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March 17, 2025
![Johnson on Schumer's Surrender: 'Buckle Up. ...[We're] Building Muscle Memory for Winning'](https://www.frc.org/img/domain/frc/item/CC25C49_NORMAL.jpg) |
| Johnson on Schumer's Surrender: 'Buckle Up. ...[We're] Building Muscle Memory for Winning' |
| by Suzanne Bowdey |
| Apart from Donald Trump, no one is more unpopular among Democrats right now than the Senate's Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). The longtime leader infuriated his party Friday, surrendering on the government shutdown and handing Republicans a victory that can only be described as miraculous. Not only was his decision to cave after days of tough talk a shock, it's also making Schumer the target of "volcanic anger" in his own party. As one Democratic aide put it after the vote, "I've never seen anything like it in the time I've been in the Senate ..." And as far as conservatives are concerned, Schumer had it coming. |
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| PERKINS: Laurel Libby Makes Courage a Maine Thing |
| by Tony Perkins |
| A question I often hear when I speak at churches and events is, "Tony, what keeps you up at night?" Because I'm in Washington, D.C., interacting with our nation's leaders on major domestic and global issues, people assume there must be a looming crisis that weighs on me. My usual response is straightforward: only too much caffeine keeps me awake. But I understand what they're really asking: When you consider the future of our country, what troubles you most? |
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| The 'Take It Down Act' Will Protect Thousands of Teens and Women from AI-Generated Sexual Images |
| by Kathy Athearn |
| In October 2023, 14-year-old Elliston Berry's life was turned upside-down. Her friends called her one morning, letting her know that someone had taken a picture of her from her Instagram account, created a pornographic image with her face, and sent it around her entire school in Fort Worth, Texas. Elliston and her parents were devastated and horrified. They went to the school and the local police, but the school said there was nothing they could do because the picture was posted outside of school hours. |
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| EPA Slashes Climate Change Red Tape, Claws Back $20B Climate Slush Fund |
| by Dan Hart |
| The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has initiated a vast reversal of the regulatory-heavy, climate change fear-based policies of the Biden administration, announcing Wednesday that it is taking 31 actions to remove red tape for the energy and automotive industries and lower the cost of living for Americans. The agency also announced the termination of a $20 billion fund parked in a commercial bank by the Biden administration to avoid government oversight that was used to award money to climate activist groups. |
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| Columbia University Caves to Trump Pressure, Disciplines Agitators for 2024 Building Occupation |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| Columbia University students will finally face discipline for illegally occupying a university building in April 2024, school officials announced Thursday. The decision comes after the Trump administration pulled $400 million in federal grants from the university and subjected it to close scrutiny by the Department of Justice's (DOJ) anti-Semitism task force. |
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| Is Efficiency a Biblical Idea? |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| The lightning rod of President Trump's second term is undoubtedly the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by tech billionaire Elon Musk. Proponents celebrate the Trump administration's labors to excise waste, fraud, and abuse from our debt-laden government, while critics fault DOGE for causing chaos and pursuing major changes without congressional action. |
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| Overreaching Federal Judges Are Defiling the Constitution. The Supreme Court Must Intervene. |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| Upon taking office in January, President Donald Trump began a widespread purge of the executive branch of the federal government, firing those employees either whose work was deemed unessential or wasteful or who evinced hostility towards the president's agenda. It has become somewhat customary for the president not to interfere much with the entrenched bureaucrats and career "civil servants" in his particular branch of government, typically only appointing his own Cabinet secretaries and some senior officials in the various departments of the executive branch. The past four years, however, have demonstrated that a left-wing agenda has practically engulfed the executive bureaucracy. |
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| 'The Shift Is Palpable': Expert Weighs In on Secretary McMahon's Meeting with Detransitioners |
| by Zachary Gohl |
| "Promises made, promises kept." That has been one of the common slogans used by President Trump and his campaign for the last several years. Once again, the Trump administration has taken action to make good on a promise he made in a campaign speech in October, where he said, "I will take historic action to defeat the toxic poison of gender ideology and reaffirm that God created two genders, male and female." |
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| 15 Americans Who Should Be Honored in Trump's 'Garden of American Heroes': Part 3 |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| President Donald Trump has compiled a fairly comprehensive list of 244 American founders, heroes, legends, and icons to be commemorated in his National Garden of American Heroes. Here are five more "American heroes" Trump may wish to remember if he wants to bring the number of greats in his garden to an even 250. |
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| Brokenness Unveiled: Self-Reflection's Path to Ruin or External Redemption's Healing Grace |
| by Sarah Holliday |
| The strongest souls and the weakest, most fragile souls often share a single, jagged trait: brokenness. There is a brokenness that drags us into shadow - a crushing weight that strips us of worth, hope, and light. Yet there is another kind. It's a quiet fracturing that carves a path to healing and strength. The question lingers: how do we - or those we love - find the courage to step from one into the other? First, it is helpful to understand some common outcomes of brokenness. |
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