News and Views: August 19, 2025

Nolte: Trump to Sign Executive Order Outlawing Mail-in Ballots   There is no question that mail-in ballots invite and allow for massive fraud, or that Democrat-run states and cities have no incentive to clean up the fraud when they benefit from that fraud. But when the locals allow for this kind of cheating, the result is the disenfranchisement of other voters… and that is a civil rights violation… and it is the jurisdiction of the FEDERAL government to ensure our civil rights.

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Palestinian Authority Columnist: Christian Traditions are ‘Nonsense,’ ‘Jesus Belongs to the Palestinians’  The idea that Jesus was a Palestinian first came from Yasser Arafat, the infamous head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, which was created by the Arab League for the purpose of destroying Israel in 1964. Arafat was a jihadist, a propagandist trained by the KGB and bankrolled by the Soviet Union. It isn’t surprising that Jesus would be presented as the poor Palestinian, a Bedouin; this idea was a creation of Arafat that is accepted by far too many leftists today. Who could forget the late Pope Francis’ unveiling of a nativity scene of Jesus in a crib lined with a Palestinian keffiyeh last December. Screenshot

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DC campuses disarm police, refuse to work with ICE, train officers in progressive policing    Institutions including Georgetown University, American University, and George Washington University emphasize diversity training and de-escalation methods over arming officers, despite security concerns and crime trends.

   Progressive policing reforms that surged across campuses during the 2020 ”Defund the Police” wave continue to guide campus safety policy today. 

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State Dept. Revokes 6,000 Student Visas Over Terrorism Support, Assault   "Every single student visa revoked under the Trump Administration has happened because the individual has either broken the law or expressed support for terrorism while in the United States,” a senior State Department official said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “About 4,000 visas alone have been revoked because these visitors broke the law while visiting our country, including records of assault and DUIs.”

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I Lost My Freedom, Money, And Guns Based On No Evidence And With No Chance To Defend Myself When accusation becomes law, fatherhood becomes a crime.   

   The state can take your child if you refuse to affirm his or her transgender identity. They can arrest you for refusing a vaccine. They can remove your child based on false accusations.

   From lockdowns to speech policing, from gender transition without parental consent to family court hearings in secret, governance now runs on fear. Safety justifies everything. Even love becomes suspect.

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Want people to go to Church? Invite them. Want them to stay? Invite them into your life.  The Church’s task, then, is not to simply integrate itself with modern American life, marketing itself as one lifestyle choice among many. Nor is it to retreat from the world. The Church’s call is to repair the remains of modern life. The U.S. is aching for a different way of life. Only the Church can offer that alternative. The Church must engage in a grand political project. She must reform a people accustomed to consumption. The Church must see itself as the source and center of cultural renewal. She must take responsibility for resolving the atomisation we all experience because no one else will. Consequently, the Church should think of cultural engagement less through cognitive, propositional, and “winsome” terms, and more towards an approach that prioritizes making Church essential to communal life. The Church that hosts community fairs and car shows is doing cultural repair. The Church that models strong, healthy families, which encourage women to pour into each other, for men to sharpen one another, and for both to have more children than they can afford is waging a culture war. The Church that has its families cheerfully open their homes cultivates commitment to one another through thick and thin is conducting a cultural insurgency.

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They’re distracting a nervous dog during a blood draw.

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— Be Believing (@Be_Believing) August 19, 2025