GOP Senators have warned President Donald Trump that his “big beautiful bill” is at risk of being blocked unless he “gets serious” about cutting federal spending and reducing the national debt.

President Trump’s senior White House aide, Stephen Miller, corrected the record on a number of issues relating to the Big, Beautiful Bill. Some of the potentially erroneous claims come from the House, others from the Senate. The bottom line is the bill slashes $1.6 trillion, strengthens the border, cuts welfare abuse, and protects tax relief […] The post Miller Corrects the Record: The Big Bill Is a Massive Tax & Spending Cut Bill appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

This Memorial Day weekend, we look back at the extraordinary exchange between Telemundo anchor Arantxa Loizaga and Gold Star mom Coral Briceño whose son, Cpl. Humberto Sánchez (USMC) was among the fallen at the ISIS attack on the Hamid Karzai International Airport at Kabul, Afghanistan.  Briceño, in her immense grief, was gracious enough to come on Telemundo’s morning show and tell the story of her son. Watch the key exchange as it unfolded below, at the end of the interview: ARANTXA LOIZAGA: Could you describe the moment when your son said to you: “Mom, I want to be part of the armed forces (of the United States)”? What did you feel when your son told you of his desire to be a member of our armed forces? CORAL BRISEÑO: When he was in high school I told him that he was going down the wrong path, and I always encouraged him to join the U.S. armed forces, and he would say to me: “Do you want me to die? To get killed? And I´d say, “no, I know you´re going to do good.” So he´d always say no. But one day he came back from school, he was just about to graduate, and he said, “Mom, do you have something to do at 4?” And I said, “no”. And he said, “can you come to an appointment with me?” And I said, “What kind of an appointment? What are we going to do? And he said, “I enlisted in the United States Marines, and since I am a minor, they´re asking you to sign and can you come? I thought about it. I thought about it, and then I said, this is what I asked him (to do) – this was it.” And he said, “Mom, I want you to be proud of me”. LOIZAGA: Ms. Coral Briseño, you are proud of your son but so are we. We are obviously grateful for Humberto Sánchez ´sacrifice. We will honor him here. Thank you for your time and we grieve with you. We´ll be back with more after the break. From firsthand experience, I know that Spanish-language news media has a nasty little habit of always wanting to lace their coverage with footage of grieving mothers whenever possible. If they wail on air, even better. But this was not that interview.  We would later learn that Loizaga is herself the spouse of a combat veteran. As such, she handled the interview with the care, gravity, and empathy that it deserved.  We had not yet discovered the full scope of the debacle that led to the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, which led to the ISIS-K attack on Abbey Gate. At this point, we has only begun to learn of these 13 service members who had just given what President Abraham Lincoln described as their “last full measure of devotion.” Everything else would come later. In many ways, we are still learning about the potential breakdowns that led to Abbey Gate. But this weekend, we pause to honor the sacrifices of those heroes, as well as their fallen brethren and sistren going all the way to the Revolutionary War. As Loizaga so powerfully said, we honor them. And we embrace their loved ones as they grieve.  

Many people sneer at Christ's resurrection yet swallow the Big Bang whole. This odd fact is not lost on Joe Rogan. On a recent episode of his podcast, the modern-day Renaissance man delivered one of those offhand remarks that stick. There's a hunger again for something real and permanent, something that won’t update to Version 2.0 in six months. “People will be incredulous about the resurrection of Jesus Christ,” he said, "yet they're convinced that the entire universe was smaller than the head of a pin, and for no reason that anybody's adequately explained to me ... instantaneously became everything?” It wasn’t a sermon or even a statement of belief. It was, however, a reminder of how absurd “rational” ideas can sound when you say them out loud. But these are the times we live in, where absurdity reigns supreme. What used to be “God said, ‘Let there be light’” is now “A singularity inflated with no cause.” Same mystery. Same unprovable leap. But only one gets you mocked at dinner parties. Physics hasn’t given us a grand unifying theory. It hasn’t solved consciousness. It hasn’t even explained gravity properly. String theory, dark matter, and multiverses aren’t answers. They’re sci-fi with equations. Quantum mechanics can predict probabilities but not causes. Cosmology plays with infinities it can’t test. Somehow, we’re expected to accept all this on trust — you know, because it’s peer-reviewed. The James Webb Telescope can show us light from 13 billion years ago, but not what happens when a human dies. It can zoom in on galaxies, but not on meaning. It dazzles, but it doesn’t deliver. Not really. And evolutionary biology? Bret Weinstein tries to use it to explain awe, sacredness, and communion. On Tucker Carlson’s show, Weinstein tried to use natural selection to make sense of the supernatural. But it didn’t work. He squirmed, stalled, and face-planted. Because, after all, the soul isn’t an adaptation, and meaning isn’t a side effect. Moreover, he repeatedly leaned on the law of parsimony — the idea that the simplest explanation is usually right — to explain why humans seek God and kneel before things we can’t quantify. Weinstein, who seems like a nice enough fellow, seems to forget that wonder isn’t something you pin down with logic — it’s something that pins you. Try using Darwin to explain why a man drives six hours just to sit in silence next to his brother, who’s falling apart; or why a man stays with his wife after the third miscarriage; or why a parent gives up a kidney to a child who may not survive the year. You can’t, because you can’t chart love, loyalty, or devotion on a fitness curve. You can’t explain self-sacrifice in terms of gene preservation and expect to be taken seriously by anyone who’s actually suffered. When belief is banished, substitutes always appear: simulation theory, the multiverse, and emerging properties. “We might be living in a video game” isn’t edgy; it’s just spirituality with training wheels. I'll go one step farther: Atheism doesn’t exist. The reason why is obvious: Everyone worships something. There’s no such thing as not believing. There are just new liturgies, new gods, and new robes. For some, it’s “The Science” or transgenderism and the supposed fluidity of biology. For others, it’s a black hole spinning at the galaxy's center, speaking a language no human will ever understand. But don’t call it faith — because faith is for peasants. This is “science.” This is “truth.” This is "reality." That’s the fashion now, or at least, it was — until very recently. Something is shifting. Young people across America — yes, even in blue cities — are starting to look past the algorithms and the nihilism. They’ve seen what secular modernity has to offer: sex with no intimacy, food with no nutrition, careers with no meaning, bodies with no spirit. The dopamine hits don’t land like they used to. The apps offer nothing of substance. The rituals of progress — DEI seminars, TikTok therapy, oat milk lattes — can’t fill the aching void. So they’re turning back. Not to politics or to self-help, but to Christ. It’s happening — quietly and organically. Bible study groups are forming in places that once would have mocked them. Churches are filling — some of them ancient and beautiful, others run-down and barely lit. There’s a hunger again for something real and permanent, something that won’t update to Version 2.0 in six months. You see it with the 20-somethings, many of whom are porn-poisoned, fatherless, medicated, and highly anxious. Now, they're clutching Bibles like they are lifesavers. And for many, they are. They’ve tried everything else. Everything Silicon Valley sold them. Everything academia promised. Everything the New York Times said would liberate them. Science gave them information, but not wisdom. Progress gave them speed, but not direction. Screens gave them access, but not intimacy. The brain was fed. The heart, however, was starved. Now, after all that progress, they’re lonelier than ever — with more therapists than priests, more diagnoses than confessions, more likes than love. But now they're coming home because what people want isn’t more clever "laws" or overly complex jargon. They want connection and transcendence. No particle accelerator will ever deliver that.

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