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July 8, 2024
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| Senator Graham: 'If We Change Our Platform ... We're Going to Be in a World of Hurt' |
| by Suzanne Bowdey |
| The fireworks launched Thursday are expected to continue in at least one city - Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As Republican delegates descend on the site of the GOP convention this week, some have come ready for a fight. The news that Donald Trump's team wants to "simplify" the 60-page platform isn't sitting well with longtime conservatives who believe the document is the party's anchor to core values. "Presidential candidates come and go," Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) pointed out, but the platform "is foundational." "There's no reason to change it. Let's stick with what got us here." |
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| Poll: GOP Voters Seek Strong Party Platform on Life, Family, Religious Freedom |
| by Jared Bridges |
| As Republicans converge upon Milwaukee, Wisconsin next week to work out their party platform as part of the lead-up to the GOP's national convention, it's clear that the big question for delegates will be the issues. In recent days, some party officials have hinted at "paring down" the GOP platform, causing many to wonder which issues will be left on the table. |
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| Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Personality |
| by Jared Bridges |
| Nearly 20 years ago, during the advent of the mobile phone's adoption of Bluetooth, a strange phenomenon began to happen. You'd begin to see people walking by themselves on the street talking, having animated conversations. In the years before, such behavior was attributed to mental illness. A person just didn't have an out-loud conversation with no one in their vicinity. It took a few years of getting used to, but now it's commonplace. People talked into the air daily, but they were talking to another real person somewhere on the other end of the relays of bits of radio and telephone data. We weren't talking to ourselves, and we certainly weren't answering ourselves. These days, I'm not so sure. |
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| Pro-Abortion Groups Ramp Up Spending ahead of Elections - But So Do Pro-Life Groups |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| With a presidential election around the corner and Roe v. Wade two years in the grave, both pro-abortion and pro-life groups are ramping up spending over the coming months. |
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| The Biblical Roots of American Law and Why It's Necessary to Return to Them |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| America is at a crisis point. While it's easy to dismiss presidential candidates brashly proclaiming November to be the most important election in the nation's history as mere votemongering, their words may have a kernel of truth at their center. At present, America is facing something of an identity crisis: the principles and truths upon which the nation was founded have been largely shouldered out of the public square, leaving a sort of vacuum which demands to be filled. |
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| Can Christians Pursue IVF Ethically? A Doctor Shares His Experience (Part 1) |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| Recent misleading media coverage has promoted the mistaken impression that pro-life, conservative Christians categorically oppose in vitro fertilization (IVF). The truth, however, is quite different and far more nuanced. What most pro-life, conservative Christians actually want is for IVF to have ethical guardrails like any other medical practice - guardrails that will preserve the dignity of human life, even in embryonic form. Some pro-life, conservative Christians have even pursued IVF for their own families while aiming for this high ethical bar. |
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| Our Lives Are Shaped by Priorities. Is Your Spiritual Growth One of Them? |
| by Sarah Holliday |
| We happily put effort into personal, academic, or professional growth. But what about our spiritual growth? How often do we say, "I don't have time to read Scripture"? Maybe you're familiar with the feelings of being "too tired" for church. Prayer, as nice a concept as it is, quickly assumes the role of afterthought in our lives. And yet, in Matthew 4:4, Jesus Himself said, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God." |
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| Poll: Canadian Families Want Government to Leave Their Kids Alone Too |
| by Ben Johnson |
| Although the U.S. media present Canada as a bastion of liberalism, a new poll suggests they may be blowing snow. Overwhelming supermajorities of Canadian parents who have school-aged children believe school should provide them with advance notice of controversial topics, so that they can opt their children out of the discussion, according to a new poll. They also believe teachers should keep their own opinions to themselves and teach children just the facts about controversial issues - or, at a minimum, teach both sides rather than hammering propaganda into their students' young minds. |
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| Words, War, and the Imago Dei: Making Sense of the Left's Latest Temper Tantrum |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| In the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling this week on presidential immunity, leftists have evinced the sort of temper tantrum that would shame and frighten even the loudest and wildest of toddlers. No doubt this tantrum has been directly guided by Justice Sonia Sotomayor's dissenting opinion and tangentially exacerbated by the realization that Joe Biden should have retired roughly a decade ago. Sotomayor explicitly suggested, in her flippant response to the court's majority holding, that the president might order a Navy SEAL team to assassinate a political opponent and fellow American. |
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| Viral 'AI Demon' Says More about Ourselves Than Anything Else |
| by Hannah Tu |
| Steph Swanson, known by the username Supercomposite, had little idea what she was about to unleash when she typed the words "Brando::-1" into an image-generating AI tool. Swanson was experimenting with negative prompt weights, a process that creates images that are supposedly the opposite of a typed description. AI's concept of Marlon Brando's counterpart was innocent enough: a logo-esque button with the words "Digitas Pntics" on a silhouetted skyline. Swanson then retyped these words back into the generator, curious if another negative prompt would revert back to Marlon Brando. It didn't.
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