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Michelle Ritter, a 31-year-old tech entrepreneur and former mistress of Democrat mega-donor and ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt, has accused the billionaire of rape, surveillance, and other abuses in a Los Angeles County Superior Court filing.

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KANAWHA COUNTY, West Virginia—Steve Lipscomb was a son, a father, a husband, a Marine, a man of faith, and a coal miner.

Ten days ago, Lipscomb and his crew encountered an unknown pocket of water when a “sudden and substantial” flood sent millions of gallons into the Rolling Thunder Mine. Lipscomb lived up to his life of service, faith, family and community by ensuring his entire crew made it out safely.

Officials said that as Lipscomb finished evacuating his crew, rising water filled the shaft so rapidly that he, the last man remaining, had no way out.

It was the last time he was seen.

After five days of round-the-clock, hazardous search efforts, a two-man crew found Lipscomb’s body in the mine at 7:37 a.m. Nov. 13.

Gov. Patrick Morrisey (R-W.V.) announced his death outside the Rolling Thunder Mine.

“This is really a very sad day in West Virginia,” Morrisey said. Lipscomb was the fifth coal miner to die this year in West Virginia.

As a reporter who has visited several coal mines, I can attest to the enormous amount of precision and safety that goes into every step a miner takes. I can also say from experience that once you’re 1,000 feet underground, the most unpredictable danger you face is the Earth.

Morrisey said he grew close to Lipscomb’s family during the rescue and that his prayers turned from hope of survival to sorrow for their loss.

“The first lady and I are praying for the family of Steven and Heather, and we know that Steven was a good man,” he said. “One thing I learned about today is that Steven was in the Marine Corps. He actually got a Purple Heart.”

“I had a chance to talk with Heather, and I’m gonna say all of West Virginia’s behind this family,” Morrisey continued. “We know how difficult it was to go through this. We know that Stephen is the quintessential West Virginian, first serving our nation in the Marine Corps, and then by all accounts, listening to the people that were there, really seeming to want to do everything to save the lives of the other miners.”

Lipscomb’s tragic death marked the 29th fatality in the mining industry this year, according to Coal Zoom, a mining trade organization with the Mine Safety and Health Administration, which details mining fatalities, nearly half of which are due to equipment failures. By state, West Virginia has the most mining fatalities this year at five.

Morrisey issued all flags flown at half-staff, not just for Lipscomb but for all five of the West Virginia coal miners who lost their lives on the job in 2025: Steven Fields, Billy Stalker, Eric Bartram, Joey Mitchell and Lipscomb.

Mitchell died last week in the Mettiki Mine in Grant County, marking the second mining fatality in November.

Driving across West Virginia reveals more than government buildings, such as post offices, municipal centers and county courthouses. There are also schools and hundreds of homes scattered across the rolling hills and small towns of the nation’s only state located entirely within Appalachia.

The history of coal in West Virginia dates back to the 1800s. Government and family records indicate that settlers of what was then Virginia (West Virginia seceded during the Civil War and became its own state) resided in a region rich in abundant reserves of bituminous coal. In fact, of the state’s 55 counties, only two do not have coal seams.

It wasn’t until the railroads arrived that coal, previously used only for heat and fuel, became the backbone of a booming commercial industry in the 1880s.

After descending into mines in Pennsylvania, including one that crosses into West Virginia, it’s clear that the work is punishing and the workers are purposeful. Many miners say that what they do feels patriotic, as it provides the energy that powers the country, the steel that builds its infrastructure, and a vital layer of national security.

The men and women I have interviewed in the mines have a camaraderie that matches that of men and women in battle. They all have one another’s backs, as Lipscomb showed in his heroic efforts. Morrisey said Lipscomb was a selfless person, which is why he emphasized the importance of also celebrating the life he led.

“Our spirit cannot be broken,” Morrisey said.

West Virginia governors have stood outside of mines after tragedies for hundreds of years. Former Democratic Gov. Joe Manchin was the symbol of grief and hope in 2006 when I covered the Sago Mine disaster, in which 12 miners died after an underground explosion.

Initially, the trapped miners survived by hunkering down with limited oxygen supplies, which quickly ran out. For days, the country watched anxiously, hoping they would make it out alive. Early reports mistakenly said only one miner died and that 12 survived. At the Sago Baptist Church, where families gathered, the news sparked jubilation, which collapsed into agony when it became clear that the reports were the result of a tragic communication error.

Manchin, who grew up around mining, was 21 years old when Farmington No. 9 in his hometown exploded, killing his mother’s brother, Uncle John.

In 2010, when the Upper Big Branch disaster took the lives of 29 miners, Manchin requested a nationwide shutdown of mining operations. Later, he and then-Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.) passed a bill to set stricter standards on air quality and require safety tents for miners that also had oxygen.

At the time, Manchin said miners’ families “should expect them to come home safely at the end of the day.”

Lipscomb’s service was held on Nov. 22. If you are so inclined, send the family a note and thank them for his service. In his Elkview community, Lipscomb will always be a hero. To his family, he will never be forgotten. For the men whose lives he saved, his name will be the first and last they speak in their prayers. Sadly, in our wider culture, few will ever know who Lipscomb was. Yet somewhere, a light burns tonight that would not be burning had it not been for a coal miner like him.

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A key issue in the Fundamentalist-Modernist debates of the last century has now resurfaced. The 2025 State of the Bible Survey revealed the astonishing fact that there are more Americans (and Christians) who read the Bible than who affirm its accuracy. Doubting the Bible is nothing new, but the extent of this doubt signals that Christians must once again resolidify a foundational principle of their historic faith: the doctrine of inerrancy.

According to the survey, weekly Bible reading among all U.S. adults rose sharply this year to 42%, but only 36% of U.S. adults said the Bible was 100% accurate. Likewise, the percentage of self-identified Christians who read the Bible weekly climbed to 50%, but only 44% of self-identified Christians fully affirmed its accuracy.

Not that affirming the Bible’s accuracy must be a prerequisite to reading it regularly. On the contrary, one hopes that every day more unbelievers are picking up and reading the Bible as an early step on the road to believing in Jesus. But it seems unlikely that fully 6% of U.S. adults fall into this class, and it is definitionally impossible for 6% of Christians to be unbelievers.

A more likely explanation is that some Americans have some cultural understanding that they “should” read the Bible and have chosen to do so this year, without understanding its central claims and tenets. And, sadly, it seems that approximately 6% of self-identified Christians fall into this category, the same percentage as the number of all U.S. adults.

If this explanation is correct (or partially so), then what we are witnessing is an uptick in Bible-readers who do not understand the doctrine of inerrancy. Inerrancy is the doctrine that the Bible’s content is “truth, without any mixture of error,” as the Southern Baptist Convention describes it in the “Baptist Faith and Message.”

Inerrancy was one of the chief flashpoints in the debates between liberal Protestants and Fundamentalists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Because of foundational differences over the authority of God’s word, Presbyterian theologian J. Gresham Machen contended in 1923 that “liberalism on the one hand and the religion of the historic church on the other are not two varieties of the same religion, but two distinct religions proceeding from altogether separate roots.”

These survey data suggest that the time has come for American Christians to preserve “the religion of the historic church” [and] to emphasize inerrancy in their churches once again.

The fact is that Scripture itself affirms its own truthfulness. John’s gospel records Jesus praying, “Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth” (John 17:17). Peter and Paul each affirm that Scripture proceeds from God’s own mouth (2 Peter 1:19-21; 2 Timothy 3:16-17), and God’s words are completely true (Romans 3:4). Even the Old Testament adds its seal of approval to the fact that God’s law is perfect, sure, right, pure, clean, and true (Psalm 19:7-9).

If Scripture is so clear, how was the inerrancy of Scripture called into question to begin with? In the debates of the previous two centuries, skeptics challenged the Bible’s accuracy on the grounds of scientific modernism. They denied the creation account, the virgin birth, and other miracles. The logical conclusion of such denials was a rejection of the resurrection itself. Ironically, their skepticism unintentionally fulfilled Peter’s prediction of scoffers in the last days who would claim that “all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation” (2 Peter 3:4).

But our new century features a new cultural zeitgeist. Americans who question the Bible today are likely not motivated by scientific modernism, but by Marxist post-modernism. Instead of attacking specific propositions with facts and arguments, today’s skeptics contend that all truth claims are merely attempts to exert power over another (which they certainly attempt to do with this very contention). Thus, today’s skeptics are uncomfortable affirming the absolute accuracy of any truth claim.

The ultimate issue here is the authority of God. When God claims to be without error or falsehood, he is not trying to seize power in a cosmic coup. He is simply revealing his character. When mere mortals presume to call God’s truthfulness into question, they deny his sovereignty and exalt themselves to the position of judge. They simply lack the credentials to sit in judgment upon God’s claims.

Because we are inferior to God, humans are left with two options, and only two options: We can accept his word as true—which is called “belief”—or reject it, even though it is true—which is called “unbelief.” Some Americans seem to credit the notion that the Bible contains some good moral teaching, without being absolutely true. But the Bible’s claims to inerrancy make this position absurd; if the Bible is not absolutely true, then its claims to inerrancy are lies—moral flaws that call the whole of its teaching into question. God did not leave open to us the option to pick and choose which parts of his word to believe and obey.

Thus believing God’s word—all of it—has been the ultimate mark distinguishing every true follower of him—from Abraham believing the unlikely promise that God would give his aged body innumerable descendants (Genesis 15:6) to New Testament Christians believing in Jesus.

In fact, Paul holds up their believing reception of his gospel as proof of the Thessalonians’ salvation. “When you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers” (1 Thessalonians 2:13).

The ultimate stake at play in the inerrancy debate is faith in God himself, and therefore salvation. Salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone. This faith is not an abstract, mystical substance, but a trust or belief directed toward a person: God. God has revealed himself in his word, and faith is believing in the character and promises he has revealed. If we question that, what faith is left?

Americans may be confused about the stakes, but Satan is not. In fact, calling God’s words into question is literally the oldest trick in the Book. In Genesis 3, the serpent’s first words to Eve are, “Did God actually say …?” (Genesis 3:1). From there his temptation slithers to a direct contradiction of God’s word, “You will not surely die” (Genesis 3:4). Our first parents were lured into sin by disbelieving God’s word, and we can do no better unless we believe.

Thanks be to God, he has provided a way by which we can do better. Through believing and obeying God’s word, we are able not only to resist temptation but also cause Satan to flee. John comforts Christians, “I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one” (1 John 2:14). This is the message that American Bible-readers need to hear, and on which the American church must stand firm.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene is a singular politician—a maverick, though not in the John McCain sense.

The Arizona senator was beloved by the media; MTG never was, at least until she started feuding with President Donald Trump.

On the contrary, her reputation in the press was as the poster girl for the GOP’s conspiracy wing, the queen of Q Anon.

But it’s not what sets her apart from other Republicans that makes Greene’s resignation from the House—effective Jan. 5—significant.

What the president and GOP leaders in Congress have to worry about is how typical she might be—of legislators frustrated by what the future holds.

“This entire White House team has treated ALL members like garbage. And Mike Johnson has let it happen,” a “particularly exercised senior House Republican” told Jake Sherman of Punchbowl News.

According to Sherman’s unnamed source, “nearly all” Republicans in Congress—”appropriators, authorizers, hawks, doves, rank and file”—feel “run roughshod and threatened” by the administration, which doesn’t so much as “allow little wins like announcing small grants or even responding from agencies,” and “Members know they are going into the minority after the midterms” next November.

“More explosive resignations are coming,” warns Sherman’s informer.

Should such claims, posted by one journalist on X, be taken seriously?

The language might be hyperbole, but Congress is obviously not a happy place these days, even for the party in the majority.

Once Greene leaves, that majority will be down to five seats until her vacancy and others’ are filled.

Greene won her last election by a two-to-one margin, so Republicans can be confident of holding her seat.

But in the interim an already virtually ungovernable House will be that much harder for Speaker Johnson to wrangle.

Midterms usually go poorly for the party in power at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and Republican efforts to redraw red-state congressional maps to secure a few more seats have run into headwinds—in the courts and in the form of blue states like California clearing the way for their own partisan redistricting.

So yes, Republicans are staring at the likelihood of losing the House in a year.

Though it’s easy to scoff at, one thing that typically keeps members of Congress from despairing when they’re facing minority status is their devotion to a cause, or at least a program:

For decades, for most Republicans, that cause was conservatism as Ronald Reagan understood it.

Trump does have a cause-or rather he is a cause-and he has a program which congressional Republicans mostly support.

But the president has never really made his party’s legislators feel like partners in his effort: they’re more a means to his ends.

And when Trump has deferred to Congress, as he did to some extent during his first term over attempts to “repeal and replace” Obamacare, the results have been a wreck.

Obamacare is still here, and the record-long government shutdown that ended mere weeks ago arose from Democrats holding the government ransom in an attempt to expand an extension of Obamacare subsidies.

The inability of a Republican president with a Republican Congress to overhaul the Affordable Care Act in 2017 set the stage for that agony this year.

And what’s next?

With such a slender House majority, Trump doesn’t want to depend on Congress to pass his agenda.

Meanwhile, House Republicans haven’t had an agenda of their own for the last 25 years—they’ve been happiest, and enjoyed their strongest majorities, when a Democrat has occupied the White House and they’ve played spoilers.

But three years ago, they suffered a crushing disappointment when they didn’t get the kind of boost they expected from Joe Biden’s midterms. They made gains but clawed their way to only a modest majority, not much bigger than today’s.

Reagan is long gone, and nobody is quite sure what happens to Trumpism once Trump himself is no longer on the ballot.

How many Republicans in Congress want to stick around to find out?

The answer, in fact, is most of them—but it wouldn’t take many more choosing Greene’s way out to throw control of the House into jeopardy well before next November.

The House isn’t certain what the future holds for Trumpism, but without the House, Trump’s own future may become a closed book, with no new chapters as he coasts to the end of his second term.

Neither the president nor his party can afford to call it quits this soon.

No matter how unruly the closely divided House might be, it’s time the president tried governing with his party in Congress.

And it’s time Republicans in Congress learned Trump’s most important lesson—to write their own destiny instead of echoing politics past.

Congress needs what Trump brought back to the presidency: daring and relevance.

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