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April 28, 2025
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| Do Politicians Really Care about Due Process? |
| by Joseph Backholm |
| President Trump's most recent presidential campaign promised to secure America's borders. He promised not only strict enforcement of existing immigration laws, but to deport those who had entered the country illegally under a lax Biden administration. Early in his term he has delivered on those promises aggressively. Some would say too aggressively. |
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| More Judges Place Restrictions on Trump's Agenda |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| For several months, President Donald Trump has been at war with the federal courts as partisan district court judges issue a seemingly unending stream of preliminary injunctions and temporary restraining orders (TROs) impeding the president's agenda. Within the past two days, the mission to "Make America Great Again" suffered not just one judicial setback, but four. Here is The Washington Stand's breakdown of the four recent court actions curtailing the president from doing what he was elected to do. |
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| Jordan Bans Muslim Brotherhood, Countering Turkey's Regional Influence |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| The Kingdom of Jordan last Wednesday banned the Muslim Brotherhood and confiscated its assets, significantly curtailing the influence of Turkey and other Hamas allies in Israel's eastern neighbor. The pro-American Arab nation dropped the hammer on the Muslim Brotherhood as Turkey aggressively expands its influence throughout the region. |
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| The Tragedy of the Durbin Democrats |
| by Chuck Donovan |
| As news stories generally go, the retirement of a longtime member of Congress typically causes barely a ripple in the pool of politics. Unless the personage was a major power player or notorious for some other reason, our system of government treats the coming and going of most elected officials with only a modicum of interest. So it is likely to be with Senator Richard Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, who, having served seven terms in the House of Representatives and five in the Senate, announced he is retiring at the end of next year. |
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| Trump EO Envisions Classroom Revolution by Prioritizing Discipline |
| by Sarah Holliday |
| Last Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to reinstate "commonsense school discipline policies." School discipline policies should be "based on objective behavior," the order reads, "not DEI." -The executive order addresses discriminatory policies and race-based disciplinary practices, originating in the Obama-Biden administrations, that prioritized racial outcomes over objective behavior. |
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| Anti-Christian Bias in History Reporting: The 250th Anniversary Remembrances of Lexington and Concord |
| by Kenyn Cureton |
| This week, Attorney General Pam Bondi launched a task force to eradicate anti-Christian bias - a laudable goal that is greatly appreciated. They will rightly look at how the rights of professing Christians have been threatened, but there are certainly more subtle varieties of anti-Christian bias. Notably, Christian faith and influence are being completely omitted from historical interpretations of those momentous events that launched us toward liberty 250 years ago. |
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| Direct Talks and Proxy Strikes: Trump Pings Iran from All Angles |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| The U.S. military has launched at least 680 strikes against the Houthi terrorist group in Yemen through March and April, according to the Jewish Institute for National Security of America, hassling the group's activities with what U.S. Central Command calls "24/7" coverage. The heavy bombardment campaign against Iran's most powerful terrorist proxy continues as American envoys engage Iran in intensive talks over the fate of their nuclear weapons program. |
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| FBI Confirms Tren de Aragua Linked to Venezuelan Government |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| A new report is confirming what President Donald Trump has stated for months: the Venezuelan government is weaponizing criminal gangs and sending foreign terrorists into the U.S. According to a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) assessment shared with Fox News, Venezuela's socialist president Nicolas Maduro and his deputies are using criminals from the Tren de Aragua (TdA) transnational gang as "proxies" to "destabilize" foreign nations, including Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and the U.S. |
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| Jesus Wants True Disciples, Not Fans |
| by Sarah Holliday |
| Our world is obsessed with numbers. Social media users chase followers and likes. Megachurches measure success by packed auditoriums across multiple services. Too often, attendance overshadows impact. And yet, Jesus's ministry in John 6 offers a radical counterpoint, flipping the script on our fixation with popularity and spotlighting something deeper: true discipleship over fleeting admiration. |
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