While Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed (D) has charged that his opponent, Rep. Mike Rogers (R), "helped to architect the opioid epidemic," his own past statements on drug policy are raising eyebrows.

Former Congressman and current senior fellow at Family Research Council Jody Hice sits down with Host Casey Harper at the Pray Vote Stand Summit. They discuss how God leads leaders, how to know if you are motivated by selfish ambition or God&rsquo;s calling, and how to stand up for the right thing even when it is difficult.

Former Congressman and current senior fellow at Family Research Council Jody Hice sits down with Host Casey Harper at the Pray Vote Stand Summit. They discuss how God leads leaders, how to know if you are motivated by selfish ambition or God's calling, and how to stand up for the right thing even when it is difficult.

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, religious leaders, tech experts and even the AI companies themselves are raising the alarm, and yet they keep building&nbsp; Artificial Intelligence. What&rsquo;s going on here? Is the AI apocalypse inevitable, or is all hype or somewhere in between?

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, religious leaders, tech experts and even the AI companies themselves are raising the alarm, and yet they keep building  Artificial Intelligence. What's going on here? Is the AI apocalypse inevitable, or is all hype or somewhere in between?

On this week&rsquo;s Outstanding Podcast, Host Casey Harper talks free markets and socialism with Dr. Gary Wolfram, a professor of economics, public policy and political economy at Hillsdale College.
Together, they tackle questions like:&nbsp;
<ul>
<li>How do free markets work and why does they work?</li>
<li>Are prices fair?</li>
<li>How do we respond to the socialist narrative?</li>
<li>Doesn't the Christian faith keep capitalism in check in many ways?&nbsp;</li>
</ul>

On this week's Outstanding Podcast, Host Casey Harper talks free markets and socialism with Dr. Gary Wolfram, a professor of economics, public policy and political economy at Hillsdale College. Together, they tackle questions like: How do free markets work and why does they work? Are prices fair? How do we respond to the socialist narrative? Doesn't the Christian faith keep capitalism in check in many ways? 

On this week&rsquo;s podcast, Host Casey Harper and author Arlene Pellicane discuss screens, technology and its impact on kids.
They discussed questions like:
<ul>
<li>How do Christians think about technology and raising children?</li>
<li>What is the impact of technology on personal and spiritual formation?</li>
<li>If kids are being raised differently, will they be made fun of?&nbsp;</li>
<li>How can we teach our kids to hold onto our Christian values under pressure?&nbsp;</li>
<li>What do we need to prepare for regarding AI?&nbsp;</li>
<li>What technology plans and practices can we adopt to protect our kids and pass on our faith to the next gen?&nbsp;</li>
</ul>

On this week's podcast, Host Casey Harper and author Arlene Pellicane discuss screens, technology and its impact on kids. They discussed questions like: How do Christians think about technology and raising children? What is the impact of technology on personal and spiritual formation? If kids are being raised differently, will they be made fun of? How can we teach our kids to hold onto our Christian values under pressure What do we need to prepare for regarding AI? What technology plans and practices can we adopt to protect our kids and pass on our faith to the next gen?

On today's News Brief: The City Council of Fremont, Nebraska has decided to overturn a discriminatory policy against homeschoolers in the case of Andrew Coates, and Israeli plane pilot stabs his co-captain midflight, and the Senate holds a hearing for former special counsel Jack Smith.

On today's News Brief: The City Council of Fremont, Nebraska has decided to overturn a discriminatory policy against homeschoolers in the case of Andrew Coates, and Israeli plane pilot stabs his co-captain midflight, and the Senate holds a hearing for former special counsel Jack Smith.

Following considerable public pressure exerted by a nationwide grassroots campaign in support of Nebraska volunteer firefighter Andrew Coates, whose job application for a full-time position was rejected by the city of Fremont due to him being homeschooled, the city council voted unanimously Tuesday to clarify its hiring regulations to treat homeschool credentials the same as any other educational credentials.

The long-awaited democratization of Venezuela appears to have begun on the night of January 3, when U.S. special forces stormed the stronghold where dictator Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores were sleeping soundly. However, the definitive light at the end of that tunnel has yet to appear. The Trump administration would score a major victory within the Hispanic community if it forced the acting dictator, Delcy Rodríguez, to set a firm date for a transparent electoral process.

Colombia has long been one of organized crime's strongest strongholds in South America. From the drug cartel kingpins of the Pablo Escobar era to socialist guerrilla groups trained by Cuba, chaos and terror have plagued the Colombian people for decades. Now, following four years of Gustavo Petro's presidency - himself a former guerrilla and ally of Havana - a new right-wing administration is taking the bull by the horns.

Seldom in public life is it possible for a legislator to say that a measure he or she authored directly saved millions of human lives. That distinction exists for what has proven to be one of the most durable pro-life bills ever enacted, the Hyde Amendment, which blocks the use of federal funds to pay for abortions.

For U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), the stakes for the 2026 midterm elections couldn't be higher. Not only are two political parties facing off on November 3, but two completely different worldviews.

Vice President, Brand Advancement

President Donald Trump commanded the world's attention when he addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. Wars, sovereignty, immigration, and America's place in the world dominated the headlines. But buried within that sweeping address was a declaration that may outlast everything else he said.

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While over 80,000 Africans - the vast majority of them men - scale the defenses and overrun a Spanish city, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez goes on vacation to relax. While Muslim hordes leave a record number of rapes in the city, Sánchez crosses the Atlantic, kisses a socialist female dictator on the cheek, and goes to have breakfast with the Muslim mayor of New York.

During the opening night of Family Research Council Action's Pray Vote Stand Summit on Thursday, Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) called on Congress to ban the use of the mail-order drug mifepristone that causes hundreds of thousands of chemical abortions of unborn children and sends one of every 10 women who take it to the hospital emergency room with serious, potentially fatal medical complications.

Our rights come from God, not government. Reagan understood that this was communism's deepest vulnerability. The Chinese Communist Party has the same vulnerability today.

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