Wednesday, October 1, 2025
So Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries have done it:
The minority leaders in both the Senate and the House and have rallied their Democrat colleagues to not support a Continuing Resolution that would keep the government running.
Senate Majority leader John Thune had put forward what we call a “clean CR”—a clean Continuing Resolution that just allows the government to continue to operate. No pet projects. No pork. Just funding the government as it had been yesterday.
John Thune had said to Democrats, clearly and unequivocally: “Here’s my offer.”
They’ve done it dozens of times in the past where you’ve just got to get to the appropriations process and get that done.
But Chuck Schumer chose a shutdown and that’s why it’s called the Schumer shutdown.
As a matter of principle, this is also a Seinfeld shutdown, because—like a Seinfeld episode—it’s really about nothing.
And: It’s episode that the American people did not ask for.
Democrats should end the Schumer shutdown episode now..
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Wednesday, October 1, 2025
The left is in full meltdown about the Comey indictment. They’re outraged about weaponization of the justice system.
They’re about a decade late. Back then, Comey’s FBI used a Clinton campaign opposition memo to get a warrant to spy on the Trump campaign. Then Comey drove the Russiagate hoax by ensnaring Trump’s National Security Advisory in a perjury trap.
Since then, Biden’s Justice Department raided Donald Trump’s house, brought unprecedented federal charges against him, and applied laws in novel and stretched ways. They timed cases to overlap with primaries. And don’t forget how leniently they handled Hunter Biden’s tax and gun charges versus throwing the book at Trump.
Weaponizing the justice system is always wrong. But the left has insisted that the innocent have nothing to fear. It seems their perspective’s changed now that James Comey, rather than Donald Trump, is the one in jeopardy.
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Tuesday, September 30, 2025
In a landmark moment for public health, the Trump administration announced a series of initiatives that signify a compassionate and long-overdue approach to addressing the autism epidemic.
Led by HHS Secretary RFK Jr. and his team, it will include a comprehensive investigation into potential root causes, including acetaminophen exposure during pregnancy and possible associations with vaccines. It also promotes innovative treatments, such as leucovorin, to improve outcomes for children already affected by autism.
There’s no question, the numbers merit a new approach: We’ve seen a five-fold increase in autism over the past 20 years. Among boys, it’s now an astounding one in 20!
For families who have endured years of heartache and unanswered questions, this initiative represents more than just policy; it’s a profound act of empathy—recognizing every child’s future deserves unwavering attention.
If these efforts successfully reduce autism diagnoses, the resulting impact could be transformative.
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Monday, September 29, 2025
The nation at large and certainly our elite media continue to wrestle with what to make of the recent memorial service for Charlie Kirk.
Some are likely to argue that it was just “civil religion”. That's a term that was invented in the 20th century by sociologist Robert Bellah, and he was trying to argue that an awful lot of American religion is just kind of a dressed-up patriotism. It's just patriotism that is joined to a certain kind of minimal religion without any explicit doctrines.
Now, I want to raise the issue because I know some are going to say that the Charlie Kirk Memorial service was just civil religion. I don't think by any means it was just civil religion. I think it was shocking to most people that the service was so explicitly Christian in its message and in its tone.
The vice president of the United States said, “I've talked more about Jesus Christ in the past two weeks than I have in my entire time in public life.”
He didn't have to say that.
And that's a very important thing. It ought to last long in our memory.
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Friday, September 26, 2025
"How do we cover that?"
That had to have been the topic on the table of those newsrooms on Monday morning following the memorial service for my colleague Charlie Kirk on Sunday.
Much of post-modern media simply lacks basic fluency in the language used and the truth claims affirmed by the speakers.
Erika Kirk made a heart-breaking and deeply moving public forgiveness of her husband’s assassin—modeling the words of the first Christian martyr, Stephen, as he prayed for his persecutors.
I expect most news organizations to continue to “flee the scene” or force the Christian memorial into a political moment.
But the real story—the enduring “story” is one that Christians routinely refer to as “the greatest story ever told” and one which we believe to be objectively true. Bravo to the outlets with the courage to grapple with the most consequential part of Charlie Kirk’s life: His impact on the infinite timeline of millions of human souls.
… well done, Charlie.
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Thursday, September 25, 2025
The UN recognizing a State of Palestine is in vogue. While the popularity of such a cause is increasing, so, too, is its danger, ignorance and capitulation to ahistoricism.
The Palestinian effort, Palestinianism, is a cause and ideology of hate and violence, no matter how dressed up its propagandists try to color it. The official emblem of the Fatah party which governs in the West Bank is two rifles and a grenade over the entire map of Israel. As for Hamas, in Gaza, its entire covenant is a screed against Jews. And remember: the PLO was founded years before Israel ever had control of the West Bank or Gaza. It’s not about statehood for a 22nd Arab state but eliminating the State of Israel. It always has been.
The Palestinian movement is marked by global terrorism, hijacking, rape, and killing—including massacres of kindergartners, Olympic athletes and the assassination of a U.S. Ambassador.
A reward of statehood will yield little more than another Yemen or Libya. And the world has enough of that, already.
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Wednesday, September 24, 2025
In a day and age of fleeting stories fed to us by a constant conveyor belt of crisis and frenzy, keeping us all in a constant state of agitation with little ability to focus on the meaningful, what cannot be ignored is that our nation recently witnessed the first national political assassination in over 50 years. In the wake of that, the memorial service for the victim, Charlie Kirk, had the largest viewership of any memorial service in U.S. history.
The service was a call to prayer and faith as much as it was to action. It was a revival and crusade—especially for youth who the memorialized was especially close to and worked with. It was a deep moment, a weighty moment—and a reproach to all the unimportant and empty figures our elite media propagates. The impact of that service will have lasting power in an age too celebratory of the momentary; calling all who watched, particularly the young, to the better angels of our nature.
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