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March 1, 2024
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| 'A Biden Invasion': Trump and Biden's Border Speeches Make 'An Extraordinary Contrast' |
| by Ben Johnson |
| President Donald Trump and Joe Biden offered dueling speeches at the nation's southern border on Thursday, but geography proved all they had in common. Standing on Texas soil a mere 325 miles apart, their policies came from different political universes. |
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| Dems' Senate Bill Isn't about Protecting IVF Because Alabama Didn't Ban It |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| Senate Democrats attempted on Wednesday to push through a bill (S. 3612) they claim "creates federal protections for in vitro fertilization [IVF]," said Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, "even though it's not being threatened in reality." However, the bill would also legalize genetically modified embryos, commercial surrogacy, and the sale and destruction of human embryos. |
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| More Money for a Woke Pentagon? 'No Sir, Not This Time. We're Not Falling for That': Senator |
| by Suzanne Bowdey |
| Hill leaders may have escaped another shutdown showdown, but there'll be plenty of heavy-lifting when Congress comes back into session next week. It hasn't been easy, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said, "trying to turn the aircraft carrier back to real budgeting and spending reform." His analogy for getting back to real appropriations work was an interesting one, since Republicans seem to swing an ax at every budget but one: Defense. And maybe, one senator says, it's time to rethink that. |
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| Outstanding - Ep. 76: Alabama, IVF, and the Dignity of Human Life |
| Podcast with Joseph Backholm and Mary Szoch |
| Recently, the Alabama Supreme Court took a case regarding the accidental death of frozen embryos in an IVF (in vitro fertilization) clinic. The question leading the trial was: Can parents sue for wrongful death because the embryos were accidentally destroyed, and it was an accident inside the laboratory? Host Joseph Backholm is joined by Family Research Council's Mary Szoch for a discussion about IVF and the sanctity of human life. She weighs in on the process of IVF, the ethical arguments surrounding it, and the impact this court case will have on the future of IVF. |
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| Federal Court Greenlights Indiana's Law Banning Gender Transition Procedures for Minors |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| A federal court is allowing the Hoosier State to ban gender transition procedures for minors. The Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order on Tuesday staying a preliminary injunction that a U.S. District Court judge had granted last year against Indiana Senate Bill (S.B.) 480. The circuit court's order allows S.B. 480, signed into law last year by Governor Eric Holcomb (R), to finally take effect, prohibiting gender transition procedures for minors. The court heard oral arguments regarding the preliminary injunction earlier this month and promised that an "opinion from this court will follow" Tuesday's order. |
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| 'On a Fast Track': Controversial WHO Pandemic Accord Would Be 'Binding,' Says Congressman |
| by Dan Hart |
| Earlier this week, World Health Organization (WHO) Secretary General Tedros Ghebreyesus stated his hopes that a highly controversial global pandemic accord would be ready by May and would be "endorsed" by his organization. Experts say the treaty would infringe on the sovereignty of countries in how they respond to future pandemics, as well as promote abortion, increase censorship of debates surrounding health care, and promote racial discrimination and quotas, among a host of other concerns. |
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| Illegal Immigrants Continue to Commit Violent Crimes as Sanctuary Cities Reassess Policies |
| by Sarah Holliday |
| Violent crimes committed by illegal immigrants continue to rise throughout the country, resulting in American citizens being attacked, raped, and murdered. Experts are noting that these are the same migrants who receive taxpayer-funded health care, housing, education, food, and more. |
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| New Research Reveals Shocking Statistics about Online Child Sexual Abusers |
| by Sarah Holliday |
| The Alliance to Countering Crime published an article that began this way: "Children love social media - and so do sexual predators." Unfortunately, it's a widely known fact that child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is not only prominent online, but that it's growing exponentially. In late January, CEOs of major social media companies were confronted by the Senate Judiciary Committee about the rapidly out-of-control presence of online child sexual exploitation - to the extent that Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said the Big Tech authorities "have blood on [their] hands." |
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| Abused Armenian Christians: Today and Yesterday |
| by Lela Gilbert |
| In recent years, I was saddened to learn from friends that the Artsakh enclave had been experiencing increasingly deadly attacks by Islamists from neighboring Azerbaijan. Murders, rapes, and violent incidents by armed intruders were reported. And now, in fact, some years since my visit there, Artsakh's Christian community is virtually gone. |
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