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A group of 10 students in California caused a controversy after spelling out a controversial word with letters on their T-shirts last week.

The students were originally part of a photo celebrating the class of 2026, but then decided to pull a prank that they may end up regretting.

‘A small group of students made the poor decision to publicly spell out a message.’

Originally, more than 20 students wore coordinated T-shirts for a photo in the bleachers at Redwood High School, located southeast of Fresno, California, in the Visalia Unified School District.

Surrounded by a crowd of their peers, the students spelled, “Always Legit, Class of 2026,” with each student having a single letter on the chest.

According to Your Central Valley, some of the students then rearranged themselves for a different photo during the school event.

Seven students spelled out the word “faggots,” utilizing a “6” T-shirt in place of a “G” when spelling the word. Another student sat to the left wearing a “2” T-shirt, while two students sat three rows behind in the photo. All of the students were criticized for smiling or placing their arms around each other in the picture.

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School officials sent out an apology letter to families that same night, KFSN reported, saying the school prides itself on respect, integrity, and leadership.

“Good afternoon, Ranger Families, I am writing to inform you about a recent incident in which a small group of students made the poor decision to publicly spell out a message that was derogatory and disrespectful,” the letter read.

The school added that “this behavior is unacceptable” and “does not reflect who we are as a school community.”

In a statement to Your Central Valley, Visalia Unified Superintendent Kirk Shrum indicated that the district was made aware of students who coordinated to “spell out a hateful, homophobic slur.”

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“This is unacceptable behavior, and this matter is being thoroughly investigated, and appropriate action will be taken,” Shrum went on. “Every student deserves to feel respected, protected, and valued on our campuses. We will continue working to ensure our schools are places where dignity, belonging, and accountability guide our actions.”

On Friday evening, Visalia Unified School District announced that it had taken “appropriate disciplinary action” against the students for spelling out a “hateful” slur.

It has also been noted that some of the students were reportedly members of the school student government.

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The country presently has 27 GOP state attorneys general and 23 Democrat state AGs — counting the Democrat-appointed lesbian activist in Hawaii. Republicans are fighting to maintain their dominance in the top legal offices across the country, the majority of which they have controlled since 2015.

There are 30 state attorney general seats on the ballot this November — 16 of which are presently occupied by Democrats and 14 of which are occupied by Republicans.

The Republican Attorneys General Association, whose support wasn’t enough to spare former Virginia AG Jason Miyares from losing his re-election bid last year, announced on Friday that it raised “a record $29.3 million across all entities last year” — the most that any AG organization has reportedly ever raised in a calendar year.

‘Four of the Toss-up AG races are in states that were considered presidential battlegrounds in 2024.’

“In 11 months, RAGA raised nearly $30 million for the first time ever,” RAGA Executive Director Adam Piper said in a statement. “However, we must shatter previous fundraising records to ensure we protect battleground incumbent seats and pick up winnable seats.”

“2026 is the largest election year for AG races, and RAGA is well positioned for another banner year,” added Piper.

Among the incumbent Republican attorneys general now running or poised to run for re-election are:

Tim Griffin of Arkansas;James Uthmeier of Florida;Chris Carr of Georgia;Raúl Labrador of Idaho;Brenna Bird of Iowa — who received a $1 million donation from the RAGA on Dec. 31;Kris Kobach of Kansas;Mike Hilgers of Nebraska; andDrew Wrigley of North Dakota.

Whereas Ohio’s Dave Yost is ineligible to run again due to term limits, several other GOP incumbents are creating openings because they have their eyes set on different prizes.

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Alabama AG Steve Marshall and Texas AG Ken Paxton are running for the Senate — Marshall for the seat of Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), who is running for governor, and Paxton to deny Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) a fifth term.

South Dakota AG Marty Jackley is running for Congress. Oklahoma AG Gentner Drummond is running for governor of his state.

Louis Jacobson at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics suggested in an analysis late last year that “of the 2025-26 AG races, seven states have competitive AG races: five Toss-ups, plus a Leans Republican and a Leans Democratic seat each.”

“Democrats will largely be playing defense: All five Toss-up races are currently held by Democrats, with at least two of them open-seat races, and potentially more to come open if additional incumbents run for a different office,” continued Jacobson. “Mirroring the national partisan split, four of the Toss-up AG races are in states that were considered presidential battlegrounds in 2024.”

Arizona, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, and Wisconsin were identified as toss-up AG races. Jacobson suggested further that Carr (R) was well-positioned in Georgia.

“The remaining states with AG races this cycle include 10 Safe Republican seats, 3 Likely Republican seats, and 11 Safe Democratic seats,” added Jacobson.

While the races in Maryland, Nevada, Ohio, and Wisconsin are attracting significant national and donor attention, the contests in Iowa and Kansas — where Kobach is once again battling Democrat challenger Chris Mann — are fast becoming two of the most closely watched, reported MultiState.

Mann reportedly out-raised Kobach last year. Nevertheless, the incumbent had more cash on hand to kick off this election year.

Bird has managed to raise over $2 million for her re-election campaign — more than double what her Democrat challenger, Nate Willems, has netted. The Des Moines Register reported, however, that Willems has fared far better in terms of fundraising than his state’s former Democrat AG, Tom Miller, who lost to Bird in 2022.

The race in Texas is similarly garnering national attention, though much of the present heat surrounds the Republican primary on March 3.

The candidates who will face off Tuesday in a debate moderated by BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey are:

Aaron Reitz, the Paxton-endorsed former assistant attorney general who has promised to “destroy the left” if elected;Rep. Chip Roy, an antagonist of Paxton who has Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s endorsement; Mayes Middleton, a Texas state senator who has characterized himself as proud supporter of President Trump and the America First agenda and has been endorsed by Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas); andJoan Huffman, a Texas state senator who enjoys the support of various police unions and has been endorsed by National Fraternal Order of Police Vice President Joe Gamaldi.

The debate airs at 8 p.m. ET on Tuesday.

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“People have the right to not be poisoned. Sounds really common sense, but unfortunately, there are a lot of companies in the food industry that do not agree,” BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey says.

That’s why the Florida Department of Health has taken matters into its own hands by launching the Healthy Florida First initiative. Spearheaded by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, first lady Casey DeSantis, and Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo, this program independently tests common food products for contaminants — such as heavy metals, pesticides like glyphosate, and other toxins — to promote transparency, accountability, clean food systems, and informed choices for families.

The results of Florida’s testing have revealed contaminants in many everyday foods like candy, breads, and even baby formulas.

On this episode of “Relatable,” Allie sits down with Casey DeSantis to discuss some of the most shocking findings.

Baby formula

“When we got the [baby formula] results back, we were very startled and obviously disquieted by the fact that there was 17 out of 24 that came back with problematic levels of arsenic, lead, cadmium, and mercury,” DeSantis says, noting that after 2025 Consumer Reports data revealed contamination in several name brand baby formulas, many companies’ products “still [have] problematic contaminants.”

Some of those brands include top-sellers, like Enfamil and Similac — both of which had multiple varieties test positive for contaminants such as arsenic, mercury, cadmium, and lead.

“[Heavy metals] don’t just leave the body easily, right? … Unfortunately, what our surgeon general in Florida has said that you have a definite increased risk of cancer over the course of your lifetime if you’re consuming this early in life,” DeSantis tells Allie.

“It is not fair to any mother to go into a store, to have to sit there and wonder which option is better than another when all of it should be safe.”

Bread

Several top brands of bread were found to contain a chemical called glyphosate, which is one of the most commonly used weed killers worldwide.

“It’s Roundup. … It kills plants, and so there’s no reason why any of that should be in any product that we’re consuming,” DeSantis says.

Florida Surgeon General Dr. Ladapo, she says, has warned that consuming glyphosate can cause problems “at the cellular level with your microbiome.”

But even more disturbing are the label warnings on Roundup, she says, which caution users to avoid all skin contact skin and inhalation.

“There’s all of these problematic things with being in close proximity to glyphosate. [It’s] probably safe to assume that it’s not good in the food supply in bread,” DeSantis says.

And yet, testing from the Healthy Florida First initiative detected glyphosate in 6 out of 8 popular brands, including Nature’s Own, Dave’s Killer Bread, Wonder Bread, and Sara Lee.

Candy

Most people know that candy isn’t the healthiest food choice, but many have no clue that in addition to the high sugar levels, many top candies contain arsenic — a known human carcinogen.

Florida’s Department of Health tested 46 top candy products and found that 28 (60%) had detectable levels of arsenic in them. Some of those include Laffy Taffy, Nerds, SweeTarts, Jolly Ranchers, Twizzlers, Kit Kat, Snickers, Skittles, and Sour Patch Kids, among several others.

DeSantis gives a real-life example of how drastically this can impact a child.

“Our analysis found that if you eat more than 96 Nerds over the course of a year, for a child, you are exceeding the allowable threshold of arsenic for a child. … It’s realistic to assume that children are eating more than 96 individual Nerds. When you look at a box that you get in a movie theater, there’s 8,000 Nerds in it,” she says.

Crunching the numbers: Eating a full box of Nerds (8,000 pieces) would expose a child to more than 83 times the yearly safe limit of arsenic set by Florida’s Department of Health — just from that one movie-theater treat.

The occasional piece of candy isn’t concerning, DeSantis says. “It’s the consumption in aggregate that is very problematic.”

“That has to be taken into account, and that has to be disclosed to parents so that they can make better decisions,” she adds.

To hear more, watch the full episode above.

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The latest statistics show the U.S. economy is improving steadily, particularly in the shift from government employment to private-sector jobs and toward new hires going to native-born Americans instead of immigrants. Opinion polls, however, show Americans are displeased with the current state of the economy, and young people are turning toward socialism.

The smart course for the Republicans would be to pass major reforms to shrink the welfare state and cut federal spending and regulation instead of mildly reducing scheduled increases.

The concerns about the economy reflect three major factors: one, stubborn economic distortions caused by longtime government policies; two, the lingering effects of acute Biden-presidency price inflation; and, three, dishonest media reporting.

The average inflation rate during the Biden administration was 5%, nearly double the current rate. Real, inflation-adjusted average weekly earnings in private-sector jobs decreased by 4% while Biden was in office. Home prices rose by 37.4%, sparking a housing affordability crisis. Publicly held federal debt increased by one-third, igniting the price inflation.

That has changed dramatically in just one year. “Since President Trump took office, headline inflation has been running at 2.4% (much lower than 3% inherited from Biden) and core inflation has been running at 2.4% (much lower than 3.3% inherited from Biden),” the White House stated correctly last month.

Slowing inflation does not lower prices however. It only reduces the increases. The Biden-era price rises were worst in basic necessities, and the only way to moderate that is for wages to rise. Fortunately, that is starting to happen.

Employment numbers confirm a positive movement from part-time work to full-time work and away from the government into the productive private sector. “Initial jobless claims in the U.S. fell by 9,000 from the previous week to 198,000 on the week ending January 10,” the second-lowest number of job losses in two years, and initial unemployment claims by federal employees rose by more than one-third, Trading Economics reports.

The movement from part-time work to full-time employment in better jobs that pay more and include benefits is of course a highly positive trend. “In December, the number of part-time jobs declined by 740,000, while full-time employment shot up by 890,000,” Unleash Prosperity notes.

Labor productivity in the nonfarm business sector increased by 4.9% in the third quarter of last year, with output rising by 5.4% and hours worked increasing by 0.5%. Manufacturing-sector labor productivity and output are rising markedly after declining during the Biden administration. Overall U.S. industrial production has increased, rising 0.4% month-over-month in both November and December, and manufacturing output rose by 0.2% in December.

Continued improvements in employment and private-sector productivity are the real solution to the affordability crisis. In light of those trends, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta raised its estimate of fourth-quarter annualized real Gross Domestic Product growth to an impressive 5.3%. In addition, mortgage interest rates are down to their lowest level since 2022.

Naturally, the regime media are desperately trying to spin all this good news into a mythical calamity, to cast doubt on the conclusively proven value of market-empowering reforms. “CNN, true to form, immediately tried to make a relatively good report out to be a bad one in a January 13 X post: ‘U.S. inflation remained at 2.7% in December, underscoring persistent cost of living challenges,’” Newsbusters reports.

When inflation was an awful 6% in February 2023, CNN characterized it as good news, saying, “U.S. inflation is still high, but it’s falling. Last month’s Consumer Price Index measured 6%, down from January’s 6.4%,” as Daily Wire reporter Cabot Phillips noted in an X post. Coverage by all the regime media has reflected this bias.

While just under a year’s worth of economic reforms and (disappointingly mild) efforts to hold the line on inflation are showing real progress, the previous four years did major damage to the private, productive sectors of the U.S. economy. It will take some time for the public to feel the full benefit of the policy changes they voted for in 2024.

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Although people should hardly be surprised that Trump and the Congress have not yet fully reversed the economic destruction of the prior four years, poll numbers indicate an impatience that reflects the media’s spin: “Most, 64%, say [Trump] hasn’t gone far enough in trying to reduce the price of everyday goods,” CNN reports.

Trump and the congressional Republicans understandably feel a strong urge to be seen as doing everything possible to fix the economy, though the only thing that will really unleash American prosperity is a full retrenchment of the enormous federal welfare state that Obama and Biden did so much to expand.

Democrats understandably view the economic stagnation that they themselves caused as a terrific political opportunity that could restore them to majority rule in Congress, with a chance to impeach Trump multiple times and block desperately needed reforms to shrink the government.

The smart course for Republicans would be to pass major reforms to shrink the welfare state and cut federal spending and regulation instead of mildly reducing scheduled increases. That would accelerate the economic improvements we are already seeing. It would also make the recent reforms permanent, given that a Democratic congressional majority would not be able to reverse them, given Trump’s veto power.

Those moves would benefit the American people greatly.

The wise course for the Democrats would be to sit back, go quiet, and let the public reject an ineffectual GOP in this November’s elections.

Many decades of American politics have taught us what is most likely to happen: Neither party will do the smart thing, much less the right thing.

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Democrats and legacy media have put forth several mischaracterizations and even flat-out lies about the GOP’s latest election integrity bill.

The House passed the SAVE America Act Wednesday with unanimous Republican support and with even one Democrat, Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas, joining the GOP. The bill would put in place basic election integrity requirements like providing proof of citizenship and photo ID to register and vote in federal elections.

‘If you buy a 6-pack of beer you have to show an ID.’

The bill is now in the Senate, where Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah is leading the effort to pass the legislation.

Although this proposal seems commonsense to most Americans, Democrats have caused a firestorm of hysteria and misconception. Here is the truth behind Democrats’ most common rebuttals.

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1. ‘It’s already illegal!’

The SAVE America Act aims to protect ballots from election fraud, particularly from illegal aliens and noncitizens. Democrats are quick to point out that it is already illegal for noncitizens to vote in elections, and those Democrats who are willing to admit that noncitizens voting does occasionally happen insist it takes place at a negligible rate.

This is partially true. It is already illegal for noncitizens to vote in American elections, and when it does happen, estimates show it occurs less than 1% of the time. But even if the rate is extremely low, it’s not zero. And while many elections are decisive victories, some are decided by razor-thin margins, making every ballot count.

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In the 2024 election, former Republican Rep. John Duarte of California was unseated by Democrat Adam Gray by just 187 votes, chipping away at a historically thin GOP advantage in the House. But it’s not just local elections that are decided by such narrow margins. In 2020, former President Joe Biden won several swing states by just thousands of votes, including Georgia by 11,779 votes and Arizona by just 10,457 votes.

There’s no way to know if any of those votes were cast fraudulently, which is precisely the problem. Americans should have total confidence that every ballot counted in an election is a legitimate vote that reflects the political will of a United States citizen. The SAVE America Act would help do just that.

2. ‘Jim Crow 2.0’

Democrats are no stranger to playing the race card, claiming that requiring photo ID somehow unfairly affects minorities. Perhaps most notable of them all is Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, who unabashedly likened the SAVE Act to Jim Crow-era rules.

“I have said it before and I’ll say it again, the SAVE Act would impose Jim Crow type laws to the entire country and is dead on arrival in the Senate,” Schumer said in a statement earlier this month. “It is a poison pill that will kill any legislation that it is attached to. If House Republicans add the SAVE Act to the bipartisan appropriations package it will lead to another prolonged Trump government shutdown.”

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Apart from Schumer’s soft bigotry of low expectations, his claim is simply inaccurate. The SAVE America Act offers a wide range of acceptable documents to prove citizenship, including a valid U.S. passport, a REAL ID that indicates citizenship, a U.S. military identification card that shows birthplace in the U.S., a birth certificate or other equivalent naturalization documents, and even some tribal IDs like the American Indian card.

Presenting a photo ID is also already a requirement to vote in some states as well as for countless other activities and purchases, including boarding a plane and casting a vote as a member of Congress.

“If you buy a 6-pack of beer you have to show an ID,” Republican Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee joked in a post on X. “End this racism.”

3. ‘It’s an attack on women!’

Another claim Democrats have repeatedly made is that the new requirements disproportionately impact women who have changed their names after marriage. Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts said that the name change “creates a real problem” for her, implying that the legislation is the GOP’s latest attempt to suppress women’s votes.

The absurdity of Warren’s claim is self-evident. Married women often obtain documentation with their new names for other processes that require identification, such as purchasing alcohol or opening a bank account. In addition, women are not limited to producing birth certificates, but also may provide other forms of acceptable ID, such as a passport or a REAL ID.

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Even in the rare case that a woman’s ID is not updated with her new legal name, the SAVE America Act explicitly allows for name changes in documentation. The legislation requires states to establish fallback procedures for voters who have changed their names due to marriage, divorce, adoption, or another reason.

The reality is that none of the proposed requirements are novel or restrictive. They are simply common sense.

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In a recent interview with Bryan Tyler Cohen, former President Barack Obama was asked about the existence of aliens during a “speed round” of questions, and Obama made a shocking statement.

“They’re real,” Obama told Cohen quickly.

The clip quickly went viral, sparking renewed questions about what the former president knows and what he has previously said about UFOs and extraterrestrial life.

‘Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there.’

Obama clarified to Cohen that he has never actually “seen them” himself and dismissed long-running Area 51 conspiracy theories, saying that the government is not actively hiding aliens, unless agents somehow managed to conceal that information from the president of the United States.

But this was not the first time Obama publicly addressed the issue.

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In 2021, during an appearance on “The Late Late Show with James Corden,” Obama was pressed about UFOs.

“There are some things I just can’t tell you on air,” Obama said.

Though the exchange began lightheartedly, Obama shifted to a more serious tone.

“What is true, and I’m actually being serious here, is that there’s footage and records of objects in the skies that we don’t know exactly what they are,” Obama said. “We can’t explain how they moved, their trajectory. They did not have an easily explainable pattern. And so, you know, I think that people still take seriously trying to investigate and figure out what that is.”

President Donald Trump has also fielded questions about aliens on multiple occasions, including during an interview with podcast host Joe Rogan.

“I interviewed jet pilots that were solid people — perfect, great pilots, great everything. And they said, ‘We saw things, sir, that were very strange, like a round ball, but it wasn’t a comet or a meteor,’” Trump said. “‘It was something, and it was going four times faster than an F-22.’”

“There’s no reason not to think that Mars and all these planets don’t have life,” Trump added.

These previous statements from both presidents are notably similar in tone, acknowledging unexplained aerial phenomena while stopping short of confirming extraterrestrial life, making Obama’s comment to Cohen all the more noteworthy.

However, Obama has since attempted to give more context to his declaration that aliens are “real.”

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A day after the interview, Obama made a clarifying post on Instagram, saying he was “trying to stick with the spirit of the speed round.”

Obama then delivered a gut punch to the community of UFO believers, saying, “Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there. But the distances between solar systems are so great that the chances we’ve been visited by aliens is low, and I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us. Really!”

Studies show that the American people remain curious about the UFO phenomenon. A 2025 poll from NewsNation/Decision Desk HQ surveyed 521 Republicans, 559 Democrats, 349 independents, and 18 “other” voters and found that 44% of Americans believe the government is concealing UFO information. Twenty-eight percent disagree, while another 28% remain unsure.

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As the search for Savannah Guthrie’s mother stretches into its third week, the “Today” host released a video update over the weekend — with an urgent appeal to anyone who might know her mother’s whereabouts.

Nancy Guthrie, 84, was reported missing on February 1 after a member of her church noticed she was not at the usual service and later notified her family. While police have been investigating some evidence, there are still no positive leads to her whereabouts, two weeks after her disappearance, CNN reported Monday morning.

‘And we believe in the essential goodness of every human being. And it’s never too late.’

On Sunday, Savannah Guthrie released a second video appealing to anyone who knows where her mother is, including in particular the masked man who was caught on doorbell camera footage, which Guthrie likewise posted on her Instagram.

In the most recent video, which Guthrie captioned “Bring her home. it’s never too late to do the next right thing,” she said:

It’s been two weeks since our mom was taken, and I just wanted to come on and say that we still have hope and we still believe. And I wanted to say to whoever has her, or knows where she is, that it’s never too late, and you’re not lost or alone. And it is never too late to do the right thing. And we are here. We believe. And we believe in the essential goodness of every human being. And it’s never too late.

RELATED: ‘Today’ host Savannah Guthrie’s mother, 84, vanishes from home after missing church; police warn: ‘We have a crime scene’

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CNN reported that investigators have still not identified a motive for Guthrie’s disappearance.

However, a glove found near Nancy Guthrie’s Tucson, Arizona, residence appears to visually match a glove seen in the doorbell camera footage. DNA from the glove is being examined to try to identify a suspect in the case, according to CNN.

Any DNA found on the glove will be run through the FBI-managed Combined DNA Index System, which is a national database of over 19 million offender profiles.

The Hill reported that the FBI is encouraging those with tips to reach out to 1-800-CALL-FBI or tips.fbi.gov. The Pima County Sheriff’s Department also said last Wednesday that individuals can submit tips at 88-CRIME or 520-351-4900.

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Sports broadcaster Stephen A. Smith says he is a fiscal conservative but a social liberal.

For those reasons, the ESPN personality says he is not completely opposed to running for office, but it would be as a Democrat.

‘I couldn’t see myself running as a member of the GOP.’

The 58-year-old critiqued policy from both of the last two administrations during an interview with “CBS Sunday Morning” and host Robert Costa, remarking that he has “no desire to be a politician.”

“Zero. I have no desire to run for office,” he told Costa. But when asked if he would “run for president,” Smith revealed that the door is still open.

“I’m not ruling it out because I’d love to be on the debate stages against some of these individuals that think they’re better suited to run the country, because I think that the American people deserve to listen to and hear from somebody who genuinely cares about making life better for them instead of yourself.”

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When asked which party’s banner he would fly, Smith said he would run as a Democrat chiefly because of the fact that he is more left on social issues.

“I couldn’t see myself running as a member of the GOP. I’m a fiscal conservative. I can’t stand high taxes, but I’m a social liberal in the same breath because I believe in living and let live. I pay attention to the desolate and the disenfranchised. Yes, I like strong borders. That’s absolutely true. We never needed open borders, but we don’t need it to be completely closed either. We’re a gorgeous mosaic.”

The sports analyst criticized both President Biden’s and President Trump’s policies during an extended version of the interview, calling out Biden’s open-border policies.

“The borders needed to be closed. [Trump] was right to do that, but only because Biden opened them,” he explained.

Smith’s criticisms of Trump mainly focused on deportations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which he described as “grabbing people up [and] snatching people off the streets.”

RELATED: Jason Whitlock: Stephen A. Smith is a part of a controlled ‘clown show’

Smith took issue with the targets of the agency and claimed the Trump administration had previously characterized enforcement as “going after the criminals,” only to then enforce immigration laws against “anybody who crossed the border illegally.”

The interview touched on a lot of different topics, including racism. At one point during the interview, Costa noted that Smith’s broadcasting style had garnered him the nickname “Screaming A. Smith.” The analyst quickly retorted.

“White men are all over the place screaming all the time. They don’t call them screaming whatever,” Smith declared. “Matter of fact, they call them passionate, and they never associate the word ‘anger.’ But somehow they do that with me despite this fact that I smile a lot. A lot of reasons to be happy.”

On the subject of race, Smith later noted that he does not believe racism is “as prevalent as some on the left would like us to believe.”

Smith said he does believe that the vast majority of Americans judge each other on the content of their individual character rather than skin color.

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Never before have we seen a technology that offers such an impressive veneer of competence, yet demonstrates such dangerous incompetence when it actually matters. It’s what happens when government works together with the largest tech companies to monopolize the public square, prematurely promote AI for the wrong uses, and exaggerate the boundaries of its limitations. “Just good enough” can work for some functions of life, but not if you are on the operating table.

When humans outsource their measured judgment to what poses as an expert but lacks internal resistance when unsure of facts, you get catastrophic failure.

Reuters is reporting, based on lawsuits from several injured patients, that in the rush to approve AI-assisted medical devices for surgery, the FDA is receiving a record number of malfunctions leading to injuries during surgery. Additionally, companies are being forced to recall these products at a record pace.

Specifically, the report highlights TruDi from Acclarent, a software that provides imaging and real-time feedback to ENT surgeons during delicate procedures. The product had already been on the market for three years in 2021, at which time the FDA received seven complaints of malfunctions and one complaint of patient injury as a result of error. At the time, this was within the realm of normal baseline adverse event reporting. In 2021, however, Acclarent introduced machine-learning algorithms to the software.

Since then, the FDA has received 100 unconfirmed reports of malfunctions and eight instances of serious injuries.

What sort of injuries? In numerous instances, the software reportedly hallucinated and allegedly misinformed surgeons about the location of their instruments while they were using them inside patients’ heads. While causation is yet to be proven, patients who underwent operations with TruDi guidance since 2021 have reported:

Cerebrospinal fluid reportedly leaking from the nose.The surgeon mistakenly puncturing the base of a skull.Two patients suffering a stroke after a major artery was wrongly cut.

Anyone familiar with using LLMs can easily understand how AI could misidentify anatomy. “The product was arguably safer before integrating changes in the software to incorporate artificial intelligence than after the software modifications were implemented,” one of the suits alleges.

TruDi is one of at least 1,357 medical devices using AI that are now approved by the FDA. That is double the number the agency allowed through 2022, which means that somehow the FDA was able to properly scrutinize nearly 700 AI medical devices in three years. There are currently only 25 scientists working in the Division of Imaging, Diagnostics and Software Reliability, the key agency that assesses the safety of these products.

The apparent rush to market with overhyped and exaggerated capabilities of LLM is clearly reflected in the results from recalls. Researchers from Yale and Johns Hopkins recently found that 60 FDA-authorized medical devices using AI were linked to 182 product recalls, with 43% of those recalls having occurred less than a year after the devices were approved. According to the study published in JAMA, that’s about twice the recall rate of all devices authorized under similar FDA protocols.

Notably, most of the companies associated with the recalls in the JAMA analysis were publicly traded companies. “The association between public company status and higher recalls may reflect investor-driven pressure for faster launches, warranting further study,” warn the authors.

According to one lawsuit in Dallas, the doctor using the TruDi system was “misled and misdirected,” leading him to cut a carotid artery — which resulted in a blood clot and stroke.

The plaintiff’s lawyer told a judge that the doctor’s own records showed he “had no idea he was anywhere near the carotid artery.” The patient, Ralph, was forced to have a portion of skull removed as part of the remedial treatment, and he is still struggling to recover his daily functions a year later.

This is part of a broader problem of laziness on the part of AI users and the desire for speed and shortcuts creeping its way into health care. Researchers from Oxford, in a recent study published in Nature Medicine, found that among 1,300 patients who used LLMs to diagnose medical problems, many of them were provided with a mix of bad and accurate information. They found that while the AI chatbots now “excel at standardized tests of medical knowledge,” their use as a frontline medical tool would “pose risks to real users seeking help with their own medical symptoms.”

Again, “just good enough” is nowhere near enough for health care. The fact that a majority of the information is correct is even more dangerous.

The problem with LLMs is that they present themselves as the most qualified and knowledgeable cognitive human being, capable of adapting to a dynamic situation. However, despite the confidence, lack of hesitation, and even coherence that they offer, they lack the ability to use judgment through error and revision. When humans outsource their measured judgment to what poses as an expert but lacks internal resistance when unsure of facts, you get catastrophic failure.

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In public policy, particularly the FDA and approval of AI technology in health care, we must not fall into the trap of prioritizing speed over safety. That must be the guiding principle in the deployment of these technologies. The money that has been thrown at these technologies and the fact that the return on investment is still lagging should not induce us into a frenetic and rushed approval.

As a percentage of GDP, AI investment is bigger than the railroad expansion of the 1850s, putting astronauts on the moon in the 1960s, and the decades-long construction of the U.S. interstate highway system in the 1950s through 1970s, according to the Wall Street Journal. The difference is that this is all unproductive debt not producing any meaningful revenue. Now, these companies are desperately paying “influencers” to shame people into using their products.

Hopefully the technology will get better, but we should not continue prioritizing this technology in its current iteration without major changes. Nor should we ever mistake generative AI as a replacement for the human mind rather than a potential tool for augmentation of the human mind. Safety always comes first, and God created human judgment and human ethics powered by a human brain to be the last line of defense against danger.

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Actor James Van Der Beek found love from God before his passing.

Since the 48-year-old “Dawson’s Creek” star’s death from cancer, support has poured in for his family by the millions. However, a video from Van Der Beek’s journey with faith may provide an even longer lasting impression than some of his films.

‘If I’m worthy of God’s love, shouldn’t I also be worthy of my own?’

Van Der Beek passed away on February 11, with his family delivering the message on his Instagram account.

“Our beloved James David Van Der Beek passed peacefully this morning. He met his final days with courage, faith, and grace,” the message read.

Nose-to-nose with death

Since then, fans have reconnected with a message the actor posted on his birthday on March 8, 2024. At that time, Van Der Beek said he was on the road to recovery after having to look his own mortality in the eye, coming “nose-to-nose with death.”

“All of those definitions that I cared so deeply about were stripped from me,” he said, after saying he viewed himself as an actor. Being away for cancer treatment meant he could “no longer be a husband” and no longer “pick up his kids and put them to bed.”

“I could not be a provider because I wasn’t working. I couldn’t even be a steward of a land,” Van Der Beek continued. It was at this point the Connecticut native revealed how he felt about his identity as a “skinny, weak guy alone in an apartment with cancer.”

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Worthy of God’s love

“I meditated, and the answer came through. I am worthy of God’s love simply because I exist. And if I’m worthy of God’s love, shouldn’t I also be worthy of my own? And the same is true for you,” he posited.

Van Der Beek admitted to his audience that he believed this revelation came to him because of “all the prayers and the love that have been directed toward me.”

He added, “However it sits in your consciousness, however it resonates, run with it. … I am worthy of love because you are. Thank you for the love and prayers everyone. Have a blessed day.”

Van Der Beek leaves behind his wife, Kimberly, and six children. Since his passing, many celebrities have come out in support of his family, emphasizing how kind of a soul the actor was.

‘Forever in my heart’

This included WWE star Stacy Keibler, who said, “Spending these final days with you has been a true gift from God. I have never been so present in my life,” according to Page Six.

NFL legend Brett Favre revealed he was good friends with the Van Der Beek family, remarking on their shared faith, laughs, and conversations over the years.

“The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” actor Alfonso Ribeiro shared multiple heartfelt messages online, stating that he was with Van Der Beek before his passing.

“I’m so broken right now,” Ribeiro wrote. “I will forever be in debt for all they’ve given me and my family. He will live forever in my heart.”

RELATED: Actor James Van Der Beek calls out Democrats for not holding primary debates, calls them ‘back room’ decision-makers

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‘No debate no democracy’

Throughout his illness, Van Der Beek remarked how financially straining the ordeal had become. He had even auctioned off jerseys from his beloved football movie “Varsity Blues” to pay for cancer treatment in November.

The actor’s family has posted a Go Fund Me campaign, which as reached nearly $2.3 million at the time of this writing. Director Steven Spielberg reportedly donated $25,000 as well.

In 2023, Van Der Beek made headlines after criticizing the Democratic Party for not holding a primary to choose their presidential candidate.

“How do we have a government, how do we have democracy if we’re letting a small, little back room of people make all the important decisions for us?” he asked at the time.

“That’s not a democracy, and it doesn’t work. Because y’all have been wrong about a lot these last couple years in that back room. No debate no democracy.”

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Two 15-year-old males are accused of threatening to shoot up Florida high schools and were arrested last week.

One teen is from Volusia County, and the sheriff’s office said officers responded Thursday to a tip about him. The second teen is from Okaloosa County, and the sheriff’s office reportedly arrested him last Monday.

‘I commend those who reported the threats. Their willingness to speak up may have prevented a dangerous situation.’

Blaze News is not naming or showing the faces of the suspects due to their ages.

The Okaloosa County 15-year-old lives in Fort Walton Beach and was charged with issuing a written/electronic threat to commit a mass shooting and using a two-way communication device to commit a felony, the sheriff’s office told WEAR-TV.

The sheriff’s office said the teen’s threats were directed toward Choctawhatchee High School and that “investigation witnesses” told the sheriff’s office that the suspect “had been making increasingly specific threats between December 2025 and January 2026,” the station reported.

Officials were notified Jan. 16, WEAR said.

The sheriff’s office noted to the station that a “forensic analysis of his phone revealed it contained a document titled ‘List 2026’ containing names of students that attend or have attended Choctawhatchee High School” but that “no weapons were found.”

The suspect admitted to investigators that he made the threats but said that they were “jokes,” WEAR reported.

Sheriff Eric Aden had the following to say about the incident, according to the station:

I commend those who reported the threats. Their willingness to speak up may have prevented a dangerous situation. Reporting concerns is the best way to protect your classmates, your school, your community, and yourself. I encourage parents to please talk to your children about the seriousness of violent statements and the importance of reporting concerning behavior immediately to school administrators or law enforcement. We are proud of our successful partnership with the Okaloosa County School District as well as those who did the right thing and came forward.

The teen in question was transported to the Department of Juvenile Justice facility near Crestview, WEAR said.

As for the 15-year-old from Volusia County, the sheriff’s office said it responded to a tip about an Atlantic High School student “who posted about shooting up his high school.”

RELATED: 11-year-old arrested for alleged ‘kill list’ at Florida school — just 2 weeks after similar incident in same school district

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Officials said Thursday he’s “in custody for a felony. I can’t solve every issue out there that might cause a 15-year-old to post what he posted. But I can guarantee we’re going to act quickly to protect the 99% of kids who just want to know they’re safe at school. Once again, parents, talk to your kids before they make this mistake.”

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The two major prediction market companies, Kalshi and Polymarket, have determined that they will use what amounts to online betting and rehypothecation schemes to eventually financialize “every difference of opinion” — and both platforms started giving out free groceries in New York City to keep any PR issues at bay. Believe it or not, most bettors lose money.

The sequence of events is remarkable. Kalshi, founded in 2018, came into being first. Polymarket didn’t get started until 2020 but got into operations immediately and grabbed huge market share before Kalshi could get off the ground. Polymarket didn’t have any government authorization to operate but worked the margins and caught attention. The Commodities Futures Trading Commission fined Polymarket and set the company on the overseas sidelines for four years. In the meantime, Kalshi formed quickly and launched in 2021. Jump to 2025, and Polymarket acquired a U.S.-based previously licensed exchange, putting it back in the game.

If it sounds a lot like gambling, that’s because it is a lot like gambling.

Now both companies are mushrooming in value, intent on financializing everything heretofore not yet saleable. Like opinions and politics. Like famous relationship outcomes. And war.

It’s hard to keep perfect track, but Kalshi is currently facing something close to 20 federal lawsuits. Meanwhile, Polymarket, among its own federal legal issues, is currently suing the state of Massachusetts. “Polymarket U.S. now faces a real and imminent risk of identical enforcement,” the lawsuit states, “exposing it to civil penalties, potential criminal liability, forced cessation of operation within Massachusetts, and severe collateral consequences to its nationwide operations.”

So-called prediction markets are trading platforms providing users with the options to create, buy, and sell contracts on future events. If it sounds a lot like gambling, that’s because it is a lot like gambling. The main difference so far appears to be not-so-cleverly veiled legalese and chicanery coupled with the option to place a bet — er, purchase a yes/no contract — but also to sell said financial instrument. Typically once bets are placed, they’re locked.

The capacity to sell your bet opens several of the same secondary market opportunities found in standard stock exchanges — hedging, immediate profit taking, and so forth. Essentially, you can play it like a day trader, except you’re betting on outcomes or events as varied as the winner of the Super Bowl or the likelihood of the halftime performance to involve ambulances and pack animals.

It’s unclear exactly how both of these companies, ostensibly in mortal combat for the market share (estimates vary, but it’s safe to say hundreds of billions of dollars), decided almost simultaneously to cover their optics issues by supplying Big Apple residents with free groceries. Isn’t that SNAP’s job? Are Gotham’s socialist politicians giving advice? Or is this an example of the inevitably messy transition from Boomer to Zoomer/Millennial domination of political and social economy operations?

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The free groceries will buy plenty of favor from the everyman on the street. How, though, will Kalshi or Polymarket deal with the rest of the major financial players who will want their cut?

It gets interesting, because according to Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour, “the long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradeable asset out of any difference in opinion.” This sounds provocative, and it is. However, we know tokenization, digitalization, and any number of other schemes to contort the pricing mechanisms of a free society are already en route. The underlying assumptions regarding control or at least a plausibly accurate prognostication — not just seeing the future, but memeing it into being, a process dubbed hyperstition — should point observers to the potential for even worse insider trading and control schemes than those we suffer under now.

This is the sort of thing you would imagine at the very last phases of civilizational decline, of course. Wild claims of near-divine power, sweeping assaults on the old power order, and an all-out mad scramble for anything resembling monetary advantage. With liquidity always a challenge, Kalshi and Polymarket will likely continue to hemorrhage cash to cover optics until they can grease the regulatory skids and find a place at the table with current giants. Or the current giants will just buy them out. But either way, it appears that the power and danger of prediction markets are here to stay — at least for a while.

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Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton continued her failed campaign against President Donald Trump during a Munich Security Conference discussion on Saturday, characterizing him as a betrayer and destroyer.

After one of Clinton’s more loveless Valentine’s Day rants, an official from the Czech Republic highlighted her Trump derangement syndrome and defended the president, stressing that the man whom Clinton so despises is a “reaction” to the extremism and failures that preceded his rise to power.

‘Can I please finish my points?’

When asked whether America’s shifting relationship with international law “brings a new rift within the West,” Clinton — a champion of the Iraq War and other foreign entanglements that proved ruinous — attacked Trump’s efforts to broker an end to the Ukraine-Russia war, calling his position toward Kyiv “disgraceful” and claiming the embattled nation, which hasn’t had presidential elections for nearly seven years, is “fighting for our democracy and our values of freedom and civilization on the front lines.”

The moderator of the Rockefeller Foundation-backed panel discussion, Bronwen Maddox, director of Chatham House, pressed Clinton further on whether she thinks Trump “has destroyed the West.”

Clinton — the point woman on the Obama administration’s “reset” policy with Russia — enthusiastically responded, “He has betrayed the West. He’s betrayed human values. He’s betrayed the NATO Charter, the Atlantic Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”

RELATED: How Hillary Clinton turned empathy into a political cudgel

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Asked by Maddox whether he agreed with Clinton’s assessment, Czech Republic Deputy Prime Minister Petr Macinka made clear that his outlook isn’t colored by the same personal animus.

Macinka, a right-wing populist, turned to Clinton and said, “First, I think you really don’t like him.”

“You know that is absolutely true!” Clinton responded. “Not only do I not like him, I don’t like him because of what he’s doing to the United States and the world, and I think you should take a hard look at it if you think that there is something good that will come out of that.”

‘Too far from reality.’

Macinka proceeded to note that Trump and his actions in America are a “reaction” to “policies that really went too far — too far from the regular people, too far from reality.”

Despite multiple interruptions from Clinton, the Czech suggested Trump rose in reaction to cancel culture, the “woke revolution,” the “gender revolution,” and climate alarmism.

“Which gender [revolution]?” Clinton interrupted. “Women having their rights?”

After clarifying that he was referring to the incursion of radical gender ideology into the mainstream and anticipating another interruption, Macinka said, “Can I please finish my points? I’m sorry that it makes you nervous. I’m really sorry for that.”

While audience members booed, Clinton said, “Doesn’t make me nervous. It makes me very, very unhappy.”

Macinka proceeded to point out that Ukraine is not fighting for a collective freedom and future but its own, then cast doubt on the supposed beneficence of those in the West trying to help out Kyiv.

While Clinton was attacking him in Germany on Saturday, Trump reshared a Feb. 5 message from Steve Witkoff, his special envoy for peace missions, which noted that “delegations from the United States, Ukraine, and Russia agreed to exchange 314 prisoners — the first such exchange in five months. This outcome was achieved from peace talks that have been detailed and productive.”

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I have written for the Spectator for years. I value it. I read it. I defend it. It remains one of the few places where serious argument is still possible. Which is why Luke Lyman’s recent essay on “Christian nihilism” is so frustrating. It mistakes metaphor for diagnosis — and confusion for insight.

Lyman opens with a disturbing scene: a protester in Minneapolis screaming at armed officers to shoot him. From this single episode, he extrapolates a sweeping claim — that America is drifting into a kind of “Christian nihilism,” a pseudo-religion that mimics Christianity’s language of sacrifice while stripping it of meaning.

What we are witnessing is not Christianity curdled into violence, but the consequences of a culture in which Christian moral limits have collapsed.

As Lyman writes:

Violence serves a central role in Christianity: the hinge of history, the Crucifixion, is bloody. Christ endures the Cross to purify mankind, because he knows we crave purity. Revolutionary leaders have stolen this idea, given it a godless twist, and sold it to their followers to encourage them to sacrifice themselves for whatever cause demands it.

That conclusion does not follow.

A cultural template

This is because Lyman treats Christianity as a cultural template — a set of symbols and emotional cues — rather than as a moral and metaphysical system with hard limits. Once you do that, anything that resembles sacrifice or martyrdom can be described as “Christian-adjacent.” But resemblance is not inheritance. Borrowed language does not imply borrowed belief.

What Lyman is describing is not Christianity emptied of content. It is secular despair borrowing familiar moral imagery. There is nothing Christian about begging for death on camera. Christianity teaches endurance, restraint, and perseverance — not theatrical self-annihilation. It demands self-control and humility. The gospel was not written for livestreams.

Lyman gestures toward Christian theology but never quite engages it. He suggests that Christianity centers on violence because the Crucifixion was bloody. That is like saying surgery centers on knives. The cross is not an endorsement of violence; it is a confrontation with it. Rome used crucifixion to terrorize and dominate. Christ faced that machinery of force and answered it with mercy. When Peter reached for the sword, Christ stopped him.

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Interrupting the cycle

Christianity does not command others to die in God’s name. Christ gives Himself. He absorbs hatred rather than unleashing it. He prays for those driving the nails. That distinction matters. It reverses the logic of every revolutionary movement ever devised. One path runs on rage and always demands another victim. The other interrupts the cycle, insisting that no human life is expendable.

Lyman claims that revolutionary violence is Christianity drained of belief — that figures like Mao or Frantz Fanon merely stole the cross and removed God. This misstates the relationship entirely. Revolutionary ideology does not distort Christianity; it rejects it outright. Christianity insists that every person bears the image of God. Revolutionary politics insists that some lives are disposable. These views do not occupy the same moral universe.

Calling this phenomenon “Christian nihilism” only deepens the confusion. Nihilism denies meaning. Christianity proclaims it. What we are witnessing is not Christianity curdled into violence, but the consequences of a culture in which Christian moral limits have collapsed.

Spiritual starvation

Lyman suggests that Americans secretly want Christianity but refuse the church. There is a grain of truth here. Human beings crave meaning, ritual, belonging, and redemption. But that longing does not turn protests into pseudo-liturgy. It indicates spiritual starvation. What Lyman treats as evidence of Christianity’s corruption is better understood as evidence of its absence.

Minneapolis is not a city of warped martyrs. It is a city where public order has broken down and civic leadership has failed. Dressing that disorder in theological language may sound evocative, but it explains very little.

When Lyman points to murals of George Floyd or grotesque memes about a murdered CEO and sees religious iconography, what he is really observing is a loss of proportion. To blame Christianity for that is to confuse the absence of moral limits with their cause.

American Christianity is not driving mobs into the streets begging for bullets. Churches across the country are feeding families, running recovery programs, rebuilding marriages, and teaching repentance, forgiveness, discipline, and duty. Those are not the ingredients of nihilism. They are the antidote to it.

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When Allie Beth Stuckey took on 20 liberal Christians for a recent Jubilee debate, one question stuck with the BlazeTV host of “Relatable.”

“This might seem a little silly, but a lot of people actually have this question: Is our spirit gendered?” Stuckey says.

“No. Nothing in Scripture points to this idea of our soul and spirit possibly having a separate gender from our biological sex,” she explains, recalling her response in the debate.

“I said, ‘Oh I don’t think that we see that in Scripture at all. That’s not a Christian belief.’ And she said, ‘Well, I’m a part of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.’ And so, I don’t know if this is a tenet of Mormonism,” she says.

“There is definitely a different belief about the spirit and what it is. Different belief about eternity, different belief about Jesus, different belief about time past, different belief about heaven, all different kinds of things that are so far out of the orthodoxy of any denomination of Christianity,” she continues.

“I thought that that was an interesting assertion that I have not heard other Mormons, by the way, believe,” she adds, noting that those who have New Age beliefs or secular people often make points like this to justify transgenderism.

“We see in Genesis 1 that God made us male and female. Sex is a biological reality,” Stuckey responds.

Stuckey explains that in a book titled “Love Thy Body,” author Nancy Pearcey homes in on the philosophy of dualism and how it’s led many people astray in order to separate the spirit from the body and to say the spirit has authority over the body.

“That’s not true. God cares about the body. It’s a temple of the Holy Spirit,” Stuckey adds.

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In the days following a brutal street beating by Antifa members outside a left-wing event, the incident has taken a tragic turn.

On February 12, a 23-year-old man, identified as Quentin, was involved in a violent clash outside an event connected to the French left-wing party La France Insoumise’s MEP Rima Hassan at Sciences Po Lyon, the European Conservative reported.

‘To the unfathomable pain of losing a child must not follow the unbearable impunity of the barbarians responsible for this lynching.’

The incident occurred between anti-fascist groups and the right-wing feminist group Némésis, according to the collective’s director, Alice Cordier.

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The clash began when members of the Némésis group unfurled a banner criticizing “Islamo-fascists,” after which they were physically confronted by antifascist members.

One 19-year-old woman was reportedly strangled and dragged prior to Quentin’s serious beating.

Quentin, who was serving as an informal security detail for Némésis, attempted to protect the female members of the group during the incident. However, he was subsequently ambushed and beaten unconscious as he and a friend were leaving the scene of the incident.

He was later taken to the local hospital in Lyons.

Quentin remained in a coma with a critical brain hemorrhage until Saturday in a condition his family described as “between life and death.”

The European Conservative reported on Saturday that Quentin succumbed to his injuries.

French president Emmanuel Macron declared Quentin “the victim of an unprecedented outburst of violence,” adding that he was sending his “thoughts,” to his family and loved ones.

“In the Republic, no cause, no ideology will ever justify killing. On the contrary, the very purpose of our institutions is to civilize debates and protect the free expression of arguments. Pursuing, bringing to justice and convicting the perpetrators of this infamy is essential. The hatred that kills has no place among us. I call for calm, restraint and respect,” Macron added.

French conservative leader Marine Le Pen also issued a statement upon news of Quentin’s death: “After clinging to life, Quentin breathed his last. To his family and loved ones shattered by this terrible ordeal, I send my heartfelt thoughts and my deepest compassion. To the unfathomable pain of losing a child must not follow the unbearable impunity of the barbarians responsible for this lynching. It will be for justice to judge and condemn with the utmost severity this criminal act of unprecedented violence.”

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One year ago, President Trump signed an executive order directing his administration to develop policy recommendations to protect access to in-vitro fertilization, expand its availability, and lower its cost to patients.

In October, the administration announced additional measures to lower costs for IVF and common fertility drugs and explore pathways like expanded employer benefits or excepted benefit categories for assisted reproductive technologies. While this included joint efforts across federal agencies to make this costly intervention more affordable, the administration stopped short of imposing broad new federal mandates for insurance coverage or direct government funding of IVF.

The more than $20,000 invested in each IVF cycle, only to achieve a 25%-30% success rate, would be better spent on other economic incentives to encourage family formation.

The problem of below-replacement fertility rates in the United States — which poses serious demographic, social, and economic challenges — has gained some political attention since the last election.

As of 2024, the fertility rate in the U.S. stands at a record low of 1.6 births per woman of childbearing age, well below the replacement rate of 2.1. This drop continues a downward trend that began in the early 2000s and accelerated after the 2008 recession.

Trump frames his support for IVF as a way for the government to support couples who desire to start or grow families. While this administration has not yet enacted universal “free” IVF, the policies show clear support for making IVF accessible to more Americans.

Why IVF won’t fix the birth dearth

The notion that expanding access to IVF will measurably alleviate our fertility crisis is pure fantasy.

First, the goal of achieving a significant number of additional births using government-supported IVF will prove cost-prohibitive. The procedure typically runs $15,000 per cycle plus $5,000 for medications.

Second, the success rates tend to be low. A typical IVF cycle achieves pregnancy in about 20%-35% of cases for women under 35, and that number drops further with age.

IVF is usually employed for infertile women who have been unable to conceive naturally. But infertility, while far from a trivial issue, is not a significant driver of our low birth rates.

A 2013 Gallup poll found that, on average, American adults want to have between two and three children, a statistic that has remained unchanged since the 1970s. The 5% of adults who do not want to have children has not changed much since 1990.

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For the most part, medical problems do not explain why so many Americans are not realizing their desire for children. The main source of our birth dearth is not biological but economic. More than three-quarters of those who want more children but do not have them cite financial considerations as the main reason.

If that’s the problem, then the more than $20,000 invested in each IVF cycle, only to achieve a 25%-30% success rate, would be better spent on other economic incentives to encourage family formation for those who believe they cannot afford children.

We can and should argue over the details of specific proposals — whether child tax credits, support for stay-at-home moms, or other measures — but these approaches promise to deliver far more per dollar than IVF.

If you want more babies, simply creating them in a petri dish will not do. We need to make it more affordable for Americans to raise these children after they are born.

The ethical costs IVF can’t escape

Even when it helps couples to have a child, IVF comes with serious ethical costs.

Clinics compete in the market based on success rates. Because egg harvesting is an invasive and sometimes risky procedure, IVF cycles typically aim to create as many embryos as possible — usually more than the couple intends to bring to birth.

Unused embryos go into frozen storage but can later be thawed and implanted. In one 2022 experiment, run by its very nature without consent, twins were born after 30 years in cold storage. Their adoptive father was five years old when they were first conceived.

No one knows precisely how many embryos now sit in cryopreservation, because clinics are not required to report these numbers. Estimates range from 500,000 to millions.

Research supports the common-sense notion that, whenever possible, it would be preferable to make babies in the bedroom rather than the laboratory.

Many end up abandoned by parents who stop paying the $500-$1,000 yearly storage fees and fail to respond to repeated outreach from clinics. Most parents remain reluctant to allow clinics to destroy their spare embryos, suggesting at least moral ambivalence.

Other options exist, but they rarely satisfy. Parents can adopt out embryos to another infertile couple or donate them to embryo-destructive research. Parents rarely consent to either, likely out of similar moral reticence.

These parents know well what happens when those “clumps of cells” are placed in a mother’s womb.

Thus, parents who do not want to raise additional children are stuck in an insoluble ethical conundrum; their embryos are left in a cryogenic nursery limbo.

It’s hard to entirely blame IVF clients for this when all available choices seem morally problematic. Even when informed of these options before starting IVF, most couples admit they were singularly focused on achieving a pregnancy and rarely considered what would happen to excess embryos until later.

In creating countless human embryos that will never be placed in a uterus — the only conducive environment for embryonic life — we have created a problem for which there is no morally just solution. This should invite us to re-evaluate the practice that created this insoluble quandary in the first place.

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Better answers for infertility

We need to acknowledge the anguish of infertility for couples trying unsuccessfully to conceive. There are better solutions than IVF to offer them, however.

The egg-harvesting phase of IVF introduces nontrivial medical risks. Although we need more longitudinal data, current evidence suggests significant risks also for the child conceived by this procedure.

Those risks include elevated risks for birth defects and chronic illness later in life, such as cardiovascular problems and metabolic dysregulation, cognitive impairment, and perhaps even cancer, possibly due to epigenetic changes introduced by the procedure.

This research supports the common-sense notion that, whenever possible, it would be preferable to make babies in the bedroom rather than the laboratory.

Nevertheless, the focus on IVF as the solution to infertility — and often the first solution offered to infertile couples — has dampened research and clinical efforts aimed at treating the underlying causes of infertility.

Instead of focusing on IVF, the Trump administration should support medical interventions that help previously infertile couples to conceive a child in the womb.

As in many other areas of contemporary medicine, we reach immediately for medically invasive, lab-based procedures. We offer couples a work-around, instead of assessing and attempting to correct the underlying cause.

Interventions under the umbrella of restorative reproductive medicine range from dietary changes or hormone balancing to, in some cases, medications or surgery.

This approach accords with the push to “Make America Healthy Again” by addressing root causes of our epidemic of chronic illness, rather than applying superficial, expensive, and suboptimal quick fixes.

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What policy can do

Several challenges stand in the way of making these interventions available and accessible to more couples, which sensible policies can begin to address.

Research is inadequately funded. We also currently lack sufficient training for physicians in assessing and treating the root causes of infertility.

Among the most common causes of infertility is endometriosis — a condition that not only makes it difficult or impossible to maintain a pregnancy but also, if uncorrected, causes intense pain and other troublesome symptoms.

However, many physician specialists are not trained in the complex surgical approach required to adequately treat endometriosis to allow for pregnancy. Other such examples abound.

A better path forward

We should applaud the administration’s laudable goal of helping infertile couples to bear children. But IVF is not the right solution.

Instead of putting all our eggs in one basket, we need a capacious approach to supporting fertility that does more to address the root causes of infertility and, whenever possible, restores reproductive function the way nature intended.

This strategy respects human life at all stages and avoids insoluble ethical quandaries. It also offers a recipe for happier parents and healthier children.

Surely this is a proposal for addressing our fertility crisis that all Americans can endorse.

Editor’s note: A version of this article was published originally at the American Mind.

​Opinion 

Recently, on my internet travels, I have come across numerous mentions of a magazine called Evie. Because of the name, I assumed it was for women.

But I also noticed that Evie has generated a fair amount of pushback since it was founded in 2019. Woman on both sides of the political spectrum seem to have a problem with it. Whenever it comes up, they roll their eyes and snort with contempt.

Now I really wanted to uncover the truth about Evie. Was it a boring trad-life women’s magazine? Or a fascist, male supremacist call to arms?

For this reason, I assumed the worst. It must be a cringe lifestyle magazine. Or maybe a New Age yoga blog. Or something like Gwyneth Paltrow’s famously weird lifestyle platform GOOP.

Just yesterday, I heard someone mention it again, this time on a right-leaning podcast. The female host, in a sneering, exasperated voice, said: “Don’t get me started on Evie!” As if Evie were the most awkward, annoying, embarrassing development in contemporary female culture.

Buy-curious

Because of this, I decided to look at Evie. And here’s what I found.

First off, Evie looks exactly like an issue of Cosmopolitan magazine circa 2005. Or Mademoiselle. Or Elle. Or any of those semi-trashy glossy women’s mags I remember from my youth.

I actually used to like those magazines. Especially when they indulged in classic “listicle”-style pieces like: “7 Sex Tips to Drive Your Man Wild!” “5 Ways to Seduce that Hot Guy at the Gym.” “6 Signs Your Boss Wants to Sleep with your Husband.”

I loved the dumbness of these articles. And how you felt compelled to read them anyway. And how funny they could be, if the writer struck the right tongue-in-cheek tone.

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Marital embrace

My curiosity aroused, I decided to read a full article in Evie. I found one that caught my eye: “How to Plan a Date That Actually Leads to Sex.”

Wow, I thought. Evie really is like a modern-day Cosmopolitan! (The old Cosmo being extremely “pro-sex.”)

But as I read through the article, it didn’t make sense. Why was the writer talking about her husband?

So then I went back and read the title again, and saw that it actually said: “How to Plan a Date Night That Actually Leads to Sex.”

That was a lot different. A “date night” is, of course, a date between a husband and wife. So what this article was actually about was how to get married couples to have sex with each other.

This would suggest that Evie is trad. And conservative. And pro-marriage. But then why are conservative women so embarrassed by it?

Maybe because it’s conservative in a boring way? Was it too trad?

Sex and the single girl

So then I Googled Evie, to see what other people thought (and why nobody liked it). It turns out Evie openly calls itself “a conservative version of Cosmopolitan magazine.”

So Evie was definitely doing the trad thing. But it was doing it in a very wholesome, 1950s way. It was more for women in the Midwest, women who were not super in touch with their bodies. Which was why it had a lot of articles about baking pies. And homemaking. And dealing with your husband’s sleep apnea.

That’s probably why sophisticated, younger women didn’t like it, even if they agreed with its politics. It was too corny. It was sexually repressed. It wasn’t “smart” enough.

Fun fascism?

So then I looked up Evie on Wikipedia. And I was wrong again! It turns out that Evie is not boring at all. It’s the ADVANCE GUARD of a FASCIST TAKEOVER OF AMERICA!

According to Wikipedia:

Evie published conspiracy theories, pseudoscientific content, and anti-vaccine misinformation. … Evie is an antifeminist publication. It has been characterized as alt-right and far-right. In 2023, the Southern Poverty Law Center identified Evie as a preeminent publication supporting the male supremacist politics of the hard right. In 2025, The New York Times described Evie’s content as promoting “positions that are fringe even within conservative circles — criticisms of no-fault divorce and I.V.F., for example — packaged in a fun and approachable format.

Wow. So Evie was actually radical caveman conservatism! Like men hitting women over the head with clubs. And then dragging them back to their cave!

But Evie was apparently even worse than that. According to Futurism magazine, as quoted by Wikipedia, Evie is full of:

harmful content including … a bevy of wildly unscientific assertions about women’s health, anti-trans fearmongering, unsupported “psyop” conspiracies, and pro-life messaging that often includes false claims about safe and effective abortion drugs …

Boob noob

Now I really wanted to uncover the truth about Evie. Was it a boring trad-life women’s magazine? Or a fascist, male supremacist call to arms?

I resolved to read deeper into Evie. I began to explore the archives. Some of the articles I read:

5 Reasons I Regret My Boob JobI Taped My Mouth Shut Every Night for 2 Years — Here’s How It Changed My LifeMen’s Favorite Types of Dresses on Women: Does the sundress really live up to the hype?Why So Many Women Feel Worse after TherapyThe Wife’s Guide to the Morning Quickie He’ll Think About All Day

All of these articles were pretty fluffy and insubstantial, as you would expect. But they weren’t exactly “far-right male supremacy” either.

I’ll Tumblr for ya

Then I read an article called “The Resurrection of the Tumblr Girl.” This piece stood out from the rest. It was longer and more thoughtful.

This article discussed the pre-2014 Tumblr era, when young people (mostly young women) shared their “aesthetics” on Tumblr. “Aesthetics” meaning their favorite music, art, fashion, poetry, etc.

This sharing and intermingling of people’s individual tastes was the exact opposite of the environment young people live in now. Where everything is politicized, all thinking is black and white, and people are required to yell, scream, and assault one another over the manufactured controversies of the day.

This article made the great point that Tumblr‘s “aesthetics” culture was a far healthier and more organic youth movement than the political hysteria we see today. Especially for young women.

“Resurrection of the Tumblr Girl” was calling for a revival of the aesthetics movement and signs that it was coming back. It actually gave me hope.

So that’s my take on Evie. It’s a chatty, somewhat superficial, Cosmopolitan-style women’s magazine, with a clearly conservative perspective.

But also, like the original Cosmopolitan, there is some intelligent, insightful writing hidden in there as well. So I would warn against dismissing it.

Also, if you enjoy a good “morning quickie” article — and who doesn’t? — there are plenty of those too.

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Lying in politics has changed. Politicians used to lie in hopes of getting away with it. Now they don’t care. If you throw enough mud on the windshield, some of it will stick.

Case in point: Illinois Democrat Senator Dick Durbin’s use on the Senate floor of an obviously doctored image of immigration agents pointing a gun at the back of Alex Pretti’s head. One of the agents in the image is even missing a head. The picture is still circulating. Nothing dies on the internet.

Lying could not make way so easily were it not for the fact that we are passing through a pandemic of lunacy.

If you want to provide an instance of a lie on the other side of the aisle, feel free. My point isn’t partisan.

Decades ago, one of my grad school teachers asked me, “Why do you think there is so much lying in politics today?” Too young for a real sense of history, I thought the question silly. Don’t people always think things were better in the old days?

But sometimes, some things do get worse. Truthfulness is taking it on the nose, and the virtue is even more endangered today than when my teacher quizzed me all those years ago. Ordinary people lie too, but the great masters of lying today are politicians — with this difference. A true master of a craft understands what he is doing. Habitual liars find it harder and harder to keep track of when they are lying and when they aren’t.

Some reasons for the increase in lying are pretty obvious. There are fewer consequences for lying. It is harder to bring them to bear. Honesty isn’t drilled into children as once it was. AI and social media have made it much easier not only to lie but also to organize in doing so.

Less obvious reasons involve advances in lying’s technique. Adolf Hitler promulgated the Big Lie: one so enormous that no one can believe you would tell such a whopper. Our version works not by size but by numbers: If you lie about everything, nobody can believe you would lie so much. Politicians who lie about everything also lie that everything their opponents say is a lie.

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The sun is shining? There you go again. I’m lying? You’re just trying to distract attention.

New techniques of lying get a boost from new technologies for making elites irresponsible to those whom they supposedly serve. The political organization of deviance. The whetting of tribal hatreds. The cultivation of a permanent crisis. The development of addictive social media.

Beyond advances in techniques are changes in the motives for using them. We are in a slow-burning constitutional crisis. Older politicians lied mostly to cover up things like graft, but newer ones lie to cover up attempts to subvert the political system itself. Once someone has lied on a grand enough scale, he acquires a motive to lie even more grandly, just to keep from being exposed. With enough lying, the very act of exposing lies is discredited.

Lying could not make way so easily were it not for the fact that we are passing through a pandemic of lunacy, in which huge numbers of people, on both sides of the spectrum, hold beliefs that are not just loopy, but harmful and contagious. In a recent book, I detail 30 of these delusions, but for the moment, let me focus on two that are especially relevant to political lying.

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One concerns the nature of right and wrong: Sometimes we just have to do the wrong thing. We think that to make things come out right, we may lie.

More and more of the things that pass under the name of making things better make them inexpressibly worse. We justify burning down neighborhoods “to advance racial justice.” We lie about political opponents “because they want to do bad things.” We give false testimony “because we just know” the accused person must deserve something bad. We unjustly penalize honest people “just to give others a chance.” We “solve the problem” of unwanted children by killing them all, telling ourselves that they aren’t really children unless we choose to believe that they are. We slaughter countless numbers so that no one will have a “poorer quality of life.”

We lie about all of it.

The other concerns the nature of reality: Things are whatever we say they are. It’s easy to be indifferent to the facts if you think saying something makes it true. One day in a university course I teach, we were discussing the nature of marriage. Some students were puzzled: How could marriage have a nature? As one said, “We can define things however we want.”

Many of their teachers would have agreed because “truth is whatever works.” Presumably, a belief “works” if it brings about what we desire. But a lie might easily do that, and by this pragmatist theory, a lie that works isn’t actually a lie. If you live in an echo chamber in which everyone says the same thing, it’s easier still to think it is true. And our echo chambers are very well organized.

There is only one real antidote to all these lies and delusions, without which no other reform can succeed: thinking clearly. The hard thing is that we may not want to think clearly. May God grant us the grace to start wanting to.

Editor’s note: This article was originally published by RealClearPolitics and made available via RealClearWire.

​Opinion 

Much lore surrounds scripture’s mysterious “Antichrist” — the false messiah prophesied to come in the End Times as a supreme and final embodiment of rebellion against God prior to Christ’s Second Coming.

For centuries, Bible scholars have debated this climactic future figure; Christians have theorized about who it might be (often pointing to corrupt elites); and Hollywood has used the sinister being as horror movie fuel.

But this hyper-fixation on the capital-A Antichrist, says BlazeTV host Jase Robertson, can distract from another part of scripture perhaps even more worthy of our attention: There are already antichrists living among us.

No place in scripture is this more evident than in 1 John.

In 1 John 2:18, he warns that “many antichrists have come.” Two chapters later, he lays bare what an antichrist is: “every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus” (4:3). This kind of spirit, he says, is “not from God” and is “already in the world.”

In other words, the denial of Jesus’ deity is the spirit of the antichrist, and it’s lurking everywhere.

John’s words remain strikingly relevant today. The spreading of darkness, erosion of truth, and deterioration of morality are evidence that the spirit of the antichrist is alive and well.

It’s this reality — not a future singular villain, the Robertsons warn — that impacts our daily lives, and yet many Christians, perhaps to their detriment, obsess over who the Antichrist is or will be.

“Look, I’ve got a guy who I love dearly. He’s one of my best friends in the world, and he got to 2 Thessalonians 2 in his Bible study, and he’s never gone forward or backwards,” says Jase. “He wants to know who the ‘man of sin’ is, and he wants a detailed account.”

Second Thessalonians 2:3 mentions a “man of sin” proclaiming himself God, who many Christians and scholars interpret as a direct reference to the final Antichrist.

Jase believes his friend, and others who get hung up on pinpointing the Antichrist, is missing the bigger point.

“The one in us is greater,” says Jase, referencing 1 John 4:4.

“The ‘man of sin’ — I don’t need to know exactly if that’s one person. I see that in men everywhere,” he continues.

The question it ultimately comes down to, says Jase, is: “Are you in Jesus or are you anti-Jesus?”

“I think [antichrists] are people who are intentionally trying to persuade people and deceive people away from Christ,” adds co-host Zach Dasher, “and the reason why I say that is because in [1 John 2] verse 26, he says, ‘The reason why I write these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you.”’

Even though John was writing in the late first century, his words hold just as true in our time.

Zach points to a story he heard recently about a young Christian whose faith was badly “damaged” after he watched a series of social media videos from a professor who was making “incredibly compelling cases of why the Bible’s not real, why Jesus isn’t who He said He was.”

Eventually, however, it was exposed that this professor’s arguments were “blatant lies.”

“I think that’s more the spirit of the Antichrist,” says Zach.

To hear more of the panel’s discussion, watch the full episode above.

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