It’s Day 2 of the Schumer Shutdown, and Chuck is singing a different tune about this government funding impasse than he sang just six months ago. When the government faced a potential shutdown in March, 10 Senate Democrats, including Chuck Schumer, voted to keep the government open. Here’s how Schumer explained his position then: “Under a shutdown, the Trump administration would have wide-ranging authority to deem whole agencies, programs, and personnel nonessential, furloughing staff members with no promise they would ever be rehired.” In other words, he didn’t want to give… Read More

The fake news media was working overtime, spinning the remarks of President Trump and Secretary of War Hegseth to our nation’s top military commanders into the most outrageous lies. Thankfully, the meeting was broadcast live for the entire nation to see, and it is easy to see through the media’s lies. Here’s a headline from USA Today: “Trump Threatens Demotions At Military Summit.” Newsweek put it this way: “Trump Threatens to Fire Generals ‘On the Spot’ if He Doesn’t Like Them.” Both of those headlines are lies. Here’s the truth. When President Trump began his remarks, he… Read More

President Trump released a 20-point Middle East peace plan at a White House event yesterday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. You can read the full plan here. I am skeptical that the plan will succeed. Not because it’s a bad plan, but because I doubt Hamas will really accept it. Under Trump’s plan, Gaza must become “a deradicalized terror-free zone” and Hamas must disarm. It will have no “role in the governance of Gaza, directly, indirectly, or in any form.” Then again, given the reality on the ground, Hamas has few options. President Trump warned that if Hamas… Read More

Another place of worship was attacked yesterday. Thomas Jacob Sanford drove his truck into a Mormon church in Grand Blanc, Michigan, during Sunday services. He then opened fire on the congregation, killing two people and wounding eight more. Sanford also set the church on fire, which killed at least two more people and destroyed the church. He was taken down by responding police officers. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Fox News this morning that the FBI believes Sanford hated Mormons. The FBI is investigating the attack as an “act of targeted violence.”… Read More

I urge you to drop whatever you’re doing and read the latest article from influential Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan. It’s an incredibly moving column about Charlie Kirk’s memorial service, but it makes an important point. She contends that faith-based voters have always been part of the Republican coalition, but they weren’t taken seriously by the political establishment until the Reagan administration. Peggy was one of the top speechwriters in the Reagan White House when I worked there, too, heading up President Reagan’s domestic policy development office. Peggy’s column… Read More

There’s good news on the economy today. Jobless claims were much lower than the “experts” predicted. Consumer spending was up, as were durable goods purchases—more expensive items meant to last a long time. An increase in such purchases generally suggests a healthy economy. And there’s more. Second quarter gross domestic product, a measure of the overall economy, was revised up to 3.8%, a strong figure. In addition, new home sales last month rose to a three-year high. And while existing home sales were down, the decline was much lower than expected. Housing is a big driver of… Read More

A sniper opened fire on a Dallas immigration facility this morning. Three illegal alien detainees were hit. One detainee died in yet another outburst of left-wing violence. The sniper killed himself. The FBI confirmed that the sniper had written “ANTI-ICE” on his bullet casings. It’s likely his targets were ICE agents. This attack happened in an atmosphere of hate promoted by left-wing politicians and media. Daily we are told that federal immigration police are the Gestapo. Yesterday, six women who ambushed another Texas immigration facility (see below) were booked into the Wichita… Read More

President Donald Trump addressed the United Nations General Assembly this morning in New York City. His remarks had a rocky start as the teleprompter wasn’t working. Trump quipped, “Whoever is operating this teleprompter is in big trouble.” The president reminded the gathered diplomats of all the global conflicts he has resolved in his first seven months in office. He criticized the United Nations for not even trying to resolve these conflicts. “All they [the U.N.] seem to do is write a very strongly worded letter and never follow that letter up. Empty words don’t solve war. The only… Read More

Charlie Kirk’s memorial service was no funeral. It was an hours-long worship service. It was a revival. It was a celebration of faith in Jesus. It was a tribute to the incredible impact Charlie Kirk made in his all-too-short life. Two hundred thousand people turned out to attend the memorial. The NFL’s State Farm Stadium had no more room. The NHL’s Desert Diamond Arena was also packed. In addition, more than 100 million people streamed the memorial service. Charlie’s impact could be seen in the incredible roster of speakers and high-profile attendees who came to honor him:… Read More

The “Big Lie” about Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension is upsetting some of our libertarian conservative friends. Democrats are claiming it was “censorship,” an “abuse of government power,” and “Trump acting like a dictator.” Leftist commentators are calling it “fascism.” Yes, we’re back to that already. Here is the reality. When it comes to the major broadcast networks, the government does have a lot of authority. Those networks must have licenses from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to operate on public airwaves. Those licenses have always stated that the networks must operate… Read More

“Charlie Kirk wasn’t killed by ‘them.’ ‘They’ didn’t pull the trigger. One person did, apparently a young man driven by impulse and a terrible hate. . . Using Charlie’s murder to justify retaliation against political rivals is wrong and dangerous. It will further divide and embitter our country. No good thing will come of it.” That was the message Karl Rove chose to share with us today in a Wall Street Journal column. Rove may be legally correct that one man pulled the trigger and that man is being charged in a court of law. But his larger point is wrong because it completely… Read More

Luigi Mangione, Ryan Routh, and Tyler Robinson all appeared in court yesterday for their crimes of murder or attempted murder. All three are men of the Left. When it comes to political violence, there is no “both sides.”

In some fundamental ways that can’t be fully explained now, I believe a Rubicon has indeed been crossed. Historically, it’s like the firing on Fort Sumter or the bombing of Pearl Harbor. There’s no going back. Here are some conclusions I have reached. I will reject anyone who says, “Both sides need to tone down their rhetoric.” We don’t rob the Left of their humanity. They do that to us. I reject the “On the one hand and on the other hand” arguments over things Charlie Kirk said. There is no other hand. Nothing he said justifies his assassination. I will not be seduced by calls for… Read More

When Erika Kirk was being driven in a hearse with the body of her husband, she held a cross in her hand out of the window. Any camera focused on that hearse could not avoid the cross. People who hate the cross of Jesus had just killed her husband and the father of her children, and she is boldly displaying that cross. Her courage should inspire all of us. We should expect our pastors and church leaders to be as brave as that widow. For those of us who are Christian men, shame on us if we come up with more cowardly excuses about why we are not in this battle for our country. Erika Kirk… Read More

During an appearance on Fox & Friends this morning, President Trump broke the news that Charlie Kirk’s assassin had been captured and was in police custody. Later, Utah Governor Spencer Cox, FBI Director Kash Patel, and other law enforcement officials held a press conference and provided additional details. Here’s what we know:

Charlie Kirk had an amazing life. He was drawn to the political arena at a young age, founding Turning Point USA in 2012—straight out of high school. He built it into a political powerhouse. In the 2024 elections, Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA were essential to the GOP’s voter turnout efforts and to Donald Trump’s election. At 31 years old, Charlie Kirk was one of the most influential and effective leaders of the conservative movement. He had a tremendous future ahead of him. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., wrote, “Once again, a bullet has silenced the most eloquent truth… Read More

My good friend and ally, Charlie Kirk, was shot today during one of his signature events engaging with college students at Utah Valley University. President Trump has just confirmed and we are heartbroken to report that Charlie Kirk is dead. We join the president in sorrow and in praise for Charlie. He was loved and admired by all. There will be many reactions to this news. But the one reaction that is not acceptable is to let this overwhelm us with discouragement and fear. Instead, we be should inspired by Charlie’s life to stand even stronger for Faith, Family, and Freedom.

Following up on President Trump’s tremendous address yesterday to the Religious Liberty Commission, the White House released a list of “100 Victories for People of Faith.” It’s an impressive list of accomplishments and actions on many issues men and women of faith care deeply about—and many issues American Values has been working on for years. I encourage you to read the list and share it with friends and family members. This list is proof of why it is so important for men and women of faith to be active and informed Christian citizens. Your values matter. Your votes make a difference… Read More

I was in Colorado Springs Friday for an important event honoring the life and legacy of Dr. James Dobson and planning for the future of the James Dobson Family Institute. I reminded the attendees of how dedicated President Trump is to protecting religious liberty. He has done more to protect the free exercise of faith than any president in modern American history. I was reassuring the audience about the president’s commitment to religious freedom when evidence of his commitment became available. The Justice Department’s Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias released a report… Read More

I was shocked 25 years ago when I discovered that students at a Minneapolis high school had never heard the sentence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” They were mystified by these words from our Declaration of Independence. That was 25 years ago. Now, we have Democrat senators with Harvard Law degrees who don’t know America’s founding principles.

House Republicans are forming a new committee to investigate the events of January 6, 2021. Some may argue that this is a “waste of time” or “dwelling in the past.” That’s wrong. This is about righting past wrongs. Nancy Pelosi’s January 6th Committee was a Stalinist kangaroo court stage-managed by a Hollywood executive. It must be thoroughly exposed as such. The committee was stacked against Donald Trump. Pelosi even handpicked Never Trumpers Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger to be the “Republican” members of the committee. Numerous lies were enshrined in history books, and those lies… Read More

In recent weeks, the FBI has arrested two deranged leftists who made repeated threats to kill President Trump. Washington, D.C., grand juries refused to indict them. Judge James Boasberg, a Trump-hating Obama appointee, released one of the wannabe assassins with an ankle bracelet and urged her to get mental health treatment. Perhaps the judge could join her for the mental health care. She was arrested on her way to Washington, D.C., and had posted this on social media: “I literally told FBI in five states today that I am willing to sacrificially kill this POTUS by disemboweling… Read More

President Trump just wrapped up another Oval Office press conference, taking many questions from reporters after making two big announcements. Trump’s transparency and willingness to engage the media stand in stark contrast to the way “Sleepy Joe’s” handlers hid him from the media. The main purpose of today’s press conference was to announce that the Space Force’s command headquarters would be moved from Colorado to Huntsville, Alabama. President Trump cited Colorado’s corrupt all mail-in ballot election system as a major reason for the move. The left-wing media will spin this… Read More

The fake news media have already begun to move on from the Minneapolis church shooting. The facts don’t fit the narrative the Left wants to push. In fact, they are either ignoring the facts or lying about them. Well, I’m not moving on. We need to talk about what happened in the aftermath of that evil attack. It is revealing that the Left’s reaction to a horrific attack on a church by a transgender individual is to attack Christian prayer. The left-wing mayor of Minneapolis essentially said, “What good is prayer? These children were killed when they were literally praying.” That’s… Read More

Satan wrote the script for the atrocities that transpired yesterday at a Minneapolis Catholic church and school. The transgender shooter’s message, “Where’s your God now,” wasn’t referring to Allah. It was referring to the God of the Bible, the God Catholics, Jews, and Protestants worship. The only God, by the way. “Where’s your God now” was Satan mocking God. The transgender shooter hated Christians. He used a picture of Jesus for target practice. He also had a burning hatred for Jews and Israel. Satan would have given him a standing ovation. The Jews were the people through whom our… Read More

A demonic force was unleashed in Minneapolis today. An evil individual opened fire on a Catholic church this morning, shooting through the windows from the outside as children were attending a back-to-school mass. Multiple children, praying in their pews, were shot. An eight-year-old child and a ten-year-old child were killed. Fourteen other children were injured. Two are in critical condition. The shooter took his own life at the scene. He posted a video online that shows multiple bullet holders or magazines with messages on them, including “for the children,” “Where’s your God now,”… Read More

The left-wing media outlet Axios can always be relied on to display the “zeitgeist” of Washington elites. That’s why Axios is having a fit over President Trump’s efforts to defend American culture and traditions. The entire secular globalist juggernaut gets most frenetic whenever they see any attempt to restore a sense of moral purpose and virtue to the American experiment in ordered liberty under God. It drives them crazy because they are moral relativists. One of the reasons they don’t want borders, in addition to crass political reasons, is that they don’t see any difference in… Read More

The socialists and neo-Marxists who control today’s Democrat Party continue to fall on their swords for all the wrong people. The weekend news talk shows were filled with failed big city mayors blasting President Trump’s desire to get crime under control. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, whose approval rating is 26%, was on MSDNC yesterday. When asked about the possibility of President Trump sending National Guard troops to Chicago to help the city deal with crime, Johnson replied: “We’re going to remain firm. We’ll take legal action. But the people of this city are accustomed to rising… Read More

It’s been a tough 24 hours, as I join with countless others mourning the passing of Dr. James Dobson. Dr. Dobson and I devoted much of our lives to winning the war for the hearts and minds of our children. In 1990, Jim and I co-wrote a book on that very theme called “Children at Risk.” Each child is a gift from God, made in His image. As parents, we have a moral obligation to protect them as the battle Jim and I warned about decades ago rages on today. First, a child has to be fortunate enough to get out of the womb alive. Powerful forces want to abort as many children as they can… Read More

Today, I have sad news. My good friend Dr. James Dobson has passed away. Family, faith, and freedom were the core of James Dobson’s life. His passion for the family drove Dr. Dobson to become one of America’s leading authorities on child psychology. His faith led him to start Focus on the Family and other pro-family ministries. Jim and Shirley Dobson were deeply involved in the National Day of Prayer. For 25 years, Shirley led the organization that conducted observances for the National Day of Prayer. While Dr. Dobson is most well-known for Focus on the Family, his leadership in the… Read More