Gods Plans For America

Roy Herron, a longtime Tennessee state lawmaker and former chairperson of the state Democratic Party, died Sunday from injuries sustained in a jet ski accident. He was 69. Herron died at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville, according to a statement from his family. He had been hospitalized since a July 1 collision with another jet ski on Kentucky Lake, in...

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita sent a letter to Target on Wednesday warning the corporation that its recent “Pride” campaign merchandise and donation efforts ran the risk of violating state child-protection laws. It also cited concerns about parental rights and neglect of fiduciary duties. “State child-protection laws penalize the ‘sale or distribution … of obscene matter,'” the letter states (pdf),...

Elon Musk has sued the elite law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to recover most of a $90 million fee it received from Twitter for defeating his bid to walk away from his $44 billion buyout of the social media company. The complaint by Mr. Musk’s X Corp., which owns Twitter, was filed on Wednesday in the California Superior...

The Orange County Board of Education took a stance July 5 against a California bill that would allow children as young as 12 to get mental health counseling and place themselves in a group home without parental consent. State Assembly Bill 665, introduced by State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) and Assemblywoman Wendy Carillo (D-Los Angeles), has passed in the...

YouTube Proof that the Great American Revival is here — and has been for some time — continues to pour in. Over the Independence Day weekend, nearly 7,000 souls accepted Jesus Christ as their savior at Pastor Greg Laurie’s two-day Harvest Crusade at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California. Laurie celebrated on Twitter: The 2023 Harvest Crusade Welcomed Over 32,000...

Commentary Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently completed a “chief supplicant” mission to Beijing on June 19. The Cambridge Dictionary defines a supplicant as “a person who asks a god or someone who is in a position of power for something in a humble way.” Who could argue that Blinken acted otherwise? During the brief trip, he apparently made no “big asks” in representing U.S. interests and concerns vis-a-vis the Chinese communist...

rawpixel On June 23, a severe storm featuring baseball-sized hail wreaked havoc on a solar farm in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. The 5.2-megawatt solar farm, which helps to power Kearney, Scottsbluff, and Venango, sustained heavy damage, with aerial photos showing significant damage to most of the facility’s 14,000 solar panels. Officials with GenPro Energy Solutions, who co-developed the solar farm with Sol...

AP Images Lorie Smith of 303 Creative The Supreme Court’s ruling yesterday in 303 Creative v. Elenis continues the dismantling of the “wall of separation” atheists have used successfully to remove the Christian faith from the culture. At issue is Lorie Smith’s First Amendment guarantee of freedom of speech, rendered through her talent and ability for creative graphic design. She...

AP Images Jair Bolsonaro No matter which continent leftists are on, they play according to the same handbook. The recent court ruling banning former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro from seeking public office for eight years has strong parallels to the strategy Democrats are currently using against Donald Trump, and should serve as a warning of what will happen if conservatives...

PHILADELPHIA—A smattering of protesters hollered insults, like “bigot” and “fascist,” over a loud speaker, blasted music, waved rainbow flags and danced in the street in a transgender “dance protest” on Friday and Saturday at the Moms for Liberty “Joyful Warriors” National Summit in Philadelphia. The political rally, which was advertised beforehand as a dance protest in media stories, social media...

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, has vetoed a bill that was meant to protect children from transgender gender-change surgeries and other procedures like giving kids cross-sex hormones. House Bill 648, known as the “Stop Harming Our Kids Act,” was passed by the Republican-controlled state legislature along party lines in early June. The bill sought to prohibit hormone treatments...

Voice of Hope/Facebook Move over, Asbury! Hammond, Louisiana’s revival that began last October shows no signs of slowing. Hammond, Louisiana, some 750 miles south of Wilmore, Kentucky (where the Asbury Revival broke out in February), is the site of a revival that is well into its eighth month and continues to bless and save hundreds. Since the revival began on...

Commentary A couple of months ago, I wrote about various ways that both existing policies and proposed policies hurt a certain number of American citizens. Sometimes the hurt was by design; other times, an unavoidable consequence of the policy. Question: Are government policies that make citizens worse off justifiable? Is it naïve to hope for a government that has, as...

Commentary What are the ingredients of an enduring and successful social foundation? In recent decades, that question holds increasing importance due to a modern trend that normalizes the abnormal. The convoluted mindset of the transgender industrial complex (TIC) defies the definition of biological gender as it strives to subvert the timeless bonds that keep society from collapsing, including the mangling...

AP Images Randi Weingarten Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is adding an infamous and controversial union boss to his agency’s Academic Partnership Council. Best known in recent years for pushing severe Covid mandates on our nation’s schoolchildren, Randi Weingarten is president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the second-largest teachers union in America. It’s a position she’s...

liveslow/iStock/Getty Images Plus The nation is celebrating a special anniversary today. One year ago, the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, removing federal protections for abortion. SCOTUS handed down its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on June 24, 2022, ending Roe’s 50-year reign of murder. The ruling stated, “The Constitution does not confer a right...

Twitter You might think it would be a major story when six men, some in drag, are busted having a “party” in which are found drugs, sex toys, and a dead body — and four children being hidden in a back room. But it’s much as with the 1999 murder of 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising by two homosexuals “who confessed to...

katrinaelena/iStock/Getty Images Plus It appears that when it comes to LGBT ideology, the debate isn’t as settled as the Left would like us to believe. According to a newly published poll, a rising number of Americans are rejecting the concept of gender fluidity, with an increased number of respondents to the survey saying they believe a person’s gender should be...

Commentary For years my mother has gone swimming several times per week at her local pool in Ottawa. The pool is a central part of her life, but recently her once-innocuous activity became unsafe. About two months ago, my mother finished her swim and went to the women’s change room to shower. Afterwards she wrapped herself in a towel and...

The latest chapter in U.S. President Joe Biden’s mishap-filled history came on Friday. In his speech in Connecticut, the 80-year-old Democrat discussed the need for tougher gun control laws. He closed by saying “God save the Queen!” to the audience. It is unclear why he said this and whether he was referring to the late British monarch Queen Elizabeth II....