In today's divisive politics, it's often possible to tell what a speech achieved based on who it angered. In the case of President Donald Trump's Tuesday speech before the U.N. General Assembly, those most angered by the speech were global media elites. "Trump invades the UN with a brutish speech," raged a headline in The Guardian, a British equivalent of The New York Times. Such an attitude signals that, besides excessive self-congratulation and an over-emphasis on AI, Trump's speech had much to commend it.

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, religious leaders, tech experts and even the AI companies themselves are raising the alarm, and yet they keep building&nbsp; Artificial Intelligence. What&rsquo;s going on here? Is the AI apocalypse inevitable, or is all hype or somewhere in between?

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, religious leaders, tech experts and even the AI companies themselves are raising the alarm, and yet they keep building  Artificial Intelligence. What's going on here? Is the AI apocalypse inevitable, or is all hype or somewhere in between?

On this week&rsquo;s Outstanding Podcast, Host Casey Harper talks free markets and socialism with Dr. Gary Wolfram, a professor of economics, public policy and political economy at Hillsdale College.
Together, they tackle questions like:&nbsp;
<ul>
<li>How do free markets work and why does they work?</li>
<li>Are prices fair?</li>
<li>How do we respond to the socialist narrative?</li>
<li>Doesn't the Christian faith keep capitalism in check in many ways?&nbsp;</li>
</ul>

On this week's Outstanding Podcast, Host Casey Harper talks free markets and socialism with Dr. Gary Wolfram, a professor of economics, public policy and political economy at Hillsdale College. Together, they tackle questions like: How do free markets work and why does they work? Are prices fair? How do we respond to the socialist narrative? Doesn't the Christian faith keep capitalism in check in many ways? 

On this week&rsquo;s podcast, Host Casey Harper and author Arlene Pellicane discuss screens, technology and its impact on kids.
They discussed questions like:
<ul>
<li>How do Christians think about technology and raising children?</li>
<li>What is the impact of technology on personal and spiritual formation?</li>
<li>If kids are being raised differently, will they be made fun of?&nbsp;</li>
<li>How can we teach our kids to hold onto our Christian values under pressure?&nbsp;</li>
<li>What do we need to prepare for regarding AI?&nbsp;</li>
<li>What technology plans and practices can we adopt to protect our kids and pass on our faith to the next gen?&nbsp;</li>
</ul>

On this week's podcast, Host Casey Harper and author Arlene Pellicane discuss screens, technology and its impact on kids. They discussed questions like: How do Christians think about technology and raising children? What is the impact of technology on personal and spiritual formation? If kids are being raised differently, will they be made fun of? How can we teach our kids to hold onto our Christian values under pressure What do we need to prepare for regarding AI? What technology plans and practices can we adopt to protect our kids and pass on our faith to the next gen?

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

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

On today's News Brief: The Iranian President defies the U.S. during his U.N. speech, and the Trump administration is facing pressure to bring up human rights, not just economic issues, during talks with Chinese Communist President Xi Xinping.

On today's News Brief: The Iranian President defies the U.S. during his U.N. speech, and the Trump administration is facing pressure to bring up human rights, not just economic issues, during talks with Chinese Communist President Xi Xinping.

Mexican YouTuber Samuel Adrián has just been released after a 10-day detention in Bogotá; he had been held for refusing to delete information regarding the impact of "transitioning" on the health of minors - content featured in his influential and politically incorrect documentary, "Colombia: Factory of Trans Children."

Artificial intelligence is transforming how America's military plans and operates. The technology may be revolutionary, but responsibility for war must remain unmistakably human.

The Cigna Group's 2025 Loneliness in America report found that 67% of Gen Z classified as lonely, the highest rate of any generation surveyed. Behind those numbers are young people not only struggling with mental health questions but also with questions about meaning, identity, purpose, truth, and hope.

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

Without seeming to make barely a ripple, a startling report was released in June revealing that America's Social Security program will become insolvent in six years unless substantial reforms are made. Now, lawmakers are beginning to sound the alarm on the rapidly spiraling crisis and are pushing legislation to overhaul the system originally designed to keep elderly Americans out of poverty.

Senior Editor, The Washington Stand

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

Writer

September 17 marked the final arguments in a California courtroom over the practice of offering abortion pill reversal (APR) to women seeking to save the lives of their unborn children from the feticidal drug mifepristone. We have become used to reading sentences like this, in which so-called champions of choice like the administration of Governor Gavin Newsom (D) and Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) go the last mile to complete abortions women are desperate to avert. The policy is all the uglier because it would fine groups like Heartbeat International and Real Options millions of dollars for attempts to aid such women.

For most of the AI revolution, one assumption held: human beings were building ever more capable machines. That assumption no longer holds. 

Senior Fellow for National Security

"The Declaration of Independence gives us three examples of 'unalienable' rights: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Life is the first of those rights because it is the condition of the others. It is thus the most foundational of all rights."

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