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February 2, 2026
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| Shaky Deal to Fund the Government Heads to Johnson's Volatile House |
| by Suzanne Bowdey |
| Congress was close enough to passing a federal budget that leaders could smell it. But just when Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) thought he'd finally caught a break and done something historic, his work - and the House's - has been completely upended. The instant protestor Alex Pretti was shot by ICE agents in Minneapolis last month, the dream of sending all 12 appropriations bills to the president's desk for the first time in 29 years vanished - swallowed up by the Democrats' decision to slam the brakes on the process and demand an overhaul of Homeland Security. Now, with as many question marks on Capitol Hill as snow piles, Americans are back on a familiar roller coaster: the government shutdown. |
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| HHS Rescinds Biden-Era Abortion Pill Guidance That Put Pharmacies in Legal Limbo |
| by Sarah Holliday |
| The Department of Health and Human Services, through its Office for Civil Rights (OCR), has issued a clear notice that pro-lifers will welcome: pharmacies nationwide are no longer required to supply the abortion drug. |
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| Pointless Wars and Rash Threats |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| Combined casualties from the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war could reach the grim milestone of two million this spring as the fourth year of war nears completion, according to an analysis published Tuesday by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). The CSIS report estimates that Russian forces have lost 1.2 million men (killed, wounded, or missing) to Ukraine's 500,000 to 600,000, putting the total combined casualties as high as 1.8 million. Yet Russia has very little to show for all this carnage, which merely provides another object lesson to show that war is horrible and should not be entered into lightly. |
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| Our Culture of Rage and the Need for the Beatitudes |
| by Dan Hart |
| Over the past three weeks, we've seen a steady escalation in lawlessness, animosity, quick accusations, threats of violence, real violence, and tragic deaths amid the protests over the federal government's law enforcement campaign targeting illegal immigration in Minneapolis. The continued coarsening of our public discourse and the disregard for human dignity that Americans are displaying to their fellow Americans should cause us to pause and reflect: is there a better way? |
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| FBI Raided Minnesota Child Care Center a Decade Ago; Ernst Reforms Would Fight Benefits Fraud Nationwide |
| by Mark Tapscott |
| Criminal investigators for the FBI raided a fraudulently operating Minnesota childcare center more than a decade ago after it was discovered the owners had billed the state for multiple hours never worked, children not actually served, and days when the facility was closed. |
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| Postmodernism: The Soup We Swim in |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| During the abnormal days of 2020, evangelical church historian Dr. Carl Trueman used the time to satisfy his "curiosity about how and why a particular statement has come to be regarded as coherent and meaningful: 'I am a woman trapped in a man's body.'" The result was his excellent book," The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self" (or its more accessible version, "Strange New World"), which explores a series philosophical waypoints that inform transgenderism. To arrive at our current culture wars over the very definition of male and female, Trueman explained, "The self must first be psychologized; psychology must then be sexualized; and sex must be politicized." |
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| Deportations Don't Need a Public Face |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| Given all the brouhaha, it is shocking to realize that fewer than 400,000 interior deportations have been carried out over the course of a year. Meanwhile, multiple cities have been wracked by riots, which just this month led to two deaths in Minneapolis, not to mention the countless threats and assaults against federal law enforcement officials. With so much constant drama, one might expect the Trump administration's mass deportation agenda to be a little more... effective. |
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| Trump Selects Kevin Warsh as Next Fed Chairman |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| President Donald Trump on Friday announced his selection of Kevin Warsh as the next chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, to succeed Jerome Powell, whose term expires in May. Warsh has experience as a Federal Reserve governor, but he turned into a leading critic of the central bank's policies after the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent sluggish recovery. Despite Warsh's reputation as an outsider and critic of the Fed, his selection met with some surprisingly positive responses. |
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| The Consequences for Cuba's Support of Russia Are Arriving |
| by Yoe Suarez |
| This is not the best year for the Cuban socialist tyranny. The jewel in its crown, Venezuela, is under strong pressure from the United States; its ally in the Middle East, Iran, faced massive protests against the Islamic regime; and, to top it all off, an efficient Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, knowledgeable about the evils of socialism, continues to gain popularity. |
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| Manipulation and Pressure: Chavismo's Tactics against the Church (Part 2) |
| by Yoe Suarez |
| A recent report by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) includes the South American nation alongside Nicaragua and Cuba as part of an "authoritarian triad" in which faith leaders are especially "vulnerable to attacks" by state entities. This year, Venezuela appeared on the list of the NGO Open Doors, which tracks and denounces the persecution of Christians worldwide. The country ranked 60th among those where the greatest pressures and abuses occur. |
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