Welcome to our special Mother’s Day edition of the Weekend Beacon, featuring all the subjects we love discussing with our mothers: faith, sex, drugs, and politics! (Okay, not all the subjects.) We begin with Mary Eberstadt, who reviews Ross Douthat’s Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious. “Believe is vintage Douthat, marked by genial…
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Trump Announces National Center for Homeless Vets to Be Paid for with Funds Previously Used to House Illegal Immigrants
American last is out; America first is in. Fox News reported Friday that President Donald Trump signed an executive order to establish a center for homeless veterans titled, “KEEPING PROMISES TO VETERANS AND ESTABLISHING A NATIONAL CENTER FOR WARRIOR INDEPENDENCE.” This order will create the National Center for Warrior…
The New York Times Wants Mothers To Bow To The Fear Of Regret. Christ Has Something Better
There is no freedom in constantly questioning your existence, wondering if your achievements are good enough by some vague feminist standard.
Happy Mother’s Day!
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‘You Are Our New Bud Lite’: Megyn Kelly Blows Up on Versace for Dress Ad Featuring Dylan Mulvaney
Megyn Kelly and many others blew up on the fashion house Versace after it decided to recruit trans-identifying male influencer Dylan Mulvaney to sell luxury dresses. Yes, really.
Arrests Very Much ‘On the Table’ for Dems Who Stormed ICE Facility to Stump for Criminal Illegal Aliens
We’ve been covering the story of the aggrieved congresscritters and a progressive mayor who stormed an ICE facility in Newark Friday and seemed to believe the laws don’t apply to them because they’re entitled New Jersey Democrats. Although they have gone on to claim victimhood, video evidence has…
The Trouble With Tropes
In 1979, I was visiting the mall with a couple of friends. Middle parted, feathered hair was de rigueur for most everyone, male and female alike. This guy passed us going the other way with a really severe mullet. It was the new hallmark of the punk movement…
FLASHBACK: Media Hit Popes Benedict AND Francis as Too Conservative
After the election of Pope Leo XIV, liberal reporters cited the new Pope’s views, expressed prior to his elevation, as a way of criticizing the Trump administration. “He represents values that are different than the values on the world stage of the MAGA Trump administration,” former Time managing…
Pocahontas 2.0
“What I didn’t like about becoming famous overnight,” Mallory McMorrow writes in her new book Hate Won’t Win: Find Your Power and Leave This Place Better Than You Found It, “is that you might assume that I had always done this, that somehow it came naturally.” Unless you’re…
Trump’s Necessary Foreign and Domestic Revolution
It’s a fool’s game to try to predict President Trump’s audacious new moves.