April 10 2023
 
Good Friday greetings from Washington, where the FBI wields a glossary to help agents identify violent extremists online. Fred Lucas reports. With Easter Sunday in view, our Katrina Trinko ponders Americans’ growing absence from the pews. On a bonus edition of the podcast, meet a crowdfunded Christian movie that put major contenders on the ropes. Plus: how the U.S. can counter China; churches come under escalating attack; CBS News flaunts its pro-Democrat bias; and a disturbing addiction to mobile devices. On this date in 1970, American icon John Wayne  wins his first and only Academy Award for acting when he claims the Oscar for playing dissolute U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn in the Western “True Grit.”   Morning Bell returns Monday. Have a blessed Easter. 
 
 
 
COMMENTARY
Our French Revolution
By Victor Davis Hanson

We are in a Jacobin revolution of the sort that in 1793-94 nearly destroyed France. And things are getting scary.
NEWS
10 Disturbing Responses by LGBTQ+ Activists After the Nashville School Shooting
By Tony Kinnett, Elizabeth Troutman

These activists threaten to retaliate against those they claim are taking away their “rights” to perform transgender procedures on minors and to hide students’ changes in names.
COMMENTARY
Trump Isn’t Only One Facing Double Standards of Justice
By Katrina Trinko

What’s happened to Trump is just the most prominent example of the justice system’s corruption. It’s not an exception to the rule, but an arrest that highlights a very concerning pattern.
COMMENTARY
A University Gets Free Speech Right … Mostly
By Seth Lucas, GianCarlo Canaparo

When students demanded that state-funded George Mason University cancel Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin as this year’s commencement speaker, the university refused.
NEWS
Cartels, Not US Government, Are ‘Choosing Who Enters This County,’ Sen. Sinema Says
By Virginia Allen

The Mexican cartels, not the U.S. government, are controlling aspects of the southern border, Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema says.
COMMENTARY
Christians Must Take Children to Transgender Procedures or They Can’t Adopt, Oregon State Law Says
By Ben Johnson

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.
COMMENTARY
Michigan Public Schools Admit Teaching Critical Race Theory
By Angelo Soto, Mike Gonzalez

Detroit Public Schools Community District Superintendent Nikolai Vitti admits that the schools are “deeply using critical race theory.”
ANALYSIS
Media Watchdog Group Holds Stanford Law School Accountable After Students, Associate Dean Heckle Conservative Judge
By Virginia Allen

“These crybullies throw metaphorical punches all day long and they never have to take one in return, and that's where we step in," Adam Guillette, president of Accuracy in Media, says.
NEWS
ICYMI: Here’s FBI Glossary for Flagging ‘Violent Extremism’
By Fred Lucas

The FBI uses a “glossary of terms” to look for online that could indicate someone is involved with “violent extremism,” according to newly obtained documents.
 
     
 
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