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October 30, 2024
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| EXCLUSIVE: Lankford Decries Dept. of Energy's Data Collection on Religious Exemptions |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| A Republican senator is warning that a federal agency may be violating the First Amendment rights of employees with a new policy. On Tuesday, Senator James Lankford (R-Okla.) shared with The Washington Stand a letter he had addressed to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) regarding DOE-47, Reasonable Accommodation Requests
Records (89 FR 78854), a new policy requiring the agency to collect and store detailed information regarding requests for religious exemptions to various mandates. |
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| The Best Advice of the 2024 Election: 'Don't Cast Aside Family and Friends' |
| by Ben Johnson |
| American voters frequently classify the 2024 presidential election as the worst of times. But one national candidate cut through the vapid and vitriolic rhetoric to dispense perhaps the single best piece of advice ever given in this or any election. One of the four figures vying to win next week's election begged the American people to put politics in perspective. |
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| Election Time Nazi Smears Are Back |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| Remember when a major candidate for the U.S. presidency was nearly assassinatedtwice, and a chorus of voices momentarily urged everyone to tone down the political rhetoric? That ceasefire is officially over. At a CNN town hall last Wednesday, Vice President Kamala Harris repeatedly called former President Donald Trump - get this - a "fascist." I bet you've never heard that one before. |
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| Report: Female Inmates 'Traumatized' in Wake of Walz's Trans Prison Policy |
| by Dan Hart |
| A new report has revealed that female inmates at a women's prison in Minnesota say they have been "traumatized" and have experienced sexual harassment from gender-confused males who have been allowed into the prison. Records show that funding from the Minnesota Department of Education and the Department of Corrections under Governor and Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz as well as a subsequent policy were used to transfer the males into the women's prison. |
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| 'Jesus Is King': J.D. Vance, Kamala Harris, and the Church's Future |
| by Owen Strachan |
| In the span of a few hours, Harris and Vance showed us how Christianity is received by the two major parties in America today. In one rally, Christianity is not welcome; in the other, Christianity is affirmed (albeit quickly). Rarely have we gotten a clearer demonstration of the divide in American politics and American culture than this. |
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| Cleaning Up Voter Rolls and Counting Ballots: Election Integrity Concerns ahead of Nov. 5 |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| With only one week to go until Election Day, concerns over election integrity are ramping up across the nation. In Virginia, the Biden-Harris Department of Justice (DOJ) is trying to block the state from clearing noncitizens from its voter rolls, while the state is seeking assistance from the highest court in the land. |
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| Americans No Longer Trust the Mainstream Media - and the Mainstream Media Knows It |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| The legacy media's stranglehold on news narratives is dying, according to a major mainstream media player. In a column published Monday, Axios founders and authors Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen wrote, "The big media era is over." They continued, "The mainstream media's dominance in narrative- and reality-shaping in presidential elections shattered in 2024. ... How and where Americans get informed has broken into scores of pieces - from young men on Joe Rogan's podcasts, to suburban women following Instagram influencers." |
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| Maryland School District Removes 2 LGBT Books from Curriculum, while over 80 Remain in Libraries |
| by Sarah Holliday |
| A school district in Maryland just removed two LGBT-related books from their district's curriculum, resulting in a win for the parents who didn't want their children exposed to the material in the classroom. However, the books - and other LGBT material - still remain on the shelves of the school libraries. |
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| Ukraine's Lost Neutrality (Part 2) |
| by Bob Marshall |
| In 1990, the Ukraine Parliament affirmed it had the "intention of becoming a permanently neutral state that does not participate in military blocs ..." Ukraine's political and military neutrality was accepted by the United States, Russia, and Great Britain in the 1994 Budapest Memorandum as part of establishing a nuclear non-proliferation agreement which would "respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine ... to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine." |
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