States may cross-check voter data for the 2026 election against a federal citizenship database, the U.S. Supreme Court said Friday in an emergency ruling (DHS v. League of Women Voters). According to federal law, the court said, "the Federal Government has an obligation to respond to requests from state and local election officials seeking to verify the citizenship of voters." The brief order was unsigned, but the three progressive judges publicly dissented.

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 this week&rsquo;s podcast, Host Casey Harper talks with General John Teichert, retired Brigadier General, national security expert, and an Amazon #1 best-selling author about the Iran war, what needs to be made in America for national security reasons, and U.S. infrastructure. They discuss questions like:
<ul>
<li>What do Americans need to know about the Iran war?</li>
<li>Will the &ldquo;Economic D-Day&rdquo; against Iran work?</li>
<li>Do we make enough weapons and critical goods right here in the U.S.? Why not?</li>
</ul>

On this week's podcast, Host Casey Harper talks with General John Teichert, retired Brigadier General, national security expert, and an Amazon #1 best-selling author about the Iran war, what needs to be made in America for national security reasons, and U.S. infrastructure. They discuss questions like: What do Americans need to know about the Iran war? Will the "Economic D-Day" against Iran work? Do we make enough weapons and critical goods right here in the U.S.? Why not? 

An analysis released in July by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace noted that approximately 10% of the cocaine reaching the United States transits through Haiti first. Furthermore, violence has displaced around 1.5 million Haitians, while the expansion of gangs beyond Port-au-Prince increases the risk of migration surges toward the United States and other Caribbean nations.

As President Trump welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping to Washington for a lavish state visit Thursday, lawmakers and human rights advocates say that the administration is acting overly deferential toward the communist dictator amid reports of Beijing's providing military assistance to Iran and its continued persecution of religious believers and democracy proponents.

The childish withdrawals made Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's point better than his rhetoric every could. Before the Israeli leader even began his Thursday speech before the U.N. General Assembly, dozens of delegates from other nations simply walked out rather than hear him speak. If diplomats know anything, it's how to smile politely through speeches both boring and outrageous. So their decision to boycott the speech entirely is more than just petulance; it signals their position that Israel has no right to national existence.

The United Nations has rebranded its promises of world peace under a new Pact for the Future initiative, citing the need for stronger global governance, more financing, and better data collection to accelerate implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Cuban-American analyst Julio Shiling says that Harvard's new working group report on Cuba is "cloaked in the language of pluralism, gradualism, and pragmatic reform," functioning "less as a roadmap to democracy than as an intellectual justification for a Cuban variant of post-Soviet crony capitalism: the Putinist model with a tropical twist."

A Canadian grandmother died by "assisted suicide" in a scene that can only be described as a farce, based on the account published by her traumatized family.

Senior Writer, The Washington Stand

The United States Armed Forces allows homeschoolers to enlist, but the city of Fremont, Nebraska appears to think they are unfit to join their local fire department. Now, the governor's office is investigating.

Writer

The amendment now on the ballot is an appallingly sweeping and indifferent gift to the abortion industry, using needlessly unlimited language to identify whom it designates as a possessor of "reproductive freedom." It refers to this boundless right to destroy a pregnancy as belonging to any "individual" in the commonwealth.

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.

Senior Fellow for National Security

President Donald Trump has forbidden three far-left news outlets from accessing the White House. The lone conservative leaning network in the presidential news pool has tapped out in response.

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