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April 7, 2025
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| Luna, Johnson Strike a Truce on Proxy Voting That Gets the House Back to Business |
| by Suzanne Bowdey |
| After a few unexpected days off, the House is back in D.C. to resolve a family feud that's grabbed headlines from coast to coast. For Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), the spat was an unfortunate return to normal after weeks of surprising unity. And while it was inevitable that the harmonious spell Donald Trump cast over Republicans would break at some point, most people just didn't expect it to be over something as universally despised as proxy voting. |
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| PERKINS: Reforming the Military's Fitness Standards Is Vital, but Not the Only Step |
| by Tony Perkins |
| In the corporate world, woke DEI and gender ideologies may be costly miscalculations, as seen in controversies involving major brands like Bud Light and Target. In the military, however, such ideologies can be deadly. Policies driven by ideology rather than readiness undermine the warrior ethos, endanger lives, and ultimately jeopardize national security. |
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| How Faith Sustained Astronaut Butch Wilmore while Stranded in Space for 9 Months |
| by Dan Hart |
| NASA Astronaut Barry "Butch" Wilmore is revealing more about how his Christian faith strengthened him while spending 286 days on the International Space Station (ISS) - 278 days longer than originally planned. Wilmore also recently shared just how close he and fellow astronaut Suni Williams came to being stranded aboard a malfunctioning Boeing Starliner capsule. |
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| 'Restore the Constitutional Balance': Trump Admin. Asks SCOTUS to Halt Unlawful Court Orders |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| Another day, another federal court halting President Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" agenda. On Tuesday, Judge Araceli Martinez Olguin of the U.S. District Court for Northern California issued a preliminary injunction preventing the president from ending federal funds going to immigration lawyers. In February, the Trump administration froze approximately $200 million in grants to the Acacia Center for Justice, a group of immigration lawyers providing free services to unaccompanied migrant children (UAC). The Acacia Center for Justice subsequently sued to unfreeze the funding. |
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| Trump Slaps Non-Reciprocal 17% Tariffs on Israel |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| President Donald Trump's tariff bonanza on Wednesday included 17% tariffs on Israeli products, one of many indications that the new tariff regime is not "reciprocal" in the traditional sense of matching tariffs levied by another country. On Tuesday, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich zeroed out all Israeli tariffs on U.S. goods, in the (apparently disappointed) hope of avoiding the anticipated American duties. |
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| 'We Want Our National Sovereignty': WHO Falls Billions Short of Budget after U.S. Withdrawal |
| by Ben Johnson |
| Global governance institutions assume the right to issue orders to independent, national governments around the world - but since President Donald Trump began reasserting America's autonomy, one international organization is finding it hard to pay its bills. |
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| Wisconsin Voters Wrinkle Noses at Musk |
| by Victoria Marshall |
| In his 2016 memoir "Hillbilly Elegy," Vice President J.D. Vance wrote about his grandmother's contradictory politics as a resident in rural Ohio. "Mamaw's sentiments occupied widely different parts of the political spectrum," Vance observed. She "was a radical conservative or a European-style Democrat," depending on her mood. These contradictions, Vance argued, were the result of a complex psychology shaped by faith, culture, and community. Perhaps this anecdote can shed light on the seemingly contradictory election results in Wisconsin on Tuesday. |
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| Female Fencer Gets Disqualified for Refusing to Play against Trans-Identifying Opponent |
| by Sarah Holliday |
| Over the weekend, female fencer Stephanie Turner didn't just forfeit a match; she lit a match under the powder keg of women's sports. The day before the Cherry Blossom Open fencing competition in Maryland, Turner had decided she would not play against Redmond Sullivan, a transgender-identifying man. But rather than quietly bowing out early, she bided her time, choosing when to act. That moment came on the mat, for all to see, in a deliberate and defiant stand. |
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| Signal Scandal Enters Investigation Phase |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| The White House is desperately trying to make the Signal scandal story disappear. "This case has been closed here at the White House, as far as we are concerned," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced on Monday afternoon. "There have been steps made to ensure that something like that can obviously never happen again, and we're moving forward." |
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| Free Speech for Thee but Not for Me? Insanity in the UK |
| by Chuck Donovan |
| In case you haven't noticed, national and international politics have been plagued with insanity of late. No, it's not that much of the Western world is debating free speech, abortion, the nature of marriage, parental rights, and so forth, because that has been true for nigh-on half a century (and more if you consult the archives of eugenics, the humanist movement, Marxism, and other social forces). The new things are even rawer topics: destructive surgeries on minors and small children, arresting citizens for offering to speak to one another, and attacks on social service agencies that commit such "crimes" as offering free diapers, strollers, and prenatal care to mothers in need. |
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| 'To Be or Not to Be': From Hamlet's Doubt to Divine Purpose |
| by Sarah Holliday |
| "To be, or not to be," said Hamlet, "that is the question." Whether you're a fan of Shakespeare's work or not, at the heart of Hamlet's famous soliloquy are some piercing questions: is it better to live or to die? Is it worth enduring "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune," or is it better to escape life's hardships by ending it all? |
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