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May 5, 2026

Trump’s NATO Dilemma, by Jed Babbin

By Jed Babbin, The American Spectator - Unable to exit the alliance, the administration turns to troop movements to redefine US strategy.... President Trump has made no secret of his disdain for our NATO allies. In the past month or so, he has called them “cowards” and NATO a “paper tiger.” But, as I have written elsewhere, his notion that we should just get out of NATO is blocked by both the NATO Treaty and by a specific U.S. law that requires either a resolution passed by both houses of Congress or a two-thirds vote of the Senate. Neither is going to happen.
May 5, 2026

Rep. Brandon Gill Shines a Bright Light on the Darkness of Abortion, by Paul Kengor, Grace Reilly

By Paul Kengor and Grace Reilly, The American Spectator - The Texas Congressman confronted a pro-abortion professor with the undeniable barbaric reality of the practice... It is easy for abortion activists to avoid the gruesome reality of abortion and just focus on the light-hearted talking points  of “ choice” and “women’s rights.” That is exactly what American University Professor Jessica Waters hoped to do when she testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government this past week. Rep. Brandon Gill made that impossible, questioning her in detail about barbaric abortion procedures in a tense exchange that has since gone viral.
May 5, 2026

Today’s Saint: St. Pius V, May 5

By Bellarmine Forum - A DOMINICAN friar from his fifteenth year, Michael Ghislieri, as a simple religious, as inquisitor, as bishop, and as cardinal, was famous for his intrepid defence of the Church’s faith and discipline, and for the spotless purity of his own life. His first care as Pope was to reform the Roman court and capital by the strict example of his household and the severe punishment of all offenders.
May 5, 2026

Daily Scripture Readings and Meditations: My Peace I Give to You

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word - John 14:27-31 - 27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. 28 You heard me say to you, `I go away, and I will come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I go to the Father; for the Father is greater than I. 29 And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place, you may believe. ...

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