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News and commentary on society, culture, family, and community from a conservative perspective. Coverage of the trends and issues shaping American life.
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Backlash Begets Backtrack: Cracker Barrel Scraps Part of ‘Woke’ Makeover
Has Cracker Barrel caved to the pressure, or are its attempts to somewhat backpedal merely a superficial gesture to quell outrage? The beloved American chain Cracker Barrel, known for its Southern comfort food and nostalgic Old Country Store charm since its founding in 1969, ignited a firestorm with its recent rebranding efforts. The company’s “new creative campaign”… -
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Gunman Dead After Mass Shooting at Minnesota Catholic School
A mass shooting occurred Wednesday morning at a Minneapolis Catholic school, in what the FBI is reportedly investigating as an act of domestic terrorism and a hate crime targeting Catholics. KMSP-TV, the Fox affiliate in Eden Prairie, Minn., reported that two children, ages 8 and 10, were killed, and 17 others were injured. The gunman… -
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‘The Revival Generation’ Film Debuting at Kennedy Center Shows Gen Z Embracing Christian Faith
Suicidal ideation, drug dealing and abuse, pornography addiction, crippling anxiety, and unforgiveness. Those are just some of the wrenching problems a group of pastors and ministers personally endured before their Christian faith healed them. Armed with these experiences, these leaders over the past two years have guided more than 100,000 college students nationwide in how… -
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Snoop Dogg Says He’s ‘Scared’ of the LGBTQ Content in Disney Movies
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Iconic rapper Snoop Dogg said on Monday that he is “scared” to watch movies after his grandson witnessed a lesbian couple in a Disney film. Snoop Dogg said on “Dom Lucre: Breaker of Narratives” that he took his grandson to see the 2022 Pixar film “Lightyear,” which featured characters Alisha Hawthorne and… -
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Uproar as White Male Cast as Retired Robot in Broadway Hit
Actor Andrew Barth Feldman’s imminent substitution for the Tony-winning and severely talented Darren Criss in “Maybe Happy Ending” has launched a brouhaha on Broadway. Feldman is white. This, according to actor B.D. Wong and some 2,400 signatories to his open letter of complaint, disqualifies Feldman from portraying that show’s lead character. Oliver is a retired robot in Seoul,… -
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Turley Says Maxwell Transcript Exonerates Trump and Hits ‘Hard in Washington’
Legal scholar and Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley says that, according to interview transcripts recently released by the Department of Justice, Ghislaine Maxwell exonerates President Donald Trump from any illicit involvement in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation. Moreover, the former Epstein associate states that “there is no list” and that “she never saw a list,” a… -
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Christopher Yates Pens Must-Read Thriller Novel of the Summer
“The Rabbit Club,” the newest novel from Christopher Yates, America’s finest writer of thrillers, weaves a tale nearly impossible to put down. It includes Oxford University, secret societies, danger and suspense at every turn, and a sense of anticipation much needed in a world filled with instant gratification. Yates says penning novels with intricate story… -
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Kids’ Smartphone Addiction: Depression, Self-Harm, Shattered Attention Spans
I am addicted! To my phone. I check an email and before I realize it, I’m watching TikTok videos: lions fight hyenas, military dads reunite with kids, athletes do amazing things … I look up, and an hour has passed. I’ve wasted time, ignored my family and friends, and accomplished nothing. But who cares? I’m… -
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3 Reasons True Christians Must Oppose Transgender Orthodoxy
Transgender advocates say their movement is about compassion and acceptance, but is it not extremely cruel to gaslight children into taking experimental drugs with documented harms but no proof they improve their lives? Is there anything more disempowering or dehumanizing than saying your natural process of puberty is so drastic a threat to your mental… -
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Trump’s Smithsonian Review Is Long Overdue
The White House last week informed Lonnie Bunch, the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, that it’s putting the museums under review—in other words, adult supervision. The news came in a letter that amounted to a major front in the Trump administration’s war to retake the culture. As I wrote in an X post quoted by The New York Times, “Given the Smithsonian’s behavior in… -
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Ascending to New Heights: Trump and the Return of Winning
If they gave out patches for passing the Presidential Daydreaming Test at Rosecroft Elementary, I’d have gotten more patches than a quilt. But alas, it took passing the Presidential Fitness Test to be so honored. News that President Donald Trump was reinstituting that Presidential Fitness Test brought me right back to Rosecroft. Or more accurately,… -
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‘Racial Justice’ Org Weighs in on National Guard Deployment
The Legal Defense Fund said Thursday it had sent letters asking governors of six states not to send National Guard troops to Washington, D.C. Its letters follow announcements from those states that they plan to deploy troops to the nation’s capital to counter what Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves called the “out of control” crime there…. -
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Hawley Demands Documents From Zuckerberg
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is demanding Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg hand over documents from his company about its artificial intelligence policies toward minors. The move comes after an explosive report from Reuters that detailed how an internal Meta Platforms document permitted Meta chatbots to engage children in “conversations that are romantic or sensual.” “Big Tech… -
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James Dobson Had a Profound Impact on My Life, But Not for the Reasons Our Culture Might Think
Stories of “deconstruction” among millennials who grew up in the 1990s have become so common they’re rather passe. Men and women my age are expected to talk about how purity culture, Promise Keepers, and Focus on the Family scarred them for life. I, for one, am grateful for our past evangelical overlords, however. The Christian… -
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Moms for Liberty Leader Says She Faced Death Threats, Swatting, Expulsion From Girl Scouts for Opposing LGBTQ Pride
The Girl Scouts recently expelled a Moms for Liberty chapter leader in what she believes to be retaliation for refusing to promote LGBTQ+ Pride to her troop for “Pride Month.” The expulsion comes after she received death threats and was swatted, in what she believes to be retaliation for criticizing a church’s LGBTQ+ Pride flag…. -
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Newsmax Tops $46M in Quarterly Revenue, Up 18% Year-Over-Year
Conservative media outlet Newsmax announced its financial results for the second quarter of 2025, touting its strong revenue growth just days after reaching a defamation lawsuit settlement with Dominion Voting Systems. Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy said the network recorded quarterly revenue of $46.4 million for the three months ending June 30—an 18.4% increase over the… -
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Winsome Earle-Sears Is Protecting Virginia Women and Girls’ Safety, Sports, and Well-Being
Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears is protecting Virginia’s women and girls, and she’s not letting off the gas. On Thursday, Earle-Sears will be speaking at the Arlington County School Board meeting, where she’ll stand up against Arlington schools’ failed leadership. The Trump administration has argued that Arlington schools are in violation—along with Fairfax, Loudoun, and… -
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Nonprofits Are Becoming Taxpayer-Financed Instruments of Government
Nonprofits are the beating heart of America’s civil society. Neighbors helping neighbors, churches serving the needy, communities coming together to solve problems without waiting for Washington. Alexis de Tocqueville marveled at this spirit nearly two centuries ago, calling it essential to our democracy. That independence also relies on separation from the state. Yet today, almost… -
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Executive Power and the Common Good, From 4 Perspectives
In a recent discussion that brought influential thinkers of the Right together for an unprecedented public debate, Curtis Yarvin, Christopher Caldwell, Patrick Deneen, and Chris Rufo tackled the conservative movement’s future in a panel convened by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and held at The Heritage Foundation. Moderated by Intercollegiate Studies Institute President Johnny Burtka, the… -
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How the Legacy Media Lost Our Trust
As a conservative, I subscribe to the online Washington Post so I understand how the progressive establishment thinks. But I recently met with a Democrat-voting friend who said he hadn’t subscribed in a few years, as he found the paper’s left-wing bias too much to take. The seventh commandment in my book “The Ten…