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One of the, if not the, most viewed political ads ever has the political Left even more disgruntled than usual. Church Militant recently spoke with the congressional candidate behind "the ad heard round the world." Here's Church Militant's William Mahoney with more. Jerone Davison, congressional candidate, R-Ariz.: "You want people like me in Congress because I love God and I love you. And I won't let you down." Jerone Davison proudly proclaims his Christian faith without fear, without compromise and without apology. Davison is running to fill a U.S. House seat for Arizona's 4th Congressional District (Tempe, Mesa, Chandler and...

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'We’ve got to start fighting back.'With the phrase “Stop CCP Influence” displayed in bold letters across his podium, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed two bills Friday to thwart foreign meddling in Florida’s government and education system. The bills (HB 1523) and (HB 7017) mark the Republican Governor’s latest jab against China, which he described Monday as an “adversary,” and other communist countries. “There is no single entity that exercises a more pervasive, nefarious influence across a wide range of American industries and institution than the Communist Party of China,” DeSantis said. Sponsored by Republican Rep. Mike Beltran, one measure (HB 1523)...

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The Florida deputy who knew a gunman was loose at the Parkland high school but refused to go inside to confront the assailant was arrested Tuesday on 11 criminal charges related to his inaction during the massacre that killed 17 people. ......... He was charged with child neglect, culpable negligence and perjury — allegations that carry a maximum potential prison sentence of nearly 100 years. more at the link

TALLAHASSEE — Florida’s newly elected agriculture commissioner is vowing to conduct a “deep dive” into the state’s concealed weapons permit program once she is sworn into office. Nikki Fried, who appeared on South Florida news programs on Sunday, said she has already begun talking about possible changes to the program with employees in the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Her push to revamp the program comes amid a likely legislative battle over whether the program should be moved to a different state agency. Earlier this year it was revealed that there were lapses in the program that is currently...

A Miami-based political committee has proposed a constitutional amendment that would ban possession of “assault” weapons in Florida if approved by voters.The proposal, backed by the committee Ban Assault Weapons Now, was posted on the state Division of Elections website this month. The committee had raised nearly $410,000 since March, while spending almost $284,000, according to finance information. The expenditures included $75,000 last month to a California-based company for what was described in the finance information as “petitions.”

Are they right?And who are The Shomrim? It’s no secret that one of the largest blocs of people pressing for so-called “gun control” is the culturally (aka not-so-religious) American Jewish community. This confounds many observers who would expect that Jews, with such a stunning history of oppression and murder by humanity’s villains, would cling tenaciously to personal firearms and the ability to protect themselves as the Hebrew Scriptures instruct. In reaction to the Holocaust, American Jews adopted the phrase “Never Again!” If actions mean anything, they don’t believe it. That’s for someone else to do. How do Jews expect to...

UNITED NATIONS-- President Donald Trump delivered a sharp rebuke of global governing at the United Nations on Tuesday, drawing headshakes and even mocking laughter from fellow world leaders as he promoted his aggressive "America First" agenda and boasted of America's economic and military might. Trump arrived late, forcing a last-minute scheduling switch, then received polite applause but also blank stares as he took his blustery brand of policies to the annual General Assembly. Speaking in triumphal terms, Trump approached the address as an annual report to the world on his country's progress since his inauguration. He touted economic figures, declared...

Scientists delight in devising explanations for the great dinosaur extinctions. But there are several questions which they have failed to even ask, much less tried to answer. Why, for instance, in all of the time claimed to have passed since the dinosaur extinctions, has nothing ever re-evolved to the sizes of the large dinosaurs? If such sizes worked for creatures which ruled the Earth for tens of millions of years, then why would not some species of elephant or rhinoceros have evolved to such a size again? What kinds of problems, if any, would sauropod sizes entail in our world...

PORT ORANGE — Despite Ron DeSantis’ claims he was signaling no message about race when he used the phrase “monkey this up” while sizing up his black opponent’s policies during a Fox News appearance this week, about 40 residents of his congressional district rallied in protest Thursday.Waving signs, including one reading “DeSantis DeRacist,” the residents rallied for about 45 minutes outside one of the congressman’s offices in Port Orange City Hall.Lynn Hendrickson, a Palm Coast retiree, said it wasn’t the first time DeSantis has disappointed her on matters of race. She recounted last October, when a batch of Ku Klux...

There are two bombshells dropped in New York Times editor Patricia Mazzei’s Twitter feed this morning, one of which has me rethinking some things and the other of which should cause gun controllers to rethink some things. First, though, the Twitter thread in question: "Sheriff Bob Gualtieri of Pinellas County, head of Florida's state-appointed commission investigating the Parkland shooting, said today that video from inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School showed the gunman, Nikolas Cruz, had to reload his AR-15 assault rifle several times." — Patricia Mazzei (@PatriciaMazzei) August 9, 2018 The first tweet in that thread that caused my...

At least four people were killed in a shooting Friday in Fredericton, Canada, police said. The Fredericton Police Department tweeted Friday morning to caution residents to avoid Brookside Drive due to an "ongoing incident." Later, police confirmed four people had been killed in the incident. It was not immediately clear what caused the shooting.

Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano on President Trump's potential Supreme Court pick. (No text. Video only at link)

Interrupting meals 'just the beginning' of resistance to RepublicansA writer for the popular progressive news website Splinter is warning supporters of President Trump that if they have a problem with the heckling of administration officials in public places, they haven’t seen anything yet. “Do you think that being asked to leave a restaurant, or having your meal interrupted, or being called by the public is bad? My fascism-enabling friends, this is only the beginning,” writes Splinter senior writer Hamilton Nolan. “This is what happens when citizens decide en masse that their political system is corrupt, racist, and unresponsive,” says Nolan....

Senate to Consider Anti-Gunner for Powerful Ninth Circuit CourtContact Your Senators to Oppose Bennett!Dear Friend: Repeatedly, President Donald Trump has criticized San Francisco’s leftist Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for assuming the role of “super-legislature” and blocking his agenda. Yet, Trump has nominated a leftist, anti-gunner to fill a seat on that court, and the Senate Judiciary Committee has approved that nomination -- despite GOA’s opposition to the nomination. The nominee for the nation’s second highest court is Mark Jeremy Bennett who, as Hawaii’s Attorney General, opposed the Supreme Court’s determination in Heller that the Second Amendment is an individual...

TRENTON, Fla. — Two deputies in Trenton, Florida were killed in the line of duty on Thursday. Around 3 p.m., two Gilchrist County Deputy Sheriffs were shot and killed in the Ace China restaurant in downtown Trenton, after a suspect walked up to the business and shot both deputies through the window. According to the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office, when fellow deputies responded to the scene, they found the shooter deceased outside the business and both deputy sheriffs deceased. ...(more at link)

The Parkland shooting incited protests calling for gun control that gained medial attention as lawmakers looked for ways in order to respond to the shooting and prevent future shootings from happening. Ron DeSantis, Florida Governor candidate, is arguing that he would’ve vetoed the controversial gun bill that Governor Rick Scott signed into law. The bill drew protests form the NRA because it raised the purchasing age of a firearm from 18 to 21 and it banned “bump stock” attachments. The bill also drew some opposition from gun control activists because it called for certain school staff to be properly trained...

Bump stock ban, 3-day waiting period, and minimum age of 21. Florida — and Republicans — are proving they have no interest in preserving liberty, nor in providing for the public safety. Instead, they have hopped on the bandwagon of gun control (and thus larger government) wholeheartedly. Florida’s congress hurriedly passed a sweeping law which reduces individual gun rights while expanding the powers of a police force which failed so publicly and pathetically to use its existing powers to prevent the Parkland school murders last month.Under the guise of “public safety,” Florida Republicans have made instant felons of anyone who...