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February 12, 2025
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| Hostage Horrors: Returning Captives Outrage Leaders, Jeopardize Ceasefire |
| by Suzanne Bowdey |
| Whatever joy the free world felt at the release of Ohad Ben Ami, Eli Sharabi, and Or Levy on Saturday was almost immediately replaced by a quiet and collective horror. The world watched, in shock, as three gaunt, once-healthy men were paraded around a Gaza stage, humiliated. To the ones who knew them best, they were almost unrecognizable - hollow versions of the fathers and husbands whose 491-day nightmare had finally come to an end. "I hugged him," Or's brother said solemnly. "But he wasn't the same." |
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| Despite Heated Rhetoric, USAID Reforms Desperately Needed |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| The Trump administration's rapid-fire reforms have provoked the Left to much gnashing of teeth - none more so than the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) audit of foreign aid programs run by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). "I'm not going to calm down," Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) declared Sunday on ABC News's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos." "I think this is the most serious constitutional crisis the country has faced, certainly, since Watergate. ... We're watching the billionaires try to steal government from the people." |
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| Trump's DOD Purges Trans Agenda from Military |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| President Donald Trump and his administration are transitioning the military away from gender ideology and rewriting admissions requirements. A new memo issued by U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Secretary Pete Hegseth late last week halted "all new accessions for individuals with a history of gender dysphoria" and paused "all unscheduled, scheduled, or planned medical procedures associated with affirming or facilitating a gender transition for Service members..." Hegseth added, "Individuals with gender dysphoria have volunteered to serve our country and will be treated with dignity and respect." |
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| Did the FBI Leak Deportation Raid Plans to a Gang? Border Czar Homan Thinks So |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| After an internal leak jeopardized a deportation mission, President Donald Trump's border czar is alleging that bad actors within the FBI may have been responsible. Border czar and former U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) chief Tom Homan confirmed Monday night that he's closer to identifying the individual who leaked information regarding an ICE raid in Aurora, Colorado to members of the Tren de Aragua (TDA) gang. The raid, carried out last week, initially targeted at least 100 TDA members, but ICE officers ultimately only arrested one, after the leak provided gang members a chance to evade ICE. |
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| 'Kill the Boer!': Trump Sanctions Socialist South Africa for Human Rights Violations |
| by Ben Johnson |
| President Donald Trump has used his authority to expose and correct a virulent-yet-underreported variety of racial discrimination by sanctioning South Africa, a nation that human rights experts once described as planning a "genocidal massacre and also the forced displacement of whites." President Donald Trump has used his authority to expose and correct a virulent-yet-underreported variety of racial discrimination by sanctioning South Africa, a nation that human rights experts once described as planning a "genocidal massacre and also the forced displacement of whites." |
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| Expert: Trump Must Press Modi for Religious Freedom in India |
| by Dan Hart |
| With Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi set to meet with President Donald Trump on Wednesday, religious freedom advocates are urging the president to press Modi about the ongoing violence and human rights violations occurring against Christians and other religious minorities in the world's most populous country. |
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| Judge Temporarily Blocks Parts of Texas Law Protecting Children from Online Dangers |
| by Sarah Holliday |
| The Securing Children Online through Parental Empowerment (SCOPE) Act went into effect on September 1, 2024 in Texas. Its sole purpose: to better protect children from online dangers. The SCOPE Act does this by establishing age verification measures, protecting data privacy, adding parental tools, and blocking harmful content. However, in response to a group of students (ranging in age from middle school minors to college age) who challenged the law, a federal judge officially ruled on Friday to block "parts of Texas' social media law." |
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| Trump Signs Executive Order Preserving 'Indispensable' Second Amendment |
| by Ben Johnson |
| The Trump administration bolstered Americans' constitutional right to keep and bear arms, vowing to overturn any and all encroachments on the Second Amendment enacted under the Biden-Harris administration. |
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| Minnesota Schools Reject Trump's Title IX Rule Protecting Female Athletes |
| by Sarah Holliday |
| Last week, President Donald Trump signed what many have considered his most monumental executive order yet. With the stroke of his pen, he threatened to take away federal funds from schools that allow men to compete in girls' sports. Following this, Trump launched an investigation into colleges that allegedly violated Title IX by allowing transgender-identifying men on their female sports teams, such as the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) and San Jose State University (SJSU). However, it turns out it's not just universities Trump has to deal with. |
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| Trump's New White House Faith Office Should Fight to Repeal the Johnson Amendment |
| by John Amanchukwu |
| It is the Democrats' dream to keep pastors who preach biblical truths muzzled by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) forever; something they have been able to do since 1954 thanks to the Johnson Amendment. |
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