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With the 2026 midterms looming, the U.S. Supreme Court is officially weighing in on the redistricting arms race between red and blue states. Late Thursday, the nation’s highest judicial authority disagreed with a lower court ruling and instead allowed Texas to implement new congressional district maps expected to take five seats in the U.S. House of Representatives […]
In a country halfway across the world, Agnes remembers the song her dad taught her when she was scared. And that was most of the time. While American children can’t sleep because of invisible monsters, in Nigeria, the nightmares are real life. Would tonight be the night the men attacked, burning, shooting, and killing? “In those moments,” […]
As battles over congressional district maps rage on, the Sunshine State is officially preparing to join the fray. In an interview with The Floridian, Governor Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) announced that the state is “going to redistrict,” anticipating a special legislative session in the first half of 2026 to draw new congressional maps. Florida House Speaker Danny Perez […]
Controversy is swimming around the Department of War, with Democratic lawmakers accusing President Donald Trump’s administration of committing war crimes in its strikes against Venezuelan narco-terrorists, while the president mulls over military action against the Venezuelan regime. On September 2, the president and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth authorized a lethal drone strike against a narco-terrorist vessel […]
Former President Joe Biden’s Afghan refugee screening process was blasted in 2022 by a devastating report by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General (IG) for lacking such basic information as a list of individuals who lacked “sufficient identification documents” and warned as a result of individuals being admitted into the country “who pose a risk […]
An Afghan national has been charged with murder for the slaying of a member of the National Guard in Washington, D.C. Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who came to the U.S. in 2021 following the Taliban recapture of Kabul, shot 24-year-old U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe and 20-year-old National Guard Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom on Wednesday, […]
Tennessee Democratic District Representative Aftyn Behn (D) believes men can give birth. Now, she’s running for a congressional seat. Her opinion became apparent during a 2020 episode of her podcast “Grits.” She followed up her use of the term “birthers” by stating that “men and women … can give birth.” As Breitbart summarized, “She made the comment before […]
An earmark sending $375,000 to a Massachusetts dance festival launched in 1933 as “a kind of early gay utopia” is one of 862 earmarks valued at $2.4 billion included in the measure approved earlier this month by Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump to end the record-breaking government shutdown. Sponsored by Massachusetts Democratic Senators […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate, ending an initiative launched with fanfare as a symbol of Trump’s pledge to slash the government’s size but which critics say delivered few measurable savings. “That doesn’t exist,” Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor […]
President Donald Trump and his administration are preparing to officially classify state-funded abortion, gender transition procedures for minors, and a host of other left-wing policies as human rights violations. In its next annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, the U.S. State Department will update what qualifies as a human rights violation, according to The Daily Signal. […]
Benjamin Franklin once observed, “Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.” In other words, experience eventually instructs those slow to understand — but in matters of national security and biblical truth, time is not a luxury we possess. Last week, the U.N. Security Council approved a U.S.-drafted resolution intended to […]
Ahead of next year’s midterm elections, Texas Republicans are moving to redraw their state’s congressional district maps, netting the GOP at least five more seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, but federal judges have accused the Lone Star State’s legislature of racial gerrymandering. “The public perception of this case is that it’s about politics,” wrote Judge […]
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is forecasting that a “substantial acceleration” will occur in the country’s economy in 2026 as a result of decreasing prices in consumer goods and increasing real income. During a recent interview with Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo, Bessent argued that inflation is now becoming manageable under the Trump administration, whereas under Biden, it […]
“Just two years ago,” read a statement from the Department of War, “the outlook for military recruitment was bleak.” For the last several years, nearly every branch of the military fell short of its recruitment goals. The COVID-19 pandemic — including vaccine mandates that alienated many within the military as well as potential recruits — played a significant […]
Recent corruption scandals across multiple continents, with all sorts of perpetrators, serve as a sad reminder that corruption is a ubiquitous hazard in politics. It can break out in any government, from any person, at any time. Why does corruption cling so closely to politics? Because politicians and their associates have the power to achieve […]