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December 18, 2025
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| SPLC Receives Long Overdue Congressional Scrutiny |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| After years of tolerating its unwarranted influence in federal decision making, Congress finally directed long overdue scrutiny at the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in a Tuesday hearing of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, "Partisan and Profitable: The SPLC's Influence on Federal Civil Rights Policy." |
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| Job Market Sees Americans Make Gains as Foreign Workers Go Home |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| The latest data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is showing an increase in jobs going to Americans, as well as fewer jobs going to foreign-born workers and a reduction in the federal workforce. The BLS report, released Tuesday, was delayed due to the federal government's shutdown earlier this year, but showed a rise in unemployment, to a rate of 4.6%, the highest since 2021, due largely to President Donald Trump's mass reductions in the federal workforce. Over 160,000 federal employees either resigned or were laid off in October, while another 6,000 lost their jobs in November, contributing to the higher unemployment rate. |
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| Internal Emails: Biden DOJ Pushed Mar-a-Lago Warrant despite FBI Concerns over Probable Cause |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| Lightly redacted emails published Tuesday by the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee provide new insight into the Biden administration's internal deliberations over the search warrant that authorized the FBI's raid on President Trump's private residence in August 2022. The emails, which were sent in the preceding months, indicate that FBI career employees seriously doubted whether they had enough evidence to prove probable cause ("PC") for the search warrant, even as Biden political officials in the DOJ plowed ahead anyway. |
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| California Church Appeals to SCOTUS over $1.2M in COVID Fines |
| by Dan Hart |
| Almost three years after the COVID pandemic was officially declared over, a church in California is still facing over $1.2 million in fines for keeping its doors open to minister to the spiritual needs of the public. |
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| Coalition of Faith Leaders Call on the Church to Speak Clearly on the Sanctity of Life |
| by Sarah Holliday |
| A coalition of faith leaders has written a letter to the church focusing on one prominent issue permeating policy, debates, and civil conversation: Life. While this issue is not new to the playing field, each year brings new and (often) unexpected challenges to those fighting for the pro-life cause. |
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| Trump Adds More Countries to Travel Ban List |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| In the wake of heightened terrorism concerns, President Donald Trump is expanding a travel ban and barring immigration from corrupt and problematic countries. In June, the president announced an initial set of complete travel restrictions on a number of African and Middle Eastern countries, citing national security concerns related to the targeted countries' poor vetting and screening processes, destabilized or corrupt governments, high crime and terrorism rates, and high visa overstay rates. Accordingly, any and all travel from Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, or Yemen to the U.S. was halted. Now, the president is adding more countries to his no-entry list. |
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| Velvet Gloves for Iron Fists: How the UN Sympathizes with Dictators |
| by Yoe Suarez |
| In March 2020, Alena Douhan was appointed Special Rapporteur for the United Nations Human Rights Council. Her perspective on peace seems to favor withdrawing pressure on tyrannical regimes, firmly rooted in the view that "if we are good to them, they will be good to their people." |
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