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Albert Mohler: The Culture of Death in Massachusetts Aug 18, 2026

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August 10, Massachusetts became the 11th state in the union to pass legislation with absolutely no limits on abortion.

Democratic Governor Maura Healey hosted a signing ceremony and a lengthy press conference.

We need to understand what we’re talking about here: There’s a basic worldview collision between the culture of life and the culture of death. In the culture of life, every single human life is respected from the point of fertilization until natural death, making something like abortion not only wrong, but morally unthinkable.

The culture of death is so absolutely enraptured with personal autonomy that it can be used to deny or even take the life of others.

Just days before Governor Healy signed this radical abortion legislation, she signed a Family Welfare Act that included expansions for child welfare in Massachusetts. The governor said then, and I quote, "Every child deserves the opportunity to grow up safe, supported, and set up to succeed." Understand this, she actually means every child outside the womb and no child inside the womb.

This is just haunting.

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Carol Platt Liebau: What the WNBA Is Lacking Aug 17, 2026

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A furor erupted in the WNBA recently, after Indiana Fever player Sophie Cunningham called it “common sense” to ban transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports.

The league’s collective bargaining agreement says that only women are eligible to play in the WNBA—but never defines what a “woman” is. The commissioner calls the issue “nuanced,” while the players association calls for diversity and inclusion.

Now they’re being taken at their word. Two former NBA players say they’ll declare for the 2027 WNBA draft—exposing the absurdity of rules that refuse to acknowledge biological reality.

The WNBA has brought all this on itself. It’s time to define “woman” — or risk sidelining female athletes in the league created specifically for them.

There’s nothing “nuanced” about protecting women’s sports. It requires only courage, clarity, and plain common sense.

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Carol Platt Liebau: Corruption Exposed at Cambridge Aug 14, 2026

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Americans already suspect that higher education is a politicized grift. And Jason Arday’s story won’t convince them otherwise.

Arday was celebrated as the youngest black person ever appointed to a professorship at Cambridge — despite a history of fabulism that defies belief. He’s claimed to have been nonverbal until age 11; unable to read until 18; to have run 600 miles in 65 days; raised more than $7 million for charity; survived a coma; and beaten cancer.

Neither Cambridge nor Simon & Schuster, publisher of his autobiography, apparently thought to verify his claims. He’s resigned after a plagiarism scandal and a pending investigation about his academic qualifications and honorary appointments.

Here’s the lesson: Rather than making academia more inclusive and equitable, DEI has exposed just how corrupt the whole enterprise has become.

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Seth Leibsohn: Beware of Woke 2.0 Aug 13, 2026

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Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez recently told a credulous Jonathan Karl of ABC that “Woke 1.0 was crazy,” when asked about certain Democratic Socialists of America candidate positions from the recent past. She then went on to state “[D]uring Covid, there was a huge opening of the Overton Window. We were shut down….I think that during lockdown…rhetoric in that time is not rhetoric that we would use today.”

It didn’t occur to Karl to ask what Covid had to do with nostrums like abolishing the police, men could be women, Thanksgiving should be cancelled, riots (if from the left) were peaceful. Of course, the answer is: Nothing. And if Woke 1.0 is now passe, why? And is it better than Woke 2.0, which now includes defending and marching for terrorist organizations, including the day after they slaughtered hundreds of innocents, including dozens of Americans?

AOC is a member of the DSA. Their party has a number Marxist caucuses today. If Woke 1.0 is outdated, beware of Woke 2.0.

It’s better labeled Marxist-Islamism.

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Hugh Hewitt: A Test for Collective Commonsense in Michigan Aug 12, 2026

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Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan's recent primary for the United States Senate seat that is open in Michigan. He's the most radical Democratic nominee for the Senate since the Civil War. He'll face GOP congressmen and army veteran, FBI, special agent as well, Mike Rogers in the fall.

El-Sayed campaigns with an Islamist supporting extremist by the name of Hasan Piker, who's also a racist and a misogynist.

That El-Sayed hates the state of Israel is not open for debate. He does.

Most Jews and many non-Jews believe that El-Sayed is antisemitic to the core.

Rogers v. El-Sayed is the most important race of 2026.

Michigan's collective common sense will be tested over the next three months.

Will they vote for an experienced, responsible, serious legislator who understands the world and America's role in it and support Mike Rogers?

Or will they vote for the radical who cares for “from the river to the sea” more than he does the national security of the United States?

My money is on Mike Rogers.

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Carol Platt Liebau: New York City and the Jewish Question Aug 11, 2026

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani recently announced the people will advise him on his judicial appointments. Notably, not even one of the mayor’s 18-person Judicial Advisory Panel is Jewish.

This is no small feat in a city where one in eight residents is Jewish – and between thirty-five and fifty percent of the city bar is Jewish. In fact, the odds of this omission of a single Jew occurring by chance has been estimated at four ten-thousandths of one percent.

Alone, this exclusion would be disturbing. But it’s part of a broader pattern. Mamdani has reversed orders barring city agencies from participating in boycotts or divestment efforts targeting Israel, and omitted historic Jewish neighborhoods from a map highlighting immigrant enclaves.

Antisemitism is the canary in the coal mine for a sick society. It’s rearing its ugly head in New York City.

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Albert Mohler: Brace Yourself Aug 10, 2026

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The Democratic Socialists of America want a revolution. They want to eliminate the police, empty jails, socialize medical care and housing, and eventually take their revolution through the entire society.

As for the nation's constitutional system, nothing less than a new revolution will do. They're demanding the abolition of the Electoral College. They want to eliminate the Presidency. They want to eliminate the Senate.

On their website, they also have an article promising to rip up the “old rulebook.” That “old rulebook” is called the Constitution of the United States of America.

Brace yourselves for a political transformation that has the potential to reshape the entire American political landscape, throw away the U.S. Constitution, destroy the free market, eliminate private ownership of corporations and real estate, and build a brave new world.

Comrades, you have been warned.

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Hugh Hewitt: Trump’s Legacy and Iran Aug 07, 2026

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Reliable reports from a variety of sources confirm President Trump had ordered a major escalation of combat with Iran for this past weekend only to call it off Saturday night.

President Trump knows the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps lies and that they cheat.

There’s no reason to believe that they’ll not lie and cheat again. It is who they have always been. Since the revolution in 1979, the Iranian regime’s negotiators have fooled both Presidents Carter and Obama in comprehensive fashion, other presidents to some degree, but they have never fooled Donald Trump.

Until this past weekend at least.

Can we still pull of a win against the terrorist regime in Tehran?

Yes.

But only the president can do that. Not our allies. Not his advisors. Certainly not the legacy media.

Trump has been surprising and indeed startling his critics for his nearly dozen years in politics. I’m hoping he has at least one more huge surprise in store.

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Seth Leibsohn: El-Sayed and the Marxist-Islamist Axis Aug 05, 2026

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With Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan, the Democratic party has gone from Barack Obama denouncing those who said America deserved 9/11 to campaigning with those who say just that, like Hasan Piker, the left’s most famous podcaster. As the political philosopher Jerry Garcia wrote: “What a long, strange trip it’s been.”

El-Sayed is the latest success endorsed and campaigned for by the Marxist-Islamist axis of the Democratic Socialists of America. This juggernaut is proving unstoppable in taking over the Democratic party.

A generation ago, a real political philosopher, Harry Jaffa, pointed out: That with the fall of the Berlin Wall, utopian communism would no longer be seen as simply a threat from abroad—but a more “deadly and dangerous phase” here at home could follow.

Quite right—a wall can stop people, but not their ideas. That enemy ishere, and potent. The two-party system is now looking Republican on one hand and Marxist-Islamists on the other. We cannot simply wish this away or ignore it.

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Carol Platt Liebau: A Wake-Up Call for Voters Aug 05, 2026

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As most Americans know, the Democratic Party has begun a dangerous flirtation with the Democratic Socialists of America. What’s shocking is how far and how fast the rot has spread.

To his credit, Democratic Congressman Tom Suozzi is pushing back with a pledge called the “Promise to America.” Its three core principles are simple common sense. We’re capitalist, not socialist. We want safety, not lawlessness. And we’re proud, not ashamed, of America.

Here’s the disturbing part: of the 212 House Democrats, only 13 have signed on. That tells you how mainstream socialist ideas have become in the Democratic Party, and how radicals have intimidated the moderates.

It’s shocking that these simple principles are now controversial in a major American political party. That should concern every voter who values freedom. Let’s hope it’s a wake-up call.

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