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September 19, 2025

PERKINS: Our National Response Must Focus on Foundations, Not Retribution
PERKINS: Our National Response Must Focus on Foundations, Not Retribution
by Tony Perkins
This week, in the aftermath of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, many are asking whether incendiary words are fueling violent deeds. A recent Reuters poll found roughly two in three Americans believe harsh political rhetoric encourages violence. And when U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said on a podcast that the Trump administration would target "hate speech," the backlash from conservatives was swift; she later clarified that any focus must be on true threats of violence, not the nebulous catch-all of "hate speech."
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Report: Biden FBI Snooped on 92 Conservative Targets in Trump Witch Hunt
Report: Biden FBI Snooped on 92 Conservative Targets in Trump Witch Hunt
by Joshua Arnold
The FBI under President Joe Biden investigated no less than 92 conservative or Republican groups and individuals, as part of an operation code-named, "Arctic Frost," which scoured the dregs for a way to charge President Donald Trump with crimes related to the 2020 election, according to documents released Tuesday by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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What Does the Federal Reserve Do, and Why Is It So Hard for It to Make up Its Mind?
What Does the Federal Reserve Do, and Why Is It So Hard for It to Make up Its Mind?
by Joshua Arnold
The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee cut interest rates by a quarter percentage point at its Wednesday meeting, the first rate cut this year, out of concern over the U.S. economy's stalled job market. Declines in both the number of people looking for jobs and the number gaining employment have "certainly gotten everyone's attention," Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said afterward.
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Down to the Wire on Assisted Suicide in the U.K.
Down to the Wire on Assisted Suicide in the U.K.
by Chuck Donovan
As President Trump travels to the United Kingdom and looks forward to an official welcome of unprecedented scope, the British nation continues to debate the portentous topic of assisted suicide. The debate has been long and arduous, befitting a topic that threatens to undo the safeguards of Hippocratic medicine for the most vulnerable Britons - the aged, the infirm, the despairing, and the disabled. A process that began in the House of Commons in 2024 is reaching its end stage as the House of Lords conducted an extended debate on September 12 that offered fresh hope that the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill might be headed for defeat.
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Murkowski's $2 Million Housing Earmark for 67-Person Village Tops Senate Pork Projects
Murkowski's $2 Million Housing Earmark for 67-Person Village Tops Senate Pork Projects
by Mark Tapscott
An Alaska village of 67 residents that is so remote that flying is the only way its students can get to and from school will receive $2 million for "affordable housing" projects if Congress approves an earmark requested by the state's senior Republican federal lawmaker, Senator Lisa Murkowski.
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DEI in the Wild: How Wokeism Changed the National Park Service
DEI in the Wild: How Wokeism Changed the National Park Service
by Dylan Coombs
Out in the vast wilderness of America's greatest national parks, one would hope to find solace from the noise of politics and reprieve from the divisive ideological battles tearing our country apart. But even here, among the beautiful scenery of Yellowstone and the granite cliffs of Yosemite, bureaucracy has intruded on the few spaces where Americans look for peace while enjoying nature.
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