FIRST, CHATGPT, NOW GROK4: Yesterday on HillFaith, it was ChatGPT compiling a perfect score; today on PJMedia, it’s Grok4 with another.

CHATGPT PASSES SCRIPTURE TEST: With all the discussion and debate about AI products coloring responses with ideologically biased analyses, I thought it might be interesting to test the ChatGTP’s scriptural knowledge. Sure enough, as I report on HillFaith this morning, the response to my five questions was amazing.

GUESS THE ISSUE THAT GIVES GOP 46 POINT LEAD: When Republicans demand an end to tax-funded Obamacare premium subsidies going direct to insurers’ bottom lines, voters give GOP candidates a 46-point advantage over Democrats. Are Senate Republicans listening?

CAN AI BE TRUSTED? Maybe, maybe not, according to Just Facts, which just released a fascinating and impressive analysis of the answers provided by four major AI products to 100 questions specifically designed to elicit evidence of ideological bias to the Left or the Right. Can you guess how they did? Check out my latest Substack column.

FAKING IT ALL OVER AGAIN: Remember Hillary Clinton’s unbelievably fake Southern accent on the 2016 campaign trail? Well, putting up fake fronts is even more prevalent among Democrats these days, according to the Issues & Insights (I&I) crew.

“This week, to cite just the most recent example, a group of ‘Republicans for Talarico’ disbanded after it turned out that they were actually just a bunch of lifelong Democrats in disguise, but not before MS NOW gave them some free airtime,” I&I explains, referring to Texas Senate candidate James Talarico.

Then there is AOC, apparently so uninformed about Dixie susurration, that she’s now trying out her own Yankee-fied nonsense on the campaign trail. And don’t forget Michigan Democratic Senate aspirant Abdul El-Sayed, who has described himself as a “Dr.” despite having no such license. There are many more at I&I.

MYSTERY OF THE SERVICE & INVESTIGATIONS STAFF: Remember that concluding scene in the first Indiana Jones flick in which the lone bureaucrat in a huge government warehouse pushes a cart loaded with stuff never likely to be seen again?

Well, there is a real-life instance akin to that scene playing out now regarding the once-mighty Service & Investigations staff of the House Appropriations Committee. It’s mostly lefty public administration types agitating about it now, but there are good and solid reasons for libertarians and conservatives to take notice as well, as I explain in today’s column on “Mark Tapscott’s Copy Desk.” And don’t miss the neat illustration, courtesy of chatGPT.

SENATE GOP BLOWS IT, AGAIN: When Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) sent home all the members of the upper chamber of Congress, one important but obscure piece of business left undone is the Fraud Prevention and Accountability Act approved by the House in June, with 29 Democrats voting for it.

For reasons as yet unclear, none of the Senate’s most talented and energetic anti-waste and fraud warriors have introduced a companion measure to the House bill. In fact, the House bill hasn’t even been assigned to a committee for hearings and markup, the essential step in the progress to a full Senate floor vote. There’s more to this story, as I report today for The Washington Stand.

NIMBYS AND DATA CENTERS: Rod Martin gets email, lots of it, especially when he writes about the importance and potential benefits of AI-related data centers. In his latest on the issue, he responds to a recent raft of critical email and in the process provides a historically, economically and technologically informed case for more data centers.

WHY DO BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE: Great question and one that requires careful thought. The latest “What Would You Say” from the Colson Center takes on the challenge and offers three points to ponder.

JESUS PARABLE AND WASTE, FRAUD: United Citizens Foundation in Las Vegas got three federal grants between 2023 and 2025 totaling more than $937,000 dollars. The Department of Justice Inspector-General audited the grants and found more than $360,000 that should be returned to the government. The foundation’s COO offered in an interview with The Washington Stand a strong dissent to the government’s claims.

But the problems pointed out by the government struck yours truly as the kinds of things grant applicants should be screened for prior to a decision on who gets the federal tax dollars. More evidence that a major part of the explanation for the massive waste, fraud and corruption problem in federal spending lies with incompetent management by federal administrators.

POLITICAL APPOINTEES SHOULD KILL BAD GRANTS: Democrats in Congress are up in arms over President Donald Trump’s proposal to give executive branch senior political appointees authority to pre-screen proposed federal grants and to terminate previously approved and continuing funding streams.

In fact under the Constitution, as I write today in The Washington Stand, the President can delegate authority to carry out the his policies that voters endorsed when they elected him to trusted senior political appointees. Democrats are angry because Trump is implementing a counter to the power of the unelected career bureaucrats who routinely dispatch hundreds of billions of tax dollars to far-Left groups.

ESSENCE OF EVIL: In China, the authorities grab Uyghurs and take their usable organs. They die, but somebody else favored by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) gets a new lease on life. Here in the West, we do the same thing, but shroud it in an antiseptic appearance.

Wesley Smith, writing in Science & Culture, explains:

“Hastened death and organ-harvesting have already been conjoined in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, the Netherlands, and Belgium. (In the latter two countries, some cases have involved mentally ill patients.)

“The practice has been supported in prominent medical journals. It is not alarmism to note that the idea is gaining ever wider acceptance among the medical and bioethics intelligentsia.

“But killing and then harvesting doesn’t go far enough for some mainstream bioethicists. Where euthanasia is legal, they don’t see why organ procurement can’t also be the means of death for patients who want to donate. In other words, don’t just kill and then harvest; harvest to kill.”

ABOUT THOSE PAYMENTS TO DEAD PEOPLE: Readers may recall my news story in The Washington Stand last week on Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent going forward with a requirement that all payments submitted to his department for issuance be pre-screened for deceased recipients. I noted that such computer database matching is not new and in fact one of President Ronald Reagan’s “junkyard dogs” started it in 1981.

That story also posed the question of why has it taken nearly five decades for the federal government to do what common sense requires, that being stop sending tax-funded checks to deceased recipients? Well, here’s the heart of the answer today on The Washington Stand.

TRUMP’S WORST ENEMY – HIMSELF: This by Patriot Post’s Nate Jackson captures the why using two very recent illustrations.

JUSTICE FOR FAUCI: Sooner or later, there will be an accounting and accountability, as World Tribune’s Christine Dolan explains. The many vaccine-injured to whom Fauci refuses to apologize will not be denied. And if you need more info on the vaccine-injured, Dolan provides it here.

TDS HEADLINE OF THE YEAR: You just knew it would be from The New York Times because the Old Grey Lady is Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) Central. It goes like this: “In Trump’s Economy, Job Gains Go to Women. That’s Not an Entirely Good Thing.” Yes, it really does say women getting jobs is “not an entirely good thing.”

Posting a headline like that by the NYT is like tossing chum in the water, for the Issues & Insights crew. They may be swimming miles away, but they smell this TDS manifestation instantly and go for it. You can read the result here. 

WHEN REALITY BITES ANTHONY FAUCI: He took the Fifth 119 times in response to questions a Senate panel about statements and actions he took from 2014 to January 2025, a period covered by the presidential pardon Anthony Fauci got from Joe Biden. But Fauci’s evasions, misrepresentations and outright lies are catching up with him, as I report on PJ Media, and that presidential pardon won’t help him if and when Florida’s Attorney General hauls Fauci into state court.

HERE’S THE REAL REASON DEMS LOVE OBAMACARE SUBSIDIES: It’s called campaign cash and its worth hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions to Democrats in Congress by the biggest health insurance companies.

As I explain today on Substack, those subsidies, by the way, generated $27 billion in federal tax dollars going to those same companies who in turn wrote beacoup checks to their Democratic friends. Let’s see now, does such an arrangement qualify as a conflict-of-interest, a con game, or just pure political corruption?

You haven’t heard a word about this from the Mainstream Media, but, boy, are we all going to hear from now till Election day in November about how terrible are President Donald Trump and (all but four) Senate Republicans because they allowed the temporary Obamacare insurance subsidies to expire as scheduled on the last day of December 2025.

MAYBE MOROCCO COULD BUILD CALIFORNIA’S HIGH-SPEED RAIL: Issues & Insights notes that a mere seven years after it was launched, the first section of Morocco’s 200-mph bullet train became operational in 2018.

California’s “safe, convenient, affordable” high-speed rail project was first approved by voters in 2008. Here we are almost two decades later and “California’s high-speed rail has not been safe nor convenient nor affordable nor a reliable alternative — because it doesn’t exist. It is probably a couple of decades behind schedule, the first usable track has yet to be laid. The cost has risen sharply since voters fell for the lies and might reach as high as an inconceivable $231 billion.”

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IS SOCIALISM A FAD OR FULL-ON THREAT? Are the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) just a passing fad or a real, long-term threat to the Democratic Party and ultimately America? That’s the question discussed on the latest edition of the Outstanding podcast by host Casey Harper, The Washington Stand’s Managing Editor for Broadcast, Matt Carpener, chief of Family Research Council (FRC) Action, and yours truly.

ISRAELI DEATHS THEY DIDN’T TELL YOU ABOUT: Few Americans have any idea of what it means to live in a place where the possibility of violent death is a daily reality. But that’s what it’s like living in Israel. Consider this graf from Richard Pollock’s latest column, “the ignored history of Palestinian terrorist attacks against unarmed Israelis” just during the present year:

“The sadness among Israeli families has been deep and ongoing. In 2026 alone, there were 59,583 bereaved Israeli family members: 8,420 bereaved parents, 4,872 widows, 14,430 orphans, and 31,814 siblings, according to the Jewish Virtual Library.”

REAGAN BACKSTORY ON TRUMP ANTI-FRAUD PUSH: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says his department is now computer-matching proposed expenditures with the Death Master File (DMF) to ensure tax dollars stop going to dead people. But one of President Ronald Reagan’s “junkyard dogs” did the same thing beginning in 1981, so why did it take 45 years for Treasury to catch up?

AND WE WONDER WHY SO MUCH FRAUD: New GAO report examines 20 of the biggest federal benefit programs that rely on state administration and finds only five have solid anti-theft procedures in place.

CONFUSED BY TRUMP’S IRAN MOVES? Richard Pollock reminds us of the best guide to the Trump mind, his book “The Art of the Deal,” by marshaling multiple passages that just might explain his on/off approach on military action and negotiations.

RESTORE CURSIVE INSTRUCTION: Yes, I am a Boomer and “back in the good ole days” we all learned cursive writing skills in elementary school. Even as late as 2010, every state in the union either required or strongly encouraged teaching cursive writing skills.

But then during the Obama administration, that changed in the Common Core Standards and by 2016, only 14 states maintained the cursive element. Thankfully, and for whatever reasons, sanity is returning and today 27 states recognize that cursive writing skills improve cognitive and other key skills in youngsters. Here’s why I think we need to get all 50 states back in the cursive arena.