Friday, October 24, 2025
Senate Democrats keeping the government shut down are playing checkers—and forcing Senate Republicans to play chess.
This week, Chuck Schumer followed up “No Kings” weekend by claiming that voters blame the GOP for the shutdown. Democrats leaked internal polling to that effect, except that the data actually showed a virtual tie on the question. And in the end, it’s not even the correct question.
Schumer initiated the shutdown to appease his radical fringe, who want total obstruction rather than reasoned governance. Most voters, however, want normal operation of both Congress and government. Regardless of what internal polls tell Schumer, Democrats have lost ground on polling on next year’s midterms, and the GOP has almost closed the gap in the three weeks of the shutdown.
In their haste to appease the radical Left, Democrats have opposed common-sense policies on immigration, crime, the Israel-Hamas conflict, DEI practices, transgender policies, and more.
Republicans have won this chess game by default. They should let Schumer keep playing checkers … and doing so badly.
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Thursday, October 23, 2025
Voting for the New York mayoral race begins this week.
If Republicans in New York City vote in large numbers for former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for mayor, the greatest city in the world will avoid a plunge into a spiral of collapse on many fronts.
New York City is on the 8.5 million people, 4.7 million of them are active registered voters another 700,000 are “inactive” voters.
Democratic Party registrants make up the largest bloc, at nearly two-thirds of the electorate. Republican Party registrants make up a mere 11 percent.
Curtis Sliwa ran unopposed for the GOP nomination. But even an eighth grader with decent math skills should be able to recognize that Sliwa cannot win. Not possible. There aren’t enough Republicans.
Reasonable and even activist, hard-core conservative Republicans should hold their noses and vote for Andrew Cuomo.
New York City is just too important to fail.
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Wednesday, October 22, 2025
The Supreme Court recently heard a Louisiana case with sweeping implications for how congressional districts are drawn. The issue: does Louisiana’s map amount to racial gerrymandering. And are majority-minority districts themselves constitutional?
It’s hard to argue that dividing Americans by color is anything but discriminatory. These districts were created on the assumption that white voters couldn’t – or wouldn’t – elect minority candidates or represent minority interests. That may have sounded plausible once. But in post-Obama America, that assumption doesn’t hold up.
The Roberts Court has—rightly—embraced the idea of a “Colorblind Constitution,” one that forbids the government from sorting people by race. That makes it likely the Supreme Court will strike these majority minority districts.
If so, the balance of power in Congress could shift by somewhere between nineteen and twenty-seven new Republican seats.
No wonder the left is screaming bloody murder.
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Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Federal regulators are finally investigating debanking.
The Wall Street Journal reports that agencies like the FDIC and OCC are ordering banks to review account closures and identify cases where customers were shut out for political or religious reasons.
This didn’t happen by accident. Groups like the Heritage Foundation, the American Family Association, Alliance Defending Freedom and investors like David Bahnsen pushed hard. Alexander Saeedy of the Wall Street Journal reports that banks are already reversing debanking policies in response to shareholder engagement.
My own firm—Bowyer Research helped lead that charge—filing proposals, exposing abuses, and working with red-state treasurers like Todd Russ to hold banks accountable.
Now it’s your turn. Ask your advisor: Do you know how your money was voted last season? Do you know how it will be voted this season? Do you know how your church’s or favorite ministry’s pension plan voted with its shares on debanking?
It’s time to get up to speed—and demand answers.
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Monday, October 20, 2025
A recent piece in the New York Times takes note of the rise of Christian faith from Gen Z—but delivers some odd analysis along the way. The author claims these religiously awakened are questioning liberal democracy and see their faith tied to a politics of “good vs. evil;” and that they lack the sunbelt optimism that marked Ronald Reagan.
This is all revisionist.
First, the young church goers influenced by Charlie Kirk have engaged in a huge campaign to register voters—that’s a belief and engagement in democracy, not a rejection of it. Second, Charlie Kirk lived and put his headquarters in the heart of the sunbelt, Arizona. And—on seeing the battle as a “good vs. evil” struggle—It’s hard to accept that anything worthy of calling itself a religion, be it Christianity or Judaism, would not see the challenges as “good vs. evil.”
By the way, didn’t sunny Ronald Reagan not famously speak of an evil empire?
But: At least the New York Times is paying attention. Something notable is happening.
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Friday, October 17, 2025
Canterbury Cathedral is the oldest cathedral in England. Over the centuries, pilgrims like those in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales have worn grooves into its stone steps from ascending them on their knees.
But last week, the Church of England decided to allow the cathedral’s interior to be covered in graffiti — supposedly to reflect the voices of “marginalized communities.”
It’s hard to see how defacing a sacred space benefits anyone. In fact, it seems pretty insulting to suggest that vandalism is the best way to honor minority communities.
What it signals, more than anything, is the Church’s moral confusion and its profound contempt for the western culture that built it.
If church leaders truly want to connect with modern Britain, here’s a better way: stop chasing ridiculous fads. Start preaching Biblical truth and talk about Jesus instead.
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Thursday, October 16, 2025
The saying “If grief could be seen, the world would be covered in black” is often attributed to Francis Weller.
For two years, Israel has been wrapped in black. Even when many hostages were freed, the shadow remained.
Now, after the release of the final 20 living hostages and as a cease-fire hardens, rays of light are emerging from that tortured and tested land — songs of joy rising once aga in from that nation.
October 13 will stand as a testament courage and endurance of the captives, the fearlessness of soldiers, the resolve of diplomats, the iron will of families, the help of true allies and the triumph of good over evil.
President Donald Trump has led the breakthrough and now leads this next phase.
There’s no question: There’s still a lot of work still to be done.
But this is a moment for gratitude — for the freed hostages, for Israel’s endurance and for the hope that Gaza’s innocents may finally live in peace.
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