While Education Secretary Miguel Cardona took his turn in the House hot seat over Title IX, states were busy making life a misery for White House attorneys. Adding to Joe Biden's headaches, another two governors are daring the administration to come after them after publicly flouting his rule to let boys into girls' bathrooms, locker and dorm rooms, and on sports teams. "Protecting our kids and women's athletics is my duty," Cornhusker leader Jim Pillen (R) insisted late last week. "Nebraska will not comply." And they aren't the only ones.
Pro-Palestine protests on college campuses have boomed across America with a staggering escalation of anti-Semitic acts such as breaking into buildings, defacing statues, setting up encampments, and violence toward Jewish students and faculty from Hamas sympathizers. Mass arrests have been made in response to this pandemonium. The anti-Semitism, as spectators observe, is boisterous and grotesque - but not limited to college campuses.
As the crisis along America's southern border continues, a large cohort of House Republicans are making it clear that non-citizens cannot be allowed to vote in federal elections with the introduction of a bill Wednesday that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote and would expunge non-citizens from existing voter rolls.
Just in time for November's presidential election, federal agencies are reportedly restarting their censorship collaboration with tech and internet giants. At the tech-oriented RSA Conference in San Francisco this week, U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner (D-Va.) told reporters that federal agencies like the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have resumed discussions with social media companies regarding "disinformation."
A recent study is declaring U.S. abortion law to be "far more permissive than the vast majority of the world." In its 2024 report on "Gestational Limits on Abortion in the United States Compared to International Norms," published last week, the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute found that the U.S. is one of only eight countries in the United Nations that allows abortion on demand without any gestational limits, and one of only 15 countries in the U.N. to allow abortion on demand past 15 weeks of pregnancy. The U.N. has 193 member states.
Children are a gift from God. We see this throughout Scripture, as well as in the way Jesus treated them during His earthly ministry. In the creation account, God told Adam and Eve in Genesis 1:28 to "be fruitful and multiply." This command to Adam and Eve was the moment "God set in motion His plan to fill the world He created with people." Isaiah 45:18 says the Lord established the earth - "He did not create it empty, He formed it to be inhabited!" Biblically, there are many passages that explain the beauty of children and family.
