Tag: Social Issues

FBI Conducts Dawn Raid on Home of Catholic Pro-Life Speaker

The FBI reportedly arrested Catholic pro-life activist and author Mark Houck in a raid on his rural home early Friday morning. Houck, 48, of Kintnersville, Pennsylvania, is the latest target of a string of Department of Justice-sponsored SWAT raids and arrests, as at least two dozen federal agents swarmed his property in Bucks County with…


Chinese Openly Oppose the Regime’s Zero-COVID Policy, as the CCP Party Congress Approaches

China’s ruling communist party (CCP) further tightened its control across the country in the name of curbing COVID-19 in the weeks before the CCP’s national party meeting in mid-October. Chinese citizens openly express opposition to the regime’s zero-COVID policy that has caused immense suffering and countless tragedies. A recent bus accident in Guizhou Province in…


Chinese Openly Oppose Regime’s Zero-COVID Policy Ahead of CCP Party Congress

Chinese citizens are openly expressing opposition to the communist regime’s highly restrictive zero-COVID policy, which has caused immense suffering, in the weeks before the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) national party meeting in mid-October. A recent bus accident in Guizhou Province in southwest China is sparking public anger over the policy. Early on Sept. 18, 27 people…


Abortion Clinics Reopening in Indiana After Judge Blocks State’s Ban a Week After It Took Effect

Indiana abortion clinics are preparing to resume the procedure after a judge blocked the state’s near-total abortion ban just a week after the ban had gone into effect. Owen County Judge Kelsey Hanlon on Sept. 22 issued a preliminary injunction (pdf) against Indiana’s new law banning abortion, putting it on hold temporarily amid ongoing litigation….


Culture War Erupts in Texas Town Over Drag Bingo Event Hosted by Christian Church

Katy, TEXAS—Outside a drag bingo event hosted by a pro-LGBT church in Texas, a microcosm of America’s culture war played out with liberals and conservatives screaming at each other across a boulevard on Saturday. About 300 Texas conservatives lined an entire block to protest the First Christian Church in Katy, which sponsored a sold-out family…


Cambodia Searches for 23 Missing Chinese After Boat Sinks

PHNOM PENH—Cambodian rescue teams searched on Friday for 23 Chinese nationals missing after their boat sank near islands off a coastal town popular with tourists and gamblers. Authorities rescued 18 people after the boat went down early on Thursday off the town of Sihanoukville, the provincial government said in a statement. It was not clear…


CCP Diplomat Tried to Lobby US Lawmakers to Deflect Blame for Causing US’ Fentanyl Crisis

The Chinese regime’s top diplomat has been reaching out to members on the House Intelligence Committee to deflect responsibility for the flow of illicit fentanyl into the United States, according to a GOP lawmaker. Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), a member of the Doctors Caucus and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, is among many…


Parents Want Gay Sex How-To Book Removed from Texas School District

Parents in Katy, Texas, are pushing school libraries to remove books with sexual content, including one with step-by-step instructions on how to have gay sex and use sex apps to find partners. The book was featured on The Katy Railway, an Instagram site fighting to remove sexualized content from schools in the highly-rated Katy ISD…


‘Newsom Is Pushing Hideous New Extreme Abortion Bills’: Lawyer

The executive director of a law firm trying to stop a California bill that he says will enable infanticide has criticized billboards paid for by the campaign of California Gov. Gavin Newsom which promote abortion with Bible quotes. Newsom, a Democrat, announced on Sept. 16 that he had launched the billboards in Texas, Indiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and three more of…


US Farmers Grab the Lobbying Pitchforks as Greens Sow Costly New Reporting Mandates

Echoing conflicts from Sri Lanka to Canada to the Netherlands, tensions between farmers and green-minded government policymakers are building in the United States, where producers are squaring off against a costly proposed federal mandate for greenhouse-gas reporting from corporate supply chains. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in March proposed requiring large corporations, including agribusinesses and food companies, to report…