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July 15, 2025
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| Trump Getting More Done with Smaller, Less Costly White House Staff |
| by Mark Tapscott |
| President Donald Trump's White House staff is much smaller and is costing taxpayers 29% less in the first year of his second term than did Joe Biden's administration in his last year in the Oval Office in 2024, according to data compiled by the non-profit government transparency watchdog Open the Books (OTB). |
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| Iranian Regime Still Living in an Alternate Universe |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| The Islamist regime that governs Iran is still behaving as if it did not just lose a devastating war. Over the past two years, Israel has systematically destroyed Iran's terrorist proxies, air defense, and missile capabilities, and then Israel and the U.S. set back its nuclear weapons program by years or decades in an intensive air bombardment. Already, the vanquished is presuming to engage with the victors on an equal footing. |
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| Will Waves of Death Rule Britannia? |
| by Chuck Donovan |
| It has been a hard month, watching the unfolding of laws in the United Kingdom that seem, as Macbeth intoned, to light "the way to dusty death." This is said as an Irish American who fled to Europe after graduation from Notre Dame in 1974, not to visit the Emerald Isle (I got there two decades later with my younger daughter) but to see and study in the London of Pound, Eliot, Dickens, and Shakespeare. |
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| L.A. Subsidizes Lawlessness with Latest Anti-ICE Move |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) issued an executive directive on Friday ordering city departments not to cooperate with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations and in fact to steer resources toward "families impacted by federal immigrant enforcement actions." Those resources would include providing those families cash cards loaded with a "couple hundred" dollars, reminiscent of the "Angelino cards" former Mayor Eric Garcetti issued during the COVID lockdowns, according to the Los Angeles Times. |
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| Gen Z Men, the Fight Against Porn, and the Church's Response |
| by Sarah Holliday |
| Here's the headline: "Gen Z Men Are Turning Away From Porn." Before we go any further, let's address the fact that this is good news. A recent survey by the Survey Center on American Life (SCAL) explored various facets of American sentiment, uncovering what they call "America's Cultural Crossroads" - marked by "enduring discontent, rising disconnection, and an uncertain future." In the midst of these challenges, a striking trend emerged: a growing number of Americans, particularly men, support restricting access to pornography. |
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| Report Looks at Butler, Pa. Security Failures One Year Later |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| One year ago, Americans looked on in horror as a bullet tore through the air at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and left then-candidate Donald Trump spattered with his own blood. While the image of the man - who would, just a few months later, win the presidential election in a landslide standing on stage - defiantly raising his fist and shouting, "Fight!" has become iconic, Americans still have very few answers about what happened in Butler and how it happened at all. The U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee released a report Sunday, on the one-year anniversary of the assassination attempt, seeking to provide at least some answers. |
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| Violence toward Christians Continues with Deadly Shooting in Kentucky |
| by Evelyn Elliott |
| On Sunday, July 13, two women were shot and killed at Richmond Road Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky. Three other victims - two church members and one state trooper - were injured and are currently undergoing medical care. |
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| Undocumented Children Found Working at Newsom-Backed Cannabis Farm |
| by Caily Shriver |
| Last week's raids of two of the several Glass House Farms-owned marijuana farms in California led to the arrest of over 300 illegal aliens, including children. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said on X, "[DHS] law enforcement rescued 14 children from potential forced labor, exploitation, and trafficking. They arrested 319 illegal aliens." Of these children, ICE reported that at least nine of them were unaccompanied. |
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