From the article -- Those speaking out against these atrocities are concerned over the lack of coverage by prominent news sources and attention from political leaders around the world. Some have attributed the removal of nations, such as Nigeria, from the Countries of Particular Concern (CPC) and lifting of U.S. sanctions on Syria as global measures that would have otherwise kept pressure on entities that severely violate international religious freedom.
As many of our brothers and sisters in Christ are persecuted, driven underground, and even martyred for a faith that some take for granted, continue to pray that the joy of the Lord is their strength, that they would continue to shine their light to the lost even under such intense pressure, and that peace would come to their land.
2) Federal And State Law Enforcers Must Tackle Deadly Abortion Drug Cartel (Kristan Hawkins and Kristi Stone Hamrick, Federalist)
From the article -- From the article -- Aid Access, an international pill pusher headed by Rebecca Gomperts, claims to have profited from more than 200,000 U.S. abortions since 2018. From July 2023 to August 2024, 84 percent of chemical abortion pills it sold went to states with limits on abortion, according to a recent report. That’s not an accident; it’s a business plan.
Gomperts regularly preens in the media about her deadly operation, pointing out her get-out-of-accountability-free card and telling reporters “I don’t care” about pro-life laws. “Where I work from, it’s legal to prescribe the medications. And so I’ll do that,” Gomperts told CBS.
3) The Persecution of Graham Linehan Should Terrify Us (Lauren Smith, The European Conservative)
From the article -- We can argue about proportionality or the lack thereof, but it’s impossible to talk about this awful display of totalitarianism without acknowledging that it is Linehan’s beliefs that are really being interrogated here. Yes, someone, somewhere found what he wrote offensive. But there is no real victim in this case. Rather, it is an opportunity for the state to flex its censorious muscles. Linehan wrote on Substack that, during his run-in with the law, he was quizzed about his views on “trans people.” When Linehan asked the copper what exactly he meant by that term, he said: “People who feel their gender is different than what was assigned at birth.” Linehan, very correctly, pushed back against the phrase “assigned at birth,” pointing out that it was activist language. The officer brushed this aside as “semantics,” but it’s clear that this is what Linehan’s persecution has been about—the fact that he refuses to say the magic words “transwomen are women.”
All this becomes even more absurd when you consider the fact that what Linehan believes is not some fringe, extremist position. It is a view held by the majority of normal people. Most Brits don’t want men in women’s bathrooms, prisons, or hospital wards. It’s even a belief that is, theoretically, backed up by law. Have we forgotten that, in April, the UK Supreme Court ruled that gender is defined by biology, for the purposes of the Equality Act (2010)? And that gender-critical views should—again, theoretically—be a protected belief under that same act? No matter the many, many flaws of the Supreme Court and the Equality Act, this is still the law. So why is it that it seems to be applied so selectively?
4) Trump Astride at Seven Months: Seven months in, Trump has curbed illegal immigration, steadied the economy, and scored foreign policy wins -- while Democrats flounder without a counteragenda. (Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness)
From the article -- Many of the left’s cherished totems—massive Green New Deal subsidies, the diversity/equity/inclusion industry, biological males competing in women’s sports, and the USAID revolving door—are either comatose or in their death throes. The historic drop-off in military recruitment reversed shortly after Trump took office. Republican voter registration is up, and Democratic registration is down. Abroad, Trump finds remarkable successes.
5) The Choice: Trump or Obama -- MAGA influencers who attack Israel, Jews, and Trump’s Iran policy are fighting for the former president’s policies and allies—and his program of national euthanasia. (Lee Smith, Tablet)
From the article -- MAGA influencer attacks on Israel and pro-Israel activism have become so commonplace that even Megyn Kelly, a longtime supporter of Israel, has joined in piling on Israel. During her interview with Greene, she empathized with the congresswoman’s fearful exasperation after having to reject several offers of all-expenses-paid AIPAC trips to the Holy Land. “I’m looking at Israel in a different way right now than I was on Oct. 8,” Kelly said, concurring with Greene. “And I can feel the pressure being slightly ratcheted up.” Greene told Kelly that “Israel is the only country I know of that has some sort of incredible influence and control over nearly every single one of my colleagues.”
She was lying. D.C. insiders like Greene and Kelly know that Washington’s pro-China lobby runs nonstop congressional delegations to the People’s Republic, where they’re wined and dined by Communist Party officials. The pro-China lobby can afford to stuff Americans with a bottomless buffet of Peking duck and moo shu pork because it is extraordinarily wealthy, thanks largely to the huge trade surplus China runs with the United States, which since China’s 2001 entry into the World Trade Organization amounts to many trillions of U.S. dollars. The pro-China lobby’s enormous budget dwarves the pro-Israel lobby, allowing it to exert enormous influence over Congress.
Other important reads for this weekend:
* Trump Should Take Down The American Medical Association’s Licensing Grift (Rachel Bovard, Federalist)
* An alternative universe: Hamas’s war against civilization pivots on its war against the Western and Israeli mind. (Melanie Phillips, JNS)
* Christians must unite against the evil Starmer stands for (John Hale, TCW)
* Transgender Mass Murderers: The Drugs and Demons That Drive Them -- Drugs, hormones, ideology, and the devil make for a deadly cocktail. (Melissa Mackenzie, American Spectator)
* Anonymous Federal Judges Go To War Against the Supreme Court: These people are not judges, they're operatives. (Daniel Greenfield, Front Page Mag)