As you might guess, I’ve found several enlightening articles related to Operation Epic Fury that I think you would find of great interest and help. Here are a few: “Just War Expert Defends Trump’s Iran Attacks” (Joshua Arnold, Washington Stand) --- “Ten Thoughts on Operation Epic Fury and Its Aftermath: Why the strike on Iran was legal, overdue, and a strategic earthquake.” (Scott McKay, American Spectator) --- “America’s Strike on Iran Is Disastrous for China, Analysts Say” (Dan Hart, Washington Stand) --- “The 1,400-Year-Old Sunni-Shia Islamic Religious Split Is Shaping the Iran War” (Ira Still, Washington Free Beacon) --- “4 Ways Christians Can Pray for the Situation in Iran” (Joshua Arnold, Washington Stand) --- “Who Wants This War? Answer: Winners!” (Lee Smith, Tablet)
2) “Escalating Crisis: USCIRF 2026 Report Exposes Severe Religious Freedom Abuses in 29 Countries” (Sarah Holliday, Washington Stand)
From the article -- The report, far from being purely analytical, painted a picture of escalating persecution that demands urgent U.S. action. And at the heart of USCIRF’s report was its recommendations:
Urge the State Department to designate 18 countries as Countries of Particular Concern (CPCs) for particularly severe abuses, such as torture, prolonged detention, genocide-like policies, and destruction of religious sites.
New additions include Afghanistan (Taliban’s strict enforcement targeting minorities), India (anti-conversion laws fueling mob violence against Muslims and Christians), Libya (morality policing and persecution of Sufis and others), Syria (post-regime change sectarian massacres against Alawites, Druze, and Christians), and Vietnam (intensified crackdowns on independent faiths).
Redesignations cover longstanding violators like Burma (Myanmar), China, Cuba, Eritrea, Iran, Nicaragua, Nigeria (designated by President Trump in October 2025), North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan.
The report also pushed for 11 countries on the Special Watch List (SWL) for severe — but not yet “particularly severe” — violations, maintaining Algeria and Azerbaijan while adding Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Qatar, Turkey, and Uzbekistan amid backsliding in registration laws, blasphemy enforcement, and minority discrimination.
3) “Planned Parenthood’s New Strategy: Subsidizing Abortion with Botox” (Ellie Gardey Holmes, Washington Stand)
From the article -- Planned Parenthood abortion clinics have faced a reckoning since they were blocked last year from receiving Medicaid reimbursements by way of a provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. But the nation’s largest Planned Parenthood affiliate, Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, is rolling out a novel strategy to keep the cash flowing so that it can subsidize its mission of aborting children.
Some of its clinics are now providing Botox, a neurotoxin that minimizes the appearance of wrinkles. The affiliate is also planning to add additional cosmetic procedures. These include dermal fillers — which are injected into lips, cheeks, or jawlines — and laser hair removal. Planned Parenthood Mar Monte clinics are becoming, in effect, medspas to prop up child killing.
Stacy Cross, the president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, told The Wall Street Journal this week, “We know we have to face reality to keep our doors open. … That’s where these new services come in.”
4) “America’s Imperial Judiciary: Tocqueville feared mob rule; instead, America now confronts an unchecked judiciary willing to override law, precedent, and the people to block a sitting president’s agenda.” (Raw Egg Nationalist, American Greatness)
From the article -- Hidden at the bottom of the soul of the American lawyers,” said Alexis de Tocqueville, perhaps the keenest observer of American democracy, is “a great repugnance to the actions of the multitude, and a secret contempt of the government of the people.”
Far from being a bad thing, for Tocqueville at least, that secret contempt was a valuable tool. A necessity, even.
An aristocrat by birth, Tocqueville knew democracy was inevitable. There was to be no return to the way things were before the American and French Revolutions. And yet, he believed, the aristocratic principle had to be retained somehow if politics were not to descend into mob rule and tyranny....
America in 2026 is not a healthy, functioning democracy. But Tocqueville’s great fear, mob rule, has not been realized. Instead, we’re seeing exactly what can go wrong when the aristocratic principle goes unchecked—a possibility Tocqueville does not seem to have anticipated.
Judicial contempt for the will of the American people, the executive powers of the president, and indeed the law itself is now running out of control, and there seems to be no way to stop it.
5) “Why Islam Seeks Shelter Under the Banner of the Left” (Dimpee Brar, Federalist)
From the article -- The success of the Red-Green Alliance does not lie in the might of Islam or the truth of its doctrines, but in the visible weakness of the West. What passes in polite discourse as “progress,” “social justice,” and “democracy” is, in fact, the open expression of anti‑Western hatred dressed in the moral language we once reserved for liberty and right. We still have eyes, but we have educated them not to see.
The so‑called “Red‑Green alliance” is not a partnership of equals. It is a disguise: Islam in leftist drag. The left and Islam do not share a positive account of the good life; they share a common enemy. The left condemns the West as oppressive, racist, colonial, patriarchal, capitalist. Islam condemns it as impious, decadent, rebellious against its god. They converge not in what is to be built, but in what is to be destroyed.
Other Recommended Articles from This Week
* “Defending Western Civilization Is Not Bigotry, It’s Wisdom” (Joseph Backholm, Washington Stand)
* “14 Pro-Life Alternatives To IVF For Infertile Couples Who Desire Children” (Chaney Gooley, Federalist)
* “Reshaping Scripture: Why the Church Must Stand Firm Against Cultural Compromise” (Lance Halseth, Harbinger’s Daily)
* “Blue State Failure is Destroying Federalism and the Constitution” (Chris Bray, Federalist)
* “Why Are So Many Nurses Left-Wing?: Psychologist Derald Wing Sue’s racialist ideas have deeply influenced the helping professions.” (Forest Romm, City Journal)