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Children at the Muslim American Society Islamic Center in Philadelphia at "Ummah Day" event April 17, 2019.

Muslims in America are "on the road" to running the government of the United States. At least, that was the clarion message of Osama Siblani, editor and publisher of the Arab American News, speaking at the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, Michigan, last month.

Siblani's comments can be seen in a video posted to X by the Middle East Media Research Institute, or MEMRI:

Osama Siblani, Arab Community Leader in Dearborn, Michigan: 40 Years Ago, the Mayor of Dearborn Warned of the City’s “Arab Problem,” Now We Rule the City, and We Are on Our Way to the White House; the Best Is Yet to Come pic.twitter.com/M68r5hL2vL

— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) May 16, 2024

"We have the best that we can offer to the United States of America," Siblani said. "Not only in Michigan, but across the country. And we offered our best. The best is yet to come. I can be very confident to tell you that we are on the road to the White House, to Congress, to the decision-making everywhere in the United States!"

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Siblani added, triumphantly: "Forty years ago, we had a mayor for this town who talked about 'the Arab problem.' Guess what? The Arabs are [now] ruling Dearborn, Dearborn Heights and Hamtramck! So, brothers and sisters, we are on the road!" he concluded.

WND spoke to one person aspiring to the halls of Congress, but who is the diametric opposite of a Muslim radical, about the prospect of Islamic influence in the U.S. government expanding dramatically. Jerrod Sessler, candidate for the Republican seat in central Washington's 4th congressional district, is a Christian and decorated military veteran endorsed by President Donald Trump, Gen. Michael Flynn and the House Freedom Caucus.

Commenting generally on the world's religions, Sessler told WND, "There’s almost always an underlying tension between good and evil." And as Muslims continue to run for office in America, he said, "the tension here is between Christianity and Islam."

President Donald Trump and Jerrod Sessler

"A violent radicalism is evident within Islam – often referred to as Sharia law – but the population, at the leading of mass media, generally separates them from the average mosque attendee," Sessler explained. Yet, he contends, "Muslims cannot run from the radical faction within their faith, and there is no violent counterpart within Christianity."

Sessler acknowledges that there are non-violent Muslims living in America and around the world. Yet, he tells WND, "they do not have freedom to speak against the radical faction within Islam without drawing the ire of those very radicals."

Referring to his own Christian faith, Sessler shares unapologetically: "The God of the Bible offers grace through His Son Jesus' sacrifice." He adds, "We generally ignore the unhinged parts of Islam, but that only highlights the fact that it is wildly different than the grace afforded by God’s Son Jesus who offers redemption and full forgiveness through His sacrifice." Notes Sessler, starkly: "These two faith options could not be further apart."

Considering the God-given natural rights codified in the Constitution, Sessler suggests that "Americans should see statements about Islamic rule as a threat to freedom."

While he wishes to avoid expressing any negative sentiment towards any particular Muslim, Sessler concedes that their beliefs are essentially incompatible with the Judeo-Christian beliefs and values upon which America was founded. For him, "Islam is the underlying threat to our way of life in America." The idea that an Islamist would seek political office in the U.S. is a peculiar one, he argues, as "[he or she] can't actually fulfill the oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution."

Jerrod Sessler

For this, Sessler notes ironically, "I applaud them because many are doing the impossible." But on the other hand, he tells WND, "The people who elect them are either ignorant or motivated by something that may not be good for Americans."

"Think of how extreme it would be to give the majority of control in Congress to Islamic-leaning people. Would they preserve and protect the Constitution, or would they dismantle it and install something that aligns with the radical faction [and] with their belief system?"

Sessler is not surprised by the push for Islamists in the U.S. government. "They want to see their team win as much as Christians, but if we allow them that opportunity, then we will eventually lose the fundamentals of what it means to be a free American. Just imagine living in a situation where you cannot criticize your elected leaders for their poor or corrupt choices."

According to Sessler, "America is a Christian nation, so we should be able to handle some influx of migration from Islamic folks, but we also hope that they see Christians are actually working to show them a better way of living, believing and existing together."

The GOP congressional candidate ended with this warning: "Weak faith, distractions and social pressure to accept people, even those that threaten us, all contribute to the unsafe America that we find ourselves living in today."

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A huge fight has developed over access to the actual audio tapes made by special counsel Robert Hur, who investigated Joe Biden for taking and keeping classified government documents and concluded he likely did it.

But then Hur said he wasn't recommending a criminal charge against Biden because of his "diminished" capacity.

The result gave Republicans new ammunition in their argument that Biden is incompetent to be president, while Democrats raged at the revelation, including White House staff members who tried to get Hur to change his report.

He didn't, explaining he needed to include the reasoning for not recommending a criminal case.

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While printed transcripts of Biden's interview with Hur have been released, the actual audio tapes have not, even though that's been requested. Biden is claiming executive privilege and Department of Justice officials say such a move could discourage others from participating in DOJ interviews.

But government watchdog Judicial Watch has unleashed a bombshell report, that the transcripts are not identical to the spoken word of the tape recordings.

The watchdog group cited the White House's own admission of the differences.

They may be considered insignificant by some, such as "missing 'filler words (such as 'um' or 'uh')' and words that 'may have been repeated when spoken (such as 'I, I' or 'and, and')'…"

The report noted that the DOJ also is claiming that "AI" could be "used to alter Biden's words" so the material should be kept secret.

A court filing by the DOJ claims the transcripts "accurately capture" the spoken words, but even so, they are not identical. The filing claimed the "differences" are not substantive.

Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch chief, pointedly added, "Wow. Judicial Watch’s FOIA lawsuit forced the Biden team to admit what everyone suspected – that the transcript is not accurate and was changed in a way to help Biden.

"There is nothing ordinary about this, and the transcript inaccuracy issues seem to help Biden’s political campaign needs. We today initiated a new FOIA request on this Biden’s Nixonian tape scandal."

The DOJ has been the subject of Freedom of Information Act cases over access to the audio recordings, which it has promised it will keep secret.

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A farmer in Minnesota who took on the state government over an illegal agenda it embedded in one of its grant programs has won his fight.

And now that illegal sex and race discrimination is gone.

It is the Pacific Legal Foundation that praised farmer Lance Nistler for his dedication to fairness and equality.

"In the wake of a lawsuit brought by farmer Lance Nistler, Gov. Tim Walz signed legislation on May 24 that rolls back an illegal policy that gave priority to 'emerging farmers' based on immutable characteristics such as race and sex," the legal team explained.

"Thanks to the courage of a small farmer, equality before the law has been restored in Minnesota. Because Lance Nistler stood up for his right to equal treatment, the state will no longer disadvantage farmers based on their race and sex," said PLF attorney Andrew Quinio.

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"We are thrilled that Governor Walz and the state legislature responded to Lance’s lawsuit by amending the Down Payment Assistance Grant Program so that it does not unlawfully discriminate against Minnesota’s hardworking small farmers. We encourage other states to follow Minnesota’s about-face and stop violating the Constitution’s guarantee of equality before the law."

Nistler filed a lawsuit in January charging the state with unequal treatment based on race and sex because, while he was picked ninth in a lottery for payment grants, he was put at the back of the list because of the state's claim to prioritize "emerging farmers."

The state defined those as "racial minorities, women, or young, urban, and LGBTQIA+ individuals."

When the case was filed his application for one of the $15,000 grants just had been rejected.

He not only was picked ninth of 176 applicants, but he also met all of the eligibility requirements – except that he wasn't urban, a minority, a woman or LGBT.

Nistler sought the grant to buy 40 acres of farmland in Beltrami County, Minnesota, to grow soybeans, oats and wheat.

Minnesota's lawmakers had allowed $500,000 in 2023 to create the grant program, and required that recipients be Minnesota residents earning less than $250,000 a year in gross agricultural sales, provide the day-to-day labor on their farms for five years and not have previously owned farmland.

And officials insisted on the race and sex preferences, until he filed suit.

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The Institute for Justice has expressed outrage after a judge tried to jail a man for what he said – an insult to a police officer.

"Judges are supposed to uphold and defend the Constitution, not violate and ignore it," charged IJ attorney Tori Clark. "Judge Bull's actions violated basic notions of free speech and due process—and they are far outside the realm of judicial functions."

The controversy erupted when Nicholas Bull, a municipal judge in Ozark, Alabama, tried to jail a citizen for "simply offending a police officer."

It happened when Reginald Burks, an aircraft mechanic, was stopped by an officer for going 28 mph in a zone marked with a 25 mph limit, while taking his kids to school.

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"The officer’s radar gun was broken, so he allegedly used his cruise control to estimate Burks' speed. After issuing a speeding ticket, the police officer stepped in front of Burks' car, blocking him from leaving. Burks asked the officer to move, but he refused. Finally, frustrated by the situation, Burks told the officer to 'Get your a** out of the way so I can take my kids to school,'" IJ reported.

When Burks later appeared before Bull to pay a $211 fine Bull "issued an unusual order."

In addition to fines and court costs, Bull demanded that Burks write an apology to the officer. He threatened Burks with jail time if he did not submit the apology within 30 days.

Bull shortly later rescinded his order, at the request of the city prosecutor, when the circumstances of the case started gaining attention, and Burks never apologized.

But the IJ pointed out Bull's threat "is an outrageous violation of the First Amendment, and his attempt to punish Burks for a crime with which he was not charged flies in the face of due-process protections."

In America's judicial system, however, there mostly is no way to hold rogue judges accountable for their "unconstitutional conduct" as they are protected by "judicial immunity," which is a shield for them while "performing their role as a judge."

There have been cases where that immunity, however, does not protect misbehaving judges. One case involved a West Virginia judge who personally carried out a warrantless search of a man's home, and another who "personally jailed two children" during their parents' divorce proceedings.

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A public interest organization, the Goldwater Institute, is taking issue with a "$140,000" college education in which students are told to "live like a bug."

But they are not taught the Constitution, the Civil War, or landmark Supreme Court cases.

It's part of colleges' abandonment of core educational missions in favor of indoctrination into "diversity, equity, and inclusion" discrimination programs.

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"The situation is particularly grim at the University of Arizona, where a real assignment in a course that fulfills the 'Diversity and Equity' (D&E) core curriculum requirement instructs students to 'live like a bug' by 'walking around with tissue paper 'wings'' so they can better understand the experience of 'marginalized' groups," the institute explains.

The organization recently completed a report on the ideological agenda being pushed in schools.

It revealed students are being required to believe "racism is deeply embedded in U.S. history, society, and institutions," and that "white people hold unearned privilege while people of color have not had equal access to the 'American Dream.'"

And, students are told to apologize if they say something and someone else objects.

"Resist the temptation to become defensive. Instead, apologize, self-reflect, learn, and do better next time," they are told.

"A course on the science of bugs that fulfills the D&E requirement requires students to experiment with 'living like a bug'—including by 'walking around with tissue paper 'wings''—in order to understand the experience of immigrants, people of a different social class, and other 'marginalized' groups," the report found.

Goldwater explained, "For years, leftists have plotted to turn colleges into breeding grounds for activists by infusing the poisonous ideas of DEI into every aspect of campus life, from admissions to faculty hiring to classroom indoctrination.

"In recent weeks, the consequences of this scheme became all too clear. College campuses turned into hotbeds for mob violence, unprovoked assaults, and anti-Semitic calls for terrorism and genocide—all while Jewish students were forced to live in fear as their schools refuse to protect their rights. Sadly, it should come as no surprise that the same intolerant campus leftists who can’t stomach conservative speakers have decided Jewish students are 'oppressors' who deserve to be harassed, or worse."

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June has been designated by those promoting that LGBT alternative lifestyle choices as "Pride" month.

They have various events, celebrations, festivities and the like.

And according to a new lawsuit, they actually force people to participate in their agenda.

A report from Liberty Counsel explains it is Capt. Jeffery Little, a Christian and lifeguard, who has sued the Los Angeles County Fire Department for its illegal religious discrimination, retaliation and harassment.

Department officials were provoked by Little's decision to decline on religious grounds to raise a "Progress Pride Flag" at his beachside station last year during the designated "Pride" month.

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"Little, a 22-year county employee, alleges the Los Angeles County Fire Department denied his religious accommodation request, belittled his religious beliefs, punished him, and threatened him with 'suspension and/or discharge' from service for not complying with a county mandate to fly the flag during the month of June 2023," the legal team explained.

Liberty Counsel founder Mat Staver said, "Religious beliefs matter. The Los Angeles County Fire Department makes a mockery of both the law and religion by blatantly infringing on Captain Jeffery Little’s sincerely held beliefs. There is no compelling government interest in this case to force someone to raise an ideologically divisive flag. People do not have to choose between their faith or their job."

The case is being handled for Little by the Thomas More Society, with help from Liberty Counsel.

The problem stems from a 2023 resolution from the county's supervisors that demanded county locations fly the "Pride" flag which contains a rainbow of colors.

According to his recently filed complaint, Little follows "traditional Christian beliefs regarding the moral illicitness of same-sex activity, the immutability of sex regardless of gender identity, and the view that all people are children of God regardless of their skin color."

He had requested a religious exemption so he would not have to personally raise the flag, because it represents an ideology in direct conflict with his faith.

The response was a refusal and orders to raise the flag. His division chief told him his beliefs "do not matter."

Then followed retaliation by other fire department officials who confronted him, removed him from some assignments, targeted him with pretextual complaints and talked about his religious objections to third parties.

That led to a death threat being sent to his home, the report said.

For the same mandate this year, his exemption request has been ignored.

The Thomas More Society alleges the fire county’s actions "were done with malice, fraud, oppression, and reckless disregard of Plaintiff Little’s rights." The lawsuit seeks compensatory damages and a permanent injunction against the Los Angeles County Fire Department to uphold Little’s protected rights.

Liberty Counsel is assisting the Thomas More Society to make religious accommodation resources available to several thousand Los Angeles County firefighters.

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TerrorMoniter ASA posted this photo on Twitter, claiming it shows ISIS terrorists throwing a 15-year-old boy off a rooftop after they accused him of engaging in homosexual relations with a top ISIS officer (Photo: Twitter/TerrorMonitor)

Ever since the Oct. 7 Hamas terror against Israel, when soldiers from Gaza invaded Israel's territory and butchered some 1,200 people, often in horrific fashion like burning whole families together, there's been a growing movement for "Gays for Palestine."

Those groups have held protests, lobbied Congress and international leaders, staged events and more, all in their pro-Hamas, anti-Israel campaign.

And in support of Palestine. They chant "From the river to the sea," adopting the terrorists' demands that they eradicate Israel and control all of the land from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.

But the work of that group, and that of "Queers for Palestine" is on shaky footing.

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It's because prominent Palestinian Islamics, both cultural and political figure heads, are joined in one opinion: Homosexuals "should be thrown head first from the rooftop of the tallest building."

According to the Middle East Media Research Institute, it is Jenin Islamic scholar Abd Al-Rahman Al-Zayoud who confirmed that in an Islamic society, "What is the local culture? The Islamic culture. If this call clashes with the local culture, the laws and covenants of the United Nations – which call for homosexuality – must be followed. So what do they want from us? What do they want from this society that follows the Islamic culture, which sees homosexuality and lesbianism as punishable by death? They want us to respect this and strip us of our religion."

Added Islamic scholar Youssef Makharzah on America's campaign of "perversion." "Your cows, your sheep, and even your donkeys, have never stopped to the level of perversion that America designs for you."

In fact, the Joe Biden administration has insisted on promoting the LGBT lifestyle choices, which offend Islamic traditions, around the globe, making such promotions mandatory where U.S. money is involved in projects.

And Makkharzah referenced monkeypox, charging, "This [variation] of smallpox afflicts monkeys, as well as their homosexual lookalikes. Since you behave like animals and beasts, Allah wanted to afflict you with the maladies of animals and beasts. After this disease appeared, they ran some tests and concluded that it is caused by homosexuality."

Samir Zaqout, an official for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, said, "Most of the organizations of the homosexuals and most of the institutions that bring about economic destruction are to be found in that foundling of a country."

And Mohammed Saleem Ali, an imam at Al-Aqsa mosque, said, "Our Muslim Palestinian people will not accept a single homosexual openly declaring his abomination. Will you allow a single homosexual on the land of Jerusalem and Palestine? Will you allow that? No. Our people will not allow there to be institutions that promote this abomination, on the blessed, and pure land of Palestine."

Sheikh Yousef Abu Islam, a Palestinian Islamic scholar, threatened, "Allah punished male and female adulterers [only] with flogging or stoning, but when He decided to punish homosexuals, He said that they should be thrown head first from the rooftop of the tallest building, and then they should be stoned from the top."

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The Green Movement was the largest protest in Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution. Some 3 million peaceful demonstrators flooded the streets of Tehran and cities across Iran, about 4 percent of Iran's population.

As the election results were rigged, and Ahmadinejad returned to office through cheating, Iranians demanded his removal. For millions of brave Iranians who protested, and many millions more who were afraid to do so but supported the movement, the fraudulent election was the straw that broke the camel's back. After suffering years of violence, harsh death penalties and the execution of juveniles under Ahmadinejad, and decades of criminal immorality, misogyny and ruthless human rights abuses under the Islamic regime, they had had enough.

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The Islamic regime responded by brutally and wantonly shooting hundreds of protesters in the streets. They tortured and killed hundreds more political prisoners and arrested thousands, dozens of whom were also executed.

A video of the fatal shooting of Neda Agha Soltan, a philosophy student who was participating in the protests, went viral domestically and internationally. This motivated wider domestic protests, and harsher government crackdowns. It generated international concern that should have led to Western governments coming to the aid of the protesters against the regime. But the West failed.

In prison, I witnessed firsthand masses of people imprisoned and tortured for protesting the election fraud. Our already overcrowded cells were packed beyond capacity with the newly arrested. There was no space even on the floor for people to sleep. Many were beaten, tortured and raped during their interrogations. Cellmates who had life sentences were forced to work inside the prison and were witness to, among other horrors, an empty pool full of the bodies of young people who were murdered during interrogation. They witnessed removal of the dead bodies from the prison to be dumped outside in secret. Fifteen years later, many Iranians still don't know what happened to their loved ones.

The murders and brutal torture were not just spontaneous acts of overzealous criminals or "morality police," but orders from Ahmadinejad and the "Supreme Leader" Ayatollah Khamenei. One of my cellmates who attended the protest received a five-year sentence with no evidence presented against her. The judge simply declared that he gave her this sentence because he suspected and felt that her thoughts and attitude were against the regime. She laughed with anger when she shared this, shocked that nobody in the world would believe Iranian judges sentence people to prison based on their "suspicions and feelings," much less lack of due process and no evidence. (I shared many firsthand accounts in my books, "A Love Journey with God," and "Captive in Iran" at www.MarzisJourney.com.)

When the Islamic regime turned the peaceful protests into a bloodbath, the Iranian people begged for help from the United States. They were chanting, "Obama are you with us or with them?" "Obama" in Farsi means, "He is with us" [O (he) ba (with) ma (us)]. Despite people's pleas, Obama showed his true face and stood with the criminal Islamic regime. He not only turned his back on the Iranian people who were fighting for their freedom, and the greatest opportunity to end the murderous Islamic regime, but he later made the worst deal in history with Iran (JCPOA), emboldening the regime, setting a path for Iran to acquire nuclear weapons and sending billions of dollars into the coffers of the criminal mullahs. This was used to further suppress the Iranian people, and to fund and expand terrorism across the Middle East.

The Iranian people will never forget Barack Obama's betrayal. Now, 15 years later, Obama's protégé is also guilty of betraying the Iranian people. President Biden has also provided billions of dollars to the regime, abdicated responsibility and the opportunity to bring down the regime after 2022 protests following the murder of Mahsa Amini, and the regime's brutal response, and has brought the world to the brink of an Iranian nuclear weapon.

In 15 years, we have seen failure after failure in appeasing and negotiating with the terrorist regime. Sadly, Western politicians pay lip service to Islamic human rights violations, placing their own interest above moral policies internationally and risking the security of their own citizens by allowing the regime's terrorist agents into their countries to spread their lies and propaganda.

The vast majority of Iranians reject the repressive Islamic Republic, but they have no power to change this system on their own. Iranians long to be free, but they have no hope for the future of their country, until this regime is no longer in power.

I pray that on this 15th anniversary of the biggest revolt against the Islamic regime, and its most violent and bloody murderous response, Western governments will understand that the Islamic regime is evil personified, that its nature is unchangeable and that it not only harms the lives of millions of Iranians but also others around the world, and risks their own countries and citizens as well.

Obama campaigned on "hope" and "change." He offered no hope for Iran, and unless Western policies change, we will all be much worse off.

Now, with "elections" scheduled to replace President Raisi, who mysteriously died in a helicopter accident on May 19, when the "Supreme Leader" selects Raisi's successor via a sham election, will Iranians respond again with protests? Will the regime crack down again? And will the U.S. and the West sit idly by, watching as more innocent Iranians' blood is shed? I hope so, I hope not, and I pray no.

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The battle starts with how food is cooked. We're all familiar with the government's war on gas stoves, one of the most popular methods for cooking food. Knowing full well that outright bans won't work, the Biden administration is rolling out increased "efficiency" standards for new models that are effectively impossible to achieve. The push is to electrify everything, despite the increased strain this agenda places on an already fragile grid.

Now it's being hinted that cooking food itself is bad. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a quarter of all air pollution comes from cooking food. "If you can smell it, there's a good chance it's impacting air quality," we're told. At fault are "primarily oxygenated VOCs, or volatile organic compounds." It's not farfetched to conclude that if a government agency says something is impacting air quality, then soon it will be under tighter regulation. "[B]ased on the new findings, cooking emissions could be the single largest missing source of urban VOCs in current air quality models, which could have important ramifications for air quality management," notes the article.

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Let's consider the plethora of mysterious disasters impacting food production facilities. The latest is a fire at one of the nation's largest free-range egg facilities that killed millions of chickens. But this is just one of a long, long, long list of similar disasters that are destroying, one by one, the business of feeding humans.

Now, of course, we're dealing with the whole avian flu panic, in which millions upon millions of chickens are being destroyed on the basis of questionable testing methodologies. Right now the news headlines focus on commercial facilities; what's less well-known is that backyard flocks are also being tested. We all know where this will lead. Already in the U.K., all chicken owners will soon be forced to register with the government or face up to six months in prison or a £5,000 fine. The state of Maryland also requires poultry registration. And in Wisconsin, if you own poultry or other livestock, you must register your land.

Of course, the potential for bird flu leaping to cows is putting the dairy industry in the crosshairs at a time when America's dairy cow replacement inventory is at a two-decade low.

Even home-grown food is not exempt. Most people are familiar with Pennsylvania's vicious war against Amish farmer Amos Miller for the crime of selling fresh food to eager customers. Attorney Robert Barnes sums it up succinctly: "Let me explain what the #AmosMiller case is about after a court conference. The @PAAgriculture claims ALL food is 'illegal' – as illegal as illegal drugs – unless it was made by a government-approved facility, and they can destroy it at will."

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But don't think your backyard gardens are immune. A Guardian piece entitled "Carbon footprint of homegrown food five times greater than those grown conventionally" strives to conclude that backyard gardens are bad for the planet, and suggests farming should be left to the professionals.

Additionally, a couple years ago, "experts" at the University Medical Center Mainz in Germany suddenly issued an "urgent" warning that gardening can cause heart disease by exposing people to harmful soil pollutants. According to The Sun, "Gardeners have been warned that their habit could leave them at an increased risk of heart disease. Medics found that pollutants in the soil could have a 'detrimental effect on the cardiovascular system.' The results of the analysis pushed experts to recommend that people wear a face mask, if they are in close contact with the soil. Experts at the University Medical Center Mainz, Germany said pollution of air, water and soil is responsible for at least nine million deaths each year. They highlighted that more than 60 per cent of pollution-related deaths are due to heart issues such as strokes, heart attacks, heart rhythm disorders and chronic ischaemic heart disease."

In fact, Europe has spent the last few years embroiled in violent protests against increased government regulations that were putting farmers out of business. The Netherlands planned to "compulsory purchase" and close up to 3,000 farms to comply with EU environmental rules. Ireland is set on cutting its dairy herds by 10%, meaning about 200,000 cows will be culled for no other reason that cow farts are bad for the environment.

And who can forget the disastrous collapse of Sri Lankan agriculture after the government forcibly scaled back the use of non-organic fertilizer?

To top it off, did you know the United Nations is working with banks to destroy the American farming industry? Their method is to impose ESG (environmental, social, and corporate governance) criteria to score and penalize farmers. The U.N.-organized Net-Zero Banking Alliance is demanding net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture. Farmers who can't or won't comply are being de-banked by having their accounts shut down without notice or explanation.

And on and on it goes: headline after headline after headline. Agriculture, in which humans have been engaged for thousands of years, is now being deemed dangerous and wrong in the eyes of well-fed bureaucratic idiots who are determined to make food unaffordable and/or unavailable for the huge majority of the global population who aren't wealthy. Oh, and if the U.N. has its way, anyone who criticizes the anti-human agenda will be silenced.

But that's OK. The vast majority of the global population is, in the eyes of the elites, useless eaters anyway. The sooner they are removed from the picture – by whatever means possible – the better they'll like it. If this isn't the epitome of evil, I don't know what is.

Should the majority of useless eaters be phased out of existence, who will serve the elites after the planet is depopulated and returned to some mythical Eden? Who will grow the food, manufacture the goods and clean the toilets for the overlords? When I posed that hypothetical question to my husband, his answer was succinct and accurate: "These are the people who would rather rule in hell than serve in heaven."

Hell on earth may be coming a lot sooner than most people realize, if the global war on food continues. The need for food is something even the elites cannot escape.

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Earlier this year, the Democrat Senate Budget Committee's chairman invited Gus Schumacher, Olympic cross-country skier, to testify as an expert witness on climate change concerning "the impact of global warming on the $1.1 trillion outdoor recreation industry."

Mr. Schumacher stated that carbon dioxide is "a huge part of our atmosphere," but then expressed he was not sure what carbon dioxide (CO₂) is. Sen. John Kennedy explained that "Democrats want to spend $50 TRILLION to become carbon neutral" and that committee testimony is meant to justify spending the money. Continuing, Kennedy explained that carbon dioxide only makes up about 0.04% of the gases of our atmosphere.

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Earth's atmosphere consists of "78.08% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.04% carbon dioxide and small amounts of other gases." So, methane must be the problem, right? Methane is in that group of "small amounts of other gases" and actually is 0.000191% of the Earth's atmosphere, so it is even less of a problem.

Why, then, would anyone think CO₂ is a problem greenhouse gas? In 1859 Irish physicist John Tyndall conducted an experiment showing that carbon dioxide and water vapor absorbed heat and radiated heat. He was attributed credit for demonstrating "the physical basis of the greenhouse effect."

Since then, ideas have been propagated by groups like National Geographic to express that "greenhouse gases allow the sun's light to shine onto Earth's surface … [and] trap the heat that reflects back from the surface …like the glass walls of a greenhouse."

Not until the 1940s was the first infrared (IR) spectrometer built. In 1957 PerkinElmer developed the first low-cost IR spectrometer. In 1969 Digilab (now Agilent technologies) pioneered the first FTIR (making this type of analysis available to laboratories). Why is this important? FTIR instrumentation shows the energies light molecules absorb.

Using FTIR instrumentation, the energy absorption of CO₂ can be measured. "Carbon dioxide traps heat only within [very] narrow bands of the infrared spectrum," states an article entitled, "Top Study: Carbon Emissions CANNOT Cause 'Global Warming'." Figure 1 shows the IR absorption spectrum for both CO₂ and water. This shows CO₂ only absorbs energy in a very narrow range, meaning that it would never act like "glass walls of a greenhouse" reflecting the sun's energy back to Earth.

Figure 2 shows the total energy of the sun's rays coming to the earth consists of 7.35% UV light, 38.82% visible light and 52.15% IR light. In order to act as a "greenhouse gas" the first thing CO₂ has to do, is absorb the sun's energy. Of the sun's total energy CO₂ absorbs only about 0.13%, meaning 99.87% of the sun's energy passes through the CO₂, hits the Earth and bounces back up without interacting with CO₂ at all. Considering only the IR portion of the sun's energy, CO₂ only absorbs 0.24% of the total IR energy from the sun. Again, that means 99.76% of the sun's energy is not affected by CO₂ in the atmosphere. So, CO₂ is not acting like a glass bubble around the Earth, increasing the Earth's temperature.

Then there's the saturation problem. This is reported in several recent peer-reviewed scientific articles (2024, 2022, 2020). The problem can be basically understood by considering attic insulation. Once insulation is above a certain height (the saturation limit), adding more insulation has no further effect on heating the house, as all the heat is already captured by the insulation already present. So, if CO₂ did act as a greenhouse gas, once the saturation limit is achieved, adding more CO₂ would have no further effect on warming the Earth.

"Current levels of CO₂ in the atmosphere are around 418 parts per million (ppm), but the scientists state that past 400 ppm, 'the CO₂ concentration can no longer cause any increase in temperature.'" Therefore, "it simply isn't possible for increases in carbon dioxide to cause temperatures to rise." Note, "levels of gas have been up to 20 times higher in the past without any sign of runaway 'global warming.'"

"In 2022, German Physics Professor Dieter Schildknecht set the saturation limit of CO₂ at just 300 ppm and concluded that beyond this, further increases cannot affect the Earth's climate."

Emeritus professor William Happer of Princeton believes the CO₂ saturation hypothesis and stated that the current "science" enforcing the "Net Zero" agenda for carbon emissions by 2050 – is a "hoax," but he preferred the word, "scam."

Dr. John Clauser, 2022 Nobel Physics laureate, stated, "I assert there is no connection whatsoever between climate change and CO₂ – it's all a crock of crap, in my opinion."

"Over 1600 scientists from around the world" have signed "a declaration stating that claims of a 'climate emergency' threatening the Earth are a hoax." This declaration is called the World Climate Declaration (WCD). It states, "Carbon dioxide is beneficial to Earth … there is no climate emergency [and] … climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific." "The coalition points out that Earth's climate has varied as long as it has existed, [and] … they stress that there is 'no statistical evidence' to support [climate alarmist] claims." Thus, "there is no climate emergency [and] … no cause for panic and alarm."

On the other hand, water vapor absorbs visible light and infrared light from the sun in broad bands. Water vapor could act as a greenhouse gas. So, do we need to get rid of all the clouds and stop production of Stanley Steamers automobiles? The only problem with thinking that water vapor is heating the Earth's atmosphere too much is the fact that water vapor only makes up about 1-3% of the atmosphere above the ocean and about 0-0.4% above the land. So, water vapor is not a problem either.

Carbon dioxide is not warming the Earth. To say it is to lie. It's cold in the winter and hot in the summer, and the sun has an 11-year cycle. Currently, we are at the peak of the cycle that will reverse between now and 2025.

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Judge Juan Merchan

Juan Merchan, the judge in President Donald Trump's "business expense" trial in New York, where a leftist Manhattan jury convicted him of 34 counts, has alerted lawyers in the case of possible juror misconduct.

That misconduct, apparently a discussion by a juror with a relative who reported, a day before the conviction, that the jury was going to convict Trump, could result in a mandatory new trial.

BREAKING: Judge Merchan has notified all parties in the New York case of a Facebook post made a day before Trump's conviction by someone who may have known one of the jurors. New York law requires the verdict nullified and NEW TRIAL held

"My cousin is a juror and Trump is… pic.twitter.com/wai4dFKHpL

— George (@BehizyTweets) June 7, 2024

The statement posted online said, "My cousin is a juror and Trump is getting convicted."

A commenter pointed out that that could be from any random person, without any connection to the jury.

"But I doubt it if Merchan is alerting the parties."

The case has been filled with untoward influences. For one, Merchan repeatedly has ruled against the defense on just about every issue. He criticized the defense lawyers for objecting to much, then later stated that some prosecution testimony was questionable and the defense lawyers should have objected.

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Merchan has his own appearance of conflict, as his daughter is a Democrat operative who has been fundraising off of the decisions her own father made in the courtroom against Trump.

But he refused to turn the case over to someone else.

The prosecution was by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg who said misdemeanor business records claims for which the statute of limitations had expired actually were felonies because they were part of another crime – and Merchan gave the jury permission to disagree on what that was – violating the requirement that jury verdicts be unanimous.

Bragg, further, had campaigned for office under the slogan of "get Trump," giving the entire case a political motive.

It is considered by many, including some who don't necessarily support Trump, to be part of a multi-case "lawfare" by Democrats against Trump to try to put him in jail during the 2024 presidential campaign. In fact, the other cases have hit roadblocks also, including one where the FBI admitted it tampered with evidence the prosecutor hoped to use against Trump.

The Gateway Pundit reported, "The jury deliberated for a little over nine hours before deciding on a still-unknown predicate crime assumed to be federal campaign violations. Judge Merchan bizarrely gave instructions to the jurors that they could all agree that a crime was committed, beyond the falsifying charges, but didn’t necessarily have to agree unanimously on which crime was committed."

It warned the new development "could call into question the entire case. The day before the conviction was handed down, a Facebook user by the name 'Michael Anderson' commented that Trump was going to be convicted, sourcing that claim to his cousin, who he claimed was on the jury."

Merchan responded with, "Today, the Court became aware of a comment that was posted on the Unified Court System’s public Facebook page and which I now bring to your attention. In the comment, the user, 'Michael Anderson,' states: 'My cousin is a juror and says Trump is getting convicted. Thank you folks for all your hard work!!!!'"

Another commenter pointed out that "Anderson" just implicated his cousin "in a crime," as "it is against the law for a juror to discuss the case before it is ended.'

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In Part 2, LoBaido addresses the fatalistic negativity of alleged "overpopulation," a lack of resources and other factors that can be successfully addressed with bold actions that don't require eliminating billions of people. LoBaido posits that humanity can marshal the intellectual, technological, financial and organizational capacity to chart a new and positive course for the future.

"First they ignore you. Then they insult you. Then they attack you. Then you win."

– Gandhi

The murder of the most vulnerable of humans – tiny precious babies in the womb – as championed by President Joseph Biden, Kamala Harris (the first vice president to campaign at an abortion clinic), the transnational elite and the World Economic Forum, can be reversed through the presentation of a positive pro-life narrative.

This narrative can – in part – be articulated by an "ambassador-at-large for the unborn" speaking for them at the United Nations, with each nation having the option of adding its own representative to this portfolio.

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It is obvious we live in a dysfunctional society. Globally, the transnational elites claim there are too many of us. They say we need to eat bugs and live in "15-minute cities." In the U.S., the cultural elites hate masculine men, naturally attractive-feminine women (especially homemakers) and innocent babies.

Our "leaders" want people to poison and cut up their babies, even after they are born, and sell off the body parts. We've had over 1.7 billion abortions on planet Earth since 1980. Not one of those babies had a voice in his or her sentencing with the death penalty in the most brutal manner possible, aka the horrific "silent scream."

Deconstructing the 'Official' Narrative

Joe Biden recently made the sign of the cross at a pro-abortion rally. With that in mind, let all normal people pivot to this Cosmopolitan narrative about women (remember this magazine is largely aimed at teenage girls) getting an abortion as a "Satanic ritual." Read and study it carefully. Satanists consider abortion to be sacred. The federal government, under "Catholic" Joe Biden, protects the Satanists, while leveraging the FBI against traditional Catholics.

Abortion is a divisive national and global issue. Watch as Ohio residents cheer their "successful" vote on killing babies, jumping up and down like the Duke vs. UNLV March Madness finale of yesteryear. We've witnessed American college girls dance and laugh as they promise to kill their babies. Watch it here. Some in Ireland celebrated legalizing abortion as if they had just won the Super Bowl. Look at them here. Argentina also voted to legalize abortion – just look as they cheer their "new normal" of killing babies in a wild celebration. Some even drank champagne to celebrate.

Argentina and Ireland were once two of the most Catholic countries in the world. Recall the Treaty of Tordesillas, when the pope divided the entire Earth between Spain and Portugal – perhaps the apex of Catholicism. Things have changed. Now "Catholics" like Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi promote abortion.

There are 330 million Americans. Only three are depicted above in the White House. Let us ask why Anthony Fauci (left) is one of those three – as Joe Biden signs the new law overturning the Mexico City policy.

Comedians Setting the Tone for National Discourse

Important issues in the U.S. have, for decades, been filtered through the lens of comedians. For example, Bill Mahr recently told his audience that the world's population should be allowed to collapse. He cited climate change and a lack of resources as a part of his rationale. Listen to his talk here. This is negative and fatalistic, yet it provides a starting point for dialogue, introspection and un-biased, accurate science.

Like most of us, Mr. Mahr has no scientific education we know of, nor any real-world experience related to the issues and conclusions he promotes as facts – overpopulation, alleged lack of resources and why we "need" fewer people in the world.

Does he know two-thirds of the world's population live in a 3,300-kilometer radius of the Valerie Pieris Circle, with the center being Mong Khet, Myanmar? Or that 7.8 billion people standing in military formation could fit inside the state of Arkansas – with the rest of the world available for agriculture?

Mr. Mahr may wish to consider other nuanced factors: the role of sun spots and solar winds, massive volcanic eruptions, gamma ray bursts and other phenomena contributing to changing conditions either on Earth and/or in our solar system.

We should also focus on issues often ignored by the public, such plastic in the oceans, which is now appearing off of Antarctica. Much of our military-grade (and commercial) nuclear waste is radioactive essentially for eternity – and more is being produced every single day. These are topics we can lobby Mr. Mahr to discuss on his show. Pro-life people need to get ahead of the curve with solving such problems.

We are dealing with intractable issues upon which rest the fate of humanity. They require a balanced approach free of the fatalistic de facto death cult of American and transnational elites. As an aside, imagine if Bill Mahr could have unborn children (not possible) or invite living children who survived an abortion attempt (such people do exist) appear on his television show.

Earth's Climate Constantly Changes

We know the Earth's climate has always been changing. Consider that cartoon of cave men watching a flower emerge at the end of the Ice Age, while one of them says, "Must be our fault." In the 1970s we were told an Ice Age was coming. It never came. There was a "Little Ice Age" in Europe circa 1666 that saw the Thames River freeze over. Yet life on Earth continued. With the failure of the non-Ice Age charlatans (cheered on mostly by the media, more than by academia) of the 1970s, the "elites" pivoted to "Global Warming," and then "Climate Change." One constant has remained steadfast: "The sky is falling."

Concerning the doom and gloom and the fear-mongering, the book of Revelation tells us horrible cataclysms are coming. Scientists and other pundits echo such claims – whether they mean to or not. There could be an EMP attack, another Carrington Event, nuclear war, a global earthquake and more tsunamis.

There could also be nuclear or biological terrorism. Look at the Aum Shinrikyo Cult in Japan, their level of technical expertise and their scientific "achievements." The WEF elites eerily echo Aum Shinrikyo via their nihilistic plans to "destroy the world to save it" through abortion, eliminating 7 billion people, ending oil, climate lockdowns, vaccine passports, ignoring biological sex at birth and ending national borders.

That said, the pessimism and negativity of the Mahr perspective will define our worldview and influence our future if we do not actively oppose it – and organize and work together to build a thriving, positive, happy future. The pro-life movement can help make this grand new narrative a reality.

Let's start here: Yes there are problems on this planet. We all can plainly see the piles of human feces on the streets, the used syringes, the broken, lost people, the failed facelifts making one look like a 26-year-old lizard, Monopoly money, robot soldiers on and on ad infinitum. The biggest problem of all is that we've yet to unleash the bold leadership, vision and entrepreneurial spirit to change the course of our destiny – so as to promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.

We need to build parallel structures for humanity – winning hearts and minds in our own virtual White House (remember the British burned it to the ground during the War of 1812 and St. Louis was going to be named the new capital until the New Madrid earthquakes hit circa 1812), new local governments, new state governments and a new United Nations. With technology evolving at our fingertips, we can unite to chart a new destiny for mankind. We do not have to submit to self-anointed "elites" we never met and did not vote for. Elites who we know deep in their hearts despise us as "deplorables" and wish us dead.

Bold Steps – The Answers Are Off Planet Earth

We have possible answers: The sun could be used as a giant furnace to burn up trash, waste, debris and hazardous materials. How do we get all of this refuse into outer space? Mankind could build space elevators, as the MIT Technology Review now says it is possible. Read about it here.

Water from Enceledus, one of Saturn's moons, can be brought to Earth. Build a space junker and bring that water to the Sahara Desert. We have sand and precious metals remaining on Earth. If we're going to run out, then mine them from a passing asteroid or another planet. Consider China and Russia, as well as India, are ready to mine Helium-3 on the moon. They are planning a lunar base at the South Pole of the Moon. This is not science fiction. This is science fact. Read about it here, here, here and here.

Argentina, if farmed properly, could help feed the entire world on its own. We throw away enough food every single day to feed the world. Construction materials are wasted every single day. We can build at least a tiny home for every homeless person. We have universities with many empty seats. If you don't have the money for Harvard or Michigan State, anyone can watch lectures on YouTube and order relatively cheap, used textbooks on eBay.

The world's land area is basically unpopulated. Take a look. Get on a plane and fly over Australia, Russia, China, Canada and the United States and see for yourself. Don't forget to check out this spatial analysis of Earth's empty space, "Nobody Lives Here."

Just as untold millions of Americans were reached last Autumn of 2023 with an Emergency Message via their iPhones, potential strategies to address the Earth's biggest environmental and man-made problems should be proposed, shared, evaluated and voted on by registered voters in real-time (and verified by retinal, fingerprint and voice security) – instead of being the domain of the elites offering us sound bites during election cycles.

Final Thoughts

Having babies is an amazing experience. Fewer and fewer are experiencing it as abortion, sterilization, infantilized men with no desire to lead a family, baby-killing women and transsexual phenomena grow. Some woke leftists see babies as a burden, with their own selfishness at a level so high the idea of having babies is something they refer to as "right-wing." Read Politio's piece articulating this strange notion.

It has been said that, "Babies are God's proof that the world should go on." Let us choose life and embrace the Right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Let us give the unborn due process, instead of cruel and unusual punishment.

Let us at least inquire if a de facto tangential reflection of R2P or "The Responsibility to Protect" should be applied to unborn children.

Let us inquire if Artificial Intelligence can be leveraged to give every expectant mother the help she might need in a crisis – money, a place to stay, doctors, counselors and more. Has such an AI project been tried?

Let us build an altar to God in defense of life, to the unborn, for babies, for families, for happiness and the joy of normalcy. Let us "be fruitful and multiply" as God commands in Genesis 1:28. Yes, our cities are overcrowded, as this maximizes control and advertising power for the elites. But this should not trick or deter us. We know we have the space to live. We can marshal the necessary resources. We can cut waste.

Meanwhile, the love and joy that comes from having babies needs to be articulated. This is so residents in Ohio, on U.S. college campuses, in Ireland and in Argentina will drink champagne, dance and cry tears of joy when babies are born – not when they are killed in the most vicious and painful manner possible.

The new world described above is within our reach. Even though Melinda French Gates just donated a billion Monopoly dollars to global abortion, ultimately her anti-life, anti-God efforts will not succeed.

Appointing an ambassador-at-large for the unborn to the United Nations will be a seminal moment in history. It will chart a new course for humanity and offer a forum to present new ideas to assist mankind.

Indeed, we are the people we have been waiting for.

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The nation is in the midst of a presidential election campaign. Four years ago, Hunter Biden's laptop was seized by the FBI and kept secret, while its alleged content was framed by official Washington as a clumsy Russian attempt to intervene in the election.

The alphabet media four years ago censored the laptop story, covering instead the fictitious Russia, Russia, Russia line it was fed by politicians running the Department of Justice. Now, the famous computer is being used again to misdirect the public's attention from national scandal to a minor paperwork "mistake" by an addled, drug-confused "son" of the president. The media cannot even bring themselves to call Hunter a man.

The focus of coverage now on the "laptop from hell" is a false statement on federal firearms paperwork. Was it intentional or accidental? The real question is why are we bothering with this trivia when millions of dollars reportedly exchanged hands between the Bidens and foreign governments?

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The FBI went to Delaware and seized the laptop, precisely to keep it secret. The bureau mission was not to investigate, as its title implies; it was to cover for Joe Biden. The FBI attempted to manipulate public opinion in favor of the Democrat Party, thereby interfering in a presidential election. The current courtroom drama is testament to how successful the FBI has been.

Legitimate news sources reported on the laptop content four years ago, but most of the alphabet media willingly joined in FBI charade.

As a result, the government coverup altered the course of the nation and the outcome of an election. The laptop story was not Russian disinformation; it was American government disinformation.

It does not get any more serious than that.

Yet, the Department of Justice apparatus has been able to suppress the content that shows the threats to national security, and allowed only a weapons charge, a personal violation of the law if proved, to proceed into the light. This trial is a sideshow. The FBI is handing the public a cookie, saying "good boy" – and it is business as usual.

Inquiring minds would like to know the extent of the financial conspiracy and if it borders on, or is, treason.

Does anyone think today the U.S. might owe the Russians an apology?

There are lies, and there are damn lies. These 51 former intel officials had personal access to sources that could confirm the veracity of the Hunter Biden laptop. Some, if not all, probably still retain their top secret clearances. They used that position of responsibility to lie.

This was not Russian political interference in a U.S. election, it was U.S. federal government interference in the national election, and it resulted in an administration that has brought international embarrassment to the United States and domestic discord.

One has to wonder if the American public will be fooled again.

The wonderment flows from the fact the handling of the laptop continues to obfuscate the very serious issues raised by the content and concentrate the public's attention to a firearms charge that is petty, personal and irrelevant. We are expected to accept the premise that lying on a federal form is the most important thing to come from that laptop.

The most important information on that laptop documents that Joe Biden and Hunter Biden were in it for the money and used U.S. foreign policy to get it. Official Washington is busy shouting at us, "Look over here!"

When Joe Biden labeled the laptop content "a bunch of garbage" it would have been an appropriate time for an inquiring press to ask the logical question: "When did you view the laptop and is there an official synopsis of its content the public might see?" If it is garbage, then release the content for the public to see.

The really important matter involves money and promotional positions with lucrative financial reward, which clearly could influence the then vice president of the United States. Combine that with the video of Joe Biden bragging at a Council on Foreign Relations event how he used his position to force Ukraine to do his bidding and block a corruption probe.

Now we are at war with Russia over Ukraine, hardly cause for a celebrated courtroom drama over what amounts to a paper cut.

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Last month, something horrible happened in Bethlehem. "Christ at the Checkpoint" is a clever name for a nefarious orgy of hatred organized by people who call themselves Christians, but who advocate for the destruction of Israel and the massacre of Jewish people. It is built on a biblically baseless foundation riddled with replacement theology, propagating the lie that God no longer has a covenant with the Jewish people.

I was reminded of this recently when a Christian friend in Pakistan contacted me to ask for my help. I cannot write anything that will reveal who or where she is, but her circumstances, along with that of many Christians in Pakistan, are harrowing. I, an Orthodox Jew, have been helping them for years.

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My friend and her family have been subject to multiple instances of persecution and assault. Recently, she and another family member were hospitalized due to Muslims beating them just because they're Christian. I've seen the X-rays of broken bones that will heal, but in a society that is hopeless in its hate. The most recent attack on her family is the third in recent months, as their persecutors try to force them to convert to Islam and force their women to marry Muslim men.

My friend is incredibly strong in her faith. I wish I could share everything that I know. But she, her family and countless other Christians live in fear. I have a number of Christian friends in Pakistan who tell me the same story.

She asked for my help because they fear for their lives. They need to leave Pakistan, to flee to another country.

She told me where they can go to claim asylum and how much it will cost. On the one hand, she is my friend and I want to help in any way I can personally. Because of my work building bridges between Jews and Christians, I am also focused on helping Christians who are in dire need, especially here in the Middle East, and especially when facing similar threats from Muslims as we do in Israel. From a human perspective, it's hard to say no.

Another friend has been asking me for months if I can help him get a visa to any country where he can find work. Unfortunately, I have no connections to help him, and even other Christians with links to Pakistan who I have asked to help have been unresponsive. You can walk across the Mexican border with no problem, but actually getting a visa to flee, that's an insurmountable problem.

I know that if it were possible, there would be an infinite number of Christians who would flee Pakistan and other Arab-Islamic countries. There's a timeless Jewish teaching that "he who saves one live saves the world." The Genesis 123 Foundation is committed to saving as many lives as possible.

This also reminded me of Tucker Carlson's recent horrible interview with Palestinian Christian Pastor Munther Isaac, in which he not only allowed, but propagated the lie that Christians in Palestinian areas are suffering at the hand of Israel. Carlson and Isaac blamed the suffering of Palestinian Arab Christians on Israel without once mentioning anything about Islam, or the actual Muslim neighbors who truly threaten Christians, and under whose control Bethlehem has gone from a city that was 80% Christian to less than 10%.

I also know the truth of Christians being persecuted and threatened in the Palestinian Authority, and in Israel, by their Muslim neighbors firsthand, from Arab Christians who share with me their frustration and fear.

Carlson asked rhetorically why more people don't stand up for Christians in the Middle East to set up a way to blame Israel rather than actually identify the cause. There is an answer. Since I have worked helping Christians in Pakistan, Turkey, Israel and the Palestinian Authority for years, my response is very clear. Christians typically are not as tribal as Jews, and do not see the suffering of Christians in other parts of the world as being something for which they have an inherent responsibility, or ability to overcome. Jews consider helping one another an imperative.

In the past, when I initiated major campaigns to help Christians in the Middle East, I have been frustrated with the lack of support, wondering why at least a million Christians don't donate $10 to make a real difference. Maybe $25.

Nevertheless, I cannot stop advocating for my friends, Christians living in Arab and Muslim nations, and for Christians in general.

For my friend's family of five it will cost $37,000 to pay for their visas, airfare and initial setting up of a home in another country. That's $7,400 each to give them a new life free of fear, free of violent assaults and with the ability to live as Christians. But it's also half of an average annual Pakistani income. So, the dream of leaving is no more possible than the unbearable nightmare of their reality. Somewhere in there is a clever Mastercard commercial. But this is life and death, and saving a single life is "priceless."

I discuss this with Christian friends frequently. It's one thing to be dispassionate and do nothing. But it's another thing to spread lies that make the situation for Christians in the Middle East even worse. Now, more than ever, facing the same actual enemies in extremist Islam, Jews and Christians must stand together.

As a network of Jews and Christians working together, worldwide, I have asked and received a warm response so far for people to join the Genesis 123 Foundation to make a difference and help at least this one family since there are far more persecuted Christians in Pakistan than those promoted to brigadier general.

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On Oct. 2, 2020, USCIS issued a release providing policy guidance regarding immigrants and their "inadmissibility based on membership in a totalitarian party." It explains why as follows:

"Membership in or affiliation with the Communist Party or any other totalitarian party is inconsistent and incompatible with the Naturalization Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America, which includes pledging to 'support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States.'"

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Simply put, one cannot serve two masters, and the master in the United States is our Constitution. But the Biden administration seems oblivious as to why this should pose an issue concerning Palestinian resettlement.

The inadmissibility of immigrants harboring totalitarian affiliations stems from two intentions of our Founding Fathers.

• First, there was to be no state religion. In other words, while all religions are welcome, none is to receive priority over another – i.e., all religions are equal.

• Second, underscoring the above, separation between church and state must be maintained. No U.S. government office can exercise influence promoting one religion over another. Thus, while the Catholic Church opposes abortion, the federal government cannot implement an abortion ban just to comply with Catholic Church doctrine as doing so would demonstrate favoritism for Catholicism over other religions that permit it.

Let us now examine how the above applies to Biden's Palestinian immigrant resettlement.

Palestinians in Gaza voted Hamas into office in 2006. Hamas, which was designated a terrorist group in 1997, has not allowed any elections since then. The Islamic beliefs of Hamas were known to the Palestinians who, by their vote, clearly demonstrated allegiance to its ideology – one encompassing intentions completely contrary, for those resettling in the U.S., to those of our Founding Fathers.

Hamas only recognizes one religion – Islam – along with the need that believers convert non-believers either voluntarily or by force to it or force them to subordinate their religion to Islam. One need only look to Muslim majority states to see the effort underway to purge, convert or kill non-believers.

Once Islamic supremacy is established, the vehicle for governance is a caliphate, which then dictates the behavior of the people by applying its law, known as Shariah. Any way you look at it, the head of the caliphate is a totalitarian leader.

The model for the above is already in play in Iran. The religious leader there, the Ayatollah Khamenei, ideally seeks to rule the world under an Islamic global caliphate. And, while it may be difficult to believe, even one of our NATO allies – Turkey – has been slowly retrogradingfrom a democracy to a caliphate as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan seeks a return to the glory days of the early 20th century and the Ottoman Empire – which operated as a caliphate under a sultan. Interestingly, were the world to be reduced to these two caliphates, despite both being ruled by Shariah, each would be fighting to eliminate the other as they represent different Islamic sects.

But, as should be clear under caliph rule, there is no separation of church and state as, under Islam, the two are blended into a single religious state, ruled by a caliph – a totalitarian ruler.

The first U.S. president to truly understand Islam, recognizing the threat it presented to democracy, was Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809). In fact, he kept a copy of the Quran in his personal library. His desire to learn about the religion was piqued even before he became president as a newly independent America was confronted by the reality of the Barbary pirates' caliphate.

While the good news for America was that it had won its revolution against England in 1783, the bad news was that it no longer had protection for its maritime commerce the British navy had provided. Thus, U.S. commercial ships navigating the Mediterranean Sea were attacked and captured by the Muslim Barbary pirates of North Africa.

Initial treaties were made with the pirates to pay tribute providing American vessels with safe passage. When Jefferson was ambassador to France, he met in London in 1785 with a Barbary ambassador to negotiate one such treaty. He queried the Muslim ambassador why U.S. ships were being attacked. The Muslim ambassador explained it was written in the Quran "that all nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet (Muhammad) were sinners, whom it was the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave."

Keeping the above in mind after becoming president, Jefferson commissioned the building of the U.S. Navy to confront what he knew would eventually come – war with the Muslim pirates – one in which America ultimately prevailed.

We cannot lose sight of the fact that, almost 240 years later, the intentions of the Muslim ambassador are really no different from those embraced by Hamas, which has been indoctrinating Palestinians accordingly. And Biden seeks to bring them to the U.S. knowing that based on these intentions as "good faith" Muslims, they cannot, in all honesty, take the oath of citizenship mandating they pledge to "support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States" as Islamic superiority to all other religions under a totalitarian rule is their sole mandate.

As if the above is not reason enough not to resettle Palestinian refugees in the U.S., we should heed the policy of all the Palestinians' Muslim neighbors who refuse to accept them.

Interestingly, concerning our citizenship oath, there is a concept in Islam that would allow Palestinian refugees resettling here with a way to end run it, known as "taqiyya." Islam enables its followers to exercise taqiyya by lying to non-believers, deceiving them for the sole purpose of furthering the religion only when believers are in a more powerful position to do so. Resettling Gaza's Palestinians in the United States puts them on the right track to achieve just such a position.

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A Democrat candidate for Congress is being offered a bit of advice from the Gateway Pundit after announcing her desire for "MAGA" supporters to be sent to a "re-education camp," after the 2024 election," even if Democrats see a "resounding blue wave."

The advice is for Paula Collins, who is seeking the seat for New York's 21st district.

"Psst, Collins: you’re not supposed to say that out loud. Democrats are expected to act as 'defenders of democracy' and pledge unity before cracking down on their political enemies," the report said.

It was Fox News that revealed Collins' agenda.

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She "suggested" those opponents to Democrats "should attend a 're-education camp' after the 2024 election — even if Democrats see a 'resounding blue wave,'" the report said.

Collins' comments came at a public Zoom townhall, the report said.

"Even if we were to have a resounding blue wave come through, as many of us would like, putting it all back together again after we’ve gone through this MAGA nightmare and re-educating basically, which, that sounds like a rather, a re-education camp. I don’t think we really want call it that," she said.

"I’m sure we can find another way to phrase it," she covered for herself.

"We currently have lawmakers, including Rep. Elise Stefanik, who mis-quote or mis-understand the law," Collins told Fox News Digital. "Even if MAGA were to be resoundingly defeated, we would need to engage in widespread civics education, which both red and blue voters acknowledge has been slipping in recent years."

She claimed there's a basic misunderstanding of the different routes in the justice system, the state system and the federal. She actually is seeking Stefanik's seat.

Stefanik's senior adviser, Alex DeGrasse, noted Collins' agenda is offensive to many.

"This radical New York City Democrat Socialist who literally is renting a bed and breakfast room in NY-21 was caught on tape saying she wants to force Trump voters through 're-education camps.' Everyone knows she will be defeated by Elise Stefanik by a historic margin."

The Gateway Pundit jumped on Collins' comments, explaining she "spilled the beans and revealed the complete Marxist nightmare likely in store for fans of President Trump if Democrats win in November."

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I like to check the latest weather forecast every morning. I want to know what to expect for the day. I don't know why I do this, because I probably could predict the weather more accurately on my own. That's because bald men are always the first to know when it's raining.

Jesus warned, "When it is evening you say, 'It will be fair weather, for the sky is red'; and in the morning, 'It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.' Hypocrites! You know how to discern the face of the sky, but you cannot discern the signs of the times" (Matthew 16:2–3 NKJV).

And writing to the church in Thessalonica, the apostle Paul said, "But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you. For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night" (1 Thessalonians 5:1–2 NKJV).

Bible prophecy is a fascinating subject to explore. But we must never study prophecy or the events the Bible describes as happening during the end times in a merely academic way. When we read about these events, it should always move us and give us a sense of compassion, because we're reading about a real judgment that will come upon the world.

We see in the Old Testament that when God revealed to Daniel how end times events would play out, Daniel was stunned and unable to say a word. It moved him. And it should move us as well.

As we consider the nearness of Christ's return, it should cause us to want to reach out to unbelieving friends, family and loved ones. It should affect the way that we live and motivate us to live more godly lives.

John wrote, "Dear friends, we are already God's children, but he has not yet shown us what we will be like when Christ appears. But we do know that we will be like him, for we will see him as he really is. And all who have this eager expectation will keep themselves pure, just as he is pure" (1 John 3:2–3 NLT).

All around us are signs of the times telling us that Jesus Christ is coming back at any time. It's like a storm that is brewing. You don't know when it will happen, but you know it's coming. In the same way, we can interpret the times and the seasons. As we see what is happening in the world and the state it's in right now, we know that Christ's return is near.

Paul went on to say, "Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night. But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation" (1 Thessalonians 5:6–8 NKJV).

"Therefore let us not sleep, as others do." It seems like some people in the church are perpetually jet-lagged. They aren't watching the times and seasons. There's a passiveness, even a laziness, and a disconnect between their personal life and their spiritual life. Instead of walking in the Spirit, they're walking in their sleep.

Paul was saying, "Look, you need to awaken from your spiritual sleep, from unresponsiveness and inactivity concerning the things of God. Wake up! Pay attention!"

Sometimes we can be lulled into a spiritual slumber. We can become content, well-fed Christians as we read the Bible and go to church, constantly taking it all in. The problem is that we need an outlet for the truth we've received in our lives. God doesn't give us these truths to merely hoard. He gives us these truths to share.

"But let us watch and be sober." When I became a Christian, I met some believers who thought I needed to be more sober, because I was always joking and trying to have fun. But being sober doesn't mean that we can never smile or laugh. It simply means that we are to be clearheaded, alert and steady. It means living with our eyes open.

Some people assert that Christians are out of touch, that we are so heavenly minded that we are no earthly good. What nonsense. No one does more for the world than those who are heavenly minded. As I have often said, wherever you see great relief organizations, you see Christians reaching out to people, regardless of their beliefs or lack thereof. It is the Christians who are showing compassion in every practical way.

"But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation." The apostle Paul spent a good deal of time under house arrest, chained to a Roman soldier. He could closely observe their armor, and in this text, he mentions two pieces in particular: the breastplate and the helmet.

The breastplate generally was made of leather and protected the soldier's vital organs. And notice that Paul referred to it as a breastplate of "faith and love" not a breastplate of feelings. We are to live the Christian life by faith, not by fickle emotions that come and go. We are to have faith and love for God and his people.

Next was the helmet, which obviously was of vital importance. We need to put our helmets on and protect command central, because most temptations that come to us will come in the realm of our minds. It's in our minds that we reason, contemplate and imagine. We can reach into the past through memory and into the future through imagination. That is why we need to guard our minds.

Not only that, but "the hope of salvation" Paul referred to is the hope that salvation gives us. Our eternal destiny is secure. And we are to take the salvation that God has given us and live it out, applying it in every area of our lives as we await the return of Christ.

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Dr. Anthony Fauci peddles COVID-19 shots in a Washington, D.C., neighborhood

Anthony Fauci, the ex-chief of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, a key promoter of the COVID-isn't-from-the-Wuhan lab ideology as well as the shots mandated for the China virus, already has provided a disruption in Congress by triggering Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

The congresswoman from Georgia told Fauci he should be in jail:

And it appears Congress is not yet finished with Fauci.

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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, on Friday dispatched a letter to him demanding that he appear before the committee and Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government "for a transcribed interview regarding his involvement in the Biden White House's censorship efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic."

Jordan's announcement explained that in 2021, while chief medical adviser to Biden, "senior Biden White House officials … engaged in a monthslong censorship effort."

Already, he said, there's evidence from Facebook that "one of the world's largest social media platforms censored the lab leak theory because of 'pressure' from the Biden White House."

In fact, that COVID came out of that lab, which was doing gain-of-function experiments on bat viruses, making them more dangerous, is assumed now.

Jordan wrote to Fauci, explaining, "The Committee on the Judiciary and Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government are conducting oversight of how and to what extent the Executive Branch has coerced or colluded with companies and other intermediaries to censor Americans' speech. We believe that you are uniquely positioned to aid the Committee's oversight, as you served as Chief Medical Advisor to President Biden and Chief Medical Advisor for President Biden's COVID-19 Response Team. During your tenure, the Response Team participated in extensive efforts to unconstitutionally monitor and censor Americans’ speech on social media platforms. Accordingly, we request that you appear for a transcribed interview and produce documents relevant to our investigation."

The letter explained it was during that time frame that the Biden White House was pursuing that censorship campaign, when, "you and other bureaucrats reportedly 'sidelined' Dr. Robert Redfield, then-Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) because he 'had a different point of view' and believed the virus 'came from a Wuhan lab.'"

The letter noted that Fauci claimed, during his earlier testimony, he "kept an open mind" about the lab-leak explanation and did not play a role in the "push to downplay" the concept.

"This is false on its face. It is also contradicted by Facebook's decision to remove content about the lab leak theory because of 'pressure' from the Biden Administration, particularly the Response Team, of which you were a member," Jordan wrote.

"To better understand how and to what extent the Executive Branch has coerced or colluded with companies and other intermediaries to censor Americans’ speech, we respectfully request that you appear for a transcribed interview before the Committee."

Further, the letter charges that reporting from the Coronavirus Select Subcommittee alleges Fauci was part of "a conspiracy amongst the highest levels of [National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)]" to hide records about COVID.

That campaign allegedly involved deleting official records and more.

Because of that, the committee wants documentation of communications from 2019 to the present about "moderation, deletion, suppression, restriction, demonetization, or reduced circulation of content, or the accuracy or truth of content."

The letter instructs Fauci to reach out to the committee staff members to schedule the interview, and to provide the documents no later than 5 p.m. on June 21.

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Mark and Patricia McCloskey defending their St. Louis home June 28, 2020 (Video screenshot)

They've been pardoned by the governor and their records have been expunged by a judge, so St. Louis, Missouri lawyers Mark and Patricia McCloskey want their guns returned.

They say they'll sue the city if they don't get them.

They have been in the headlines on and off ever since that June 2020 march by Black Lives Matter activists into their private neighborhood when they feared the danger the marchers offered, armed themselves with guns, and stood in their front yard.

The case has had its ups and downs, and initially it was resolved when they submitted guilty pleas to misdemeanor charges. However, they later were pardoned by Gov. Mike Parson.

With the courts still refusing to order their weapons returned, they petitioned to have their records expunged and that now has happened.

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"It's a matter of the Second Amendment; it's a matter of the government not having a right to take private property without just cause and without compensation," Mark McCloskey told the Daily Mail.

It was Judge Joseph P. Whyte who ordered the records cleared, despite claims from city officials that the couple remained a threat.

"It seems the parties have attempted to make political arguments in this proceeding," Whyte pointedly noted. "This court, however, is required to look only at the relevant language in the statute."

The McCloskeys explained they felt threatened by the BLM marchers passing their home. In other cities, marches assembled by BLM in the wake of the Minneapolis death of George Floyd burned entire city blocks, leaving behind hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.

They now say the city can return their guns that were seized earlier, or face a lawsuit.

They originally were indicted by a grand jury in 2020 on felony counts of unlawful use of a weapon, but those later were amended to misdemeanor harassment.

The case was brought by the scandal-plagued Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, who shortly later was asked to resign over her mishandling of an armed robbery case, and ultimately walked away from the office in 2023.

The original plea deal involved Mark's guilty plea to misdemeanor assault and Patricia's to misdemeanor harassment.

The governor's pardon followed shortly later and now the expungement has been approved.

WND reported last year on a ruling from an appeals court that they could not have get the guns back.

That ruling claimed the pardon cleared the couple of guilty, but that's not the same as innocent.

The ruling said the pardon removes any conviction, but not guilt.

WND reported when the case result left a far-left member of Congress, who took part in some of the Black Lives Matter marches during the infamous 2020 summer of riots and destruction across America, unleashing a rant over a pardon for the McCloskeys.

At the time, U.S. Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., included a not-so-veiled threat.

"His day will come," Bush said of the McCloskeys.

Rep. @CoriBush, who took part in trespassing on the McCloskeys’ property, threatens the family after they received a gubernatorial pardon: "Mark McCloskey is an absolute liar. He has spat on my name. And because of that, his day will come." pic.twitter.com/XEe5DNOxKM

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) August 4, 2021

Bush, who was in the march that went to the McCloskey property, charged that, "His day will come."

None of the marchers was charged by Gardner, but she accused the McCloskeys of holding weapons.

Then she was ordered off the case by an appeals court that ruled she had tried to advance herself politically using the case.

A lawyer for the McCloskeys explained the two were armed because they were concerned because the "demonstrators" broke down a gate to get onto the private street where they lived and "threatened" them.

The McCloskeys, however, already may have had the last laugh.

In photographs posted online earlier, McCloskey grinned from ear to ear while showing of his new AR-15. The caption says, "Checking out my new AR! #2A #MOSen"

Checking out my new AR! #2A #MOSen pic.twitter.com/Qa5UKupXSX

— Mark McCloskey (@mccloskeyusa) June 19, 2021

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Rob Schneider

Comedians deliver jokes about everyday topics because people recognize the situations, and sometimes laugh at the circumstances in which they've found themselves.

So social faux pas are topics, embarrassment is a topic, insults are a topic, and much, much more.

But not for the Hospital of Regina Foundation.

Its officials cut short a set by Saturday Night Live alum Rob Schneider recently because his jokes were, well, on forbidden topics.

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And hospital officials officially apologized for the humor.

It is the Regina Leader Post that revealed Schneider's jokes included those about vaccines, the COVID pandemic, the LGBT ideology, and more.

The comedian was the main entertainment for the recent Four Seasons Ball, which in fact raised more than $350,000 for hospitals in Regina.

The report explained, "In recent years, the former SNL performer and long-time Hollywood actor has become an outspoken critic of vaccines — specifically since the COVID-19 pandemic — and has performed material including jokes targeting LGBTQ2+ and trans people."

It reported those topics were included in Schneider's comedy set, and witnesses said he was booed.

So the hospital jumped into the politically correct mode: "While we recognize that in a free and democratic society individuals are entitled to their views and opinions and that comedy is intended to be edgy, the content, positions and opinions expressed during Mr. Schneider’s set do not align with the values of our foundation and team."

The foundation statement continued, "We do not condone, accept, endorse or share Mr. Schneider’s positions, as expressed during his comedy set and acknowledge that in this instance the performance did not meet the expectations of our audience and our team."

While making a name for himself on SNL in 1990-1994, Schneider later starred for Hollywood in projects including "Deuce Bigalow," "Male Gigolo," "The Hot Chick, " "The Animal" and others.

At Mediaite was the complaint that one attendee said "everyone in the room was groaning."

The report said people "reportedly stood up and begun (sic) walking out…"

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Taliban fighters

A federal watchdog report reveals that after America had been at war with the Taliban for two decades, the Joe Biden administration now has delivered at least $11 million in U.S. taxpayer funds to the terrorists. Probably much more.

A Center Square report posted at Just the News explains much of the cash has been delivered through various aide groups that get federal tax dollars.

And, the report warns, "experts" suggest the actual total Biden has delivered to the Taliban could be much higher.

The Taliban, previously in control in Afghanistan, took control again within days of Biden's abrupt decision to yank American troops out, a scheme that cost American lives and left behind tens of billions of dollars in American war machinery for the Taliban to use or sell.

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Further, Biden left behind hundreds of Americans and thousands of Afghanis who had worked with the American presence there for years – all in danger of death at the hands of the Taliban.

The report cited the conclusion of SIGAR, a federal watchdog, which found, "The U.S. government has continued to be the largest international donor supporting the Afghan people since the former Afghan government collapsed and the Taliban returned to power in August 2021."

The report continued, "Since then, the U.S. government has provided more than $2.8 billion in humanitarian and development assistance to help the people of Afghanistan."

The report also found "the $10.9 million paid by 38 U.S. Department of State, U.S. Agency for International Development, and U.S. Agency for Global Media implementing partners is likely only a fraction of the total amount of U.S. assistance funds provided to the Taliban in taxes, fees, duties, and utilities because UN agencies receiving U.S. funds did not collect data or provide relevant information about their subawardees' payments."

SIGAR, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, explained, "To carry out their programs, U.S. agencies rely heavily on nongovernmental organizations and public international organizations, such as the UN, to implement humanitarian and development assistance. Both the former Ghani administration and the current Taliban-controlled government benefited from U.S. aid by imposing taxes, fees, duties and utilities on implementing partners as a condition of operating in Afghanistan."

The report noted that an independent government watchdog, Judicial Watch, previously documented how the Taliban created fake nongovernmental organizations to "siphon away" tax dollars.

That group reported, "Since the terrorist group returned to power in August 2021, Uncle Sam has continued to fund Afghanistan's education sector through six programs that cost $185.2 million even though the Taliban has issued decrees drastically limiting access to education for girls and women as well as restricting women's ability to work and other basic freedoms."

"SIGAR has reported on the importance of U.S. funds being spent on U.S. priorities and not in ways that benefit the Taliban, which represses women and girls, denies the human rights of the Afghan people and remains unrecognized as a legitimate government by the U.S. government and the international community," the watchdog said.

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James Dobson

James Dobson, founder of the James Dobson Family Institute and FamilyTalk radio, has been blunt over the years in calling out sin, including among America's leaders.

He's advised five presidents on family matters and was inducted in 2008 into the National Radio Hall of Fame. He authored more than 70 books including, "The New Dare to Discipline," "The New Strong-Willed Child," "When God Doesn’t Make Sense" and "Bringing Up Boys."

He's been called, by secular publications, the country's "most influential evangelical leader," and also helped found the high-profile Family Research Council in the 1980s.

Now he's being joined by two other leaders in his organization, Vice President of Public Policy Gary Bauer and Family Institute President Joe Waresak, in soliciting signatures on a letter calling out Joe Biden.

They right now are asking supporters to join in signing the document.

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"We write to you," they are telling Biden, "with grave concern about the radical agenda your administration is imposing on the American people. When you ran in 2020, a major theme of your campaign was to bring America together. Instead, your actions have indisputably divided the country. You and your most dedicated allies in Congress regularly demonize and dehumanize anyone who holds Judeo-Christian or conservative values, as well as anyone who dares to resist your agenda to deconstruct the morals, laws, and freedoms that have sustained our great Republic.

"Mr. President, the moral and constitutional framework that sustains our Republic is at risk of collapsing due to your ill-advised and un-American policies. We urge you and your administration to seriously consider your overwhelmingly low approval ratings and failing policies and take immediate corrective action. We, the people of the United States, expect nothing less from our leaders and will pray to this end."

And they submitted a list of Biden's actions and policies "that are irrevocably damaging our country."

He is, first of all, "threatening our democracy."

"You have weaponized federal law enforcement against your political opponents. The lawfare your allies have waged against former President Donald Trump is reminiscent of a Soviet show trial, not our constitutional Republic. We are quickly losing our moral credibility to promote freedom and democracy abroad," they charge.

Further, he's attacking the First Amendment and is "undermining" the Supreme Court," putting at risk the justices "physical safety."

He's also "undermining religious liberty."

Multiple "regulations, directives and mandates" are restricting the religious conscience rights of people and organizations, and his FBI "infiltrated and monitored Catholic churches, while your IRS harasses religious nonprofits," the letter charges.

Third, he is destroying parental rights, especially on the subject of education, and, as he's made abortion one of his major term goals, he's mobilized the whole of government to promote the deaths of the unborn in defiance of his own "expressed Catholic faith."

"This has even led to the sentencing of elderly grandmothers to multiple-year jail terms for peacefully demonstrating in line with their sincere religious beliefs," the letter explains.

He's turn racist, using rhetoric that amplifies racial divisions for political gain, and threatened the very existence of the U.S.A. by "allowing millions of people who we can't possibly 'vet' to enter our country—many from nations that are enemies of the United States."

He's threatened women with his transgender ideologies and tried to appease "campus anti-Semites and radical Islamists in Congress" through his meddling in Israel's internal policies.

He's weakened America with his forced agenda of abortion and same-sex marriage around the globe, compromised the nation's sovereignty by giving power to the World Health Organization, and his massive deficits have triggered an inflation that has exploded to 20% since he took office, threatening America's economy.

Further there are his attacks on law enforcement, and he's launched his administration on a campaign to harm the nation through a "non-scientific lie that a child can be trapped in the wrong body."

The letter is accompanied by list of references documenting the truth of the charges.

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Dr. Phil McGraw

Legacy media has little desire for letting President Donald Trump deliver his ideas and plans to the American people.

Social media likewise, with the major platforms limiting his speech at some point.

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But here's an hour of his thoughts, delivered in an interview with Dr. Phil.

My one on one interview with President Donald Trump. In depth. No holds barred. A must watch. pic.twitter.com/a5SuCgVsdW

— Dr. Phil (@DrPhil) June 7, 2024

He talks about the lawfare, Gaza, Russia, and his own supporters.

And he addressed his opponents and critics: "We drive them totally crazy, because we're doing the right thing."

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An Irish Bull is a logically absurd blunder of speech that accidentally, often delightfully, expresses an underlying truth. The term goes back to an 18th-century member of Ireland's Parliament, Sir Boyle Roche (1736–1807).

Like Joe Biden, Sir Roche was known for embarrassing verbal gaffes. Once, seeking to inspire, he proclaimed, "All along the untrodden path of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand."

While his meaning was obvious and the truth expressed profound, the image of an "unseen hand" making a "footprint" reads as if penned by ill-behaved literary leprechaun.

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As Trump supporters, alarmed by the weaponization of Biden's DOJ, measure the aftershock of the guilty verdict in the rigged Bragg/Merchan show trial, I offer Sir Roche's poised reassurance. Marching toward November's presidential election I, too, "can see the footprints of an unseen hand."

Those "footprints" began appearing instantaneously after the verdict, leaving a curiously $$$ shape, some 300,000,000 of them at last count. Each $$$ footprint was created by nimble fingers furiously clicking "Donate," a stampede temporarily crashing the contribution site.

I can see other footprints along Trump's post-verdict path to the White House. One set of prints leaves an unexpected, yet crystal clear, impression from the bottoms of the soles of their once-proudly worn shoes: "Never" (on one shoe), "Trumper" (on the other).

Such footprints suggest that post-verdict Never Trumpers now realize, from the reluctant bottoms of their souls, that they must support Trump and his soon-to-be-announced, all-important VP pick.

What other choice do they have, sharing with Trump supporters the conviction that Biden must be ousted from a White House whose actions are undermining the democracy they pretend to be saving?

The verdict allows the Biden campaign to shift from their evermore transparently hypocritical "Threat to Democracy" charge to the newest Trump moniker: "Convicted Felon."

It will be a welcome shift in narrative for Democrat voters, where the question, "Who's the real threat to democracy?" has begun to gain a bit of traction. Even a few of their Democrat pundits have questioned the fairness of the trial – and on CNN, no less! – their moral integrity rising above their peers who, by triumphantly gloating over the biased verdict, willingly yoke themselves to the GLOAT (Greatest Liar Of All Time).

Will the campaign's "Convicted Felon" emphasis work? Time will tell, but initially the "footprints" suggest that the impact will be minimal.

In the aftermath of the guilty verdict, many Americans are offering a simplified version of an Irish Bull, calling "Bulls—t" on the obvious election interference of Bragg's selective prosecution.

Conservative Americans see the DOJ's lawfare for what it is, a Leftist Holy Grail quest guided by the Stalinist formula, "Show me the man and I'll show you the crime." Bragg campaigned for office declaring his intention to do precisely that.

Americans sense that our republic lost something vital last week in Manhattan, something that will be difficult, perhaps impossible, to recover. Our grave loss was captured by Biden's soundless and soulless smirk when asked if Trump was a political prisoner, his creepy grin met by America's growl at the weaponization of justice.

The phrase "weaponization of justice," inexhaustibly used during Trump's interregnum, has biblical foundations. As a student of Hebrew literature, the key passage connecting the two words "weapon" and court" is Isaiah 54:17.

Seeing "footprints of an unseen hand," Isaiah offers a message to the marginalized people of Israel that, despite appearances to the contrary, at the very moment they seem defeated, God is still in control and will bless his people.

Here is Isaiah 54:17 from the Message translation, where I've highlighted two words: WEAPON and COURT (adding a third word redolent of the Trump trial ... LIAR).

No WEAPON that can hurt you has ever been forged.
Any accuser who takes you to COURT
will be dismissed as a LIAR ...
I'll see to it that everything works out for the best.

I offer my commentary on this passage with a disclaimer. Isaiah's words convey a promise spoken to Judah. Not to Donald Trump. Not to me. Not to you.

Still, the passage cries out against sham trials, possessing meaning for any defendant in a trial with lying witnesses and biased judges.

Anywhere. Anytime. You. Me. Republican. Democrat.

And, Donald Trump. While the irresponsible verdict will almost certainly be overturned, that doesn't matter to Biden. Election interference was the driving purpose all along, and Trump's newly sported "Convicted Felon" name-tag their high reward for pursuing it so craftily.

The prophets of the Hebrew Bible had much to say about mishpat (Hebrew = Justice), a word used over 400 times to remind us that sham trials have been a repugnant reality from the beginning of humans seeking strength through living together.

The perversion of justice is a clear and present danger to any society, so much so that the crucial task for any country's justice system is to guard against such. That DOJ duty becomes especially vital for trials having the perception of a political motive, where not only is an individual life impacted, but an entire nation.

In this essential task, the Biden Justice Department has failed, miserably. So profound has been the botching of its pact with America that one can imagine future historians wrongfully imagining the term, "Trumped up charges," to have had its genesis during the 2024 election cycle.

Providence will be kind to Biden if someday his gaffes come to be viewed as fun and innocent, like Sir Roche, rather than the heated and blustery gaffes of a president who seems intent on deepening America's deep division.

I can see a grinning Joe Biden repeating this Sir Roche original Irish Bull: "Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue."

Biden came close, in a recent speech in Tampa, to saying exactly that. Castigating Trump, he angrily vented, "I don't know why we are surprised by Trump. How many times does he have to prove we can't be trusted?"

Run, bull, run!

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So, why is Joe Biden running for reelection? Why do Democrat Party leaders allow him to run for reelection? Their inaction clearly tells America that the current vice president, Kamala Harris, cannot be allowed in the White House. She is simply too unpredictable and irascible for the bureaucracy to accept. In other words, she does not know what to do and is too stubborn to do what she's told. Her word salads are the product of an extremely low IQ, not physical deterioration.

So one plausible reason for Biden to continue to this point is to enable the party to solve the "Harris" dilemma at the Chicago convention, and then make a switch from Biden to the new veep after the Jan. 20, 2025, swearing-in ceremony. That assumes Mr. Biden has until January.

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U.S. elections always hinge upon pocketbook issues, but this time, given the dire condition of U.S. leadership, the American public needs to consider foreign policy, too.

The reelection of Joe Biden would provide Russia with a window of opportunity to finish off Ukraine. Timing is critical, as Biden has provided Ukraine with U.S. fighter jets that can do a hell of a lot of damage to Russia. China would be unrestrained when it comes to Taiwan. Iran wants to dominate the Middle East, and Biden has already blocked weapons to Saudi Arabia and to Israel and done as much as he could possibly do to finance the Iranian expansionist dream.

If U.S. voters think Biden deserves four more years, confidence in the viability of America as a partner or ally will be squandered. After Biden called for Israel to overthrow its elected leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, leaders everywhere asked themselves, "Who trusts this guy?" Foreign leaders graciously try to help Biden find the "X" and later get off the stage.

The world will wait before it reacts to the loss of U.S. leadership, but if Mr. Biden makes it through the election, every nation with a grudge, every nation that covets its neighborhood's territory, will be unrestrained by anything Jill Biden and the Obama team of bureaucrats can do to respond.

The domestic situation America faces is even worse.

Joe Biden may believe the economy is humming, but if you talk to the staff at the supermarket, or express dismay at the price of a nut, washer and bolt at the hardware store, the response is the same. Prices are out of control and people's credit is maxed. We are in serious financial difficulty. Faced with that reality, the "rule writers" at every federal agency are frantically advancing as many restraints upon life as possible just in case voters take away their Joe Biden.

Having just traveled the road to oblivion with a most precious family member, it is unfathomable that no one close to Joe Biden cares enough to take him home where he obviously loves to be, and spends time with him on the beach so he can be happy. As he attempts to do the impossible, to function as he once did, the frustration is clearly there in his short bursts of anger. Why is his family allowing partisan, power-hungry hacks to engage in such ugly elder abuse?

That question perhaps is a little naive considering the abuse just handed out to the previous president by these same people. There are a lot of people in power today that are not kind or tolerant or even mildly pleasant.

Across the board, from Ukraine and Israel, from Venezuela to Africa, other nations couldn't care less about us. At home, America policy serves those in charge at the government agencies, not those who labor in the farms and factories.

Americans once swaggered and boasted, "We're the best!" Now they cringe at pronouns. Folks, it is time for a good ass-kicking from Washington, D.C., to Sacramento, California. Let's retire the ruling class.

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This controlling paradigm that steers America and the entire Western world assumes as fact that leftward movement is social progress and rightward movement is regression. It relegates rightists to the permanent, limited role of foot-draggers, who, at best, conserve the status quo of the moment – for a moment – before capitulating. The elites recognize the value of incrementalism, so they use conservatism like downshifting to a lower gear when the speed of "progress" creates excessive anxiety in the population. However, while the slowing of leftward "progress" can be tolerated until society "catches up" with the new norms, any rightward movement that actually rolls back leftist gains is "regressive" by definition and can never be allowed to stand.

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The only true threat to the elites is populism, properly understood. True populism is best recognized in the American founders' concept of collective self-governance, by sovereign individuals, exercising inalienable natural rights backed by law. This true populist paradigm necessarily presupposes a law-giving Creator to whom all individuals equally owe allegiance – negating any right of self-serving tyrants to impose laws at odds with the will and best interests of the governed.

Like any social phenomenon, populism spans a spectrum of many variations (including Republican and Democrat forms – e.g., the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street), but in terms of purity all are measured against the founders' model as outlined in their Declaration of Independence from the tyrannical British Empire. But tyranny never really died in America, it just moved to the shadows for a while and then reemerged with a new name and playbook rooted in the two-party system. We modern populists call our generation of controlling elites the Purple Uniparty because their cabal operates as a single controlling and unifying strata across the top of both the Red and Blue parties.

However, everywhere the progressive/conservative paradigm operates, whether it's a two party, multiparty, or fully centralized one-party system, the controlling elites use the same strategy to defeat populism: polarization. They divide us to conquer us, and it usually works.

The elites know that their self-serving social changes always breed populist resistance, but gradual change is too slow for their purposes, so they follow a pattern of pushing big waves of rapid "progressive" change followed by periods of "conservative" cool-down. And they intentionally set a goal further than they can reach, so their later "retreat" from the furthest extremes of their unreachable goal looks to the public looks like a compromise. It's the Marxist dialectic of two steps forward, one step back being purposely played out on the grandest of scales: nationally and globally.

Now populism is not naturally a left/right political phenomenon but is more properly measured by the strength of one's preference for liberty vs. top-down control, or one's inclination toward natural systems and lifestyles vs. artificial ones. Left alone, populist-minded people have much more in common than they disagree upon. But deliberate issue-driven political polarization causes people to take sides to the left or right – and through many cycles of repetition has the cumulative effect of increasingly hardening each side in positions toward the extremes.

The elites know that the Left is easier to manipulate because leftists are (generally speaking) more susceptible to subjectivity and emotionalism, while (generally speaking) those on the right are more oriented toward objectively measured standards and rationality. Interestingly, that's how God designed women and men, respectively, explaining why the most polarized generation in American history – Gen Z – is so heavily divided by sex on culture war issues. The girls are clustered on the left, the boys on the right.

Thus, the waves of social "progress" are purposefully created – top down – by driving the collective left into an emotional frenzy on "social justice" issues, which in turn aggravates the ever reactive right wing to respond with a similar extreme. In other words, leftist extremism creates it's own corollary opposition on the right: Antifa-type movements tend to produce their own Proud Boys-type opposites. (And where they don't emerge spontaneously, or aren't extreme enough, the deep state will produce and arm them.)

But here's the tricky part for the elites, and the secret to how the populist right could lead the populist left into a workable coalition capable of overthrowing them. The great weakness of the left/right polarization strategy is the reliance on "conservatism" to always neutralize the right wing by making its members focus on "conserving" the status quo instead of completely reversing and replacing it with a true-populist alternative based on the rules established by the founders.

Now that the continual cycles of left/right polarization have finally divided the human race by sex, it would represent the highest form of poetic justice for the male right-wingers to wise-up and man-up to their natural leadership roles – and to collectively woo the female left-wingers back to their natural womanly softness by appealing to their hearts: finding common ground – two by two – on the basics of what it means to be truly human and turning their backs on the elite transhumanist agitators trying to de-humanize and drive them apart. Picture (and pray for) a million Romeos and Juliets defying the artificial rules and boundaries imposed on them by the controlling authorities (but, unlike in Shakespeare's tragedy, surviving and marrying to breed a new generation of true populists).

The arbitrary rules of social change we're suffering were written by self-serving men who hate both God and humanity. But the absolute and universal Law of Sex was written in our very flesh by God who created us male and female in His own image. Under this law there is no greater power than the true love of a man for a woman and a woman for a man. It's this law of love – and sex – from which civilization springs, a law woven into our very being that makes us break down every barrier that stands in our way to reach the other, physiologically complementary half of us who makes us whole: one flesh. No human rule or transhumanist fantasy can trump that. No twisted LGBT lunacy – no matter how relentlessly forced upon us – can change His binary design written in our cells.

The human rules don't matter – and can't control us – if we choose and follow the higher law. As the founders taught us, "resistance to tyranny is obedience to God," and vice versa! To best resist today's tyrants, trust and obey God's heterosexual mandate with enthusiasm.

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In a decision seen has a huge warning to activist prosecutors, the state Supreme Court in Florida has affirmed Gov. Ron DeSantis' removal of a George Soros-backed prosecutor.

State Attorney Monique Worrel was removed from office in August 2023 after the governor accused her of "dereliction of duty."

He had charged at the time, "The practices and policies of her office have allowed murderers, other violent offenders, and dangerous drug traffickers to receive extremely reduced sentences and escape the full consequences of their criminal conduct. In some cases, these offenders have evaded incarceration altogether."

Worrel sued to regain her title and office, but the 6-1 ruling from the state Supreme Court shut her down.

"We cannot agree with Worrel that the allegations in the Executive Order are impermissibly vague, nor that they address conduct that falls within the lawful exercise of prosecutorial discretion," the opinion said.

A report from Fox News confirmed the court's ruling was clear: "We have said that a suspension order does not infringe on a state attorney’s lawful exercise of prosecutorial discretion where it alleges that such discretion is, in fact, not being exercised in individual cases but, rather, that generalized policies have resulted in categorical enforcement practices."

Soros, the far-left billionaire activist, funds a wide range of progressive, even extreme, agendas. One of those is to donate significantly to campaigns of far-left prosecutors, who then use the justice system to crack down on conservative activities and give a pass to sometimes very serious crimes.

DeSantis had charged that Worrel's practices "undermine Florida law and endanger the safety, security, and welfare of the communities that Ms. Worrell was elected to serve."

During her 2020 campaign, Worrel had gotten support from Our Vote Our Voice, a group that got $1 million from the Soros-funded Democracy Now, the report said.

DeSantis also had ejected another prosecutor, Hillsborough County state attorney Andrew Warren, a year earlier when he refused to enforce the state's abortion ban.

That also was affirmed, by a federal court.

A RedState report explained the court ruling reads like Worrel, "was judging cases not individually but by creating categories of not offenses but offenders, some of whom, as the saying goes, were more equal than others."

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Steve Bannon

A federal judge has ordered longtime Trump adviser Steve Bannon to report to jail July 1 for a four-month sentence for refusing to testify to ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's partisan Jan. 6 investigating committee.

That now-defunct group, partisan because only Pelosi was allowed to pick its members, orchestrated witnesses and testimony to try to portray President Donald Trump as guilty of something for the rioting that happened amid a protest Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol of Congress' decision to adopt the Joe Biden election victory.

Bannon was ordered by Democrats to testify about Trump, and he declined, based on Trump's decision to invoke executive privilege over the information – a move that Democrats refused to accept.

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The court in his case claimed he could not show that Trump indeed invoked that privilege.

Bannon noted that the lawfare orchestrated by Democrats from Joe Biden down against Trump and his associates will not succeed.

"They're not going to shut up Trump. They're not going to shut up Navarro. They're not going to shut up Bannon. And they're certainly not going to shut up MAGA."

The order for Bannon came from U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, who lifted his previous stay on Bannon's four-month sentence.

However, there still is time for Bannon to seek a review from the full appellate court, or the Supreme Court.

"My stay of Mr. Bannon’s obligation to self-surrender is revoked," the judge said. "I do not believe that the original basis for my stay of Mr. Bannon’s sentence exists anymore."

It's the result of a contempt citation from the then-Democrat controlled Congress.

Bannon hosts the popular War Room podcast that attracts tens of thousands of fans.

Earlier, another Trump adviser, Peter Navarro, began serving his four-month sentence for not responding the way the committee demanded.

Bannon’s lawyer, David Schoen, said outside the court that Bannon’s previous lawyer informed him that "when executive privilege has been invoked, you no longer have to comply with a subpoena."

A report at RVMNews said Democrats had demanded he provide documents and testify before the House committee, which was killed when Republicans took the majority in the House.

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There's been a stunning development in the horrific case in Wyoming alleging a mother tortured her teen son with beatings and by withholding food: The alleged victim's grandmother is accused of feeding the teen's young sibling laxatives to try to disrupt an FBI interview that was part of the investigation.

It is the Cowboy State Daily that documented the new allegation against Karen Jule Rider, 62, of Fremont County, who was taken into custody on the order of U.S. Magistrate Judge Teresa McKee.

She faces one count of witness tampering that carries a possible life sentence.

The details were in a federal case made public in U.S. District Court for Wyoming by Assistant U.S. Attorney Cameron J. Cook.

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Court documents reveal Rider is the mother of Kandace Sitting Eagle, aka Kandace Van Fleet, who is scheduled for trial later this month on assault charges "for allegedly torturing her 13-year-old son in her home on the Wind River Indian Reservation," said the report.

When that case developed and Sitting Eagle was arrested Dec. 12, 2023, Sitting Eagle's other five children were placed in Rider's care.

The report noted, "In the hours or days after their mother’s arrest, three of the children, ages 4, 6 and 8, reportedly told investigators that their mother, Kandace Sitting Eagle, and her husband Truman Sitting Eagle had 'beat up' the teenage boy."

They told investigators at the time their brother was locked in his room and they described a lock on his bedroom door, according to court filings.

One confirmed food was withheld from the alleged victim, who was found by Bureau of Indian Affairs Officer Matt Lee injured and hungry, hiding in a crawl space under the family's home, the Cowboy State Daily said.

However, the affidavit confirms that months later, when the children were being interviewed in the U.S. attorney's office in preparation for the trial, they went silent.

"Each of the children were brought into the meeting individually, and when asked about something happening to their brother, the victim, each child effectively stated that they did not know or could not remember," an FBI affidavit from agent Adrianne Culver said.

The report explained, "One child got back into the lobby and met with his or her sibling. 'What did you tell them?' asked the sibling in the lobby, reportedly. 'Nothing,' answered the sibling who’d just been interviewed, the affidavit relates."

Then Sitting Eagle made a phone call, from jail, later to her mother, and, "Rider reportedly told Sitting Eagle that just before the FBI meeting, she gave the youngest child — who is now 5 — coffee, prune juice and chips because 'they make him go potty.'"

The report said, "Rider allegedly said she hoped the child would make a mess and be in the 'sh-----' at the U.S. attorney’s office…"

"Rider further stated that she told him if he said anything about his mom, they were not going to let her out of jail," the affidavit said. "She told the children not to talk to strangers, that the FBI were strangers, and it was not OK to talk to them."

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Large numbers of schools across America, run by leftists trained in the LGBT agenda, have adopted schemes to promote those alternative lifestyle choices to children – and keep the details a secret from parents.

It's a campaign that Wisconsin parents now are challenging before the U.S. Supreme Court.

A report at The Federalist explains the fight is from the Eau Claire district.

The report describes the district's gender-identity policy as "a big middle finger to the basic principles of parental rights."

Thus, the fight by parents.

The petition to the Supreme Court was filed by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty and America First Legal asking for intervention in the fight.

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It is in "Parents Protecting Our Children v. Eau Claire Area School District."

There, school officials are accused of facilitating "gender identity transitions at school" amid schemes to keep this hidden from parents."

Lower courts claimed parents weren't injured by the practice.

The report noted, however, "the parents are directly affected by the pro-transgender policy, WILL notes in the appeal to the Supreme Court. It’s a policy of secrecy that could keep them in the dark about a matter of urgent parental concern. And the erosion of parental rights through similar school policies is happening nationwide, the court filing asserts."

Luke Berg, deputy counsel for WILL, said, "Thousands of school districts across our country have these policies. If parents cannot challenge them until after their children are harmed, they have no way to protect their kids other than pulling them from public school."

The question facing the court is, "When a school district adopts an explicit policy to usurp parental decision-making authority over a major health-related decision — and to conceal this from the parents — do parents who are subject to such a policy have standing to challenge it?"

The filing charges that education industry officials in public schools now have made school "like Las Vegas: 'What happens at school stays at school.'"

The Eau Claire district boasts it wants to have "inclusive and welcoming environments that are free from discrimination, harassment, and bullying regardless of sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression."

To that end, the school has teachers ask students what they want to be called as well as what bathroom and locker room facilities the students wish to use.

They also are to ask about what "transition plan," involving social, medical and surgical components, the students adopt.

The report noted the issue exploded into the national conversation when a staff member at Eau Claire North High posted a sign, "If Your Parents Aren’t Accepting Of Your Identity I’m Your Mom Now."

Teachers had been instructed that parents "are not entitled" to know some details about their own children.

Board president Tim Nordin openly has doubled down on the campaign, that it is "within the rights of the students and families."

But the facts are that parents have primary rights in the lives of their children, and the legal teams point out that courts have decided over and over that parents have a "fundamental constitutional right to make decisions concerning the rearing" of their own children.

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Joe Biden looks on as Attorney General Merrick Garland delivers remarks during a Medal of Valor ceremony, Monday, May 16, 2022, in the East Room of the White House. (Official White House photo by Adam Schultz)

Merrick Garland, Joe Biden's pick to be attorney general, soon will be informing Americans, through his actions, whether he is the "apolitical" law enforcement expert he promised to be, or not.

That's the verdict from constitutional expert Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University.

Turley has testified multiple times before Congress as an expert on the Constitution.

His comments arose because of a referral by members of Congress of Hunter Biden and James Biden to the Department of Justice for lying to Congress.

The question now is what will Garland do with those referrals, which he is not required to prosecute.

Turley wrote, "For each of us, there often comes a moment when our principles are put to an undeniable and unavoidable test. It may be as simple as cheating on a test, shoplifting a product, or admitting to a wrong. It is natural to want to avoid such moments, particularly when we cannot even admit to ourselves that we may not be the person we have long claimed.

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"For Attorney General Merrick Garland, that moment of truth has finally arrived. Garland has long maintained that he is an apolitical attorney general who does not even consider the political consequences of his actions. Over the last three years, some of us have questioned that commitment in a series of actions or, more importantly, non-actions. Yet, Garland has always been able to evade responsibility by shifting decision-making to others or claiming a lack of knowledge."

But the referrals now leave Garland no room to "maneuver."

Three House committees, Oversight, Judiciary and Ways and Means, have accused the two Bidens of perjury.

"The evidence of false answers to Congress is overwhelming and Garland’s department has prosecuted Trump associates and others with far less in past cases, including the prosecution of former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn," said Turley.

He quoted from the charges from Congress:

"During his deposition, Hunter Biden made false statements about holding a position at Rosemont Seneca Bohai (RSB), a corporate entity that received millions of dollars from foreign individuals and entities who met with then-Vice President Biden before and after transmitting money to the RSB account that then transferred funds to Hunter Biden. After deposing Hunter Biden, the Committees obtained documents showing Hunter Biden represented that he was the corporate secretary of RSB.

Additionally, Hunter Biden during his testimony relayed an entirely fictitious account about threatening text messages he sent to his Chinese business partner while invoking his father’s presence with him as he wrote the messages. Hunter Biden testified he had transmitted this threat to an unrelated individual with the same surname. However, documents released by the Committee on Ways and Means demonstrate conclusively that Hunter Biden made this threat to the intended individual, and bank records prove Hunter Biden’s Chinese business partners wired millions of dollars to his company after his threat. A portion of the proceeds has been traced to Joe Biden’s bank account.

During James Biden’s transcribed interview, he stated that Joe Biden did not meet with Tony Bobulinski, a business associate of James and Hunter Biden, in 2017 while pursuing a deal with a Chinese entity, CEFC China Energy. His statements were contradicted not only by Mr. Bobulinski, but Hunter Biden. Mr. Bobulinski also produced text messages that establish the events leading up to and immediately following his meeting with Joe Biden on May 2, 2017.

"Both men knew and prepared for these questions. They were widely discussed before their testimony. They appear to have knowingly lied. The question is what Garland is now prepared to do about it," Turley said.

He noted he supported the Garland appointment at the time, believing "his claim that he would not allow political considerations to cloud his judgment."

But then he "grew more critical as I saw Garland struggling to avoid decisions that would work against President Biden or his family."

He noted in cases involving Trump associates, the DOJ jumped into action with grand juries.

Now it is up to Garland to meet his "moment of truth," or shrink from it.

The referrals come from Reps. James Comer, R-Ky., Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Jason Smith, R-Mo.

They are leading the House impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden, and they detailed in a letter the "overwhelming evidence" of felony false statement and perjury violations.

They included in their letter to the DOJ 60 pages of documentation "about the lies."

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There's been no small content of lies among the statements Joe Biden has delivered: He claimed inflation was 9% when it took office; it was 1.4%. He claimed he knew absolutely nothing about son Hunter Biden's international business deals; evidence shows he met with principals. He claimed he's talked with international leaders – after they were dead.

Now his campaign has joined, apparently.

It called out as a "blatant lie" a news reporter's statement that actually was the truth.

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Social media statements document the sequence:

Fox host tries to claim Trump, not President Biden, capped insulin at $35/month

FACT CHECK: This is a blatant lie. Trump did not cap insulin costs, President Biden did for seniors through the Inflation Reduction Act. Trump’s Project 2025 wants to repeal it, which would raise… pic.twitter.com/iDrrBKEIhf

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) June 3, 2024

Fox News host John Roberts hits back at the Biden campaign after they accuse him of a ‘blatant lie’ over his reporting that Trump capped insulin at $35 a month

After providing the receipts showing it was Trump, not Biden, who capped insulin costs, John adds: "We invited a… pic.twitter.com/PV0Ma1Nnir

— TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) June 4, 2024

"Fox News reporter John Robert catches Biden campaign in a lie and brings all the receipts," charged the Gateway Pundit.

Not willing to let the Biden campaign get by with its latest falsehood, that a $35 cap on insulin for patients was due to Joe Biden, not President Donald Trump, Roberts responded:

"Yesterday, coming out of a segment in which the $35 insulin co-pay under the Inflation Reduction Act was mentioned, I remarked that I recalled back in May of 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that stated President Trump had a plan to lower insulin co-pays to $35. The Biden campaign’s rapid response issued a post on X saying the following: 'Fox host tries to claim Trump, not President Biden capped insulin at $35 a month. Fact-check: This is a blatant lie.' But there are receipts to dispute the Biden campaign’s claim about what I said."

He then outlined the evidence to support his reporting.

On social media, Roberts obviously had won fans:

"Well done John!"

"Good for you John!"

And there was one loaded with sarcasm: "The Biden campaign lied about something?"

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President Nayib Bukele saved El Salvador. He may have the blueprint for saving the world. pic.twitter.com/92etFh7sSI

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) June 6, 2024

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Brandon Fellows reacts to Anthony Fauci testimony June 3.

"What's somebody like that doing at a hearing about COVID?" Anthony Fauci asked a CNN host. As shall be seen, there is more to this question than meets the eye.

Fauci was referring to the mischievous January 6 veteran Brandon Fellows. Fellows was thrown out of the subcommittee hearing Monday for making faces behind Fauci while he talked.

I had the pleasure of meeting Fellows in D.C. during the Ashli Babbitt Freedom March on Memorial Day. We walked and talked together for a few blocks. He is a character.

As the marchers headed down Massachusetts Avenue toward the D.C. jail, with American flags and Trump flags flying, the neighbors, all white, felt free to shout the most vile epithets their limited imaginations could conjure.

Laughing, Fellows joked back that he had just been paroled to the district a week earlier and was pleased to be their new neighbor. His good nature only enraged his critics more. As I said to Fellows at the time, "This is your jury pool."

A dozen members of that pool saw to it that Fellows went to prison. His crime was to enter the Capitol through an open door and put his feet up on the desk of U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., while smoking marijuana.

He hurt no one, broke nothing. Now just 30, Fellows had been incarcerated since July 2021 and remains on probation.

As to what "somebody like that" was doing at the Fauci hearings, the government's abuse of individual freedom during the COVID reign of terror helped radicalize Fellows.

"COVID lockdowns in N.Y. told me I wasn't supposed to work," said Fellows in his pre-sentencing memo. "All the while not giving me any money, they instead threatened fines on people who worked."

Fellows was not alone in his outrage. In researching my new book, "Ashli: The Untold Story of the Women of January 6," I was surprised to find just how direct a role COVID oppression played in inspiring people to go to Washington.

Of the 10 women I profile in the book, nine were outspoken COVID dissidents. Ashli Babbitt, the woman shot and killed on January 6, had a perfectly apt name for COVID, the "controla virus."

"We are being hoodwinked. The sheep need to wake up," Ashli posted on social media. A sign on the door of her and her husband Aaron's pool supply business captured the take of most J6 protesters.

The Babbitts declared the business a "mask free autonomous zone, better known as America." Another sign read simply, "If you need to wear a mask outside, I'm not sure we can help you."

Living in San Diego, Ashli was the only woman of the 10 to fly to Washington. Rather than deal with oppressive airline regulations, the other nine drove or went by bus.

Rebecca Lavrenz, a great-grandmother from Colorado, refused to wear a mask under any circumstance. As a nurse, she knew the masks were "ridiculous," but more to the point, she did not like the idea of people "taking away her liberties."

In 2020, she sought out people like herself willing to go maskless in a grocery store even at the risk of being kicked out. Through these new affiliations, she got involved actively in politics and worked her precinct on behalf of Donald Trump. "I knew I had to do something," said Rebecca. "Politics are local."

On Dec. 8, 2020, Idaho's Yvonne St Cyr was arrested at an anti-mask rally in Boise at the Central District Health Department. She refused to cover her nose and mouth, she said, because "I have a right to breathe oxygen."

Yvonne's defiance of Idaho's lawless COVID restrictions did not sit well with the local apparatchiks. As CNN matter-of-factly reported, Yvonne "was placed under citizen's arrest by a staff member."

Rachel Powell found herself banned from local farmers' markets in western Pennsylvania where she sold her cheese and yogurt. In an article on Powell, Ronan Farrow traced her resistance to the "misinformation" and "conspiracy theories" about COVID that were being spread by Trump and others.

In a foreshadowing of what would happen after January 6, the heavily indoctrinated Americans felt empowered to monitor and report on their fellow citizens.

"Random people became citizen cops preventing you from living your life doing ordinary things," said Dr. Simone Gold, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor. "I was watching Nazism unfold."

In May 2020, Dr. Gold recruited some six hundred physicians to sign an open letter to Trump protesting the lockdowns. She showed up at the Capitol on January 6 as a respected physician/attorney and founder of America's Frontline Doctors, but she, too, left as a "domestic terrorist."

"One important lesson I've learned over the last few years," said the undaunted Dr. Gold in January 2024: "When they try to discredit you by labeling you a conspiracy theorist, it's probably because they're hiding a conspiracy."

At the House committee hearings this week, Dr. Fauci listened contemptuously as one Congress member after another rattled off the disastrous consequences of the COVID policies he set and the desperate efforts he has made to cover his sins.

Yet for the major media, the takeaway message was that a J6er made faces while Fauci spoke.

Jack Cashill's, new book, "Ashli: The Untold Story of the Women of January 6," is now available in print and ebook. Audio to follow.

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Russian philosopher Aleksandr Dugin recently sat down with Tucker Carlson to discuss the failures of Western atheistic liberalism. He argues that it all began with the Anglo-Saxon idea of individualism, which was the wrong concept of human nature, as it severs man's relations to everything else around him. It tears down the collective identity and introduces relativism and the revolt against the traditional morality that created stability and order in Western civilization.

The concept of the individual set apart from the group is a key concept in the current liberal ideology so influenced by Marxism that has dominated the West since the fall of the Soviet empire in 1991. Francis Fukuyama rightly pointed out, says Dugin, that there are no more remaining ideologies in the West except for this type of liberalism.

Mark that this is not the historic liberalism of John Locke; read more about this here and here. The traditional Western liberalism was all about freedom of choice, democracy, personal responsibility, religious tolerance, equality among its citizens to prevent the elites' abusing power, all the while individually pursuing personal goals.

Step by step, this modern Marxist form of free-sex, free-drugs liberalism without moral boundaries preached the gospel that freedom is the "liberation" of the individual from any kind of collective identity: freedom from the family, freedom from fidelity, sexual boundaries and marriage, freedom from duty and responsibility, freedom from the church, freedom from bearing children, freedom from any moral constraints on the self.

With total legitimization of nihilism, everything is now permissible. National unity is no longer an ideal as people identify solely with subgroups in society based on race, religion, ethnicity, gender – and fight endlessly amongst each other. The destruction of the nation state is the next goal toward the total decimation of traditional democracy. "There is only one step left," Dugin says, "to arrive at the ends of this process of liberation and that is the abandonment of human identity. To be free from humanity, to have the possibility to choose to be human or not human, that is the political ideological agenda of tomorrow." He speaks of the transhumanist agenda, openly declared as a goal by WEF leader, Klaus Schwab and his good friend, Israeli professor Yuval Noah Harari.

It all began with the implementation of atheism and thereby the fierce hatred against religion and traditions. Yet, the Marxist quest for removing the influence of historic ethics, which had motivated individuals to compassion and goodness toward others for thousands of years, overlooked vital points: It ended up, to many atheist scholars' surprise, such as Europe's most important philosopher, Jürgen Habermas, weakening the collective sense of compassion, humility and empathy in society. It ended up legalizing selfishness. This became especially evident from the 1960s onward, as the founding ethics of "love one another" were no longer preached to the same degree as before. It was not fashionable to speak about the Ten Commandments as vital ideals to maintain stability, order and justice. Today, egocentrism, pride, greed, lust, dishonesty and hedonism have substituted for the classic virtues and become socially acceptable standards.

In the Templeton Prize Lecture in 1983, the famous Soviet dissident, novelist and Nobel Prize laureate, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, said: "It was Dostoevsky who drew from the French Revolution and its seething hatred for the Church the lesson that 'revolution must necessarily begin with atheism.' That is absolutely true. The world had never before known a godlessness as organized, militarized, and tenaciously malevolent as that preached by Marxism. Within the philosophical system of Marx and Lenin and at the heart of their psychology, hatred of God is the principal driving force, more fundamental than all their political and economic pretensions. Militant atheism is not merely incidental or marginal to communist policy; it is not a side effect, but the central pivot. To achieve its diabolic ends, communism needs to control a population devoid of religious and national feeling, and this entails a destruction of faith and nationhood."

He adds: "The entire 20th century is being sucked into the vortex of atheism and self-destruction. This plunge into the abyss has aspects that are unquestionably global, dependent neither on political systems, nor on levels of economic and cultural development, nor yet on national peculiarities. And contemporary Europe, seemingly so unlike the Russia of 1913, is today on the verge of the same collapse, for all that it has been reached by a different route. Different parts of the world have followed different paths, but today they are all approaching the threshold of a common ruin."

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However, when it comes to our elected officials, mental irresponsibility cannot so easily be dismissed. We expect them to be knowledgeable about any and all issues coming before them in Congress. Sometimes an issue may not be before them but they create one by making a random post clearly demonstrating they know little about what they speak.

The latest members of Congress to recently self-create such an issue are two members of the radical Squad – Reps. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Cori Bush, D-Mo. Exposed to the light of day was their failure to grasp the purpose of a national day of recognition that has existed for more than a century and a half.

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The Veterans Administration shares the historic background of Memorial Day which was set aside as America's "foremost annual day to mourn and honor its deceased service men and women." Originally established as "Decoration Day" in 1866, it was formalized in 1868 as Memorial Day to be commemorated by "praying, according to … (one's) individual religious faith, for permanent peace." Its importance was underscored by the declaration, "That Nation which respects and honors its dead, shall ever be respected and honored itself."

While Bush was born in America and Omar came here as a child, it is inexcusable that either would not understand the sole significance of Memorial Day. Yet, both did not, based on social media posts they made, which were quickly removed only after the congresswomen were educated on the issue by irate social-media users.

Omar originally wrote:

"On #MemorialDay, we honor the heroic men and women who served our country. We owe them more than our gratitude – they have more than earned access to quality mental health services, job opportunities, housing assistance, and the benefits they were promised."

Perhaps someone more knowledgeable on Omar's staff realized the dead are no longer able to earn access to such benefits, so her post was replaced with:

"On Memorial Day, let's say thank you to the brave men and women who selflessly sacrificed their lives in service to our country. Thank you to the families who also have sacrificed and have dedicated their time to ensuring their loved ones are remembered."

Not to be outdone in displaying a similar lack of knowledge about Memorial Day, Bush initially wrote:

"This #MemorialDay & every day, we honor our veterans in St. Louis. We must invest in universal health care, affordable housing, comprehensive mental health services, and educational & economic opportunities for our veterans as we work to build a world free of war and violence."

After Bush also received a quick education on Memorial Day's purpose, the above was replaced with:

"This #MemorialDay, we honor those who served and lost their lives for our country, and we hold in our hearts the loved ones they've left behind. We must continue to push to protect our service members while working to build a world free of war and violence."

If Omar and Bush were unable to understand something as basic as the purpose of Memorial Day, it should give us pause to wonder what they truly understand about the myriad of issues that come before them and impact on our lives. God help us! It also explains why these two congresswomen rarely comprehend doing that which is in America's best interests.

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Violence erupts at UCLA amid anti-Israel protests on Tuesday, April 30, 2024.

College campuses in the United States became the scene of pro-Palestinian "protests" starting immediately after Hamas terrorists from Gaza invaded Israel and butchered some 1,200 civilians, often through horrific torture like burning whole families together, last Oct. 7.

Now two of the organizations that orchestrated those "protests" are being sued.

For being propagandists for those Hamas terrorists.

A report from CBN explains the lawsuit filed in Virginia accuses American Muslims for Palestine and National Students for Justice in Palestine, both of whom espouse anti-Semitic views, of collaborating with Hamas terrorists to be their "propaganda division" in America.

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Arsen Ostrovsky, of the Jerusalem-based International Legal Forum, told CBN, "These groups are the primary drivers of what we're seeing happening across campuses in the United States, which have effectively become a second front Hamas since October seventh."

He is working in conjunction with Greenberg, Traurig, a U.S. legal team, and the National Jewish Advocacy Group.

"They are acting and serving in collaboration and coordination with Hamas, essentially as propagandists and collaborators on campus to try and promote the Hamas extremist ideology," he said.

Anti-Semitic "demonstrations" began at Columbia University right after Hamas' terror attack on Israel, and have spread from coast to coast.

Anti-Israel protests at Columbia University on Sunday, April 21, 2024

"Hamas issued a call to action. And the very next day, SJP and their affiliates throughout the United States – they answered that call. They answered that directive. They created a toolkit, a manifesto for chapters across the United States, echoing the language, the terminology, the instructions by the Hamas terror group, and propagated that across campuses," Ostrovsky explained to CBN.

The cases charges that those groups have become foot soldiers for Hamas.

"There are nine plaintiffs, including Americans and Israelis as well," Ostrovsky said, seeking compensation for the damages done.

They include victims and survivors of the Nova massacre.

The legal fight includes the goal of shutting down the groups by documenting their violations of the U.S. Anti-Terrorism Act.

"They are the ones fomenting the hatred, the anti-Semitism, the harassment of Jewish students," Ostrovsky said. "We need to shut them down. And we can do that legally by branding them as a terrorist organization, as a collaborator of the Hamas terror group, and making sure once and for all they cannot be active on campus."

Muslim terrorists with Hamas fire a barrage of rockets against Israel on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023

He said ultimately the fight will be not only on physical battlefields, but also in courtrooms.

"Today what we're seeing is that the state of Israel is being demonized and vilified and delegitimized and painted as a pariah. Where we're seeing the international law not only being misused but being turned into an act of lawfare against us for the simple act of defending our citizens, trying to bring back our captives," Ostrovsky stated.

He said not only to terrorists in Hamas need to be held accountable, so do those who enable the agenda, that support them.

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Democrats are noted for their campaigns to bully the Supreme Court, another branch of government that is separate from their legislative power structure.

It was U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who at one point threatened that justices wouldn't know what hit them.

If they ruled against Schumer's agenda.

An ethics complaint later was filed over his threat, made outside the courthouse, "I want to tell you [Neil] Gorsuch. I want to tell you [Brett] Kavanaugh]. You release the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won't know what hit you."

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It was when the court was considering an abortion case, and the threats were so egregious that even Chief Justice John Roberts called them "dangerous." Other Democrats have threatened to "pack" the court with their own hand-picked judges in order to gain a majority and the case outcomes that they want.

Now it seems that other Democrat senators could be in ethics case trouble – because of their verbal and written onslaughts against the justices.

These potential offenses, however, go deeper that simply an unwise bluster.

They involve the fact that the senators are members of the Supreme Court bar, those elite lawyers recognized and allowed to argue before the court.

As such, they are required to meet a higher standard for their behaviors.

And they haven't been.

A report from Fox explains Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., offered the suggestion that Democratic lawmakers are out of bounds ethically for making "recusal demands of the Supreme Court."

It was after reports of flags flown at flown at Justice Samuel Alito's home arose.

"Sens. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., 'potentially engaged in unethical professional conduct before the court,' the Republican leader claimed in floor remarks on Wednesday. Both are members of the Senate judiciary committee," Fox reported.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.

McConnell noted, "Three of our colleagues have taken it upon themselves to write to the chief justice and demand Justice Alito’s recusal in cases. One went so far as to tell the chief that he should strip Justices Alito and [Clarence] Thomas of the ability to write majority opinions unless they recuse from the cases liberals don’t want them hearing."

The ordinary "disgraceful bullying" by Democrats of judges in one thing, he said. This is another.

"These senators are telling the chief justice, privately, to change the course of pending litigation," charged McConnell said. And that's "ex-parte communications," which are banned.

Those are communications between any party and a judge without the other parties in a case being made aware. It's why all of those courtroom dramas show the judge instructing both sides to "approach the bench" when a question arises.

McConnell noted both Blumenthal and Whitehouse "appear to be members of the Supreme Court Bar."

"They are officers of the court and bound by a different set of rules than a mere senator," he explained.

McConnell said the behavior might even be subject to discipline.

Democrats, when told of an upside-down flag briefly flown at Alito's Virginia home, immediately demanded he step aside of any case related to the 2020 election.

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Jack Smith

"Special counsel" Jack Smith's case against President Donald Trump over documents from his presidency that he had in his home is facing several obstacles.

For sure it's not going on the timetable Smith has demanded: a trial as soon as possible and a conviction for sure before the November election.

There are allegations about how those documents came to be in Trump's possession – perhaps the government turned them over. There are serious problems because the FBI already has confessed that its agents tampered with the evidence Smith hopes to use in court. There are claims about selective prosecution, since Joe Biden was let off the hook for the same actions. And more.

And now the federal judge handling the case has scheduled a hearing on the question of whether Smith's case is legitimate at all – whether he has any authority to bring such a case.

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It is the Washington Examiner that documented that Judge Aileen Cannon has released an order scheduling a June 21 hearing on the dispute.

She said legal scholars will be allowed 30 minutes apiece to argument whether Smith "may or may not have been legally appointed" by Biden's Department of Justice.

Among those expected to make presentations are South Texas College of Law professor Josh Blackman; attorney Gene Schaerr, a former clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia representing ex-Bush and Reagan administration U.S. Attorneys General Michael Mukasey and Edwin Meese; and Matthew Seligman, an attorney representing an anti-Trump coalition.

They earlier were allowed to file written arguments on the dispute.

"Blackman will represent Landmark Legal Foundation and law professor Seth Barrett Tillman to argue Smith is not an 'officer of the United States' but rather an 'employee' whose 'appointment is inconsistent with the separation of powers and political accountability," the Examiner reported. "Schaerr will provide the argument that the special counsel is a 'principal officer' whose appointment by Attorney General Merrick Garland should require a Senate confirmation."

Court filings charge that Smith simply has no authority to prosecute the case. Some contend he wasn't appointed properly, or confirmed by the Senate. Others argue that the position he holds doesn't grant him to power to bring such a case.

President Donald J. Trump

Seligman will argue for Smith's authority. Several high-profile names are behind this argument, including anti-Trump Harvard professor Laurence Tribe and ardent Trump critic George Conway.

The judge's announcement came just as Biden's attorney general, Merrick Garland, was denying to Congress that his DOJ has been weaponized against Trump, despite the fact that Democrats have orchestrated at least four major criminal cases against Trump just as he's challenging Democrat Biden for the presidency.

One "show trial" already has concluded in New York with guilty verdicts to accounting system entries in the Trump organization where jurors convicted him of describing his legal fees as legal fees.

The Democrat operative there, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, took misdemeanors that were beyond the statute of limitations and claimed they were felonies because they were in furtherance of another, unspecified, crime.

Trump's campaign immediately took in tens of millions of dollars in donations within hours after the verdict, and his support jumped in several subsequent polls.

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., confronted Garland about the dispute, charging, "What gives you the authority to appoint a special counsel to create … you’ve created an office in the U.S. government that does not exist without authorization from Congress."

WND reported when the dispute developed that former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese and professors Steven Calabresi and Gary Lawson already have filed a 25-page brief in the Supreme Court pointing out that there's no constitutional authority for Garland's assignment to Smith to do such a high-level criminal investigation.

The reason? He's a private citizen and not confirmed by the Senate.

The experts charge "a lawfully appointed special counsel would have had to serve in the Justice Department after being appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate. Lawful special counsel appointments in the past, they said, included Patrick Fitzgerald, who served as U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, Rod Rosenstein, who was also a U.S. attorney, as were John Huber and John Durham."

Their filing charges, "What federal statutes and the Constitution do not allow, however, is for the attorney general to appoint a private citizen, who has never been confirmed by the Senate, as a substitute United States attorney under the title ‘special counsel.’ That is what happened on November 18, 2022. That appointment was unlawful, as are all the legal actions that have flowed from it."

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The Boeing Starliner on the launch pad moments before liftoff Wednesday, June 5, 2024, from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

STARS AND STRIPES: NASA astronaut gives all-American speech before lifting off to space in historic Boeing Starliner launch. https://t.co/6O7AGjYr5H pic.twitter.com/FUngQ7Fq9d

— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 5, 2024

Liftoff video NASA’s Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test Launch this morning. pic.twitter.com/Hd4B7Ot7xW

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Gov. Jared Polis, D-Colo., performs his own rendition of 'Feliz Navidad' on Christmas Eve 2023

For at least the third time, the state of Colorado's anti-Christian agenda has been cited – and condemned – by the federal courts.

The latest ruling said the state broke the law by excluding Catholic preschools from a universal preschool program – solely because those schools consider religious affiliate in making enrollment decisions.

It is the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty that explained a federal court ruling cites the state's illegal exclusion of those preschools from a program that funds 15 hours per week of free preschool to more than 40,000 families.

During its first year, it benefited families with children in private, public and faith-based preschools.

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But leftist activists inside the state's bureaucracy refused to authorize benefits to families who sent their children to St. Mary's and St. Bernadette's Catholic preschools because those institutions ask families to share their Catholic beliefs.

The court found, in its 101-page opinion, that the state's discrimination "created an unworkable scheme that breaches the appropriate limits on state power."

The court found the state had "no compelling interest" in its discriminatory policy.

"Last year, a different federal judge in Denver also issued a ruling against the state, in a case brought by a separate religious preschool raising similar claims," Becket reported.

"Of course a Catholic school shouldn’t be punished for caring about its students’ religion," explained Nick Reaves, a Becket lawyer. "Colorado richly deserves this injunction, as it did the earlier one."

The schools explained the state's discrimination violated the Free Exercise, Free Speech and Establishment clauses of the First Amendment.

Integral to the state's agenda is that it demands schools incorporate sexual orientation and gender identity ideologies into their programs. The state has plunged headfirst into that ideology since the election of homosexual Gov. Jared Polis.

The judge said, "The department has allowed faith-based providers to deny children and families equal opportunity based on their religious affiliation, or lack thereof, and has cited no compelling interest for permitting that discrimination while denying plaintiffs’ request for a related exemption. On that narrow basis, I conclude defendants have violated plaintiffs’ free-exercise rights and that judgment in favor of plaintiffs is warranted. I consequently grant Plaintiffs relief in the form of a limited permanent injunction, declaratory judgment, and nominal damages."

It ruled, "The court immediately and permanently enjoins defendants Lisa Roy and Dawn Odean, acting in their official capacities on behalf of the Colorado Department of Early Childhood, from requiring, as a condition for participation in the Colorado Universal Preschool Program, that the preschools operated by plaintiffs St. Mary Catholic Parish in Littleton and St. Bernadette Catholic Parish in Lakewood agreed to provide or provide eligible children an equal opportunity to enroll and receive preschool services regardless of religious affiliation for as long as defendants allow exceptions from the religious affiliation aspect of the equal-opportunity requirement set out in [state law] and in the Colkorado Universial Preschool Program Service Agreement.

The defendants were ordered to pay $1 nominal damages.

The total hasn't been announced, but Colorado taxpayers likely won't get off so easily in the attacks on Christianity earlier, under the administration of Polis.

It recently lost the 303 Creative case at the U.S. Supreme Court.

There, state officials demanded that a Christian web designer follow the state's anti-Christian "non-discrimination" mandate and promote events that violated the web designer's faith.

A judge recently ruled that the state – the taxpayers – must pay the costs and fees for the plaintiff in that caser.

Such cases, by the time they are all the way through the high court, can accumulate tens, or even hundreds, of thousands of dollars in lawyers' time and costs.

The leftist state's failed attack was on Lorie Smith and her 303 Creative company, through which she intended to create websites for couples being married.

However, the state demanded that should she begin that service, she also must provide the same services to same-sex duos, in violation of her Christian faith.

She sued for the First Amendment violation demanded by the state, and won.

The state earlier lost a similar battle with Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, who challenged the state's "non-discrimination" plan that also would require him to promote ideologies that violate his Christian faith.

In that case, the Supreme Court specifically cited Colorado's "hostility" to Christianity under Polis.

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Despite the Biden administration's reluctance to present a resolution condemning Iran's nuclear program escalation to the International Atomic Energy Agency's Board of Governors, which met in Vienna on Monday after 18 months of diplomatic inaction, some European nations have decided to take action.

The resolution presented by France, Germany and the U.K. Monday night cites "the urgency to act given the seriousness of the situation" and marks the first resolution since 2022 regarding Iran's nuclear activities. The justification for the resolution is that while Tehran consistently denies seeking a bomb, its program continues to rapidly advance and expand.

According to the IAEA, Iran is the only country enriching uranium up to 60% and accumulating significant quantities of highly enriched uranium, or HEU. The Institute for Science and International Security in London writes in an analysis of the agency'' findings on the truthfulness of Iran's atomic project: "The total capacity of centrifuges for producing weapon grade uranium (WGU) is sufficient, as 25 kilograms (kg) of WGU, for roughly eight nuclear weapons in one month, ten in two months, twelve in three months, and thirteen in four months."

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The institute warns that with Iran's increasingly experienced uranium enrichment capacity, even using only a portion of its highly enriched uranium stockpile, Iran could produce its first 25 kg of weapons-grade uranium in about a week. If Iran delays inspector access, rapid detection of this uranium diversion may be challenging.

Revelations of Iran's resistance: Using a cover of academic research

The National Council of Resistance of Iran, or NCRI, a dissident group that calls for the overthrow of the radical Islamic regime ruling Iran and offers what many consider a viable alternative to it, revealed the existence of an organization called SPND – which in English translates to the Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research.

Recently, NCRI revealed that during the presidency of Ebrahim Raisi, specific changes were made within this organization managing nuclear weapons production to divert attention and prevent the real objectives of SPND from being exposed to the International Atomic Energy Agency. One of these changes involved utilizing Islamic Azad University and its extensive scientific facilities for this research. Islamic Azad University is Iran's largest university complex – according to regime data, it has over one million students – and provides services to the regime's weapons program. According to information obtained from the National Council of Resistance, the regime transferred several key individuals of the nuclear weapons project to Islamic Azad University to continue their work under its cover.

Raisi, the president of Iran who was killed in a helicopter crash in northern Iran on May 19, appointed Mohammad Islamian, one of the senior officers of the Revolutionary Guards, as the head of the Atomic Energy Organization to expand the regime's nuclear activities. Islamian, as the head of the Revolutionary Guards Research Center in the 1980s, had obtained a nuclear weapons program through Abdul Qadir Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb.

Confronting Iran's nuclear ambitions

The fact that Tehran is a step away from a nuclear bomb and has framed its program like the sword of Damocles over Mideast and Western peace and security is largely the result of Western appeasement policies toward the country. The Iranian regime seeks to extort from Western nations while escaping the military consequences for the havoc it has unleashed in the Middle East.

Nevertheless, contrary to popular misconceptions, Tehran is currently at its weakest point in years. In this weakness, the death of Raisi has dealt an irreparable and strategic blow to the Iranian theocracy. The presence of figures like Ali Larijani, who served as speaker of Parliament for three terms, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president from 2005 to 2013, as candidates in the early presidential elections, while disqualified in previous elections in favor of Raisi, demonstrates the significant weakness of the Tehran dictatorship.

The world should not allow endless nuclear negotiations to be Tehran's response to international pressure due to its human rights abuses and warmongering. Nor should it allow the arming of such a regime with nuclear weapons – the ultimate tool for the mullahs' future extortion attempts.

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A new report suggests that ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's partisan Jan. 6 committee, assigned to "investigate" the protesters against congressional recognition of Joe Biden as president, some of whom rioted, manipulated evidence and testimony to hurt President Donald Trump.

A report from Just the News reveals that House investigators now have evidence showing that a Secret Service driver wanted to refute – quickly – the false claim that Trump struggled to control the presidential limousine that day.

But his voluntary testimony was delayed – for months – while the story about that confrontation continued to be publicized by Democrats in Congress.

At issue is a claim made at the time from Cassidy Hutchinson, who claimed Trump struggled with Secret Service to control the limousine so he could take himself to the Capitol, where protesters were engaged in various activities, and then a few hundred of them rioted.

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"The evidence was confirmed to Just the News both by Rep. Barry Loudermilk, the chairman of the House subcommittee that is investigating the Jan. 6 tragedy now for Republicans, and a transcript of the driver’s interview that was conducted months after he first offered to testify," Just the News confirmed.

Essentially, Loudermilk said, when the Hutchinson claim appeared, the Secret Service driver involved volunteered to testify as soon as he could to the fact that the incident never happened.

The committee took the testimony from Hutchinson in June, and the driver volunteered to testify to the truth of the situation in July, August and September. But he was "rebuffed" by the commission, headed by Democrat Benny Thompson and Republican Liz Cheney, an ardent Trump critic who repeatedly has lashed out at him.

"Loudermilk on Tuesday evening decried the delay by the Democrat-led Jan. 6 committee, saying it kept Americans in the dark for months ahead of the 2022 midterm elections that there was firsthand testimony refuting Hutchinson’s sensational hearsay narrative that Trump tried to violently commandeer his Secret Service limousine on Jan. 6, 2021, to take it to the Capitol," the report said.

Hutchinson, in fact, was given time during a nationally televised hearing to make her allegation. The first-hand refutation from the Secret Service then was delayed for months until just at the mid-term elections.

"The transcript of the driver’s testimony reviewed by Just the News shows his lawyer complained that his client had offered to testify in July, August and September of 2022, but was 'rebuffed' by the January 6 committee…"

Loudermilk continued, "It was in June when they paraded Hutchinson before the world, and they let the world hear the stories. And what's interesting is in the very beginning of the driver’s testimony, his attorney starts off by chastising the select committee. And he said we offered to come in July, August, September, and now it's November. So we found out for the first time that the driver had been offering to come in and testify under oath as far back as just a few weeks after Cassidy made these claims, but the select committee would not bring them in."

Critics have observed that the main point of Pelosi's committee, which was partisan because only she selected members, defying House tradition that each party nominates members of committees, was to target Trump with any allegations that could be created.

The driver eventually confirmed Trump "never tried to reach for or grab the wheel of the SUV," as claimed by Hutchinson.

The transcript shows Cheney "tried to explain" the delay by claiming the committee was waiting for document production.

Former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., in January 2021.

"Cheney did not explain why the committee allowed Hutchinson to testify in summer 2022, before the documents were turned over, but then delayed the driver's refutation until much later," the report said.

Loudermilk documented that the committee brought in Hutchinson immediately, but "then they wait until November to even bring in the Secret Service agent."

Recognized constitutional expert Jonathan Turley, who has testified as a constitutional expert before Congress and even represented members in court, said, "Cheney and the committee members clearly knew that Hutchinson’s account was debunked by the very driver who allegedly struggled with Trump. Yet, they allowed the media to report the incident for months while rebuffing the requests of the driver."

He added, "Many of us support the effort to bring greater transparency to what occurred on Jan. 6th and these hearings have offered a great deal of important new information. Indeed, it has proven gut-wrenching in the accounts of lawyers and staff trying to combat baseless theories and to protect the constitutional process. Yet, the heavy-handed approach to framing the evidence by the committee was both unnecessary and at times counterproductive. The strength of some of this evidence would not have been diminished by a more balanced committee or investigation."

He said the committee's "interests" clearly were in spreading the "false account."

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Even Democrats in Congress now have begun admitting they've seen evidence of Joe Biden's diminished mental capabilities.

His acuity long has been a target for critics, what with his speeches that misidentify people, even his own family members, his wild, and demonstrably false, claims about Amtrak ridership, his bullying of various people with "You're a dog-faced, pony soldier," and much, much more.

The issue was raised in profile when Robert Hur, a special counsel investigating Biden for taking secret government papers and keeping them in his private office, his home, even his garage, released his report.

He found Biden probably committed those offenses, but recommended no charges because of his "diminished" capacity. He concluded a jury likely would view him as an old man with memory problems, as at one point Biden was unable to remember when he was vice president.

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Now a report from Fox News, and the Wall Street Journal revealed the stunner that, "President Biden has shown signs of poor cognitive performance in private meetings with congressional lawmakers, as his age and mental acuity continue to come into question ahead of November's presidential election."

Biden is 81, and many Americans openly admit in polling they doubt his ability to do what is required of him as president.

The report explains "many Republicans" and even "some Democrats" have confirmed the president shows his age in private meetings.

The Journal reported it spoke with 45 lawmakers and administration officials "about the president's mental performance."

"Most of the people interviewed by the outlet who were critical of Biden's performance were Republicans, although some Democrats said the president showed his age in several exchanges," the Fox report said.

Those were people who were in meetings with Biden, or were briefed on them. Some Democrats "did not express concerns" about Biden's acuity.

The report detailed: "When meeting with congressional leaders in January to negotiate a deal to send additional funding to Ukraine, Biden spoke so softly at times that some people struggled to hear him, five people familiar with the meeting told the Wall Street Journal. The president read from notes to make obvious points, paused for extended periods of time and even closed his eyes for so long that some people in the meeting wondered if he had tuned out."

Six people who reported on a meeting in February between Biden and House Speaker Mike Johnson revealed Biden apparently thought a policy change that already had taken place was just a study.

"I used to meet with him when he was vice president. I'd go to his house. He's not the same person," concluded Rep. Kevin McCarthy, who formerly was House Speaker.

He's now perceived, the report said, as "an aging president with poor cognitive ability at times."

He's running for re-election now for a term that would put him at 86 by the time he would be leaving office.

White House officials claim it's all politics.

"Congressional Republicans, foreign leaders and nonpartisan national-security experts have made clear in their own words that President Biden is a savvy and effective leader who has a deep record of legislative accomplishment," claimed White House spokesman Andrew Bates said. "Now, in 2024, House Republicans are making false claims as a political tactic that flatly contradict previous statements made by themselves and their colleagues."

The report noted that Democrats also have criticized President Donald Trump for several speech slipups.

When Trump was president, he took a cognitive test and reported he "aced" it. Biden has refused to participate in such an event.

But he's insisted he was vice president during the COVID pandemic. He wasn't. And he's mixed up both family members and his cabinet appointees.

He's publicly recalled talking to German Chancellor Helmut Kohl in 2021, even though Kohl died in 2017. And he said during a 2021 summit he talked with former French President Francois Mitterrand, who died in 1996.

The report pointed out that actually, "Americans have had limited opportunities to observe Biden in unscripted moments, as he has shown a reluctance to give media interviews."

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Dr. Ted Baehr's Movieguide writes: "'Bad Faith' is a propaganda documentary from the Religious Left, written and directed by a small-time movie producer who happens to be a film and television professor at a Catholic college in Los Angeles. The movie accuses Evangelical Christian conservatives and Republican Christians, from the 1980s to the present day, of waging a racist war against 'American Democracy.' The movie uses leftist, progressive pundits, professors, authors, journalists, and activists to make its claims."

I interviewed Baehr about the film for radio. He told me, "A growing tendency on the left is to spread slanderous labeling of Christians as 'Christian Nationalists.' What it does is it gets into the bloodstream of the nation, and it gets to the kids. … It's unfortunate because it makes people doubt what the history of the country was."

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A key target of "Bad Faith" is the late Paul Weyrich, the founder of the Free Congress Foundation. He was a conservative activist who, according to the film, even helped recruit Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson into political action. The film seems to make the case that Weyrich – who died in 2008 – helped set the stage for events like Charlottesville 2017 and Jan. 6, 2021.

Essentially, Weyrich, a very nice man whom I interviewed, worked tirelessly to mobilize the conservative Christian population into political action. And the problem is?

Furthermore, the film implies that those Christian conservatives today are like a modern-day extension of the Ku Klux Klan. Of course, comparing all opponents to the KKK or Adolf Hitler seems to be a common ploy for the Left. But it's still worth pointing out that the KKK was a Democrat organization, and it's Democrats who had a KKK organizer (Robert Byrd, a former Klan "Exalted Cyclops") in the Senate until 2010.

"Bad Faith" is well done in terms of its production value. For example, its graphics are outstanding. But I agree with Ted Baehr that it is a movie "to be avoided."

That doesn't mean nothing in it is true. It had a few noteworthy comments on religious freedom from Russell Moore, a Southern Baptist.

The full title of the film is "Bad Faith: Christian Nationalism's Unholy War on Democracy."

The narrator (the talented Peter Coyote) says at the very beginning – cue the spooky music: "Christian Nationalism. A political movement that believes America was founded as a 'Christian nation,' privileging Christianity over all faiths. Masquerading as religion, their ideology exploits Scripture and sacred symbols to achieve extremist objectives."

I would counter-argue: America began as a Christian nation, and because of that, people of all faiths or no faith are welcome here. One group that had the temerity to assert that America is "a Christian nation" was the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1892 Trinity decision.

To believe that our rights come from God, not the state, supposedly makes you a Christian Nationalist, say some. But the founders said in the Declaration of Independence that the Creator is the source of our rights.

George Washington said that if he had had any notion that the Constitution would be used to bar religious freedom, he never would have signed the document. He also opined that "true religion affords to government its surest support." And he noted that "religion and morality" are "indispensable supports" to our "political prosperity."

Later, the film asserts: "The leaders [like Weyrich] had a long-range plan to seize power and impose their political vision by any means necessary. They knew that the only way to create a theocratic Christian nation was to overthrow our democracy. And that's what they set out to do."

But, in his Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, Thomas Jefferson writes: "Almighty God hath created the mind free. … [A]ll attempts to influence it by temporal punishments … are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion [i.e., Jesus], who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone."

In other words, Jefferson says, it is because God has created the mind free that religious freedom exists. If you remove God from the equation, the ground for freedom crumbles – as we saw in all the terrible (and bloody) atheistic states of the 20th century.

"Bad Faith" implies that Christian involvement in the public arena is a disaster for society – unless you're pro-abortion, anti-traditional family, etc. But it's precisely because our nation was built on Biblical principles that people will risk their lives to try and come to America to this very day.

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A firebrand Republican senator has been caught on a hot microphone explaining why Joe Biden's decision to open the nation's southern border when he took office has been such a problem.

President Donald Trump had instituted a list of security measures that had cut down on the number of illegal aliens entering the country greatly.

Biden reversed all of that on his first day in the Oval Office, and since then upward of 10 million illegals have violated America's border and entered.

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Republicans long have been critical of his agenda, and now with an election looming, even Democrats facing hard re-election fights have pressured him to do something.

U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa

His executive order issued on Tuesday purportedly is to address the problem, although analysts say it will be largely ineffective because of the huge numbers of illegals it still will allow.

GOP members held news conference to condemn Biden, and as the members were leaving one was caught on a hot mike.

"Bottom line, never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals," said Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa.

HOT MIC: @SenJoniErnst to @SenJohnKennedy following the Senate GOP border press conference -- "Bottom line, never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals."

pic.twitter.com/eb8mUGhc0r

— Joe Karwacki (@JoeKarwacki) June 4, 2024

RedState explained that was a reference to "the weird, false story Joe Biden told about his Uncle Bosey, whose plane went down in Papua New Guinea during World War II. Biden didn't tell the truth about his uncle's service or how the plane went down, and there was no evidence at all that cannibals were involved in any way.

"That even managed to offend the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, who said, 'President Biden's remarks may have been a slip of the tongue; however, my country does not deserve to be labeled as such.'"

The report continued, "It's such a perfect comment on Biden because so much of what he says is just straight-up malarkey. And it's great advice that hopefully voters remember come November because imagine how twisted a person you are when you even lie about how your uncle died to make it more dramatic."

Biden could have secured the border long ago – instead of undoing Trump‘s policies on DAY ONE. pic.twitter.com/pqEhT6hRvQ

— Joni Ernst (@SenJoniErnst) June 4, 2024

It was explained earlier by GOP members that Biden could have headed off the entire border catastrophe if he's just continued President Trump's policies when he took office.

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, Israel, Wednesday, May 1, 2024. (Official State Department photo by Chuck Kennedy)

JERUSALEM – In the not-so-distant past, information about wars and potential peace negotiations was sparse at best, and relied upon in-situ correspondents telling their audience, with broad brushstrokes, the outlines of what was occurring. In Israel’s war against Hamas, which is being fought in cyberspace as much as in the turbulent Gazan coastal enclave, the ubiquity of information, claims and counter-claims can be as confusing as the lack of data from decades past.

What is uncontested is that the final road would always lead to Rafah, and that the beginning of this end-game started with Israel’s partial encirclement of that city starting May 6. Beyond that, there are two political leaders – U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – who are attempting to use the Gaza conflict as a way of shoring up their domestic bases, and each using the other figure to do so. And all that’s before even addressing Hamas – and by extension, Iran, and all its other regional proxies.

So what’s going on?

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The Israel Defense Forces, or IDF, entered Hamas’s final stronghold of Rafah, where it is believed the terror organization has at least four battalions of fighters, amounting to more than 10,000 combatants. It is also thought to be the location of the remainder of more than 120 hostages – snatched from their homes, beds and military bases – the fate of whom is still uncertain. What is clear, however, is that as the IDF has pushed further into Rafah, it is uncovering the remains of hostages whose immediate fate on Oct. 7, 2023 was unknown. For example, on Monday, June 3, the body of Dolev Yehud, from Kibbutz Nir Oz, was identified.

The body of Dolev Yehud was found and identified on Kibbutz Nir Oz, the IDF confirmed Monday morning.https://t.co/Xo5Njqc0zi

— The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) June 3, 2024

On May 26, while targeting two high-profile Hamas marks – one of whom was active in the West Bank – the IDF used lighter missiles to liquidate their foes. What followed has been mired in accusation and counter-accusation, claim and counterclaim, and – as has become customary in the information war – outright deceit. This was both on account of the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, which published casualty figures, and the compliant corporate media, which duly ran with this version of the story. Several salient points can now be gleaned from this incident:

Avi Mayer, formerly editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post, wrote a precis of events on his ‘X’ account. He said the principal canard leveled against Israel – that it specifically targeted civilians – is neither backed up by the evidence nor by a real-time intercepted message from Gaza, which acknowledged that weapons were stored nearby the strike zone.

The facts about the Israeli airstrike in Rafah and the fire that followed are starting to become clear, and they totally change the story:

The Israeli airstrike that targeted senior Hamas commanders in Rafah was more than a mile away from the safe zone for Palestinian… pic.twitter.com/RiLjyS7Bvc

— Avi Mayer אבי מאיר (@AviMayer) May 28, 2024

CAMERA, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting & Analysis published a useful thread on ‘X,’ in which it individually debunked recent statements, including those emanating from the United Nations.

THREAD

After the tragic recent deaths in Tel as-Sultan in southern Gaza, misinformation spread rapidly, even among journalists.

As CAMERA's @dmlitman explained for @JNS_org, 50+ UN “experts” released a statement riddled with factual errors.

Let's unpack it... pic.twitter.com/2hBvzchdQq

— CAMERAorg (@CAMERAorg) June 3, 2024

A cross-border skirmish between the IDF and the Egyptian military on May 27, in which an Egyptian soldier was killed in an exchange of fire, has also added to the confusion about the picture that emerges from Rafah. Tensions between Cairo and Jerusalem have ratcheted up over the last few months, and have spiked as the IDF has moved deeper into Rafah. The discovery of dozens of cross-border smuggling tunnels, which Egyptian criminal elements control – and very lucratively at that – has shown that the longest-lasting peace deal between Israel and an Arab country is under stress. Egypt has huge internal issues, which include growing food insecurity and increased Islamization … and pretty much everything in between.

However, on a macro level, the last few days have crystallized the widening gap between Washington and Jerusalem.

Israeli forces operating in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024. (IDF photo)

Not content with meddling with U.S. elections – including by widespread Justice Department lawfare against his political opponents – President Biden and his administration have made it clear on more than one occasion that they seek the ouster of Israel’s democratically elected prime minister. Indeed, the open policy of the current U.S. administration is to exert pressure on a reliable, democratic and friendly country in the Middle East that is fighting an existential war for its very survival. This should not come as a total surprise, however. It’s not a great leap for a president whose family's corrupt actions have caused many to liken it to a crime family to then use the same levers of power to behave in such an egregious way toward an ally.

The outline of what Biden said on Friday – during the Jewish Sabbath, a time when official Israeli government communication is rare because of the religious sensibilities involved – is highlighted below:

The text is illuminating, both for what it says, and for what it leaves out. The Biden administration leaked over the weekend that Israel had already green-lighted what the president laid out on Friday. The most salient omission, however, is that nowhere does it categorically say Hamas should be removed from power in Gaza. As one of the Israeli government’s specifically stated aims upon its declaration of war against Hamas was that at the end of the hostilities – whenever that may occur – the Sunni Islamist terrorist organization would no longer be in control of the coastal enclave, it is difficult to countenance their signing off on this apparent deal.

Indeed, while Israel’s government hinted that parts of what Biden said might have been somewhat true, it pushed back strongly against the bulk of what the U.S. president announced. On June 1, the official Israel PM account on ‘X’ rejected the supposed change of conditions outright.

The Prime Minister's Office:

Israel's conditions for ending the war have not changed: The destruction of Hamas military and governing capabilities, the freeing of all hostages and ensuring that Gaza no longer poses a threat to Israel.

— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) June 1, 2024

Biden revealed that the new Israeli proposal for a ceasefire and hostage deal had been submitted on Thursday to Hamas via Qatar, also maintaining the pressure into this week, and claiming that “Netanyahu will do almost anything to free the hostages.”

The current U.S. administration wants Israel’s democratically elected prime minister gone from the political scene. It is trying to box him in by creating division between the coalition partners and stoking the ire of Israel’s electorate by making oblique suggestions regarding how Netanyahu has allowed his indecision to guide him as a way of elongating the war – and by extension, prolonging the agony for the hostages and their families. By publicly claiming that this so-called deal emanated from Netanyahu and the war cabinet, Biden is attempting to make Israel’s government take ownership – and to make it exceptionally difficult for Netanyahu, once considered either one of the smoothest or slipperiest of political operators, depending on one’s point of view – to distance himself from it.

Wars are conducted on three fronts: the tactical, the strategic and the political. The first two, evidenced by the IDF’s conduct on the ground, are actually working quite successfully. Israel’s military succeeded in moving some 1 million Gaza residents out of Rafah and into temporary refugee camps. This was achieved in fewer than four weeks, when the U.S. defense establishment had questioned whether it could even be done in four months. These are the same people who thought spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a floating pier in the Mediterranean Sea would provide additional aid to the Palestinians … who are already getting it via the various crossings. And, of course, everyone knows the pier sank.

However, it is the latter arena of the three, the political, where there is significantly less surety and which is, in part, a result of indecision at the highest levels of Israel’s government – up to and including the current prime minister. And into this combustible mix, increased rocket attacks from Hezbollah in southern Lebanon have set much of Israel’s northern forests ablaze. The window for continued inaction on that front is closing rapidly, and fosters the impression of a besieged prime minister who is quickly running out of options.

More than a dozen fires have broken out in northern Israel and the Galilee as a result of Hezbollah rocket fire.

We will take every measure to protect Israelis from those who try to harm them. pic.twitter.com/aIo4j42PVk

— Israel ישראל (@Israel) June 3, 2024

If President Joe Biden – who as vice president urged former President Barack Obama not to give the green light to Seal Team 6 to take out Osama Bin Laden when his whereabouts were known, and who quarterbacked the epically disastrous Afghanistan pull-out – gets his way, it is possible to imagine a scenario where Hamas de facto retains its position as the government in Gaza.

More than that, the extreme pressure currently being exerted upon Israel will likely not give Oct. 7 terror architect Yahya Sinwar much compelling reason to come to the negotiating table, despite noises from the U.S. administration that “this is Hamas’ last chance.”

If Sinwar in particular is allowed to emerge from whichever dark corner of Rafah in which he is allegedly hiding, and hold up a V for Victory sign as he comes blinking into the sunlight, he will be lauded – even more than he already is – as a tactical genius who was able to avoid exile and also cow the lion of Judah. It will bode extremely ill for Israel.

Not only will there be ambiguity, at best, as to the outcome of the war, it will only further embolden the terrorist “ring of fire” that Iran, via its proxies, has established in the states – all of them failed or failing – surrounding Israel. If the so-called international community has been critical of Israel for how it has conducted hostilities with Hamas, wait until its back is really against the wall and it is in a tooth-and-nail scrap for its very existence in the war with Hezbollah.

The one outcome yet to be mentioned is potentially the most likely anyway: Netanyahu’s ouster.

If the war’s result is inconclusive and there is a failure to return all the hostages, whatever condition they may be in – and some half-dozen corpses have been found this week as the IDF has pushed deeper into Rafah – it is difficult to see how Netanyahu retains power.

The world could, therefore, be looking at a scenario wherein the IDF has to largely pull out of Gaza, Hamas remains in power with Sinwar at its head, some of the hostages are likely not returned, an all-out war erupts against Hezbollah, and the Netanyahu government falls.

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Melissa Biden

Joe Biden is known for sometimes losing his cool and lashing out in anger at people he encounters, especially if they are questioning him or challenging his judgment.

Recall the time he erupted and called someone a "lying, dog-faced pony soldier."

Or the time he slammed an entire group of people, telling them if they weren't supporting him, they weren't black.

It seems such outbursts run in the family, with a new report on Fox News that describes a verbal assault by Hunter Biden's wife, Melissa Biden, on a man attending Hunter Biden's trial on charges he lied on a federal form when he purchased a firearm.

The report said she approached the man at the trial, pointed her finger at him and said, "You have no right to be here, you Nazi piece of s***."

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Her target was Garrett Ziegler, who was sued by Hunter Biden last year for publishing the contents of Biden's laptop computer, which he abandoned at a repair shop. It since has not only been confirmed as real, but has pulled back the curtain on a lot of Biden family scandals.

It was that laptop that the FBI falsely labeled Russian disinformation during the 2020 election in its attempt to influence the presidential election.

The report said Ziegler did not respond to Melissa Biden's outburst at the time. But he later confirmed the encounter and said, "It's sad I've been sitting here the whole time and haven't approached anyone."

He also corrected Melissa Biden, "For the record, I'm not a Nazi, I'm a believer in the U.S. Constitution. I haven't said one thing to them."

Hunter Biden claims federal computer hacking laws were violated to reveal the contents of the computer he left at a Delaware shop in 2019.

Ziegler and his company, Marco Polo, and "unidentified associates" were sued for releasing the "tens of thousands of emails, thousands of photos, and dozens of videos and recordings," including those that were "pornographic" from the laptop, which played a key role in the decision for the 2020 presidential race.

Ziegler subsequently asked that a judge appointed by Joe Biden be removed from the case, explaining the lawsuit has implications for Congress' impeachment investigation of Joe Biden as well as the 2024 vote.

He also pointed out, " "The wife has the same level of impulse control as Hunter. To the family bringing decency back, anyone who is perceived as opposition is a Nazi."

The wife has the same level of impulse control as Hunter.

To the family bringing decency back, anyone who is perceived as opposition is a Nazi.

Truly contemptible liars & scoundrels.

We don’t respond in kind in the back of a courtroom, because we’re gentlemen who do not… https://t.co/EgVCIIRBwu

— Marco Polo (@MarcoPolo501c3) June 4, 2024

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A wrinkle suddenly has appeared in a federal case in Minnesota in which the federal government alleges seven defendants stole millions of dollars of COVID aid funds – intended for the federal Child Nutrition Program through the Feeding Our Future charity -- and bought cars, homes and vacations.

Delivered to the home of one juror hearing evidence was a bag containing $120,000 in cash.

Along with instructions to vote for acquittal.

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The result was that all seven of the defendants were re-arrested, the courthouse where the trial was taking place was locked down, and more.

A report in the Post-Millennial explains that the seven are "part of a larger case that has seen 70 charged with stealing a total of $250 million in COVID aid."

"They allegedly delivered few, if any, meals," the report said.

The wrinkle happened over the weekend when juror No. 52 arrived home "to find that someone had dropped off a gift bag containing $120,000 in cash with a promise of 'more' if she moved to find the defendants in the case not guilty."

The 23-year-old opted to call law enforcement immediately, the report said.

"As a result, all seven defendants accused of using a charity to steal $41 million in federal aid meant to go towards feeding children in need were re-arrested at the request of United States Assistant Attorney Joe Thompson," the report said.

The juror was released from the panel and the remaining members were sequestered to prevent further attempts to tamper with justice.

The report explained the juror got home, and was told by her father-in-law a woman "possibly Somali," with an accent gave him the gift bag for delivery to the juror, "whose real name she knew."

"An affidavit stated, 'The woman told the relative to tell Juror #52 to say not guilty tomorrow and there would be more of that present tomorrow,'" the report said.

The cash was turned over to the FBI, which was joined by the Spring Lake Park police department in its investigation.

The report said the defendants were arrested, had their phones confiscated and were ordered not to leave the courthouse, and the rest of Monday's proceedings continued.

The jurors then started deliberating.

"This is the stuff that happens in mob movies," attorney Joe Thompson said.

Commentator Charlie Kirk explained, "The defense, meanwhile, is hiring college professors to lecture that scamming the government and sending suitcases full of cash abroad is a part of Somali culture, and trying to stop them is of course 'racist.'"

During Covid, the federal government doled out money to provide free meals to children. It was Covid, so the government decided to abandon any pretense of preventing fraud — and plenty of people noticed immediately.

In Minnesota, members of the Somali community built one of the…

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) June 4, 2024

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An interview with Joe Biden has taken a very strange turn for a reporter with Time.

Asked about his ability to do the job as president, should he win re-election in 2024, Biden boasted, "I can do it better than anybody you know. You're looking at me, I can take you, too!"

A report at RedState explains he was being interviewed and unleashed that response to the question, "The last two years of presidents, two-term presidents' tenure are usually focused on foreign affairs. You are 81 years old, and would be 86 by the time you left office. Large majorities of Americans, including in the Democratic Party, tell pollsters they think you are too old to lead. Could you really do this job as an 85-year-old man?"

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That Biden has diminished capabilities now, as that 81-year-old, has been confirmed by a multitude of public exhibitions of his inability to find his way off a stage, his sometimes complete breakdown in speech, his fumbling, his gaffes, even his falls.

But it was further confirmed in a report from a special counsel assigned to investigate him for his allegedly criminal actions in taking and keeping secret government documents in his private office, his home, even his garage. That report concluded there was evidence of those activities, but it recommend no charges against Biden because with his "diminished" capacities – he forgot even when he was vice president – so that a jury would view him as an old man with memory issues.

The RedState report labeled him "senile" and warned the interview went "way off the rails, he even challenges the reporter to a fight."

The report noted that Biden hadn't actually been at the top of anyone's game during the interview, where he ranted about how good his economy has performed.

"Wage increases have exceeded what the cost of inflation," he charged. "You have everything from shrinkflation to what's going on in terms of the way in which they're artificially moving significantly to increase, their, their, their, their profits."

Time fact-checks Biden’s defense of his record on inflation. https://t.co/4cklIYuak9 pic.twitter.com/dxxuYW3dcn

— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) June 4, 2024

Actually, American consumers are paying nearly 20% more now to live than when Biden took office, because of the inflation which happened under his economy.

And, during the interview, he apparently got a couple of key world leaders mixed up.

Biden confused Putin and Xi Jinping in his TIME interview — yikes! pic.twitter.com/L0O6oBRwC0

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 4, 2024

Then came the "challenge."

"Joe Biden is a feeble 81-year-old man who finds walking up the stairs difficult, but he decided to snap at a reporter by challenging him to a fight. What a scene. 'I can take you,' the president of the freaking United States says. Do you feel the norms being restored?"

One commenter, however, took a wildly different political view of the threat from Biden.

He explained, "I'm sure you've heard the news... Our Commander in Chief is throwing down fitness challenges in the Oval Office! At 81, Biden’s not just pacing through legislation, he's ready to race reporters! In a recent and lively interview with TIME, President Joe Biden, at the spry age of 81, didn't just discuss policies. Nope, he took a playful jab at the journalists, claiming he could outpace them any day of the week! … And it didn’t stop there, folks. With a grin, he declared, ‘I can take you too,’ making it crystal clear that he believes he can do the job ‘better than anybody’. … Now, whether he’s talking about running the country or actually running on a track, that’s up for debate. But one thing’s for sure, his confidence is as fit as a fiddle!"

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Legacy media publications across America like the Washington Post have been in a relative freefall for some time already, partly because of the explosion of internet news.

But there have been other factors involved, too: The abrupt drift away from neutrality where some so-called experts are now demanding story writers advocate for the politically correct, those who say there's no need for "another side" information.

And then there's the social agendas that have been slammed into newsrooms without regard to their impact on the reporting.

There appears to be a bit of many factors at work now at the Post, the latest outlet to confirm huge problems.

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A report at the New York Post pointed out there was an all-hands meeting at the Washington Post, with its CEO Will Lewis, after the sudden departure of executive editor Sally Buzbee.

And it was a "clash," the report said.

It pointed out that under Buzbee, the publication last year lost $70 million and it has had audience declines of 50% since 2020.

Lewis had announced a new scheme to divide the newsroom into three sections, and Buzbee said that didn't work for her.

The company announced the new interim executive editor will be Matt Murray, who previously worked at the Wall Street Journal, but Robert Winnett, another veteran of the U.K.'s Telegraph Media, will take over after the election this fall.

Reports confirmed that at the meeting the company's dedication to "diversity" was challenged, with one critic stating, "Now we have four white men running three newsrooms."

The managers repeatedly were challenged to open "opportunities" for those candidates other than white men.

Lewis noted that the climate for the publication is very bad.

"We are losing large amounts of money. Your audience has halved in recent years. People are not reading your stuff. I can't sugarcoat it anymore," he charged.

Lewis noted that now he's "setting up a structure where I’m not going to be guessing."

The report said, "According to The New York Times, Buzbee told colleagues on a Sunday night call that Lewis was pushing for aggressive changes at the paper, and she 'would have preferred to stay to help us get through this period, but it just got to the point where it wasn’t possible.'"

The New York Post reported, "Privately, staff questioned exactly how Winnett will be obtain a U.S. visa for his new role. American employers generally have to show they cannot find an American qualified for the role before offering a job to a foreign national, although there are other ways for Winnett to obtain permission to work for the Post."

The New York Times reported star political reporter Ashley Parker pointedly questioned Lewis during the meeting on his hiring practices and the lip service he had paid to raising diversity in the newsroom, which is to be divided into opinion, news and "service and social media diversity."

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The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City

One senator has delivered a devastating condemnation of New York City after a jury in the leftist enclave where nine of 10 voted against President Donald Trump delivered a guilty verdict to business reporting crime allegations against him by a Democrat prosecutor.

"If New York was a foreign country, America would sanction them for the weaponization of the legal system, their political opponents, and rigging election outcomes," explained Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark.

He was appearing recently on Meet the Press, and his comments on the topic are at about the 5:00 mark:

The case was over the legal expenses Trump had in dealing with a porn star's allegations about him during the 2016 election. Trump eventually paid "hush money" to silence the story, a move that is not illegal.

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A lawyer working for him at the time handled the issue, and was reimbursed by Trump, and it is the recording of those legal fees that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg claimed were felonies.

The actual counts were misdemeanors, and the statute of limitations had expired, but Bragg brought them to court anyway, as felonies, by claiming they were done in pursuit of another crime – and the judge, Juan Merchan, said the jury didn't have to agree on that further crime allegation in order to reach a "unanimous" verdict.

The Gateway Pundit noted Cotton pointed out the failures of the court system in the Trump case.

NBC host Peter Alexander complained that it was Trump who was campaigning to weaponize the justice system against Joe Biden.

But Cotton pointed out Trump said "his so-called retribution will be success, success at the ballot box and then restoring peace and prosperity."

U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., speaks at the Republican National Convention on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020

Alexander insisted then that Trump wasn't sincere about the issue.

"In 2016 when so many people insisted that Hillary Clinton should face criminal charges for doing exactly what Donald Trump was wrongly accused of doing, which is mischaracterizing legal expenses as something else, remember she paid for the dirty Russian dossier that characterizes legal expenses. She paid a fine to the FEC," Cotton patiently explained. "Donald Trump specifically said he would not prosecute Hillary Clinton because that’s not what we do in America. What the Democrats have done in New York is like something that would happen in Pakistan or Brazil. It’s something that America would sanction another country for for engaging in election interference."

Cotton continued, "If New York was a foreign country, America would sanction them for the weaponization of the legal system, their political opponents, and rigging election outcomes."

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A Nebraska woman who was pronounced dead in hospice care and transported to a funeral home came back to life and was brought to a hospital where she died a second time.

Constance Glantz, 74, was pronounced dead for a second time on Monday at 4 p.m., according to Lancaster County Chief Deputy Ben Houchin.

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"It's a very unusual case," Houchin said at a Monday news conference. "Been doing this 31 years and nothing like this has ever gotten to this point before."

WOW: Woman who was pronounced dead comes back to life at funeral home, Nebraska sheriff’s office says pic.twitter.com/Tzk7GyvAyk

— Anthony Scott (@AnthonyScottTGP) June 4, 2024

Glantz had been taken to the Butherus-Maser & Love Funeral Home, where an employee noticed her breathing and immediately dialed 9-1-1 just two hours after she was said to be deceased.

An autopsy has been ordered by Lancaster County Attorney Pat Condon, and the investigation is ongoing.

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Houchin indicated officials at the funeral home have been cooperating with law enforcement in the probe.

"I also want to state in our investigation that the funeral home did nothing wrong. They are the ones that found that she was still alive," Houchin said.

KOLN-TV reported: "Lincoln Fire and Rescue responded to the Butherus-Maser & Love Funeral Home at 11:43 a.m. on Monday. The caller said CPR was in progress for a 74-year-old woman.

"Earlier, around 9:45 a.m., Glantz had been pronounced dead by staff at The Mulberry nursing home in Waverly. She had been in hospice, and nursing staff were expecting her to pass away, according to Houchin.

"Funeral home staff transported the woman back to Lincoln. While preparing her body for funeral arrangements, a staff member noticed she was still breathing and called 9-1-1.

"Lincoln Fire and Rescue transported Glantz to the hospital where she died hours later."

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For one thing, it is a full out veiled assault on the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). Democrat strategists are well aware that this outcome is going to end up on the docket of SCOTUS, as it well should. The dumbest, most inept lawyers on the planet, if honest, will admit this trial was a travesty of justice from start to finish; and none of these neo-Leninist anarchists care a rat's tail.

The chances of this travesty being overturned by a New York District Court are slim and none. No New York judge is going to risk the wrath of the primitives who haunt the art galleries, so-called fine restaurants and Martha's Vineyard. These Erebusic druids want this overturned by SCOTUS. It would allow them to undertake the dismantling of the high court under the guise of it being a rogue organization that refuses to obey the directives of an individual state.

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This is exactly the argument that is being floating by liberal Democrat pundits right now. There is a chorus of accusations being rehearsed for prime time that paints SCOTUS as refusing to follow the directives of individual states; even though such an argument is a desperate lie. But, truth doesn't matter when a cacophony of regurgitated fallacious complaints are panhandled on the likes of NBC and CNN; and given the old fair and balanced treatment on Fox News.

The left is desperate to destroy the Supreme Court, and believe me, they will use a reversal of President Trump's ludicrous conviction to accomplish it. Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to destroy SCOTUS by "packing the court." His efforts didn't fail as much as the country club Republicans rolled over. There has been a very quiet effort to destroy the high court since that time.

The neo-Leninist anarchists want the ability to murder children without restraint and the freedom to do it at the expense of taxpayers. They want the right to own and bear arms for the American citizenry revoked immediately and forever. They want total control over our children from cradle until they are mentally and emotionally destroyed by the so-called educational system. In brief, the left wants uninterrupted ability to change laws and create laws as necessary to create their idea of society. The problem is that SCOTUS is standing in the way. In their minds, it must be destroyed and they will use any and every means available.

Another thing I am certain of, is that RINO Republicans are only pretending to back President Trump. I predict they are going to do the same thing to him that they successfully did to the late Herman Cain. They pretended to support Cain when the first accuser came forward and when a second woman accused my late friend of sexual impropriety. Then a third woman came forward, and RINOs appeared on Fox News around the clock claiming they had to disassociate themselves from Herman Cain, because with three accusers the accusations had to be true. In reality the only truth was that there had been an orchestrated effort, allegedly led by Karl Rove, to derail Cain, who was well on his way to winning the Republican presidential nomination in 2012. Believe me, there are elapidae Republicans lying in wait to attempt to destroy Donald Trump as well.

I would be remiss if I didn't mention another of the 800-pound gorillas in the middle of the room. The planned and wholly orchestrated mishandling of President Trump's trial, from the bringing of the phony charges to the ultimate staged conviction, must raise the question of how many other knowingly innocent people have been found guilty and sentenced to prison.

Keep in mind this Democrat tactic wasn't just employed in the South. Democrats have accused so-called white Southerners of falsely convicting so-called blacks since they invented Jim Crow laws. Democrats were and are responsible for murdering innocent slaves, former slaves and anyone else who opposed them, regardless of the supposed amount of melanin they exhibited.

They will spin lies and showcase talking-wackos to misrepresent jurisprudence as convincingly as they can – just as CNN knowingly lied to protect Saddam Hussein so as to maintain a news bureau in Iraq – just as Dan Rather invented lies about George W. Bush. The truth is that everyone with an ounce of common sense knows President Trump is being railroaded.

He is only guilty of being an outsider whom We the People support – and in elite circles of presidential politics, that is a crime worthy of personal destruction.

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Following the vicious attack of Hamas on Israel on Oct. 7, American universities have served as the battleground for pro-Hamas, pro-Palestine anti-Israel protests that demand U.S. policymakers stop Israel's efforts to defend itself through its assault on Gaza. Yet these are more than campus protests.

Sweeping the nation is a concerted effort to convert woke leftist protesters to Islam and to teach them jihad – holy war. This effort is supported by Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in statements on X applauding student protests against Israel's actions and encouraging them to study Islam and the Quran – the Islamic holy book. In an open letter to university students, Khamenei assures them they are "on the right side of history" to oppose the American government.

Muslim activists are clear about their purpose. In a 1989 speech, Islamic activist Sharifa Alkhateeb explained the importance of education to Islam: "We do not want to melt into American society and disappear. We want to go into American society with Islamic ideals and revamp their thinking. We want to revamp them. We want to turn them into Muslim individuals." During the university campus protests, traditional prayer services are being held by Muslims with non-Muslims invited.

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A key supporter of campus protests is the Muslim Brotherhood, a terorrist organization funded by Qatar that also funds the terrorist organization, Hamas. The organization has made it clear that its mission is to overthrow the U.S. Constitution and impose Shariah – the brutal Islamic law. Shariah is considered divine law and does not permit Muslims to live under any other legal system, including the U.S. Constitution, which Muslims deem man-made law. The Muslim Brotherhood charter states that Islam intends to dominate all nations of the world.

Islam infiltrates a society through courts, schools, art museums, political offices, churches and other major institutions, where they can influence policy, gradually introduce Shariah, and finally impose it on an entire nation.

In January 2019, the first two Muslim women in Congress, Minnesota's Ilhan Omar and Michigan's Rashida Tlaib, were sworn in. Instead of using the Bible, each placed her hand on the Quran, swearing to "support and defend the U.S. Constitution … So help me God." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi placed her hand on the Quran in show of support of the Islamic sacred book for taking an oath to uphold the Constitution. For American citizens, the U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land and does not permit any other legal systems, including Shariah. How can a devout Muslim swear to uphold the Constitution when Islam requires that he live only under Shariah?

Either these women were ignorant of the implication of their pledges or they were purposely lying. This action of lying – taqiyah – is not only condoned, but recommended to Muslims in the Quran. Therefore, a Muslim can, and will, lie without any compunction, if it is necessary, to protect or further Islam.

For decades, American education has been a target for billions of petro-dollars for the purpose of changing public opinion toward Islam and to influence U.S. policy toward Israel. The brutality of Hamas in murdering babies, raping women and taking the elderly and disabled as hostages has been cheered on by left-wing student groups and even academics. We can expect professors, administrators and staff who join the chorus of pro-Hamas and anti-Israel protests to be financially compromised by the grants and funding provided by the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists. There is a high correlation between Middle East funding and anti-Semitism.

This open hostility by Muslims will increase as the number of Muslims in America increases. According to Pew Research Center, "By 2040, Muslims will replace Jews as the nation's second-largest religious group after Christians. And by 2050, the U.S. Muslim population is projected to reach 8.1 million, or 2.1% of the nation's total population – nearly twice the share of today."

In his book, "Slavery, Terrorism and Islam," white African missionary Dr. Peter Hammond writes that Islamization – takeover of a country – occurs when critical mass is reached so that Muslims can agitate for their "religious rights." Hammond notes that especially vulnerable are open, free, democratic societies.

Hammond identifies the stages of Islamization. From 2-3% Muslims begin proselytizing street gangs, jails and other ethnic priorities. At 5% they force the government to allow them to live under Shariah. At 10% lawlessness is increased with militia formations, murders, and the burning of churches and synagogues. At 40% there will be widespread massacres and open militia warfare with persecutions of non-believers and other believers and occasional genocide at 60%. At 80% we see Islamic state-run ethnic cleansing and genocide.

The prime target of Islam is Christians and Jews. Compliance to Shariah is mandatory and those who choose to ignore the law face stoning, beating, mutilation of body parts and even beheading. Leaving Islam is punishable by death.

Being Christian and not Muslim brings persecution. Already we see this persecution in America. In Minnesota, a 9-year-old white Christian girl was savagely beaten on the playground because "she wasn't Muslim."

Islam is a radical ideology flying under the banner of religion while admitting that it is an enemy of America. Because Muslims do not share the values that are the cornerstone of Western civilization, they post a grave threat to our very existence. They refuse to assimilate, demanding instead that Western nations accommodate their culture and laws and financially support them, while openly despising us.

If Americans want to survive as a free people, perhaps we should take a lesson from Japan, which has chosen to approach Islam differently, both officially and publicly, and so has avoided the problems of the West. At the diplomatic level, senior officials in Japan rarely entertain Muslim leaders and rarely visit Muslim countries. The relationship extends only to the Japanese importation of oil and gas products from some Muslim countries. Muslims are never granted citizenship and seldom are granted permanent residency. At the corporate level, the official policy is to deny entry to Muslims, even engineers, doctors and managers.

Do Americans have the spine to enforce this approach to Islam?

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We're in unchartered waters now in America, as far as the Judiciary goes. The Executive and Legislative branches of government fell to Marxism in November 2020, or perhaps more correctly, Jan. 6, 2021 – thanks to the teamwork of Pence and Pelosi.

SCOTUS could still step in if asked and nip this criminal abuse of the courts in the bud – which I think is very much in their interest to do, though the predictable political reaction by the left to declare the high court illegitimate (by the shrillest possible means) might cause a couple of the "conservatives" to hesitate – John Roberts for sure, and maybe Amy Barrett as well. But we'll just have to wait and see. Trump has said his plan is to appeal directly to the high court, which likely will rule in his favor. That will restore faith in the courts by normal people, but escalate the fear and desperation of the far left even further – if that's possible.

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As you know, I'm a strong Trump supporter, but I'm also hedging my bet based on my view of the unfolding of end-time prophecy.

From a purely worldly perspective, the Trump phenomenon looks like the ultimate historic showdown between the Marxist left and Populist right with Trump as the hero to save us from Marxist tyranny. That's about as exciting as it gets for a battle-scarred Reagan Revolution culture warrior like me after fighting a losing rearguard action for 30 long years against the exact same people attacking Trump.

But prophetically and spiritually this Biden/Trump showdown seems to be following the biblical pattern of Saul and David when the Israelite Republic of Joshua and Judges was transitioning to the Davidic Monarchy – with Dementia-Joe Biden in the role of Mentally ill King Saul, and Trump in the role of the constantly beleaguered David (whom, year upon year, Saul's entire regency was devoted to destroying). The parallels are remarkable, including Saul's illegitimacy in usurping the throne, which was David's by right, and David's self-restraint in honoring the "office" of the monarchy and declining to unseat Saul by military means or a coup.

Never forget that our American Republic lasted exactly 400 years, in parallel to the Israelite Republic, starting with the Plymouth landing and Mayflower Compact in November 1620 and ending with the Marxist coup of November 2020.

Now, no analogy is perfect, even in the parables of Christ. As a Canadian friend stated:

America's "first 150 years we were under a dictator – er, king. During that time there was no religious freedom – you practiced the religion of your town or got jailed. They hung Quakers in Boston; one was a friend's great grandmother in 1660. Thirty-two years later they hung his wife's grandmother for witchcraft in Salem. You could also end up in the stocks with your neighbors pelting you with rotten vegetables if you spoke out against the government. It took you Americans 150 years to throw off the yoke (we Canucks never quite managed it.)"

Yes, BUT the Israelite Republic had its parallels to what he correctly identified in America before the revolution: interfering foreign kings, cycles of subjugation, pagan religious practices, internal tribalism and strife, including the religious kind, and even witchcraft. What defined the "republic" at its best in both timelines was not "religious freedom" but de facto bottom-up political autonomy roughly steered/regulated by biblical law, despite continual factionalism. I urge every Christian to reread Joshua through Kings with my hypothesis in mind – it will be eye-opening.

Back to my election-season prognostications, however. Here's the downside to the Saul/David version of possible upcoming events from my millennialist perspective:

Since the David figure of the end times is actually supposed to be Christ, returning at the Second Advent to take possession of the earth and rule it from David's throne in Jerusalem, that can't be Trump, who's just a flawed human man like David was. Not only is Trump NOT the Messiah, he could, in this scenario, be a false Christ – or even turn out to be thee false Christ whose identity as such would not be revealed until three and a half years into his term. Prophecy says the Antichrist will be welcomed by the unsaved world as a savior at first – performing such signs and wonders that if it were possible even the elect would be deceived – and he isn't actually exposed as the Antichrist until the middle of his seven-year "kingdom."

I don't want that to be true about Trump, even in the slightest. I'm just performing my Christian due diligence on the biblical math as I perceive it.

That's assuming Trump even makes it to the election in one piece. I'm not the only one who honestly believes the elites are evil and desperate enough to kill him to prevent his re-election. And I think a great many people on the left secretly and passionately want someone to assassinate him.

OR they'll start World War III (with or without the accompaniment of false-flag terror attacks blamed on Russia) and then suspend the elections under martial law – like they just had Zelensky do in Ukraine – in part, perhaps, with an eye toward softening our voters toward that idea. Every day their provocations of Russia grow more blatant and consequential – again, perhaps in part to prepare the American people psychologically for the BIG ONE. Don't forget that Ukraine is less a military battlefield in the minds of the organized crime families of the Purple Uniparty than it is the ultimate OBiden crime scene they can never allow investigators to freely roam – and I'm not just talking Burisma and the bio-weapons labs.

Or, as I've written about for years, they will stroke out Biden before the DNC convention to allow their committee of elites to replace him with "Big Mike" Obama – in order to put "her" husband back in the White House. "Michelle" would be nothing but Barack's seat-warmer in the Oval Office while he runs things from the Situation Room as every anti-Trump voter would expect and prefer when they cast their ballot.

That latter option is actually the scenario I think is most likely. Barack Obama is the only man they have with the firepower to go head to head with Trump, and, frankly, he's been my top choice for Antichrist since he first took office in 2008. I guess we'll soon see which of these plays out – or something else entirely. In any case, there are "interesting times" on the near horizon.

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Judge Aileen Cannon

A federal judge who is hearing prosecutor Jack Smith's claims that President Donald Trump improperly had classified documents from his years in the White House in his Mar-a-Lago home has been battling a long list of scandals in the case already.

Judge Aileen Cannon has had to deal with the fact that the FBI investigators already have admitted tampering with the evidence Smith hopes to use against Trump.

Further, there have been reports that the government told the Trump campaign to take the documents because they had been in the custody of the government and officials wanted them gone.

There also are reports that a system set up before Trump's presidency actually obtained originals of the documents, and only copies were in Trump's possession.

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Then there's the outrageous, but confirmed, instruction to FBI SWAT raiders who took over Trump's home that day that they were under "shoot" orders if they felt that was necessary.

All of these disputes are facing Cannon's handling of the case, which now has been put off for weeks, maybe months.

But one issue has been solved: That orchestrated campaign to remove Cannon from the case because she, unlike some judges in New York, has not recently been following the Democrats' playbook.

Trump already has been targeted in a civil business case in which a leftist judge fined him nearly half a billion dollars, now on appeal, for the values he put on its business properties, a process real estate experts described as perfectly ordinary.

Then came last week's verdict of guilty to business reporting violations for misdemeanors past the statute of limitations that suddenly became zombie felonies because they were done in pursuit of another, unidentified and unclear, crime.

Fox News reports a justice on the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, William Pryor, has shot down an effort to get Cannon removed.

His opinion was that she was in the bull's-eye of an "orchestrated campaign."

The ruling comes for the more than 1,000 complaints that arrived about her in just one week, with radical voices accusing her of stalling the case against Trump.

Prior ruled he "has considered and dismissed four of those orchestrated complaints as merits-related and as based on allegations lacking sufficient evidence to raise an inference that misconduct has occurred."

CNBC reported that podcaster Glenn Kirschner claimed Cannon was grinding the case to a halt.

He claimed that was because she declined "to resolve motions in a timely manner and by refusing to even set a trial date. "

That same online presentation told people how to file a complaint against Cannon.

Pryor found the obvious, that "many" of the concerns "request that the chief circuit judge remove her from the classified-documents case and reassign the case to a different judge."

He also pointed out Cannon's rulings will be under the review of appellate courts in the "normal course."

Further, he found that the complaints were "speculative and unsupported by any evidence."

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Few in America aren't familiar with the Biden clan scandals: the allegations family members were taking bribes from foreign entities for access to Joe Biden, the Hunter Biden gun and tax charges, the money that came from foreign groups to many of Joe Biden's family members, and of course the sex and drug binges that are documented for Hunter in the laptop computer he abandoned at a repair shop.

Those are in addition to the obvious evidence of Joe Biden's diminishing capabilities, as noted in a report compiled by a federal special counsel investigating Biden's decision to take secret government documents to which he was not entitled and hide them in his own private office and garage.

Don't forget the family pets that have been chomping on White House staff members.

But now there are more … scandals. At least five according to an assessment done by the Media Research Center.

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The organization documented on Monday that the networks, following their consistent pattern of refusing to report on other conflicts facing the Bidens, likely won't be reporting on the newest.

The first is that the New York Post confirmed Hunter Biden "used his dad’s appearance at a Sandy Hook shooting memorial event to coordinate a previously unknown planned meeting between the former vice president and a Chinese business partner."

This would tie the Biden family even closer to Chinese interests, who may not be friendly to the U.S. Previously, Hunter, and through Hunter Joe, have been linked to Chinese investment cash, including once where Hunter threatened a Chinese company with the wrath of his father for not submitting a payment as he wanted.

The MRC report shows, "On Dec. 12, 2017, Hunter messaged CEFC executive Liu Yadong on WeChat to arrange a meeting with his powerful dad, documents released this week by the House Ways and Means Committee revealed."

"Can you meet this evening early," Hunter wrote in the messages obtained by IRS investigators. "My father will be in New York also and he wants me to attend the Sandyhook [sic] memorial service with him and I would like him to meet you along with my uncle [Jim Biden] and then you and I can talk let me know if that works."

Liu agreed, asking "where and when."

The report explained, "The newly revealed texts between Hunter Biden and Liu came after several months of back-and-forth over the Biden clan’s involvement in a deal with CEFC – which has ties to the Chinese government – in exchange for a cool $10 million per year."

Second, the report said, was documentation released by the House Ways and Means Committee that "shows Hunter Biden lied under oath to Congress, during his Feb. 28 deposition."

MRC said, "The evidence, provided by IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, who probed the first son’s finances, reveals Hunter 'indisputably' lied at least three times during his sworn testimony, the panel’s majority said after voting in a closed-door executive session for its release."

This situation involved Hunter Biden's threat that he was "sitting" with his father and wanted payment.

"Hunter, 54, claimed he was 'high or drunk' when he sent a threatening text message to the wrong Chinese business associate — but phone records of the WhatsApp message show the associate, Raymond Zhao, responded and 'knew exactly' what the president’s son was talking about when he asked to speak with the chairman of CEFC China Energy, Ye Jianming."

The report also charges Hunter's wrong statements included his denial that he would help associates work on visas,

"Hunter Biden has shown once again he believes there are two systems of justice in this country — one for his family, and one for everyone else," said House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith in a statement.

Further was Hunter Biden's claims he didn't introduce his father to Burisma officials, "despite them all having dinner together," MRC said.

This is when, the report said, "Indicted first son Hunter Biden suggested in a new interview that he didn’t introduce his father to an executive from a Ukrainian gas company that was paying Hunter a million-dollar salary — despite testifying to Congress that then-Vice President Joe Biden dined with the very same Burisma Holdings executive."

Fourth was the time a fund manager said Jim Biden had a business relationship with Qatari officials, which the MRC reported "would be closest link between a Biden family member and foreign government."

"New details about Jim Biden’s foreign fundraising efforts are spilling out in a Kentucky bankruptcy court, where recent testimony indicates that President Joe Biden’s brother partnered with Qatari government officials in his quest to find money for U.S. health care ventures. The sworn testimony by fund manager Michael Lewitt, a former business partner of Jim Biden’s, attests that two companies that facilitated the efforts were part-owned by 'members of the Qatari government.'"

One company apparently "partnered directly" with Jim Biden, and another provided "financial backing."

And finally, there's the report that the CIA blocked Hunter Biden's "Sugar Brother" lawyer friend from being interviewed by federal investigators.

That would be Kevin Morris, who apparently was protected during a five-year review of Hunter Biden's alleged tax crimes.

House officials say a whistleblower revealed the intel agency prevented the IRS and Justice Department investigators from interviewing Morris.

"It is unknown why or on what basis the CIA allegedly intervened to prevent investigators from interviewing Mr. Morris," members of Congress explained.

"However, these allegations track with other evidence showing how the DOJ deviated from its standard investigative practices during the investigation of Hunter Biden."

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A new ruling on Monday from the Texas Supreme Court means a lower court's expansion of abortion permissions is being rolled back.

"The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that the state's constitution and abortion law protect both a mother and her unborn child," explained Liberty Counsel founder Mat Staver after the decision.

His organization has fought on behalf of the pro-life movement in courts across the country.

"The pro-abortion industry is sowing confusion where the law is clear. Doctors can use their 'reasonable medical judgment' based on best practices to treat pregnant women experiencing a life-threatening condition. Texas law is on the side of life."

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The high court ruling, 9-0, rejected claims by pro-abortion interests that the near-total state abortion ban be opened up so that they could do more abortions.

Liberty Counsel explained, "The case centers around about 20 women who say they were denied emergency abortions when their doctors were uncertain about what the state’s 'Human Life Protection Act' allowed them to do in certain medical cases. The plaintiffs, which includes women and their doctors, complained the exception was 'confusing,' as well as 'unconstitutional' if the law did not allow abortion under a broader set of pregnancy complications."

A lower court had claimed that the precedent should be a "good faith belief" that there was any life-threatening issue, not the statutory "reasonable medical judgment."

The high court, however, rejected the agenda.

"Texas law permits a life-saving abortion," the ruling said. "The law permits a physician to intervene to address a woman’s life-threatening physical condition before death or serious physical impairment are imminent."

Explained Liberty Counsel "The state high court also expressly addressed the challengers’ confusion about what is allowed under the law. The court stated that any physician who tells a pregnant patient they 'may die' or suffer 'substantial physical impairment' without an abortion, and 'in the same breath,' says the law will not allow it 'is simply wrong in that legal assessment.' The court emphasized a mother need not be in 'imminent peril' or 'first suffer' impairment for doctors to intervene."

But the court ruling said, "The current law, however, plainly does not permit abortion based solely on a diagnosis that an unborn child has an abnormal condition, even a life-limiting one. An unborn child’s diagnosis must be coupled with reasonable medical judgment that the mother has a life-threatening physical condition…or serious physical impairment."

Further the ruling noted the state's historical commitment to protecting the unborn, commenting, "The history of abortion regulation in Texas demonstrates the Legislature’s unmistakable commitment to protecting the lives of pregnant women experiencing life-threatening complications while also valuing and protecting unborn life."

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Mike Pompeo

Among Joe Biden's failures in the White House is the southern border, which he ordered wide open to allow the entry of millions of illegal aliens, possibly including terrorists.

And the nation's economy, which saw inflation as high as 9% under his leadership.

And his campaign promise to bring the nation together, as his policies have created divide after divide after divide.

And his green campaign, which has produced, so far, stratospheric levels for energy prices.

Now there's a new one, where Biden's plan for a $320 million pier in Gaza has fallen apart, prompting even leftists formerly at MSNBC to blast him.

"What a bloody s------," said onetime MSNBC anchor Mehdi Hasan.

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"Let's be clear: if this had happened on Trump's watch, we would all be mocking and denouncing him," Hasan said on social media. "It's super-embarrassing that it happened on Biden's watch…"

The pier was assembled as a temporary means to deliver tax-funded aid to Palestinians in Gaza after the Hamas terrorists based there attacked Israel and killed some 1,200 innocent civilians.

The pier broke up shortly after it was opened for use.

In fact, reports reveal it lasted "roughly a week."

Now, former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, at the online site for the American Center for Law and Justice, where he is a senior counsel for global affairs, charged Biden was able to embarrass America, help terrorists and waste tax money – all with the one "sinking Gaza pier" project.

Biden's $320 million Gaza pier has detached

"This pier – which is now reportedly sinking – perfectly encapsulates the Biden administration’s failed, nakedly political approach to foreign policy," said Pompeo, who was working with the Trump administration at a time when there were stunningly successful negotiations establishing relations involving Israel and several of its longtime Arab foes, under the "Abraham Accords."

Pompeo noted, first, Biden's pledge to build the pier brought American soldiers to the site, "even though Biden had pledged there would be no 'boots on the ground' in Gaza."

Then, he said, such aid never could reach civilians without "falling into the hands of Hamas."

Further, he said it was "unconscionable for American aid to end up helping a terrorist organization that was still holding Israeli and American hostages."

Why not, he said, send the aid through an already-proven delivery channel, through Israel?

He warned regarding Biden's pier, "It is highly likely that this pier is merely facilitating the delivery of American aid right into the hands of Hamas. What a disgrace."

Pompeo explained Biden's real reason for the pier was to advance his "two-state solution – not the creation of a Palestinian state, but to garner votes in the states of Michigan and Minnesota, where far-Left, radical communities have been extremely vocal in their criticism of Biden’s support for Israel, lukewarm though it may be."

Pompeo said Biden's "political" weaponization of such a project "perfectly displays the rot that has plagued his decision-making throughout his time in office, but particularly since the brutal attacks of October 7th. Increasingly desperate to placate far-Left voters ahead of an election, President Biden has put U.S. troops in harm’s way and aided our enemies just to win a few votes."

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Moderna, one of the makers of those infamous mRNA COVID shots ordered by government and corporations onto tens of millions of Americans that now have proven to trigger fatal heart ailments, says the Food and Drug Administration now has officially approved another of its mRNA treatments.

The company, in an announcement, confirmed "the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved mRESVIA (mRNA-1345), an mRNA respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine, to protect adults aged 60 years and older from lower respiratory tract disease caused by RSV infection."

The report said, "The approval was granted under a breakthrough therapy designation."

The company's boast prompted Dr. Peter McCullough, M.D., to offer a warning to the American public.

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"Many have approached me at large events and have expressed concerns that the vaccine manufacturers were going to use mRNA on a non-emergency basis to make new and routine vaccinations for children and adults. Their concerns stem from the horrific safety profile of COVID-19 mRNA products and the complete lack of testing for genotoxicity, oncogenicity, and long-term side effects," he wrote online.

Dr. Peter McCullough

"Our great concern was that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines ushered in the context of an emergency would set a new precedent for more genetic vaccines that depart from all safety standards set forth previously by the U.S. FDA."

He said the new FDA approval was "done without the full dossier of safety information required for a routine approval including 2-3 years of observation for standard vaccines, and at least 5 to 15 years of observation for genetic transfer technology."

The FDA itself previously has called for researchers to "observe subjects for delayed adverse events for as long as 15 years following exposure to the investigational GT product, specifying that the LTFU observation should include a minimum of five years of annual examinations, followed by 10 years of annual queries of study subjects…"

McCullough's warning to the public was, "Moderna’s approval marks a clear inflection point for the U.S. FDA—synthetic mRNA will not have to meet safety standards previously put forth by the agency."

He explained, "The press release does not tell the public the absolute risk reduction for clinically significant outcomes was far below 1%, meaning this product will not have a significant clinical impact. Consumers should know that at the bare minimum, the following safety concerns exist for any pseudouridinated, synthetic mRNA product including mRESVIA(R):"

Myocarditis because mRNA of all types targets the heart.

Auto-immunity because of the generation of foreign RSV proteins and frameshifted peptides.

Genomic integration.

And oncogenicity.

He provided citations for studies confirming his concerns.

He said "uncontrolled production of stabilized RSV prefusion F glycoprotein" could be "more toxic" than the "Wuhan Spike protein" used against the Wuhan virus.

He said for RSV, an "antigen-based product" is preferable to an mRNA treatment.

Moderna chief Stephane Bancel was pushing the company's product in its announcement, saying, it is "the only RSV vaccine available in a pre-filled syringe designed to maximize ease of administration, saving vaccinators' time and reducing the risk of administrative errors. This approval is also the first time an mRNA vaccine has been approved for a disease other than COVID-19. With mRESVIA, we continue to deliver for patients by addressing global public health threats related to infectious diseases."

The company said a "Phase 3 clinical trial" reviewed 37,000 adults for about 3.7 months.

McCullough, in an interview with WND at the COVID pandemic was winding down, explained how he was under constant attack for his factual commentary on COVID, which shot promoters claim was misleading, including threats to his certification.

The world renowned cardiologist and epidemiologist – with 677 scientific publications to his credit – explained he was forced into a rigorous appeal process at great expense personally as well as professionally.

"I can tell you this is unprecedented. We've never had a federal board like this, recommend that a doctor become decertified because of political reasons," he told WND.

"There is no complaint regarding my critical care. No complaint regarding my board scores."

The American Board of Internal Medicine targeted statements McCullough made to the Texas Senate and wrote to accuse him of misinformation.

About the same time, McCullough was terminated from his editor-in-chief roles of two different journals, Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine and Cardiorenal Medicine.

In 2021, McCullough's scientific opinions on issues such as how the SARS-CoV-2 virus is spread, the case fatality rate, early treatments, masks, lockdowns and vaccines led to Baylor University Medical Center firing him. And three other academic institutions cut their ties with McCullough: Texas A&M College of Medicine, Texas Christian University and University of North Texas Health Science Center School of Medicine.

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Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Kyle Massey, assigned to the submarine tender USS Emory S. Land, administers the first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to Machinist Mate 3rd Class Brandy Mingus, also assigned to Emory S. Land, at Mare Island Dry Dock, in Vallejo, California, March 18, 2021. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Zachary Grooman)

A report that is certain to raise questions about the integrity of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, which was run by Anthony Fauci before, during, and for a time, after the COVID pandemic, as well as the bank accounts of its scientists, has been released by Open the Books.

That organization, which investigates and uncovers payoffs, payments and payouts that the government doesn't necessarily want taxpayers to know about, has a new report revealing Big Pharma paid the federal government's National Institutes of Health some $710 million during the COVID pandemic, some 175 times more than just a few years earlier.

And of that, Fauci's NAIAD cashed checks for some $690 million, 97% of the total.

"It was an extreme cash haul at Fauci's institute," the report said.

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Fauci, of course, was the health official acting as dictator during the pandemic from the bat-related virus that most likely emerged from a Chinese laboratory doing experiments on how to make bat viruses worse. Health officials now essentially have admitted that Fauci's demands for experimental shots injured people, and his requirements for masks and social distancing were based on no scientific evidence.

Open the Books reported, "Between 2009-2021, OpenTheBooks.com, the organization I founded and lead, previously reported that $325 million was paid to all NIH institutes. Fauci’s NIAID received $23.9 million of that – or an average of $2 million per year.

Dr. Anthony Fauci responds to Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., at a Senate hearing Jan. 11, 2022

"NIH and NAID wasted countless taxpayer dollars illegally resisting the requirement to tell taxpayers what was happening with their tax dollars. That’s because in the next two years – 2022 and 2023— Fauci’s institute collected the equivalent of 175 years in NIAID royalty payments. Nearly $690 million in just two years vs. $23.9 million over 12 years.

"We had to sue NIH twice in federal court over their royalty payment database with Judicial Watch, our legal partner, as counsel. It’s been a two-and-a-half-year battle to open the NIH books."

Under the schemes put in place by the NIH, pharmaceutical and healthcare companies pay federal officials and scientists for their "inventions," which in fact are funded by federal, taxpayer-funded labs.

Report author Adam Andrzejewski confirmed that while those payments had been running at the rate of a few million dollars a year, they exploded to some $350 million for NIAID during one year of the pandemic.

In 2022 and 2023, "Fauci’s institute collected the equivalent of 175 years in NIAID royalty payments. Nearly $690 million in just two years vs. $23.9 million over 12 years."

The report said the top paying companies included Icopsavas, which made 147 payments, Glaxosmithkline which made 127 payments, Merck, Sharp & Dohme which made 122, Meso Scale which made 94 and Changchun with 86.

The report warned that Changchun is a Chinese state-owned vaccine company.

"Just this list raises all kinds of potential conflict-of-interest questions such as how much money did the Chinese state-owned vaccine developers pay NIH on third party royalties during a period when Fauci, NIH, and their colleagues did all they could to hammer down the Wuhan lab-leak theory?" the report questions.

"While it’s clear vaccine developers are licensing patents from the NIH, it is unclear if those patents are related to COVID-19 treatments."

The report said five officials getting the most payments, although it is unknown whether that equates to the highest dollar figure since those are concealed, included four from Fauci's NAIAD.

They are Dean Mewtcalfe, Cem Akin, Peter Kwong and Tongging Zhou. The fifth, Arnold Kirchsenbaum, holds a "position unknown." The five together took in nearly 350 payments.

"Because we do not know the amounts paid in each transaction, we do not know if these scientists received the highest dollar figures—only that they received the most royalty payments. We assume that there is a correlation between the number of payments and the total amount received but cannot know for certain until payment totals are disclosed," the report said.

Further, thousands more payments have been listed, but with the recipient redacted.

Open the Books reported, "In FY 2022 and FY 2023, when royalty payments to NIH scientists hit record highs, 936 payments were made to scientists with redacted names. Of those, 299 payments flowed to scientists affiliated with NIAID. We don’t know why their names are redacted or whether they have decision-making roles that shape policy and dictate how NIH spends its research time, or why NIH insists on covering up their identities. We do know all of this raises significant questions about conflicts-of-interest within the NIH royalty structure. Thus, we litigate to demand answers."

The report cited one example raising many questions:

The federal government gave Moderna grants of nearly $10 billion from 2020-2022 to develop a Covid-19 vaccine and to deliver doses. From 2013-2017 the Department of Defense gave Moderna $60 million to develop its mRNA technology. Between 2018 and 2023, 44 scientists at NIH received royalty payments from Moderna and one of those scientists was John Mascola. John Mascola joined the NIH in 2000, and since 2013 directed the Vaccine Research Center, an office under Fauci’s NIAID. In other words, he was Fauci’s vaccine maker. During the pandemic, Mascola was charged with leading Operation Warp Speed, the government program focused on developing a COVID-19 vaccine. What the general public didn’t know, and NIH has spent tax dollars to fight tooth-and-nail not to disclose, is that Mascola had been receiving royalty payments from Moderna since 2018. So, Mascola was leading the very committee that would choose the vaccine… and Moderna had been paying Mascola royalties for his own inventions at NIAID since 2018.

The report said Mascola said he chose Moderna believing the odds of success.

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Reuters fed the divisive response by saying a warpath could be afoot: "Trump supporters call for riots and violent retribution after verdict."

Pundits and radicals on the left are rejoicing to possess "convicted felon" as a new term to describe the former president, like they discovered buried treasure.

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At the same time, the real treasure troves of the Trump's campaign raised nearly $53 million dollars in the first 24 hours after the verdict.

What about the White House response?

President Biden has repeatedly said that the unprecedented New York court case was never about politics, but his campaign crew "erupted into cheers" at Trump's verdict. And Mr. Biden himself gave the press a "disturbing smile" to express his personal pleasure.

One thing is certain: It's difficult to conceive how the present political environment won't lead to further divisions, strife and, ultimately, civil unrest, chaos or worse, especially the closer the presidential election draws near.

The greatest fallout of Washington's swamp and their political wars is the jeopardy, disparity and demoralization it creates for we the American people.

And one question remains: What do we do now?

I believe the next right step to remedy the volatile and potentially explosive political landscape of our country and world is found in the midst of a WWII 80th anniversary we commemorate this very week: D-Day. On that monumental patriotic battle hung the balance of power in World War II (1939-1945) – and the fate of the world.

On June 6, 1944, Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower gave the green light for the largest amphibious military operation in history. Codenamed Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of the heavily Nazi-fortified coast of France's Normandy region has come to be more popularly known as D-Day.

By sunrise, 18,000 American and British paratroopers were on the ground.

At 6:30 a.m., American troops came ashore at Omaha and Utah beaches.

By the day's end, 156,000 British, Canadian and American forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch (Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword beaches), and had established a foothold along the coast that could begin their advance into France.

History.com noted, "More than 5,000 ships and landing craft carrying troops and supplies left England for the trip across the Channel to France, while more than 11,000 aircraft were mobilized to provide air cover and support for the invasion.

"Within three months, the northern part of France would be freed and the invasion force would be preparing to enter Germany, where they would meet up with Soviet forces moving in from the east."

You know how the story ends. By the following spring of 1945, the Allied forces completely defeated Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime.

The Normandy landings are regarded as the linchpin to the Allied victory: What is often now called "the beginning of the end of war in Europe."

What's interesting is that, two years earlier, in 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt explained the upper hand the enemy was gaining over the minds and hearts of average people. He could have been describing the enemy's effects challenging most today in our country: "One of the principal weapons of our enemies in the past has been their use of what is called the 'War of Nerves.' They have spread falsehood and terror; they have [undermined the majority everywhere]; they have duped the innocent; they have fomented suspicion and hate between neighbors; they have aided and abetted those people in other nations – including our own – whose words and deeds are advertised … as proof of our disunity. The greatest defense against all such propaganda, of course, is the common sense of the common people – and that defense is prevailing. The 'War of Nerves' … is now turning into a boomerang."

I believe the same is true today: The enemy of our republic might have gained the upper hand in the war of nerves, but it's now turning into a boomerang – or at least it will, if we play our election cards right.

We are at one of the most critical crossroads in American life I've ever known – a true tipping point. And just like the Allied Forces in WWII were left 80 years ago with an unavoidable do-and-die moment of D-Day, we the people are left today holding a do-or-die presidential election that could usher in the destiny or destruction of our country and even world.

So, what to do next? While crossing the swamp to the beaches of ballot box?

We do what Roosevelt did. He paused the country and world and asked them to pray, to cry out to Almighty God, particularly for the troops. We commemorate and represent those incredibly brave patriots. And we need FDR's urgent 80-year-old prayer like never before. We need its encouragement and hope today.

Will you pause even now to pray it with me?

FDR spoke on a live broadcast across the nation:

My fellow Americans: Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation. It has come to pass with success thus far.

And so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to join with me in prayer:

Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.

Lead them straight and true; give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith.

They will need Thy blessings. Their road will be long and hard. For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces. Success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again; and we know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our cause, our sons will triumph.

They will be sore tried, by night and by day, without rest – until the victory is won. The darkness will be rent by noise and flame. Men's souls will be shaken with the violences of war.

For these men are lately drawn from the ways of peace. They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate. They fight to let justice arise, and tolerance and good will among all Thy people. They yearn but for the end of battle, for their return to the haven of home.

Some will never return. Embrace these, Father, and receive them, Thy heroic servants, into Thy kingdom.

And for us at home – fathers, mothers, children, wives, sisters, and brothers of brave men overseas – whose thoughts and prayers are ever with them – help us, Almighty God, to rededicate ourselves in renewed faith in Thee in this hour of great sacrifice.

Many people have urged that I call the Nation into a single day of special prayer. But because the road is long and the desire is great, I ask that our people devote themselves in a continuance of prayer. As we rise to each new day, and again when each day is spent, let words of prayer be on our lips, invoking Thy help to our efforts.

Give us strength, too – strength in our daily tasks, to redouble the contributions we make in the physical and the material support of our armed forces.

And let our hearts be stout, to wait out the long travail, to bear sorrows that may come, to impart our courage unto our sons wheresoever they may be.

And, O Lord, give us Faith. Give us Faith in Thee; Faith in our sons; Faith in each other; Faith in our united crusade. Let not the keenness of our spirit ever be dulled. Let not the impacts of temporary events, of temporal matters of but fleeting moment let not these deter us in our unconquerable purpose.

With Thy blessing, we shall prevail over the unholy forces of our enemy. Help us to conquer the apostles of greed and racial arrogancies. Lead us to the saving of our country, and with our sister Nations into a world unity that will spell a sure peace a peace invulnerable to the schemings of unworthy men. And a peace that will let all of men live in freedom, reaping the just rewards of their honest toil.

Thy will be done, Almighty God.

Amen.

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As Joe Biden appoints lesbians, homosexuals, transgenders and more who boast about their alternative lifestyle choices to key, influential – and lucrative – federal posts, it's taken a bar in Idaho to bring the issue back to reality.

It is the Old State Saloon in Eagle, Idaho, that has confirmed its celebration of the inaugural "Heterosexual Awesomeness Month."

"For without them, none of us would be here!" the company pointedly notes.

A bar in Idaho has declared June “Heterosexual Awesomeness Month”@oldstatesaloon in Eagle, ID will offer a free beer to heterosexual men on Mondays, and Wednesdays will be hetero couples day for 15% off. pic.twitter.com/MZPSMsRz8K

— WorldNetDaily (@worldnetdaily) June 3, 2024

The company's announcement explains "June will be OSS's inaugural Heterosexual Awesomeness Month! Come join us all month to celebrate heterosexuals, for without them, none of us would be here! Each Monday will be Hetero Male Monday and any heterosexual male dressed like a heterosexual male will receive a free draft beer. Each Wednesday is Heterosexual couples day and each heterosexual couple will receive 15% off their bill. More events to be announced…"

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Joe Biden, in fact, has made the promotion of alternative sexual lifestyle choices one of his main term goals.

Joe Biden delivers remarks at a Pride celebration, Saturday, June 10, 2023, on the South Lawn of the White House. (Official White House photo by Adam Schultz)

He's made homosexual Pete Buttigieg a federal transportation official, lesbian Karine Jean Pierre his spokeswoman and Rachel Levine, a man who calls himself a woman, a health official.

The Idaho bar, in fact, is trolling the nationally recognized "Pride Month" in June where leftists and progressives celebrate those lifestyle choices, according to a Gateway Pundit report.

The bar later added to its social media comments that its owners "love their LGBT patrons and will not be cancelling the celebrations."

Old State Saloon owner Mark Fitzpatrick (Photo by Kiira Turnbow)

On social media, the bar revealed, "Since we announced Hetero Awesomeness Month we’ve had some significant backlash: theft of our property, vendors refusing to fulfill our orders for ingredients, wedding catering cancelation, libel, slander – even the owner being falsely accused of being a sex offender!"

However, the bar reported, it's gotten "so much support from like-mined people who want to celebrate 'Heterosexual Awesomeness Month' with us, and get the concept of it as being about freedom and being true to our personal values.'

The statement said, "Brave owner Mark Fitzpatrick said 'If the world wants to support 'Heterosexual Awesomeness Month' by crowdfunding an even larger Hetero HQ, lets do it!' He and his team are passionate about building a Community Event Center where conservatism can be appreciated, including Hetero Awesomeness Month-style events every year."

After setting up a GoFundMe page, the bar announced, "Many have asked about sending financial support, so this platform is going to serve as the conduit for people who want to contribute to this vision and fund the construction of a physical location specifically for traditional and faith-based events, preserving Idaho’s amazing and conservative culture."

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President Donald J. Trump boards Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020, en route to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, to begin his trip Palm Beach, Florida. (Official White House photo by Tia Dufour)

The business records lawfare case against President Donald Trump brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, overseen by Juan Merchan, a judge whose daughter was fundraising for Democrats off her father's courtroom rulings, created a "thrill kill environment" for Democrats.

It involved guilty verdicts to 34 charges that started out as misdemeanors that were dead, but became zombie felonies when Bragg claimed that were done in pursuit of another, hidden, crime.

But that environmental soon will be over, according to Jonathan Turley, the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

He's considered a constitutional expert who has testified before Congress on those issues, and even has represented members in court.

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The verdict for Trump came last week from an all-leftist jury in the far-left enclave of Manhattan, where Turley explains the case was made "nearly un-winnable" for Trump through the manipulation of the court system, the vagueness of the charges, even the instructions from the judge.

He commented, "Clarence Darrow would likely have lost with those instructions after the errors in the case by Judge Juan Merchan. At that point, it became a legal canned hunt. So the attention will now shift to the appellate courts. While it may be tough going initially in the New York court system for the former president, this case could well end up in the federal system and the United States Supreme Court. The thrill kill environment of last week may then dissipate as these glaring errors are presented in higher courts."

He pointed out the celebrations by Democrats, but warned that the case "is a target-rich environment for an appeal."

Alvin Bragg

Trump, meanwhile, has called on the U.S. Supreme Court to step in an end Joe Biden's political prosecutions of him. The Manhattan case is just one of a long list being orchestrated by Biden, through Democrat prosecutors.

Turley pointed out that the district where the trial was held voted 90% against President Trump, but the real fault is with the prosecutors and judge.

For instance, "Acting Supreme Court justice Juan Merchan was handpicked for this case rather than randomly selected. This is only the latest in a litany of Trump cases where Merchan has meted out tough rulings against Trump and his organization. With any other defendant, there would likely be outrage over his selection. Merchan donated to President Biden. … We learned later that Merchan has contributed to a group to stop the GOP and Trump. Merchan’s daughter is also a Democratic organizer who has helped raise millions against Trump and the GOP and for the Democrats."

Merchan's significant failure, Turley explained, was his "failure" to protect the rights of the defendant. … It is not just the appearance of a conflict with Judge Merchan but a record of highly biased decisions."

Turley called Merchan's courtroom decisions "incomprehensible and conflicted."

Then there were Bragg's charges.

The Department of Justice earlier had looked at the same facts, and declined to pursue any prosecution.

"The Federal Election Commission likewise found no basis for a civil fine. With no federal prosecution, Bragg decided to use an unprecedented criminal theory not only to zap a dead misdemeanor into life (after the expiration of the statute of limitation) but to allow him to try violations of not only federal election law but also federal taxation violations. In other words, the Justice Department would not prosecute federal violations, so Bragg effectively did it in state court," he explained.

Then there were the closing arguments, that were "unclear about what Bragg was alleging."

And the evidence.

"Merchan allowed a torrent of immaterial and prejudicial evidence to be introduced into the trial by the prosecution. That included testimony from porn actress Stormy Daniels that went into details about having sex with Trump. She included a clear suggestion that Trump raped her. After this utterly disgraceful testimony, Merchan expressed regret but actually blamed the defense counsel, despite their prior objections to the testimony. He had previously chastised counsel for making continued objections, but now he criticized them for not continuing to make objections," Turley pointed out.

And, despite Merchan's instructions otherwise, prosecutors "proceeded to expressly state that it was 'a fact' that federal election violations occurred in this case and that Trump ordered those violations."

And Merchan censored a potential defense witness, ordering that the former chairman of the Federal Election Commission could not say "hush money" payments were not federal election violations.

Then, too, Merchan's instructions smashed any hope of a fair verdict and the result was that "When the verdict came in, we were still unsure what Trump was convicted of."

That was because Merchan abandoned the requirement for a unanimous jury.

"The Supreme Court has repeatedly emphasized that the requirement of unanimity in criminal convictions is sacrosanct in our system. While there was unanimity that the business records were falsified to hide or further a second crime, there was no express finding of what that crime may have been," he said.

And, Turley noted, there were failures in "due process violations on the lack of specificity in the indictment, vagueness of the underlying state law and the lack of evidentiary foundation for key defenses like 'the legitimate press function.'"

Turley's warning? "If Biden wins the election before this conviction is overturned, history’s judgment will be deafening."

Trump calls on U.S. Supreme Court to end Biden's political prosecution

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President Donald Trump on Sunday issued a statement calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in Joe Biden's political prosecution of him, just as a sentencing by a "CONFLICTED" judge appointed by Democrats is looming.

A jury in the far-left enclave of Manhattan convicted Trump of 34 counts of business reporting issues, which would have been misdemeanors for which that statute of limitations expired long ago.

However, Alvin Bragg, the local district attorney, claimed they were part of the pursuit of another, hidden, crime, and so that made them felonies. The judge, Juan Merchan, has a daughter doing fundraising for Democrats off of her father's courtroom decisions, and previously had contributed financially to Democrats, but refused to recognize those conflicts and leave the case.

Now, Trump says a higher authority needs to resolve the political prosecution.

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"The 'Sentencing' for not having done anything wrong will be, conveniently for the Fascists, 4 days before the Republican National Convention. A Radical Left Soros backed D.A., who ran on a platform of 'I will get Trump,' reporting to an 'Acting' Local Judge, appointed by the Democrats, who is HIGHLY CONFLICTED, will make a decision which will determine the future of our Nation? The United States Supreme Court MUST DECIDE!"

A report from The Federalist left little doubt about who ultimately has been pulling the strings in the Democrats' lawfare to try to jail Trump. The Manhattan case is just one of a long list Democrat prosecutors have created against Trump.

"In response to Americans’ outcry over the political prosecutions of Donald Trump and a Manhattan jury convicting the former president on 34 felony counts, President Joe Biden declared, 'It’s irresponsible for anyone to say this was rigged, just because they don’t like the verdict.' Coming from the Commander-in-Rigging, this proclamation means nothing," the report revealed.

"Biden and those seeking to ensure his re-election have their hands all over Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s prosecution of the former president. A lead prosecutor for Bragg during the trial was Matthew Colangelo. In December 2022, Colangelo left the Biden Department of Justice to 'jump start' the criminal case against Trump. Biden had previously named Colangelo his acting associate attorney general—the third-highest-ranking official in the DOJ."

Further, the report said, "Colangelo’s role in prosecuting his former boss’s political opponent provides the most obvious evidence of the Biden administration’s involvement in the Manhattan D.A.’s criminal targeting of Trump, but the rigging started much earlier. As I previously reported, the incestuous relationship between the Manhattan D.A.’s office and Team Biden began as early as mid-February 2021. Then, 'Bragg’s predecessor, District Attorney Cyrus Vance, arranged for private criminal defense attorney and former federal prosecutor Mark Pomerantz to be a special assistant district attorney for the Manhattan D.A.’s office.'"

"As The New York Times reported at the time, Pomerantz was to work 'solely on the Trump investigation' during a temporary leave of absence from his law firm, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton, and Garrison. 'But even before being sworn in as a special assistant to the Manhattan D.A., Pomerantz had reportedly 'been helping with the case informally for months.'' Even Democrats’ most reliable Old Grey Lady (of the evening) acknowledged, 'the hiring of an outsider is a highly unusual move for a prosecutor’s office.'"

A report at the Gateway Pundit pointed out, of the Trump case, "This verdict came despite glaring inconsistencies in testimonies by convicted perjured Michael Cohen and lack of hard evidence by the prosecution."

It cited Trump's comment on the issue, "Nobody even knew what the crime was until the Judge gave his Unconstitutional Instructions. A total Hoax! A case like this has NEVER been brought before. A Country in peril. Election Interference!!!"

It continued, "When political leanings seep into courtrooms and guide decisions that should be based solely on law and evidence, we risk compromising the very foundations of our republic. As we wait for the Supreme Court’s intervention, it’s critical to remember that this is not just about one man, but the future of our nation and the sanctity of our legal system."

The Washington Examiner reported Trump's lawyers already have committed to an appeal, for which analysists say there are multiple grounds.

The report said, "Another Trump attorney, Will Scharf, signaled to CNN on Friday their plans to seek the Supreme Court’s opinion. 'We are going to take this as high and far as we need to, including to the U.S. Supreme Court, to vindicate President Trump’s rights.'"

'Glaring errors' in Trump case will defuse 'thrill kill environment'

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Jerrod Sessler

With ever-increasing reports that America’s military readiness is degrading at an alarming rate, thanks to leftist ideologues imposing wokeism, radical diversity and sensitivity training up and down the ranks, one decorated Navy veteran and congressional candidate is loudly sounding the alarm.

Jerrod Sessler, candidate for the Republican seat in central Washington’s 4th congressional district – endorsed by President Donald Trump, Gen. Michael Flynn, the House Freedom Caucus and other conservatives – spoke to WND candidly about his concerns.

Considering himself a constitutionalist, Sessler unapologetically affirms that "America is inspired by God, and when you look at our Constitution, it would not exist without our God-given natural rights."

Having served in a high-paced environment aboard a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, Sessler is concerned, like many current and former service members, about the alarming state of the nation’s military readiness.

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Completing his tour of duty in 1989, which included both a Western Pacific (WestPAC) cruise and a Northern Pacific (NorthPAC) cruise, the former petty officer describes today's military as a "mystery." Indeed, Sessler tells WND, interactions with service members, veterans and others have convinced him that "the military is weaker than it's ever been."

Jerrod Sessler, President Donald Trump

The increasingly troubled state of America’s armed forces, Sessler said, is directly connected to "military leaders' acceptance of woke ideology and 'Diversity, Equity and Inclusion' policy." A recent example he cited was the LGBTQ+ community promoting "sensitivity training"\ within the Air Force. And recently, WND published photographic proof of "gender neutral restrooms" in U.S. military academies.

"What does this do for the American people, and how does this help us be safer?" he asked.

"I can't imagine the military spending time – or wasting time – on such a topic," Sessler lamented. For him, "the military is not a place for weakness, whether it be physical or mental."

In fact, he said, physical and mental toughness are absolutely required for the military.

"In boot camp, more people fail mentally than physically," he pointed out. "You have to be mentally tough to be an asset to our military." He questioned the mental state of some service members, pointing out that "you have open mental illness [in the military] with people parading around in drag clothes." For Sessler, "that’s absolutely unacceptable and only weakens the state of our military."

Likewise, he noted, mental weakness is also pervasive in leadership, for a variety of reasons. Indeed, much of today’s military ":leadership is cowering to wokeism at the cost of American security."

"The Army," Sessler told WND, "has lost a third of its doctors and is mothballing a tenth of the workhorse Blackhawk helicopters." While press releases suggested "it is a planned obsolescence," he said, "the truth is, we do not have the personnel."

"Ineffective leaders kick the can down the road by accepting the woke ideology, but that form of weakness," the congressional candidate warned, "comes at the cost of our military readiness – and that leaves the American people unsafe during a time when we really need to know we are secure."

To that end, WND reported in March that many service members believed America could not win a war against a near-peer threat like China, Iran, North Korea or Russia. Most suggested their units were neither sufficiently equipped nor trained for combat deployment.

Sessler can’t understand why senior military leadership has ignored the decline in military strength and not taken a stand against woke ideology and DEI training. He suggested, "It has to do with mental toughness, as weak leaders are afraid to do what's morally right if they have to risk their career." While he respects military chain of command, he said that when it comes to following orders related to adopting woke ideology, "boldness will yield heightened security for the American people and it should be pursued, even if it means challenging the chain of command and risking your career."

According to Sessler, the troubling current state of America – and America's military – boils down to two things: "ignorance and apathy." People need to be aware that this nation and its military are "weaker than ever," he told WND. And it's equally important for political and military leaders to show some heightened concern about the current state of affairs – even if they must risk their career to do the right thing.

Jerrod Sessler’s official congressional campaign website is JerrodForCongress.com.

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One state has taken its regulation of abortion to a new level: Declaring that the chemicals used for abortions are controlled substances.

"Chemical abortions harm women and cruelly kill defenseless children in the womb. Abortion clinics have attempted to thwart the laws of the states by distributing abortion drugs that contravene the clear intent of the duly passed legislation. This is a commonsense law will protect women and children," explained Mat Staver, the chief of Liberty Counsel, which has fought abortion advocates in courts all across the nation.

The organization confirmed while abortion industry giant Planned Parenthood and Joe Biden appointees in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration claim chemical abortion is "safe," the evidence shows severe complications have been documented.

It is Gov. Jeff Landry who signed into law the law classifying Mifepristone and Misoprostol as "Schedule IV" drugs.

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Lawmakers had approved the law 27-9 in the state Senate and 63-29 in the state House.

"The law criminalizes possessing the two-drug regimen without a valid prescription adding it to the state’s Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances list. In addition, the measure also makes it a crime to coerce 'criminal abortion by means of fraud,' which is the act of giving Mifepristone to an unsuspecting pregnant woman to induce an abortion," Liberty Counsel reported.

The report explained the law exempts pregnant women from prosecution for possessing the drugs for their own use, but provides possible jail time and fines up to $5,000 for others to possess.

Using the drugs secretly on unsuspecting women can result in jail time of up to 10 years and up to $100,000 in fines.

The state of Louisiana already bans nearly all abortions, providing exceptions for the life of the mother and fatal fetal anomalies.

State Sen. Thomas Pressly, who sponsored the plan, said, he named it the "The Catherine and Josephine Herring Act" after his sister was given Mifepristone, without her knowledge, by her then-husband.

"He had obtained the drugs in Mexico. The drugs caused Catherine serious, lasting side effects and the premature birth of her daughter, Josephine, who survived. Pressly noted his sister discovered the 'poison' attempts and then took the abortion reversal pill to save Josephine’s life. Mason Herring later pleaded guilty to assaulting a pregnant person and injuring a child and was sentenced to 180 days in jail," the report said.

It's not the only potential move against the abortion drugs at hand.

Liberty Counsel noted the U.S. Supreme Court is to decide soon whether Mifepristone was improperly deregulated by the FDA. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals already has taken that position.

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2022 March for Life

The top law enforcement agent in Washington state, the attorney general, has called a halt to his own extremist campaign against two faith-based, pro-life nonprofits after being told his "investigation" was illegal.

Officials with ADF explain that AG Bob Ferguson had been demanding privileged records and international documents from Obria Group and Obria Medical Clinics.

He had singled them out for targeting because he disagreed with their "life-affirming views," the organization explained.

"No one should be investigated by the government simply because they hold views the government doesn't like. We’re pleased Washington's attorney general has ceased his unlawful investigation into our clients, and that Obria Group and Obria Medical Clinics PNW will be free to continue their life-saving work in the community," explained Lincoln Wilson, a lawyer with ADF.

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"We look forward to a ruling from the court confirming that the attorney general unlawfully targeted and harassed these clinics because of their pro-life stance. The Constitution protects Obria medical clinics, and all other pro-life organizations, to freely speak their beliefs, exercise their faith, and continue compassionately serving women and couples facing difficult pregnancy circumstances," he said.

ADF had brought a lawsuit against Ferguson, prompting him to shut down his review.

Ferguson previously had claimed that he wasn't harming the clinics.

However, the ADF report revealed, "one of the clinics showed that Ferguson’s investigation caused it to lose insurance coverage and to pay seven times more for replacement coverage."

That prompted Ferguson to formally close his investigation.

His demands had included that the organizations provide documentation, "for a time period exceeding 13 years," as well as answers to various questions for Ferguson's investigation into "possible" consumer protection violations.

The broadside against the organizations was just part of what appears to be a nationwide move to bludgeon pro-life centers.

Attorneys general from New Jersey and California also have created controversy because of their lawsuits against pro-lifers.

They claim that the centers are "misleading" women about abortion.

Earlier, the ADF's Gabriella McIntyre told the Daily Caller News Foundation. "We’re seeing this as part of a larger trend of hostility towards pro-life organizations and particularly towards pro-life pregnancy centers across the nation.

"These attorneys general are targeting and harassing pregnancy centers, because of their religious and pro-life views. They are using their consumer protection authority to accomplish their purpose, which is clearly to divert and impede the mission of these organizations to serve women and families, and instead shift their focus to complying with these unfounded and unjustified demands.”

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New York Attorney General Letitia James

A state bureaucrat orchestrating an attack on pro-life centers has taken a hit on her campaign in court.

Thomas More Society officials say a court has rejected a demand from New York Attorney General Letitia James to move litigation against her into her back yard.

Peter Breen, the head of litigation for the society, explained, "For the past month, Letitia James has tried to illegally frighten and harass New York’s pregnancy help organizations into silence, threatening them with lawsuits if they keep speaking their truthful message about Abortion Pill Reversal. We brought suit in Rochester, near to where most of the organizations are headquartered and work.

"Instead of agreeing to a convenient venue, James then sued these charitable organizations in Manhattan, despite the fact that not a single one of the organizations is located there. We are pleased that the court in Monroe County agreed that the cases should be consolidated together and heard in Rochester, the 'most fair, appropriate and logistically convenient venue,' and not in Manhattan, which has no connection to the case."

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He continued, "We look forward to defending Heartbeat International, CompassCare, and all of New York’s pregnancy help organizations targeted by James’ unconstitutional witch-hunt. New Yorkers deserve to know that Abortion Pill Reversal is not just possible but safe and effective, and our clients have the right to share that truth with women who are undergoing a chemical abortion that they do not want to continue."

A court order rejected James' demands that the litigation move to her back yard.

New York Supreme Court Justice Sam Valleriani earlier issued a consolidation order, combining a lawsuit brought by James against pregnancy help organizations with the previously filed case brought by the organizations in Rochester’s Monroe County Court. James had tried to relocate the lawsuit against her from its Rochester venue to New York County Court in Manhattan, hundreds of miles aways.

But her attempt failed.

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Marziyeh Amirizadeh

ISRAEL – The current and ongoing war is presenting Israel with a multi-front existential threat it has not seen since the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

But unlike the previous wars, the current conflict is being pressed by a non-Arab Shia element – Iran. Indeed, the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas was ordered by Iran to sidetrack the imminent normalization of relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel, which would have constituted "the jewel in the crown" of the Abraham Accords, to the benefit of both countries. As the home to Mecca and the leader of the Sunni Arab world, Saudi Arabia is the nemesis of the Shia non-Arab Iran.

Despite decades of explicit threats and aggression, last month marked the first time Iran directly attacked Israel. Indeed, Iran's many proxies in the region – Hezbollah to the north and the Houthis to the southeast – joined in, helping Hamas despite not sharing any interests with the Arab Sunni terrorist organization other than a mutual hatred of the Jewish state and a desire to serve their masters in Tehran.

While the Oct. 7 massacre was horrific, Hamas was merely the weapon used by Iran to attack Israel. The source of conflict in the region is the Islamist regime in Tehran, which is in fact hugely unpopular with its citizens and can retain power only by ruthless means. These means have, in turn, impoverished Iran, and yet the regime chooses to invest in anti-Israel aggression rather than feed its people. While Iran is rich in natural gas and oil reserves, its economy is in shambles due to its exorbitant military expenditures, its hugely expensive nuclear program and international economic sanctions.

Iran's economy would have catastrophically crashed were it not for an injection of billions of dollars following the signing of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA – commonly known as the "Iran nuclear deal," signed by President Barack Obama in 2015. While Iranian-funded terrorism was reined in after President Donald Trump withdrew from the JCPOA in 2018 and reinstated the economic sanctions, the situation was again reversed when President Joe Biden entered office. He pursued a renegotiated JCPOA rather than support the nation’s populace and a democratically elected government.

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While he was unable to negotiate a deal with Iran which had increased its demands, Biden did remove the economic sanctions, reviving the Iranian economy. The current Iranian-sponsored conflict exploded as a result.

While the situation seems intractable and impossibly complex, there is a Gordian Knot solution that could bring peace overnight.

While it involves a revolution in Iran, it does not require violence and is, indeed, a peaceful, faith-based response. Indeed, this revolution has already begun.

A Christian revival is slowly growing in Iran. It should be remembered that until the revolution in 1979, Iran, under the Shah, was a close ally of Israel. And while Persia was an ancient culture that was historically Zoroastrian, Christianity in Iran dates back to the early years of the religion during the time of Jesus, predating Islam. Sunni Islam arrived during the Middle Ages after the Arab conquest, and then Shia Islam in the Safavid conversion of the 15th century, becoming the official religion soon after. Today, over 99% of Iranians are Muslim, with 90-95% being Shia.

Yet, according to many scholars, Iran today is witnessing the highest rate of Christianization in the world.

In 1976, the census reported the Christian population of Iran was about 170,000. In 1999, that number was believed to have grown to over 300,000. And while official estimates place the Christian population at around 120,000, unaffiliated estimates claim the number might have climbed to somewhere between one million and three million in a population of almost 87 million.

But human rights groups have reported that Christians, particularly those who have converted to Christianity from Islam, are severely oppressed in the Islamic Republic. Those who convert to Christianity from Islam can practice their faith only in secret, in so-called house-churches.

Conversion from Islam to Christianity is illegal in Iran. Iranian law imposes fines, lashing and prison terms for converts, and judges are even given discretionary powers to impose the death penalty. Converts can lose their inheritance, unmarried Christians can be forced into marriage to a Muslim, and married believers may be forced to divorce or face losing their children.

Marziyeh Amirizadeh

Indeed, Iran was number nine on Open Doors’ 2022 World Watch List, an annual ranking of the 50 countries where Christians face the most extreme persecution.

Despite this oppression, one exiled Iranian Christian leader, Bishop Edward Hosvepian-Mehr, leader of the non-denominational Iranian Church in Europe, told Tablet Magazine recently that "six of every ten Iranians are prepared to become Christians."

This astonishing wave of Christianity was confirmed last week in a WND interview with Marziyeh Amirizadeh, a Christian who converted from Islam while in Iran. Marzi, as she prefers to be called, is an Iranian American who immigrated to the U.S. after being sentenced to death by hanging in Iran for the crime of converting to Christianity. She endured months of mental and physical hardships and intense interrogation in Evin prison – one of the most brutal prisons in the world.

The interview took place just a few days after the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash. Raisi, known as the "butcher of Tehran," was responsible for the brutal murder of thousands of Iranians. Unlike many world leaders, including from the U.S. and the U.N., who sent condolences to the Iranian regime over the death of its murderous president, Marzi celebrated the death of the tyrant.

"I definitely didn't shed any tears," Marzi told WND. "It was such a big joy for me and many Iranians. Millions of Iranians celebrated his death. He had the blood of thousands of Iranians and Israelis on his hands. And so, after his death, many millions of Iranians celebrated openly on social media and behind closed doors in Iran."

Unfortunately, Marzi does not believe Raisi's death will bring change to Iran.

"We know that he was only a puppet of the Supreme Leader of Iran," Marzi said. "They can replace him immediately with another person. He was selected by the Supreme Leader who is in control of everything, and the Ayatollah will choose another puppet."

Marzi was critical of the world leaders who mourned the death of the "butcher of Tehran."

"It was very disgraceful," Marzi said. "I saw that at the U.N. Security Council, the politicians and leaders of the world held a moment of silence for the butcher of many innocent people. That represents a total lack of moral clarity. Also, the U.S. State Department issued official condolences for him, which made me very upset."

Marzi recalled her experiences in an Iranian prison in 2009.

"I was praying to God, asking why he didn't destroy these cruel criminals who were torturing and executing my people," Marzi told WND. "God told me in a dream that He was giving an opportunity to these people to repent. But if they don't, I'm going to destroy them all. When I learned of Raisi's death, I realized that is what happened. That's God's justice. So, of course, I will rejoice for the deaths of these criminals because they are unrepentantly evil."

Against all odds, Marzi, born into a Muslim family, became a Christian in Iran.

"I lived in Iran for 33 years, and I became a Christian more than 20 years ago," Marzi explained. "I served the Lord there for almost five years before I got arrested. I have lots of experience of sharing my faith, sharing Jesus and the Bible, and many other Iranians were evangelizing. I connected with thousands of Iranians. Honestly, the majority of the Iranians were open and receptive. I can honestly say that we never even had one bad experience.

"So many are tired of this Islamic regime. Iranians do not see themselves as Muslims [as] in other countries, especially Arabic countries. And they don't practice Islam in their homes. Our language is Farsi, not Arabic. We know that we are Persians, descended from the generation of King Cyrus. The majority of millions of Iranians believe that their land and their country have been taken hostage by these radical Muslims."

"There are many churches in Iran," Marzi said. "We don't know exactly how many, but based on the research by some Christian ministries, Iran has the fastest growing churches in the world."

But taking on the Christian faith is only part of the change that is imminent in Iran.

Marzi noted that before the Islamic Revolution, Iran was westernized. She emphasized that the Islamic regime is not just a threat to Israel, but threatens all of Western society.

"I am a proud American right now, and this is my home," she said. "This is my country. I care about this country, but I see how they brainwash the youth in this country with radical Islam. So many youths blindly go to the streets and call for the genocide of Jews. They are waving the flag of Hezbollah and Hamas and burning their own flag. That makes me very concerned because it reminds me of exactly what happened in Iran in 1979. Many students went to the streets, rioting and looting in the name of socialism, Marxism and communism. They supported a fanatic Muslim Khomeini. And now it's been more than 40 years – and they are suffering."

"And the same thing is happening in America because politicians in America do not care … Instead of standing with the Iranians, standing with Israel, too many people and politicians are … standing with terrorists and appeasing them, making deals with them, which is very dangerous. It's so disappointing."

"The Democrats, the Biden administration are doing this," Marzi told WND. "I am working to warn Americans, especially the churches, and keep telling them that as Christians, they have a responsibility to stand up for our values. Many of your enemies infiltrated your system, your government and your policies. We don't want the same thing that happened during the Holocaust when, unfortunately, some churches stood with the enemy. We can’t just sit and watch the same thing happen again."

"I experienced the brutality of the Islamic regime. We don't have much time. It is important to know that these people have an evil nature and they possess nuclear bombs. They just fired more than 300 missiles and drones at the State of Israel. They will not hesitate to fire a nuclear weapon at Israel or even the U.S. They are saying it openly."

Editor’s note: Marzi (Marziyeh Amirizadeh) is a published author, public speaker and activist for religious freedom. Her first book, "Captive in Iran," recounts her capture and imprisonment. Her second book, "A Love Journey with God," recounts how Marzi found God, the struggles she experienced as a Christian woman in an Islamic country, and how God can turn any situation into triumph. She has shared her inspiring story throughout the United States and around the world, to bring awareness about the ongoing human rights violations and persecution of women and religious minorities in Iran. Both books are available on her website, Marzi’s Journey.

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