June 2024

Pro-Palestinian protests erupted over the war in Gaza recently on the UW-Madison campus. Students, professors, and agitators put up tents on Library Mall without the necessary permits to do so. The UW-Madison Chancellor, Jennifer Mnookin, called on law enforcement to remove the illegal encampment. She emphasized that protesting and free speech are more than welcome on campus, but must be expressed without breaking campus laws and policies. Four protestors were detained and one police officer was hit over the head with a skateboard.

"A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.”
–Billy Graham

Here at Wisconsin Family Action, we agree with Billy Graham – fathers are incredibly underappreciated in our society. So, for the month of June, we’ve made it our mission to turn the “unsung, unpraised, unnoticed” role of fatherhood into one that is celebrated and valued. We hope you’ll join us this coming week in ushering in a month of honoring our fathers.

I was recently reminded of just how long I have been monitoring, analyzing, studying, and participating in the world of politics. It has been almost 25 years since I started making this my night and weekend hobby. In all that time I have witnessed a lot of speeches, read a whole lot of press releases, read news stories from many different sources, and even studied some of the legislation that politicians are crafting. In 25-years of doing this I can tell you that it feels so refreshing to have Derrick Van Orden serving us in Congress.

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.”
– Exodus 20:12

It’s undeniable – men being present and involved both in the home as fathers and in the communities has a significant influence on all our lives. More importantly, God ordained families to be the marriage of one biological man and one biological woman who can be fruitful and multiply naturally or by adoption.

The failed border bill that Democrat Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumertried to resurrect this week was worse than doing nothing. This time, it failed by an even wider bipartisan vote of 43-50.

President Biden has the authority to secure the border. He’s just not willing to use it because he and his Democrat colleagues want an open border. This charade by Sen. Schumer to bring back the failed February border legislation to the Senate floor is a political stunt and a poorly-veiled attempt to hand vulnerable Senate Democrats political cover instead of actually securing the border.