From the article -- We are living in an age where tolerance has become the supreme virtue of modern society. Governments promote it. Corporations market it. Schools teach it. Media platforms enforce it. Religious leaders increasingly preach it. At first glance, tolerance sounds noble. Christians are called to love people, show compassion, and treat others with dignity. But the modern definition of tolerance has evolved far beyond kindness or coexistence.
Today’s version of tolerance demands something far deeper. Not merely accepting people… but affirming every belief system, lifestyle, ideology, and moral framework as equally valid.
The moment someone declares that absolute truth exists, they are increasingly viewed as dangerous, divisive, hateful, or extreme. This is why the coming global culture is not merely political or social, it is spiritual. A new worldwide belief system is emerging, and its central doctrine is this: truth must never offend.
Today, tolerance demands affirmation, and anyone who refuses to affirm the spirit of the age is viewed as dangerous.
2) “Decline Is a Choice, and Democrats Are Making It” (David Strom, Hot Air)
From the article -- It used to be uncontroversial to believe that the law-abiding had a right to be protected from criminals and that criminals needed to be punished. Putting them in jail served a double purpose: removing the criminals from society, rendering them harmless to the public when they were incarcerated, and imposing high costs on behavior that harms others and society.
It also used to be uncontroversial to assume that a criminal who attacks a person deserves whatever he gets, including a bullet in the front or back. Break into a house, and your life is forfeit. It only makes sense because, as John Locke, whose ideas dominate the US Constitution, argued, the criminal assaulting you has declared a state of war between you and him.
Now, in many states, you have a duty to retreat, and criminals in many places can nearly kill somebody and get probation, and even the most modest sob story can get a judge or liberal prosecutor crying for your troubles.
It often seems that liberals actively want criminals to roam the streets, and perhaps they do. Leftists, who love anarcho-tyranny certainly do, but most liberals seem more driven by sympathy or empathy for predators than actual malice toward society.
3) “Good Riddance, Marty: He did nothing to stop the unimpeded trade of abortion pills. And he was proud of it.” (Ellie Gardey Holmes, American Spectator)
From the article -- On Tuesday, the news finally came: Marty Makary is out as FDA commissioner, and not a moment too soon. Makary failed as FDA commissioner because he bestowed zero concern for the most pressing issue before him: the unrestricted proliferation of abortion pills. This is causing unborn babies to be killed en masse, in greater numbers than ever before in American history.
Last year, Makary damningly told the Wall Street Journal, “I don’t think about the abortion pill.” He added that he doesn’t think about the safety restrictions surrounding the pill, either.
This is for a drug that has an 11 percent serious adverse event rate for women — including sepsis, infection, and hemorrhaging — according to a study from the Ethics and Public Policy Center released last year.
Makary promised a study reviewing the drug’s dangers while at the same time slow-walking the study to the maximum extent possible. This went so far that Makary insisted on waiting to do the study until a new drug safety data system, Sentinel 3.0, became available, but the system isn’t supposed to be out until late 2026 or early 2027. This amounted to punting the issue of the abortion pill to the next White House administration — enabling the maximum amount of babies to be killed and women to be endangered in the meantime. In addition, last fall, Makary approved a new generic version of mifepristone, flooding the market even more with the drug.
Related article: “Study: 64 Online Abortion Pill Vendors Ignore 10-Week Gestational Limit” (Dan Hart, Washington Stand)
4) “Students’ Learning Hit Record Lows Despite 749% Spending Increase for Dept. of Ed” (Mark Tapscott, Washington Stand)
From the article -- Skyrocketing federal spending on the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) and the record low poor student achievement levels provide yet another Washington illustration of the truth of the maxim that “insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result.”
A deep-dive data analysis by non-profit government watchdog Open The Books (OTB) — modestly entitled “PROGRESS REPORT: Cutting Waste, Ridding Radicalism, and Returning Education to the States” — exposes the 749% increase in federal tax dollars devoted to DOE since 2000, and the fact that, despite record expenditures, 34% of the class of 2024 graduating seniors can only read at basic or below proficiency and 45% of them are at or below basic proficiency in math.
When it was created by Congress at the behest of President Jimmy Carter in 1979, DOE advocates promised the result would be a reduction in federal education grant-making, motivation for parents to become significantly more involved in their children’s academic progress, encouragement of more research on innovative teaching and learning approaches, and high-level educational achievement more widely available for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
What has resulted is virtually the exact opposite of what was promised on every count.
5) “Why Any Deal with Iran Is a Mistake” (Khaled Abu Toameh, Gatestone Institute)
From the article -- Significantly, the response from the Arab and Muslim world to Trump's latest demand [to join the Abraham Accords] has been largely unenthusiastic. Saudi Arabia and Qatar have shown no public eagerness to comply, while Pakistan flatly rejected the idea. This silence and rejection underscore a larger reality: meaningful peace agreements cannot be manufactured for public relations purposes or used to obscure strategic failures elsewhere.
Worse, many of the supposedly neutral Middle Eastern countries "facilitating" the deal -- Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar -- have well-worn records of not being even slightly neutral.
Expanding peace agreements between Israel and Arab and Muslim countries is unquestionably a positive goal. Peace and normalization are in the interests of Arabs and Muslims no less than Israelis. The Abraham Accords demonstrated that cooperation with Israel promotes regional stability, security, economic growth, and technological advancement. Genuine peace, however, may not be able to be imposed through pressure or threats. Peace made at gunpoint rarely lasts. Arabs and Muslims might choose peace with Israel because they recognize that coexistence and regional cooperation serve their own national interests, not because they are being publicly pressured by the US president.
Articles related to Iran, Israel, and Anti-Semitism: “‘The ‘Muslim Catholic’ Who Invented the Christian-Muslim Relationship: The origins of the dangerous myth of ‘Abrahamic Religions’”. (Daniel Greenfield, Trajectories)...“The U.N. vs. Israel: Meet the radicals running the U.N. and Israel’s surprisingly most popular politician.” (Amit Segal, It’s Noon In Israel)...“Spare Us the Selective Outrage: Israel is condemned for surviving a massacre while regimes guilty of actual ethnic cleansing and mass slaughter escape outrage and scrutiny.” (Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness)...“Sharia’s Growing Influence on U.S. Finance” (Paul Sperry, Real Clear Investigations)...“New Jersey Muslim Leader Boasts of Using Carlson, Owens, Bannon to Divide MAGA Movement: A video is circulating that every American - including President Trump - should watch, watch again, and study.” (Robert Spencer, From Page Magazine)
* “Dressed to Kill: Women of the Left and the Cult of Violence Worship: The left’s glamorization of political violence begins as performance, but history shows how quickly chic nihilism can become something far darker.” (Jeff Cunningham, American Greatness)
* “The Crisis Behind America’s Mental Health Crisis: RFK Jr. wants to curb psychiatric overprescribing, but decades of insurance incentives and institutional decay created the problem.” (Carole Lieberman, American Spectator)
* “Spain Without Spaniards: The Unprecedented Decline of the National Population” (Antonio O’Mullony, The European Conservative)
* “$4.5 million from Minnesota taxpayers going to once-convicted murderer: the troubling backstory” (David Zimmer, American Experiment)
* “You Will Share Your Locker Room With Predators...Or Else” (David Strom, Hot Air)
* “This Midterm Season, the American Dream is on the Line (America is staring down a demographic and fiscal abyss that threatens to devour the American Dream for working families, retirees, and the next generation.)” (Joseph Ford Cotto, American Thinker)
* “Yes, Britain today is governed by idiots, but that is not the sole reason it is in trouble” (Kevin Myers, Brussels Signal)
* “Baseball Fans Erupt over Washington Nationals’ Treatment of Christian Players” (Suzanne Bowdey, Washington Stand)
* “If 1 In 5 Fairfax Residents Is Illegal, We Need Mass Deportations In Virginia Immediately” (Samuel Kimzey, Federalist)
* “The Vatican Enters the AI War: Why Christians Should Pay Attention” (Robert Maginnis, Washington Stand)
