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December 17, 2025
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| After Bondi Beach, the West Must Directly Confront Jihadism, Experts Say |
| by Dan Hart |
| As the sharp surge in anti-Semitic attacks continues around the globe with the mass-casualty shooting targeting Jews that occurred at Australia's Bondi Beach on Sunday, experts say that societies and government officials in the West must directly confront Islamist jihadist extremism rather than attempt to address the issue with accommodations and stricter gun control laws. |
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| Hill GOPers Demand Fed Worker Health Program Stop Funding Abortions |
| by Mark Tapscott |
| Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) are demanding that President Donald Trump's administration stop allowing the nation's largest employer-sponsored health benefits program to use tax dollars to cover the costs of abortions for Members of Congress and congressional staffers. |
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| Court: Trump Admin. Can Strip Planned Parenthood of Medicaid Funding |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| Over the past year in particular, federal judges appointed by former President Joe Biden have delivered a host of rulings and injunctions blocking President Donald Trump's efforts. However, a trio of Biden judges is now bucking the trend and siding with the Trump administration - on abortion, of all issues. |
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| Islamist Ambush Kills 3 Americans in Syria |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| Three Americans were killed and three wounded on Saturday when an Islamist extremist opened fire at them at a meeting with the Syrian military in the unstable country's eastern desert. Those killed included a civilian interpreter and two National Guardsmen from Iowa, while the wounded were also members of the Iowa Guard. The nature of the attack strains the already fragile relationship between American and Syrian forces and serves to remind Americans that an Islamist threat still lurks in eastern Syria. |
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| Outstanding - The Christmas Story and America's Identity Crisis (Ep. 223) |
| Podcast with Casey Harper and Os Guinness |
| As American culture drifts away from its founding ideals, the simplicity and beauty of the Christmas story may be the answer. Host Casey Harper is joined by author and cultural commentator Os Guinness for a reflection on the modern-day Christmas story and American culture. Living in a cut flower civilization, the two discuss America's identity crisis, what the Christmas story offers to a modern world, and how this time of year is actually the foundation of equality and freedom. |
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| Hong Kong Freedom Fighter Convicted on 'Phony' Charges after 5 Years in CCP Prison |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| A Chinese patriot has been convicted on trumped-up charges of sedition for opposing the country's brutal communist regime and could now spend the remainder of his life in prison. |
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| Quality and Integrity in the Great Abortion Data Debate |
| by Chuck Donovan |
| Most observers of the abortion debate would likely agree that it is primarily a matter of ethics, a contest between the Hippocratic standard of respect for human life and various forms of humanistic pragmatism that allow abortion as a way to address personal and social problems. Resolving that debate has engaged philosophers of medicine, religious leaders, and the few political figures who seriously address it, for decades, with shifts in public policy and law back and forth. The debate also necessarily involves the matter of real-world consequences, making data collection and analysis a crucial part of the discussion, even if they are not ultimately the primary drivers of convictions on so profound a set of questions. |
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| In Controversial Move, Trump Designates Fentanyl a Weapon of Mass Destruction |
| by Sarah Holliday |
| After deeming drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, President Donald Trump has spearheaded a series of controversial strikes on suspected drug boats off the coast of Venezuela and is reportedly considering land strikes as well. Now, Trump has used his presidential capacity to declare the synthetic opioid drug fentanyl a Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD). While many would not dare dispute the dangers associated with these drugs, a critical question looms: is this designation a step too far? |
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