Kim Jong Un

Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un have signed an agreement pledging they will come to each other’s aid if either is faced with "aggression" from any adversary.

While the details are not fully known, both leaders agreed that the pact is one of the strongest they have had since Putin's last visit to North Korea in 2000. The agreement emerged after one-on-one talks lasting approximately 90 minutes.

According to a report from Russian news agency Sputnik, Putin said, "A new fundamental document was prepared today, something that will form the basis of the long-term relationship between Moscow and Pyongyang."

White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby said the Biden administration was "not concerned about the trip. What we are concerned about is the deepening relationship between the two countries."

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U.S. officials further noted that North Korea may be supplying the Russian military with ballistic missiles and other munitions to use in the war against Ukraine, in exchange for economic assistance and technology transfers.

Putin received a red-carpet welcome and both leaders were seen riding in a luxury limousine together.

North Korea previously had a treaty with the former Soviet Union in 1961. That alliance, according to the treaty document, was "based on the principle of socialist internationalism" and to "promote the maintenance and strengthening of peace and security in the Far East and throughout the world in accordance with the purposes and principles of the United Nations."

However, Eurasia Group founder and President Ian Bremmer told Fox Business that Russia’s new agreement with North Korea should be concerning for everyone.

"The Russians cannot get military equipment directly from countries that are concerned about facing American, European, Japanese and South Korea sanctions, so that doesn't leave many countries out there willing and capable to help Russia with their war effort," Bremmer said. He added that Russia has thus been forced to partner with countries that are considered "rogue," like Iran and North Korea, and that they have the economic means to get what they want.

"The fact that this country is now working so closely with a chaos actor like North Korea, that we have no influence over, we have very little intelligence about, we have no engagement with, should be a serious concern for pretty much everyone out there," Bremmer said.

Putin has reportedly now flown to Vietnam to reinforce long-standing military ties between the two countries.

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The headline above is not at all hyperbolic. In its efforts to "save democracy," the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) is seeking to deny the family members of Ashli Babbitt their constitutional rights.

In the way of background, on Jan. 5, 2024, Judicial Watch filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the United States of America on behalf of the estate of Ashli Babbitt and Aaron Babbitt, her husband.

A 14-year Air Force veteran, the unarmed Ashli was shot and killed on Jan. 6, 2021, by Lt. Michael Byrd inside the U.S. Capitol. Byrd, who was not even disciplined for this reckless shooting, has since been promoted to captain.

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As I report in my new book, "Ashli: The Untold Story of the Women of January 6," Ashli had implored the Capitol Police to control the chaos in the narrow corridor where she was trapped.

When the three officers guarding the door inexplicably walked away, Ashli tried to escape the madness through a broken window. Byrd shot her on sight without warning.

To bring suit, Judicial Watch chose the most natural venue, the United States District Court of the Southern District of California. Aaron Babbitt and Ashli's other family members live in San Diego County as did Ashli before she was killed.

According to a federal law, "A civil action on a tort claim against the United States may be prosecuted in the judicial district where the plaintiff resides." Alternatively, the claim may be filed in the district in which the incident occurred.

As Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton points out, the "first reaction" of the Department of Justice was to request that the suit be moved out of the court where it was filed and to Washington, D.C.

"The request for a change in venue is clearly influenced by Defendant's strongest motivation for changing venue," says Fitton, "which is to select the forum where it feels it would receive a favorable process and outcome based on adversity against January 6 participants."

The numbers back Fitton's argument. In a district in which Trump pulled only 5% of the vote, Trump-affiliated plaintiffs would have no chance of securing an impartial jury and little chance of getting an impartial judge.

This argument is not theoretical. After hundreds of trials, no January 6 defendant has been acquitted by a D.C. jury, and only two have been acquitted by a D.C. judge in a bench trial.

In San Diego County, President Donald Trump received just 37% of the vote in 2020, but there plaintiffs seen as sympathetic to Trump would have at least a chance of securing an impartial jury.

The right to an impartial jury is fundamental. According to the Sixth Amendment, "[i]n all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed."

The Seventh Amendment addresses civil cases. Here, too, the parties involved are guaranteed a right to a trial by jury. From the nation's beginning, the Seventh Amendment has been interpreted to extend the right to an "impartial jury" to both the plaintiff and the defendant.

No matter how one interprets the law, the Biden DOJ made the conscious decision to flout the Constitution and deny the Babbitt family their right to an impartial jury.

It is highly unlikely that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) will come to the Babbitt family's defense. On the first anniversary of January 6, the California chapter signed on to the kind of letter the ACLU chapter of ancient Rome might have written about the Vandals or the Visigoths.

"On January 6 of last year, the residents of D.C. were traumatized as an insurrectionist mob roamed our streets, harassed our neighbors, and violently broke into the Capitol Building, killing at least five people – all in an attempt to overthrow the counting of American citizens' votes."

Locals, of course, were not traumatized by the mob, but they have been traumatized by the media's relentless inflammation of the day's events. Their repeated guilty verdicts testify to the hysteria the media have generated.

Judicial Watch has asked the federal court to deny the Justice Department's request. Unfortunately, smart money is on the DOJ.

Jack Cashill's new book, "Ashli: The Untold Story of the Women of January 6," is now available for purchase.

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The famous sociologist of religion Peter Berger argues that modern liberal society creates a kind of homelessness, a rootless existence without access to the firm pillars that defined historic, traditional Western societies. Man is left utterly alone, without the rational, religious answers that explain the deeper meaning of life. He has no hope for eternity, no comprehension of the afterlife, no purpose beyond materialism. His life is lived without the deep joy – and existential inner peace – of delving into the universe of his own spirituality. He does not explore the deeper metaphysical realities that are the root cause of that which is good in this world.

Berger calls Western atheist relativism a recipe for cultural self-annihilation. Where cultural stability disappears, the foundation for the individual's spiritual health is also threatened, as the culture is weakened by the doctrine of meaninglessness. In "The Social Construction of Reality," Berger points out that man dreads this existential loneliness; he fears being ostracized and isolated from society and yearns for meaningful experiences. This drives him toward social relationships with others, as the world outside of the fellowship of men becomes a demonic, horrifying space.

Equally, the demonic nihilism ingrained in today's mainstream Marxist outlook on life renders life a meaningless exercise where the only battle worth fighting is that between the rich and the poor. Nihilism is often equated with the teachings of atheist Friedrich Nietzsche, in describing the need for the abolition of traditional morality.

By denying the profound religious ethics found in Christianity, which are based on selflessness, humility and servitude to others, the legalization of promiscuity, greed, faithlessness and egoism now dominates the West. The sole dimension that thereby exists is the material, tangible world, as God is considered dead.

The Nietzschean creed somehow argued that man should take the place of God, ruling this world by his own might rather than in submission to the law of nature as God's order. The idea was to join the demons in the rebellion against God's authority. Materialism, therefore, becomes man's only goal; his desire is to get access to more wealth, to steadily fight against those who own more than he does. The problem is, the wealth in this world does not satisfy the depth of man's soul. Money only satisfies the surface. Thus, existential emptiness and loneliness prevail.

The ethics of Christianity used to be the basis for reflection in the West, the moral code that represented consensus and unified us. This deep sense of spiritual awareness has in history shown itself to translate into actions such as compassion, empathy and solidarity with others. Without compassion, democracy itself becomes impossible as it depends on empathy between groups, the quest for justice and equality for all its citizens. Where nihilism prevails, solidarity disintegrates. Tyranny becomes a possibility. Where promiscuity and selfishness become socially desirable solutions, it is increasingly hard to form faithful marriages and family bonds based on trust, fidelity, loyalty and mutual patience.

Political commentator and author, Patrick J. Buchanan has written a number of books about the ongoing Western cultural self-annihilation. In "Suicide of a Superpower," he points out that it was spiritual Christianity – not religious corrupted political and institutionalized power-play – that revived Europe and held it together as a civilization. Western hedonism's greatest flaw rests on its failure to recognize that compassion for others is a fundamental component of civil solidarity and genuine happiness, without which the stability in society will crumble.

Peter Berger speaks of the meaning of existence and the path to a fulfilled life. This need is unmet in the Western mainstream today, as fragmentation, lack of values and a loss of cultural identity characterizes a divided, impoverished people, separated along racial, religious, class and party lines.

Modernity's fluid lack of limits erodes communities and creates a stress that over time becomes unbearable, says sociologist Zygmunt Bauman. The modern world suffers from a loss of anchoring in a permanent value base. This causes serious strains on the human identity.

After studying this topic for many years, Berger had a dramatic mid-career transformation regarding how he perceived religion in modern societies. Earlier in life, he assumed that modernization would cause religion to decline, stating that a globalized society would gradually lead to religious alienation. He later found this to be erroneous and adjusted his hypothesis, convinced by overwhelming new research and statistics. Far too many scientific studies show that people who live in a secular, atheist, mainstream narrative largely remain religious. Berger came to the conclusion that religion satisfies deep human emotional and spiritual needs and meets desires for social belonging, as well as provides valid explanations for the meaning of life.

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As an FBI expert testified, the laptop was definitely Hunter's and had not been hacked, meaning the damning criminal-activity evidence was provided by Hunter himself nonchalantly documenting it. After the nonprofit research group Marco Polo – founded by a former President Donald Trump staffer – conducted a thorough forensic examination of every document on the laptop, it issued a 634-page report – accompanied by 2,020 footnotes – identifying 459 crimes, both state and federal, Hunter may have committed, including prostitution and fraudulent business activities. Hunter next faces federal tax charges in September.

It is difficult to imagine one person committing 459 crimes, but even harder to imagine that person harboring no concerns about documenting them on a personal computer. Doing so undermines father Joe's assertion Hunter is "the smartest man [he] knows." Such brazenous suggests, because he was the First Son and recognized his father had the support of a compliant mainstream media (MSM), Hunter truly believed he operated within a bubble where he was untouchable. But, on June 11, that bubble burst when the jury took only three hours to find him guilty on all counts – the first time ever a first family member of a sitting president has been convicted.

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Defense attorneys tried playing the sympathy card for Hunter but, again, his laptop was his worst enemy. His nefarious deeds included getting his sister-in-law, Hallie, involved in drugs; indebtedness, prompting him to transfer $20,000 from his daughter's college account to pay for "hookers and drugs" despite raking in millions of dollars from foreign sources; dodging financial responsibility for an illegitimate child he fathered; etc. Not helping Hunter was the fact his discarded gun and holster, later recovered, tested positive for cocaine residue.

When the laptop story broke on Oct. 14, 2020 – three weeks before the Nov. 3 presidential election – 51 pro-Joe Biden former senior intelligence officials signed a letter released five days later suggesting it was not Hunter's. Only later did Hunter admit it was his, ironically in order to sue those who had accessed it and then gone public with the contents. Frustratingly, the "Group of 51" have suffered no consequences for their wrong call – rendered without undertaking any due diligence. They simply chose to completely rely on the form letter sent them. Although circulated by former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morrel, the letter was not authored by him and no effort was made to identify the author.

Only after the election did Morrell testify the letter was written by then-Biden senior campaign adviser and now-Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Other signatories included officials beholding to Democrat presidents for their positions such as CIA Director John Brennan, former Obama DNI James Clapper and former CIA director, then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. Thus, it is clear the Biden campaign "played an active role in the origins of the public statement, which had the effect of helping to suppress the Hunter Biden story and preventing American citizens from making a fully informed decision during the 2020 presidential election."

By virtue of the signatories' national security credentials, Americans rightly assumed but wrongly believed they had access to information unavailable to the public. Morrell's testimony acknowledged two intentions for signing the letter:

"One intent was to share our concern with the American people that the Russians were playing on this issue; and, two, it was to help Vice President Biden."

Little did voters know, the failure of these intelligence officials to do their due diligence meant the second intent took priority over the first.

Clapper, later asked if he regretted signing the letter, said no, even refusing to have his name removed from it. This is somewhat hypocritical based on the following statement Clapper and the others wrote about the laptop:

"If we are right, this is Russia trying to influence how Americans vote in this election, and we believe strongly that Americans need to be aware of this." [Emphasis added.]

Asserting Americans needed to be aware of the group's believed, but ultimately incorrect, assessment concerning Russian disinformation, why then is it not important now to acknowledge the truth?

Shedding light on the group of 51's dereliction of duty is an op-ed by former senior intelligence official Daniel Hoffman who, asked to sign the letter, refused to do so.

Hoffman acknowledged when the letter was circulated, the Russians were known for disinformation, especially since President Vladimir Putin was a KGB veteran – an agency famous for such initiatives. But that did not exclude Hunter's possible ownership.

Hoffman shared that then-Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe publicly stated Hunter's laptop was "not part of some Russian disinformation campaign." While the form letter left an out for the signers ("We do not have evidence of Russian involvement – just that our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case"), good intelligence analysis mandates time to conduct forensics and unravel details. Hoffman noted, Morrell's email left no room for discussion – "The letter was a fait accompli. It was being passed around for signatures, not edits." Therefore, Hoffman failed to sign or respond to Morrell's email.

Hoffman's response is what we should expect from responsible former senior intelligence officials.

Did the group of 51, running cover for Hunter, impact the 2020 election, which Biden won with 51.3% of the popular vote? Marco Polo determined Joe Biden was "complicit in six alleged white collar crimes including tax evasion, using nonpublic info for financial gain and illegally utilizing his alias email," violating the Presidential Records Act; copied the First Son on scheduling matters assisting him in his business planning efforts; etc. Truth could have made a difference.

Hunter will be sentenced within four months – facing up to 25 years in prison and $750,000 in fines. Any decision by Joe to commute Hunter's sentence would undoubtedly not be made until after the 2024 election.

Hopefully, Hunter's gun conviction is just the tip of the criminal activity iceberg for him. Throughout his life, his despicable behavior has been facilitated by his father and numerous other individuals both in and out of government seeking to ride Joe's coattails. While the group of 51 has learned nothing about accountability, at least Hunter, at age 54, has.

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California goes to the Chicoms.

Canada gets most of New England.

Russia snaps up Alaska, and Hawaii declares her independence.

Mexico, whose once-friendly government has been overthrown by forces aligned with the U.N., grabs a bunch of the southern counties of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.

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A popular movement throughout what remains of the nation is called MAWA, for Make America Whole Again. A principal resistance breaks out along the newly redrawn southern border. Spanish-speaking-only schools are burned to the ground. Mexican security forces are attacked. The army of Greater Mexico moves battalions into some of their retaken cities and starts shelling others where the resistance is still too great for full occupation.

Mexico gears up to repeat the Cuban missile crisis, on a much larger scale and with Chinese weaponry, but a reinvigorated Union of the States of America (still the U.S.A.) gathers her forces on the border, hoping to force a negotiation. The Mexican government, goaded on by old cold war U.S. enemies, pretends not to notice and increases the shelling of those areas of defiance, by ten-fold. Our Union forces finally launch a "Special Military Operation" to protect and free our former citizens.

A ceasefire is quickly agreed to, in principle, to begin negotiations, but certain foreign interests, who are propping Mexico up, snuff the chance for peace, in favor of a war they believe will be of some benefit to their own selfish interests.

Now, take this scenario, far-fetched as it may be, and pull it back in time, shift it around the globe, and start substituting the players mentioned above for Russia, Ukraine, Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk, the U.S. and NATO, etc. Where do your sympathies end up, now? Have they suddenly changed?

No! No! That's all oranges and apples, square pegs in a round hole! True enough, in many ways, the main one being that our beef with Mexico goes back to the Alamo, where we lost a couple hundred brave Texans (when Mexico marched into what had been their own territory), while Russia's point of reference looks back to the invasions of Napoleon, the Kaiser and Hitler and the deaths of tens of millions of their countrymen.

Now, the tyrant Putin is loved by his people, because they have to, we are told. Putin jails his opposition, while Biden still gives Trump his right of appeal. Putin kills his adversaries. Biden just withholds Secret Service protection. Or lets them hang themselves in prison, when the cameras break down. Putin is trying to broaden Russian control around the world, but we're not pulling strings anywhere. Not in Ukraine. Not in Israel. Not in Brazil. Not in Europe. Like Joe says, "And I'm not kiddin'." Putin's crooked election gave him 80% of the vote. Biden's crooked election only had to give him 51%, or 81,000,000 votes. (Joe says, "Seriously, I'm not exaggerating!") Russia used to have Pravda. We still have CNN and the Washington Post. So, there's really no comparison, whatsoever.

This is all sneaky anti-democratic Russian disinformation, no doubt. How can you not be totally against Putin's dictatorship? Just because we, as a nation, Democrats and RINOs, spend all our time playing nice with Emperor Xi? Because there's nothing sneakier than a former communist. At least Xi mocks our friendship openly and honestly.

Is all this relevant to current events? Does it matter that the apparent dichotomy of Dems vs. Repubs has been reconfigured to the DEM-RINO War Party vs. MAGA? Does it matter that the Uniparty's invitation for "conservatives" to support this war is setting the table for an intended war with Russia, the result of which will be to further redefine MAGA folks as unpatriotic subversives and get others to believe that MAGA means America first in ALL times of war? They absolutely have to get MAGA, so it will be worth it.

Patriots! Russia should not be our enemy. The only reason it has become so, is that it serves the interests of our real enemies. Just ask Hillary and Barack. They all loved good old Russian rubles, till they needed a bad Russia to pin something, anything, on their nemesis, Trump. It is astounding, but true.

We stand at the brink of World War III for the lies of a few narcissistic megalomaniacs. Lies that were told, if not only for political gain, then certainly to protect their ill-gotten gains and to keep themselves out of jail.

Ask George Orwell: "Eastasia has always been our ally. We have always been at war with Eurasia."

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The beleaguered presidential campaign of Joe Biden, facing losing support from young voters, black voters, even women voters in some polls, and trailing GOP challenger President Donald Trump in most polls including those in swing states, apparently is turning its focus onto another age group, hoping to win the White House with the "geezer" vote.

At 81, and to be 82 about the time of the coming election, Biden appears to be looking for election help from his contemporaries.

That assessment comes from a report in Axios, which reveals that since 2000, the senior vote has belonged to Republicans.

The report cites a New York Times/Siena poll that suggests some of those older people are moving to Biden's camp this year.

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Importantly, the report notes, the senior vote is a group "that consistently votes at higher rates than any other demographic."

While President Trump, the report notes, "appears to be making stunning gains of his own among young voters," although it admits "the polls could still be wrong," it suggests that seniors considering "old-school respect for institutions and distaste for Trump's unorthodox style," are moving to Biden. Another theory? "Hippies got old."

The report claims NYT/Siena puts Biden with a 9-point lead over Trump in a head-to-head among likely voters 65 and older.

That was similar to a Quinnipiac poll weeks ago.

The report noted while 10% of those ages 18-34 said democracy was the most urgent issue facing voters, that number was 35% for those ages 65 and up.

Biden's attack has included claims that Republicans are eyeing cuts to Social Security and Medicare, claims that GOP candidates have rejected as false.

Biden's outreach, the report explained "includes bingo nights and pickleball tournaments, ads on daytime television and more.

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Kamala Harris, Joe Biden's vice president, has established a stunning record.

Immigrant crisis on the southern border, her assignment? She traveled to Central America to find the "roots" and the suggestion shortly followed that if those economies equaled America's, there wouldn't be a rush to America's open borders.

She's been blasted by critics as Joe Biden's insurance against impeachment, and there's even been talk among Democrat circles about replacing her on the ticket for the vote this year.

While often criticized for her "word salads" on stage, she actually delivered some nuggets – of her wisdom.

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And the Trump campaign has strategically preserved those, to remind Americans.

One such comment was, "Talking about the significant of the passage of time. Right? The significant of the passage of time. So when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time."

Hear them:

Inspired by the same topic, conservative satire site The Babylon Bee created a viral humor video titled “Meet Kamala Harris's 6-Year-Old Speechwriter”:

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A state investigation now has been launched into allegations, from a whistleblower, that Texas Children's Hospital has committed Medicaid fraud in its "sex-change" program for children, according to investigative reporter Christopher Rufo.

He posted a report online pointing out his earlier investigative documentation in which that whistleblower made allegations against doctors in the transgender program there.

"Now, the State of Texas has taken action," he reported. "I have confirmed with a spokesman for Attorney General Ken Paxton that the alleged Medicaid fraud is 'currently being investigated by the Texas Attorney General.'"

Rufo pointed out there are two avenues for an investigation, civil and criminal.

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"If the state pursues a civil case against Texas Children’s, the hospital could lose a significant amount of funding and, in the maximal outcome, even lose access to the state Medicaid program. If the state decides to pursue criminal charges, the doctors involved could face significant fines and up to 10 years in prison," he noted.

He explained that the "scandal" of what promoters call transgender "health care" "is finally reaching the point of crisis."

"There will be a reckoning—and Texas might lead the way."

Revolver News noted that Rufo's original report found that Vanessa Sivadge, a registered nurse at the hospital, charged that doctors there are charging Medicaid for transgender procedures, even though that is not allowed.

This is Dr. David Paul. According to Sivadge, Paul has managed a large number of pediatric sex-change patients. For example, he prescribed sex-change hormones and discussed breast implants with a male who identified as "female." The patient was enrolled in the state Medicaid… pic.twitter.com/t12qgspQSP

— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) June 18, 2024

EXCLUSIVE: A nurse at Texas Children's Hospital claims that doctors in the hospital’s child sex-change program committed Medicaid fraud. "The largest children's hospital in the country is illegally billing Medicaid for transgender procedures."

A massive scandal.

— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) June 18, 2024

Sivadge was the anonymous whistleblower who denounced TCH's child sex-change program in an interview with me last year. After that, she says, the FBI sent two agents to her home to intimidate and threaten her. pic.twitter.com/ZSInVH3zrv

— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) June 18, 2024

But there was more. She knew that Texas prohibits state Medicaid funds from being used on "gender-affirming care." And yet, she noticed that many patients in the child sex-change program were enrolled in state Medicaid—which, she believed, was a violation of the law. pic.twitter.com/dsDizM4H56

— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) June 18, 2024

A City Journal report explained, on the topic, the public was "sold a bill of goods."

The report explains "Texas law forbade hospitals from billing Medicaid for transgender procedures. The Texas Medicaid Provider Procedures Manual has long stated that 'sex change operations' are 'not benefits of Texas Medicaid.'"

That City Journal report said, "The 'gender-affirming care' business has always had an aura of madness around it. Wielding the authority of white coats and prestigious degrees, doctors have convinced large swaths of the public that some children are 'born in the wrong body.' The solution? Stop puberty, prescribe cross-sex hormones, and then, with the stroke of a knife, remove body parts—most commonly breasts, less frequently genitalia."

While that ideology captured great influence, the report said, "The consensus appears to be shifting. European governments have backed away from many of these dubious procedures. In England, the Cass Review has raised grave questions about the scientific evidence behind 'gender-affirming care.' In the United States, the public has turned decisively against the use of puberty blockers and gender surgeries on minors, with some state legislatures banning the practice."

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German economist and World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab made waves on social media this week after a leaked video from a September 2022 WEF Young Global Leaders conference showed Schwab telling his audience that merging human beings with technology could be used as a way to circumvent death and live forever.

A well-known proponent of "The Great Reset," Schwab envisions a future where all of humanity will live under the yolk of a One World Government, where citizens will "own nothing" and "be happy."

In the video, Schwab touted the benefits of transhumanism to his audience, stating that a person would be able to have a 50-year career through life-extending technologies that includes injections, and the use of avatars in place of a body after it dies.

In a leaked recording of a private WEF Young Global Leaders indoctrination session, Klaus Schwab promises new recruits that their "avatars" will continue to live on after they die, and that their brains "will be replicated through artificial intelligence and algorithms".

"You… pic.twitter.com/c8qEBctl15

— Wide Awake Media (@wideawake_media) June 12, 2024

"Your avatar will continue to live, and your brain will be replicated through artificial intelligence and algorithms." Schwab said, adding this could happen within the next 50 years.

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Yuval Noah Harari, a World Economic Forum lecturer and professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, claims “We are probably one of the last generations of homo sapiens," and says that eventually "those who own the data" will be able to "hack" human beings.

Transhumanism, according to an article by the WEF published in 2018, is a movement wherein advocates believe the human condition can be enhanced by technology in all forms, including genetic engineering, bioengineering, artificial intelligence and molecular nanotechnology.

Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum

The WEF article goes on to note that the end result of a fusion between human and machine would be an "enhanced or augmented" version of homo sapiens – but still insists the person would remain fundamentally human.

However, a journal published in 2018, "Transhumanism as the dominant ideology of the fourth industrial revolution" by Klaus-Gerd Giesen, a professor of political science at Clermont Auvergne University in Clermont-Ferrand, France, contradicts this premise.

Giesen states that transhumanist thought can be broken down into three main underpinnings: 1) humans are fundamentally obsolete, 2) there must be a complete integration between human and machine, and 3) doing this would make human beings transcend humanity itself – essentially enabling a person to become a technological god.

"The very concept of human resources may be rendered obsolete, with workers becoming just another technological resource: a mere tool of production ... And the fact that this project has found support among very important sections of the state apparatus and the private sector is highly significant," Giesen states in his journal.

According to Giesen, a transhumanist's main goal is undoing the current world order and replacing it completely with a new set of values that would eventually result in a redistribution of wealth and the restructuring of social classes.

Susan Levin, a professor in the Humanities and chair of the philosophy department at Smith University, stated during a 2021 interview that even if technology and science were able to deliver a transhuman world, people still shouldn't want to get on board.

"We should have serious qualms about signing on. For they largely presume the veracity of their own, highly contentious and constrictive answers to longstanding questions in Western philosophy about human nature and a flourishing life. Why should we accept their extreme version of rational essentialism, which excludes a necessary role for emotion in a life well lived?" Levin said.

Meanwhile, Schwab and other global "elites" like Microsoft founder Bill Gates have been a driving force behind efforts to lower birth rates through funding abortion, vaccines and contraception. It seems like an about-face to push for people to "live forever," although arguably a transhuman, part-machine population devoid of its humanity might be easier to control.

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Hunter Biden found guilty on gun-related charges on Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Hunter Biden long has been a source of scandalous headlines for his overseas business schemes, often documented in that infamous abandoned laptop, his drug use, his sex antics, his recent gun-charge convictions and his looming tax-charges trial.

Now a new scenario is being reported by Just the News: How his team set up a $120 million deal while Joe Biden was vice president for Barack Obama, a secret that the FBI knew about at the time.

The deal ultimately was not completed.

But the report explains the plan was for Hunter Biden to be on a board of directors of a new entity, formally established in Liechtenstein and funded with millions from Nykola Zlochevsky, known more for his ownership of Burisma, an energy entity.

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It was the Ukrainian Burisma for which Hunter Biden served as a director during his father's vice presidency, when Joe Biden was in charge for Obama of U.S.-Ukraine relations.

While paying Hunter Biden millions, Zlochevsky was trying to get out from under a corruption investigation, and that prosecutor ultimately was fired after Joe Biden traveled to Ukraine and threatened to withhold a billion dollar aid package that the U.S. had prepared unless government officials dismissed him.

Just the News reported the FBI "learned as far back as 2016 that Hunter Biden and his partners had plotted to set up a new venture in tax-friendly Liechtenstein that would be capitalized by a whopping $120 million investment from the controversial owner of the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma Holdings."

The publication said the details were in documents "that have been kept from the American public for eight years."

That "mega-deal" was not mentioned in Hunter Biden's laptop or during 2019 impeachment proceedings that involved Ukraine, but was in a cache of millions of documents the FBI seized from Hunter Biden during its investigation into securities fraud years ago.

Those papers recently came into the possession of the House Oversight Committee from former Hunter Biden associate Devon Archer as part of Congress' impeachment investigation of Joe Biden.

Those papers show Hunter Biden was to be on the board for "Burnham Energy Security LLC" which would start off with $120 million from Zlochevsky.

"The Hunter Biden-connected Burnham entity was slated to get a quarter of the new venture's net revenues without putting up any cash, according to recent testimony to Congress from one of the partners," the report said.

Confirmation of the strategy was from a Zlochevsky aide, Vadym Pozharskyi, who told Hunter Biden, "Burnham Energy Security Fund: we started a legal discussion between our lawyers and legal counsels from your side (through Devon's kind introduction). At the moment, we're working on structure and all related issues."

The report noted nearly 200 documents reference Burnham Energy Security, and most of those also cite Hunter Biden's involvement.

The scheme apparently was derailed by the arrest of one of Hunter Biden's associates, in a securities fraud case, and the announcement by the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine at the time, Geoffrey Pyatt, that the Ukraine government should pursue Zlochevsky on corruption charges.

It was Pyatt's influence that "unexpectedly kicked Ukrainian prosecutors into a more aggressive effort to investigate Zlochevsky in fall 2015, an effort that came to an abrupt halt when Vice President Joe Biden pressured Ukraine to fire the chief prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, by threatening to withhold $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees," the report confirmed.

The report explained the oddity in the arrangement: Hunter Biden and his team would put up no money, but instead would contribute "relational capital – including the political connections that are associated with the Biden name."

The current investigation in Congress is on what role Joe Biden may have played in any of Hunter Biden's dealings, and what liability that may have created under American law. Allegations have been made, based on credible evidence, that the Bidens have run a massive influence-peddling scheme for years, taking in millions of dollars from sources sometimes unfriendly to the U.S.

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A judge has rejected a demand from Planned Parenthood that a child-trafficking case be dismissed.

BREAKING: The judge has DENIED Planned Parenthood’s motion to dismiss our lawsuit against them for trafficking minors out of state to obtain abortions.

One step closer to eradicating Planned Parenthood from the State of Missouri.

— Attorney General Andrew Bailey (@AGAndrewBailey) June 19, 2024

Missouri state Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced on social media, "BREAKING: The judge has DENIED Planned Parenthood’s motion to dismiss our lawsuit against them for trafficking minors out of state to obtain abortions. One step closer to eradicating Planned Parenthood from the State of Missouri."

A report from Just the News said the allegations are that the abortion industry moneymaker "traffics minors out of state to obtain abortions."

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The lawsuit, filed earlier this year, accuses the Great Plains chapter of the abortion corporation of being able to take minors across state lines to obtain abortions without parental consent.

"The lawsuit accuses the Great Plains chapter of unlawful behavior, allegedly captured on camera, of staffers taking minors across state lines to get an abortion procedure without parental knowledge," the report explained.

The video, from undercover investigators and reporters with Project Veritas, appeared to show a conversation between a Planned Parenthood employee and someone asking about an abortion for a 13-year-old.

Planned Parenthood spokeswoman Emily Wales said the organization "will continue following state and federal laws and proudly providing Missourians with the compassionate sexual and reproductive care that remains available to them in a state with a total abortion ban."

A report from KMOX earlier explained that Planned Parent claims the entire situation wasn't real.

Officials with the abortion company told Judge Brouck Jacobs, "There is no allegation that any child, any minor has been taken across state lines; there’s no allegation that any parent has complained. There’s no allegation that any abortion has been performed either in Missouri or outside of Missouri, with or without parental consent here. The whole conversation is hypothetical."

Prosecutors responded that while the situation may have been hypothetical, Planned Parenthood's worker thought it was real and based the responses on that.

The video shows a man taping the conversation telling Planned Parenthood's worker that the girl's "parents" couldn't learn of an abortion, and, the report confirmed, "Staff then directed him to their affiliate clinics in Kansas where they said he could 'bypass' parental consent."

The report continued, "When the man asked how often girls go out of state for abortions, the Planned Parenthood employee said it happens 'every day.'"

The state's law says, "No one shall intentionally cause aid or assist a minor to obtain an abortion."

The KMOX report continued, "The attorney general’s office argued that the Missouri clinic still aided in a hypothetical abortion, pointing to a point in the video where the employee says 'we can cut off our letterhead so it doesn’t even say where she was,' in reference to a doctor’s note in order to miss school. The employee also says that Planned Parenthood often sets up hotels for those who need to travel out of state."

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A so-called "science' magazine has turned itself into an expert on education, admitting that homeschooling works, but demanding federal oversight, and rules, for parents who teach their own children.

A report from Breitbart identified the magazine as "Scientific American," a publication that often takes left-leaning positions.

It now is not only calling for federal rules for homeschooling, but even "background" checks for parents.

The magazine's agenda came in a recent newsletter in which it cited information from the National Center for Education Statistics, which confirmed 1.5 million American children were homeschooled during the 2019 time period.

Homeschooling activity actually is surging across the U.S.

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"The newsletter admits that homeschooled children have excelled, going on to win national spelling bees, even pointing to famed Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős, who was homeschooled by his mother," the report said.

But the magazine complained "most states don’t require the same assessment of homeschooled kids that are required for their public school peers. Parents are not required to have an education themselves to direct instruction, and in most states, no one checks to see that children are receiving an education at all. In the worst cases, homeschooling can hide abuse."

The commentary said, "homeschool parents should be required to undergo a background check — the same as K-12 teachers."

And, the magazine insisted, "Homeschool instructors could be required to submit documents every year to their local school district or to a state agency to show that their children are learning."

The report noted actually NCES documents that most homeschooling is done to battle "toxic school environments and a lack of moral instruction."

It explained, "Eighty percent of homeschoolers said they homeschool because they have a concern about school environment (which could include safety, drugs, negative peer pressure, or other issues), 75 percent said they desire to provide moral instruction, another 75 percent said they want to put an emphasis on family life together, and 59 percent said they have a desire to provide religious instruction. Further, nearly three quarters, 73 percent, said they homeschool because they have a dissatisfaction with the academic instruction at other schools. To further demonstrate that point, the U.S. Department of Education’s National Assessment of Educational Progress testing found that just 32 percent of fourth graders read at or above proficiency for their grade level in 2022."

Public schools across America today, in fact, are facing a multitude of fights with parents as leftists embedded in staff and faculty impose leftist ideologies of "diversity, equity, inclusion," as well as Black Lives Matter, LGBT and "environmental justice." In extreme cases, some schools allow teachers to encourage students to declare they are transgender, and then conceal such influences from parents.

"In 2023, for example, the Los Angeles Unified School District hosted a 'Rainbow Club,' to teach kids as young as five years old about LGBT-related topics, and there has been controversy nationwide about what some describe as 'pornographic' books in schools,," the report noted.

HeadlineUSA characterized the magazine's demands as declaring "war" on homeschooling.

It explained, "To solve the non-existent problem, the leftists who work at the magazine said that 'homeschooling should be subject to some basic federal mandates'" and those background checks should be mandatory.

The Washington Examiner described the magazine as "left-leaning legacy" publication, and said, "While the implication of what the Scientific American editors advocated appears to be government control over homeschool curriculums and practices, one of the most oft-cited reasons families decide to homeschool is to get their children out of government-run schools."

WND previously reported when Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Bartholet complained publicly about, "The Risks of Homeschooling."

She has claimed that homeschooling deprives children of their right to a "meaningful education."

She explained, it is "important that children grow up exposed to community values, social values, democratic values, ideas about nondiscrimination and tolerance of other people's viewpoints."

PJ Media, at the time, commented: "In other words, she knows that homeschooled children are being taught to think for themselves, and she won't stand for it."

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Steve Bannon at CPAC 2024

Republican members of the U.S. House are moving to nullify the entirety of ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's partisan committee that "investigated" the Jan. 6, 2021, protest at the U.S. Capitol, where a few hundreds of people rioted.

The Gateway Pundit reports some two dozen members are sponsoring a resolution that would designate the committee and its work illegitimate and cancel the subpoenas it issued during its time in the spotlight.

It explains that's significant because it would be, "Rescinding the subpoenas issued by the January 6th Select Committee on September 23, 2021, October 6, 2021, and February 9, 2022, and withdrawing the recommendations finding Stephen K. Bannon, Mark Randall Meadows, Daniel Scavino, Jr., and Peter K. Navarro in contempt of Congress," the resolution reads.

Navarro already is serving jail time on the basis of that committee's demands, and Bannon is ordered to report within weeks.

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The committee was partisan because Pelosi allowed only committee members she wanted to be a part. The nominees from the then-GOP minority were refused. And the committee essentially edited and orchestrated witnesses and testimony to try to pin blame on President Donald Trump for that day.

That was when his fans rallied in Washington, and a few thousand went to the Capitol, where Congress was formalizing Joe Biden as the presidential race winner.

A few hundred rioted, breaking windows and vandalizing. One protester was shot and killed at point blank range by a police officer who did not even issue a warning first.

They were protesting what they perceived as a faulty election. What is known is that the results were under undue influence from two significant factors, the first being Mark Zuckerberg's handouts of $400 million plus to election officials who largely used the windfall to recruit voters in Democrat districts.

The other was the FBI's election interference when it warned publications to suppress information about the Biden family scandals contained in the laptop computer abandoned by Hunter Biden at a repair shop. The FBI, and a long list of former intel officers, falsely claimed it was "Russian" disinformation, when in fact it contained reams of accurately details about the Bidens. A survey later showed that influence probably cost President Trump the victory.

Democrats claimed the events were an actual "insurrection" against the United States, where by definition protesters would have been intending to take over the government's economy, military, foreign policy and much, much more. They've even tried to keep Trump off the 2024 ballot on the basis of their claims. The events actually were a protest that got out of hand.

The report explains Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., and Eric Burlison, R-Mo., have introduced a resolution "aimed at rescinding the congressional subpoenas issued to Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro. This proposal also seeks to officially repudiate the actions of the January 6 committee, which Massie and other Republicans have labeled as wholly illegitimate."

Massie suggested on social media that House Speaker Mike Johnson call for a vote and Republicans could reverse the political warfare decisions made by Pelosi.

Massie pointed out the plan needs no approval from the Democrat-majority Senate, since the original subpoenas were issued only on the authority of the House.

Biggs charged, "The illegitimately constructed and biased January 6th Committee must be held accountable for its pursuit of political opponents."

Burleson explained the move would withdraw Democrat "recommendations" finding the Trump associates in contempt of Congress.

(1/2) Here’s our 5 page Resolution to rescind the subpoena’s issued for Bannon and Navarro and to declare the January 6th committee to have been illegitimate. pic.twitter.com/eM122OZpzy

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) June 18, 2024

The Republicans charge that the committee staged a "show" investigation, assembling evidence they claimed supported the conclusion they already had reached, of Trump's guilt.

Burlison revealed, "One day after Jan. 6, then-Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Schumer called for Trump to be removed from office by whatever means necessary. Pelosi even went as far as to say that Trump could be an 'accessory to murder.'"

The plan points out that Pelosi refused to follow the resolution creating the committee, and never appointed the five members required "after consulting the minority leader."

Further, the committee had no "ranking member" from the GOP, another violation of House rules.

And the committee also ignored House rules requiring committees provide equal time for majority and minority members asking questions.

His statement explained, the committee "spent hours rehearsing ahead of time so they could put on Stalinist show-[trials] for the American people. Bottom line: The committee was used as a political weapon with a singular focus on taking down Trump and his advisors through the intentional manipulation of facts and the silencing of the minority party. It was procedurally flawed from the start."

Others sponsoring the plan included Reps. Chip Roy of Texas, Andy Ogles of Tennessee, Andrew Clyde of Georgia, Paul Gosar of Arizona, Bob Good of Virginia, Diana Harshbarger of Tennessee, Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma, Clay Higgins of Louisiana, Mary Miller of Illinois, Barry Moore of Alabama, Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, Eli Crane of Arizona, Jim Banks of Indiana, Michael Cloud of Texas, Dan Bishop of North Carolina, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, Matt Rosendale of Montana, Matt Gaetz of Florida, Warren Davidson of Ohio and Lance Gooden of Texas.

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Who thought at the time about the far-reaching implication of Bill Clinton's statement, "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is"?

He apparently thought he knew what a woman "is," but today legal authorities, even Supreme Court justices, and medical authorities say they do not. They may claim that genders are numerous and "fluid." Age-old methods of recognizing sex are tossed out in favor of subjective self-identification. And worse, people are being coerced into acting as if this identification is reality.

Discrimination used to concern observable, objective traits. Its initial meaning was to describe prejudicial treatment based upon race. Other categories like nationality, age, or disability have been added, but these were still based upon objective fixed traits. No one would claim that the delusional patient who claims to be a historical figure like Napoleon Bonaparte is being "discriminated" against because people refuse to treat him as if he were that long-dead person.

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Transgender activists and their acolytes, on the other hand, demand slavish deference to trans persons' perceptions. It is discriminatory and harmful, for example, to imply that a person who has just given birth is a woman and a mother despite the patient's proclaimed pronouns being he/him.

Mainstream medical associations are now demanding "evidence-based" treatments to "affirm" the delusion that a child is a person of a different gender, and to alter the body to mimic the preferred gender. New Biden administration rules require suitably qualified practitioners to render such treatments. Apparently, if a physician does mastectomies for cancer, he is legally required to do them for "affirmation."

State laws against puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgery on minors are being challenged by powerful transgender advocates, and courts generally side with transgenderism. Minors really cannot give "informed consent," but questions about this treatment do not go away after the 18th birthday is reached.

A declaration authored by the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) is garnering wide support. This declaration is a brave act by courageous physicians who dare to question the insane transgender narrative imposed by the powerful medical establishment. The declaration refers to selected scientific studies that, it states, contradict the studies cited by proponents of transgenderism. This tactic has been used before, as with COVID-19. There can be an endless string of arguments over the flaws of the studies cited by both sides. Ultimately, trangenderism ideologues are likely to prevail in a dispute based exclusively upon "science." They will succeed not because they are right; they will win because current political power asymmetry favors them. Most importantly, they have an advantage in winning scientific disputes (even when wrong) due to their extensive academic experience in responding to studies that challenge their conclusions.

Neither side is likely to concede because this is not a scientific argument, but essentially a religious one.

The one side believes that 1) God created man, male and female; 2) there is a universal divine Lawgiver; and 3) there are absolute moral principles, many of which are incorporated in the Oath of Hippocrates. Such precepts forbid harming individuals to serve an agenda.

The other side believes that 1) there is no God, or God is irrelevant; 2) the ultimate authority is Science; 3) morality and the law are determined by Science to serve the goals set by the authorities; and 4) religious people, especially Christians, are bigots opposed to enlightenment and to allowing oppressed and marginalized people to flourish.

The right wing thus holds that the divine order is good and immutable. It is harmful and thus forbidden to risk sterilizing a child, chemically or physically, or to mutilate his body. Any purported benefits reported in studies are psychological, probably short-term, and achieved by exploiting or manipulating patients and data. Horrible adverse effects are denied or downplayed, as are the consequences of radical societal change.

The left wing holds that the current societal order is unjust and inequitable, and should be destroyed. The Science holds the key to beneficial change. Science is a tool to be used in a results-oriented way (no need for replication or open criticism). Purported adverse effects are rare, mild, or fabricated, and worth it to achieve the collective goals.

The transgender ideology needs to be engaged on the philosophical/religious ground. If the premises are absurd (e.g., "being trapped in the wrong body") and the advocated methods (castrating and mutilating children) are immoral or criminal, then scores on psychological surveys and p-values are distractions and pretexts attempting to justify the indefensible.

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Last week, Pew Research Center reported on such differences. They write about those on the right: "Most Trump supporters (69%) would like the Bible to have at least some influence on the laws of the U.S., including 36% who say it should have 'a great deal' of influence."

As to those on the left, Pew writes, "About 7-in-10 Biden supporters (69%) say the Bible should have little or no influence on the laws of the U.S., including 53% who say it should have no influence."

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Gary Bauer, who served in the Reagan administration and now runs American Values, reacted to this survey: "Why does this matter? … [A]s we are seeing now with the absurd smears of 'Christian nationalism,' those who say the Bible should have no influence quickly morph their religious bigotry into the belief that Christians are 'a danger to democracy.'"

And Bauer adds, "Once again, pastors and Christians who say, 'I'm not interested in politics because it's divisive,' are sorely mistaken. The government and the neo-Marxist left are very interested in you!"

One key issue is: What is the source of our rights? God or government?

Rabbi Daniel Lapin, president of the American Alliance of Jews and Christians, told me once in a television interview: "There is obviously in today's society, a very strong desire to suggest that the rights enjoyed by citizens are graciously granted by government." And he went on to say that what the government grants, it can also take away.

The rabbi continued, "And it is precisely for that reason that anybody who spends the slightest amount of effort on finding out what the founders of the United States of America believed will know that they stressed and emphasized constantly and reliably, that these rights were from God. They were God given, not government given."

What did the founders of America have to say about such matters? How much influence should the Bible have on the nation's laws, if any?

Well, for starters, the Bible is the source of the notion of covenant, which ultimately gave rise to our governing document, the U.S. Constitution. And many scholars, like the late Dr. Donald S. Lutz, of the University of Houston, have noted the vital role of the biblical concept of covenant in helping to frame our two key founding documents, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution – both of which have the same structure: A written agreement under God that bears signatures.

Writes Lutz in his classic book, "The Origins of American Constitutionalism": "The American constitutional tradition derives in much of its form and content from the Judeo-Christian tradition as interpreted by the radical Protestant sects to which belonged so many of the original European settlers in British North America." And their chief guidebook was the Bible.

Lutz adds, "God is called on as a witness to the agreement. … Wherever dissenting Protestantism went, so too went their church covenants." And those church covenants eventually morphed into political agreements. The Mayflower Compact is one such example.

No wonder Newsweek wrote (Dec. 27, 1982), on the eve of the Year of the Bible: "Now historians are discovering that the Bible, perhaps even more than the Constitution, is our founding document: the source of the powerful myth of the United States as a special, sacred nation, a people called by God to establish a model society, a beacon to the world."

The Scriptures teach the sinfulness of man, so the founders carefully separated political power to avoid tyranny. As Alexander Hamilton, a New York representative at the Constitutional Convention, once noted on man's corrupt nature: "Till the millennium comes, in spite of all our boasted light and purification, hypocrisy and treachery will continue to be the most successful commodities in the political market."

Another point of the founders' view is that for self-rule to work, the people must be virtuous. How could they maintain virtue? Through the voluntary free exercise of religion, which usually meant Christianity in one version or another.

As George Washington famously worded it: "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports."

Lutz comments on how important the idea of virtue was to the founders of America, and, of course, the Bible was their basis for virtue: "Without the belief in a virtuous people, the federal republic would not have been tried."

It's amazing that millions of Americans today think that the Bible should have no place in influencing public policy. The Bible helped produce the freest and most prosperous country in world history. As President Andrew Jackson declared, "The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests."

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When Congress recently voted to find Merrick Garland, Joe Biden's pick for attorney general, in contempt, there was little surprise that the Department of Justice refused to pursue a case.

Or that Garland claimed he was in the right all along, with his claim, "We investigate and prosecute violations of federal law – nothing more, nothing less."

Now it has been revealed that Garland and the DOJ also refused to prosecute a man who threatened the family of U.S. Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind.  And Banks wants to know why.

The Washington Examiner said Banks had written to Garland, demanding information.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland

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"When Capitol Police referred the criminal case against Aaron Thompson to the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, they declined to prosecute despite clear evidence that Thompson violated federal law," Banks told him.

So what was involved in the decision not to pursue charges against "a man who left threatening voicemails" for Banks' family?

Banks had written the letter months ago, but released it after Garland posted an op-ed in which he made his claim about prosecuting violations of federal law, "nothing less."

Banks' letter included, "I have no doubt that you, as a husband and father yourself, would do anything to protect your family, but I want to know why you have refused to protect mine."

Among the threats, according to the report, was, "Here’s the choice. Your daughters grow up without their dad or you grow old without your daughters … boom, boom you pick…"

Thompson was prosecuted only by a local district attorney for threats, pleaded guilty and claimed he was intoxicated at the time. Ordinarily, federal prosecutors would handle a threat against Congress, as that's a federal offense.

The House just days ago voted to hold Garland in contempt of Congress, on a 216-207 vote.

Today the U.S. House voted to hold AG Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to hand over audio related to Biden’s mishandling of classified documents. He is accused of covering up & shielding Biden from criticism.pic.twitter.com/xvlM89RAeu

— WorldNetDaily (@worldnetdaily) June 12, 2024

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Joe Biden has been described, during his time in the White House, as opening America's southern border and inviting in millions of illegal aliens.

That characterization is because he canceled a long list of border security measures implemented by President Donald Trump, and then made it clear around the world that there would be help for those who reached the border.

Now, in an election year, he's doubling down.

He's announced new legal protections and an easier path to citizenship for illegals. And immigrants married to U.S. citizens now no longer have to return to their home country.

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It's all prompted members of the GOP to accuse Biden of "inviting" more illegals into America.

''This Biden Amnesty is a direct attack on American democracy," said former President Trump.

"This Biden Amnesty is a direct attack on American democracy." - President Trump.⁰

Watch our complete coverage of President Trump's Speech here: https://t.co/lb1q4YDAJT pic.twitter.com/BHedxQWihr

— Real America's Voice (RAV) (@RealAmVoice) June 18, 2024

The Washington Examiner noted Biden's scheme "will undoubtedly lead to a greater surge in migrant crime, cost taxpayers millions of dollars they cannot afford, overwhelm public services, and steal Social Security and Medicare benefits from American seniors to fund benefits for illegals."

That was the description from Karoline Leavitt, a spokeswoman for the Trump campaign.

Former Trump adviser Stephen Miller even suggested impeachment might be appropriate.

And NumbersUSA, which lobbies for better immigration policy, said it simply is unconstitutional.

The Gateway Pundit turned blunt in its report.

"Joe Biden on Tuesday announced mass amnesty for at least 500,000 illegal aliens (the number is likely much higher). According to Trump advisor and America First Legal founder Stephen Miller, 'Biden’s unconstitutional amnesty will give illegal aliens immediate green cards (making it easier to vote illegally) and a three-year path to citizenship (giving them full voting rights).'"

He continued, "It also includes a diploma mill provision: leftists and opportunistic corporations can churn out meaningless diplomas and illegals who receive them will be made into citizens as well. Once citizens, illegals get chain migration. So all their relatives become citizens too."

The report noted, "As usual, what’s left of Biden’s brain melted in real-time during his remarks."

Biden — who has imported MILLIONS OF UNVETTED ILLEGALS into our communities via his OPEN BORDER — now claims "every nation must secure its borders."

He's about to unilaterally provide MASS AMNESTY to a million illegal aliens. pic.twitter.com/G7XREEsbtC

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 18, 2024

BIDEN (malfunctioning): "...homeland security secretary, uhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhhuhuhuh" pic.twitter.com/7ubWXbDqrf

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 18, 2024

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Tucker Carlson

How do you know American politics is dominated by a uniparty that seeks to oppress you? Because both sides oppose free speech. Glenn Greenwald explains.#PaidPartnership pic.twitter.com/p5cOJLiGsN

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A new survey, the 2024 British Social Attitudes assessment, has discovered a stunning plunge in support by the public for the transgender ideology, those beliefs that claim that men can become women, or vice versa, by simply declaring the change.

The Christian Institute notes that the new results, compared to 2019, show "twice as many Brits say those who claim to be the opposite sex should not be allowed to change their sex on their birth certificate."

Further, the report said, "There has also been a 14-percentage point rise since 2021 in those who say trans rights have 'gone too far.'"

Asked, in 2019, whether "a person who is transgender should be able to have the sex recorded on their birth certificate changed if they want?' 24% said no. In the latest survey, that figure is 50%.

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"When participants were asked about 'attempts to give equal opportunities' to those who claim to be the opposite sex, 47% said they had 'gone too far,' up from 33% in 2021," the report said.

The National Centre for Social Research said its report confirmed "substantial changes" in attitudes about the alternative social and sexual lifestyle choices.

Simon Calvert, of the institute, said, "The growing public disquiet over allowing those who claim to be the opposite sex to change their birth certificates has happened during a period when trans activism has become increasingly aggressive."

A poll from last year showed U.K. support for the pro-trans measures is among the lowest in the world, beaten to the bottom in the category only by the U.S.

The Daily Mail noted, Fiona McAnena, of women's rights group Sex Matters, praised the findings, with, "This huge swing in opinion is down to the fact that the more the public understand the real-world impact of pretending that people can change sex, the less they like it."

Under the U.K.'s Gender Recognition Act, people only can change their sex on their birth certificate if their doctor has confirmed they are trans and they have obtained a Gender Recognition Certificate.

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LGBT promoters for years have been demanding "non-discrimination" laws and regulations across America, claiming, "All we want is equality."

Now, it seems, they want a little more than equality.

The Daily Mail reports a housing complex is being planned and promoted in Portland, Maine, that would allow LGBT residents exclusively.

It's called The Equality Community Center, which is expected to be a new five-story housing unit for members of the LGBT community who are 55 or older.

Plans are to open it in the spring of 2026.

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There are plans for 54 studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom units.

The Equality Community Center planned for Portland, Maine

Funding is coming from MaineHousing's tax credits, federal Low Income Housing Tax Credits, a bank loan and an increment financing district set up the city.

But it's getting bashed online, over the discriminatory plan that is being used to pursue the project.

The social media account LibsofTikTok pointed out: "Maine is opening up new publicly funded affordable housing. The qualification is that you have to be LGBTQ. According to the Fair Housing Act, housing discrimination based on s*xual orientation or gender identity is illegal. How is this legal?"

Another comment joined, with, "This goes to show you that group movements like this were never about equal rights – it was always about politicians granting special rights to preferred groups who will vote for them. It's been a con the whole time."

Yet another, said, "Taxpayers will not be forced to pay for housing for the LGBTQ+ community. This is what Democratic-Socialism looks like – your taxes, their benefits."

Ed Gardner, a project developer, cited the benefits for the LGBT community.

There, residents will find "acceptance and services," he suggested, according to the report.

"I think we'll be able to see them come out and be more part of the community rather than be stuck in their homes and not have anybody to socialize with," Gardner said.

Another social media comment, from TheUnquirer, turned blunt, however.

"In Maine – some groups are more equal than others."

Other such housing projects already are in the works in Boston, Fort Lauderdale, San Diego, Los Angeles, Chicago and Philadelphia.

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Giorgia Meloni

A conservative Italian leader, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, is being credited for blunting and blocking Joe Biden's agendas for abortion and LGBT ideology at a recent meeting of the G7.

A report in the Washington Stand explains that Biden, bent on pushing his social agendas to the entire globe, was stymied by Meloni's actions, including her description of Biden's efforts to promote anti-family ideologies for political reasons as "profoundly wrong."

"I believe it is profoundly wrong, in difficult times like these, to campaign using a precious forum like the G7," she said.

Biden had demanded a promise that the nations would promote abortion-on-demand, part of what he claims is "sexual and reproductive health."

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Such a commitment was in last year's statement that came out of meetings in Japan, which affirmed a commitment "to achieving comprehensive SRHR [Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights] for all, including by addressing access to safe and legal abortion and post abortion care."

That was dropped from this year's statement, mentioning only support for universal access to adequate, affordable, and quality health services…."

The New York Times said Biden insisted on including a specific demand for "reproductive rights," but since G7 statements are by consensus, Meloni's opposition kept Biden's agenda promotion at a minimum.

The Stand explained, "Experts say the controversy reveals Western secular leaders’ myopic focus on promoting social issues. 'The very fact of tension over whether abortion was to be included in the G7 statement gives you a sense of the priorities of those Western nations pushing for it to be included,' Travis Weber, vice president for Policy and Government Affairs at Family Research Council, told The Washington Stand. 'The G7 is supposed to be looking out for the good of the international order, not jamming social policy through international agreements to be imposed on unwilling nations with quasi-religious fervor. It’s a sign of the times that the West is now known for this, to our increasing shame.'"

Another report, from Bloomberg News, explained Meloni also removed a comment to "gender identity" and "sexual orientation" from the final release.

Meloni's office said there was no controversy, as such arguments didn't happen at the summit.

And her office also denied the Bloomberg claims.

Still, the Stand confirmed, "French President Emmanuel Macron complained openly of the abortion removal. 'France has a vision of equality between women and men, but it’s not a vision shared by all the political spectrum.'"

Meloni's pro-family reputation is based on several factors, including that her parliament adopted an amendment that lets trained pro-life advocates “with a qualified experience supporting motherhood” to counsel abortion-minded women inside Italian abortion facilities.

She also has tried to boost her nation's birth rate, denounced surrogacy, rejects gender ideology and has been watching her party gain legislative seats.

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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken joins the PBS NewsHour for a virtual interview with Judy Woodruff at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on March 3, 2021.

The State Department's secret payments to organizations that "rate" American news sources – campaigns that have been used to stop companies from doing business with conservative publications – are the subject of a new congressional subpoena.

The Washington Examiner explains the action was triggered by State's refusal to turn over records on programs that are part of what Republicans charge is a "censorship-by-proxy" scheme that interferes with small businesses.

The subpoena is from the House Small Business Committee and is part of a year-long investigation into the Global Engagement Center in State, which gave $100,000 of tax money to the Global Disinformation Index, a London-based group that works in America to "pressure advertisers to boycott conservative media."

That funding triggered a new law just last year that bans some Pentagon money from being given to the London group. Also, the Federalist and Daily Wire have sued the Biden administration for its "egregious government operations to censor the American press."

The committee, headed by Rep. Roger Williams. R-Texas, has been trying to extract financial records from the Global Engagement Center over charges of censorship schemes.

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Committee members want to see a list of recipients of GEC money.

But the State Department has refused.

The subpoena specifically asks for details on cash handed out to NewsGuard, the Global Disinformation Index, the Atlantic Council, Park Capital Investment Group, and Poynter Institute.

Williams told Anthony Blinken, Joe Biden's secretary of state, "The House Committee on Small Business is investigating the U.S. government’s censorship-by-proxy and revenue interference of American small businesses because of their lawful speech."

GEC, housed at State, was supposed to focus on propaganda abroad, but has been revealed as a leader in the domestic journalism censorship of what it calls "disinformation."

That would whatever facts do not support the leftist political and social agenda.

A key component has been GDI's insistence that mainstream news organizations are not credible if they are not leftist, and its pressure on advertisers to hurt them.

Williams said he is working on "legislative solutions to federal funds being used to demonetize, tarnish, or censor domestic small businesses on the basis of their lawful speech."

"Rather than comply with the committee’s investigation into and oversight of the GEC’s funding of third parties who engage in these activities, the State Department has, stunningly, provided only two documents totaling 12 pages, with heavy redactions, in the span of one year,” he charges.

One option the House Republicans could choose would be to defund GEC, the report said.

The legal case by the Wire, Federalist and the state of Texas charges that promoting companies that create lists of conservative news outlet targets is a violation of the First Amendment.

"All Americans deserve a fair shot to compete in the marketplace, and the government should not be tipping the scales against any business for their legal speech on the internet." Williams told the Washington Examiner. "The refusal to comply with repeated document requests is unacceptable, especially when the livelihoods of many small businesses are on the line."

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The state of Kansas on Monday launched a civil lawsuit against Pfizer over its COVID shots, alleging that the lucrative corporation "misled the public that it has a 'safe and effective' COVID-19 vaccine" in violation of the Consumer Protection Act.

A report in the Kansas Reflector explains Attorney General Kris Kobach said he took the action to seek "civil monetary penalties, damages, and injunctive relief from misleading and deceptive statements made in marketing its COVID-19 vaccine."

In fact, as the pandemic that likely was released on the world through mishandling at a Chinese lab working on projects to make viruses worse surged, several corporations including Pfizer release their shots suggesting they were both safe and effective.

But what now has been documented is that the shots themselves, which were designated experimental when they were unleashed, have been linked to a wide range of side effects, including sometimes fatal heart ailments.

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CNN Business reported that Pfizer's cash flow exploded when it started dispensing COVID shots, with revenue soaring to $24.1 billion, with the shots responsible for 60% of its revenue.

Kobach alleges the company "willfully concealed, suppressed and omitted material facts relating to the COVID-19 vaccine, the 'most egregious' ones regarding safety of the vaccine for pregnant people, in regard to heart conditions, its effectiveness against variants and its ability to stop transmission," the report said.

"Pfizer marketed its vaccine as safe for pregnant women. However, in February of 2021 (they) possessed reports of 458 pregnant women who received Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy. More than half of the pregnant women reported an adverse event, and more than 10% reported a miscarriage," Kobach explained.

Studies later showed the percentage of "adverse events" was higher for pregnant women than the general population. Preliminary study findings had claimed there was no "significant safety concerns."

Further, Albert Bourla, the company CEO, said in 2023, "We have not seen a single signal (that the shots cause myocarditis), although we have distributed billions of doses."

But Kobach charged, "As Pfizer knew, the United States government, the United States military, foreign governments and others have found that Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine caused myocarditis and pericarditis."

And Kobach noted information available at the time confirmed the shots were effective "less than half the time."

"Pfizer urged Americans to get vaccinated in order to protect their loved ones, clearly indicating a claim that Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccination stopped transmission. Pfizer later admitted that they’ve never even studied transmission after the recipients receive the vaccine," Kobach said.

The company in a statement claimed it saved countless lives and it based its statements on science.

It said the state's case "has no merit."

Kobach explained that five other states will be joining, and will make their own announcements. Previously, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Pfizer for misrepresenting its shots and trying to censor public discussion of its product, a case also based on the CPA.

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"Look at the Pope – He's freaking out! This can't be normal, can it?"

That was President Trump's reaction to a Reuters photograph of Joe Biden touching heads with Pope Francis on Friday.

Both figures were present at the G7 Summit in Italy when they had their "head-to-head."

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It was also caught on video, capturing the world's imagination and being shared numerous times on social media with a variety of comments.

Heads up, Your Holiness! https://t.co/kqUMtcz7aO pic.twitter.com/Ahh3MHjN3V

— New York Post (@nypost) June 14, 2024

President Joe Biden goes in for an intimate forehead to forehead with Pope Francis at the G7 summit in Italy.

The Pope appeared uncomfortable with the gesture. According to insiders at the G7, Biden’s performance is the “worst” it has ever been, noting that he is “losing… pic.twitter.com/XbrAoi8QaZ

— steve smith the anti-communist (@stevesmithsnoq) June 15, 2024

-Joe Biden pressed his head against Pope Francis' at the G7 summit in Italy. Pope Francis appears uncomfortable and surprised as Joe Biden gets up close and personal and touches him, forehead to forehead. Biden doesn’t understand what personal space means #G7Summit #PopeFracis… pic.twitter.com/lGULtoJLKi

— The Jewish Voice (@TJVNEWS) June 14, 2024

Trump wasn't the only big name chiming in.

Late-night talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel speculated on what Biden may have said to the pope: "Hey Francis, where can a fella find some Raisin Bran around here?"

He also clowned: "Joe likes to really get in there and smell the incense."

"The president and the pope have known each other for many years. A lot of people don't realize Biden is the Joseph who raised Jesus."

BIDEN x POPE – Little Head Bumping Time Vs Trump 78th Birthday – Under Low-Key

バイデン x ローマ法王 – ちょっとした頭突きタイム vs 控えめなトランプ78歳の誕生日
#lemans24 pic.twitter.com/J3iYjGJyXG

— Spotlight (@classifiedvibes) June 16, 2024

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This morning I was reading in my Bible from the Old Testament book of Micah. Chapter 2, verse 1, states: "Woe to them that devise iniquity, work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand." (KJV)

The point the prophet Micah was making in the aforementioned verse is that wicked/evil people plot their skullduggery and plan it out under the cover of night or in privacy, and then they put their evil plans into action in the light of morning, or better stated, they put their dastardly plans into action in the light of day.

They live their life by the corrupt Erebusic philosophy of: "Might makes right." This brings me to Joe Biden.

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By all quantifiable accounts, Biden has never been more than a bottom-rung plagiarist, cheat, pernicious calumniator and, even from the mouths of his friends and political colleagues who could stomach him, a dolt – at best someone who was fun to hang out with, get drunk and chase women around a bar.

Biden never grew up, i.e., matured, in a way that he could honorably represent the voters, some of whom actually believed his political rhetoric. But, he had a gift for exploiting his lack of character for political and financial gain – which is pretty amazing considering who it is we're talking about. Which brings me back to my opening paragraph.

Of Biden's many corrupt and contradictory positions and flip-flops, none is more stark in contrast than the union of Biden and Chicago's legendary bathhouse and backseat limousine sodomist.

Of all the things Biden has been known for supporting, none is more public than, as Dan O'Donnell wrote Aug. 20, 2020, "Joe Biden's Six Decades of Racism."

Biden has been little more than a vote in the pocket of whoever paid the most or offered the best quid pro quo. Even at that, he was essentially small time. But, then he somehow harnessed himself to Barack Obama.

Homosexual bathhouses and backseat limousine rendezvouses weren't the only things Obama was known for when he and Biden teamed up. He was also known as a rabid Alinskyite, Marxist, Israel/Jew hater and revolutionist.

On Biden's history of overt racism. O'Donnell wrote: "In his run for president, Joe Biden [was] being heralded as a champion for equality and racial justice, but his long career in politics directly contradict[ed] this, as it has been marked and ultimately defined by six straight decades of segregationist policies, hostility towards minority communities, and outright racism."

Biden is well-known as a womanizer and an accused sexual molester who is rumored to have much more than a casual interest in underage little girls – a trait he has exhibited publicly countless times.

But, Biden is not smart; he simply excelled at being a cheap two-bit political con and braggart, who was bigoted and racist. So what was it that Obama saw that brought about this unholy union?

I'm far from the only person who supports the allegations that Biden is Obama's sock-puppet. It's clear that Biden has amassed a fortune in his time being used by Obama – much more than he amassed in his entire political life, before he was gifted to Obama.

As I've noted, these kind are evil and wicked. They plot under cover of darkness and seclusion their demonic plans and machinations – then execute them in the public view; and they do it without penalty. But, back to Biden and Obama.

Was Biden the only one willing to sell his soul to the devil for the financial gains he has amassed being a stooge, i.e., the front person, for Obama to achieve his third term? Was Biden the only one Obama could control? Was Biden the only one willing to act the role he now plays? Is/was Biden the only one willing to betray America and Israel on the scale Obama wants?

I know my suggestions may seem a bit speculative, but they cease to be same when we examine the backgrounds of Biden and Obama. Also, when we examine closely just how the political game is being played, there's something afoot that doesn't pass muster.

I've a colleague who has insisted from Obama's first term that Biden was in place as vice president to keep Obama in check. I've never agreed in toto with my colleague's theory. I do, however, agree that these two working together in a secretive, yet obvious way, cannot be dismissed.

There's no scenario in which I can see Obama not hating Biden's guts and vice versa. However, if Obama needed a stooge or fall guy who is greedy enough to betray We the People, our country and our strongest ally, then Biden is the person. If you need another war to start to further your ambitions to enrich Hezbollah and Hamas – then Biden is your guy.

He's weak, greedy, not very smart, easily manipulated and willing to play the role while the real ringmaster manipulates things from the shadows.

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As has become obvious since then, Obiden's shadow government was already (rather, still) in power in D.C., despite four years of Trump's partial control of the Executive Branch. Hopefully, if Trump regains the White House this November and purges the traitors from public office, all the deep state conspirators who nurtured, provoked and staged the "insurrection" will be exposed and prosecuted.

Instead of D.C., I was driving my wife on a long-promised vacation to Florida. Despite the potent lure of attending the historic event on J6, I couldn't justify postponing that vacation because I'd just been in Washington on Dec. 12 for the multiple concurrent rallies Steve Bannon called the "Gathering of the Tribes" (an amazingly unique and frankly more impressive event than J6 in terms of the stunning diversity of distinct pro-Trump ethnic and affinity groups on display – united only by their love of Donald Trump.)

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So on Jan. 5, we overnighted at the Comfort Inn near the Atlanta airport – where I experienced my own slice of election-fraud drama that I reported the next day in my newsletter:

"I happen to be in Fulton County, Georgia, this morning (Atlanta), where, of course, the Purple Uniparty (the partnership of DEMONIC DEEP-BLUE DEMS and ROTTEN RED RINOs) stole another election last night through fraud – which was only possible because the corrupt 'Republican' governor and secretary of state worked tirelessly since Nov. 3rd to protect and preserve the cheat-machine that apparently put them in office in a prior election, and that on Nov. 3rd, 2020, ensured Georgia's 'vote' would flip from Trump to Biden, and force run-off elections for her two conservative Republican U.S. senators."

What I didn't include then, because I didn't put it all together at the time, was that around 2 a.m. on the 6th a large group of loud and excited people gathered in the adjoining room for some sort of meeting that lasted less than an hour. I couldn't make out many words, but (having been involved in many election campaigns, including my own two runs for governor of Massachusetts) I recognized the clear "feel" of the group as grassroots political, and realized later that it was likely a cash payoff meeting for ballot-stuffers.

I wrote my newsletter in the early morning of J6 and published it by email at exactly 9:57 a.m. Eastern – well before the now infamous events of the day. Presciently, it opened with the following questions:

"What if the German Christians and Jews of the 1920s had been able to see into the future and realize the full consequences of allowing the Marxist Adolf Hitler to take control of their nation in the stolen election of 1933, when his 'National Socialist German Workers Party' (aka NAZI Party) secretly burned down the German Parliament and then accused his political enemies of the crime? Do you think we will fare better than the Germans if the Dems take control of all three branches of our government on Jan. 21 because we let them get away with the most blatant and egregious election fraud in world history?"

Now compare what we've all witnessed in Obiden's America since J6 to this short passage in Leonard Mosley's "The Reich Marshall: Herman Goering" (1974):

"[I]mmediately after the Reichstag fire the National Socialists made good propaganda use of it. On the day after it had happened, while the ruins still smoldered, Adolf Hitler prevailed on President Hindenberg to sign a decree suspending the seven sections of the constitution guaranteeing individual and civil liberties. It was directed against 'Communist acts of violence endangering the state' and it ordained:

"Restrictions on personal liberty and on the right of free expression of opinion, including freedom of the Press;

"Curtailment of rights of freedom and assembly and association;

"Censorship of mail, telegraphic messages, and telephone conversations;

"An abrogation of the legal limits on house arrests, requisitions, and searches.

"It was now that the auxiliary SA and SS members of the police came into their own" (Mosley:200).

Replace the word "Communist" with "MAGA" in the third sentence, update the forms of available communication being censored to include social media, and add the suspension of the constitutional right to a "speedy trial" for the J6ers, and the Obiden strategy and tactics are eerily similar to Adolf Hitler's.

Of course, when we say Obiden we mean Obama, so when we add to this analysis the (heavily suppressed) fact that both Obama and Hitler suffered from homosexuality, and for whom women apparently served as "beards" to fool the public, the homo-fascist parallels are even more disturbing.

Now, leftist and LGBT-compromised "conservative" heads will certainly be exploding at the outing of Hitler as "gay." This is the solidly documented true history the SPLC named me a "hate group" for exposing and whose agents have for more than 20 years relentlessly worked to cancel me to suppress. You can confirm it for yourself by reading "The Pink Swastika" 4th Edition exclusively here (because Amazon and the other big booksellers have banned it!)

As for the issue of "beards," my research strongly suggests that Hitler was set up with Eva Braun (late in life) by his exclusive photographer and "fixer" Heinrich Hoffman who had previously married off his own daughter Henny to "gay" Hitler Youth chief Baldur von Schirach, apparently to quash public rumors about his homosexuality. Eva was Hoffman's employee. Supposedly, Obama's pastor Jeremiah "G-d Damn America" Wright played the Hoffman role for him in the procurement of "Michelle" (who may or may not actually be a transgender). Discussion of these contentions are contained in the not-yet-published 6th Edition of "The Pink Swastika," scheduled for release on Jan. 1, 2025.

Speaking of the SPLC and the potential for backlash against the treasonous left, I reject the media and union boss narrow spin that SPLC's sudden termination of about a quarter of their staff last week was solely "greed based." If you read between the lines of their own press statement it looks also like policy changes triggered by fear of the fast-growing anti-woke movement. SPLC said it was "to focus and align our work with our programmatic priorities and goals" – which sounds a lot like woke-hurt Disney's damage-control "apology" to its stockholders after losing its showdown with Ron DeSantis and multiple stink-pot movie releases. I think the money-grubbing SPLC greatly fears fundraising fallout – especially in regards to its anti-whiteness manipulation and LGBT grooming of schoolchildren – in which effort the SPLC has been the Josef Goebbels of public education. Reportedly, the department most affected by the "streamlining" is their "educational" arm.

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On Saturday, June 8, there was a riot by pro-Palestinian protesters at UCLA. On Monday, June 10, there was more rioting outside the White House. Unless you were watching Fox, you didn't see much of it on MSM, as a lone park ranger was pelted with garbage and a national landmark was desecrated. CNN skipped those stories, substituting a 59-second video instead.

Why is news favorable to the interests of the law and order side frequently suppressed? The woke universe is unified in a way we've not seen, with the government looking the other way as laws are broken without any attempt to confront such behavior – and with mainstream media whistling past the graveyard to the tune of "Nothing to see, move along." All the news that is fit to print takes on a new meaning.

Will the last conservative social scientist please turn off the light? Over the weekend, I watched a podcast by Jordan Peterson, as he interviewed the rarest of the rare, a conservative social scientist, Eric Kaufman. In this convincing podcast, Kaufman lays out the playbook and the underlying dynamics that drive so much of the woke social agenda tearing our country up. I began to understand the drivers and the power centers for America's new homegrown terrorists and nihilists.

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It may come as no surprise that changes in our educational system at all levels are the fundamental drivers for progressive changes demanding similarly progressive outcomes. Our system of education amounts to a farm team graduating a product – psychopathic individuals unable to cope with the realities of everyday life that have existed for eons. What's new and revealing in this podcast are the protagonists and antagonists that lead to anti-social thinking injected into little Johnnie and, especially, little Sarah, who has become a self-actualized guided missile for the Left. Let's explore how this happened.

The U.S. spends over $1.5 trillion on education annually, not counting the nearly 4 million homeschooled children. We spend $752 billion for public K-12 and $702 billion in government funds for colleges and universities, and that's not counting the $56 billion Americans pay on their own for private K-12. There is no single function we pay more for and get less than public education in America. The cost increases dramatically yearly, even as the number of native-born students declines overall. This will change when we factor in millions of new migrant children who don't speak English, an incredible burden on local school systems that can be expected to reduce general educational attainment for everyone.

I'm frequently asked: "What is the nexus that connects education with progressivism?" As the podcast points out, our younger teachers of the last 25 or so years have all gone through an intensive indoctrination system by a predominantly female-run system of education in our colleges and universities. We are currently fighting an intensive social war and must understand that there will be winners and losers. We must win, or we will lose our economic system, which is the goal of the most radical social warriors. We can't let the ideologues win. It is imperative to understand that teachers are not academics. Teachers in training may have some predispositions, but it is the academics who hammer them with social injustice messaging, creating a new generation of social, political and environmental justice warriors with an idealistic bent and no fundamental knowledge or ability to think through the anti-capitalism and anti-American concepts being ingrained in them simultaneously.

Economic utilitarianism requires equality, redistribution and equal outcomes that will lead to the end of capitalism. These theories sprang from the failure of communism and socialism to produce the desired results – equality for all, defined as equal outcomes. Centers of education and social theory in Berkeley in our country and the Greater London Council in Great Britain were the wellspring for radical ideas transplanted and then nurtured within our colleges and universities that taught legions of teachers about the illness called capitalism and "selfish" individualism. Trust is central to a society's belief in its political system and for a successful future. The beginning of a loss of confidence in our institutions can be traced to the cancer cells intentionally planted within our system of training of our future teachers.

Academics, through the scaring of marginalized groups, manipulated their young charges in a predictable manner that is both narcissistic and sadistic. These individuals knowingly did their damage; they deserve the description "psychopaths."

Like any good virus, they need hosts to spread and survive. They then did this with a particularly vulnerable class of young women, age 18-34, who are an anomaly in our society and don't tend to become more conservative with age, as males do, and are more easily manipulated to vote progressive. Concepts of race, gender and sexuality are pushed to create a false reality that emphasizes the importance of issues that never had an important or impactful effect on society until, seemingly out of nowhere, they became determinant.

Social scientists correlate low verbal skills and an easily malleable mind starting in 2004 with the beginning of TikTok, Facebook, YouTube and other propaganda platforms that consume young minds, particularly the 18-34 demographic. Only now is the body of science correlating high screen usage with impaired social skills and ultimately unsuccessful outcomes.

The social media industry is amazingly like the tobacco industry that for decades lied to us, only moving slowly from claims of positive health effects for tobacco use to the truth, which was diametrically and too often fatally different. Undoubtedly, social media will ultimately be viewed as every bit as deadly, both physically and psychologically, as tobacco is.

Wouldn't it be great to stop it now rather than a generation or two from the present?

God bless America.

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A Marine calms an infant during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 21, 2021.

After the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan in 2021, tens of thousands of Afghan interpreters and others were left behind to face the Taliban. As instances of capture and torture continue to rise, so does their death toll.

Earlier this month, Amu TV reported that a former employee of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Ahmad Farid Irfani, died at the hands of the Taliban. According to the report, "Family members, who wished to remain anonymous, reported that Irfani had told them he was beaten and forcibly taken away by the Taliban, who then tortured him through the night."

"[Irfani's] body bore marks from rifle butts and gun barrels. He was severely tortured. He died on the way to Ibn Sina Hospital," one family member told Amu. Photographs confirmed injuries to his forehead, eyes, face and shoulders. At the time of his arrest, Irfani was carrying documents to obtain a Special Immigrant Visa, or SIV.

Using a pseudonym to protect his identity, WND spoke to former interpreter Ahmad Ehsan, who is still in Afghanistan, having attempted unsuccessfully – twice so far – to gain approval for a Special Immigrant Visa.

Evacuees from Afghanistan board a Boeing 777 bound for the United States from Naval Air Station Sigonella, Italy, Aug. 28, 2021.

Although he served as an interpreter and cultural adviser in Kabul for the U.S. military until January 2021, Ehsan has been denied SIV status on two occasions. Despite having the support of his command and many others, a failed polygraph, marred by "extenuating circumstances," is the reason he remains in hiding from the Taliban.

Because of the Biden administration’s failure to "properly withdraw" from Afghanistan, Ehsan told WND, thousands of people like he and Irfani, who once supported the mission of the United States, were left behind to face the wrath of the Taliban.

"Thousands were eligible for evacuation, but instead, those that were evacuated included street boys, shopkeepers, and even Taliban fighters," he explained.

With each capture, torture and death of a U.S. ally, Ehsan fears he will be "the next person to die." He pointed out that the Taliban are lying about their declaration of general amnesty for former military personnel and government employees of the previous government, which worked alongside the U.S. for 20 years in support of a quasi-democratic system.

Ehsan said members of the Taliban’s General Directorate of Intelligence, or GDI, are "working day and night" to collect information about anyone who worked alongside or supported the U.S. mission over the past 20 years.

Taliban

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan has documented 38 cases of detention, 10 cases of torture and abuse, and a handful of deaths at the hands of the Taliban in the first quarter of 2024.

According to Ehsan, most organizations estimate that approximately 300 to 350 Afghan interpreters and others have been killed by the Taliban in the past three years.

"Because I've been on the ground in Afghanistan since the U.S. withdrawal," he argued, "I know the number is more than a thousand who have been arrested, tortured and killed." Sadly, he added, "the number is growing more day by day."

Ehsan told WND, "The Taliban is working very tactically and systemically to try to hide their crimes every day." Interestingly, he added, rumors are circulating that the Taliban are injecting Afghan people, including former interpreters or security forces, with an unknown substance, causing them to die days or weeks later.

In addition, he said many of the crimes committed against the people of Afghanistan are no longer photographed or filmed. Despite the existence of publicly available images from the past three years of the atrocities committed against U.S. allies in Afghanistan, he said, "they think the international community will forget about it and make them recognizable as a legitimate government."

"But the Taliban doesn't have any sympathy for their people or their country," he told WND. "They have an extremist ideology and it's very hard for Afghan people to tolerate the terrorist groups in Afghanistan."

Living in fear since the Taliban has taken control of the government, Ehsan knows time is running out. He revealed that he has family inside the United States, but they have been unsuccessful at helping him obtain a Special Immigrant Visa. WND verified with one family member that pleas to a congressman for help have been ignored.

See previous story: “WATCH: 'We were left behind to be killed by the Taliban': Afghan interpreter for U.S. provides new details of 'shameful' withdrawal nightmare.”

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John Kerry, who was secretary of state under Barack Obama, is the latest Democrat to face a scandal over his email communications as a government official.

Hillary Clinton, back when she was losing the 2016 presidential race to President Donald Trump, of course destroyed thousands of emails that should have been archived by the government. Even Joe Biden has been accused of using anonymous addresses to keep his communications going, probably bypassing government requirements for record-keeping.

Now, a report from Fox News says Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ron Johnson, R-Wis., have written to the current secretary of state, Antony Blinken, demanding answers about Kerry.

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The senators got the information about the secret communications channel from whistleblowers. And they want to know if Kerry met the requirements for federal records-keeping.

The email involved as SESTravel1@state.gov.

"We want to know whether then-Secretary Kerry properly complied with all federal records laws and regulations with respect to his official email communications and whether responses to relevant Freedom of Information Act requests have properly included that email address in productions to requestors," the senators said.

There have been concerns from the senators over government compliance with the requirements for the last eight or 10 years.

Clinton, of course, sent her government email to a private, unsecure, computer server she set up.

The senators told Blinken that since 2021 "they have been raising concerns about President Biden’s use of a non-government email while serving as vice president — as well as pseudonymous government emails for 'official business' — and whether he complied with federal records laws," the report said.

From Biden's administration? Nothing yet.

The senators again told Blinken they also have questions about Kerry's apparent "extensive, consistent, and successful interference and obstruction of the FBI’s efforts to arrest Iranian terrorists because of his desire to cement the failed Iran Nuclear Deal between the Obama/Biden administration and the Iranian government."

Grassley also questioned Kerry's alleged mishandling of classified information while communicating with Iran, and the senators want to know if that email was used to communicate with foreign government officials, specifically Iran, about the "nuclear deal."

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For the third time in just recent weeks, Joe Biden's "sex" agenda has crashed and burned when it has faced a federal judge.

The newest rejection of his rewrite to the decades-old Title IX law that changes the definition of "sex" to "gender identity" or ideology, comes from a judge in Kentucky who, in his preliminary injunction, protected women in Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Virginia and Weste Virginia.

Biden's Department of Education has redefined "sex" from the 1972 law to include all sorts of alternative sexual ideologies, insisting that's what Congress meant when it approved a ban on discrimination against men or women in school activities at the time.

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Biden's rules would force biological women to share private spaces, like showers and locker rooms, with gender-confused biological males.

"The radical rewrite of Title IX regulations eradicates privacy, safety, and fairness for biological women and girls. The lawsuits against forcing gender ideology in education have merit and the Biden administration’s obsession with erasing women must stop," explained Liberty Counsel chief Mat Staver.

Just days ago, a Louisiana judge granted a similar injunction for the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana and Idaho, and a Texas judge ruled for his state earlier.

According to Liberty Counsel's report, "These injunctions prevent the updated rules from taking effect in these 11 states while litigation continues in each case to determine permanent decisions. The move responsible for the multitude of lawsuits came April 29 when the DOE published the Title IX Final Rule on the Federal Register, which expanded the definition of 'sex' and 'sex discrimination' to include 'gender identity' and 'sexual orientation' as protected categories against discrimination."

That change in the law, without approval from Congress, is supposed to hit the books in August.

The ruling is from Judge Danny C. Reeves.

He found, "Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 was intended to level the playing field between men and women in education. The statute tells us that no person shall be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance 'on the basis of sex.' However, the Department of Education seeks to derail deeply rooted law with a Final Rule that is set to go into effect on August 1, 2024. At bottom, the Department would turn Title IX on its head by redefining 'sex' to include 'gender identity.' But 'sex' and 'gender identity' do not mean the same thing. The Department’s interpretation conflicts with the plain language of Title IX and therefore exceeds its authority to promulgate regulations under that statute. This Court is not persuaded by the Department’s reliance on the Supreme Court’s decision Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, —a case that was explicitly limited to the context of employment discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act…:"

WND reported earlier when the Louisiana ruling was released that the judge pointed out, "Nothing in the statute expressly prohibits discrimination based on gender identity or other unexpressed grounds. And where Title IX allows for differentiation based on sex due to biological differences—such as intimate facilities and athletic teams—recipients may treat persons in accordance with their biological sex without regard to subjective gender identity."

He said, "Title IX explicitly appreciates the innate biological variation between men and women that occasionally warrants differentiation—and even separation—to preserve educational opportunities and to promote respect for both sexes. Rather than promote the equal opportunity, dignity, and respect that Title IX demands for both biological sexes, Defendants’ Guidance Documents do the opposite in an effort to advance an agenda wholly divorced from the text, structure, and contemporary context of Title IX."

Further, he noted, "Not to mention, recipients of Title IX funding—including Texas schools—will face an impossible choice: revise policies in compliance with the Guidance Documents but in contravention of state law or face the loss of substantial funding. Thus, to allow Defendants’ unlawful action to stand would be to functionally rewrite Title IX in a way that shockingly transforms American education and usurps a major question from Congress. That is not how our democratic system functions."

That ruling said when the 1972 law was adopted, and refers to "sex," it "carried an unambiguously binary meaning."

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Yet another study has confirmed the scientifically supportable but politically blasphemous belief that most children who report transgender feelings actually, if left alone, grow out of them.

The New York Post reports that confirmation comes from a "transgender expert."

It reveals Riittakerttu Kaltiala, psychiatrist who presided over youth gender transition treatments for years, confirmed 80% of those children who question their gender "eventually accept their bodies if no medical interventions are carried out."

Kaltiala is a leading scientist regarding pediatric gender medicine in Finland and operates at the country's largest gender clinic.

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In an interview with a publication, Helsingin Sanomal, she said 12 separate studies support that statement.

The report suggested the comments are part of a revelation that liberals "are not in lockstep when it comes to transgender issues," as the New York Times alspo recently published an op-ed defending writer J.K.Rowling's comments on transgenderism.

The interview included Kaltiala's caution to parents of gender-questioning children against using their offspring’s preferred pronouns or a new chosen name, because that is an "intervention" that could influence the child.

In America, instructions for teachers to use a child's "chosen" pronouns are common, and often include orders that prevent them from sharing that information with a child's parents.

But those name and pronoun alternations are "a message saying that ‘this is the right path for you,'" she said.

"The developmental mission of youth is not helped by the fact that young people’s self-expression is supported and directed from the outside,” she added. “The environment should also not commit to identity experiments in a way that might make a later change of direction anxiety-inducing."

She debunked the oft-used threats by pro-LGBT advocates that children quickly resort to suicide if their gender agenda is stalled.

"It is not justified to tell the parents of young people identifying as transgender that a young person is at risk of suicide without medical treatments and that the danger can be alleviated with gender reassignment,” she said.

That, actually, she charged, is "purposeful disinformation."

She especially expressed concern over those who start questioning themselves in adolescence, because of their ability to "grab the idea available in the media and social media that their problems are caused by gender identity."

That endorses the explanations from Abigail Shrier, who wrote "Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing our Daughters," and said "peer contagion" could be responsible for the surge in adolescents with such problems.

The New York-based Komodo Health estimated 42,000 children and teens in the U.S. got a diagnoses of "gender dysphoria"" in 2021.

WND reported only weeks earlier on a similar conclusion from a study in the Netherlands.

In direct opposition to the suspect claims of transgender activists that children who are "gender-confused" must have medical "care" that goes up to and includes surgical body mutilations, that 15-year study confirmed that most of those kids, if left alone, "grow out of it."

A report from the Daily Mail confirms the study results show that "being trans is usually just a phase for kids."

The report explained, "Researchers in the Netherlands tracked more than 2,700 children from age 11 to their mid-twenties, asking them every three years of feelings about their gender. Results showed at the start of the research, around one-in-10 children (11 percent) expressed 'gender non-contentedness' to varying degrees."

However, by age 25 only 4% said they "often" or even "sometimes" were discontent with gender.

"The results of the current study might help adolescents to realize that it is normal to have some doubts about one's identity and one's gender identity during this age period and that this is also relatively common," the study found.

Under the openly radical push by Joe Biden and his administration, the transgender ideology has exploded in popularity over the last few years.

Multiple federal moves have insisted that transgender "rights" supersede even the U.S. Constitution and that chemicals to alter physical characteristics and even surgical mutilations of healthy bodies is normal, even beneficial.

The study prompted Patrick Brown, of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, to tell the Mail, "This study provides even more reason to be skeptical towards aggressive steps to facilitate gender transition in childhood and adolescence. The fact that rates of satisfaction are lower even just a few years later suggests that for the vast majority of people, prudence and caution, rather than a rush towards permanent surgeries or hormone therapies, will be the best approach for teenagers struggling to make sense of the world and their place in it."

He noted the evidence suggests policies that ban gender transition for children "make a great deal of sense."

The researchers, from the University of Groningen, noted their analysis of 2,770 people did not focus specifically on those in treatment for dysphoria.

The study asked participants to respond to: "I wish to be of the opposite sex" at six points over 15 years. The results, documented in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, confirmed 78% had the same feelings about their gender over the 15 years.

Nineteen percent became more content and only 2% were "less comfortable," the report said.

The study found, too, "Gender non-contentedness, while being relatively common during early adolescence, in general decreases with age and appears to be associated with a poorer self-concept and mental health throughout development."

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In days gone by, American consumers used to, occasionally, get a discount for paying cash for a product or service.

The sellers had the revenue immediately. There was no lag time at a credit card company, or bank. And retailers found that helpful.

Now it's just the opposite.

A Houston Herald report tells how Noa Khamallah wanted to buy popcorn and a soda at Yankee Stadium, and was directed to an ATM, where he deposited $200 in cash, and got back a debit card –with a balance of $196.50.

Yankee Stadium in New York City

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In the report, he said paying for anything in New York is expensive, but, "If you add on top of that extra fees for being able to pay for food, that’s not right."

The Herald explained, "Reverse ATMs like those at Yankee Stadium are now common at cashless venues and restaurants across the country as a way to cater to those who prefer paying in cash. People who want to pay their parking tickets, tolls, taxes or phone bills in cash, meanwhile, often learn that government agencies and businesses have outsourced that option to companies that usually charge a fee."

Cash, the report noted, still remains the third-most popular way to paying, adding up to 16% of all payments in 2023, the Federal Reserve confirmed.

Jonathan Alexander, of the Consumer Choice in Payment Coalition, said, "It’s unbelievable that we actually have to tell retailers, 'This is U.S. currency and it’s something that should be accepted.'"

No laws demand businesses take cash, although a few states and cities have banned what they called "cashless" establishments.

Congress is working on a requirement that businesses take cash for in-person purchases up to $500 but it hasn't passed.

Especially hurt by the cashless ideology are older or lower-income consumers who are less likely to have the digital payment systems set up for their personal buying.

The report added, "Prudence Weaver said she would prefer her son be able to use cash on trips to the zoo, amusement parks and baseball games, rather than have to pay fees for debit cards."

She said, "To let my 13-year-old go buy a slushy at the amusement park, I’m already out $6. I understand that there is a place for electronic payment, but I don’t think it should be the only option."

Some consumers prefer cash because their products don't end up getting listed in a computer under their name somewhere.

The issue even has added to the American economy, in its way, with business opportunities for companies to facilitate cash payments for those who want to do that.

For example, PayNearMe "charges its clients a fee ranging from $1.99 to $3.99 on each cash transaction," the report said.

A report at ZeroHedge explained, "The debate rages on whether this shift truly serves the public or merely lines the pockets of corporate giants. At stadiums, amusement parks, and beyond, the cost of going cashless continues to climb - and it's everyday consumers who are footing the bill."

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Editor’s note: Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, a WND reporter who lives with his wife and children in northern Israel, offers this first-hand account of what it’s like to experience Hezbollah’s rockets raining down on your small town.

I am a Torah-observant Jew living in Katsrin, a small town of 9,000 residents in the eastern Golan located less than 10 miles from the Syrian border. On Oct. 7, I finished my Simchat Torah/ Shabbat prayers, and as I walked home, I was surprised to see the park full of people I did not recognize. As a Torah-observant Jew, I turn off my computer and cell phone on the Sabbath. When I inquired who the people were, I was immediately told about the attacks in the south and that Kiryat Shmona, about 25 miles to the northwest, was under heavy rocket attack by Hezbollah. Many of the residents came to take shelter in Katsrin.

All of Israel was traumatized, but being in a remote corner of our tiny country, I felt isolated and assured my wife that we were in the safest place in Israel. As the war in Gaza progressed, my statement seemed to be true. Horror stories were pouring out of the Gaza border towns as the southern region prepared for all-out war.

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We packed a few "go-bags" as preparation. Early in the conflict, we had a Red Alert siren that proved to be a false alarm. Kiryat Shmona was targeted regularly, leading to its 20,000 residents being evacuated. I was embarrassed when people expressed concern for my family's safety. My quiet town remained blessedly quiet. The only signs of war were the nearly nonstop roar of warplanes flying low overhead on their way to pay a visit to Hezbollah.

I continued to assure my wife, but news reports warned that as the war in Gaza began to wind down, the focus would turn north. The Red Alert warnings were no longer benign. The now-almost weekly siren was accompanied by distant booms that arrived simultaneously, giving us no time to run to the nearby bomb shelters. When the town was first built soon after the 1967 Six-Day War, Syria was a significant threat, and bomb shelters were located every 50 yards. But there was no time to run to the bomb shelters. We were told by the civil authority to shelter in place. The first houses were built of thick reinforced concrete with this in mind. When the siren sounded, we ran for the center of the first floor as the first barrage hit.

The scene of a rocket impact in the southern city of Netivot, Israel, following a barrage fired from the Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. (Israel Fire and Rescue Services)

And then, one Friday in April, the news was abuzz with warnings that Iran might attack Israel sometime in the next day or two. I was relieved when Shabbat passed without any alarms. But a friend called me late Saturday night and told me to check the news. Iran had launched 170 drones, over 30 cruise missiles and more than 120 ballistic missiles toward Israel. We were told the attack would take several hours to cover the more than 1,000 miles. So my family slept in the living room, wearing heavy shoes and emergency supplies at hand. At 3:00 am, sirens woke us, but no rockets fell. We were told that the Golan had been targeted by drones which had all been shot down before approaching our city. We managed to fall asleep, but one hour later, another siren sounded, accompanied by nearby rockets. They began as distant booms, but were walked in as the barrage continued. The last dozen or so rockets landed very close, rattling the windows violently. I later discovered that a few had landed inside the city. Thank God, no one was wounded and no houses were hit.

Footage from the Netivot area shows a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip narrowly missing a group of Israelis working outside the southern city, as more than 20 projectiles are intercepted by the Iron Dome over the area. Hamas has claimed responsibility for the barrage pic.twitter.com/BJWXSSNOdI

— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) January 16, 2024

The weekly barrages were now targeting Katsrin. Despite the IDF’s Iron Dome, houses in Katsrin were being hit. The rockets began to zero in on our tiny city. About three weeks ago, Israel was hit by a countrywide heat wave. The Golan is lush, but the greenery turns brown in the summer. Hezbollah rocket attacks sparked massive brushfires, burning more than 13,000 acres in my area. Civilian volunteers joined firefighters, but nevertheless the fires burned large swaths of the countryside. We were hard-pressed to extinguish them. Hezbollah continued to target Kiryat Shmona and Tsfat, setting off huge brushfires in those areas as well. It was unclear whether the fires were an intentional aspect of Hezbollah’s battle plan. Still, even if not, they were devastating and dangerous, perhaps even more so than the rockets themselves.

Like many of the residents of Katsrin, I shop for Shabbat on Thursday. The weekly visit to the local supermarket highlights my social life. I waited in line to pay at around three in the afternoon when the sirens sounded. The staff directed the people to a large shelter in the back of the store, but as I began to make my way, a young bearded man ran past me, shouting, "My kids are in the car." I ran after him, hoping to help. A large portable bomb shelter had been placed in the parking lot for such a circumstance. As the siren wailed, I ran around the parking lot, helping young mothers gather their small children. After 15 minutes, the staff announced the "all-clear." But as we began to breathe deeply and return to our shopping, the siren sounded again. More sirens followed. We remained in the shelter for almost two hours, listening to the rockets fall around us. We finally emerged to a city where the sky was full of smoke.

In total, Hezbollah fired more than 150 rockets and 30 explosive drones, with about 50 landing in the Golan. Two rockets made direct hits on houses in Katsrin, wounding two people with shrapnel. We could not open our windows for several days without filling the house with a smoky smell.

A large fire has erupted in the city of Safed following the massive barrage of rockets. pic.twitter.com/ofZUuEZPi5

— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) June 13, 2024

My kids took it all in stride, though I wonder what lasting effects the war will have on them. My wife puts on a brave face, but I can tell that below the surface, standing by while rockets fall on our home is difficult for her. And to be honest, it is more difficult for me than actual combat. In the IDF, I was armed and part of a fighting force. As a soldier, I did not feel helpless. And I did not have to watch as my family was targeted by rockets.

I acknowledge that my experiences are trite when compared to what the people of Gaza are experiencing. But the Palestinians have a zero-cost Iron Dome that is 100% effective: Don’t fire rockets into our cities or cross the border to murder and rape Jews. The Palestinians hate us because we believe in life. Oct. 7 happened because Israel was about to make peace with Saudi Arabia. Hamas was in charge of Gaza because Israel pulled out, forcibly expelling 10,000 Jews in the hope of peaceful coexistence. Hamas was able to carry out the attack because Israel allowed Gazans to enter for work and medical treatment.

I have been to Gaza. I was there in 1992 to consider moving there. Security was a major part of the life for the Jews in Gush Katif. However, the region had a thriving agri-economy that employed thousands of Arabs and several resorts in the Mediterranean. It was not an open-air prison for the Arabs, though Jews were confined and restricted. It became an open-air prison for the Palestinians when the Jews were expelled and Hamas took over.

The Palestinians are not the enemy. They are the knife in the hand of the enemy. They have been fed lies, and told that the Jews are invaders even though the Quran specifically notes that Israel is the land of the Jews. The Palestinians have been told they are the historical rulers and that they can drive the Jews out.

These are all lies. But I am calm, knowing that Israel will win this war. We will win because it is not a war over land. The Palestinians do not want this land. And Jews have never stopped praying for this land.

We will win this war simply because we have nowhere else to go.

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It's been a while for me, but I am happy to announce I am back at it, this time alongside sci-fi icon and director/coproducer Derek Ting in the military combat film "Agent Recon," out this Friday, June 21. If you are interested in taking a peek, here is a link to the movie's trailer. And here's another link to various venues where you can watch it.

One of the joys of this particular movie-making experience was the opportunity to work with my son Dakota, a third-degree blackbelt and martial arts expert in his own right, who choreographed my fight sequences.

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The storyline of the movie was well described on the IMDb website: "Alastair (Norris), the commander of a covert Earth security task force, calls upon super-powered rookie Jim (Ting) to go on a mission led by battle-hardened Colonel Green (Singer) and his seasoned marines to track a mysterious energy disturbance at a base in New Mexico suspected of experimenting on alien technology. When the team encounters an unknown being of not only extraordinary strength and speed, but the ability to control mindless warriors, the trio must fight through unstoppable hordes to uncover the truth behind the hostile alien fortress and prevent humanity's demise."

From that summary, one media outlet created the headline news, "Chuck Norris boots up as a covert ops automaton to protect humanity from an alien invasion in 'Agent Recon.'"

As I read that headline, I thought, there's one real-life alien invasion I truly wish I could protect our country from: the crime and criminals among the millions and millions of immigrants the Biden administration has encouraged and allowed to cross into the U.S. illegally from our southern border.

Anyone who knows me knows I respect all law-abiding people. I'm all for legal immigration, but I know for a fact that too much crime and criminals pass through the dark shadows of the massive illegal invasion going on since Biden took office.

Did you hear that a joint U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) force just arrested eight illegals with ties to ISIS?!

Don't just take my word for it about the dangers crossing the border. Listen to the words of those who have spent their lives protecting it.

John James (J.J.) Carrell recently retired from the United States Border Patrol after a 24-year career as a Deputy Patrol Agent in Charge.

In his new book, "Invaded: The Intentional Destruction of the American Immigration System," Carrell documents with irrefutable evidence how:

In the final year of the Trump Presidency, the border was within reach of being secure as the daily arrests had dwindled to the lowest numbers in Border Patrol history. Nations south of our border that once violated our nation's sovereignty and blatantly disrespected our nation, now adhered to our strong President who forced those nations to heel and show our great nation respect.

On January 20, 2021, everything changed.

President Biden has intentionally destroyed the American immigration system through the manipulation of DHS policies and laws. Never before in American history has our nation been invaded by millions of foreigners all with the encouragement and direct assistance of the United States government. The once proud United States Border Patrol has been forced to participate in the unlawful smuggling of millions of illegal aliens to their final destinations across America. Morale within the DHS does not exist.

Within the first two years of Biden's Presidency, over 5,000,000 illegal aliens have been arrested and millions have been fraudulently released into our nation. Another 10,000,000 have absconded undetected because hundreds of miles of the southern border are open with not one single Border Patrol Agent actively patrolling.

Our nation faces a crisis created by both political parties that if left to continue will destroy our nation from within. There is no greater threat to our Republic than the invasion of millions of foreigners that do not share our language, culture or our shared values and beliefs.

I can't encourage you enough to listen to J.J. Carrell himself describe the sinister covert work of the federal government in this Rumble exposé: "REVEALED: The Horrifying Secret Behind the Border Invasion w/ J.J. Carrell."

Officials have said that they have encountered illegals from more than 150 countries.

In February 2024, Pew Research further reported that "most border encounters now involve people from countries other than Mexico and the Northern Triangle [i.e., the nations of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras]."

"Among countries with the largest numbers of illegals are India, Brazil, Canada and former Soviet Union countries" and China (Over 8,000 illegals from China were encountered at the southern border in December 2023 alone.)

And let's not forget illegals crossing into the U.S. from the state sponsors of terrorism and those who harbor terrorists like Iran, Afghanistan, Somalia, Bangladesh, Egypt, Yemen, Iraq and Pakistan. Again, what more needs to be said when ICE and the FBI recently arrested eight Tajikistan illegals with ties to ISIS? Does anyone in Washington, D.C., remember 9/11?!

If you don't think the feds are enabling criminals and criminalities to cross the border, consider these seven additional border crisis startling facts from the House Committee on Homeland Security:

• Encounters at the Southwest border (SWB) in FY 2023 increased over 40% since FY 2021 and more than 100% compared to FY 2019.
• Since President Biden took office, there have also been 1.7 million known gotaways (those who crossed the border undetected) – records greater than any former president!
• Consider that there were a record number of 172 people on the terrorist watchlist apprehended in 2023 alone. These numbers represent a 72% increased of apprehended potential terrorists, the most ever on record – higher than the last six fiscal years combined. That's how many we know of! We don't have a clue how many potential terrorists were among the 1.7 million illegal got-aways.
• In September FY 2023 alone (the last month we have official numbers), CBP had arrested 35,433 aliens with criminal convictions or outstanding warrants nationwide, including 598 known gang members, 178 of those being MS-13 members. Months since then have been tragically similar with 100 recent U.S. criminal acts traced to the Violent El Tren de Aragua Venezuelan gang crossing at the southern border.
• In FY 2023, the CBP, including Air and Marine Operations, seized 27,293 pounds of fentanyl coming across the southwest border – enough to kill more than 6 billion people – almost the entire population of the earth!
• According to NPR, migrants not only become unwilling mules to smuggle drugs for cartels but they're also robbed, kidnapped and their families are extorted. The Daily Beast reported that cartels have so much power over immigrant routes into the U.S. that they daily rape, murder and ransom children for human trafficking, prostitution rings, and "may even be harvesting their organs for the U.S. black market."
• Everyone should be haunted by this statement from John Jones, chief of the Intelligence Counter-terrorism Division with the Texas Dept. of Public Safety: "In the last seven years (in Texas), over 4,000 illegal aliens have been incarcerated for sexual assault. 62% of them are sexual assault against children."

Knowing the exhaustive list of heinous criminalities described above, I can't imagine how any politician on the left or right – let alone any American – could justify being an advocate of open borders without law and order.

I plea with my fellow Americans to fight every day to stop the alien invasion and illegalities at all ports of entry into the U.S., and particularly at our southern borders:

1. WRITE your representatives and the White House today and demand they: STOP THE INVASION NOW! Make America SAFE and SECURE AGAIN!

2. In order to help your individual state, because every state is now a border state, check out the resources and educational tour at Border911.com coming soon to a city near you!

(For further insight on our real border crisis, I recommend three additional resources: 1. Please read my recent column: "Texas sheriffs demand, 'STOP THE U.S. INVASION NOW!'" 2. Please read America's First Policy Institute's article "How Our Open Border Leaves Us More Vulnerable to Terrorism." 3. Please read the Naval Post Graduate School's report on Cooperation Between Mexican Drug Cartels and Al Qaeda or ISIS)

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There's a "silver lining" in a new U.S. Supreme Court decision that otherwise might be viewed as a temporary setback for the pro-life movement.

That ruling, just days ago, said doctors and medical associations don't have standing to sue over the Food and Drug Administration's massive expansion of the availability of the deadly chemicals used for that abortion procedure.

The decision on a technicality means the court never got to the point of considering whether that expansion of access to the deadly chemicals, including allowing them to be mailed out to women, was right or not.

It is Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council who interviewed Erin Hawley, of the legal team at the ADF which argued for review of the FDA's political activism.

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Perkins pointed out that part of the reasoning from the government against continuing the case is that physicians with faith objections to abortion already are protected from being ordered to perform abortions.

The plaintiffs had noted that part of Joe Biden's pro-abortion advocacy was to redefine various words, thus requiring emergency room physicians to perform abortions, even in violation of their faith, if it is an "emergency."

That change has been attempted in multiple redefinitions of words and the like by Biden.

During the arguments, Hawley explained, "the solicitor general was crystal clear that these protections apply in emergencies in every setting."

"And the Supreme Court actually said, and I’m quoting here, 'The federal law fully protects doctors against being required to provide abortions or other medical treatment against their consciences.' And as you identified, that’s a huge win for religious liberty and freedom of conscience, because the Biden administration has been continually cutting back on those conscience protections. But because of the lawsuit brought … the government really was forced to concede that those conscience protections exist, and they are robust," she explained.

Perkins described that was "a silver lining" in the court ruling in a dispute that remains far from over.

Perkins pointed out, "There are other states — I believe Missouri is one of the states, Idaho is one of those states — that [have] a separate lawsuit regarding the FDA and the abortion drug. Can you give us an update on what is different about their case and where it stands?"

Hawley explained, "So those three states, Missouri, Idaho and Kansas, actually intervened in the lawsuit, so they are part of the case back at the district court. And those proceedings will go forward. Presumably, the Department of Justice will file a motion to dismiss the states also on standing grounds. But the states have very different standing arguments than our doctors, and so we’d expect and hope the states will raise those standing arguments — and we hope and expect that the federal courts will get to actually look at the merits of FDA’s decision."

She explained, "When you look at the 2021 removal of that last remaining in-person visit [as a requirement of the drug]… the FDA could not say that women would be safe without that in-person visit, and yet, they still removed that safeguard. So we are hoping, again, that the courts do have an opportunity to look into those merits. The Supreme Court didn’t, based on a legal technicality, but as you said, that has the silver lining of ensuring that there are robust conscience protections throughout the country so quickly."

Hawley pointed out that Joe Biden's lawyers, during the Supreme Court arguments, "actually took the position that no one has standing."

Specifically those Christian doctors.

"I think this is really important for viewers to understand, is they said that the pro-life doctors in this case are protected by federal conscience protections, and that’s why they can’t sue. Now, these federal conscience protections did not exist according to the federal government [in lower court arguments]. The government told the federal courts that these protections did not apply in emergency situations. Then they got to the Supreme Court, and they told the Supreme Court the exact opposite," Hawley explained.

"And that’s why the Supreme Court didn’t find standing where every other court to address the issue had. In fact, the Supreme Court was really clear that doctors do have standing to raise conscience rights. The federal conscience protections in federal law are broad and absolutely protect medical professionals from performing or participating in abortions, even in emergency situations."

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The Connecticut Bar Association is warning lawyers against criticizing the politicized prosecutions of President Donald Trump because that could become "dangerous rhetoric."

The association recently dispatched to members a message signed by Maggie Castinado, its president, James T. Shearin, president-elect, and Emily Gianquinto, vice president.

They warn against "reckless words" that attack the integrity of the nation's judicial system.

They charged, "In the wake of the recent trial and conviction of former President Donald Trump, public officials have issued statements claiming that the trial was a 'sham,' a 'hoax,' and 'rigged'; our justice system is 'corrupt and rigged'; the judge was 'corrupt'' and highly unethical'; and, that the jury was 'partisan' and 'precooked.'"

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There also have been comparisons to communist "show" trials, in which the defendant is guilty and the court hearings are simply to create the appearance of a judicial proceeding.

The bar missive claims, without documenting whether those charges are, in fact, true, those statements are "unsubstantiated and reckless."

And they can "provoke acts of violence against" members of the judiciary. Further, they 'sow distrust in the public for the courts … ."

Those comments, the association claims, "cross the line from criticism to dangerous rhetoric."

The attempt to suppress speech with doesn't align with the politics of the association comes as a number of Democrat prosecutors continue their courtroom assaults on Trump.

Already, Arthur Engoron, a judge in New York, has demanded a punishment of nearly half a billion dollars for the way Trump negotiated loans for his corporation, practices that industry insiders described as routine. In fact, no one lost money or complained and the bankers involved wanted to do more business with Trump. And Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg took claims of business reporting misdemeanors that already had passed the statute of limitations and claimed they were felonies because they led to a further, unspecified, crime. A jury in the leftist enclave of New York convicted Trump in a decision that now is on appeal.

Several other cases, such as a prosecutor allegedly being appointed improperly and another with ethical clouds because the DA had hired her paramour, with tax money, to work her allegations against Trump, have significant obstacles looming.

Now Jonathan Turley, the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at Geroge Washington University, an expert witness on the law before Congress and popular commentator, said the message from the association is "chilling" for those lawyers who see the lawfare against Trump as "raw political prosecution."

He noted that the officials are demanding "members to speak publicly in support of the integrity of these legal proceedings."

He noted the reality is something else.

"For example, criticizing Judge Juan Merchan (who heard the business records case) for refusing to recuse from the case is considered beyond the pale."

But, he noted, "Many lawyers believe that his political (financial) contributions to Biden and his daughter's major role as a Democratic fundraiser and activist should have prompted Merchan to remove himself (and any appearance of a conflict)."

His own opinion is that Merchan's rulings were biased.

He said it's likely that verdict will be overturned, and he blames not the jury "but rather the judge and the prosecutors for an unfounded and unfair trial."

He identified the problem with the bar demands is the "suggestion that lawyers are acting somehow unprofessionally in denouncing what many view as a two-tier system of justice and the politicalization of our legal system."

Evidence?

"Notably, the bar officials did not write to denounce attacks on figures like Bill Barr or claims that the Justice Department was rigging justice during the Trump years." Further, those officials never published warnings about attacks on conservative justices and labeling them "insurrectionist sympathizers."

It didn't worry the bar when Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., threatened judges with "seismic changes" or Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., called the Supreme Court "corrupt."

"Likewise, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer also declared in front of the Supreme Court 'I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price,'" he continued.

He noted the letter actually "only reinforced the view of a legal system that is maintaining a political orthodoxy and agenda."

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A Bible story about God sending His angel to kill in a single night 185,00 soldiers attacking Jerusalem may just have gotten some historical corroboration with the discovery of an ancient military base.

The account in the Bible is found in three locations – 2 Kings 19:35; 2 Chronicles 32:21; and Isaiah 37:36-38 – and describes how King Sennacherib of Assyria suffered a divine defeat as an angel was directly dispatched by God to slay the enemy troops.

"That night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning ​– ​there were all the dead bodies!" (2 Kings 19:35 CSB)

"and the LORD sent an angel who annihilated every valiant warrior, leader, and commander in the camp of the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria returned in disgrace to his land. He went to the temple of his god, and there some of his own children struck him down with the sword." (2 Chronicles 32:21 CSB)

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The conflict is said to have occurred some 2,700 years ago, with the the Assyrian Empire operating from 1,365 to 609 B.C.

While there has been physical evidence of neither the battle nor supernatural event, archaeologist Stephen Compton now says modern mapping techniques have helped him discover compelling evidence of the epic fight.

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Compton posted a news release stating:

A peer-reviewed paper in the prestigious journal Near Eastern Archaeology reports the first-ever discoveries of ancient Assyrian military camps. Created circa 700 BC during military conquests across the Middle East, they mark the expansion of the Assyrian Empire, which became the prototype for the subsequent Persian, Greek, and Roman empires.

The initial discovery came from a scene carved into the stone walls of the Assyrian King Sennacherib's palace commemorating his conquest of Lachish, a city to the south of Jerusalem. Matching the landscape in this image to features of the actual landscape (using early aerial photographs of Lachish prior to modern development) created a virtual map to the site of Sennacherib's camp. This led to ruins similar in size and shape to the camp in Sennacherib's relief. An archaeological survey of the site found no evidence of human habitation for 2,600 years, followed by pottery sherds from the exact time of Sennacherib's invasion of Lachish, after which it was again abandoned for centuries. Moreover, the ancient Arabic name for the ruins was Khirbet al Mudawwara, "The Ruins of the Camp of the Invading Ruler."

The Survey of Palestine had investigated a very similar ruin to the north of Jerusalem and found it consistent with a military camp. They hypothesized that it had been built by Titus during the later Roman invasion of Jerusalem. However, Roman military camps were always rectangular, whereas this was oval, the characteristic shape of Assyrian camps. The hill it occupied was known in Arabic as Jebel el Mudawwara, "The Mountain of the Camp of the Invading Ruler."

The Daily Mail reported: "Before Compton discovered the Assyrian site, researchers had only encountered one other ancient military campsite in the area.

"The secondary site was occupied during the Roman siege of Jerusalem and its layout gave researchers a way to compare the layout of its military camp to the Assyrians.

"'Roman military camps were always rectangular, whereas this was oval, the characteristic shape of Assyrian camps,' Compton wrote ...

"The methods Compton used to find Sennacherib's camp site has led to the discovery of other Assyrian military camps.

"'In some cases, it has also been possible to use the newly discovered camps to locate the sites of ancient cities that were known to have been besieged by the Assyrians but whose locations were unknown or uncertain,' Compton wrote."

The images below are excerpted from the peer-reviewed paper, "The Trail of Sennacherib"s Siege Camps," by Stephen C. Compton.

Stone panels commemorating the conquest of Lachish from the walls of the Assyrian Emperor Sennacherib's palace show his military camp. The twenty-four guard towers in the camp's perimeter wall, each with three windows visible, indicate a substantial fortification. (S.C. Compton)

Bottom: The entire scene from Sennacherib's palace wall as drawn by its excavator, Austen Henry Layard, in 1849. Top: The same landscape as photographed from a plane in 1945, prior to modern alterations to the landscape. Correlating the two indicated a likely location for the ruins of Sennacherib's camp. Created from two public domain images: Austen Henry Layard's 1849 excavation drawings of the Lachish relief and a 1945 aerial photograph taken as part of a mapping effort by the British Mandate government of Palestine.

Ruined walls visible today at the site of Sennacherib's Lachish camp. (S.C. Compton)

The earliest aerial photograph of Jerusalem (lower left) with an oval fortification visible on a hill in the upper right. (Public domain, from the collection of the Library of Congress.)

The site of Sennacherib's Jerusalem camp, now known as Ammunition Hill. (S.C. Compton)

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Soldiers assigned to the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, known as 'The Old Guard,' and the U.S. Army Band, 'Pershing's Own,' participate in a Twilight Tattoo at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Virginia, June 14, 2023. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. David Resnick)

There are key individuals in America's history who sometimes do not get a lot of recognition, despite the critical roles they played.

Such as Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, who drilled a group of farmers and tradesmen into a Continental Army that, despite the odds, beat the British redcoats.

And then there's Capt. Peter Humrickhouse, who crossed the Delaware and wintered with Gen. George Washington at Valley Forge. He also delivered the ammunition that saved Yorktown.

And the group, individual names relatively obscure, who saved the Liberty Bell from invaders.

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And the Zengers, Peter Zenger, the imprisoned newspaper editor and later, his widow, Anna Catherina, who carried on his fights.

And others, who all shared a common allegiance, in addition to their support for the fledgling America.

A pass in review is conducted at the Armed Forces Farewell and Hail for 20th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Mark Milley and 21st Chairman General Charles Q. Brown, Jr. on Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Arlington, Virginia. (Official White House photo by Adam Schultz)

It's their participation in what then was the German Reformed Church in America, now known as the Reformed Church in the United States.

An organization that, stunningly, predates almost every other organization in the U.S., and is set to celebrate its Tricentennial in just one year, on June 12, 2025.

Planning already has begun for the events which will include a special celebration at the famed Mount Rushmore monument in South Dakota, according to Wayne Johnson, chair of the Tricentennial Celebration of the German Reformed Church in America.

Some of the members of that organization actually were the soldiers who were recruited to be Washington's personal guard, event organizers confirm,

The celebratory event will be co-hosted by the Mount Rushmore Society, the regional DAR, Daughters of the American Revolution, and others.

Plans already are being outlined online.

Organizers are explaining that the Mount Rushmore event is focus on patriotism, and its community-wide appeal.

Liberty Bell

The website includes a number of relatively unknown historical incidents, including the one about the Liberty Bell:

In 1777, England made its second greatest effort of the war. British General Howe left a garrison in New York and took 13,000 troops to capture Philadelphia. Washington rose to defend the capital, but on September 11 was outflanked and although defeated at Brandywine Creek, his army was not destroyed. Washington retreated to Chester, PA. Several days later the Americans suffered another defeat at Paoli, PA. Several hundred Americans were killed under a British bayonet attack. The American Congress fled from Philadelphia to York, PA, and Howe entered Philadelphia without opposition in late September.

Howe quartered a part of his army at nearby Germantown. On October 4, the Americans attacked this garrison and seemed to have won a victory until the British made a determined stand in the Chew house. British reinforcements came up from Philadelphia while the besieged house still held out, and Washington’s little army retreated. The Americans then took up their miserable winter quarters at Valley Forge.

Fearing the possibility of capture by the enemy, on June 16, 1777, the Assembly of Pennsylvania meeting in the State House at Philadelphia voted to authorize the removal of all bells belonging to several churches and other public buildings and all copper and brass to a place of safety. The Continental Congress, meeting in Independence Hall, on September 14, 1777 (three days after the Battle of Brandywine) resolved that all public bells in Philadelphia be removed to a place of security upon a near approach of the enemy to the city.

The order to remove the bells was passed along to Colonel Benjamin Flower, and his instructions read: “Ordered: that Colonel Flower employ James Worrell, Francis Allison and Mr. Evans, Carpenters, or such other workmen as he may think proper to employ, to take down the Bells of all the public Buildings in this city and convey them to safety.” They had their work cut out for them. Not only did they have to get the bells down, but also to convey them to safety. Eleven bells in all had to be removed. Most had to be taken from fairly high steeples, loaded aboard wagons, and spirited out of the city, all under the cover of night.

Once they were down, Colonel Flowers had to decide whether or not to move them by Army transport wagons leaving the area with increasing frequency. If they were to be overtaken by the British, they would certainly end up as shot designed for Americans. His reasoning might then have led him to seek out farmers bringing produce into the city from the area where the bells were destined to go, Allentown (then Northampton Town). Traditionally, these Pennsylvania German farmers brought their wares into Philadelphia and re-turned to their farms north of the city with empty wagons. A few of these wagons, with the bells secreted in them and covered with hay or straw, might be a better device. Should the British pass such a convoy, there would be a slightly lesser chance that they would be searched.

There are two stories recorded about whose wagon was used to haul the Liberty Bell out of Philadelphia. One states that the man chosen was one John Jacob Mickley. The exact date of the bells’ departure is unknown, perhaps a tribute to the extent of Flowers’ well-kept secret. Some historians give the date as September 16 or 17 when the bells were taken down. Whatever the date, Howe marched into Philadelphia on September 27 but did not send a patrol in pursuit of the fleeing wagon train, undoubtedly because he needed all of his men to secure the city and to repulse Washington’s counterattack at Germantown on October 4.

The bells were taken via Bethlehem to Allentown. At some point along the way, the bell wagons joined an Army convoy of some 700 other wagons, and they rattled into Bethlehem. As the wagon bearing the heavy Great Bell reached the center of town on September 24, the great weight broke the wagon. As the first story goes, the Bell was transferred to a wagon owned and driven by Frederick Loeser, who then carted the Bell on to Allentown.

The Bell’s hiding place until 1778 was in the basement of the Zion High German Reformed Church of Allentown, where it arrived early on the morning of September 25. Other bells were hidden in the same basement and the Church above them served as a military hospital until the British evacuated Philadelphia.

John Jacob Mickley and Frederick Loeser both have commemorative tablets in Pennsylvania which honor the parts they played in the saving of the Bell. The Loeser tablet stands at Loeser Lake just off Route 143 near Jacksonville, Pennsylvania in upper Lehigh County, not far from Frederick’s farm land. The tablet dedicated to Mickley is outside the entrance to the Liberty Bell Shrine located at the Zion Church in Allen-town, and also mentions Frederick’s role in the transport of the Bell. The shrine is housed in the same basement where the Bell was harbored during its year-long stay in Allentown.

When the British completed their evacuation of Philadelphia on June 18, 1777, the bells at Allentown were free to leave their refuge, and they lost no time in doing so. It is recorded that they departed on June 27, and on August 22, the Pennsylvania Packet stated that the bells had been returned safe and hung again.

The organization also notes the participation of Theodore Roosevelt in the church.

"Roosevelt originally belonged to the Reformed Church in America (RCA), a Dutch-American group. As a private person, Roosevelt attended religious services wherever he was. He preferred the Reformed Church if one were available to attend and is reported to have said, 'I take a sentimental satisfaction in worshiping in the Church of my fathers.'"

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The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty has announced it is challenging a scholarship program in the Beloit, Wisconsin, school district for being racist and discriminatory.

"The district's race-based GYO program is patently unconstitutional and illegal under decades-old United States Supreme Court precedent and other laws," explained WILL associate counsel Cara Tolliver.

"Citizens ought to demand more from their elected government officials—even more so for those charged with the care and education of children. Given the ongoing teacher shortage, the district should be welcoming all qualified scholarship candidates, not foreclosing teaching incentives on the irrelevant and unlawful basis of a human being’s skin pigmentation or ethnic make-up."

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At issue, WILL reported, is the district's "Grow Your Own Multicultural Teacher Scholarship Program."

"According to numerous publicly available documents and other materials, the district solicits contributions from employees and board members to fund racially discriminatory teaching scholarships for students and staff. GYO scholars receive up to $20,000 ($5,000 per year for four years) in addition to mentoring services."

The program, however, has a racist agenda.

"The district uses the scholarships to train and recruit new 'teacher[s] who look like' certain students, and so the program extends only to members of certain racial minority groups preferred by the district," WILL explained.

"The district’s race-based GYO program violates numerous anti-discrimination prohibitions, including the United States Constitution and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. WILL warns of further action if the district insists on maintaining this unlawful program."

The report explained the scholarship scheme is part of the district's commitment "to ensure a diverse professional teaching workforce” so that students can “see[] and be[] taught by a teacher who looks like them."

The program's privileged characteristics are "Black/African American,” “Native American/Alaskan,” “Asian,” and “Hispanic/Latinx.”

The legal team documented further that the school uses public resources, time and employees in running the program.

"In fact, the district solicits funding from its employees and Board members through direct payroll deductions and other available options and has offered incentives for paid-time-off to staff members who donate to the GYO fund," it reported.

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A fight has erupted over a decision by the Long Island town of Southold to take private property that the owners of a chain of hardware stores bought for a new location.

The problem is that the town took the land against the wishes of the owners using eminent domain, but it had no legitimate reason for doing that.

According to officials at the Institute for Justice, that's known because the city insisted it needed the land for a "park," but that turned out to be a "passive park" with no cleanup, no improvements, and the remnants of an old home and greenhouse left there.

The IJ explained, 'When every legal effort to stop someone from using their property has failed, can the government simply take the land using eminent domain? That is the question at the heart of a new U.S. Supreme Court petition filed by a family-owned hardware store business whose property was taken by a small Long Island town."

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It is the Brinkmann family whose members already have five Long Island stores and obtained the Southold property for another.

"The town did everything it could to stop construction. After failing to drive the Brinkmanns away by attempting to interfere with the Brinkmanns’ land purchase, then imposing an exorbitant fee for a market impact study that the town never performed after being paid, and even deploying a selectively enforced moratorium on building permits to stifle the Brinkmanns’ permit application; the town voted to take the land by eminent domain for a park," the IJ said.

At the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the judges said, "the government can take your property for almost any reason at all—including because it just doesn’t like you—so long as the government lies about why it is using eminent domain," explained IJ lawyer Jeff Redfern.

"This is a dangerous precedent, and the Supreme Court should take this opportunity to clarify that it is unconstitutional to use eminent domain in bad faith, simply to stop someone from making a lawful use of their property."

The commercial venture was started by Tony and Pat Brinkmann with a single store in Sayville, New York, in 1976. Today, the company is still family-owned and operated by their children—Mary, Ben and Hank.

"If the maneuver that Southold used to take our property is allowed to stand, no one can purchase property with the confidence that they will be able to use it," said Ben Brinkmann. "We played by the rules, but the ground kept shifting under our feet until our property was simply taken by force. Courts should not turn their eyes from eminent domain abuse."

A dissent from the recent 2nd Circuit ruling pointed out that "courts across the country have long invalidated bad-faith takings to stop otherwise legitimate uses of property."

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Chuck Norris and son, Dakota, on site making new movie, "Agent Recon"

One of those famed "Chuck Norris facts" about the television and movie star and longtime WND columnist explains he doesn't wear a watch.

Why not? Because he decides what time it is, of course.

There may be more truth in that than many would admit, as now he appears to let his years of work, which started back in 1968 with "The Wrecking Crew" followed shortly after by his role as Colt in "Way of the Dragon," impact him not at all, as at age 84 he's appearing in a new sci-fi action movie, Agent Recon.

By the way, at the start of that year, Lyndon Johnson was president; Richard Nixon was elected in the fall.

He plays Alastair, the captain of a covert Earth security force, whose team tracks down a mysterious disturbance in New Mexico.

The trailer:

It's his first movie product since "Expendables 2" in 2012, when he provided a cameo role and saved a team of toughs on a special mission after they were pinned down and destined for annihilation by the enemy.

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Facing the end, the team members heard bang, bang, bang and a few explosions and looked down to the road so see Chuck Norris casually strolling toward them.

His famous line there: "I work alone."

Legendary only understates his work entertaining the nation, with his "Walker, Texas Ranger," television series and moves including his hit, "Good Guys Wear Black," "A Force of One," "Silent Rage," "Lone Wolf McQuiade, " "Missing in Action," "The Delta Force," "Firewalker," "Delta Force 2," and more

Online, he's described as a "noted writer," authoring books on martial arts, philosophy, Christianity, politics and exercise, twice being named a New York Times bestselling author.

He was born Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris" and after serving in the United States Air Force he turned his interest in martial arts into a long-time world championship. He worked with Bruce Lee in "The Way of the Dragon."

His wife, Gena, said in a statement about the new project, "He loved his role in this great film and particularly enjoyed his couple days on the set working alongside his son Dakota, (who choreographed CN's fight scene) and Executive Director and lead actor Derek Ting and his wife Joyce Ting."

The movie is described as family friendly.

In an commentary about the project, Norris wrote, "As Ting mentioned, one of the personal thrills for my wife, Gena, and me was to have our son, Dakota, serve as the choreographer for my fight scenes on 'Agent Recon.' Dakota is a third-degree black belt and a martial arts expert in his own right.

He shared, "Here's an action-packed 1-minute video of Dakota and his equally amazing black belt sister and our daughter, Danilee, sparring in our gym on our Lone Wolf Ranch in Texas. Here is Dakota also doing a little more training in Hawaii. Not bad, eh?

The Quiver Distribution project is to appear starting June 21.

WND reported when, in 2022, Norris volunteered to work with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban for "that better future."

Norris' comment came then in response to Orban's message to the Conservative Political Action Conference in Texas that America needs now "more Chuck Norris."

Orban, a firebrand who frequently has triggered liberals and progressives over and over with his comments, got a hero's welcome at the CPAC events and pleaded with his audience not to pull punches in a culture war – going on globally – with liberals.

In America, under Joe Biden, that fight has erupted over and over with the president's blatant promotion of abortion, the LGBT ideology, progressive government priorities like massive spending and more.

Orban explained that Hungarian state institutions define marriage as the union of one man and one woman, and he said Americans in the fight need to trust their Judeo-Christian tradition.

"We have to be brave enough to address even the most sensitive questions, migration, gender and the clash of civilizations," he said.

"Politics, my friends, is not enough," he said. "This war is a culture war."

He said what is needed now is "more Chuck Norris."

Norris, to WND, at the time issued a statement that, "In 2018, my wife Gena and I were invited by Hungarian Baptist Aid to visit Budapest. We love the Hungarian people and were honored to spend time with Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

"We heard he fired up conservative Texans at CPAC in Dallas this week by saying America needs 'more Chuck Norris.' I'm humbled and honored to fight with Orban and all conservatives to rebuild America (presently and in 2024 with a new president) from the depression (in economy and spirit) too many Americans are experiencing right now. Let's pray and fight for that better future! We've done it before, and we can do it again!"

Norris, and his life values, regularly appear online. Elon Musk posted an image of Chuck Norris playing chess, with the caption, "Chuckmate," as his fight over Twitter exploded.

Norris at times as appeared on screen with endorsements, one time complaining to an auto maker's representative that he had been "replaced" with a truck. A few years back, WND reported his affiliation with Glock.

After all, those internet sayings already had linked him with weaponry, with:

"When Chuck Norris donates blood, he avoids the syringe, just asking for a gun and a bucket."

And then there's "faster than a speeding bullet" is a Chuck Norris warmup.

Norris, says another, "doesn't dodge bullets, they dodge him."

And Norris "only invented guns because he wanted to make it a fair fight. For others."

To Norris, meanwhile, have been attributed many "facts."

For example, demonstrators in Montreal complained that police intimidated them by plastering on a police vehicle a poster of Norris toting two guns from the movie "Invasion U.S.A."

A political-science professor, Francis Dupuis-Déri, filed the protest with authorities against nine police officers who were patrolling streets in Quebec City when the G7 summit was held.

"The complaint includes a video of a protest held June 8 in which a photo of Chuck Norris carrying a rifle in each hand can be seen attached to the door of a police van used to transport an arrested demonstrator," the report said.

The Norrises' Kick Start program for school students has taught tens of thousands lessons in self-defense and life.

Norris also has let loose his humorous side more than once.

He released a video that was a parody of an ad by action movie hero Jean-Claude Van Damme, who performed a split between two moving trucks.

Norris' response was doing the splits between two flying jets

See the Van Damme ad, followed by Chuck Norris' parody:

Norris has said some of his favorite internet "facts" include:

• "When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks his closet for Chuck Norris."

• "Chuck Norris doesn't read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants."

• "Outer space exists because it's afraid to be on the same planet with Chuck Norris."

Once, when asked what he thought about the phenomenon, Norris said: "My answer is always the same: Some are funny. Some are pretty far out. And, thankfully, most are just promoting harmless fun."

Norris also downplays the notion that he's some sort of superhero.

"I've got a bulletin for you, folks. I am no superman. I realize that now, but I didn't always. As six-time world karate champion and then a movie star, I put too much trust in who I was, what I could do and what I acquired. I forgot how much I needed others and especially God. Whether we are famous or not, we all need God. We also need other people."

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As I was reading a particularly gruesome news item related to the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and savage massacre of 1,200 people – and kidnapping of more than 250 others (of whom 120 remain in captivity) – the Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young (CSNY) song, "Teach your Children" came to mind. The song reached number 16 in 1970. As much as I never connected an American folk-rock song with headlines in Israel, I probably never thought about the song's lyrics either. It's a song about passing on values from one generation to the next, emphasizing the importance of teaching children well, to help them grow into their best selves, to create a better future individually, as a legacy from one generation to the next.

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"Teach Your Children" echoed as I read the text of an article, "IDF airs interrogation clips of terrorist father and son confessing to rape on Oct. 7."

Among the thousands of Palestinian Arab terrorists who committed inhuman acts, slaughtering, maiming, torturing, raping and sexually mutilating thousands of Israelis, Ahmad Radi did anything but teach his child well. Breaching Israel's border in an orgy of hate and destruction, he shamelessly brought his son Abdallah to participate in the murderous rampage. While more than 1,000 Hamas terrorists were killed in Israel on and in the immediate aftermath of the Oct. 7 massacres, the father and son were captured. In separate interrogations, Ahmad and Abdallah confessed to murder and rape. In fact, they raped the same woman before (father) Ahmad executed her.

Ahmad (left) and his son Abdallah Radi confessing to murder and rape

If Ahmad only had an ear for classic folk rock and not jihadi hate, he'd maybe have set a positive example, rather than transmitting to Abdalah the evil genocidal hatred he embodies, and has clearly imbued in his son.

CSNY sang, "You must have a code that you can live by / Teach your children well / And feed them on your dreams." Clearly Ahmad, thousands of terrorists who participated in the Oct. 7 massacre, and the tens of thousands of Hamas leaders and their brigades, along with hundreds of thousands who support and enable them, have chosen their "code" to live by. Rather than feeding them on the dreams of building and doing something positive, their vision and goals are exclusively to destroy Israel, to slaughter Jews.

The lyrics continue, "The one they pick's the one you'll know by." Basically, CSNY are saying that a father's legacy lives on through his children. Unfortunately, generations of Palestinian Arabs have transmitted a legacy of geocidal hate, fueled by extremist Islam founded in the Muslim Brotherhood of which Hamas is an ideological child, and funded and supported by the Islamic republic regime in Iran.

Sadly, for most Gazans this Father's Day will be marked by living in accordance with an immoral code which they celebrate and worship, even according to their own internal polls. They surely do not represent the song's message that the past is the past, and it's time to move forward. They raise their children from as young as 3 and 4 to worship jihad, and practice genocidal anti-Semitism. The inhuman acts of killing and maiming others supplant any aspiration to build a future for themselves, or to pass on good values.

This makes the rhetorical and often hollow question/accusation to Israel about having a plan for the day after to be more than ridiculous, because the hatred and evil are so deeply entrenched.

By comparison, in traditional Judaism a father's responsibility is to teach his child a profession, and how to swim: things to enable them to live well, make a living, and protect themselves. Not to kill others.

CSNY's chorus implores parents to move beyond the struggles of the previous generation ("the father's hell that did slowly go by"), and the importance of nurturing children's dreams so they can live fulfilling lives.

The second verse addresses the children, and challenges them to be empathetic towards their elders, recognizing that they may have lived through tough times. It also tells young people to use their energy and idealism to change the world for the better, before it's too late. Sometimes that means pivoting away from a parent's past and inability to move beyond that. It means that parents have a responsibility to imbue their children with good values, but also that children have the responsibility to choose the correct path, regardless of what they inherit from their parents.

"Teach Your Children" is a call to action for passing on life lessons, compassion, and hope to future generations. It's an important Father's Day anthem. Hamas and their ideological siblings from Hezbollah, the Houthis, westerners hijacking private campuses and public spaces, and the ayatollahs of Iran, do the opposite. They offer no hope for the future, only hate that also dooms them. This Father's Day, it's important to reflect on our personal values as parents, rejecting the evil of extremist genocidal Islam, and making sure that we impart that to the next generation, loud and clear.

This horrific story of the father and son, Ahmed and Abdullah, reminds me of another less-hopeful classic American folk-rock song, Harry Chapin's 1974 hit, "Cats in the Cradle." After a life of neglecting his son by having "lots to do," the father realizes his neglect has come back to him, singing woefully, "My boy is just like me."

This is the model by which Hamas and the Islamic terrorists live. It's up to them, the fathers and mothers, to teach their children well, to have an active presence, to show them right from wrong, and to correct them when they go astray. It's never a father's role to teach a child to massacre, rape, sexually mutilate and murder, not for any reason.

Rather than worshiping an evil ideology and a god who they say celebrates that, maybe they'd to well with a little 1960s classic folk-rock to change their future.

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We've all heard the statistics: Children growing up without dads are more likely to live in poverty, abuse drugs and alcohol, engage in early sexual activity, commit more crime, get less education, blah blah blah.

These stats are all, sadly, true. What's less examined is why fatherlessness happens to begin with.

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Let's put aside the irresponsible cads who just love'em and leave'em, the kind of men who sleep with endless women and don't care how many children are sowed in their wake. There are many men like this (just as there are many women who allow it), but they aren't the topic of this column.

Instead I want to look at the attitude toward fathers in our current modern society. Let's start by backing up a few years.

When our daughters were very young, they loved the Berenstain Bears series of children's books. We would check them out of the library by the armful. But as we read more and more of the series, a theme started to emerge. When she was about five years old, our daughter articulated it quite well: "Why does Mama Bear always think Papa is dumb?"

It was true. In story after story, Mama was always right; and good honest hardworking Papa was a monumental dunce. I seized on our daughter's question to explain Papa Bear's good qualities, and how Mama Bear shouldn't treat him the way she did. I recall it was one of our first discussions on the valuable role a dad plays in a child's life.

It's not just the Berenstain Bears, of course. Popular culture has been bashing dads for decades. Very rarely do you see the man of the house portrayed as competent, authoritative and wise. A study of 12 TV sitcoms shows dads as "bumbling" and "incapable."

"[C]hildren and youth watch a lot of television, and the ways fathers are depicted can both influence how they will think about themselves as future parents and reinforce what they already believe about family roles," notes this article from a few years ago. "We are likely to watch things that match with what we think."

For feminists, empowering women is all about emasculating men, which they do with alacrity except on Father's Day, the one day a year when dads are abruptly portrayed as flawless and benevolent and are condescendingly offered ties, wallets and bathrobes. Somehow that one day of accolades is supposed to erase 364 days of bashing. Then on Monday morning, it's back to normal. Gee, honey, that tie looks stupid with that shirt.

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Girls are steeped in this populist attitude toward men and internalize it during their formative years. Then they grow into women who think, well duh, all men are stupid, bumbling, and incompetent … therefore either (a) when I get married I'll treat my husband that way; or (b) I won't get married at all (fish and bicycles, doncha know) and have babies on my own. Who needs a man?

As it turns out, all kids need a man – preferably their father, either by birth or adoption.

That's why Father's Day is really about mothers. A father happens long before a baby is born. It happens when a woman meets a stranger's eyes across a crowded room and a spark flies. What happens next is up to the woman. There are few decisions in life that will have a greater impact on her children.

The first mistake too many women make is having babies before getting married. Today about 4 out 10 children were born to unwed mothers. Nearly two-thirds were born to mothers under the age of 30. Today 1 in 5 children under the age of 18 – a total of about 15.7 million – are being raised without a father. Statistics have shown over and over and over that unwed motherhood is almost guaranteed to plunge a woman and her children into lifelong poverty.

But when a woman does get married, often she doesn't look at the reality of what life will be like beyond the altar. This is, presumably, the man she wants to see across the breakfast table for the next fifty years. So why doesn't she choose someone with compatible views on family, children, religion, money, life goals and other critical factors?

And, assuming she's been fortunate enough to make vows with a man compatible in all those areas, why would she complicate her relationship with this treasured person by being difficult to live with? Why would she become nagging or critical or cold?

A well-chosen marriage partner is the most awesome blessing we can experience on earth. A huge number of societal problems we are currently experiencing would cease to exist if only women would think about how they treat their husbands.

Too many fathers aren't involved in their children's lives because they're forced out by women. Unless they're absolute cads (and of course, some are), very few men abandon their children willingly. Instead, feminist-tilted court systems force men out of the home and out of their children's lives, yet capture their wealth for decades to come. And this is called progress?

Therefore I will drop the ball firmly in the court of women. Ladies, you're the ones who control your own procreation. It's up to you to "choose wisely, treat kindly" when you select a man to father your children.

And to all the married women out there, I want you to try a little experiment. Try, just try to wrap your minds around the notion that men aren't bumbling idiots. Since you chose to marry a man, your husband should be treated with respect, affection, and admiration. This means you don't nag, you don't criticize and you never talk trash about him to your girlfriends. And it means your children must be taught their dad is to be respected as a figure of authority in their lives.

If you ask dads what they might want for Father's Day, I'm willing to bet most would say, "To be with my family. To not be criticized. To be admired as competent and intelligent." That's why I say Father's Day is really about mothers, because mothers determine whether those gifts are given.

So here's a novel concept: give him what he wants for Father's Day. Affection. Love. Respect. You just might discover that these are the kinds of gifts that get returned ten-fold.

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When Biden, Obama's point man in Ukraine, was in Ukraine with the CIA in 2014 helping to flip the government to a pro-western government, Russia felt its back was against the wall, having only two warm-water ports, with one being Crimea. The government of Crimea voted to join Russia and Russia annexed them.

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The West did not recognize the government of Crimea, stating it was illegitimate. Russia did not recognize the newly flipped government of Ukraine, viewing it as illegitimate.

In January 2021 with Biden in office, Ukraine began asking for NATO membership.

What do you think would happen if Mexico suddenly wanted to join league with a country hostile to the United States? History shows in January 1917, the German foreign secretary sent a telegram to the German minister in Mexico, known as the "Zimmermann Telegram." It revealed a plan for Germany to form an alliance with Mexico, promising Mexico her lost territories of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. This threat at our doorstep was one of the factors leading the U.S. to declare war against Germany five weeks later.

Likewise, it is a fact that Russia views Ukrainian NATO membership as a threat to their country. With Ukraine asking for NATO membership, in 2021 Putin requested talks with Biden, but Biden refused if Ukraine's NATO membership was one of the topics. So, Putin communicated with Biden in the spring of 2021 by massing Russian troops near Ukraine's borders for "training exercises." By November 2021, satellite images showed around 100,000 Russian troops near Ukraine's border. On Dec. 17, 2021, Russia presented security demands, including NATO pull back troops and weapons from Eastern Europe and bar Ukraine from ever joining NATO. Dec. 30, 2021 Putin reached out and requested a call with Biden. During the call Putin asked for "legally binding guarantees" that "the 30-member NATO alliance" would "not expand further eastwards and that certain offensive weapons would not be deployed to Ukraine or other neighboring countries." It was stated, "Washington regards many of his [Putin's] demands, including restrictions on NATO expansion, as non-starters." So, in February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine.

When the Russia-Ukrainian war first started, Pope Francis commented, "We do not see the whole drama unfolding behind this war, which was, perhaps, somehow either provoked or not prevented." He recalled a conversation with a head of state, who expressed concerns about NATO. When asked "why," this head of state said, "They are barking at the gates of Russia. They don't understand that the Russians are imperial and can't have any foreign power getting close to them." Could this have been Putin?

Now Putin is threatening to give arms to U.S. enemies. Is this an idle threat? Biden likes to considers himself "Mr. Tough Guy" who would beat up people "behind a barn," because he thinks he has an invincible American military behind him; but was this true on Sept. 11, 2001?

Former Obama Administration Secretary of Defense Robert Gates stated, "[Joe Biden] has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades," quoting from Gates' memoir, "Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War."

ABC News added the following statements concerning Joe Biden's foreign policy decisions:

"Former George W. Bush Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove in 2010: 'Since his election to the U.S. Senate in the early 70s, Joe Biden has been on the wrong end of virtually every foreign policy dispute since then.'

"Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer in 2012: The vice president over the last 30 years 'holds the American record for [being] wrong on the most issues in foreign affairs ever. … He is the Herbert Hoover of American foreign policy.'

"Marc Thiessen, speechwriter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and President Bush, in 2012: 'The fact is Biden has a near-perfect record of being wrong about almost every major foreign policy question that the United States has faced in the past three decades.'

"Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., in 2012: 'Biden has – has been consistently wrong on every national security issue that I've been involved in the last 20 years or so.'"

Jerry Shenk, writer for The Mercury, added, "Joe Biden and his administration have blood on their hands. Republicans who promoted Biden's presidency, Biden voters and his corporate media cheerleaders are accessories."

So Biden has a history of making wrong foreign policy decisions.

Now Putin says he is going to give armaments to U.S. enemies. Moscow is communicating with Washington, D.C., stating they feel Russia's back is against the wall. U.S. leaders, considering this an idle threat, are expressing their lack of concern about the American people who will die, while Washington politicians hide in U.S.-taxpayer-built nuclear bunkers. It's only mutually assured destruction for the masses, not the ones causing the problems.

Now with America distracted with Hunter Biden trials, Russian warships are conducting Zircon hypersonic missile drills off the East Coat of America as they travel to Cuba. "The U.S. East Coast will be within Zircon range … and the missiles can … be used to strike ground targets," Cuban authorities say. "None of the warships are nuclear-armed." "The White House does not view it as a threat, it is symbolic."

Symbolic? Moscow is communicating with Washington, just like when they positioned 100,000 troops on the border of Ukraine. Were 100,000 troops symbolic?

Why is Biden pushing so hard for peace in Gaza and not in Ukraine? Even MSNBC got it right on a hot mic concerning Biden's character; for in the background while Biden was speaking, Joy Reid stated Biden is "starting another [beep]-ing war."

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The viciousness of terrorists committed to a religious cause was more recently underscored by the Oct. 7, 2023 raid by Hamas into Israel. It included unforgiveable acts such as the raping of women before killing them and the beheading of babies. As Israel immediately invaded Gaza with the commitment to totally destroy Hamas – a war that is now in its eighth month – we were shocked to see pro-Hamas protests break out in the U.S., mostly on college campuses.

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While many concerned Americans may believe these protests were the independent acts of misguided students, we may well be on the brink of a “Eureka” moment concerning terrorist influences in the U.S. A lengthy legal process that should shine the spotlight on just how America has enabled the seed of anti-Semitism to be planted and nurtured by foreign influencers, right under our noses, has been set in motion.

One of the biggest and most respected U.S. law firms – not only in the U.S. but worldwide – Greenberg Traurig, LLP (GT) – filed a civil lawsuit against major groups it has identified as Hamas collaborators operating tacitly under the Muslim Brotherhood. By way of background, while the U.S. has designated Hamas as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), it has yet to so designate the Brotherhood, from which Hamas evolved, as such. A 2015 bill seeking to do so, introduced by Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), has yet to be passed, although several other countries (including Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates), recognizing the Brotherhood’s terrorist influence, have designated the group as such.

U.S. hesitancy to label the Brotherhood as an FTO apparently stems from the group’s renunciation in the 1970s of violence. This ignores the fact that groups like Hamas have spun off from it and now do the bidding for it. Along with other plaintiffs, GT is representing nine Israeli-Americans who were victims of the October raid, assisted by The United West which consists of experts in investigating and exposing the Brotherhood’s U.S. operations.

GT’s lawsuit should get the details out as to how the Brotherhood, Hamas and these collaborators in the U.S., such as the American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) and the National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP), have worked together in various ways to further the cause of terrorism while managing to avoid violating criminal statutes.

The 49-page GT lawsuit suggests the evidence of the above collaboration is overwhelming and that AMP and NSJP are operational arms of Hamas in the U.S. which, as such, are financially responsible to the plaintiffs. A legal win hopefully would bankrupt these groups.

Among the claims GT alleges is, noting that AMP and NSJP needed virtually no time to collect facts about the October Hamas raid, amazingly they were able to respond the very next day by “participating in the terrorist’s propaganda to justify its appalling brutalities,” answering “Hamas’s ‘call for mass mobilization’ by disseminating a manifesto and plan of attack. This manifesto confirms that AMP and NSJP are not merely organizing to assist Hamas’s ongoing terror campaign abroad – they are intentionally extending their aid to fomenting chaos, violence, and terror in the United States.”

Unsurprisingly, 50 national, state and regional American Muslim, Arab, Palestinian, and other organizations, issued a joint statement raising the typical defensive battle cry to GT’s lawsuit in an effort to avoid making the issue one about seeking accountability.

The statement labeled the lawsuit as a “hateful, frivolous lawfare” attack against AMP and NSJP and an “Islamophobic stunt disguised as a lawsuit appears to be a collection of anti-Muslim conspiracy theories and guilt-by-association paranoia. It also represents the latest escalation in an unprecedented and increasingly desperate campaign to silence Americans who oppose the Israeli government's ongoing genocide in Gaza.” It went on to compare the lawsuit’s allegations to those made during the mid-20th century Red Scare generated by Senator Joe McCarthy in America that triggered a witch hunt for communists.

Again seeking to keep the spotlight off accountability, the statement then defends the protesting students who “have been doxxed, attacked, and arrested. Teachers, doctors, and other workers have faced discrimination and termination. Protesters have been defamed and brutalized. Dozens of Muslim and Palestinian Americans have been violently attacked for wearing visible signs of their religion or culture. … These McCarthy-era intimidation tactics must not stop the American people from exercising their constitutional right to advocate for a just U.S. foreign policy, an end to the genocide in Gaza, and the freedom of the Palestinian people.”

But GT is not the only one looking to identify these funding sources. The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability has already demanded documentation from these pro-Hamas collaborators to determine such sourcing as well as whether it complies with U.S. law.

There is a clear pipeline in the U.S. through which pro-Hamas groups are funded to support their anti-Semitic actions. The U.S. government has spent years looking the other way. Hopefully, GT’s lawsuit and the House investigation should finally determine the source – foreign, domestic or both – to which that pipeline attaches.

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A new study has suggested COVID shots, which already are known to cause serious side effects including heart ailments that can be fatal, also triggered a decline in male fertility.

A study done by researchers in Denmark analyzed fertility levels from thousands of men ages 18-45, with half in the 18-24 age group, and revealed COVID mRNA shots "have caused widespread harm to fertility rates."

"During the study, the researchers examined the quality of semen in potential donors in Denmark between 2017 and 2022," explained a report in Slay News.

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Of those accepted as donors, about one-third of the total, "The study revealed that motile sperm concentration dropped by 16 percent," a drop seen only during 2019-2022 when mRNA shots were being delivered.

The report said 587 of the donors during that time "saw their parameters worsen," while 425 didn't.

Also down for many study participants was total motile sperm count, which concerned the study organizers as that "has potential implications for human fertility, because sperm motility is correlated with the probability of conception," the report said.

In fact, the report said TMSC was down 22% among the entire donor pool.

Study authors said, "Such a sharp decline in sperm motility to occur over a relatively short length of time suggests that external factors were likely to have played a role. In this context, we note that the observed decline in sperm motility roughly corresponds to the onset of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic."

They noted lifestyle changes, including the now-proven ineffective lockdowns, also may have played a role in the changes.

The report also confirmed that a separate study "found alarming changes in motility which were closely correlated to the COVID mRNA injections."

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NewsGuard, which purportedly "rates" news organizations for their truthfulness, has been described in a Real Clear Wire report as "a powerful censorship tool."

And constitutional expert Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University whose popular commentary regularly skewers the establishment, has warned against subjecting children in America's schools to the left-leaning bias of "fact-checkers" like NewsGuard because it "raises the specter of a type of de facto state media."

Now a report at RedState is revealing U.S. Rep. James Comer, chief of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, is beginning an investigation of the "supposed arbiter of media reliability."

The goal? Determine the "impact of NewsGuard on protected First Amendment speech and its potential to serve as a non-transparent agent of censorship campaigns."

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That same topic already is before the Supreme Court, in a dispute over the instructions from the Joe Biden administration to various social media companies to, in recent years, censor opinions and even facts about the 2020 election, COVID's origins, the shots that have proven to be harmful, and more.

The report said Comer recently sent a message to NewsGuard with questions.

He said, "Our inquiry seeks documents on NewsGuard’s business relationships with government entities, its adherence to its own policies intended to guard against appearances of bias, how it tries to avoid and manage potential conflicts of interest arising from its investors and other influences, and actions that may have the impact of delegitimizing factually accurate information."

Comer continued, "One concerned journalist expressed fear that NewsGuard’s activities are an extension of federal efforts—since struck down by courts—to coerce social media companies and to 'destroy the financial survival of disfavored outlets…'"

In fact, a number of conservative and Christian news organizations largely have been defunded by social media companies following the same leftist ideology adopted by NewsGuard.

Comer said, "The committee seeks to make an independent determination about whether NewsGuard’s intervention on protected speech has been in any way sponsored by a federal, state, local, or foreign government."

The report said NewGuard is a "a team of journalists who create a reliability rating system that scores various news outlets for accuracy based on various criteria. It has come under scrutiny for what many perceive as its bias against right-leaning outlets, including RedState, which have been the target of numerous censorship and demonetization efforts."

Comer noted that NewsGuard already is accepting federal money under a contract with the Defense Department and that's a concern as it generates the possibility of federal agencies involved in "censorship."

The letter also cites NewsGuard's "clear bias in favor of the left."

The report in RedState explained, "NewsGuard and similar organizations have not only attacked conservative outlets by trying to tarnish their reputations, they have also gone after their revenue sources, persuading companies to refrain from spending advertising dollars with the sites."

Steven Brill, the leftist founder of the group, was "one of the voices falsely claiming that the Hunter Biden laptop was likely false Russian disinformation," Real Clear had reported.

That computer now has been documented as real, since the federal government itself used it as evidence in a trial in which Hunter Biden was convicted of gun rule felonies.

Bruce Afran, a lawyer with Consortium News, which had a falling out with NewsGuard, said, "What’s really happening here is that NewsGuard is trying to target those who take a different view from the government line."

The Media Research Center, a long-established and well-known watchdog on the media, concluded, problematically, that NewsGuard was biased "in favor of leftist news outlets. NewsGuard even rated several Communist Chinese state-run media outlets higher than several American outlets and pro-life U.S. websites. The ratings firm also claims to help identify 'misinformation,' but its biases show it isn’t objective."

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Colleges are "admitting" students even before they apply in order to bolster minority numbers, according to a new report.

The college-to-career route has been bludgeoned in recent years in America by several factors. One is that employers, even major and high-profile employers, no longer are insisting on that four-year B.A. degree for applicants.

Further, there's been the dramatic left turn in college campus atmospheres, where leftist ideology is promoted at the faculty level and conservative students often are targeted for not adhering to the abortion, transgender and Palestinian ideologies.

Now a report in the Washington Times explains those impacts have hit at enrollment numbers, and especially those closely watched numbers for minorities.

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The report said the colleges now use "direct admissions," the plan that admits to colleges high school students, and those numbers have "more than doubled."

"The practice allows high school students who maintain a passing grade to bypass SAT testing, essay requirements, application fees and other paperwork to go straight into second-tier regional colleges," the report said.

Promoters said in the report the plan saves time, resources and paperwork for schools, especially "lower-tier" academies where officials struggle over enrollment declines and pandemic-era cost increases "that have reduced the number of low-income, black and Hispanic applicants."

The report noted the surge in such plans comes as "students have increasingly favored blue-collar trade certifications and community colleges over pricier four-year programs as tuition and living costs have risen."

There's also the problem of dropouts, described by Peter Wood of the National Association of Scholars.

"Direct admissions is aggressive marketing akin to sending unsolicited credit cards to people. The message is that college admission has nothing to do with academic achievement or intellectual performance."

The report said nine states already have offered such programs, and more are planning to follow.

"In the California State University system, Fresno State’s 'Bulldog Bound' program automatically accepts freshmen from 89 public high schools who graduate with a 'C' average or 2.5 GPA. These freshmen get Fresno State IDs, email addresses, access to campus libraries, and have their college applications, fees and standardized testing requirements waived," the report said.

Len Jessup, former president of the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, said he thinks those efforts "will help struggling schools stay afloat financially."

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Alex Jones

A federal judge overseeing the fight Sandy Hook school shooting victims' families brought against Infowars founder Alex Jones, over his claims it was faked by the government, has issued a ruling on the liquidation of his personal assets.

The Post Millennial reveals Christopher Lopez, a bankruptcy judge, said those assets will be liquidated to pay down on a massive civil judgment that two juries returned against Jones.

The report said Jones just a week ago had agreed to convert his bankruptcy case to a liquidation, and a ruling was pending on whether Jones' corporation, Free Speech Systems, also would be liquidated.

The report said Jones' primary home in Austin would be protected, as well as some other belongings. But the famed broadcaster already has moved to sell his ranch, estimated to be worth $2.8 million, as well as a collection of guns.

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Jones' claims that the shooting was a staged event infuriated families of the victims, and although he later recanted, they sued him for defamation anyway.

If the judge determines Free Speech Systems must be liquidated, it would mean Jones losing any control of his company.

In fact, he told reporters heading into court, "This is probably the end of Infowars here very, very soon. … It’s just the beginning of my fight against tyranny."

There have been some of Jones' supporters who have suggested they might buy assets.

The civil judgment against Jones was for about $1.5 billion.

Sandy Hook families have demanded payment, refusing offers to settle, and also insist that he lose control of his media accounts.

The families have announced their intention to continue pursuing any future earnings by Jones, because they believe he'll keep broadcasting in some fashion.

In recent days he's been suggesting fans download videos from his archive to preserve them, and pointing out alternative sources for purchasing dietary supplements he sells online.

Reports show his personal assets total about $9 million and Free Speech has some $6 million in cash and $1.2 million in inventory.

Both Jones and his commercial persona filed for bankruptcy protection two years ago when the civil judgments came down.

The plaintiffs were awarded damages for his statements about the 2012 shooting that killed six teachers and 20 first graders in Newtown, Connecticut.

A lawyer for the families said one of their goals was to deprive him of the ability "to inflict mass harm."

Jones recently was interviewed by Tucker Carlson, and commented on a wide range of issues.

Ep. 46 The Alex Jones Interview

TIMESTAMPS:

2:46 Alex Jones predictions
15:07 Deplatforming
21:59 Dividing us on race
25:37 The border
28:09 Austin
32:12 New World Order
42:09 Brian Stelter demon video
50:57 Depopulation
1:07:51 Food
1:13:51 Whiskey
1:16:22 Presidential… pic.twitter.com/IsJAQDUzDc

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) December 7, 2023

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A messaging truck sponsored by Public Advocate

A violent LGBT extremist has attacked the messaging of a pro-family organization, physically hurling a metal frame at an "unbreakable" truck with its messages, including one to "free" President Donald Trump.

The confrontation was documented by Eugene Delgaudio, president of Public Advocate, who recently visited Washington, D.C., with his free speech opinions on the sides of a truck.

He reported that one sign on the mobile billboard truck flashed the messaging, "Children are never born the wrong gender God doesn't make mistakes."

Another message was that, "Transgender women are insane men."

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The violence (Be aware of foul language and censored explicit imagery throughout videos):

Delgaudio explained yet another message was, "47 Free President Trump."

"This attack and the sudden closing of our online phone system, on the same day as our 'Straight Pride Parade' are a direct response to our stationary and mobile billboard campaign reaching the Washington, D.C., region and our visit to the main headquarters of the homosexual lobby, the Human Rights Campaign Fund, in Washington, D.C.," he explained.

"It is a typical tactic of the Human Rights Campaign Fund, and other Homosexual Lobby groups, to seek to silence by lawfare or other means, a peaceful Pro-family group and seek to destroy it. In recent days there is an uptick on our social media platforms of threats as we successfully reach 50 million views in one week, just one social media platform. Public Advocate is now reaching over 100 million views on combined social media platforms."

The organization's statement explained, "A violent physical attack Saturday involved a LGBT activist who used a metal frame striking our billboard truck with pro-family messages. This same attacker exposed his genitals several times and then spit on Eugene Delgaudio and kicked his car which was following the truck."

The organization reported it has filed a police report with the evidence of violence.

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The American Center for Law and Justice is reporting a victory in its fight on behalf of a disabled woman living at a senior center in Philadelphia.

The woman had been ordered to stop leaving Christian tracts in a common area of the center, and when the ACLJ pointed out in a demand letter that was within her rights, the woman was told she was being evicted.

That's now changed.

The legal team reported, "In a big victory, the senior living complex has responded to our latest demand letter rectifying its retaliatory eviction of our client for sharing Bible tracts."

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Further, the report said, "Because of the legal action we took on our client’s behalf, her landlord has now agreed to stop evicting her immediately, to explicitly recognize her protected rights to share her faith with her tracts, and to rescind all the improper, exorbitant fines and fees that her landlord had assessed against our client and tried to use as an excuse to evict her in retaliation for her religious expression."

It reported, " The eviction proceedings against our client have officially ended, and she is once again free to live her life and share her faith."

The fight arose over the woman's desire to share Gospel tracts with others in the facility in a common area where information about opportunities and events routinely is available.

The woman had been forbidden from placing Bible tracts on a community table because building managers insisted they wanted to be "inclusive."

The landlord, Lindy Property Management Co. in Philadelphia, had been approached about its censorship plan, the ACLJ said.

The ACLJ explained, "In every other circumstance where we have been helping other residents of senior living facilities, the facility has responded by acknowledging our clients’ rights and agreeing to change its conduct. At first, we thought that would occur here. Soon after sending our demand letter, we received a call on Monday, June 3, from Lindy’s lawyer saying that our client could exercise her rights again and freely share her tracts."

But the next day, the client, Jocelyn Harris, was ordered evicted.

She, the legal team explained, "has severe medical disabilities; she is legally blind, rides a mobility scooter, and is on regular dialysis for kidney treatments. She also receives Section 8 housing assistance."

Her tracts "communicate her religious faith and invite people to visit her church. This common area consists of a community table where pamphlets, flyers, business cards, and other personal materials are regularly available for people to share. Sharing these Bible tracts is an important part of her faith, particularly as many of her fellow residents have no way to attend church and have expressed [gratitude] to her for sharing these Bible tracts with them," the report said.

The eviction was based on "supposed debt" that stemmed from late fees for rental payments made through an automatic payment system.

Disabled woman facing eviction for sharing Christian message

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Are various members of Congress, who paid some $17 million in taxpayer funds to silence people who brought sexual misconduct claims against them, now going to be investigated, tried, and convicted of felonies, like President Trump? After all, they didn't report those payments as campaign contributions.

That's the suggestion that has been raised in a congressional hearing.

Congressmen paid $17 million of TAXPAYER MONEY for undisclosed hush payments to cover up sexual harassment claims.

Meanwhile candidate Trump allegedly used HIS MONEY for a $130,000 hush payment and he’s convicted of 34 felonies for not disclosing.https://t.co/DZw3hYyuXH pic.twitter.com/s3odKj1CmW

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) May 31, 2024

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's case against President Donald Trump over business reporting issues, described as a "hush money" case because of testimony from ex-porn star Stormy Daniels, likely will be overturned, witnesses have told Congress.

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And given the multiple constitutional errors allowed by Judge Juan Merchan, whose daughter is a Democrat activist and was fundraising off her father's courtroom decisions during the trial, one member has defined what the entire exercise was about:

"This irony here is that this is going to be vacated and this trial was all about trying to influence an election using the process as the punishment," charged U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky.

U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky.

His comments came in a hearing on Bragg's scheming against Trump held by the House Judiciary Committee.

Bragg charged Trump with 34 felonies based on a handful of alleged business reporting violations which were misdemeanors for which the statute of limitations had expired. Bragg, however, filed them as felonies claiming they were in support of some other, unidentified, crime.

They essentially involved payments to a Trump lawyer who then paid Daniels to keep quiet about an alleged affair, which both individuals have denied happened.

Witnesses including Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey and FEC Commissioner Trey Trainor both told Congress the conviction almost certainly will be overturned because of Merchan's apparently willful failures to follow the Constitution.

Massie took the entire case apart in a few minutes of comments during the hearing;

Is Congress's $17 million sexual misconduct hush money fund campaign finance violations?

Rep. Thomas Massie highlights that Congress's hush money payments would be considered campaign finance violations under Alvin Bragg's novel theory used to target President Trump.

"Congress… pic.twitter.com/pFPPkeG3VG

— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) June 13, 2024

A report at Twitchy cited Massie's comments:

Congress has paid over $17 million in hush money for sexual misconduct inside of the offices in these buildings. And what's more, is that it was taxpayer money. The allegation is that President Trump paid $130,000 of his own money.

But here in Congress, there might be some here on this dais -- I mean, I'm for turning loose ALL of these records -- who had the taxpayer pay for their sexual misconduct charges, the hush money. I bet there's some over there, there may be some over here. I don't know, but I do know it's taxpayer money. And I do know that not a single penny of it has been turned in as a campaign finance expense. Is the FEC going to investigate the $17 million dollars that Congress has paid behind closed doors for these sexual misconduct allegations?

The report explained, "We imagine many representatives suddenly got obsessed with staring at their shoes at that moment. And then Massie said he might file a complaint so the FEC WOULD investigate Congressional hush money. We wouldn't bet against him doing that. "

Massie noted that those hush money payments by members of Congress, to suppress various sexual misconduct claims inside their congressional offices, would be considered campaign finance violations under Bragg's theory.

The committee hearing specifically was held to examine Bragg's office actions, as multiple prosecutors earlier had rejected the idea that there was any evidence to pursue a case against Trump.

$17,000,000+ of TAXPAYER $$ paid out for sexual misconduct of the Congress.. No issues at all..

Trump pays $130,000 of his OWN $$ and he gets charged with felonies!

What a frigging disgrace!! No wonder most Americans have no faith in the US government! https://t.co/oXXYeHbjTx

— Thomas O'Connor '62 baby, #GodBlessAmerica (@TheyCallMeTomO1) June 13, 2024

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Hunter Biden

Now that the federal government itself has used Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop information as evidence in court, affirming its authenticity, there probably are only a handful of diehards who still portray it as Russian disinformation.

Even Biden now has dropped a lawsuit he had filed against former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and his former lawyer, accusing them of manipulating data on the unit.

That piece of electronics was a key to Joe Biden's election victory in 2020. When it was uncovered by the New York Post, which reported on the scandalous information it contained about Biden family operations, including overseas business schemes, the FBI warned publications against using it.

Then 51 ex-intel officials that had been in government offices wrote a letter claiming it was "Russian disinformation." In fact, it was Hunter Biden's and fully accurate in its revelations.

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Polling later showed that had that information been generally reported, enough voters would have moved their vote to another candidate that Biden would have lost the 2020 ballot.

The New York Post now is confirming Biden is dropping the case.

"Biden’s lawyer Abbe Lowell filed the stipulation for dismissal Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York," the report said. "The attorney asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit against Giuliani and Robert Costello 'without prejudice, with each party bearing its own attorneys’ fees, costs, and expenses.'"

Records show lawyers for the three parties all agreed. Biden had claimed that Giuliani and Costello violated the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by hacking the machine and manipulating data.

Biden charged them with destroying his digital privacy.

"This dismissal – along with Hunter Biden’s conviction based on evidence taken from the laptop – is a vindication for Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Costello as well as all of the media outlets who broke the laptop story in 2020 and suffered orchestrated censorship by social media, the leftist mainstream media, and others who engaged in election interference," Giuliani's attorney, Joe Sibley, told the Post.

The motion to dismiss the suit must be approved by U.S. District Judge Jessica Clarke before it is final.

The 54-year-old Biden was convicted – using evidence from his laptop – just days ago of three felonies related to his purchase of a revolver in 2018, and his lies on a federal government form which asked about his drug use and addiction.

Biden had abandoned the laptop at a Delaware repair shop in 2019, and it has proven to provide scandal after scandal for him, and Joe Biden, since.

While the repair shop owner found evidence of drug use and other possible crimes, he turned the computer over to the FBI, but not before making a copy of the drive, which later was given to Costello.

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President Donald Trump's campaign has taken to promoting the famous quotes of Joe Biden.

They're contained in a new campaign ad that delivers timeless … something.

One, of course, his is avoidance of the word "Creator." "We hold these truths to be self-event. All men and women created by the, go you know… You know the thing."

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Donald Trump Just Posted This On Truth Social

"TIMELESS QUOTES BY JOE BIDEN"

How is this real life? #Trump2024 pic.twitter.com/oX75yvM0iz

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) June 14, 2024

The Gateway Pundit took time to spell some others:

"America is a nation that can be defined in a single word: Assemfhuuthimaafuutheemscuseme… excuse me the foothills of the Himilayas with Xi Jinping."

"Shenewlofthbudshenewlongdashedenied our freedom can never be secured…"

"But we’ll never forget. Lying around. handeyebeenyahassent been lying around, actually…."

"It is noteworthy that the percentage of women who register to vote and cast a ballot is consistently higher than the percentage of the men who do so. End of quote. Repeat the line."

"I’ll lead an effective strategy to mobilize trueindernationdanderpreshure."

He also recently, during a speech, read from the teleprompter the word "pause," instead of using a pause for dramatic effect.

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WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice, in its strategy for prosecuting former President Donald Trump for supposedly masterminding an "insurrection" during the Jan. 6, 2021 "Save America" rally, has inadvertently bolstered – many would say confirmed – the case that Democrats rigged the 2020 presidential election.

Prosecutors obtained a search warrant to access data from Trump's cellphone used in the White House, and after an unpublicized court battle ultimately obtained a massive cache of data culled from Trump's accounts, including location data.

Special counsel Jack Smith notified the U.S. District Court that the government's expert witnesses were using the location data extracted from Trump's phone and Geographic Information Systems to make their case for a criminal conviction of the former commander-in-chief for supposedly launching his army of supporters against members of Congress and conspiring to instigate a bloodbath to overthrow the U.S. government on Jan. 6.

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The cellphone data reveals Trump’s day-to-day footprint and communications in his final weeks in office, "including the periods of time during which Trump's phone was locked and the Twitter application was open on January 6," Smith wrote in the government’s "Summary of Anticipated Expert Testimony" to presiding U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan.

The experts, unidentified by name in the filing, will "specifically" identify "the periods of time during which Trump’s phone was unlocked and the Twitter application was open on January 6," the special prosecutor notes.

Prosecutors have also extracted data from Trump's aide, described in the court filing only as "Individual 1" in the days leading up to Jan. 6 and the post-election period.

Using geolocation data the DOJ confiscated from cellphone accounts of up to a million Americans who attended the Washington, D.C., protests on Jan. 6, the expert witnesses will "aid the jury in understanding the movements of individuals toward the Capitol area during and after the defendant’s speech."

The prosecution is also slated to present testimony from former Vice President Mike Pence and dozens of Trump’s closest aides and advisers in its case against the Republican 2024 presidential nominee.

The government's confiscation of Trump's cellphone unprecedentedly undermines the president’s immunity. In fact, Trump's Jan. 6 trial is indefinitely postponed until the Supreme Court decides on presidential immunity. The high court's ruling is expected this month and could come any day.

But there’s another underlying problem with the Justice Department’s prosecutorial scheme.

Democrats utterly dismissed the legitimacy of geotracking in "2000 Mules," the banned film documentary in which the conservative group True the Vote used the technology to showcase with precision how many times "community organizers" stuffed the ballot boxes in battleground states with illegal ballots for Democrats to systematically rig the election for Joe Biden in 2020.

True the Vote paid $2 million through commercial brokers for the cell phone "geotracking" or "geolocator" data from swing states leading up to the presidential election. Using the pinpoint precision of the forensic technique of geotracking, ballot "mules" – like "drug mules" who carry illegal drugs across the border for criminal cartels – took sacks of ballots provided by leftwing political activist organizations and repeatedly dumped those ballots in collection boxes. Over 2,000 of the tracked phones were geolocated in the immediate vicinity of 10 or more ballot drop boxes.

True the Vote then analyzed the GPS data to show the mules visited left-wing nonprofit organizations, then drove to many different ballot drop boxes on the same day, repeatedly – day after day, for weeks.

Under the guise of dropping off grandma's ballot, mules visited 10 to 100 different drop boxes and did it over again the next day and the next and the next. One ballot mule visited drop boxes in six different counties. Geotracking also indicated that at least 10% of the ballot mules were participants in the violent Antifa riots that wracked America throughout the summer of 2020.

Usually between the hours of 1 a.m. and 4 a.m., mules are seen in "2000 Mules" wearing surgical gloves as they stuff ballots into the drop boxes. Then they remove the surgical gloves and toss them into nearby trash cans. The film explains that the mules began wearing gloves the day after ballot-harvesters were arrested in one state, after law enforcement traced their fingerprints on ballots.

"Fact-checkers" immediately claimed geotracking is not that accurate and therefore unreliable. And more recently, a Georgia man, who was shown with his face blurred in "2000 Mules" as he placed ballots into a ballot box, sued Salem Media Group for distributing the film. The network settled and issued a public apology, vowing to stop distributing what CNN described as "a discredited conspiracy theory film." The suspect’s name was never used in the documentary, nor were any other names.

Nevertheless, the hundreds of actual ballot mules face no legal repercussion for having been caught on camera breaking the law. And J6 "domestic terrorists" are doxed by sedition hunters, made famous on the FBI’s Most Wanted List and slandered by mainstream media while their online footprint prior to Jan. 6 is scrubbed from the web.

Ballot harvesters caught on camera skate as the FBI continues, nearly four years after the Capitol riot, to prosecute Americans who committed no violent crimes while protesting on the Capitol grounds, steadily arresting an average of one new suspect per day – based on that same "imprecise" geotracking data.

Oops.

Geotracking cell phone locations is precise, except when it isn’t, according to the Justice Department amid its historic creative and selective political prosecution of political dissidents.

When geotracking is used to obtain damning proof that Democrats stole the election, state-run "fact-checkers" claim the technology is unreliable.

But when the Biden regime unconstitutionally uses the same technology to frame Donald Trump in a shockingly controversial bid to put the 45th president of the United States behind bars alongside the J6 political prisoners, geotracking is suddenly an amazing and accurate tool for "protecting democracy."

Legal experts fighting the political persecution of Jan. 6 defendants are sounding alarm on the absurd double-standard.

Special Counsel Jack Smith

"Jack Smith is endorsing '2000 Mules,'" Jonathan Moseley, a former attorney now drafting litigation to expose the government's prosecution of Trump, told WND in an exclusive interview. "While Trump is being prosecuted for spreading 'the Big Lie,' for organizing activity based on the idea that the election was stolen in 2020, the DOJ is relying on the same technology used by True the Vote, as reported by Dinesh D'Souza in '2000 Mules' that proves the election was irrefutably fraud-ridden to frame him.

"Jack Smith is basically agreeing that Dinesh D'Souza was right – except, of course, he doesn't want to admit that. It is starting to seem that Jack Smith is not very bright."

Moseley previously represented Proud Boys leader Zachary Rehl, convicted of seditious conspiracy and sentenced to 15 years in prison for demonstrating at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 as police shot, gassed and bombed peaceful protesters. Now, Mosley is fighting the judicial onslaught against conservatives with Condemned USA, a legal advocacy organization created for the defense January 6 defendants.

To incarcerate the rightfully elected president and permanently corrupt the U.S. electoral system, the government must continue to advance the Jan. 6 "seditious conspiracy" narrative, the same pretext it used to frame high-profile defendants like former Proud Boys national chairman Enrique Tarrio, the only J6 political prisoner who was not even in Washington, D.C. during the Capitol riot, yet who was handed a 22-year prison sentence.

"The government’s J6 narrative has always been based on a bogus premise that Trump was directing a war – an 'insurrection' – and deployed his foot soldiers to ‘storm’ the Capitol," Moseley told WND.

"They've tried to argue all along that Trump's orchestration of the storming of the Capital was far more extensive and deeper than currently known. They've always been trying to make this assertion.

Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio

"There is no evidence of that," he continued. "So, they are desperate to find more to find anything to prove this lie. That's why they're pressuring people into plea deals. They are torturing some of these Jan. 6 defendants to get them to confess that Trump was the 'mastermind' of everything that happened on Jan. 6, handing them decades in prison for non-violent misdemeanor crimes for refusing to advance this lie.

"They know they don't have enough evidence to frame Trump, so they are resorting to the illegal search and seizure of Trump's cellphone data to try to prove to jurors he directed and coordinated a war to violently overthrow the United States government on Jan. 6.

"We see ballots falling all over the sidewalk in '2000 Mules.' Sometimes 20 or 30 ballots at a time were getting stuffed into boxes that were already full," Moseley said. "Under no circumstances would one legally or legitimately do that again and again, day after day, for weeks or months."

D.C. jurors, in a district with a 92% voting rate for Joe Biden, are likely to buy into Smith’s conspiracy narrative, Moseley told WND.

"Leftists cannot make decisions for themselves, so they assume conservatives are like them and only take orders. They cannot comprehend conservatives doing things without being told," he said. "They've always had trouble with the idea that people would just spontaneously demonstrate at the Capitol and spontaneously brawl with police who were attacking them, and police brutality. They're sheep. They cannot comprehend people deciding for themselves to do something."

The DOJ has charged Trump with one count of "conspiracy to defraud the United States," one count of "conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding" and one count of "obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding."

Trump is also facing a Civil War-era charge, "conspiracy against rights," a surviving piece of the Enforcement Act.

The charge of "conspiracy against rights" was passed in the post-Civil War era between 1868 and 1870 to stop members of the Ku Klux Klan and other similar organizations from intimidating, harassing and outright terrorizing black voters, especially in the South.

Prosecutors historically used this charge, especially during the Civil Rights era, to prosecute those who intimidated and terrorized black voters.

At least six unnamed co-conspirators are listed by prosecutors as part of the alleged conspiracy.

There is no guarantee the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity expected this month will be in Trump’s favor.

"They know this needs to be settled soon," Moseley told WND. "I am worried the court is going to suffer crisis fatigue fighting every battle to save the country." He added, "This is not a normal caseload."

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A young woman attending a concert in Israel flees as Hamas terrorists open fire on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023.

The civilized world was horrified last Oct. 7, and after, when Hamas terrorists invaded Israeli territory and butchered some 1,200 civilians, often by horrific methods such as burning whole families alive.

Not, apparently, Palestinians, though.

In fact, a poll cited by Palestinian Media Watch reveals that only 9% of Palestinians think Hamas committed war crimes.

And 67% support the atrocities that happened that day.

The numbers come from the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research. Palestinians were questioned between May 26 and June 1, 2024. The poll includes Palestinians from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

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The PMW report explained, "For those who still delude themselves into thinking that Palestinians are moderate, think again. For president, Palestinians overwhelmingly prefer the Hamas leader (46%) over the PA/Fatah leader (5%). Fatah is only preferred when their candidate is the terrorist Marwan Barghouti, a convicted murderer, who is serving 5 life sentences."

The report continued, "This must be an eye-opener for Americans and Europeans who are pressuring Israel to accept the Palestinian Authority as a peace partner. The PA represents no one. The Palestinian population is not interested in peace. Mahmoud Abbas only represents himself. And if they ever have a future election, they are certain to elect a terrorist as president and Hamas to rule the parliament."

Muslim terrorists with Hamas fire a barrage of rockets against Israel on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023

The numbers show 67% say the Oct. 7 offensive was correct, 64% are "satisfied" with Hamas' work in the war and while 9% said Hamas committed war crimes, 97% said the same of the victim, Israel.

Further, 67% of respondents said Hamas will win the war against Israel.

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A Republican in Congress is proposing legislation that would require notification when Joe Biden gets "juiced," or given stimulants that can alter his mood and behavior.

Joe Biden's swings in mood and performance already have attracted headlines multiple times. At times he speaks in a whisper; other times he shouts for an entire speech.

And there have been concerns raised publicly about whether he's being given stimulants on some occasions, amid behavior that voters by a large majority see as a signal of his declining physical and mental capabilities.

Fox News explains the plan is coming from U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., and would require "disclosure of the president's stimulant consumption."

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Specifically, before a looming debate scheduled between Biden and President Donald Trump.

"Joe Biden’s embarrassing outbursts of anger and incomprehensible speeches mirror the incalculable damage his policies have had on our nation," the member of Congress told Fox News Digital.

"Frequently slurred speech, abnormally long pauses and the inability to string together five words in a coherent sentence have put Biden’s mental and physical decline on full display. It is unfair to the American people for the White House to be occupied by someone who is literally incapable of speaking."

Ogles calls his bill the "No Juicing Joe Act" and said it was prompted by the refusal by the White House to test Biden's cognition.

"Because they know he will fail miserably," he explained.

When Trump was in office, and critics raised concerns about him, he voluntarily took a cognitive test and "aced" it.

Ogles said it rests with Congress to ensure that the president, "whose office is the most powerful on earth," remains accountable.

There have been situations in the past where presidents have been under the influence, including, Ogles noted, when John F. Kennedy was being treated by Dr. Max Jacobson, and when Woodrow Wilson was recovering from a stroke.

The report noted the White House, in a statement, leveled the accusation that "Republicans are unable to stop announcing how intimidated they remain by President Biden's State of the Union performance."

It was during that speech that Biden was not rambling and soft, but shouted throughout.

The White House said the GOP was mistaking "confidence" for a drug.

Meanwhile, videos of Biden appearing to be utterly confused by his surroundings and events appear on a nearly daily basis. The most recent was when "Italy's prime minister has to retrieve Joe Biden after he wanders away like a lost dog during skydiving demonstration at G7," according to The Gateway Pundit.

WHAT IS BIDEN DOING? pic.twitter.com/iY33K2srII

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 13, 2024

Fox reported, "Last week, the Republican National Committee (RNC) research division posted several videos on X that appeared to show President Biden in 'a perpetual state of confusion' following his recent speech in Normandy to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day.

"The RNC research account, which is managed by former President Trump's campaign and the RNC, rattled off several posts on X of the president in Normandy, with one video showing Biden bending down at one point, seeming to be uncertain whether it was time to sit down.

"Questions about Biden's mental acuity also circulated last week after The Wall Street Journal's bombshell report that interviewed 45 lawmakers and administration officials about Biden's mental performance."

Biden is approaching the age of 82, and already is the oldest person to be president. He's seeking another term that would not end until he would be age 86.

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A video showing an angry baby slapping a snoring dad has resurfaced online, after its first appearance a few months ago:

The baby is fed up of dad snoring, slap him and then slept pic.twitter.com/jUOfAB7dvQ

— Game of X (@froggyups) December 24, 2023

Posted by Newsflare, it's described as showing "a tired baby slapping her dad who was snoring loudly."

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It's a Chinese family, from Guizhou Province, on the recording.

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Vince Everett Ellison on how the civil rights movement destroyed black America.

(6:06) Are Civil Rights Movements Always About Liberation?
(9:05) Turning From God to Government
(28:08) Government Programs Hurting instead of Helping
(1:15:05) The Lies Told about Police Shootings… pic.twitter.com/psBetuBUEM

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Do Michigan residents need permission from elected and appointed officials in Lansing, their capital city, in order to practice their religious faith?

That's the issue in dispute in a case being handled by Becket for a St. Joseph Parish, and the legal team is arguing against the idea.

The Catholic parish, helped by Becket, is challenging a state law that makes it illegal for the Catholic church and school to hire staff based on their agreement to uphold Catholic religious beliefs and practices.

Becket senior counsel William Haun got right to the point, stating, "Michiganders don’t need a permission slip from bureaucrats in Lansing to practice their religious beliefs. The court should reject this irresponsible law and let institutions like St. Joseph get back to freely serving in their schools, churches, and communities."

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St. Joseph filed a case contesting the state's religious ideology, but it was dismissed. It now is seeking permission from the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to run its parish and school consistent with its faith.

The dispute is a recurring one, as leftists in government try to impose more and more of their ideology on everyone. Joe Biden's administration is noted for its attempts to demand that all doctors, including Christians with religious objections, to do transgender surgeries or abortions. The fight also involves imposing similar support requirements for foster parents.

The parish, since 1857, as served the local Catholic community in St. Johns, Michigan.

"In 1924, St. Joseph expanded and opened an elementary school – St. Joseph Catholic School – to provide families in the area with a Catholic education rooted in the teachings of the church," Becket reported.

"Like many religious schools, St. Joseph hires teachers and staff who support and advance the Catholic faith. St. Joseph also asks all staff – from kindergarten teachers to part-time bookkeepers – to be practicing Catholics and to uphold the faith. St. Joseph also follows Catholic teaching on issues like pronouns and separate girls’ and boys’ bathrooms and locker rooms."

The conflict arose when Michigan changed its law to include special protections for sexual orientation and gender identity ideologies – with no like protections for faith groups.

The state then told the church it must ask permission from the state’s Civil Rights Commission whenever it wants to ask Catholic employees to follow Catholic teaching, the report explained.

"Michigan politicians are chilling St. Joseph and hundreds of other religious ministries out of staying true to their faith," Haun explained. "That is irresponsible—the First Amendment prohibits scaring religious institutions into abandoning their religious ways of life."

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A woman in the United Kingdom has been banned from Newcastle United Football Club's games. And she's been investigated by police.

All for social media posts deemed "malicious communications."

Those would be her adherence to science: that "trans women are men."

A report from the Christian Institute explains it is Linzi Smith who is challenging, legally, the football club's decision to revoke her membership and impose a two-season ban.

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And the Northumbria police agency decision to investigate her for her statement that men who say they are women still are men.

She is backed by the Free Speech Union and told the Daily Telegraph publication, "I've been made to look like a criminal. I can't even go looking for a new job at the minute because I'm frightened of how I might be perceived."

She pointed out the attacks are all because she holds beliefs others won't tolerate.

Her solicitor, Paul Conrathe, said, of the issue with police, that the agency is abandoning impartiality on a social issue.

"By marching at Pride, wearing rainbow lanyards and driving rainbow painted police cars the police have plainly breached their statutory duty of impartiality," he explained, noting the support "for highly controversial and contested gender ideology – the belief that a person can have a gender that is different to their biological sex."

The Telegraph report noted Smith has taken her case to the High Court in the United Kingdom following a secretive four-month investigation into her beliefs.

While police ended up not charging her, the football club did punish her for her beliefs, the report said.

"I'm angry with what the police have done to me," she told the publication. "I’ve never been arrested, I’ve never been in trouble, I’ve always been law abiding."

A letter sent to police in her dispute, which is a parallel action to her case against the football team, describes how police use of "emblems, lanyards or symbols," and publicly advocating by "marching" in Pride parades, exhibits bias.

"The defendants are engaging in activities, which may reasonably be regarded as signaling support for one side of a deeply contested social issue; and indeed one of the most divisive or toxic issues in contemporary society," her letter explains.

She describes herself as a "gender critical lesbian" and alleges gender ideology has damaged women's rights by allowing men to call themselves women to infiltrate the community of women.

She said, "The police are bullying and intimidating people for this very reason. And publicly shaming seems to make no difference, so the only effective course of action is to bring this judicial review. We need the police to realize that by posturing and making political statements, they are making people like me feel like I can’t rely on the law because I’m going against their agenda."

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There's a growing level of concern about actual "disinformation," statements that simply are not true, in American elections, already under undue influences like Mark Zuckerberg's $400 million handouts during 2020 to local officials who recruited voters in Democrat districts and the FBI's false assertions that the Hunter Biden laptop was orchestrated by Russia.

Now it's because of the artificial intelligence programs that have been developed and are being promoted by their owners, including Google and OpenAI.

It's because they are dishing out false answers.

A report at The Federalist explains, "If you're looking to artificial intelligence for answers to election-related questions, chances are you’re getting the wrong answers. A study by data analytics firm GroundTruthAI found that the most widely used chatbots, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini 1.0 Pro, provided incorrect information more than a quarter of the time."

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It was revealed in an NBC report that said, "Researchers sent 216 unique questions to Google’s Gemini 1.0 Pro and OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 Turbo, GPT-4, GPT-4 Turbo and GPT-4o between May 21 and May 31 about voting, the 2024 election and the candidates. Some questions were asked multiple times over that time period, generating a total of 2,784 responses."

The result? "Google’s Gemini 1.0 Pro initially responded with correct answers just 57% of the time. OpenAI’s GPT-4o, which is the latest version of the model, answered correctly 81% of the time. … On average, the five learning models answered correctly 73% of the time."

GroundTruthAI chief tech officer Brian Sokas said in the report, "There’s a risk here that voters could be led into a scenario where the decisions they’re making in the ballot box aren’t quite informed by true facts. They’re just informed by information that they think are true facts."

The Federalist pointed out that questions being asked – and answered wrongly at least one quarter of the time, are significant.

"Asked, 'Can I register to vote on Election Day in Pennsylvania?,' the GroundTruthAI study found two of the AI models replied yes. Wrong. The last day to register to vote in the Keystone State before the Tuesday, Nov. 5 general election is Oct. 21., according to the Pennsylvania Department of State," the report said.

Models were unable to correctly answer, "How many days are left before the 2024 General Election in the United States?"

Andrew Eldredge-Martin, also of GroundTruthAI, said his organization is "independent and nonpartisan."

But The Federalist confirmed he previously worked for Democrat political campaigns and left-leaning organizations.

"In 2020, he led the more than $30 million digital paid media campaign for Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign, using ad analytics to inform overall campaign strategy and resource allocation throughout the early states and into Super Tuesday," he boasts in his biography.

"He says he’s 'helped elect' Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, and U.S. Senators Raphael Warnock, Mark Kelly, Jeanne Shaheen, and Tammy Duckworth," the report said.

Tech troubles are not limited to wrong answers, either, the report explained, with a U.S. federal court ruling in a lawsuit over false information and suppression of accurate information calling the agenda arguably "the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history."

And the report noted the growing presence of fake videos, created through computer manipulation, including "A video of an opposition lawmaker in Bangladesh — a Muslim-majority nation — wearing a bikini."

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Physicians' organizations and doctors who sued to overturn the vast expansion of access to abortion drug Mifepristone that culminated under Joe Biden's abortion agenda were rebuffed by the Supreme Court's opinion that said they didn't have standing under the law to challenge the actions by the Food and Drug Administration.

But there's an easy solution, according to Mat Staver, the chief of Liberty Counsel, which has fought on behalf of pro-life issues for years.

"This case is far from over. The same lawsuit can be refiled with different plaintiffs who have standing. The FDA should no longer be allowed to circumvent safety laws to allow a eugenic drug to destroy innocent children and harm women. Chemical abortions are never safe and harm women and kill children," he explained.

All that's needed is a plaintiff "who can show a direct injury from Mifepristone traceable to the FDA's deregulation."

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The fight was over the FDA's vast deregulation of the dangerous drug, a campaign that culminated in 2021 when it decided to give consumers nearly "unfettered" access.

The drug is used for chemical abortions, and it "effectively starves an unborn baby to death and has the potential for many significant adverse events harmful to women and girls," the Liberty Counsel report said.

The FDA not only expanded its use, it said non-physicians could prescribe the drug, and they could be sent through the mail.

That alarmed a number of organizations, including the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, and doctors who challenged the expansion in court.

The opinion for the unanimous court was from Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and said the problem was that the plaintiffs don't prescribe or use the drug, so they don't have grounds to bring the complaint.

"Under Article III of the Constitution, a plaintiff's desire to make a drug less available for others does not establish standing to sue. Nor do the plaintiffs' other standing theories suffice…Under Article III of the Constitution, a plaintiff ’s desire to make a drug less available for others does not establish standing to sue. Nor do the plaintiffs’ other standing theories suffice. Therefore, the plaintiffs lack standing to challenge FDA’s actions," the opinion said.

Kavanaugh said, "The plaintiffs have sincere legal, moral, ideological, and policy objections to elective abortion and to FDA’s relaxed regulation of mifepristone. But under Article III of the Constitution, those kinds of objections alone do not establish a justiciable case or controversy in federal court. Here, the plaintiffs have failed to demonstrate that FDA’s relaxed regulatory requirements likely would cause them to suffer an injury in fact. For that reason, the federal courts are the wrong forum for addressing the plaintiffs’ concerns about FDA’s actions. The plaintiffs may present their concerns and objections to the President and FDA in the regulatory process, or to Congress and the President in the legislative process. And they may also express their views about abortion and mifepristone to fellow citizens, including in the political and electoral processes.”

"If a group of concerned physicians can't sue the FDA over the utterly politicized manner in which they approved and then expanded the availability of abortion pills, then who can? That's the unanswered question in today's ruling. How did a drug that sends one in 25 women who use it to the ER ever get approved? How did the FDA agree to allow it to be given to women without a physical examination? If —as it appears — no one can sue the FDA, then Congress must act to reign in the agency, which clearly cares more about shielding abortion providers than keeping American women safe," explained Eric Scheidler, executive director of the Pro-Life Action League.

Erin Hawley, vice president of the ADF Center for Life and Regulatory Practice, said, "We are disappointed that the Supreme Court did not reach the merits of the FDA’s lawless removal of commonsense safety standards for abortion drugs. Nothing in today’s decision changes the fact that the FDA’s own label says that roughly one in 25 women who take chemical abortion drugs will end up in the emergency room—a dangerous reality the doctors and medical associations we represent in this case know all too well. The FDA recklessly leaves women and girls to take these high-risk drugs all alone in their homes or dorm rooms, without requiring the ongoing, in-person care of a doctor. While we’re disappointed with the court’s decision, we will continue to advocate for women and work to restore commonsense safeguards for abortion drugs—like an initial office visit to screen for ectopic pregnancies. And we are grateful that three states stand ready to hold the FDA accountable for jeopardizing the health and safety of women and girls across this country."

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The Southern Poverty Law Center, which made its name and its fortune suing KKK organizations into oblivion, after that war transformed itself into what essentially is a smear machine targeting Christians and conservatives.

It raises millions regularly on its promotion of its "hate map" and "hate" listings.

But it has stunned employees and advocates by abruptly announcing the firing of about 60 employees, one-quarter of its staff, and the death sentence for a number of its programs.

The SPLC lists a multitude of Bible-based organizations on it "hate map" and kept the Family Research Council in Washington listed after a would-be terrorist in 2012 attacked the group, intending a mass shooting, and he identified the SPLC's labeling as the reason for the attack.

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It listed Dr. Ben Carson on its "extremist list" for opposing same-sex marriage, later dropping him from that document.

It paid more than $3 million to settle a defamation claim after branding a Muslim reformer as an "anti-Muslim extremist."

One of its lawyers was arrested at an Antifa riot in Atlanta and is facing terrorism charges.

It remained silent when Hamas terrorists invaded Israel last October and summarily butchered some 1,200 people, often in horrific fashion.

But now a report in The Daily Signal reveals that all is not going smoothly for the organization, with its firing of one-quarter of its staff.

Today, @splcenter - an organization with nearly a billion dollars in reserves, given an F rating by CharityWatch for “hoarding” donations - gutted its staff by a quarter.

— SPLC Union (@SPLCUnion) June 12, 2024

Its union posted the news on social media, announcing, "We are devastated for our union and our colleagues."

To a local publication, the SPLC said, "We announced internally the consolidation of certain programs and activities as well as the elimination of others, resulting in staff reductions."

Eliminated is its Learning for Justice department, which the Signal report identified as advocating for "teaching kids as young as 2 years old about transgender identity, and it has heartily embraced Critical Race Theory, a lens by which teachers tell kids that whites are oppressors and blacks oppressed in a 'systemically racist' America."

Also gone will be the Southern Immigrant Freedom Initiative which gave legal representation to detained immigrants in several states.

And the Immigrant Justice team.

The Signal reported, "It remains unclear exactly why the SPLC decided to terminate so many staff. As of 2022, the center had an endowment of $731.9 million and accounts in the Cayman Islands. It seems it should be able to hold on to its employees."

Hannah Gais, an SPLC union member, wrote on social media, "An organization with this much money has no excuse."

Signal writer Tyler O'Neil explained, "As I wrote in my book, 'Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center,' the SPLC began by providing free legal services to poor people in the South. In the 1980s, it shifted its focus to suing Ku Klux Klan groups into bankruptcy. By the 1980s, the Klan—evil though it still was—had become a paper tiger, and lawyers complained that suing Klan groups was like 'shooting fish in a barrel.' Yet the lawyers said the SPLC kept doing it because it raked in donations. Eventually, the SPLC ran out of grand dragons to conquer, so it repurposed the journal it used to monitor the Klan—appropriately named Klanwatch—and started reporting on ever more mainstream organizations. By the 2010s, it started putting mainstream conservative and Christian organizations on a list of 'hate groups' that eventually morphed into including a 'hate map.' The list and the map have always included Klan chapters."

During a 2019 scandal in which co-founder Morris Deese was fired, an ex-employee described the SPLC's "hate" accusations a "highly profitable scam."

today, SPLC — my employer —laid off over 60 of our union members, essentially shuttering multiple departments.

speaking in a personal capacity, i endorse each and every single word of this statement from our union. an organization with this much money has no excuse. https://t.co/pC8zQxSZYe

— hannah gais (@hannahgais) June 12, 2024

Social media comments recognized the headwinds facing the fired employees, but also acknowledged the work they had been doing.

"That's karma," said one, with another, "Just a quarter?"

The SPLC amassed hundreds of millions in donations by spreading hoaxes about a violent surge in hate crimes attributed to Trump. This same organization employs a staffer who was charged with domestic terrorism in Georgia over a violent RICO case. https://t.co/43uztHJOzD

— Andy Ngô ️‍ (@MrAndyNgo) June 13, 2024

Reporter Andy Ngo wrote, "The SPLC amassed hundreds of millions in donations by spreading hoaxes about a violent surge in hate crimes attributed to Trump. This same organization employs a staffer who was charged with domestic terrorism in Georgia over a violent RICO case."

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During the 2020 presidential election two significant influence operations were used to affect the outcome of the vote.

One was the $400 million plus that Mark Zuckerberg handed out through foundations to local election officials who largely used it to recruit voters in Democrat districts. The other was the FBI's advisory to media organizations to suppress the accurate reporting about the Biden family scandals exposed in the laptop computer Hunter Biden abandoned.

A subsequent survey showed that had those details been more widely provided to American voters, enough would have changed their vote away from Biden so that he would have lost the election.

Now a new agenda to influence the 2024 vote is being investigated by Congress, after one committee announced plans to subpoena 15 of Joe Biden's cabinet secretaries to obtain information about his agenda.

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It concerns Biden's executive order called Promoting Access to Voting which instructs every federal entity to work to "protect and promote the exercise of the right to vote, eliminate discrimination and other barriers to voting, and expand access to voter registration."

The problems include that many of those activities are outside of the federal government's constitutional authority, and in practice Biden's orders have prompted federal agencies to decide to work with far-left organizations on their voter recruitment plans.

Now Fox News reports that Rep. Bryan Steil, R-Wis., chief of the Committee on House Administration, is issuing subpoenas to 15 of Biden's top appointees for their detailed plans for carrying out his orders.

"The committee has concerns about the implementation of E.O. 14019, particularly regarding its compatibility with provisions of the National Voter Registration Act (NRA) of 1993," he wrote. "Congress delegates to federal agencies specific functions and missions, which by law they are required to follow. Congress's delegation of authority to HUD does not include using funds and resources to provide Americans with voter registration materials."

He explained Biden's order, E.O. 14019 "requires every federal agency to submit a strategic plan outlining how the agency can promote voter registration and voter participation."

The plans already are being reviewed by Senate Republicans, however, the White House and its appointees simply have refused to provide information about their operations under Biden's order to the public. Some of the information that has been uncovered has confirmed Biden's appointees are working with far-left organizations to recruit votes.

Steil noted the problems could be significant.

"Over the last few months, some agencies have taken actions that were likely outlined in their strategic plans. Examples include the Department of Education's new federal work-study requirements, and the Small Business Administration's entrance into a voter registration agreement with Michigan," he said. "Both of those actions and the actions of other agencies raise substantial questions and concerns, some of which may be answered by access to the strategic plans drafted by the agencies."

He suggested one solution would be simply to adopt legislation to repeal Biden's demands, and require any of those agency plans and actions to be reported to Congress.

He said the documents Congress requires "will inform the committee on what additional legislation, if any, needs to be considered to clarify that the NRA does not enable executive branch agencies to focus on voter registration."

The letters, the report said, are going to the Department of Commerce, Homeland Security, Department of Defense, Justice Department, Department of Education, Department of Energy, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Department of Interior, Department of Labor, Office of Management and Budget, Department of State, Department of Transportation, Treasury Department and the Department of Agriculture."

Steil described Biden's actions as a "scheme" with the goal of pursuing "partisan" plans for which Congress did not appropriate funding.

"Elections are partisan, but our election administration should never be partisan. Allowing federal employees from the Biden administration to flood election administration sites threatens election integrity and reduces Americans’ confidence," Steil charged.

He accused Biden's administration of trying "to tilt the scales ahead of 2024."

The Senate already is focusing on the plan which appears to allow federal agencies to spend money on projects that were not approved, or funded, by Congress, a violation of the Antideficiency Act.

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The good news is that party standard-bearer Donald Trump appears intent on taking it back. On Sunday in Las Vegas, Trump made his strongest statement yet about that memorable day, saying, "There has never been people treated more horrifically than J6 hostages."

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Coincidentally or not, a snippet from the footage Pelosi's daughter Alexandra shot for HBO surfaced on line a day later. The video was extracted from about 45 minutes of footage handed over recently to the House administration oversight subcommittee.

Shot in the backseat of Pelosi's vehicle as she was being driven away from the Capitol on Jan. 6, Pelosi speaks about her own role in allowing the chaos to happen.

"We take responsibility, Terri," a testy Pelosi says to her chief of staff Terri McCullough. "We did not have any accountability for what was going on there, and we should have. This is ridiculous."

At this point, Pelosi appears to respond to a question McCullough asked earlier about calling in the National Guard. "You're going to ask me in the middle of the thing when they've already breached the inaugural stuff that should we call the Capitol Police. I mean the National Guard," Pelosi snaps. "Why weren't the National Guard there to begin with?"

"They thought they had sufficient resources," says McCullough referring to the Capitol Police.

"No, it is not a question of how they had … They don't know," a rattled Pelosi shoots back. "They clearly didn't know. And I take responsibility for not having them just prepare for more."

Pelosi has a lot to take responsibility for. Not since the War of 1812 has congressional leadership so clearly failed in its duty to keep the nation's capital secure.

The question remains, however, whether the failure was by design. "People don't really want to get to the bottom of this," former Capitol Police Chief Steve Sund told Tucker Carlson in 2023. "This didn't have to happen."

Sund's requests for assistance from the National Guard were denied before Jan. 6 and inexplicably delayed during the siege.

Within minutes of the first breach by Ray Epps and crew at 12:53 p.m., Sund called the House sergeant at arms, Paul Irving, demanding help from the National Guard. Irving told Sund he had to run the request up the chain to Pelosi.

If clever, the conspirators likely counted on law enforcement's amateurish and often violent overreaction to the incoming masses. Some among the police seemed to understand the good intentions of the MAGA crowd.

Others saw a horde of killer white supremacists. If the police behaved badly, the conspirators weren't worried. This wasn't Chicago 1968.

There would be no talk of a "police riot" as there had been at that year's Democratic National Convention. The media, they knew, would denounce the "insurrectionists" as they "stormed" the Capitol without prompting.

At 2:09 p.m., an inexplicable 71 minutes and 32 phone calls after Sund's initial call, the Capitol Police Board approved the use of the National Guard.

Although President Trump had pre-authorized the deployment of 10,000 troops – unusual behavior for an insurrectionist – the Pentagon hesitated.

The hesitance, as Julie Kelly has argued, emanated from then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley, whose paranoid misreading of Trump made Jan. 6 possible.

Jack Cashill's new book, Ashli: The Untold Story of the Women of January 6 is now available for purchase.

At a House Oversight Committee hearing in April, Department of Defense witness Colonel Earl Matthews, spoke of an "irrational" fear among a "clique" of senior military officers.

Chief among the fear mongers was General Milley. Openly contemptuous of the president, the borderline mutinous Milley worried that Trump would somehow deploy the National Guard to stop the certification process to stay in power.

Only after the first shot was fired did the Pentagon get the National Guard into gear, but by then it was too late for Ashli Babbitt and too late for Rosanne Boyland, both of whom were killed by police action.

Standing to benefit from the disrupted proceeding were House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and, more passively, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Twelve hours of serious fraud allegations, presented by members of Congress, would have shown the "big lie" to be the big lie that it was.

The details of a larger conspiracy may never be sorted out, but as with so many seeming conspiracies – the Epstein jailers come to mind – incompetence masks many a sin.

If nothing else, Pelosi's exchange with McCullough convinced me that she was less an active conspirator in the trap set for the protestors than a reliably incompetent cog.

The conspirators may not have needed to include USCP assistant chief for intelligence Yogananda Pittman in the plot. Knowing her history, they might have just counted on her to screw things up.

That said, it was Pittman who led Sund to believe that the Jan. 6 rally would be a reprise of the November and December MAGA rallies. It wasn't.

Rather than discipline the head of intelligence, Pelosi promptly fired Sund and promoted Pittman to acting USCP chief, another clumsy move.

To get a sense of the contempt in which Pittman's colleagues held her, a staggering 92 percent of them voted no confidence in her leadership.

Challenged about her own leadership, Pelosi rushed to the MSNBC studios on Monday to shore up the Democrat narrative.

"The president of the United States, the former president and his toadies, do not want to face the facts," said Pelosi. "They are trying to do revisionist history on January 6, but we cannot let us be dragged into their again false impression about what that happened that day. They know what happened that day."

No, Republicans don't know what really happened that day, and Pelosi is desperate to keep it that way.

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When Mr. Scratch comes to fulfill the contract, Stone desperately seeks the help of Webster for deliverance. Webster calls for a trial since this is the right of every American, and Mr. Scratch agrees, as long as he can choose the judge and jury.

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The door of Stone's home opens, and an infernal jury enters. All of them are Americans who were infamous for the evil deeds they had done in life, such as the notorious pirate Blackbeard. Presiding over the court is John Hathorne, the unrepentant "hanging judge" of the Salem witch trials. Mr. Scratch is the prosecutor.

The trial is clearly rigged against Webster. The jurors jeered whenever the judge sustained Mr. Scratch's objections and overruled all of Webster's. Notwithstanding this, the eloquence of Webster in his closing statement so moved this biased jury that it found for the defendant, Stone. Shortly afterward, the sound of a rooster signaled the coming sunrise, and the judge and jury disappeared in a puff of smoke. Webster tore up the contract, Stone was set free, and Mr. Scratch was booted out of the house.

Some elements of Stone's trial bear resemblance to kangaroo courts that have occurred in various places and times in history, such as the "People's Court" of Nazi Germany (1934-1945) and the "struggle sessions" of the Cultural Revolution of communist China (1966-1976). If there was a jury, it would have sided with a hostile judge and prosecutor to condemn the unfortunate people brought before them. In most cases, appearing in such a court was tantamount to a death sentence.

Lawfare, a word that has become part of the American vernacular, describes the use of the legal system to intimidate, harass, damage or destroy political adversaries and deprive individuals of their rights and property. This strategy has been employed by judges, attorney generals, district attorneys and prosecutors in a number of states, counties and metropolitan areas. What many of these have in common is that they have received large amounts of money for their election campaigns from billionaire George Soros, a major donor of Marxist causes and politicians.

The Bible says in Proverbs 11:1, "Dishonest scales are an abomination to the LORD, but a just weight is His delight." In many of the areas where these elected officials preside, the just weight has been abandoned to a great extent, and the scales of justice are tilted in favor of political allies and classes, even if they commit serious crimes, and against anyone they perceive to be a political opponent committing no legitimate offense or a minor infraction. Many times, disfavored people who commit nothing worthy of fines or punishment are brought before a rigged court to face a hostile jury, prosecutor and judge, with the outcome often leading to harsh consequences that destroy their lives.

One example includes the rioting, property destruction, injuries and deaths done in 2020 by those belonging to Marxist organizations such as Antifa and Black Lives Matter. Many of these criminal activities took place in areas where Soros-funded district attorneys presided; and as a result, the general rule for those involved if they were arrested was to let them go free or apply the lightest possible charges.

Conversely, if Christians prayed outside an abortion facility and sought to offer women other alternatives to killing their babies, damaging nothing and harming no one, these same kinds of legal officials would apply the harshest charges and make sure they were brought before a judge and jury who would seek to imprison them for years.

So many have been distracted by national politics and elections that attention to the kinds of people being elected to these positions locally has been neglected. We should pay close attention to these local elections and be involved because, more than national elections, they have a far greater impact on public safety and moving the legal system closer to being a justice system.

But there is a court we all must face without exception (Hebrews 9:27). As with Jabez Stone, the devil acts as the prosecutor, accusing us of our sins before God, the Judge (Zechariah 3:1-5). Like Stone, there is no question of our guilt, for all have sinned against God (Romans 3:23), and there is no bribing or bargaining with this Judge, and there is no jury that can be moved by any eloquence we may have to escape eternal punishment.

However, there is a far better defense attorney than Daniel Webster. He is the Son of God, Jesus Christ (Romans 8; 1 Timothy 2:5-6; Hebrews 7:25; 1 John 2:1-2). His eloquence is the nail prints in His hands and feet where His blood was shed on the cross for sinners. His resurrection from the dead conquered sin, death and the devil. If anyone trusts in Him as his Advocate before God, then the accusations brought by the devil are nullified and cast away forever (Micah 7:18-19).

Just as Webster canceled the contract condemning Stone by tearing it up when he was declared not guilty, so Jesus covers all who trust in Him with His robe of righteousness and cancels the certificate of our sin debt by nailing it to the cross when we are declared not guilty by God (Romans 5; Colossians 2:13-14).

The court of heaven, the one that really matters, is rigged for you and not against you if you trust in Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord, receiving by faith His righteousness so that you can stand before God in peace.

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This listing by Guterres, which includes Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist organizations as well, is to be sent to the U.N. Security Council on June 14. Obviously, this act equates the barbaric acts of Hamas in intentionally killing Israeli children and beheading babies to the unintentional killing of Palestinian children as a consequence of collateral fallout due to Hamas hiding among the innocent.

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There is a continuing effort by various international bodies to apply a lopsided morality in comparing Israel's battlefield conduct to that of the immoral terrorists it has to confront. Just compare the surprise Hamas Oct. 7 surprise attack against Israel to Israel's repeated policy of avoiding harm to civilians by announcing targets beforehand – airdropping fliers, texting messages and making phone calls in advance to forewarn Palestinian innocents. Such warnings, according to West Point urban warfare expert John Spencer, have earned the IDF the lowest combatant/non-combatant death ratio in the world.

The U.N. decision prompted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to post the statement, "Today the UN added itself to the black list of history when it joined those who support the Hamas murderers. The IDF is the most moral army in the world; no delusional U.N. decision will change that."

While Guterres and liberals here in the U.S. falsely accuse Israel of the indiscriminate killings of children, they fail to remember that Muslim extremists, regardless of their origin, whether Hamas, Chechnyan, Iranian, etc., have never hesitated to intentionally target children.

In September 2004, 32 Muslim extremists from Chechnya violently took over a school in Beslan – a city in North Ossetia, Russia – along with over 1,000 hostages, most of whom were children. These hostages were herded into a gymnasium rigged with explosives and not given food or water for two days. When explosions of unknown origin were heard, Russian Special Forces rushed the school, triggering a major firefight that killed one-third of the hostages.

The Iranians under the mullahs have proven somewhat unique when it comes to sacrificing children. During the eight-year Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) that took on the character of trench warfare, the Iraqis dug in, defending their positions with minefields. Unwilling to sacrifice their seasoned soldiers to clear a path through the minefields, the mullahs recruited their own children to do it for them. The then-Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, gave the children plastic keys to wear around their necks, assuring them the keys would open the gates to Paradise should they die. On command, the children would run towards the Iraqi positions, triggering the mines and eventually clearing a path for Iranian soldiers to follow.

In Gaza today, the IDF has discovered – unsurprisingly – that Hamas has unhesitantly used hospitals, schools and whatever else it can to hide military assets with absolutely no concerns about placing Palestinian children and civilians at risk from Israeli attacks targeting such assets. This mindset has existed ever since Hamas came to power in Gaza in 2006.

CBS Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer perfectly described this Hamas mindset during the 2014 Gaza war as follows: "In the Middle East, the Palestinian people find themselves in the grip of a terrorist group that has embarked on a strategy to get its own children killed in order to build sympathy for its cause, a strategy that might actually be working, at least in some quarters."

Schieffer went on to share a famous quote by Israel's first and only female prime minister, Golda Meir, who sadly noted: "We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children but we can never forgive them for forcing us to kill their children."

Thus, the true value of a child's life rests within the hands of the beholder. Accordingly, Israel's U.N. ambassador unloaded on Guteres for his decision to list Israel claiming: "The only one who is blacklisted today is the secretary-general, whose decisions since the war started, and even before, are rewarding terrorists and incentivizing them to use children for terror acts. … Shame on him!"

There is an interesting ethical issue Israel faced in the week after the Oct. 7 raid that clearly demonstrates the existence of a line that separates good from evil – i.e., between Israel and Hamas respectively.

For the entire time hostilities have existed between Israel and Hamas, whenever the shooting has stopped and a terrorist has needed medical attention, Israel has provided it. This is accepted as recognition of a medical professional's moral duty to refrain from discriminating against any patient.

However, a debate ensued if that duty extended to those who have violated every principle of warfare under international law by massacring 1,300 civilians. Despite the fact that there has been a tremendous outrage among the Israelis about providing wounded terrorists access to public hospitals, Israel has still met its moral obligation to do so by treating them at IDF or prison medical service facilities instead. Meanwhile, for the terrorists, a wounded Israeli they come across is a dead Israeli as they have been known to execute them on the spot.

The West has a hard time comprehending that for the Islamic extremist mindset, no price is too high to pay as long as the end result imposes Islam upon the world community – even if it includes the need for children to die. While such a mindset thrives for them when those dying children are infidels, it matters not if it comes to sacrificing Muslim children as well.

While an infidel's DNA rejects the above mindset, a Muslim's DNA does not. As such, it is ridiculous for Gutteres to equate the two.

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In the movie Kindergarten Cop, Arnold Schwarzenegger stands in front a classroom of wild kids and says he has a headache. A kid says, “Maybe it’s a tumor.” And Arnold, in his rich Austrian accent says, “It’s not a tumor.”

Well, I’m here to tell you, that when it comes to the headache caused by the bloated federal government, it is a tumor. A tumor feeding on the entire country.

Even a paper from the Volcker Alliance, a left wing non-profit dedicated to expanding the federal government, had this to say in 2017: “Although Washington’s blended workforce has an imperative role in the nation’s success, it may have grown so large and poorly sorted that it has become a threat to the very liberty it protects. With 7 to 9 million employees, the federal government’s blended workforce may have become too complicated and codependent to control. Most importantly, it may have become so complex that Congress and the president simply cannot know whether this blended workforce puts the right employees in the right place at the right price with the highest performance and fullest accountability.”

In other words, it’s an out-of-control monstrosity. And that’s coming from someone who wants to expand government power.

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Under the Constitution, the president has power to enforce the nation's laws, command the army and navy, veto laws passed by Congress, protect our borders and oversee relations with foreign nations. In 1790, President George Washington's administration had only three departments: State, Treasury, and War. There were other offices, too, such as the Office of the Attorney General, who is the lead lawyer for the federal government. But Washington's administration employed less than 150 people at the time.

As of 2005, the executive branch contained fifteen departments, hundreds of agencies and offices, and many regulatory commissions, employing a total of about 2.7 million people altogether. Departments are offices with responsibility for large areas of the federal government. The fifteen departments are: Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health & Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing & Urban Development, Interior, Justice, Labor, State, Transportation, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs.

Then there are agencies. Agencies are offices that handle specific areas of government, such as the American Battle Monuments Commission, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Federal Aviation Administration. The Federal Aviation Administration, for example, regulates airlines and air traffic in the United States and investigates aircraft accidents. Regulatory commissions are offices that regulate a particular area of the economy. Examples include the Food and Drug Administration, which regulates food and drug safety, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which regulates workplace safety. Regulatory commissions wield tremendous power in their areas of expertise. The FDA, for example, has the final say on what drugs are allowed to reach the shelves of America's pharmacies and drugstores. There is even an agency whose job is just to keep track of all the agencies. They are failing miserably, by the way.

But the list of federal employees is just the tip of a very large iceberg. For every direct federal employee, there are approximately 10 outside people paid and controlled by the government. And when the bureaucrats realized that outside NGOs could do all the things they were not allowed to do, like censoring speech, those numbers exploded like metastasizing cancer.

Federal Laws
According to best estimates – and estimates are all we have – there are about 4,500 federal crimes in the United States Code, and more than 300,000 federal crimes dispersed throughout federal regulations. The Department of Justice once tried to count the number of federal crimes and failed, ultimately throwing up its hands in frustration and coming up with only a rough estimate.

Imagine, they couldn’t even count them, much less read them all. The truth is that no citizen can know how many federal crimes are out there, all the conduct that those crimes forbid, or even how to find the answers to those questions.

The odds are that every American on any given day is violating at least three federal crime statutes. “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.” So said Lavrentiy Beria, Joseph Stalin’s ruthless secret police chief, in the heyday of Soviet oppression. Welcome to Amerika today.

Another byproduct of the growing federal crime list is rampant double jeopardy. If you can’t convict someone at state level, just look through the big book of crimes and you can surely find a federal crime statute to retry them for the same act. Maybe two or three. “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime” should be the motto of the current DOJ. Just ask Donald Trump.

Much of our executive branch works just like a tumor does, walling itself from the rest of the organism. There are now 17 intelligence agencies that we know of. Many of them are so secret that even the president and Congress don’t know what they are doing. Popular answers to Congressional oversight committees include “I don’t know, not that I’m aware, I can’t recall, that’s classified, and I can’t talk” – about that because it is part of an ongoing investigation. And revealing hidden government crimes means you will now live in Russia or a U.K. prison. Ask Edward Snowden or Julian Assange. So the chances are that what we don’t know will stay that way.

People always say we have to have a big federal government now because there are so many more people now. Let’s do some math. In 1800 there were 200 people in the executive branch. The population of the U.S. was 5 million. Today it is over 300 million. That is 60 times bigger. So we take 200 x 60 and get 12,000. Wait, that can’t be right. That’s not fair, you say. There is a lot more to do now. Okay let’s say there’s ten times as much to do – 12,000 x 10. That is still only 120,000 people. But we have 2.7 million and another 20 million in NGOs all working for the federal government.

See what I mean? Tumor.

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Oh boy, that's just what we need in this world, another war. It looks like things are heating up between South Korea and North Korea.

South Korea recently sent 260 balloons over North Korea loaded with pro-democracy leaflets. The version of democracy they're referring to is not quite the Jefferson version of American constitutional democracy. It's the Joe Biden version – you know, where the commander-in-thief does what he wants?

In retaliation to the South Korean balloon attack, North Korea just sent an armada of 3,500 balloons. These balloons were loaded with 15 tons of garbage in various forms to contaminate the South Korean landscape. Well, at least it's better than sending a bunch of nukes back and forth and vaporizing the people who sent the balloons.

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My research team found an example of the contents of the leaflet extolling the virtues of democracy. ( I have an admission to make about my research team. They're kind of a shaky bunch. But what am I to do? I'm just a guy with no budget.)

Here is what the leaflet said: "This is the beauty of democracy or Bidenocracy as it is in America. If you are a member of the privileged family, you can make deals in foreign countries and not pay taxes on the benefits of selling influence and be covered from the law by the Big Guy."

How did North Korea respond to this declaration of freedom? My "research staff" found this in the garbage that the South was pelted with by the balloons. The garbage was loaded with Bill Gates's cricket flour, meal worm powder, and a whole bunch of fake meat that encourages a not-so-fake death. Apparently, inflation has infected even real old time garbage. It's too expensive to include it in a balloon bomb.

North Korea (NK) has issued threats to stave off any future SK balloon attacks. The next balloon retaliation from NK will include 10,000 copies of the doctoral dissertation by the esteemed Dr. Jill Biden. The unfortunate victims of this dumping will be subjected to the pain of her examination of how community colleges can improve their retention rates of students. We assume that the leading suggestion is to get taxpayers to cough up billions to pay for students' college expenses instead of students paying for their own worthless degrees.

If the Balloon Wars continue, there's a lot of garbage the NK regime can dump on SK. How about speeches and lies about the phony Trump Russian dossier by Adam Schiff? Deep thoughts and other annoyances by Alexandria Ocasio Cortez? The former third-in-line to become POTUS, Nancy Pelosi's advice on how to become a multimillionaire on a D.C. peon congressional salary of $174,000 a year?

If those don't cause South Korea to back off, the next escalation that will come is the complete video recordings of 27 years of The View featuring the wisdom of Joy and Whoopi.

Finally, we come the NK coup de grâce. One balloon known as the Terminator will carry a trash load of autobiographies in crayon with an abundance of misspellings by Joe Biden, beginning with: "My Teenage Years as a Puerto Rican Bull Fighter"; "My Boxing Victories over Corn Pop, Muhammad Ali, and Rocky Marciano"; "The Year I Won the MVP of the NBA"; "John, Paul, George, Ringo, and Joe"; "My Secret Journey on Voyager 11 to Mars"; and finally, "My Reign as Pope Until I Met Jill."

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One of Joe Biden's key weapons in his promotion of the LGBT ideology for not just people in America but around the world has been his simple redefinition of words.

"Sex," his administration has claimed, actually means "sexual orientation" or "gender identity." Thus, his LGBT goals have been "protected" in federal law for decades, he claims.

Using that simple maneuver Biden bureaucrats have tried to impose that ideology on churches, foster parents, adoptive families, schools, and many others.

Now he's run into reality.

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In the form of a federal judge who concluded in a court fight over Biden's agenda that when a 1972 law refers to "sex," it "carried an unambiguously binary meaning."

The Post-Millennial reported on the decision in Texas' lawsuit against Biden over his "guidance" on Title IX.

That law essentially rules that males and females should be treated equally in schools.

Biden demanded through his redefinitions that that law actually, when written in 1972, meant "sexual orientation" and "gender identity."

Biden's goal was to remove standards in schools that limited boys, in intimate situations such as locker rooms, to be with other boys, and girls with girls.

Texas' case was against Biden's Department of Education and its secretary Miguel Cardona, and the Department of Justice and Attorney General Merrick Garland.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton explained Biden's changes were "not in accordance with law and are in excess of statutory authority because they rely upon the interpretation of Title VII described in Bostock and apply it to Title IX."

Judge Reed O'Connor, in the U.S. district court in northern Texas, took Texas' side: "Because of this prohibition on sex discrimination, recipients of federal funds generally cannot discriminate based on someone’s sex. However, nothing in the statute expressly prohibits discrimination based on gender identity or other unexpressed grounds. And where Title IX allows for differentiation based on sex due to biological differences—such as intimate facilities and athletic teams—recipients may treat persons in accordance with their biological sex without regard to subjective gender identity."

He explained an investigation into contemporary dictionaries "does not support" Biden's claims.

"Title IX explicitly appreciates the innate biological variation between men and women that occasionally warrants differentiation—and even separation—to preserve educational opportunities and to promote respect for both sexes," the judge said. "Rather than promote the equal opportunity, dignity, and respect that Title IX demands for both biological sexes, Defendants’ Guidance Documents do the opposite in an effort to advance an agenda wholly divorced from the text, structure, and contemporary context of Title IX."

The judge continued, "Not to mention, recipients of Title IX funding—including Texas schools—will face an impossible choice: revise policies in compliance with the Guidance Documents but in contravention of state law or face the loss of substantial funding. Thus, to allow Defendants’ unlawful action to stand would be to functionally rewrite Title IX in a way that shockingly transforms American education and usurps a major question from Congress. That is not how our democratic system functions."

Paxton said his state "prevailed on behalf of the entire nation."

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