race theory (CRT) and gender theory in school curriculums, many parents are increasingly concerned about what actions they can take to protect their children. In response to these concerns, Arizona's school superintendent this week announced the launch of a hotline for parents to report school material that they deem inappropriate.
We live in an era in which misrepresentations of the Bible's teaching on sexuality are common. We're told that being pro-life is the same as being anti-women, that marriage is simply a matter of male dominance, and that Scripture's teachings about male and female roles are merely subtle ways of affirming male patriarchy. These things are not only common but utterly false.
Jon Erwin happened to be doing research for another movie when he stumbled on the iconic cover of Time Magazine from June 21, 1971. A copy in good condition goes for about $2,000 on eBay today, but Jon managed to snatch one up in 2015 - years before his movie made the psychedelic Jesus a collectors' item. Back then, making a film about the 1970s revival known as The Jesus Revolution was a distant dream. Today, it's a blockbuster reality - one that continues to exceed everyone's expectations, in the box office and real life.
The West Virginia legislature on Saturday passed a bill (H.B. 2007) to prohibit gender transition procedures on minors - after amending the bill to render it nearly ineffectual. Senate Majority Leader Tom Takubo (R) introduced the massive exception from the Senate floor late Friday night, just before the final vote.
Protecting children from premature, harmful exposure to gender ideology and its life-altering consequences is "close to sinful," said President Biden Monday on "The Daily Show." The remark came as Biden searched for language strong enough to describe Florida's recent efforts to protect children - he also called it "terrible" and "cruel."
On February 27, a district court judge in Minnesota ruled that USA Powerlifting must allow biological males who identify as female to compete in their women's division. The decision is garnering widespread condemnation from athletes, governing bodies, sports commentators, women's rights advocates, and many others, highlighting a growing trend among a public that is increasingly unafraid to speak out in defense of keeping men's and women's sports separate.
This week, 17 Senate Democrats released a series of letters harassing major pharmaceutical chains about their plans to sell chemical abortion drugs. In one letter, the senators applied pressure to Walgreens, criticizing the corporation for doing "the disservice of adding to" what they call "great confusion about abortion access." The letter critiques Walgreens for its "unacceptable" response to the concerns of 20 state attorneys general who previously wrote to the company explaining that they would be in violation of the law if they were to ship and dispense chemical abortion drugs within their states.
The relationship between Biden's executive agencies, federal and state policies, and bold attorneys general are dynamically interconnected and playing a key role in deciding the availability of chemical abortion pills in the United States. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been under fire for the lack of regulation on chemical abortion, having recently "lifted restrictions for the process of attaining abortion pills at retail pharmacies." As big box pharmacies have begun to make public their intentions to distribute abortion pills, there are strong opinions on both sides of the aisle, especially as it relates to Walgreens.
In a pair of contrasting interviews over the weekend, Pope Francis called extreme transgender ideology "one of the most dangerous" ideas in the world which reminds him of a dystopian novel about an evil world government, while President Joe Biden said he found legislation that bans transgender surgeries for minors or teaching gender ideology to young children "close to sinful." The dueling comments set up a rare clash between Biden, who frequently describes himself as a "devout Catholic," and the progressive pope.
Actor Rainn Wilson, who famously played Dwight Schrute on "The Office," recently criticized an episode in the HBO series "The Last of Us," saying that "there is an anti-Christian bias in Hollywood." The show, which is based on a video game released in early 2013, strings together themes of "love, hope, loss and the struggles of parentage against a backdrop of a collapsed society" in a post-apocalyptic world. Although Wilson does not claim a Christian faith, the tweet has made headlines for his boldness in calling out Hollywood.
Many Christian commitments seem outdated - and even subversive to many in our culture - and faithfulness to God and His Word is becoming increasingly rare. This is true even for those who desire to honor the Lord, and especially true for navigating controversial issues such as marriage, gender, and sexuality. Bombarded with so many competing messages, it is not always clear what faithfulness requires for addressing morally contentious topics.
It says a lot about the state of our nation when the country's second largest lender, Bank of America, feels the need to reassure people: "We are capitalists." CEO Brian Moynihan reiterated that message to shareholders last week after the uproar over his company's woke investments. Now, a handful of days later, as the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) sparks panic across the market, the critics seem right to wonder: Will corporate activism bankrupt us all?
This weekend was the most tumultuous for the banking sector since 2008, as an apparently prosperous, mid-sized bank completely collapsed. When the dust settled, federal regulators had taken over management of two banks while several others teetered on the brink. Needless to say, the incident has deeply shaken Americans' confidence in the banking industry.
On March 9, a Federalist Society event at Stanford Law School featuring U.S. Circuit Judge Kyle Duncan was disrupted and shouted down for an extended period by dozens of transgender activists and other hecklers, causing the event to end at least 40 minutes earlier than planned. Law professors and free speech advocates are expressing concern over the incident, calling it the latest egregious example of an ongoing assault on academic freedom and free speech occurring at college campuses around the country.
The world has changed a lot since the height of global communism. Yet, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) still clings on to power and has adapted over time to reinforce its brutal rule in a digital age. One new repressive innovation is forcing residents of China's Henan province to fill out an online form via an app created by the Ethnic and Religious Affairs Commission of Henan Province and gain approval before attending a religious service.
When it comes to navigating the minefield of legal controversy after the Dobbs decision, all roads seem to lead back to Texas. In a new wrongful death lawsuit, Texas father Marcus Silva has accused three women of aiding and abetting the killing of his unborn child by providing illegal chemical abortion drugs for his ex-wife.
More than 5,000 schools across the nation allow teachers to hide a child's decision to identify as a member of the opposite sex from the child's parents. The parental exclusion policy - which is heavily advocated by LGBT lobbying groups and applies to more than 3.2 million children nationally - has already resulted in the sexual trafficking of at least one young girl.
Over the past few years, free speech rights on college campuses have faced unprecedented challenges. Whether it's violent mobs preventing conservatives from speaking to student organizations or progressive administrators subverting academic freedom in the name of protecting favored identity groups, it is clear that free expression in higher education is under attack.
We cannot divorce our safety, freedom, and economic well-being from the rest of the world. We build needed alliances through trade, military assistance, and food relief. We gain access to raw materials through trade with nations on every continent. We safeguard our homeland by defending vulnerable friends.
In the Bluegrass State of Kentucky, a new bill recently approved by the state's House promises to ensure religious liberty for public school faculty and staff. HB547 would allow voluntary religious programs in public schools free of reprisal. The bill was inspired by the 2022 landmark Supreme Court decision Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, in which Washington state high school football coach Joe Kennedy was vindicated for exercising his First Amendment right to personal prayer.
Keeping the focus on a Georgia police officer who was the object of "religious bigotry," a contingent from the Family Research Council traveled to Port Wentworth, Ga., to present a petition in support of the former officer to the town's city manager. The petition, which contained nearly 35,000 signatures, called for the city to apologize to Jacob Kersey, the 19-year-old who was threatened with dismissal from the Port Wentworth Police Department for referencing the biblical definition of marriage on his personal Facebook page.
As the nation watches Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) in anticipation of a long-awaited presidential campaign announcement, the Sunshine State will soon be drawing national attention for another reason: the intensifying efforts of the pro-life movement in Florida to defund Planned Parenthood and pass a stronger pro-life law than the one already in existence.
Friday morning, on the infamously progressive talk show "The View," 85-year-old actress Jane Fonda made a disturbing recommendation for dealing with pro-lifers: murder. The remarks came amid a conversation regarding Fonda's pro-abortion activism, particularly in the months following the Dobbs Supreme Court decision last June.
Dedicating a whole month to commemorate a particular demographic is not rare, according to the U.S. calendar. In February, the spotlight is on black history and the significant role black leaders have played in our country's past. November is National American Indian Heritage Month. Now, as we reach the midpoint of March, America is marking Women's History Month, which encourages "the study, observance and celebration of the vital role of women," with a special focus on International Women's Day on March 8.
Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued a public statement Monday voicing their ongoing support of Thomas Webb Jurgens, an SPLC staff attorney arrested and charged with domestic terrorism. Jurgens was one of 35 agitators arrested, and one of 23 charged with domestic terrorism, in a Sunday night assault on the future site of an Atlanta police training facility. Jurgens was the only one granted bail, which the judge set at a piddling $5,000.
On Thursday, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government held a hearing on the "Twitter Files," a collection of thousands of internal Twitter document, parts of which have recently been released. As noted by two independent journalists and lawmakers, the hearing confirmed what many conservatives have suspected for years - that the federal government and elements of the mainstream media actively worked with social media giants to censor and deplatform content.
President Joe Biden's $6.9 trillion proposed budget would have the hand of the government rock the cradle by creating a federally regulated, universal pre-K program for children as young as three. "The estimated cost of these child care and preschool investments is $600 billion over 10 years," the budget proposal states.
New legislation seeking to legalize physician-assisted suicide (PAS) is on the move in several U.S. states - perhaps most notably Connecticut (with a 75% approval rating) and Minnesota (with a 73% approval rating). While both bills insist that assisted suicide will be made available only to individuals suffering from incurable terminal illness, similar legislation around the world has earned the reputation of beginning a dangerous slippery slope.
President Biden on Thursday released his budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2024, which will run from October 2023-September 2024. Among other things, the president's plan would increase taxes, implement price controls, and expand green energy subsidies. Here are four things to know about the president's budget proposal.
On Wednesday, The Post Millennial reported that 47 biological males who identify as transgender have been allowed entry into women's prisons in California since the state's Transgender Respect, Agency and Dignity Act (SB-132) went into effect in 2021. Experts are decrying the policy, pointing to the dangers posed to women's safety and privacy.
The NCAA may be pushing the transgender envelope publicly, but is the group's leadership actually on board? Or are they just too scared to speak out? According to swimmer Riley Gaines, the story behind closed doors is dramatically different than the lines Americans are being fed in the media. At the most recent NCAA convention, Gaines talked to dozens of athletic directors, university presidents, and chancellors, and "They all said to me, 'Keep doing what you are doing, we support you. We just can't do it publicly."
British police will continue to arrest Christians for the crime of praying within hundreds of feet of an abortion facility, after the U.K. Parliament voted down an amendment that would have legalized "silent prayer" - a situation Christians have described as a "dystopian" ban on pro-life "thoughtcrime."
The U.S. Senate on Wednesday issued a shocking rebuke to the District of Columbia's city council, voting against a measure (H.J. Res. 26) that would comprehensively reduce sentences for violent crimes by a vote of 81-14. The U.S. House carried the resolution 250-173 on February 9.
Earlier this week, a bipartisan group of 12 senators introduced the Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communications Technology (RESTRICT) Act, with Senators Mark Warner (D-Va.) and John Thune (R-S.D.) leading the way. This new legislation allows the government to address threats from foreign technology adversaries that pose risk to national security, taking specific aim at TikTok.
In 2023, it isn't enough to appreciate women for their contributions to society as leaders, activists, thinkers, wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters - because even being a biological woman isn't enough to warrant celebration on International Women's Day anymore.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Family Research Council Action (FRC Action), the legislative arm of Family Research Council, announced today its "True Blue" award winners for the Second Session of the 117th Congress. The annual award recognizes the members of Congress who displayed unwavering commitment and support of faith, family, and freedom by voting 100% of the time with FRC Action. Last year, 138 Representatives and 21 Senators earned the award.
On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre asserted that the level of fentanyl present at America's southern border is currently "at historic lows." Amid calls for the Biden administration to secure the border after the deaths of two kidnapped Americans in Mexico at the hands of a drug cartel, observers are pointing to vast increases in overdose deaths and human trafficking under President Biden's watch.
So, President Biden is preparing to announce $2 billion in tax hikes. Why? Because, he says, it's time "we" - that is, the government in Washington - "start making people pay a fair share." By now, it should be axiomatic that whenever a politician talks about "fair share" in the same breath as taxes, you should grab your wallet.
After the New York Rangers and Islanders both dumped their Pride gear for players, a third NHL team is jumping on the bandwagon (or in this case, Zamboni). On Tuesday night, the Minnesota Wild, who'd planned to have skaters wear the rainbow-themed gear for warm-ups made an "organizational decision" to stick to routine team jerseys - building on a narrative that's been hard for professional sports to ignore.
Left-wing attorney Gigi Sohn withdrew her candidacy to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday after a protracted nomination battle turned into bipartisan opposition. President Biden nominated Sohn to serve on the commission in October 2021 and renominated her this year after the first nomination expired. On Thursday, Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) indicated he would oppose her nomination, ending her chances of gaining approval during this Congress.
As Chinese communist officials forecast an impending "conflict" with the U.S., congressional Republicans have introduced legislation to cut off the Chinese Communist Party's greatest source of strength: its economic might.
It's difficult to overemphasize the extent to which the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision shook up the legal landscape of abortion in the states. In a matter of months, the United States went from federal abortion gridlock under Roe v. Wade to a scattered assortment of laws protecting life in the womb at different markers in gestation. Currently, there are only 20 states that don't protect life at any point in pregnancy - and, despite the differences in laws between the other 30, some aspects remain universal.
The governor of the nation's largest state has threatened to cut off all state business with the retail pharmaceutical chain Walgreens, unless it agrees to carry abortion-inducing pills in states where they are banned by law. Ironically, pro-life advocates say, bringing his boycott to reality would save unborn children's lives.
Like a lot of parents, Cindy Martin didn't realize how out of control the book situation had gotten in their local schools. When a friend told her there was pornographic content on the shelves, she decided to investigate herself. What she found defied imagination.
In a massive show of public support for former Georgia police officer Jacob Kersey, over 30,000 petitions will be delivered to the mayor and city council of Port Wentworth on Friday, March 10, calling on the city officials to apologize for infringing on the First Amendment rights of Kersey. The 19-year-old was pulled from duty and pressured to resign his position in January over a Facebook post he wrote on his personal account upholding a biblical view of marriage.
Atlanta police detained 35 "violent agitators" on Sunday after what appear to be hundreds of rioters broke into the future site of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) charged 23 individuals with domestic terrorism, including Thomas Webb Jurgens, a staff lawyer with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
For centuries, America has prided itself on being a nation of innovation and scientific advancement. We have generally considered science to be an authority on various matters, at least until it became politicized. For example, we now know (from real scientific research) that masks did virtually nothing to prevent the spread of COVID - nothing! We also know that the lockdowns did not slow down the disease. The lockdowns were destructive, creating the demise of countless livelihoods for no credible reason. It was simply an opportunity for liberal government officials to abuse their power and gain control over the personal lives of Americans. But this isn't the only area in which true science has been ignored.
In late February, the Washington Elementary School District (WESD) held a meeting in which an Arizona school board member, who appeared in front of her colleagues wearing cat ears, voiced her opposition to the renewed contract for student teachers with Arizona Christian University (ACU), due to the institution's biblical values.
Last week at a meeting of the G20 nations (which account for "more than 85% of the global GDP, over 75% of the global trade, and about two-thirds of the world population"), the attendees erupted in derisive laughter when Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov claimed "the war, which we are trying to stop, was launched against us using the Ukrainian people." This is only the latest humiliation faced by Vladimir Putin.
The Republican Party in the nation's largest red state has urged a sitting Republican congressman not to seek another term in office in 2024, because he cast two votes to redefine marriage. The elected official responded to his constituents with a vulgar Spanish phrase, and the national Republican Party machinery immediately signaled its support for his reelection.
Despite the intensely polarized state of partisan politics in the United States today, an unlikely policy appears to have generated the support of both the GOP and Democrats: banning TikTok.
On Sunday, the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released emails between Biden administration officials and outside scientists in early 2020 indicating that Dr. Anthony Fauci "prompted" a scientific paper to be released that contested the Wuhan lab leak theory. The news is the latest in an ongoing saga of reports that undermine key aspects of the Biden administration and Fauci's COVID pandemic narrative.
The D.C. Council withdrew a radical rewrite of the city's criminal code Monday, city council chairman Phil Mendelson (D) informed Vice President Kamala Harris, in her capacity as president of the Senate. "Withdrawal enables the Council to work on the measure in light of Congressional comments, and to re-transmit it later," said Mendelson.
In a recent interview, FBI Director Christopher Wray nonchalantly announced that "the FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the [COVID] pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan." Now that the FBI has acknowledged what the legacy and social media giants censored three years ago, the agency should turn its attention to that censorship; but such hopes are wishful thinking now that evidence suggests the FBI has played a key role in censoring those with narratives the Left does not like.
For years, we have witnessed a concerted effort by activists on the Left to abolish the natural family. The natural family, a man and a woman committed for life to each other and to their children, was ordained by God as the foundation of our society. The natural family is essential for a nation to prosper because the family is the root of self-government, service, community, and personal responsibility. That is why we are proudly launching the Congressional Family Caucus to defend the interests of families in Washington.
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee (R) on Thursday signed two bills designed to protect children under the age of 18 from harmful applications of transgender ideology. Tennessee Senate Bill 1 forbids gender transition procedures on minors, while Tennessee Senate Bill 3 forbids drag performances with minors present.
Actress Nicole Abisinio is the first to acknowledge she shouldn't even be alive. Before she was born, her father attempted to kill her pregnant mother because she refused to get an abortion. And after she was born, her mother was forced to go into hiding to protect her infant daughter's life. "I like to say I kind of came out fighting," Abisinio told The Christian Post.
The District of Columbia city council's decision to adopt statutes that soften penalties for serious crimes last fall prompted Congressman Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) to introduce a bill to undo the city's rewrite of its criminal code. The bill, H.J. Res. 26, passed the House of Representatives with bipartisan support (250-173).
After two and a half successful years of coaching at Jackson State University (JSU), Deion Sanders says he felt a call from the Lord to take on the head coach position at University of Colorado, starting in December of 2022. Not even a few months into his new position within the program, Sanders provoked a reaction from an atheist nonprofit for implementing his faith into his coaching.
The Hershey Company is facing boycotts and backlash in response to a new ad campaign from Hershey Canada, which uses a male activist who identifies as a transgender woman as a spokesman for International Women's Day. The activist, who goes by the name Fae Johnstone, is one of five individuals whose likenesses have been printed on limited edition "HER for SHE" chocolate bars for the campaign. While the other four people chosen are actually women, the inclusion of a male dressed as a female in a campaign promoting a holiday dedicated to women has drawn widespread criticism.
Grassroots Republicans will prevent an incumbent U.S. senator from accessing any party funds during a primary challenge because of his vote to redefine marriage, if the state party approves their proposal. This week, two of the 12 Republican senators who voted for the so-called Respect for Marriage Act faced massive backlash from their party's base.
Worship services in first century Corinth must have been a raucous affair. After lengthy instructions about the way the church should conduct its services, Paul charges those early believers, "Let all things be done decently and in order" (I Cor. 14:40). You can almost imagine Paul writing this with a sigh of exasperation. You wonder, then, what Paul would have thought about the state of American politics today.
The political battle to defend natural marriage is far from over in the nation's heartland, as Iowa legislators have introduced two bills that would expunge same-sex marriage from state law and declare a national law redefining marriage "null and void." The bills come as yet another local Republican Party chapter condemned Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), one of 12 Republican senators who voted for the so-called Respect for Marriage Act.
A liberal Democratic mayor and longtime LGBTQ activist, who has a long association with Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, has been charged with dozens of counts of possessing and distributing child pornography.A liberal Democratic mayor and longtime LGBTQ activist, who has a long association with Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, has been charged with dozens of counts of possessing and distributing child pornography. Police arrested Patrick Wojahn (D) - the mayor of College Park, Maryland - on Thursday morning.
Communist China is an "existential threat" to the United States, U.S. Representative Chris Smith (R-N.J.) said Thursday on "Washington Watch." Smith, who serves on the House Committee of Foreign Affairs, expressed optimism that both sides of the political aisle in Washington appear to be finally coming to the realization that the communist government of China under Xi Jinping is not only a threat to his own people, but to the entire world:
Many are rightfully concerned about the integrity of our national elections. And if we don't have confidence in the administration of our elections, then we don't have trust in the results of our elections.
Despite the influence that leftist groups have on our children and our culture, we have reason to be hopeful: a growing number of countries have taken steps recently to pull back on transgender medical treatments for gender-dysphoric children.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) sparked a firestorm of backlash for his comments about prayer at an interfaith prayer breakfast in Manhattan on Tuesday. "When we took prayers out of schools," he said, "guns came into schools." In addition, he stated, "Don't tell me about no separation of church and state. State is the body. Church is the heart. You take the heart out of the body, the body dies." While Adams's remarks lack some of the polish we might hope from our political leaders, his remarks are not as radical as some might suggest.
Attorney General Merrick Garland insisted Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee that "it is a priority of the Department [of Justice] to prosecute and investigate and find the people who are doing those fire bombings" of pregnancy resource centers (PRCs). But members of Congress weren't easily convinced.
As U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland received pointed questions from Republican senators during his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, concerns are growing about President Biden's Justice Department becoming politicized through the targeting of pro-life individuals and organizations.
This week, a group of nearly 200 so-called human rights organizations sent a letter to the United Nations (U.N.) asking for intervention to prevent the protection of unborn children from abortion in the United States. The plea condemns the Supreme Court's historic decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, saying that, "people residing in the U.S. who can become pregnant are facing a human rights crisis."
Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves (R) didn't just sign a bill on Tuesday protecting children from harmful drugs and surgeries that accompany a gender transition. He also offered a lengthy, well-reasoned defense of the legislation and then competently defended his conservative position against the media's attacks.
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) warned Wednesday that discussions between the U.S. government and the World Health Organization (WHO) risk giving the health organization more power over public health decisions in the U.S. despite the group's questionable actions during the Covid-19 pandemic.
They aren't the words most people would expect from a transgender clinic whistleblower: "I am a 42-year-old St. Louis native, a queer woman, and politically to the left of Bernie Sanders." But Jamie Reed's deep, pro-trans ideology is one of the biggest reasons her explosive account about the St. Louis Children's Hospital seems so credible to observers. "When this kind of whistleblower steps forward," Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey (R) told Tony Perkins, "you've got to take [the] allegations seriously."
The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments on two cases challenging President Biden's plan to cancel up to $20,000 in outstanding student loans for millions of former students. In the first case, Biden v. Nebraska, six states (Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, Arkansas, Kansas, and South Carolina) challenged the Biden administration's authority to issue a $500 billion loan bailout without congressional approval. In the second case, Board of Education v. Brown, private parties excluded from the sweeping benefits challenged the statutory and procedural basis of the loan forgiveness.
Twitter has suspended the personal account of Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah), the senator announced early Wednesday afternoon. "My personal Twitter account - @BasedMikeLee - has been suspended," the conservative senator stated at 1:32 p.m. Eastern from his official Senate Twitter account. "Twitter did not alert me ahead of time, nor have they yet offered an explanation for the suspension. My team and I are seeking answers."
A Biden administration official told Congress that "natural immunity is not something we believe in" for members of the U.S. military who have had COVID-19, just days after a British study showed prior infection protects people as well as or better than vaccination. The armed forces will instead continue to push service members to take the COVID vaccine "and boosters," the military undersecretary and chief diversity officer announced, before denying an inspector general's report that officials reviewed Christians' requests for religious exemptions only 12 minutes before dismissing them.
Wednesday morning, FRC Action, Family Research Council's legislative affiliate, presented True Blue awards to members of Congress whose voting records perfectly defended the values of faith, family, and freedom. This year, 159 members of Congress were honored with a True Blue Award -21 from the Senate and 138 from the House.
Last week, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson (D) claimed in a lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration that the abortion pill is safer than Tylenol. The contention has sparked outcry from experts, who point to data showing the severe health risks associated with the abortion pill regimen.
Since the Dobbs decision, many anti-life celebrities have outspokenly advocated for unlimited abortion on demand; featuring a link to an abortion fund on one's social media pages has become a popular way for celebrities to denote their allyship to the cause of killing babies in the womb. In recent weeks, yet another disturbing anti-life trend is rippling through celebrity circles - this one, however, under the guise of loving children.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Family Research Council Action (FRC Action), the legislative arm of Family Research Council, announced today its "True Blue" award winners for the Second Session of the 117th Congress. The annual award recognizes the members of Congress who displayed unwavering commitment and support of faith, family, and freedom by voting 100% of the time with FRC Action. Last year, 138 Representatives and 21 Senators earned the award.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Family Research Council Action (FRC Action), the legislative arm of Family Research Council, announced today its "True Blue" award winners for the Second Session of the 117th Congress. The annual award recognizes the members of Congress who displayed unwavering commitment and support of faith, family, and freedom by voting 100% of the time with FRC Action. Last year, 138 Representatives and 21 Senators earned the award.
Nigeria's controversial president, Mohammadu Buhari, faces the end of his term of office in May 2023. With that on the calendar, the country's presidential election took place on February 25 and 26. In a perfect world, elections would be fair and conclusive. But many international observers see Nigeria as a tragically corrupt nation.
While the debate swirls over a "national divorce," there's one area where states have already filed the paperwork: corporate activism. In deep red America, the Most Wanted signs have already been hung for woke asset firms who've been funding a war on values with conservatives' own dollars. Now that Republicans are putting some real muscle into the fight against ESG (environmental, social, governance), kingpins like BlackRock are feeling the squeeze. Is it too late to worm back into the GOP's good graces? CEO Larry Fink is about to find out.
Mississippi enacted on Tuesday the Regulate Experimental Adolescent Procedures (REAP) Act (H.B. 1125), which forbids any person to "knowingly provide gender transition procedures to any person under eighteen years of age" or "engage in conduct that aids or abets" such procedures. H.B. 1125 passed the Mississippi House 78-29 on January 19, passed the Mississippi Senate 33-15 on February 21, and was signed by Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves (R) on February 28. The bill goes into effect immediately.
On Monday, it was reported that a Christian high school girls' basketball team in Vermont forfeited a game in the fourth round of a state championship tournament when it was discovered that a biological male who identifies as a transgender female was on the opposing team's roster. Experts are applauding the school's decision, pointing to the physical dangers that male athletes pose to female athletes as well as the infringement on fair play that is created by allowing males to compete against females.
In another international setback for the LGBTQ agenda, the British government has banned nearly all men who identify as women from being jailed inside women's prisons - implicitly condemning the unisex prison policy advocated by President Joe Biden.
Artificial intelligence (more commonly known as "AI") has gained attention and popularity in recent months, particularly since the launch of the ChatGPT chatbot from OpenAI, which captivated the internet with both its impressive abilities and surprising limitations. The millions of AI users in the U.S. are mostly eager to cheat on their homework or escape writing work emails; however, some bad actors have also discovered how to employ AI technology to attain far more nefarious ends.
Rebellious, confused, drug addicted, and above all, in need of a bath. This is how Chuck Smith, a rigid pastor of a dwindling church, would have described hippies at the beginning of "Jesus Revolution." That is, until Lonnie Frisbee, a hippie himself, enters his life.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has concluded that the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated in a laboratory leak, according to a classified intelligence report, reported The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). This marks the second known intelligence agency to conclude that the evidence points to the lab-leak theory, although at least four other agencies reportedly believe that natural transmission is the stronger explanation.
Recently in the "Powerline Blog," John Hinderaker wrote that when Scott Johnson and he launched the site in about 1990, they "never imagined that someday, we would have to write about sex-change operations and mastectomies carried out on 13-year-old girls." He noted he is "much more comfortable writing about economic data and the like. But unfortunately, the Left has mounted a campaign against America's youth that it is impossible to ignore."
Not to be deterred by deadlines that expired decades ago, supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) are once again attempting to resurrect this long-dead measure. On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing aimed at identifying a path forward to enshrine the ERA into the Constitution.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released a new study focused on the dramatic increase of suicides among teenage girls over the last few years. The results are shocking. They reported that between 2019 and 2021, suicide attempts by high school girls increased by 51%, which translates into one out of every three girls. In contrast, attempts by teenage boys increased by 4%.
Two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court are challenging how far Section 230 goes in protecting websites when they contain dangerous or defamatory content. "At stake in both cases is the liability protections tech providers have for content that they host and distribute," explained Tony Perkins on "Washington Watch."
In an age when the conventional wisdom holds that men can get pregnant, America was founded in 1619, and President Joe Biden's free-spending policies reduced the national deficit, perhaps it is only fitting that one of the primary sources of misinformation comes from online "fact-checkers."
Billy Graham maintained a profound passion for youth throughout his ministry, recognizing that they are the future leaders of the church with tremendous capacity to contribute to the Kingdom of God. As a result of working with young people from all over the world, he made the observation that they want "something to really believe in. Something that's intellectually logical and something that will satisfy their hearts and give them an experience ... a spiritual experience." The explanation in his mind was simple, "...If you\u00A0come to Jesus Christ you've found it."
With the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in the rearview mirror, Chinese Communist leaders are closely monitoring Russia's struggles in the conflict, Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Jerry Boykin said on a recent edition of "Washington Watch."
As Black History Month draws to a close, it's worth considering Scripture's teaching about race and ethnicity. In our country, tremendous progress has been made, but more is needed - including in the body of Christ.
In the United States, February marks Black History Month - a profound celebration of the significant contributions that black Americans have made to our country and an opportunity to pay tribute to their perseverance throughout history. Coinciding with Black History Month, I recently had the honor of interviewing one of the most accomplished leaders in American politics today: Dr. Ben Carson.
What happens when you've built your entire worldview around a certain aspect of your identity - and then it turns out to be a lie? How can you process the information, or manage the dissonance from other beliefs you hold? Racial activist and author Angela Davis was forced to confront those questions in real time on a recent broadcast of PBS's program, "Finding Your Roots."
The Food and Drug Administration recently made it legal to obtain a medical abortion via a drug called mifepristone at any pharmacy willing to sell the pharmaceutical. These medical abortions now account for over half of all abortions obtained in America today. All this, despite the Dobbs decision.
After two years of life under President Joe Biden, it's no secret that Republicans are chomping at the bit to determine who will represent the party on the 2024 stage. Despite several candidates having already declared their presidential bid, however, there remains no greater challenger to former President Donald Trump than the governor from Florida, who has yet to confirm whether he has presidential aspirations for 2024.
On February 17, Senators James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho) reintroduced a bill that would allow states to exclude abortion businesses like Planned Parenthood from receiving federal Medicaid funds. Experts say the bill is part of a multi-pronged strategy that is being deployed by GOP lawmakers and state officials to divest the abortion industry of taxpayer dollars in the wake of Dobbs.
The Tennessee House voted 77-16 on Thursday to prohibit health care providers from performing gender transition medical procedures on a minor, with three Democrats joining all Republicans to approve the bill (SB 1). The bill, which already passed the state Senate 26-6 on February 13, now heads to the desk of Governor Bill Lee (R), who has indicated he will sign it.
"An employer that covers the cost ... of gender dysphoria treatment for employees must also cover the total costs associated with treatment that reverses the gender dysphoria treatment," according to the "Reverse Woke Act" (SB 952), introduced Monday by Florida Senator Blaise Ingoglia (R).
As yet another massive train derailment unfolded in Nebraska on Tuesday in the wake of the controversial federal response to the derailment disaster that has engulfed East Palestine, Ohio, experts are seeing a connection between the responses to both East Palestine and the recent aggressive actions of the Chinese regime: failed and incompetent American leadership.
A World Health Organization (WHO) international negotiating body (INB) devoted to drafting an international pandemic convention will gather on Monday in a session scheduled to last all week. The INB's session, its fourth since it was established in December 2021, will consider a draft convention text, labeled "zero draft," which would dramatically expand the WHO's power to control national pandemic responses.
Since the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that retail pharmacies would be permitted to sell the chemical abortion regimen, pro-life leaders in the states have begun to speak out against the various ways that such a plan would encourage pharmacy businesses to violate both federal and state laws. Pro-life attorneys general like AG Kris Kobach in Kansas are making it clear that they will enforce the rule of law where the Biden administration's Department of Justice (DOJ) fails.
Mulvaney, and gender ideologues like him, merit both correction and compassion. Thankfully, the redeeming love of God is sufficient to provide both; as agents of the Lord, we should extend both in every response.
In a story largely buried by the mainstream media, a second NHL team announced this month that it was ditching its Pride gear for players. Less than two weeks after the New York Rangers sent shockwaves through the sports world for bagging their special rainbow warm-ups, a neighboring team, the New York Islanders, followed suit.
The Biden administration "is trying to cancel religious student groups" on campus by rescinding a Trump-era religious freedom protection holding universities responsible for violating the First Amendment rights of believing students, a religious liberty watchdog tells The Washington Stand.
As it turns out, studies show that it's best not to dismiss the commonsense concerns and personal health care decisions of tens of millions of Americans.
An Arizona teacher made the case for parental rights legislation she was testifying against in a bizarre rant last Wednesday. While testifying against Arizona SB 1700 on February 15, the teacher insisted that parents should not have the right to oversee her school materials because, "I have a master's degree. ... What do the parents have?"
Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) declared Friday that he would "follow through" with a "plan to hold all DOD civilian, flag, and general officer nominations that come before the U.S. Senate" in response to the Department of Defense (DOD) "following through" with a "radical plan to facilitate thousands of abortions a year with taxpayer dollars."
In an exclusive interview with Tucker Carlson this week, conservative entrepreneur, author, and activist Vivek Ramaswamy announced his bid for the GOP presidential nomination in 2024. Ramaswamy is the third Republican contender to declare candidacy, joining the ranks of former President Donald Trump and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley.
Since 1867, the Archbishop of Canterbury has been recognized as the "first among equals" among all the bishops of the worldwide Anglican communion. This fellowship of churches, rooted in the Church of England, is now composed of 42 national churches worldwide.
America cannot simultaneously claim to support women's equality while erasing the very existence of women and relegating our opportunities to any man willing to grow out his hair and occasionally wear a skirt.
When speaking of chemical abortion, Linda Prine, who counsels women who self-manage their abortion with the use of mifepristone and misoprostol, told Vox, "[W]e get calls from people completely freaked out, crying, sobbing ..." She continued, "They're calling us scared, because they've passed a tiny but recognizable fetus, and they are freaked out and they weren't expecting that. And it's frankly traumatizing ..."
They called it a "night of rage." But outside the charred walls of Buffalo's CompassCare, pro-lifers could barely get the national media to call it anything. Like the string of domestic firebombings across Wisconsin, Oregon, Colorado, Tennessee, and Washington, the blown out windows, graffiti, and trashed offices were barely a blip on network news. It's been quite a contrast to the extensive coverage a single burned flag in New York is getting. But then, that's the power of the Pride.
A 15-year-old girl has felt "very depressed" after a state worker removed her from her parents' custody and talked her into an illegal and "traumatic" abortion without parental consent, according to the lawyer who filed a $15.4 million lawsuit against the abortion facility and county employees.
Russian president Vladimir Putin declared Tuesday that Russia "is suspending its participation" in New START, a treaty between the U.S. and Russia limiting the deployment of long-range nuclear weapons. Putin blamed his decision on the West, which he claimed instigated the war in Ukraine.
Over the weekend, reports surfaced that the Biden administration was preparing to enter the United States into a "legally binding" agreement with the World Health Organization (WHO) that would grant the entity authority to mandate America's health care policies in the event of a future pandemic. Experts say the proposed plan would be an unprecedented violation of the Constitution, which grants the Senate the authority to approve international treaties.
In the United States under Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the abortion industry has relied on the fast-acting and easily concealable nature of chemical abortion drugs to circumvent pro-life laws in the states that protect unborn children and their mothers from abortion. After a recent Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rule change allowing retail pharmacies to sell the chemical abortion regimen with a prescription, the battle against chemical abortion drugs has only intensified - but, thankfully, pro-life state attorneys general are rising to the challenge.
Sanford Health, the lobbying force behind South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem's initial opposition of girls' sports and gender transition protections, appears to be running a similar (though not identical) playbook in neighboring North Dakota. The North Dakota House on Friday passed a bill (H.B. 1254) to protect minors from gender transition procedures - but with substantial Republican opposition.
It was five years ago today that our nation and the world lost one of the greatest modern-day preachers of the gospel. Known affectionately as America's pastor, Billy Graham came face-to-face with the Savior He had proclaimed for nearly a century on February 21, 2018. While Graham was well-known in the United States, he holds a special place in the hearts of North Carolinians like me. It's why we've gone to such great lengths to honor him and preserve his legacy for future generations.
A recent decision made by the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) to cover up a 10-foot by 19-foot painting has prompted a furious response from House Republicans. The image depicts Jesus and merchant mariners floating in a lifeboat, "presumably after being torpedoed in the Indian Ocean during World War II." The painting was covered by a white sheet at the request of 26 people.
When San Francisco decided to boycott the country's red states, they were hoping it would have an economic impact. Trouble is, it did. Just not on conservatives. For seven years, the city has stubbornly clung to its travel bans and contracting blackouts for states with sane policies on life and gender - only to find out that the side paying the biggest price is their own.
A new poll reveals that the overwhelming majority of Republican primary voters want future GOP presidential contenders to embrace hot button issues like gender transition procedures for minors and implementing restrictions on pornography.
On February 3, in East Palestine, Ohio, a train derailed, leaving 38 train cars off the track and an additional 12 cars damaged by fire. Five of the railcars were at risk of exploding, so emergency crews performed a controlled release of vinyl chloride, a hazardous chemical compound connected to a deadly form of liver cancer. When burned, vinyl chloride reacts to form phosphene gas, which was used as a chemical weapon during World War I. Essentially, the town was gassed.
On the rare occasions America looks to her history, the legacy media reports her presidents' virtues and vices (real or imagined). Yet they purposefully omit American presidents' firm conviction in Jesus Christ, the Bible, and the indispensable role the Christian religion has played in establishing, undergirding, and sustaining American institutions to this day. To remedy this oversight, we present the words of 20 presidents representing every epoch of U.S. history, from its founding to the present.
Performing gender transition surgery on a minor would become a felony in North Dakota, and prescribing puberty blocking drugs or cross-sex hormones would become a misdemeanor under a bill (H.B. 1254) passed Friday by the state House in a 66-25 vote. The chamber also voted down (29-62) a bill (H.B. 1301) creating civil penalties for performing gender transition procedures on a minor.
It's natural for little girls to look to older women as role models; whether it's a mother or a famous historical figure, finding an example of womanhood to emulate can encourage girls as they navigate the fears and uncertainty inherent to adolescence. Progressives, however, are intent on manipulating the naivete and innocence of young women in search of heroes by force-feeding them content of biological men making a mockery of womanhood - the exact opposite of the female exemplars they crave.
A father who was shut down by the Anchorage, Alaska school board February 7 when he attempted to read from a sexually graphic book available to students in the school district said parents are not being informed about the nature of material available to students.
The cost of following Christ just hit home in a new way for one California teacher who was fired for refusing to tell lies about biological reality or hide student's gender transitions from their parents. Jurupa Unified School District served physical education teacher Jessica Tapia, mother of three, with a Notice of Unprofessional Conduct for not embracing the district's new polices promoting transgender identities and, on January 31, fired her after determining it could not accommodate her religious beliefs.
A Norfolk Southern train derailment that occurred two weeks ago in eastern Ohio still has not received the attention it should have from the federal government, said Representative Bill Johnson (R-Ohio) February 17 on "Washington Watch with Tony Perkins." Those impacted by the disaster need answers, he insisted.
A prominent Democratic senator has urged the Biden administration to "ignore" a potential federal court ruling that could impose a nationwide ban on abortion pills, comparing the "right" to abortion with Abraham Lincoln's efforts to free the slaves.
A pediatric transgender clinic under multiple investigations for harming teenagers and potentially defrauding taxpayers has announced it will continue carrying out services - even as emails show clinic employees advising a local school to "affirm" an entire group of fifth-grade girls who identified as transgender. This is just the latest controversy engulfing The Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.
"Porn disguised as education." That's how parents are describing the flood of graphic books dotting shelves across America's libraries and schools. Thanks to wide-scale investigations in states like Florida, moms and dads are finally getting a full picture of the amount of filth available to their children. This is "an absolute battle between good and evil," Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry (R) told a group of pastors in Baton Rouge on Friday.
The "He Gets Us" campaign, launched most prominently during Sunday's Super Bowl, is an attempt to reach people with an image of Jesus that is compassionate and relevant. It seeks to present Him as the ultimate empathizer, someone who understands rejection, fear, and social isolation. Jesus does "get us," but He is more than the one-dimensional man presented here.
The Chinese Communist Party has continued to destroy churches, arrest and abuse Christians, forcibly "disappear" clergy, prevent believers from expressing their faith online, and attempt to coerce Christians into proclaiming Marxist principles from the pulpit in place of the Holy Bible. ChinaAid's new report, including a "partial list of persecution cases in 2022," broken down by province, takes up 20 pages.
Here's one ballooning problem the military can't simply knock out of the sky: net interest payments on the U.S. government's debt are projected to triple over the next 10 years, totaling 300% of 2022 outlays in 2033, according to a new report published this week by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
On Thursday, Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) introduced legislation that would prevent individuals who identify as transgender or who have gender dysphoria from serving in the military, with some exceptions. Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) introduced companion legislation in the House. The lawmakers have emphasized that the bill's purpose is to help the Pentagon stay focused on "military readiness" and not on complications that ensue from gender confusion in the ranks.
A school board meeting in Anchorage, Alaska took a testy turn last week when a local dad decided to read aloud from one of the books the district was using to promote "tolerance." "We hear so much about 'diversity, inclusion, and equity,'" Jay McDonald said. "[But] we don't often see specific examples ... So today I brought an excellent representation ... from one of the books that was just recently purchased for our libraries." He barely made it three sentences before the vice president of the board ordered him to stop.
If you were reared in evangelicalism, revival is a familiar term. In my childhood, so-called "revivals" were typically a pre-planned week of special services where an itinerant preacher would come to the church and give nightly evangelistic messages. Truth be told, these "revivals" were planned to fuel actual revival, but they in themselves weren't revival.
It's now been a week since a routine chapel service at Kentucky's Asbury University began - and it hasn't stopped. As worshippers were inspired to continue singing, praying, and repenting, people from around the country have traveled to the campus to see this spontaneous outbreak of the Holy Spirit - including Family Research Council's own chaplain, Dr. Jay Johnston. He joined FRC President Tony Perkins on "Washington Watch" to share what he saw.
An overwhelming majority of books removed from\u00A0Florida schools\u00A0since the beginning of the academic year in September 2022 were pornographic, violent, or inappropriate for students' grade levels, according to school district data submitted to the state's Department of Education.
The leader of Scotland resigned on Wednesday after her months-long advocacy of an extreme transgender bill ended in a humiliating defeat - a sign that even the most secular of countries has definitively turned against the LGBTQ movement.
Legislative efforts to protect minors from harmful, irreversible gender transition procedures are going so well, some proponents are focusing on the next step: beating the inevitable legal challenges. From one state in 2021, the push to ban gender transition procedures on those too young to legitimately consent is now "moving across the country," said Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, host of "Washington Watch." "But," he continued, "observers already anticipate a legal fight from both the ACLU and the transgender industry."
The Senate's classified briefing was supposed to answer questions about China's spy balloons, Republicans insisted, not create more. And yet, several senators seemed surprised after Tuesday's meeting with U.S. intelligence and military officials - not by what they learned, but by the growing pile of unknowns, including why so much information is being kept from the American public. "They're concerned, they're interested, and they have a right to know why President Biden directed the actions that he did over the last week," Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) argued.
A new lawsuit led by Alliance Defending Freedom, a pro-life legal organization heavily involved in the Dobbs case, is now representing four national medical associations and four physicians in a lawsuit against the federal government, seeking to reverse FDA approval for abortion drugs on the basis that they were approved illegally. Family Research Council (FRC) submitted one of 15 friend-of-the-court briefs in the case, Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
A Democratic politician has received massive backlash after she called the scientifically attested belief that children suffer less abuse in nuclear families "dangerous and un-American." "Extremist group Family Heritage Alliance said this morning that the safest place for kids are in families that have a married mom and dad. What a dangerous and un-American belief," tweeted State Representative Erin Healy (D) on Monday.
Sooty plumes of toxic smoke towered stories above the quiet, evacuated village of East Palestine, Ohio last week as officials tried to contain what might be the worst rail disaster of the decade. As usual, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg has stayed as far from the crisis as possible.
On Monday, The New York Times reported on new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which found that the rate of sadness among U.S. teenagers is at its highest level in a decade, with almost three in five girls reporting "persistent sadness" in 2021 - double the rate of boys. Strikingly, almost 70% of teens who identified as gay, lesbian, or bisexual "reported feeling sadness every day for at least two weeks during the previous year."
"I thought surely there would be someone, whether that be a coach, or another swimmer, or someone within the NCAA - I thought surely someone would stick up for us." For the University of Kentucky's Riley Gaines, that was the moment she realized: they were on their own. The teams forced to swim against Lia Thomas, a biological man, had no other choice but to speak up themselves or lose everything they'd worked for. "It kind of hit me. If we, as women, were not willing to stick up for ourselves, how can we expect someone else to?"
Americans are outraged over the Chinese spy balloon that wafted gently over American airspace, apparently transmitting extensive data back to Beijing. New reports of other aerial objects being shot-down by our Air Force are making additional headlines. While these things raise alarms, they point to a larger issue: China is pressing American in every way it can. And in terms of global influence, even dominance, China is playing for keeps.
Republican party officials have censured two more members of Congress for voting in favor of same-sex marriage, including the U.S. senator who cited her Christian faith as the reason she chose to support a bill that critics say stifles religious liberty.
When the military isn't shooting down Chinese UFOs, it's dealing with another ballooning problem: recruitment. The Army's 15,000-person shortfall is still keeping leaders up at night, as they scramble to understand what's keeping this generation from enlisting. "They just don't see the Army as something that's relevant," Major General Alex Fink said after reading the results of the branch's latest survey. But it's not because the military is woke, he told critics. That and the mandatory COVID vaccine have nothing to do with the Armed Forces' problems - or so the Biden brass would have you believe.
President Joe Biden hasn't ordered this many shots since his last COVID booster. On Friday, on Saturday, and again on Sunday, U.S. aircraft shot down aerial objects that had intruded into U.S. and Canadian airspace uninvited. The incidents come merely a week after a colossal Chinese spy balloon crossed the entire country before the Biden administration shot it down, and after the military admitted at least four previously undisclosed incursions by Chinese balloons.
A Georgia police officer's Facebook post paraphrasing what Ephesians 5 says about marriage results in his suspension from the police force. The officer, Jacob Kersey, then resigns instead of accepting the muzzle his superiors will place on him as a condition of his employment. First Liberty Institute sent a letter to the mayor and assistant police chief demanding they reverse course. This latest cancel culture incident is all too familiar.
A whistleblower's explosive account reveals that the transgender medical industry uses high-pressure techniques, employs its own cadre of "experts," and lies about the impact of puberty blockers and other drugs to convince parents to authorize lifelong "gender-affirming care" that effectively, or literally, castrates their children. When the parents refuse, at least one transgender clinic disregarded the will of the custodial parent, the insider's testimony states.
Tempers grew heated in the Sunshine State on Friday afternoon, as well-organized pro-trans activists unsuccessfully tried to derail the Florida Boards of Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine from confirming standards of care prohibiting licensed medical professionals from inflicting irreversible harm on minors through gender transition procedures.
For too long, we've been digging in our heels and yelling at the other side, rather than taking time to get to know one another. Rather than slandering each other in the media, it's time to sit down to coffee and try to work out some of those differences for the common good.
Both chambers of the South Dakota legislature overwhelmingly voted to protect minors from gender transition procedures, sending the measure, House Bill 1080, to Governor Kristi Noem's (R) desk on Thursday. Noem now faces intense pressure to sign the bill, which is similar to one her allies at the giant Sanford Health system successfully lobbied to kill during the previous legislative session.
On February 14, the Senate Commerce Committee will consider for the second time the nomination of Gigi Sohn to serve as a commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Experts and lawmakers are pointing to a host of issues they say should disqualify her from consideration, including ethics concerns as well as far-left views on defunding police, sex trafficking, and censorship.
The new Republican majority may have taken a few days to elect a speaker, but it has wasted no time in launching hearings on Capitol Hill. Following Wednesday's hearing on Oversight and Accountability that addressed speech suppression by Big Tech, the House Judiciary Committee held a select subcommittee hearing on Thursday that consisted of two panels to discuss the weaponization of the federal government.
Let's work to eliminate fears for all women in unplanned pregnancies, including those with disabilities, instead of defaulting to abortion as the solution.
A freshman, a graduate assistant, and a political party walked into a university's administration building - er, actually, around 100 of them did. But it's not a dry twist on the old bar joke; the tense moment really took place Monday at Tigert Hall, administration headquarters for the University of Florida in Gainesville.
There was much to disagree with in President Biden's recent State of the Union address, but he was right about one thing: the world's eyes are on America. However, those eyes are seeing some things that the president celebrates but which committed Christians should find disturbing.
A pediatric gender clinic is under criminal investigation after a whistleblower charged the center with potentially defrauding Medicaid and private insurance to prescribe transgender hormones to children as young as 11. The sworn affidavit states the St. Louis facility administered cross-sex hormones to mentally ill children, sometimes against their parents' wishes, and ignored children's worsening physical and mental health conditions - including at least one suicidal teenager.
According to a former Twitter executive, restrictions on speech facilitate more speech. In his opening remarks Wednesday to the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, former Twitter global head of trust and safety Yoel Roth, said, "Unrestricted free speech, paradoxically, results in less speech, not more."
During his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Biden asserted that "some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security to sunset." A chorus of GOP lawmakers, including Senator Rick Scott (R-Fla.) are fiercely disputing the claim, pointing out that as a U.S. senator, Biden himself supported cuts in the social welfare programs.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) last Tuesday rolled out a new education agenda designed to comprehensively recapture the state's higher education system from woke ideologues. Instead, he set forth a conservative vision for a higher education system: "to focus on promoting academic excellence, the pursuit of truth, and to give students the foundation so they can think for themselves." The proposals affect curriculum, faculty, funding, and more.
The contentious debate surrounding gender transition procedures for minors continued unabated in statehouses across the nation this week, with several states moving bills meant to shield youth from the physical and emotional harms of such procedures.
When confronted with the Turkish government's undeniable anti-Christian policies and pro-Islamist crusades, no one suffers more than the Syriac, Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant and other believers who are confronted with injustice every day of their lives. Today they endure even more crushing losses and broken dreams. And, tragically, Tayyip Erdogan's history of brutality toward them and their communities forebodes only further negligence and abuse.
Cleanup from a devastating earthquake which struck southern Turkey on Monday "is going to be an all-hands-on-deck effort internationally," said Tony Perkins, FRC president and host of "Washington Watch." "So, Christian ministries are responding," he said, joining thousands of governmental and non-governmental rescuers bringing supplies and aid to the region.
The Biden administration, which has sued states that ban surgeries that remove the healthy reproductive anatomy of underage girls, has announced its support for the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation.
Repeatedly, we are told to overlook evil things because those evil things are being done in the name of some greater good.
On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will once again consider the Biden administration's nomination of Nancy Abudu to serve as a federal judge on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. Experts and lawmakers say that Abudu, who serves as strategic litigation director for the scandal-plagued Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), is unqualified for the position due to making highly disputed claims about "voter suppression," fighting against voter ID laws, and supporting voting rights for convicted felons, among other concerns.
Around 150 "trans lives matter" protestors occupied the Oklahoma Capitol on Monday, carrying signs and chanting so loudly that their shouts echoed off the rotunda. "When the chanting was at its loudest, it was difficult to hear the person talking next to you," reported local news station KFOR, which also said that the "demonstrators were let in by Oklahoma State Troopers and Capitol security staff."
One of the most infuriating tactics adopted by the abortion industry and its political supporters in the wake of the Dobbs decision has been the persistent attempts to demonize pregnancy resource centers (PRCs). Though these charitable organizations exist solely to assist mothers in need, they have borne the brunt of anti-life extremism and violence. However, even outside of the pro-life movement, objective observers can't help but notice that the powerful work of PRCs has a profoundly beneficial impact on women.
During his State of the Union Address Tuesday night, President Joe Biden called on Congress "to restore the soul of this nation" by making abortion legal nationwide until birth and passing a bill that would force religious employers to hire people who identify as transgender. His administration's focus on pushing polarizing social issues clashes with Republicans' more mainstream views of abortion and gender identity, a contrast that Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) said gives Americans a clear choice "between normal or crazy."
The U.S. military never briefed civilian officials about three Chinese spy balloons that crossed into U.S. territory during the Trump administration. At least eight former high-ranking officials in the Trump administration, plus former President Donald Trump himself, denied any knowledge of Chinese spy balloons flying over U.S. territory after reports broke on Saturday.
On Monday, it was reported that Disney removed an episode of the series "The Simpsons" from its streaming service in Hong Kong because of a line referring to "forced labor camps." Experts say the move is the latest in a series of decisions made by the entertainment giant that appear to acquiesce to the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) demands in order to stay in business in the country, despite ongoing human rights abuses that are being committed by the regime.
Do our country's political divides present Christians with opportunities for the gospel? This question can't be answered simply, but we can at least consider how Christ-followers can reach our people, liberal and conservative alike, with His grace and truth.
Overshadowing the reunion of Motown legends Robinson and Stevie Wonder was a lesser duo of Sam Smith and Kim Petras singing the Grammy-winning duet "Unholy," which celebrates adultery. Smith emerged before a fiery backdrop, wearing horns, surrounded by dancers, and bathed in red light nearly as demonic-looking as the backdrop of President Biden's speech at Independence Hall in September 2022.
A recent episode of the Disney+ cartoon series "The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder" is creating controversy for depicting America as a country "built on slavery, which means slaves built this country." The show, which is rated TV-PG and is marketed for kids, also questions whether Lincoln freed the slaves and states that the descendants of slaves "have earned reparations."
As the nation prepares for President Biden's State of the Union Address, President of Family Research Council (FRC) Tony Perkins gave an address seeking to point America back to biblical truth. Pastors from 19 different states and other guests joined together on Monday to hear Perkins's State of Faith, Family, and Freedom address. Perkins began with the observation, "We've [America] not been this divided since Abraham Lincoln's day."
After years of increasingly horrendous reports on Nigeria, a new Congressional Resolution was introduced by Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) on January 31, 2022. Perhaps it will help undo the damage done to Nigeria's Christians by the Biden administration's negligence.
Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), Chairwoman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, distributed Bibles and invited fellow committee members to read through it in 2023 at the committee's first meeting on January 31. McMorris Rodgers said the Bible "changed my life" when she read it through for the first time, so she encouraged "everyone to read this book in their lifetime."
Any tool can be misused. A hammer can construct or kill. An electrical wire can give instant light or, if mishandled, bring sudden death. So it is with computers and televisions. They are valuable and helpful but also potentially dangerous. So, when children use "screens," parents need to be extra vigilant.
USAID, which serves as the "world's premier international development agency," recently released a guide that promotes ways of integrating people who identify as LGBTQ into the American education system. To help public school partners implement widespread acceptance, the guide presents its "best practices for LGBTQ inclusion in education," but admittedly states that "not all of these strategies will be relevant or appropriate in every country-context."
While all eyes are on the mysterious spy balloon above Montana, it's no secret what's happening inside the country that sent it. China, when it isn't busy invading U.S. airspace, is torturing its own people and operating an organ harvesting ring that no horror movie could do justice. For years, the personal stories have been pouring out of Xi Jinping's country - and it's past time, one U.S. congressman says, to do something about it.
A Chinese surveillance balloon is currently pursuing a leisurely jaunt across the continental United States. Brigadier General Pat Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary said on Thursday that "the United States government has detected and is tracking a high-altitude surveillance balloon that is over the continental United States right now." The Department of Defense (DOD) said it was "most certainly launched by the People's Republic of China," later adding that the surveillance balloon is "maneuverable" and headed in "an easterly direction."
Driving kids to Vacation Bible School would become a misdemeanor in Nebraska if a recent proposal by Nebraska Senator Megan Hunt (D) passed into law. Hunt proposed to "amend" a bill that would protect children from adult-themed drag performances (LB371) by striking all the language and replacing it with similar language to bar children from attending a "religious indoctrination camp" instead.
The House of Representatives voted Thursday to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from the sensitive House Foreign Affairs Committee, citing her four-year-long history of incendiary remarks downplaying Islamic terrorism while equating the U.S. and Israel with Hamas and the Taliban.
Pro-life leaders have always said legalized abortion devalues life and paves the way to infanticide - a view verified by a recent tragedy and upheld in a court of law.
It was a somber scene in Memphis on Wednesday - a scene Americans have lived through with tragic frequency these past few years. As mourners filled Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church to remember 29-year-old Tyre Nichols, the senselessness of his death at the hands of five police officers reverberated through the pews. "Tyre was a beautiful person," an emotional RowVaughn Wells said of her son, "and for this to happen to him is just unimaginable." But as Tyre's stepdad, Rodney Wells, reminded the congregation, "What's done in the dark will always come to light."
Distributing abortion pills through the mail is unsafe and illegal under both federal and state law, wrote Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey and the attorneys general of 19 other states, in letters to the headquarters of national pharmacy chains CVS and Walgreens. Both companies are seeking certification from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to dispense abortion pills through the mail. "We will use every tool at our disposal to uphold the law if broken," said Bailey.
Damar Hamlin is not dead. And Paul Pelosi was not engaging in funny business with his attacker. Over the past few weeks, not everyone has agreed on those two points. Those who have reconciled the point with Hamlin seem to be more plentiful, and the consensus on the Pelosi opinion seems to be settling as well. Still, a cursory search of social media shows not everyone is convinced. But let's back up a bit.
It's deja vu all over again. The Biden administration has revived the Obama-era fight over whether the federal government should be able to "hijack" employers' insurance plans and force owners with moral objections to furnish their employees with contraception, sterilization, and potentially abortifacient drugs.
On Wednesday, February 1, thousands of Virginians from across the state swarmed on the capital city of Richmond to demonstrate their passionate desire to protect their state's littlest citizens from abortion. After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in the historic Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization case, pro-life Americans are increasingly taking to their state capitols to advocate for pro-life legislation defending the unborn.
A bill to protect minors from gender transition procedures advanced in Tennessee, after the Senate Health and Welfare Committee recommended the bill for passage with amendment on Wednesday by an 8-1 vote. The bill, SB 0001, now advances to the Senate Judiciary Committee, which will consider it on February 7.
How does a church respond when it is "thrust into a maelstrom of hate and disinformation," in the words of Denny Burk, as First Baptist Church of Jacksonville, Florida was last week? FBC Jacksonville announced an open mic night, where quite literally anyone was welcome to come and say quite literally anything. Burk, who is president of the Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood and professor of biblical studies at Boyce College, called the event "one of the most extraordinary things I've ever seen."
On a snowy Wednesday morning in Washington, D.C., hundreds of people made their way to the Museum of the Bible for a unique event: the National Gathering of Prayer and Repentance. Before dawn had even broken across the city, almost 60 speakers from different nations, organizations, political districts, and backgrounds responded to God's call to humble themselves and seek His face.
Republicans have introduced a national heartbeat bill that would protect nearly all unborn Americans from abortion and educate the public about how early fetal life begins - an education campaign that pro-life advocates say has saved lives by itself.
A new documentary on the Walt Disney Company is making crystal clear how the once family-friendly company is today one of the most serious peddlers of radical ideology in America. Released last week by the Catholic League, "Walt's Disenchanted Kingdom" is a 50-minute film that highlights how Disney went from entertaining and inspiring kids to indoctrinating and grooming them as it embraces and advances the radical agenda of a very small yet vocal minority that even a growing number of liberals feel have gone too far.
At a time in American history when human dignity is increasingly in the political crosshairs, it is more essential than ever to affirm that assisted suicide is never a compassionate choice, no matter the diagnosis.
This week, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee will hold the hearings for several of the judicial nominees resubmitted by President Biden in early January. Among them is Julie Rikelman, senior director of U.S. Litigation for the pro-abortion Center for Reproductive Rights. While Rikelman, who represented Jackson Women's Health Organization (the pro-abortion side in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health), may not be a household name, her willingness to obfuscate the truth and disregard the Constitution for the sake of "women's rights" is a hallmark of those involved in the abortion industry.
No three letters have gotten more attention in the Republican Party lately than ESG. The Left's Environmental, Social, Governance investing scheme was quite the racket until recently, when conservatives started pulling back the curtain on woke Wall Street's plans. Now that Americans are onto the three-headed monster of BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard, it's been harder for leftist asset managers to exploit people's money for their radical agendas. But if Joe Biden's Labor Department gets his way, that's all about to change.
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said Monday that his department is conducting "an evaluation" about whether to declare a public health emergency declaration regarding abortion. The evaluation comes amid a "discussions on a wide range of measures," explained Becerra, and the department has yet to conduct a "full assessment." Still, the concept has developed far enough that the secretary chose to float the possibility of an emergency declaration publicly.
"I'm George Bailey today," were among the first words spoken by Mark Houck in the moments following his acquittal on Monday. The pro-life husband and father of seven had been subjected to months of torturous waiting under a looming prosecution by the Biden administration that could have resulted in a sentence of 11 years in federal prison. While the Department of Justice claimed that Houck had violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act outside of a Philadelphia Planned Parenthood, the Houck family and its faithful allies knew the Biden administration's politically-motivated narrative was a far cry from the truth.
Following the Food and Drug Administration's recent move to permit retail pharmacies to dispense dangerous chemical abortion drugs with a prescription, the nation's largest pharmacy businesses tripped over one another to apply for certification. CVS, Walgreens, and Rite Aid have all formally applied to the FDA seeking to sell the mifepristone and misoprostol drug cocktail that starves children to death in the womb and then violently expels them - often into a toilet where they are flushed into the sewer. As of now, however, some national businesses have stayed quiet about whether they will seek to turn their pharmacies into abortion facilities.
Port Wentworth, Georgia, Police Chief Matt Libby announced his retirement Monday, less than a week after The Daily Signal reported that Police Officer Jacob Kersey had been placed on administrative leave after sharing his views on traditional marriage on Facebook.
A flurry of legislation, executive orders, and lawsuits have volleyed back and forth between the Biden administration, which seeks to protect the abortion industry, and pro-life advocates attempting to protect unborn children and their mothers. As the Biden administration expanded the distribution of abortion-inducing drugs, 75 pro-life lawmakers have demanded the FDA take pills off the market altogether.
As state legislative sessions kicked off this month after what was, for some, a months-long recess, the battle over whether to provide gender transition procedures to minors continues to be waged across the United States. As The Washington Stand has reported, legislators in several states have courageously introduced legislation in an attempt to protect minors from the dangers of such procedures. One of these states is Montana, where state Senator John Fuller (R) has introduced S.B. 99, the Youth Health Protection Act.
If the point was grabbing headlines, Utah's SB 16 has done the trick. More than a dozen outlets, from Fox News to Newsweek to CNN, described the bill Utah Governor Spencer Cox (R) signed Saturday as a "ban" on "gender-affirming" procedures for minors. Unfortunately, the bill no more banned ideological experiments on children than cross-sex hormones are "gender-affirming."
Following the tragic death of Tyre Nichols during a January 7 traffic stop by officers of the Memphis Police Department, in which Nichols was beaten so severely by the officers that he died from his injuries three days later, reports have surfaced that two of the officers involved in Nichols's death were hired after the department lowered its recruiting standards.
On a normal night, a win for the New York Rangers would've dominated the local news. But Friday was no normal night. For most of the sports world, the 4-1 score was barely a footnote to the biggest story of the day - the team's unexpected decision to dump their Pride Night uniforms. In a last-minute change that sent shockwaves through the NHL, the Rangers decided to shelve their rainbow jerseys and tape, exposing the deep cracks that exist between players and the league's woke agenda.
In an era of growing anti-Semitism, it's worth our asking, was the Holocaust - Germany's systematic slaughter of up to six million Jews during the period of Nazi rule - unique? Is it only one of many great human tragedies of the past 120 years? Was it truly exceptional?
Since the dawn of the internet, pornography use has reached epidemic proportions in the United States, available now to anyone at the click of a button. It is arguably one of the greatest public health crises facing America, and yet, no conservative political leader, namely the ones who espouse family values, have even mentioned this issue, much less lifted a finger to do anything about it. That all changed last month when a young U.S. senator from Missouri boldly addressed the issue of pornography and what it truly means to be a man.
An appeals court has ruled that Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips cannot refuse to handcraft a cake "celebrating" an individual's gender "transition from male to female," even though the action violates his Christian beliefs. Judges denied Phillips had been "set up" by the customer, a personal injury attorney who also asked the evangelical Christian to bake a cake depicting Satan smoking marijuana. The court proceedings in this chapter of his legal saga singled out Phillips's refusal to use someone's preferred pronouns as proof of discrimination.
Four separate bills aimed at protecting minors from harmful gender transition procedures have been introduced in the Missouri House of Representatives in 2023. The House Committee on General Laws held a marathon, nine-hour hearing on Tuesday to take public comment on three of the bills, as well as five other bills related to protecting children from drag shows and protecting women's sports.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day takes place each year on January 27. This date was chosen because it is the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau labor and extermination camp.
On Friday, FRC's Dr. Jennifer Bauwens spoke before the Montana Senate in support of SB 99, the Youth Health Protection Act. SB 99 would protect children by ensuring they are not rushed into irreversible and lifelong-damaging gender transition procedures. The following is Dr. Bauwens's testimony.
On Friday, the Republican National Committee (RNC) reelected Ronna McDaniel to a fourth term as party chair at their winter meeting in Dana Point, Calif. Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, who previously endorsed McDaniel for chair, spoke Thursday at the meeting and encouraged the committee members to stand firmly in support of the "values and ideals of faith, family, and freedom," arguing that millions of Bible-believing evangelical voters reliably vote for policies over personalities.
Last week, North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis (N.C.) bragged to The Washington Post that he doesn't "vote for anything" that he thinks "will have a serious political consequence." They were glib words for a man who'd just put his name behind a bill rewriting marriage for every American. Like the 11 other Republican senators whose moral courage collapsed before the nation's eyes, Senator Tillis would have you believe there's no fallout from his vote for same-sex marriage. But a young Georgia policeman who's out of a job over his beliefs would beg to disagree.
The U.S. economy is currently mimicking the snoring old man who wouldn't get out of bed in the morning. U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the standard measure for total economic activity, grew by an annualized 2.9% in the fourth quarter, according to the advance estimate from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released Thursday morning. According to the report, the U.S. economy is a mixed bag right now.
A Washington Post column on Monday highlighted the fact that assisted suicide in Canada is moving closer and closer to being considered a "right" for anyone, for virtually any reason. While assisted suicide laws in the U.S. are not as freewheeling as Canada's, more and more states are legalizing the intensely controversial practice, despite the outcry from human rights advocates who point to the inherent value of every human life.
Virginia's public school system has been at the forefront of a great awakening among parents across America. Beginning with the government school shutdowns largely at the behest of teachers' unions during the 2020-21 height of the coronavirus, parents got a peek behind the curtains of public school classrooms - and they didn't like what they saw.
To be on the Intelligence Committee requires a high level of discretion and exceptional good judgment. When these things are not present, the suitability of any given member to serve on the Committee has to be called into question. This is why Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has removed two Democrats from the committee. He is also seeking to remove a third.
Today, the headlines you read on your local news site do not necessarily portray our current nation as being in good condition, aligned with the will of God. Like the disobedience of the Israelites, we too have stepped outside of God's original design. So, what is the solution for a nation that violates His law? Return to the Father through repentance and pray.
It's National School Choice Week, but serious work on school choice has been happening for a while now. Indeed, school choice programs of various kinds have existed for decades, but most of them have been limited in scope and contained eligibility requirements that made them inaccessible for most students. The bills being debated and passed now will change the landscape of education permanently.
The Biden administration has "abdicated its Constitutional responsibility" and must begin "prosecuting those in the abortion industry" who violate a federal law against mailing abortion-inducing drugs, according to a coalition of 41 Members of Congress.
If you've been in the conservative movement long enough, getting canceled is almost inevitable. At some point, your beliefs about faith, the climate, marriage, abortion, or transgenderism will put you crosswise with America's woke CEOs, and a notice will arrive in your inbox: You've been dropped. For some, that's a badge of honor. For others, it's a monumental headache. Either way, finding a vendor who won't take their radical politics out on clients has never been harder. Fortunately for today's counter-culturists, there's help.
A Pew Research Center study released on Tuesday has found that four out of 10 American parents of children under 18 are "very" or "extremely" worried that their child "might struggle with anxiety or depression at some point." The survey found that mental health concerns topped the list of the biggest worries that parents say they have about their kids, beating fears over drug or alcohol abuse, teen pregnancy, and getting into trouble with police.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation into pro-abortion attacks on churches and pregnancy resource centers (PRCs) accelerated Tuesday from motionless to glacial. Nearly nine months after the Dobbs opinion leak on May 2, 2022, which triggered a wave of pro-abortion violence, the DOJ finally announced the first two grand jury indictments against Caleb Freestone and Amber Smith-Stewart.
When we find ourselves encountering education professionals who sincerely believe and defend concepts like Queer Theory and believe they have a moral obligation to teach those concepts to children for the good of society, it is long past time for parents and concerned citizens to act. Gender ideology is a dangerous force in education and our culture. Parents can take several important steps to safeguard our own children and our communities from this evil influence.
The transgender movement promises its adherents a new and fulfilling life, but a powerful new documentary shows that, for many, gender transitioning brings depression, strife, and separation within families - and in some cases, death.
An online streaming platform has removed the documentary "Dead Name," claiming the movie documenting the harms caused by the gender-transition industry amounts to "hateful content." The decision comes as one of the major television providers chose to drop conservative network Newsmax from its line-up after intense pressure from lobbyists, including Democratic members of Congress.
On Monday, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland strongly downplayed the rights of states to establish their own pro-life legislation, saying that the Department of Justice is "monitor[ing] state laws and enforcement actions to ensure that states do not infringe on federal protections of reproductive rights." Experts are pointing out the brazen nature of Garland's comments in the wake of the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision last June, which overturned Roe v. Wade.
The Science and Security Board at The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists released their annual Doomsday Clock report on Tuesday, advancing the time to an "unprecedented" 90 seconds from midnight. Maintained since 1947, the Doomsday Clock quantifies how close the world is to utter disaster, in the opinion of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. They chose to move the clock closer to midnight "largely (though not exclusively) because of the mounting dangers of the war in Ukraine." The new rating is intended to indicate that the world is "the closest to global catastrophe it has ever been."
Zero percent of black voters in Georgia rated their personal voting experience as "poor" in the 2022 midterm election, according to a University of Georgia Post-Election Survey released last week. The results of this survey (should) drive the final nail in the coffin to the progressive narrative that Georgia's Election Integrity Bill of 2021 was a racist conspiracy to undermine democracy.
His old boss told him to "shut up" about China, but former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has done anything but that in his two years out of government service. Xi Jinping's country has constantly been on the radar of the one-time CIA director, who said in a new interview with Family Research Council President Tony Perkins that China is the "one external threat that can change the way we live in America."
A Christian charity worker in Malta faces prosecution for sharing his personal testimony about rejecting homosexual activity on the radio.
Former President Bill Clinton tried to soften the Democratic Party's image as extreme liberals by insisting, "I am not pro-abortion." Over the weekend, Kamala Harris opened a widely panned speech on abortion by saying she and President Joe Biden "love" abortionists, before concluding her speech, "God bless America."
Following Arizona's successful rollout of its groundbreaking school choice law last October, an increasing number of states are moving forward with bills that allow students and their families to utilize taxpayer dollars to fund the schooling options of their choice.
As the scandal over Joe Biden's classified documents widens, Democrats may finally be jumping ship. After weeks of holding their fire, party leaders showed the first signs of turning on the president after Friday's revelations that a fifth batch of documents had been found at the Bidens' Delaware home. In a string of interviews across the Sunday shows, the White House's support seemed to crumble, as one Democrat after another blasted the president for his carelessness.
Will Rogers used to joke, "Alexander Hamilton started the Treasury Department with nothing - and sometimes I think that's the closest we've been to breaking even." Not many people saw the humor in that Thursday when the U.S. bumped its head on the debt ceiling, setting the stage for a titanic showdown over America's spending. While Uncle Sam has maxed out his credit cards for years, the government has never owed anything close to $31 trillion - a failure the new conservative House majority has zero intention of repeating.
On Sunday, Vice President Kamala Harris is scheduled discuss "the fight for women across America to have access to reproductive care and make their own healthcare decisions." Well, three cheers - who could disagree with this? I trust every decent person supports sound reproductive care (i.e., prenatal care for mothers and their babies) and the right of women to "make their own healthcare decisions." But that's not what Harris means.
President Joe Biden's White House had uncharacteristically positive things to say about pro-life advocates, stating that the peaceful, prayerful activity of the March for Life exercises "a critical pillar of democracy."
Hundreds of thousands of pro-life advocates gathered in Washington, D.C., Friday as speakers at the 50th annual March for Life outlined "the next steps to building a culture of life in a post-Roe America." The comprehensive vision includes national and state legislation, changing a dark and life-denying entertainment culture, and personally serving needy mothers and vulnerable children with no one to care for them.
In light of CVS and Walgreens's intentions to dispense the abortion pill after the Biden administration's January 3 unilateral decision to drastically expand access to the controversial drug to pharmacies and mail-order companies nationwide, a coalition of pro-life organizations led by Family Research Council (FRC) sent a letter to both chains Friday urging them to reverse course.
As pro-lifers from across the nation gather in Washington, D.C. to March for Life - the first march since Roe v. Wade was overturned - former NFL coach Tony Dungy announced Thursday that he and his wife would be attending the March for the first time (he is scheduled to speak). But one left-wing commentator found that innocuous tweet "nauseating."
House Republicans have discussed launching an independent investigation into who leaked the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade after the court concluded its inquiry on Thursday without uncovering the leaker's identity.
Turns out, time doesn't heal all wounds - a lesson that Senator Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) is learning from a growing wave of home-state critics. While the two-term Tar Heel probably thought the outrage over his vote for same-sex marriage would evaporate over Christmas and the chaos of the speakership race, local party chairs are making it quite clear that the repercussions are just beginning.
A Nebraska bill introduced Tuesday would protect minors from gender transition procedures. Nebraska Senator Kathleen Kauth (R) introduced LB574, the Let Them Grow Act, along with 22 Senate cosponsors. Nebraska is unique among the 50 states for its unicameral (one-chamber) legislature. While elections to the Nebraska Senate are technically nonpartisan, Republicans hold a non-official 32-17 majority.
On Tuesday, attorneys for the Biden administration's Department of Justice argued before the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals that the mandate the administration put in place in January 2021 for all passengers on planes and other forms of mass transit to wear masks should be reinstated. Experts are pointing out that the government has failed to demonstrate that reestablishing a mask mandate is an urgent matter of public health and that the original mandate infringed on personal freedoms.
A bill to protect minors from gender transition procedures was introduced in the South Dakota legislature on Tuesday. South Dakota Representative Bethany Soye (R) and South Dakota Senator Al Novstrup (R) filed H.B. 1080, nicknamed the "Help Not Harm" legislation, along with 23 House cosponsors and six Senate cosponsors. Republicans hold supermajorities in both chambers: 63-7 in the state House and 31-4 in the state Senate.
Back in the '80s, I used to watch a quirky PBS show with my dad on woodworking called "The Woodwright's Shop." In one episode, host Roy Underhill introduced an old wooden folk toy called a "smoke grinder," or "do-nothing-machine." It consisted of a block of wood with dovetails cut into the top, with a handle attached that would spin along the grooves in an elliptical pattern. Just for fun, my dad built one, and it did exactly what its name implied: nothing.
A strong majority of Americans support stronger pro-life laws, according to a new poll released just days before the annual March for Life. More than two-thirds of Americans (69%) would support ending all abortion no later than the first trimester, including nearly three out of four women (72%) and nearly half (49%) of all surveyed Democrats.
Nine federal agencies announced a proposed rule on Friday that would roll back Trump-era protections for faith-based organizations against discrimination by the federal government. The agencies cloak their discrimination in seemingly neutral language, but the changes could roll "back the way in which organizations can participate with the federal government and remain free to their faith," Family Research Council's Travis Weber warned.
Whether babies with serious medical conditions end up tragically passing away like Roona did - or in my case, end up living a productive and independent life, each of us have value; because Roona and countless other babies like me with medical issues are worth the fight.
On Tuesday, New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) announced that a city-run clinic in the Bronx will begin to offer free abortion pills to women starting Wednesday, with plans to expand the program to three more clinics by the end of the year in order to dispense the drug to up to 10,000 women. Experts say that the plan poses dangerous health risks for women.
As someone who's been a season ticket holder of the Washington Capitals since before Alex Ovechkin could drive, the idea of sitting through another NHL Pride Night - when everything we love about hockey is drenched in politics and phony rainbow pageantry - was a non-starter. So we sold our tickets for Tuesday's game. Unfortunately, not everyone who wants to sit out the league's pandering can make such an easy choice. But for Philadelphia Flyers' defenseman Ivan Provorov, easy isn't what mattered. Staying true to his convictions was.
Facing mounting backlash from parents over decades of pressuring public school administrators to mainstream explicit sexuality and transgender ideology in the classroom, the LGBT lobby is increasingly turning to a new tactic: blaming the victim. Parents who would rather discuss sensitive topics such as sex, the definition of the family, and the number of genders with their children personally are "launching a culture war," said the leader of the nation's largest LGBTQ lobbying group, which encourages schools to begin teaching gender fluidity in preschool.
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear Groff v. DeJoy, a case involving a former postal carrier who lost his job after the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) refused to grant him a religious accommodation to observe the Christian Sabbath on Sunday.
Amidst the negative news surrounding the state of marriage and the family in the U.S., a bright spot is beginning to emerge: the number of children being raised by their married mothers and fathers is slowly rising.
"The United States is the most permissive country when it comes to the legal and medical gender transition of children," according to a 12-country policy review by medical advocacy group Do No Harm. The group compared "different legal requirements for gender change-related treatments and actions" among the U.S. and the 11 countries of Northern and Western Europe.
"Whoever succeeds in telling the stories to the children gets to control the future." That was Kirk Cameron's answer to people wondering why he's joined the debate over America's libraries. As parents everywhere fight to keep graphic content out of their children's hands, Texas officials are warning the battle is taking an ominous turn. It's not just the forces of the Left that communities will have to contend with. It's the federal government, whose new investigation into a local school district could upend every grassroots effort to protect kids.
In all of the reporting on the classified documents being found in President Biden's Delaware homes, there's one particularly baffling and underreported aspect of this issue that deserves a close look. There was no visitor log kept at either of his Delaware residences on any of the nearly 200 days Mr. Biden was there over the past two years.
For a man who ran for president to save the soul of America from racism, former segregationists' buddy Joe Biden resembles few people more than the infamously abusive police chief Bull Connor. Both allowed domestic terrorists aligned with the Democratic Party to vandalize, bomb, and set fire to their opponents' churches with impunity while using maximum force to arrest peaceful, Christian, protesters.
The Sunday before Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, President Joe Biden took the civil rights leader's former pulpit at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta - now filled by pro-abortion Senator Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.). There, Biden preached a gospel of works, of civil religion, and of social progress towards an earthly paradise.
The Florida governor's office may require state-funded colleges and universities to itemize their "expenditures and resources utilized for campus activities related to diversity, equity, and inclusion [DEI] and critical race theory [CRT]," a federal judge ruled Thursday.
Did you know that assaults, harassment, and vandalism against Jews take place in the United States seven times a day? Are you aware that lies and distortions about religious Jews and their educational institutions are being published in prestigious news publications, including The New York Times? Have you heard that Jews are targeted for more hate crimes in the U.S. than any other group?
An increasing number of parents and researchers are sounding the alarm about the potential harms that the social media app TikTok inflicts on impressionable adolescents. At the same time, national security and law enforcement experts as well as lawmakers are expressing escalating concerns over the Chinese-owned app's security flaws and its unauthorized use of personal data.
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by the LGBTQ-sponsored "Religious Exemption Accountability Project" (REAP) asserting that "young and vulnerable" LGBTQ+ persons are "at the mercy of religiously affiliated, taxpayer-funded social service and educational institutions that often turn them away or force them into the closet."
Even the frigid temperatures couldn't keep angry South Dakotans away. Despite the blistering, nine-degree cold, as many as 150 people gathered in the snow outside the 2023 Midwest Gender Identity Summit in Sioux Falls Friday morning to protest Sanford Health's unwelcome presence in their state. Standing by snow drifts, with a long convoy of cars heading to join them, organizer Adam Broin insisted, "This is NOT South Dakota!" But according to a bombshell report by NRO reporter Nate Hochman, it may already be South Dakota, thanks to the transgender movement's unlikely ally: Republican Governor Kristi Noem.
Allegedly inadvertent "oversights" and "drafting errors" by Democratic lawmakers over the last year alone would have decriminalized infanticide, legalized polygamy, and suppressed sacred religious liberty rights enshrined in the First Amendment.
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday appointed a special counsel to investigate classified documents dating from the Obama administration that were recently discovered at President Joe Biden's home and office. First reported Monday, revelations about Biden's illegal possession of classified documents have gradually unraveled all week long, with classified information discovered in a third location on Thursday. The most widely debated angle to the story is over the similarities and differences with former President Trump's illegal possession of classified documents, which the FBI recovered from Mar-a-Lago in August.
This week, House Republicans used their new majority to pass the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, legislation that would require health care practitioners to provide the same life-saving medical care to babies born alive after surviving an abortion as they would any other baby born at the same gestational age. This represents the first time the House has voted in favor of providing protections for unborn children since 2018.
The new year began on a grim note for the Biden administration. On the first day back in the office after the New Year's holiday, news broke that almost 80% of Americans projected 2023 to be a "year of economic difficulty." Things haven't gotten much better since then for the White House. It has indeed been a particularly rough week for the Biden administration. Here are five of their biggest fails.
Although the midterm elections are long over, the U.S. Senate has a new pro-life, pro-family Republican: Former Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts will take the seat formerly held by Ben Sasse (R), who resigned from the chamber this week.
With inflation cleaning out the fridge, one Biden administration official fixed his scope on another kitchen appliance - gas stoves. "This is a hidden hazard," U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. told Bloomberg News in an article published Monday.
In the eyes of abortionists, every "successful" abortion ends in the death of a child - but, thankfully, not every abortion goes according to their plans. Countless abortion survivors, each one condemned to death as an innocent baby in the womb, walk among us every day. For pro-life advocates like Melissa Ohden and members of the Abortion Survivors Network, legislation that ensures protection for infants born alive after abortions holds deep personal significance.
From the headlines after the Born-Alive debate, one gets the sense that the GOP is engaging in a ruthless effort to destroy something noble and lovely. For example, the phrase, "use new majority" sounds almost sinister. Missing from these headlines is any acknowledgment that sustaining the baby who somehow survived the surgeon's knife might be the most obviously decent thing imaginable.
In the wee morning hours of Saturday, January 7, the 434 members of the House of Representatives swore an oath to "bear true faith and allegiance" to the Constitution. After 15 votes, they had finally chosen a House speaker and could all take the oath of office. A short time earlier, seven of their number had acted out their true faith and allegiance to a different, higher governmental authority.
A congressional Democrat stated that a Bible verse declaring that God forms unborn human life inside the womb actually supports abortion-on-demand before voting against a law that would protect newborn children from the threat of infanticide.
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives followed through with its pro-life campaign promises on Wednesday by passing two life-affirming bills, including legislation to protect babies born alive during botched abortions that Nancy Pelosi had prevented members from voting on more than 80 times. House Republicans also advanced a congressional resolution condemning the nationwide epidemic of assaults, arsons, and fire-bombings against pro-life churches and pregnancy resource centers, likening the attacks to "the KKK's burning cross on the lawn."
Attacks against pro-life churches and pregnancy resource centers bear the eerie "echo of the KKK's burning cross on the lawn" of churches that supported civil rights, a Republican congressman said as the House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning 100 such attacks nationwide on Wednesday.
As newly elected Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) is sworn into office with an increased supermajority in both chambers of the state legislature after November's midterm elections, Arkansas lawmakers are seeing 2023 as a prime opportunity to pass a bill protecting minors from sexually explicit drag shows by defining them as "adult-oriented businesses."
The U.S. House voted 221-211 along party lines Tuesday to establish a Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government under the auspices of the House Judiciary Committee. The committee will investigate the Biden administration for improper investigations, collusion, data collection, and other civil liberty violations, so naturally all the Democrats voted against it.
For all of the false starts, the House's new leadership team is more than making up for lost time. With last week's drama in his rearview mirror, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is hitting the ground running with an armload of bills - all thanks, Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) says, to the Republicans' decision to stand up and fix the process.
Americans who are young, single, or self-identified liberals have long experienced declines in religious membership, practice, and identity. But the COVID-19 pandemic appears to have accelerated those declines, pushing out those who had maintained the weakest commitments to regular religious attendance, according to a new study.
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), a member of the far-left "Squad," celebrated the Biden administration's unilateral decision to let retail pharmacies carry abortion pills - on the grounds that abortion has historically been "pushed out of reach" for minorities and the disabled. Pressley's comments stand as a living testament that every fact can be inverted when touched by Woke ideology.
The U.S. House enacted a rules package Monday night by a vote of 220-213, with one Republican siding with the Democrats and another not voting. The rules, which will govern the chamber throughout the 118th Congress, incorporate changes negotiated by GOP holdouts during last week's historic, 15-round marathon vote to choose a House speaker.
Citing Supreme Court precedent and economic benefits, many states have legalized sports betting over the last four years. But economic and legal experts are pointing out the questionable monetary and legal reasoning that undergirds pro-gambling arguments, as well as an abundance of societal ills that surround gambling culture.
The new Republican Congress is working to get its house - actually, the House - in order, putting new rules in place to better ensure honesty and coherence in the way it conducts its business. However, holding defense hostage as part of the effort to rein in spending is, at best, a very risky gamble.
As the Biden administration opens the spigots to flood the United States with abortion pills, state pro-life laws against distributing chemical abortion drugs hold the power to save babies' lives, limit the most serious injuries to expectant mothers, and jail the profiteers of the abortion industry.
Now that the "who" question has been answered in the U.S. House, new Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is turning Republicans' attention to the "what." In the first full week of the GOP's majority, there are plenty of priorities clamoring for attention, but conservatives have already made it quite clear what's at the top: life.
St. Joseph Medical Center in Baltimore violated Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (the anti-discrimination provision of Obamacare) by refusing to perform a gender transition surgery in 2020, ruled a federal judge in the District Court of Maryland on Friday.
On December 3, President Biden was asked by a reporter why he was visiting the border state of Arizona without visiting the border itself, which is in the midst of experiencing an all-time high in immigrant encounters. "Because there's more important things going on," Biden responded.
The Biden administration's recent push to allow retail pharmacies to carry abortion-inducing pills harms women and adds to the president's "shameful" record of trampling on pro-life conscience rights, a former Trump official has said. The FDA's January 3 announcement left Christians, and others who believe in the sanctity of the unborn, uneasy about the regulation's impact on pro-life pharmacists.
As retail pharmacy giants CVS and Walgreens announced they plan to carry abortion pills - and may soon be joined by Rite Aid - thousands of Christians have signed a petition pleading with them not to facilitate the fastest-growing form of abortion, which also inflicts the greatest harms on women.
Unlike human organizations, the body of Christ is not composed of people with common backgrounds, professions, aptitudes, educations, or heritages. "For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body - Jews or Greeks, slaves or free - and all were made to drink of one Spirit," Paul continues. What makes the body of Christ unique is our common regeneration and common Lord. This uniqueness is seen most vividly in the capacity of such disparate people, those of "all tribes and peoples and languages" (Revelation 7:9), to love one another.
A lot will be said and written about the last 100 hours in Washington - a historic four days that not only gave Americans a new Speaker of the House, but more importantly, a fresh start. Nothing about the process to transfer power to former Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has been easy, but at the end of the day, nothing worth pursuing ever is. When the smoke clears and Republicans get to work, one thing will be obvious - the pain of this past week was trivial compared to what was gained: a chance to move forward, united.
After a week of turmoil, former House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) finally won the speaker's gavel just after midnight Saturday morning. The victory capped off a marathon week of negotiating with the Republicans' staunchest conservatives, which, even late Friday night, threatened to stretch into next week. "I'm glad it's over," McCarthy told reporters.
A new grant competition will award up to $1.5 million for projects to promote LGBT communities and agendas overseas, the U.S. State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) announced last week. These projects would "(1) empower local movements and communities; (2) prevent, mitigate, and recover from violence, discrimination, stigma, and human rights abuses; (3) promote full social inclusion; or (4) address critical issues of justice" in foreign countries whose governments have not caved to the LGBT agenda.
Six and a half months after the FBI announced the opening of an investigation into a series of violent attacks against pregnancy resource centers and pro-life organizations, the Bureau has yet to disclose any progress or whether any arrests have been made in the probe. As a result, at least one pregnancy resource center that was targeted is now hiring a private investigator to conduct its own inquiries into the unsolved attacks.
In the latest episode of "How the Speakership Turns," the two sides of the Republican feud over Nancy Pelosi's (R-Calif.) successor seem to be inching closer to a deal. Early Friday, reporters were buzzing with news that the holdouts had exacted even more from their list of demands - leading the former House minority leader to sound slightly more optimistic heading into what could be a long, working weekend.
Gullibility is dangerous. It creates disappointment and grief, lost income, and lost marriages. For followers of Jesus, unthinking faith can collapse as difficulties intrude upon immature bliss.
Despite a provision in the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that rescinded the Department of Defense's COVID vaccine mandate for all military personnel, the Army issued guidance in December saying that the directive does not apply to National Guard and Reserve troops. Experts and lawmakers say that the guidance is in direct violation of the law.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) required all state university and college systems to "report expenditures and resources utilized for campus activities related to diversity, equity, and inclusion [DEI] and critical race theory [CRT]," announced his press secretary, Brian Griffin, on Wednesday. DeSantis made the request in a December 28 memo "to provide a comprehensive list of all staff, programs, and campus activities" related to the woke topics.
While the chaos over the next House speaker roared into its third day, the band of conservative holdouts have managed to accomplish one thing: exposing the flaws they believe are destroying the current system. Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), who's helped lead the counter-movement to former Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), insists the chamber is broken - and this is the best chance Republicans have to fix it.
Just before Christmas, a stunning video showing the arrest of one U.K. citizen who was silently praying near an abortion facility in Birmingham, England went viral on social media.
Shortly after the Biden administration issued a rule allowing most pharmacies to dispense the abortion-inducing pill mifepristone, representatives from the retail pharmacy chains CVS and Walgreens confirmed that they plan to stock the substance - a move that will put more women's lives in danger and "transform pharmacies from centers of healing into centers of death," pro-life advocates say.
A publicly funded university hospital's department of surgery publicly boasted Saturday about expanding gender transition surgeries, which will likely target children.
Starting on January 1, a new law took effect in Louisiana that requires internet users to prove their age via a government-provided form of identification before being able to access pornographic websites. Experts say the law could provide a model for other states to follow in order to discourage minors from viewing websites that feature sexually obscene material, which often includes violence, abuse, and rape, even of children.
This moment demonstrates that Christianity still maintains incredible cultural influence in America, despite decades of routine mockery and secular infiltration. When unexpected, unexplained tragedy strikes, ordinary citizens and influential people across America's institutions alike turn to prayer.
Without a growing population we will not have enough people to produce the goods and services, ranging from high-tech equipment to the food on our tables, to sustain a robust economy. Even liberal economists recognize this.
Republican leaders in the House of Representatives plan to ring in the new year with a conservative, pro-life agenda that proves elections have consequences. Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) announced that "in the first two weeks of the Republican majority," Congress will vote on 11 "commonsense measures" focused on protecting life, border security, U.S. energy, and China.
As the 118th Congress was officially gaveled in Tuesday, the first order of business in the House of Representatives to elect a speaker became anything but routine. For the first time in 100 years, the House failed to elect a speaker in the initial vote, as Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) came up well short of the 218 votes needed to secure the speakership.
Former President Donald Trump attempted to blame the disappointing outcome of the 2022 midterm elections on pro-life advocates who refuse to compromise their principles, a move critics called opportunistic, factually challenged, and "very dumb."
Kentucky State Treasurer Allison Ball published on Tuesday a list of 11 financial companies with anti-energy policies. Kentucky state governmental entities are restricted from investing any public funds with corporations on this list.
"Separating school bathrooms based on biological sex passes constitutional muster and comports with Title IX," held the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit on Friday. Their decision upheld the policy of the school board in St. Johns County, Florida (St. Augustine), which was challenged by a student who identifies as transgender.
Most North Carolinians stand for the timeless values of life, family, and religious freedom that have made our state one of the greatest places to live and raise a family since we joined the Union in 1789. Newly elected Senator Ted Budd will uphold those values.
According to a 2020 poll, 68% of Americans report giving up on their resolutions by February 1. So, how do we get our well-intentioned resolutions to stick around beyond a month? Here are a few tips that can help.
Our goal is not an America that will never be. Nor can it be only a society where we feel at ease and unthreatened, luxuriating in the friendliness of our cultural surroundings. Such a place is inherently deceptive. It urges us to forget the crouching presence of sin and softens the sense of urgency compelled by the gospel.
Loss needs comfort. But death deserves, from the Christian, a sneer. It has no victory, and its sting is the prick of an instant. The warm spring morning of heaven is forever.
North Korea is not a land of hopeless suffering. It is a land filled with the blood of martyrs that God has used to water the seeds of revival. Like the dry bones of Israel in Ezekiel, God is bringing resurrection life to the nation of North Korea.
Mary would have understood the social consequences of her conceiving prior to her impending marriage to Joseph. Nevertheless, Mary readily accepted the Lord's charge for her, telling Gabriel, "I am the Lord's servant. ... May your word to me be fulfilled" (Luke 1:38).
Despite immense persecution from the Chinese Communist Party, some experts believe there are 130 to 150 million Christians growing at a rate of 30,000 new believers a day in China.
The story of Bathsheba reminds us that Jesus Christ came to free mankind from captivity to sin and demonstrates the loving character of God in bringing beauty even from the depravity of human actions.
The family is indeed needful, but God has provided a protector. The father's task is formidable, but it is dignifying. It is a call to heroism.
Ruth displayed her noble character by acting based on her love for her family and trust in God, rather than allowing the pain of loss to overshadow her hope for the future. Her story reminds us to turn to the Lord in every sorrow and trust that He is working all things together for our good (Romans 8:28).
"Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile," said God through the prophet Jeremiah, "and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare" (Jeremiah 29:7). This is an intrinsic part of our calling as exiles living in the kingdom of man. In 2023, we need to keep fulfilling it.
Rahab's story shows that being strong and courageous can take many different forms - sometimes, it is simply choosing to trust the Lord and serve one's family that can produce the greatest fruit.
In order for our children to recognize the truth and not fall away from the faith, we need to help them grow in their Bible knowledge and develop a biblical worldview (Romans 12:2).
The story of Tamar reveals God's enduring faithfulness to Abraham in allowing the line of Judah to continue so that Jesus could be born from it. Tamar gave birth to twin boys - Perez and Zerah. From the line of Perez came King David, and later, Jesus Christ - the Son of God.
Many of us know today that, in a deep way, we need the refreshment of a good theological reset. Praise God, that's exactly what Christmas provides. Let's consider four truths related to the coming of Christ that yield encouragement for weary people like you and me.
Whether or not the producers intended, "It's a Wonderful Life" teaches a powerful biblical lesson - every life matters. Each human being was uniquely created by God in His image for a distinct purpose that only that one person can accomplish.
Somewhere between the haze of unlimited abortion and the advent of trans mania, western society began to wage war on children - both their existence, and their innocence. As we approach the celebration of Christmas, there is no better time to reflect on the value that each unique child brings to the world.
The challenge is not to shun the world around us with its material goods and traditions but to experience it as pointing to a fundamental spiritual reality. Commerce, material goods, and business are not bad in themselves, but they become dangerous for Christians if they distract us from Christ.
We need the war we've declared upon God to be interrupted. The truce he offers is a permanent one. We need not fear the army of heaven, because its commanding officer is himself bringing us peace.
Congress has passed, and President Biden has now signed, a sweeping $1.65 trillion omnibus spending bill that gives millions of taxpayers' dollars to LGBT pressure groups, causes veterans' hospitals to commit abortions, and could compel the U.S. military and pro-life business people to facilitate abortion-on-demand.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Washington, D.C. this week to plead for U.S. support. Some are warning, however, that the Biden administration's objectives for Ukraine are less clear than Russian President Vladimir Putin's.
In city governments across the United States, officials are seeking to use federal COVID-19 funds intended to preserve life to fund abortion and benefit the nation's largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, an outcome pro-life leaders call a "tragic" and foreseeable misuse of funds.
The long march of God's work in the world is unstoppable. Followers of Jesus can rejoice in partnering with Him in advancing "the good of the city" (Jeremiah 29:7) in our beloved country and in heralding the word that an eternal King offers light and life to all who come to Him.
While churches are preparing to celebrate Christmas this year, a new report from Family Research Council suggests that they face increasing risks of vandalism and other physical attacks against church buildings.
As an impending snowstorm in the Washington, D.C. area and Senate Democrats put mounting pressure on Congress to push through a last-minute 4,155-page, $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill before the Friday deadline and Christmas recess, conservative lawmakers are voicing strong opposition to the measure, citing irresponsible delays and reckless spending on progressive special interest projects.
The issue of assisted suicide has gained extensive media attention in recent weeks as Americans learned with shock of Canada's increasingly draconian Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD) policies. As those in the United States grapple with the dystopian reality of a nation seeking to kill its citizens who are homeless or have a disability, there is no better time to draw attention to the euthanasia crisis being perpetuated within our own borders. A new lawsuit in New Mexico highlights just how far the culture of death has spread within the health care system - and points the way to reversing course.
A three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit on Friday dismissed a lawsuit by four female athletes who were forced to compete against biological males and lost positions, awards, and scholarships as a result.
In 2022, much of the world's attention has been focused on the horrific warfare in Ukraine, along with Iran's courageous demonstrators, who are being violently assaulted for rejecting their country's radically brutal regime. However, while these shocking abuses have carried on, the West African country of Nigeria continues to experience what has often been described as a "silent slaughter." In recent years, tens of thousands of Christian believers have been killed in relentless assaults on their villages, homes, churches, and families.
The federal government made an "apparent violation of the law" by pressuring social media outlets to ban or suppress American citizens' accounts, or to ban the Hunter Biden laptop story as a foreign intelligence operation, an expert has said. Meanwhile, the federal government exploited the same online platforms to spread U.S. government propaganda, new disclosures from Twitter have revealed.
Prior to June 24, 2022, the United States was one of only six countries in the world that offered no protection for unborn children at any point in pregnancy. Today, because of the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health Organization overturning Roe v. Wade, over half of the 50 states protect life in the womb. The United States has shown the world that it is possible to reverse a culture of death; now, countries like South Korea must follow suit, removing themselves from the worst offenders list where they currently reside alongside the likes of China and North Korea.
Hours before the Supreme Court paused the end of Title 42 (scheduled for Wednesday) until the Tuesday after Christmas, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre achieved new levels of Orwellian Newspeak on Monday for insisting, repeatedly, that the southern border was not "open." And further, she argued that anyone claiming the border was open was actually aiding the Mexican cartels who commit human trafficking.
Congressional Democrats unveiled an over 4,000-page, $1.7 trillion government funding package early Tuesday morning, leaving lawmakers little time to review the text and vote on it before a looming government shutdown on Friday at midnight. Experts point out that the omnibus bill's earmarks include over $11 million in LGBT-themed projects, and GOP lawmakers say the special interest spending could be avoided if the omnibus was delayed until January when the newly elected Republican-led House would be in power.