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  • Opinion: Threats against the president are not protected speech, but questions remain in Provo killing

    08/11/2023 9:50:47 AM PDT · by LiberalismDestroys · 27 replies
    Deseret News ^ | 8/11/23 | Deseret News Editorial Board
    Many Americans were no doubt surprised Wednesday by reports that the FBI had shot and killed a Provo man who had posted threats against President Joe Biden and other Democratic elected and appointed officials on social media. The shooting appears to be the latest manifestation of just how deep and potentially dangerous the nation’s political divide has become to some Americans. Graphic and specific threats of violence are indeed disgusting and concerning. Such threats are not protected free speech, and federal agents cannot afford to take physical threats to the president or other officials lightly. However, the incident was a...
  • "‘He has a gun!’ An eyewitness details what happened when the FBI came to a Provo neighborhood

    08/10/2023 12:25:10 PM PDT · by devere · 201 replies
    Deseret News ^ | August 10, 2023 | Kyle Dunphey
    “Craig Robertson, come out with your hands up! This is the FBI.” That’s what residents of a quaint, suburban neighborhood pushed up against Provo Canyon near the BYU campus say they woke up to in the early morning hours Wednesday. “It sounded like it was coming from inside my house,” said one neighbor, who asked not to be identified. What followed was a barrage of gunshots. Moments later, authorities carried the overweight, elderly man out of his house, placed him on the sidewalk and tried, unsuccessfully, to render first aid, according to the witness. Several neighbors said his body remained...
  • Robbie Robertson, Leader of The Band, Dies at 80

    08/09/2023 1:11:09 PM PDT · by Chode · 68 replies
    Guitarist-songwriter-singer Robbie Robertson, who led the Canadian-American group the Band to rock prominence in the 1970s and worked extensively with Bob Dylan and Martin Scorsese, has died. He was 80. According to an announcement from his management, Robertson died Wednesday in Los Angeles after a long illness. In a statement, Robertson’s manager of 34 years, Jared Levine, said “Robbie was surrounded by his family at the time of his death, including his wife, Janet, his ex-wife, Dominique, her partner Nicholas, and his children Alexandra, Sebastian, Delphine, and Delphine’s partner Kenny. He is also survived by his grandchildren Angelica, Donovan, Dominic,...
  • Leftists Celebrate the Death of Pat Robertson Across Social Media

    06/08/2023 9:02:00 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 34 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 06/08/2023 | Simon Kent
    The left wasted little time on Thursday celebrating the passing of Christian television evangelist Pat Robertson. The 93-year-old’s death was announced earlier in the day by his broadcasting network. No cause was given. As Breitbart News reported, Robertson was a familiar presence in American living rooms for over half a century, known for his “700 Club” television show, and in later years, his televised pronouncements of God’s judgment on a host of topics. His energy and business sense turned a tiny Virginia TV station into a global evangelical network before he sought the GOP presidential nomination in 1988 and helped...
  • Pat Robertson, broadcaster who helped make religion central to GOP politics, dies at 93

    06/08/2023 5:48:26 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 25 replies
    AP ^ | 06/08/2023 | BEN FINLEY
    VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Pat Robertson, a religious broadcaster who turned a tiny Virginia station into the global Christian Broadcasting Network, tried a run for president and helped make religion central to Republican Party politics in America through his Christian Coalition, has died. He was 93. Robertson’s death Thursday was announced by his broadcasting network. No cause was given. Robertson’s enterprises also included Regent University, an evangelical Christian school in Virginia Beach; the American Center for Law and Justice, which defends the First Amendment rights of religious people; and Operation Blessing, an international humanitarian organization. For more than a...
  • Calif. Pastor Uses TikTok to Ask Whether 'Jesus was a Racist,' Claims Jesus Christ Used 'Racial Slur'

    03/13/2021 1:49:35 PM PST · by Olog-hai · 50 replies
    MRC TV ^ | March 12, 2021 | Sergie Daez
    Did you know that Jesus Christ was a racist? In a TikTok video, Reverend Brandan Robertson asserts that the Son of God used a racial slur. Robertson is an author, activist, public theologian, and the pastor of Missiongathering Christian Church in San Diego, California. This racist action supposedly takes place in Chapter 7 of the Gospel of Mark, when Jesus is sought out by a Syrophoenician woman in the district of Tyre. She begs Jesus to free her daughter from the demon that is possessing her. Robertson said that Jesus replied, “It’s not good for Me to give the children’s...
  • Former Police Officer Gets 7 Years in Prison in Jan. 6 Case

    08/15/2022 1:53:52 PM PDT · by george76 · 53 replies
    Front page ^ | Aug 15, 2022 | Lloyd Billingsley
    For carrying a “large wooden stick” on January 6 -- and for things the ex-officer said and believed.. Former police officer Thomas Robertson, who according to CBS News, “stormed the U.S. Capitol” on January 6, 2021, will spend more than seven years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Robertson, 49, was charged with interfering with police officers and “entering a restricted area with a dangerous weapon, a large wooden stick.” The seven-year sentence, handed down last Thursday, matches the longest prison term among the Jan. 6 cases to date. Its severity was not entirely the result of...
  • 'He's being compelled by God': Televangelist Pat Robertson, 91, comes out of retirement to declare Putin is following God's wishes by invading Ukraine and it heralds 'end times' battle in Israel

    03/01/2022 8:57:58 PM PST · by Morgana · 74 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | March 1, 2022 | Alex Hammer For Dailymail.Com
    Iconic American televangelist Pat Robertson - who famously predicted an asteroid would hit the Earth after Donald Trump was reelected in 2020 - came out of retirement Monday to say Russian President Vladimir Putin was being 'compelled by God' to invade Ukraine. 'I think you can say, well, Putin's out of his mind,' Robertson, 91, said during a special appearance on his old show, the Christian Broadcasting Network's The 700 Club, of the Russian president's decision to invade the neighboring nation. 'And yes, maybe so,' the aging voice of conservative Christianity - who boasts an estimated net worth between $200m...
  • The Pittman-Robertson Act: The Forgotten History of the Celebrated Tax on Firearms and Ammo

    09/02/2021 9:45:55 AM PDT · by ammodotcom · 4 replies
    Ammo.com ^ | 9/2/2021 | Sam Jacobs
    It’s unusual to think that Second Amendment proponents and members of the freedom movement would celebrate the day that a tax took effect. But that’s precisely what the Pittman-Robertson Act is – a tax often celebrated by gun enthusiasts, patriots and pro-freedom elements in the United States. Its story is one of the more fascinating in the history of American legislation. Signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on September 2, 1937, the Pittman-Robertson Act, known officially as the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act of 1937, does not establish a new tax. Instead, it commandeered an existing 11-percent excise tax...
  • Pat Robertson on Mistaking Glock for Taser: ‘We Don’t Have the Finest in the Police Department

    04/15/2021 1:16:42 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 55 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 04/15/2021 | Pam Key
    Televangelist Pat Robertson during Thursday’s “The 700 Club” on CBN, argued “the finest” did not work at police departments, which is why After demonstrated the difference between a Glock handgun and a taser while discussing former police officer Kim Potter’s claim that she mistook her sidearm for a taser in the killing of Daunte Wright, Robertson said, “There’s just no comparison.”
  • Pat Robertson Blasts Trump for Lack of ‘Love’ in Response to Protests

    06/02/2020 10:30:48 PM PDT · by goodn'mad · 36 replies
    The Wrap ^ | June 2, 2020 | Lindsey Ellefson
    Televangelist Pat Robertson publicly scolded President Donald Trump during “The 700 Club” Tuesday, saying that his response to the unrest after George Floyd’s death “isn’t cool.”
  • Man accused of killing wife claims powerful group infected him with mayonnaise, report says

    07/24/2019 2:44:19 PM PDT · by sheana · 55 replies
    KGET.com ^ | July 24, 2019 | Jason Kotowski
    AKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Arrested in the death of his wife, Nathaniel Robertson admitted during an interview with sheriff’s detectives to beating her with a concrete block. But Robertson, in a confusing, rambling statement, said he did it to “give her compassion and mercy” as “the alignments were not in place to protect her,” according to recently released court documents. He said he had been infected by mayonnaise “they” put in him, the documents say. The “they” in this case was a group of “brutal, powerful” people Robertson said he couldn’t identify. There was something inside him releasing information from...
  • This Vet Imprisoned for Digging Ponds on His Land Died. Now His Widow Continues the Fight.

    05/19/2019 5:05:56 PM PDT · by george76 · 62 replies
    The Daily Signal ^ | May 19, 2019 | Kevin Mooney
    The name of a Navy veteran may be cleared after he was convicted, fined, and imprisoned for digging ponds in a wooded area near his Montana home, to supply water in case of fire. The Supreme Court has vacated a lower court ruling against Joe Robertson, who was sent to federal prison and ordered to pay $130,000 in restitution through deductions from his Social Security checks. Any definitive legal victory for Robertson would be posthumous, since he died March 18 at age 80. But his lawyers describe the Supreme Court’s action as a “big win” for Robertson’s widow, Carrie, who...
  • Phil Robertson: America never going to be great again until it's godly

    02/05/2019 10:01:04 AM PST · by amorphous · 28 replies
    World Net Daily ^ | Feb 5, 2019 | Joe Kovacs
    “Duck Commander” Phil Robertson is blasting U.S. policies that promoter the killing of children, and says there’s a surefire way for America to be great again: becoming a “godly” nation.
  • Oscar Robertson wants to know: ‘Where are the white athletes’ in today’s politics?

    06/26/2018 6:34:32 PM PDT · by GuavaCheesePuff · 17 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | June 26, 2018 | Jacob Bogage
    NBA legend Oscar Robertson has one question as he looks out at the recent collision of politics and sports: “Where are the white players?” Robertson, “The Big O,” was honored with the league’s lifetime achievement award at the NBA Awards banquet Monday night in California. During his remarks on stage, he spoke about the need to “be persistent, or as I’ve been called, stubborn. Stubborn about what you believe in.”
  • Pat Robertson, Christian Broadcasting Network founder, recovering from stroke, network says

    02/03/2018 7:28:45 PM PST · by jazusamo · 15 replies
    Fox News ^ | February 3, 2018 | Elizabeth Zwirz
    Christian Broadcasting Network founder Pat Robertson suffered from a stroke but is “expected to make a full recovery,” according to a release from the network on Saturday. The televangelist was reportedly brought to the closest medical facility for strokes around noon on Friday after a member of the family noticed he had symptoms of an embolic stroke.
  • This Cambridge University SJW Tried to Get Me Fired Just for Reading a Book About Nazi Germany

    11/13/2017 4:03:09 AM PST · by servo1969 · 48 replies
    Breitbart.com ^ | 11-10-2017 | James Delingpole
    I grew up in the shadow of the Second World War. Many of my teachers had fought in it. As a child, I played with toy Eighth Army and Afrika Korps soldiers. I read the collected works of Sven Hassel. I watched every classic WWII movie there is to see from The Longest Day and Patton: Lust for Glory to The Great Escape and Cross of Iron. --- But now some silly girl from Cambridge University thinks this interest is dangerously offensive — and actually tried to get me fired for it. --- Historian Roger Moorhouse has written a book...
  • Pat Robertson: President Trump Should Issue A 'Blanket Pardon' And Shut Down Mueller Investigation

    10/30/2017 12:10:12 PM PDT · by drewh · 37 replies
    Right Wing Watch ^ | | October 30, 2017 2:55 pm | By Kyle Mantyla
    On “The 700 Club” this morning, televangelist Pat Robertson reacted to the news that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort had been indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller by calling on President Trump to issue a blanket pardon of everyone who might be implicated in the probe and to then shut down the investigation entirely. Robertson claimed that Mueller’s investigation has been inexorably “tainted” by the fact that the Clinton campaign and DNC reportedly helped to fund an opposition research dossier during the campaign that alleged connections between the Trump campaign and Russia, insisting that any indictments that result from...
  • The Bible Doesn't Condemn Polygamy, Pat Robertson Says

    06/09/2017 9:25:56 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 203 replies
    The Christian Post ^ | June 9, 2017 | Leonardo Blair
    Popular televangelist Pat Robertson, who serves as chancellor of Regent University and chairman of the Christian Broadcasting Network, has said he doesn't know of anything in the Bible that condemns polygamy — the practice of having more than one wife or husband at the same time. "I'm not sure I know anything in the Bible that indicates polygamy, as such, is against the Bible. But we don't do it and there are a lot of laws based on the New Testament [that] don't permit it, and that's where we are," Robertson said in a clip from "The 700 Club" series...
  • Feds: Men trained in Central Florida for 'violent jihad' overseas

    08/27/2012 8:45:26 PM PDT · by ruralvoter · 3 replies
    Orlando Sentinel ^ | 8/27/12 | Jeff Weiner
    Recent court filings reveal new details of a federal investigation into a suspected international plot, in which authorities allege a man was trained in Central Florida to commit acts of radical Islamic terrorism abroad. One of two men facing federal charges in the case, Jonathan Paul Jimenez, is set for a plea hearing on Tuesday, records show. He is charged with lying to federal investigators and falsifying income tax documents. However, according to documents filed by prosecutors this week, Jimenez and co-defendant Marcus Dwayne Robertson are suspected of participating in "a travel facilitation network that sends individuals overseas to commit...