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In the wake of the midterm elections, President Joe Biden was asked during a rare press conference—in reference to Twitter’s new owner—whether he thought Elon Musk was a threat to national security. With a pause and a smirk, the president said that topic was “worthy of being looked at.” With those words, Biden made it…
Woke attitudes are becoming pervasive among young people, even outside the United States. Recently released research by Eric Kaufmann, a professor of politics at the University of London, shows how concepts such as critical race theory and radical gender ideology have become common concepts taught in U.K. schools. The research was based on a YouGov…
Many conservatives were disappointed by the 2022 midterm election results, both nationally and here in my home state of Rhode Island. It’s important to look in the rearview mirror a bit longer to understand what happened. Now, before the next campaigns begin and new legislation is crafted, conservatives must reevaluate some of the old-school conventional…
It’s jarring to see retailers jump the gun on merchandise for any holiday, but the increasingly widespread practice of kicking off Christmas sales at the first sign of fall is particularly bizarre to see in America, where we have a national holiday—one of the nation’s oldest—in the interim. This ambivalence toward Thanksgiving is especially ironic…
Merriam-Webster Inc. has announced it is adding about 500 new words to its seventh edition of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary. I doubt most people will ever use them in conversation or in writing, but they will be beneficial when playing the board game. Meanwhile, the corruption of the English language continues. Some words (and…
Imagine that a progressive American city creates a financial incentive for residents to “transition” from man to woman or from woman to man. That’s exactly what San Francisco has just done with a program called Guaranteed Income for Transgender People, or GIFT. This is like using a fire hose to spray a burning skyscraper with…
In the past decade, 16 million American women have left the Christian church, according to author and journalist Ericka Andersen. “The reasons are really layered,” Andersen says, “anything from overwhelm and busyness, to some that have experienced ‘church hurt.’” In her new book “Reason to Return: Why Women Need the Church and the Church Needs…
Donald Trump’s Twitter account has been restored to him. The former president’s Twitter account is one of several high-profile ones to be resurrected following entrepreneur Elon Musk’s takeover of the social media platform. “I think [with] Musk getting in and seeing what was happening behind the scenes, he realized pretty quickly that the content moderation…
Families of four trans-identifying youth and two doctors, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, testified last month against the Arkansas law banning sex-reassignment treatment for minors. Behind the effort to strike down Arkansas’ Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act is the wealthiest family in the nation—heirs of Walmart founder Sam Walton’s fortune. The Walton…
Speaking after last week’s deadly missile incident near Przewodow, a Polish village not far from the Ukrainian border, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki pointedly noted that the blame for it was Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. Noting that “passivity will be suicide for us,” Morawiecki further emphasized that “there is only one way to involve Poland in the…
It’s official: Republicans have won a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. The clock is ticking on the 117th Congress, whose final session, an infamous lame-duck session, recently commenced. It’s expected to be a busy time on Capitol Hill for Democrats as they seek to take as much ground as possible before Republicans take…
In January, the United States will enter another period of divided government. If past is prologue, we will see an even more aggressive executive branch, deploying its agencies in “whole of government” strategies that render the people’s representatives in Congress irrelevant. While many are rightly focused on the regulations that agencies will roll out, it’s…
Ken Timmerman is author of a new book, “And the Rest Is History: Tales of Hostages, Arms Dealers, Dirty Tricks, and Spies.” As a longtime investigative reporter and war correspondent, Timmerman has a unique take on the news media given his own journey from the political Left to the Right during his lifetime. We discuss…
Questions, struggle, pain, fear, and an overwhelming commitment to follow Jesus through it all: welcome to “The Chosen” season three. The first two episodes of the third season of “The Chosen,” named “Homecoming” and “Two by Two,” hit the big screen on Friday, kicking off a five-day theatrical release in more than 2,000 theaters worldwide….
Nancy Pelosi rightfully will go down as one of the greatest speakers in the history of the U.S. House of Representatives. I’m not sure I would agree with Pelosi on a single policy issue; that’s not the point. As far as leadership ability and political smarts, Pelosi ran circles around the bumbling Republicans of her…
The historic level of illegal immigration on the southern border is likely to get much worse, if that’s possible. On Wednesday, a federal judge declared that the Biden administration had to end Title 42 by Dec. 21. The ruling came from Judge Emmet Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, who…
Dallas Jenkins was considering hanging up his filmmaking hat after his movie “The Resurrection of Gavin Stone” bombed at the box office in 2017. “I got to a place that weekend where I didn’t know if I would ever make another movie again,” Jenkins says. “When you have a failure, it’s hard to find people…
How dare she. Candace Cameron Bure, of “Full House” and “Fuller House” fame, is speaking out about her desire to make Christmas movies that involve … wait for it … Christ. But of course, just because the former Hallmark Christmas movie queen refused to bow the knee and pledge to make movies about LGBT couples,…
How did Senate liberals convince 12 Republicans to break ranks and endorse a same-sex marriage bill that puts a giant target on people of faith? It took help from (some) people and organizations of faith, such as the National Association of Evangelicals and, most surprisingly, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which gave…
Chris Magnus was forced to resign as head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Nov. 12. He was unprepared for the job, never had the support of the workforce, and cared more about internal “social justice” than executing CBP’s mission. Not surprisingly, he utterly failed to secure the U.S. border in his tenure of…