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June 17, 2024
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| Military Funding Bill Passes House, Includes Conservative Priorities |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| The U.S. House of Representatives passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) 217-199 Friday, largely along party lines. Conservatives attached a number of amendments, which the mainstream media described as "culture war amendments," designed to keep social issues out of the military. |
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| Dems Make Life Easier for Child Molesters, $23 Billion in Pork, and More: 5 Stories You Missed |
| by Ben Johnson |
| The legacy media this week tried to convince readers that the greatest scandal facing America is Justice Samuel Alito's endorsement of "godliness." As purported news outlets obsessed over imaginary offenses committed exclusively by conservative Supreme Court justices, they missed far more consequential stories. This week's overlooked news overlapped in distressing ways. The common thread running through them is the financial, psychological, and often physical pain inflicted by radical, secular ideology. |
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| Fatherhood Is Progress |
| by Dan Hart |
| As Americans, we love the idea of "progress." It evokes the American spirit of ingenuity, of constantly striving to "form a more perfect union." Our national ideals tell us that the fundamental freedoms we have in our Constitution will providentially guide us in continual progress toward a stronger and freer country. |
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| Buried in SCOTUS Abortion Pill Ruling Is a 'Huge Win for Religious Liberty': Hawley |
| by TWS Staff Report |
| Late last week, the Supreme Court ruled that a group of doctors and medical professionals don't have standing to challenge the FDA's decision to remove virtually every safeguard from the abortion drug mifepristone. What does that mean for the future of these dangerous pills which now account for more than 60% of all abortions? And if doctors who have to deal with the consequences of chemical abortion don't have the right to challenge these relaxed rules, who does? On Thursday, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins caught up with Alliance Defending Freedom's senior counsel, Erin Hawley, who argued the case before the justices, to talk about the ongoing battle to protect women from these deadly drugs. |
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| German Study: Vast Majority of People Will Grow Out of Transgenderism within 5 Years |
| by Ben Johnson |
| A massive, years-long study shows the overwhelming majority of young people who identify as transgender will grow out of the diagnosis within five years. A similar supermajority of trans-identifying people suffered from at least one other psychological condition, found researchers, who tracked all children and young adults diagnosed with gender dysphoria over a nine-year period. |
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| SPLC's Mass Layoff Aimed to Destroy Labor Union: Expert |
| by Ben Johnson |
| An organization that has made hundreds of millions of dollars by smearing conservative Christian organizations as "hate groups" laid off dozens of employees this month - but inside sources and experts alike tell The Washington Stand there is more to the firings than meets the eye. |
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| Divine Displeasure in Severe Storms? |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| "In recent months, both floods and tornadoes have ripped through parts of the country's Midwest and Southeast region, upending people's lives and shattering their homes and businesses," Family Research Council President Tony Perkins noted during Wednesday's "Washington Watch." "According to the weather experts, we're on track for a record in terms of tornadoes this year and anticipating a pretty rough hurricane season as well." While the Left is sure to blame "climate change" for the natural disasters - both as obvious and non-explanatory as blaming a tornado's damage on "wind" - how should Christians respond when our country experiences extreme weather events? |
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| Republican Senators Lay Siege to Biden Court Nominations |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| A coalition of Republican senators are vowing to blockade Democratic President Joe Biden's nominees to any post requiring congressional confirmation, in response to the president's lawfare campaign against presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. |
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| UGG Chooses Pride, Customers Choose to Boycott |
| by Sarah Holliday |
| "My hope," said comedian and commentator Alok Vaid-Menon, "is that Pride can be experienced by everyone, everywhere, every day." Vaid-Menon, more commonly referred to as Alok, is the transgender-identifying man UGG, the widely known boot company which chose to partner with for their URSeen Pride line. In an Instagram post, he said he was "thrilled" to partner with UGG and can be seen twirling around in a pink dress in his video ad for the campaign. "I really wanted my UGG Pride collaboration to be an unapologetic embrace of vibrancy and color." |
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| 'Pride Is Not the Answer, Love Is': Join 'See You at the Library' August 24 |
| by Kathy Athearn |
| Out of a desire to help parents teach their children biblical values, Brave Books and Christian actor and author Kirk Cameron have launched See You at the Library - a national day where thousands of families will come together at public libraries to host value-filled story hours. Families can gather with their community on August 24 to read character-building children's books, sing the national anthem, and pray. The goal of this movement is to "secure the hearts and minds of the next generation." |
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| True Biblical Love Is Ultimately Demonstrated Through Choices, Not Feelings |
| by Sarah Holliday |
| They say love is like entering the lottery, and "you're probably not gonna win." Some statistics claim most marriages end in divorce, or that they consist of unhappy people. The pop culture magazines and the edgy social media posts champion this belief that love is whatever you want it to be. "Love is a battlefield," cry the ladies singing Pat Benatar, and the men have given up on chivalry altogether. Sorry Sinatra. Unfortunately, beyond romance, we find ourselves struggling with this virtue in all sorts of environments and circumstances. |
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