Dmitri Bodyu, a Ukrainian American pastor, is a three-time religious refugee who last year added “Russian prisoner” to his list of life-or-death challenges. As a teenager in 1989, Bodyu and his family fled religious persecution in the Soviet Union and moved to Texas, where they were given legal refugee status and eventually became U.S. citizens,…
MILWAUKEE—If elected to a second term as president, Donald Trump vows, he will deport the illegal aliens who entered the country during the four years of the Biden administration. How? “One at a time,” Mark Morgan, acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection during the Trump administration, said Monday at a press conference at…
Another one of the 47 House Republicans who voted for the so-called Respect for Marriage Act has withdrawn his support, charging Democrats with “failing to provide legitimate safeguards for faith-based organizations” that hold “deeply-held religious beliefs” about natural marriage. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., announced on Monday that he will reverse his vote in favor of H.R. 8404, which…
I had the privilege of serving as mayor in the small, Shenandoah Valley town where my wife and I raised our children. So, I am keenly aware of concerns about powerful out-of-state or out-of-area interests trying to take advantage of a rural population. The Nebraskan battles over the Keystone XL pipeline and the Terex injection…
Have some respect, black people—if not for Sen. Tim Scott, then for yourselves. The epithet “Uncle Tom” isn’t a slur white people use against black people. It’s used by black people against other black people. Those who dislike black people must, I’m sure, watch such foolishness with glee. It turned my stomach to see “Uncle…
Authorities arrested Sunday a staff attorney at the Southern Poverty Law Center, a left-leaning civil rights group notorious for branding mainstream conservative and Christians nonprofits "hate groups," on terrorism charges, with police saying he took part in a violent riot where agitators threw rocks, Molotov cocktails, and fireworks at police at a training center near…
The magnitude of the GOP’s tidal wave in Tuesday’s election is just coming into focus. Just as in 1994’s landslide election that gave Newt Gingrich and the GOP control of the U.S. House for the first time in half a century, the media are underplaying the rout and portraying the 2014 midterm as a temper…
If you are looking for some exciting book recommendations to help you ring in the new year, look no further. Our friends at The Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action for America have 26 titles that we recommend you check out in 2021. 1. “American Traitor” by Brad Taylor New York Times bestselling author Brad Taylor…
Seven weeks after Inauguration Day, President Donald Trump stood before America and declared the U.S. southern border secure. “The media and our friends in the Democratic Party kept saying we needed new legislation. We must have legislation to secure the border. But it turned out that all we really needed was a new president,” Trump said to loud applause during his…
Following close to two years of reports of cost overruns on HealthCare.gov, increased premium prices and lost work hours since the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, Rep. Peter Roskam, R-Ill., is introducing legislation to appoint a watchdog to oversee the health care law and ensure the protection of taxpayer dollars. The legislation calls for…
President Donald Trump is sending border czar Tom Homan to Minnesota two days after a Border Patrol agent shot and killed an anti-immigration enforcement protester. Homan “has not been involved in that area, but knows and likes many of the people there,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Monday, referring to Minnesota. “Tom is tough but fair, and will report…
Despite President Donald Trump urging Republicans to unite behind a continuing resolution spending proposal to keep the government open, some GOP lawmakers expressed skepticism Sunday, while Democrats are resolutely opposed. Congress faces a Friday deadline to pass a continuing resolution and avert a partial government shutdown. Despite some hesitation, no Republican lawmakers have outright opposed…
Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., announced Sunday that he would be suspending his California gubernatorial campaign due to allegations of sexual misconduct, which he has denied. “I am suspending my campaign for Governor,” Swalwell announced on X on Sunday. “To my family, staff, friends, and supporters, I am deeply sorry for mistakes in judgment I’ve made…
News of a man in Dallas confirmed to have Ebola sounded the alarm in the United States last week. But Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control, reassured the American people today that he was “quite confident” the United States wouldn’t suffer an outbreak. Appearing on ABC’s “This Week,” Frieden said the…
American taxpayers are funding a university program that creates recipes for meals based on an African nation that exists only in comic books and movies. Yes, we’re talking about Wakanda, the mysterious high-tech home of the Marvel Comics superhero Black Panther, whose eponymous movie smashed records at the box office earlier this year. What folks…
Teachers who object to paying union fees on religious grounds are too political, some union leaders in Pennsylvania argue in a new twist on long-standing complaints about organized labor’s involvement in elective politics. But at least two of those teachers, who just had their day in court to put state labor laws under scrutiny, see…
In the soft warmth of spring the swallows famously return to Capistrano, but in recent years they are followed by what seems inevitable summer power outages and fires. This is not as pleasant an experience for Californians as the return of our favored feathered companions. Every summer, usually around this time of year, we get our inevitable heat…
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s record amid the 2020 George Floyd riots in Minneapolis has received renewed scrutiny after Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, selected him as her running mate. “Minnesota was ground zero for the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020. Harris egged it on, and Walz sat by and…
Even though the Environmental Protection Agency appears to be backing off its push to preemptively kill a proposed copper and gold mine in Alaska’s bush country, the agency is pitching an array of conditions that could stifle the project. A recently proposed list of restrictions, whose public comment period runs until Sept. 19, could severely…
A House oversight committee continues to seek emails related to the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of tea party and other conservative groups, “but there’s nobody in the Justice Department willing to work with us,” a congressman on the panel said yesterday. That impasse, along with related roadblocks in the Department of Justice’s investigation of the IRS…