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The Supreme Court justice's wife and mother sat in the courtroom as Sophie Roske apologized to the family.WASHINGTON — A woman who pleaded guilty to attempting to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh three years ago was sentenced Friday to more than eight years in prison.Sophie Roske, now 29, was arrested near Kavanaugh’s home in June 2022 and told officials at the time that she intended to kill the associate justice, then herself.She appeared in court on Friday for her sentencing in a yellow jail jumpsuit. Members of Kavanaugh’s family as well as Roske’s were at the sentencing.U.S. District Judge...

Churches across the West are twisting themselves into shapes no apostle would recognize — bending like pretzels to please secular society. They update doctrines, rewrite homilies, and water down long-held beliefs, all in hopes of attracting people who rarely show up anyway. And now the Church of England has chosen its new leader: Dame Sarah Mullally, hailed as a “theological liberal” and celebrated for her progressive stances. But it raises a fair question: does the Archbishop believe in the Christianity she is meant to lead, or only in a softened imitation of it? Mullally, the first female Archbishop of Canterbury...

True courage is resisting conformity—standing firm in truth while the crowd bends, even when applause fades and loneliness is the price. The bravest souls are rarely the loudest in the room, but they are often the most misunderstood. In an age when conformity is dressed up as virtue and applause is the currency of self-worth, those who refuse to play by the script become lightning rods. They provoke discomfort simply by existing in truth. They trigger the insecure, unsettle the complacent, and disturb the carefully curated illusions of the fake. We like to imagine that the pressure to conform ends...

The government of Japan this week extended the application of nine laws related to spousal rights and responsibilities to same-sex couples, a significant, if limited, victory in the country’s slow march towards marriage equality. The Japanese constitution currently defines marriage as “mutual consent between both sexes.” It does not recognize same-sex unions. Three of eight of Japan’s regional high courts in the last few years have ruled that the government’s failure to grant legal recognition to same-sex couples is unconstitutional. In its Tuesday announcement, the government said it will consider same-sex couples to be in “de facto marriages” under the...

After four seasons spent luring little kids into watching the animated program, Ada Twist, Scientist, the Netflix Grooming Syndicate decided to drop a gay marriage and same-sex kiss into season four’s eleventh episode, Blue River Wedding. Here’s the clip: This blatant act of grooming was co-produced by Higher Ground Productions, the entertainment company founded by Barry and Michelle Obama in 2018. This is not a show aimed at adults or even teenagers. It is aimed at little kids, and now we know it is aimed at shattering the innocence of little kids by introducing them to deviant lifestyles long before...

The body politic is sick, and America’s survival is at stake.Are happy days here again? This issue of our print magazine, with a beautiful cover by resident cartoonist Yogi Love, will share lots of evidence to support that contention. Indeed, in so many ways, from inflation, to crime, to immigration, and on and on, there’s good news. And yet… My introduction will be the fly in this joyful ointment. Senior Editor and my podcast co-host Scott McKay calls me Eeyore. We have two years of podcast conversations of me seeing the worst. I apologize to you, loyal viewers, but I...

Harvard University hired a drag performer as a new professor — who is expected to teach a class on TV show “Ru Paul’s Drag Race” in the spring semester, the Ivy League school announced over the summer. The institution welcomed Kareem Khubchandani in a July message to the college community and revealed the visiting professor from Tufts University will teach in the Studies of Gender and Sexuality program thanks to the Harvard Gender and Sexuality Caucus. Khubchandani is perhaps better known by his stage name, “LaWhore Vagistani,” — a persona that the academic has made an integral part of their...

Homosexual throple allowed to adopt child in Canada A court in Quebec has granted three men in a homosexual polyamorous relationship full legal parental rights over a three-year-old girl, marking one of the most radical redefinitions of family yet seen in Canada. The case follows a 2025 ruling declaring that limiting children to one mother and one father was “unconstitutional,” opening the door to so-called “multi-parent” households. The men—Eric LeBlanc, Jonathan Bédard, and Justin Maheu—had been fostering the child for two years before being formally authorized to adopt her. Under the new framework, the court recognized all three as equal...

US scientists have, for the first time, made early-stage human embryos by manipulating DNA taken from people's skin cells and then fertilising it with sperm.The technique could overcome infertility due to old age or disease, by using almost any cell in the body as the starting point for life.It could even allow same-sex couples to have a genetically related child.The method requires significant refinement - which could take a decade - before a fertility clinic could even consider using it.Experts said it was an impressive breakthrough, but there needed to be an open discussion with the public about what science...

Chay Bowes @BowesChay Three men in a polyamorous relationship have adopted a 3-year-old girl in Quebec, Canada This is apparently progress.

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Following multiple brazen Bay Area jewelry store heists in the last month, ABC7 News heard from a security expert and a community advocate on the concerning trend and why we might be seeing an increase in these robberies.

Franklin Graham recently reminded us of something I’ve always admired about Charlie Kirk: he stood firmly on biblical truth, but he did it with compassion. He debated boldly, yet never with malice. He modeled what it looks like to stand on God’s Word while still loving those who disagreed. That’s what struck me most about Charlie’s ministry.When culture calls biblical truth hate speech, Christians must remember that speaking God’s Word is the highest form of love.Charlie Kirk’s legacy of truth with compassionCharlie never treated debates like a chance to humiliate others. He approached them as opportunities to present God’s truth....

The American church has entered a season of mourning that is also, paradoxically, a season of gospel proclamation. Two lions of faith—Charlie Kirk and Voddie Baucham—have been called home, and the reverberations of their deaths are being felt far beyond the sanctuaries and seminar halls they once filled. It would be easy to see only loss in their absence. But theologically and evangelistically, God is already at work in their departure, multiplying influence in ways that remind us of the early church’s witness: “unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone. But if it...

I think if Luther had seen this video, it's entirely possible that he might have kept his 99 problems with the Catholic church to himself. BEHOLD: When you're too woke for Jesus: At the 2025 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, a woman lists all the biblical texts that "say things about women and girls that we now recognize as harmful" and which advance "sexism and the patriarchy." Last 40 seconds especially #ELCA #Lutherans pic.twitter.com/gUIZP28Gof— Protestia (@Protestia) September 25, 2025In the ... ELCA, we believe all people are created equally in the image of God. God intends for everyone to flourish. But because...

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While clearly a painful reality for some, “mental illness” has long been an abused concept. Cold War-era Marxist nations would sometimes declare dissenters mentally ill and then lock them away in asylums. (You’d have to be crazy to disagree with the state’s official ideology, right?) Media have also applied the mentally ill label tendentiously. When they don’t want a given act of terrorism called just that, for instance, they’ll deem the perp “mentally ill.” Of course, this is all self-serving. Such fudging is made easier, though, because it gets complicated. That is, how much of what we call mental illness...

President Trump has rightly demanded accountability from Attorney General Pam Bondi for her “safety dance” tenure at the Department of Justice. That same spirit of accountability, however, must also apply to the president himself — and one of his judicial nominees simply will not do. Rebecca Taibleson, nominated for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, donated to ActBlue, Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign, and Kamala Harris’ 2015 Senate run. She is 42 years old. If confirmed, she could shape precedent against conservatives for decades. So why is he nominating her? This pick occurred before Charlie Kirk’s assassination. In its aftermath, it...

ISIS reportedly called upon Muslims to use any means necessary to kill “Christians and Jews” in the United States and Europe, with a specific focus on France, in an edition of its Arabic-language magazine. Although the so-called Islamic State has lost its physical Caliphate after it was defeated under the first Trump administration, ISIS radicals continue to advocate for their strict interpretation of the Islamic religion and seek to influence impressionable young Muslims in the West to commit acts of terror in its name. In a copy of its al-Naba obtained by the Center for the Analysis of Terrorism (CAT)...

Even the most extreme behavior on the left is predictable. “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ―George Orwell.Two thousand years ago, a politician named Pilate, in a classic dodge to avoid responsibility, asked, “What is truth?” But he already knew the truth, for after questioning Jesus, he told the accusing crowd, “I find in him no fault at all” (John 18:38). Instead of acting on that truth, however, he rejected it, leaving Jesus’s fate to the mob. He then symbolically washed his hands of the affair,...

The Bible spells out the war between good and evil, but we’re seeing it play out in real time on American soil. With the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the word “evil” is being tossed around. It seems to be little more than a verbal equivalent to “fascist,” “racist,” and a handful of other words that are used without a second thought for what they actually mean. We are appropriately repulsed by the act, so we call it evil. But few of us truly understand that these “horrific” acts have a fundamental connection to the realm we cannot see. Yes, I’m...