Issues & Insights Editorial Board
How many times have we heard over the last decade that Donald Trump was a threat to democracy? That we were going to lose our democracy if he isn’t restrained (and maybe even eliminated)? That our democracy is in peril because Trump and his supporters are fascists, Nazis, and worse, if anything can be?
The Democrats and their media allies hammer the term far beyond the point of absurdity. What is their obsession with “democracy,” a word that appears neither in the Declaration of Independence nor in the Constitution?
By Victor Davis Hanson
. . . . All four of those circumstances were almost impossible to occur in one session. So, what am I getting at? This is very serious. It means that the United Nations has employees, or perhaps administrators, who deliberately tried to sabotage an American president while on American soil.
So, Donald Trump, as he was experiencing the breakdown in the teleprompter, and had just gone through the escalator shock, decided to lengthen his speech from 15 minutes to about 55, and he had some blockbuster things to say . . . .
By Tyler Neil
Now that Democrats have shut down the government by voting against a clean continuing resolution that would have kept funding at Biden-era levels, President Donald Trump needs to fulfill his threat to fire more bureaucrats.
While Republicans offered to keep funding the government at Biden levels until Congress can pass annual funding legislation, Democrats have unreasonably demanded that Congress continue generous COVID-19-era Obamacare subsidies and reverse the Medicaid reforms in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed earlier this year. Since funding legislation requires 60 votes to pass the Senate, Republicans needed at least seven Democrats or independents to help pass the resolution, and they only got three.
Last week, the White House Office of Management and Budget released a memo, telling federal agencies that if the government were to shut down, they should consider engaging in Reductions in Force to begin the process of laying off employees in projects that are not funded during the shutdown or that are inconsistent with Trump’s priorities.
Democrats who marched alongside federal government unions in protesting Trump’s efforts to cut the size and scope of the federal government through the Department of Government Efficiency should have considered this when voting against funding the government.
While other male role models offer boys rules for life and other important motivation, Charlie Kirk gave his listeners something eternal.
BY: PAULA RINEHART
In the grief surrounding the assassination of Charlie Kirk, one underappreciated aspect is the loss for young men of a role model they could enthusiastically follow. Reels of Kirk’s talks on college campuses show crowds of young male faces. Indeed, young men were Kirk’s base of support, and for good reason.
After two decades of pathologizing masculinity, a young man appeared on the college scene, the belly of the beast, with no apology for being a man. Who in recent memory has so winsomely called on young guys to “man up?” Live a life worthy of respect. Get married. Be a good father. Above all, love Christ. That was Kirk’s consistent message.
And, more importantly, how can we stop it?
To hear our politicians and pundits—left, right, and center—tell it, the shooting occurred in a politically charged climate, committed by some coward who chose to end the debate with a bullet. Toss in some lip service to mental health and the obligatory lip-pursing about gun violence, and you have the consensus vision of what went wrong. And it’s a strangely comforting one at that, because it casts the shooter as a horror movie monster, terrifying but singular in its ghoulishness, the one meanie who emerged from the toxic swamp of bad but curable social phenomena. All you have to do, then, is find him, catch him, deter others from getting any crazy ideas, and our long national nightmare will be over.
But the nightmare, sadly, is far greater than that . . .
AB 495 dangerously redefines guardianship, stripping away parental rights By Katy Grimes, September 2, 2025 9:59 am
Assembly Bill 495, the bill which threatens parental rights by allowing the state to remove custody from parents who do not “affirm their child’s gender identity,” was moved off of the suspense file by Senate Democrats, after being placed on the suspense file August 18th.
Urge Senator McGuire (or your senator) to vote NO on AB 495 HERE
