Tuesday, June 24, 2025

News and Views: June 24, 2025

The Moral Nightmare of Losing Our Religion 
Atheists often quip that if you need a God or the fear of Hell to be a good person, then you’re not a good person. This misses the point. When Christians say that there’s no morality without God, we don’t mean that without punishment we cannot be good. We mean that without God, there’s no such thing as good.

During Pride Month Public Libraries Become Centers for Queer Resistance  While librarians and their supporters consistently decry critiques of their LGBTQ advocacy as censorship, less attention has been paid to the actual content of the books the librarians promote. RCI’s review of dozens of titles on display, lots of them heavy on pictures and graphics, found some gender identity books aimed at children as young as 2 years old, and others that put LGBTQ in the vanguard of a political revolution against the capitalist patriarchy...
...A surprising number of books expressly criticize heterosexuality, the nuclear family, and the gender binary as obstacles to liberating humanity from capitalism, racism, colonialism, and other forms of oppression purportedly produced by white, male, Christian, Eurocentric cultural norms. A nonfiction work on display, “The Tragedy of Heterosexuality,” describes straight culture as oppressive, repellent, repulsive, and pitiable – in short: “a sick and boring life.”

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Supreme Court Hands Trump Huge Win On Deporting 'Worst Of The Worst' Illegals  Now, the administration can proceed with fast-track deportations of “some of the worst of the worst illegal aliens” to countries it has made deals with, such as South Sudan.

The Biden administration arrested 1,504 Iranian nationals during fiscal year 2021 through fiscal year 2024   Border Patrol agents reportedly released hundreds of Iranian nationals into the U.S. during President Joe Biden’s time in office, drawing national security concerns as military tensions escalate.
   The Biden administration arrested 1,504 Iranian nationals during fiscal year 2021 through fiscal year 2024, releasing 729 of these individuals into the country, according to Customs and Border Protection data obtained by Fox News. The newly released data follows U.S. military airstrikes against three Iranian nuclear facilities, sparking vows of retaliation from the Islamic regime.

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French authorities detained 12 suspects after 145 people reported being pricked with syringes during Fête de la Musique — France's annual World Music Day celebration. For perspective on how dramatically the festival has changed in three decades, compare the atmosphere of the 1994 event to the chaos seen this past weekend.

...and Britain is no longer Britain

Two votes in the British Parliament this week sent a stark message to the rest of the world: The U.K. government no longer values the lives of its people, and by extension, their liberties.

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Trump’s Iran strike revealed a second surprise: a competent White House  The Democrats’ over-the-top efforts to deny Trump the 2020 election worked, at the cost of four years of President Autopen. 
   But Trump, unlike most career politicians, is very good at learning from his mistakes — and they gave him four years to put together a team, and a strategy, for governing after 2024.

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60 Missing Kids Found in Florida During Largest Rescue in U.S. History  Most of the children, who were ages nine to seventeen years old, were found in the Tampa Bay area. Their stories are heartbreaking. 
   Berger said the children have been "debriefed and provided with physical and psychological care," but some of them required additional assistance: maternal care. According to Natasha Nascimento of Redefining Refuge, many of the young girls were pregnant. She says the operation didn't just recover children; it recovered generations.

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Attempted Attack on Michigan Church Highlights Need for Concealed Carry  The defensive gun use at CrossPointe Community Church on Sunday is just the latest example of why these practices are so important. The media actually covered armed parishioners thwarting attacks in Texas and Colorado, though in many cases they presented the armed parishioners as official guards and not simply armed citizens who were carrying as part of their church's security measures.

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FDA, CDC advisers say lost pregnancies higher than expected following early mRNA vaccination  Through a "set of distractions, linguistic misdirections, and watered-down policy announcements," agency leaders have ignored mRNA data showing "catastrophic levels of deaths and serious damage … including high miscarriage rates," the letter says, citing Siri-secured Pfizer documents, federal databases and foreign government data.

Report: Number of Abortions Increasing in U.S. due to Telehealth  A study from the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) released at the end of April found that 10.93 percent of women who had mifepristone abortions — the first drug used in a two-drug medication abortion regimen — experienced severe complications including sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or another serious adverse event within 45 days following the abortion. This percentage is significantly higher than the less than 0.5 percent in clinical trials reported on the FDA-approved drug label.

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Geothermal Energy: Another Nail In The Coffin Of Wind And Solar Power?  Geothermal’s potential to join fossil fuels and nuclear energy in powering America’s economy in the years to come far exceeds anything weather-dependent wind and solar could ever match.  With the House version of the budget reconciliation bill accelerating the phase-out of the subsidies that prop them up, these once-coddled industries are scrambling to stay relevant. Image

New York Goes Nuclear with First Major U.S. Plant in Over a Decade The New York project offers an early test of Trump’s sweeping executive orders, which call for nothing short of a nuclear revival. From slashing red tape on reactor approvals to fueling AI data centers and military bases with next-generation power, the orders lay out a blueprint to triple U.S. nuclear capacity by 2050. They also aim to jumpstart fuel recycling, boost uranium production at home, and train a new generation of nuclear workers.
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