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August 18, 2025
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| Trump Follows Putin Summit with Zelensky Meeting in Effort to End Ukraine War |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| The highly-anticipated summit meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday did not result in the signing of a peace agreement, but appears to be a stepping stone towards ending the conflict in Ukraine, as Trump described the meeting as "extremely productive" and European leaders said it represents a "glimmer of hope." So what happened, and what's next? |
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| PERKINS: Yes, D.C. Crime Is Bad. But It Needs More Than a Takeover. |
| by Tony Perkins |
| As a former police officer, I've seen firsthand how both crime and criminals have changed since my days on the beat. Today, drugs, untreated mental illness, and a wholesale devaluing of human life drive the violence we see in our cities. But these social pathologies are symptoms of something deeper. |
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| Arkansas SAFE Act Vindicated at Last |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| When the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit restored the Arkansas Save Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act on Tuesday, it removed the last federal judicial block on state laws that protect minors from gender transition procedures. In so doing, it tied a bow in one of the few remaining loose ends from the nationwide movement that began almost four years ago. As it turns out, the loose end tied on Tuesday is the thread that started it all. |
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| The New Allure of Positive Eugenics |
| by Chuck Donovan |
| Millions of people turn to The Wall Street Journal for insights on the stock market. As of today, the Journal has become a source for insight on the breeding stock market - in humans. In an article titled "Inside Silicon Valley's Growing Obsession with Having Smarter Babies," the Journal's reporter Zusha Elinson (IQ unknown, but he says he grew up on a dirt road and has worked as a stonemason and chimney sweep) describes the extraordinary lengths some Berkeley-based pioneers are going to in order to produce designer babies who will live better lives and solve human problems. The article reads like science fiction, but the labs and the money involved are all too real and contemporary. |
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| State Department Catalogs China's Human Rights Violations |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| The U.S. State Department's annual report on international human rights, published this week, has identified communist China as one of the world's most egregious human rights abusers and religious liberty violators. |
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| SCOTUS Lets Mississippi Protect Children from Social Media Dangers as Legal Showdown Looms |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| In 2022, Mississippi teenager Walker Montgomery took his own life after enduring months of sexual harassment, stalking, and threats from an online predator via social media. In an effort to shield minors from online predators, Mississippi's state legislature passed the Walker Montgomery Protecting Children Online Act, also known as H.B. 1126, requiring social media websites and applications to verify the age of users and to seek parental consent before creating profiles for minors. The bill was signed into law by Governor Tate Reeves (R) in April of 2024 and was slated to go into effect that summer. |
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| The D.C. National Guard and Democrats' Short Memories |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| Congressional Democrats introduced legislation this week to nix President Trump's temporary takeover of the federal district's police department, which accompanied the deployment of federal law enforcement officers and the D.C. National Guard to the streets of our nation's capital. Such a bill only makes sense if one holds that anything Trump does is by definition wrong; in this case, it proves that Democrats have short memories. |
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| The Race of Faith: A Marathon, Not a Sprint |
| by Sarah Holliday |
| When I ran cross country, our training involved running Monday through Friday and, occasionally, optional Saturday runs. We did "easy" days, long-distance days, sprint days (the worst), and more, all to make sure that we were in the best shape possible for our 5k race - a little over three miles - which occurred seven to eight times throughout the season. |
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