Congress is moving to rename all executive agencies that include the word “department,” citing the consecutive letters m-e-n as too male-centric and oppressive towards women. Now we will have the State Departwoment, Defense Departwoment, etc. which makes the names equal for men and women since both genders will have representation in the title. One...
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A Nevada high school student is suing Democracy Prep, a charter school, for violating his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights. The lawsuit claims that the school engaged in “coercive, ideological indoctrination” and discrimination against the student. Quick Facts A high school senior and his mother are suing Democracy Preparatory Academy, a public...
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Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., said that this is “the last year” for the Hyde Amendment, which sharply limits taxpayer funding of abortion. DeLauro will head the House Appropriations Committee in January and will seek to eliminate the amendment. Quick Facts The Hyde Amendment prevents most taxpayer funding of abortion. The amendment is...
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The Massachusetts state legislature has voted to override Gov. Charlie Baker’s veto of a budget measure that would codify Roe v. Wade into state law and would also allow teenagers to get an abortion without parental consent. The measure also allows abortions after 24 weeks gestation in some cases. Quick Facts The...
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For some, 2020 will be known as the year of COVID-19, murder hornets, riots, and mail-in ballots. For Nikki Haley, former U.S. ambassador to the U.N., though, this was “the year socialism went mainstream.” Quick Facts Haley called the rise of socialism a “terrifying trend.” She argued that socialism is becoming the...
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The District of Columbia has passed a bill undermining parental rights and presenting a potentially dangerous situation by allowing children to consent to receive a vaccine without parental knowledge. The bill would also leave the vaccine off of children’s immunization records, further hiding it from parents. Quick Facts The District of Columbia...
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After previously saying he would veto the stimulus bill recently passed by Congress, President Trump has now signed the $900 billion package. The bill provides stimulus checks, unemployment benefits, and an extension of the moratorium on evictions. The stimulus checks, however, remain at $600 as opposed to the $2,000 mark that Trump was calling...
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The Washington Post has drawn criticism for publishing a political cartoon by Ann Telnaes depicting Republicans as rats. Unfortunately, this is not an isolated incident by Telnaes or the Post. In fact, it is a disturbing trend. Quick Facts The Washington Post published a political cartoon by Telnaes depicting Republicans as rats....
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The Christmas Prophecies series is provided courtesy of Family Research Council. Our study of Isaiah 53 continues in verses 7-9, which contain the shocking climax of the chapter: the Servant suffers to the point of death. Because the parallels between the Servant’s death and the final events of Jesus Christ’s life are so striking,...
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The Christmas Prophecies series is provided courtesy of Family Research Council. Our continuing study of Isaiah 53 brings us to verses 4-6, which foreshadow Jesus Christ’s suffering on the cross. By invoking sacrificial imagery that would have been familiar to Isaiah’s readers, these verses shed light on the doctrine of substitutionary atonement. 4 Surely...
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