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🚨 ALERT: Sen. Chuck Schumer just threatened: If Dems win 2026 midterms, they’ll REVERSE 100% of Trump’s DOGE cuts, undoing every efficiency gain and wasting YOUR tax dollars AGAIN! NUKE THE FILIBUSTER before the democrats fck everything up!

A Somalian man named Mohamed Abdirashid Omarxeyd in Minnesota submitted 40,000 fraudulent healthcare claims allowing him to steal $3.2 million dollars from American taxpayers A worker pulled the power cord from a computer as investigators tried to search it “Guardian Home Health Services, submitted over 40,000 fraudulent claims for personal care assistance” “When the office was being searched, another office worker pulled the power cord from his computer to prevent investigators from seeing the screen” His company also submitted fake time sheets

Jay Jones was sworn in as Virginia’s new attorney general on Saturday at the state Capitol in Richmond after winning the race despite leaked texts in which he fantasized about the children of conservatives being murdered. Jones was sworn in at the inauguration of Democrat Governor Abigail Spanberger, a former CIA agent. President Donald Trump had called for Jones to drop out of the race after the texts were made public, but Democrats rallied behind him. In one shocking exchange, Jones fantasized about putting “two bullets to the head” of then-Republican House Speaker Todd Gilbert in a hypothetical scenario comparing...

Someone might have the idea that they are too far gone, they have done so much that God's grace is not for them. But, you have to realize that whatever you have done is no longer the issue. The issue now is what Jesus has already done for you, yes you. Romans 5:6 reads, For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. And you clearly see in verse 8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Jesus died for the ungodly, while...

In record time, Dutch student Eva Vlaardingerbroek has become an international far right influencer. Her tweets on X are gaining an audience of millions from retweets by Elon Musk. But who is this young woman and what is her message? Little in her past seemed to indicate that Eva Vlaardingerbroek would have so much influence at the age of only 27. Her career to date has been comprised of short-lived extremist engagements, from her membership of the far right Forum for Democracy and a brief love affair with party leader Thierry Baudet; her links to a legal firm; and her...

The Pentagon announced Saturday that a precision airstrike conducted the previous day (January 16) in northwest Syria killed Bilal Hasan al-Jasim, a leader affiliated with Al-Qaeda networks in the region. According to a statement from U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), al-Jasim was an experienced terrorist figure who had been involved in plotting attacks against U.S. and partner forces. He maintained direct operational connections to the ISIS gunman responsible for the deadly ambush on December 13, 2025, in Palmyra, Syria, which killed two U.S. soldiers and a civilian interpreter. This link reportedly facilitated coordination or support that enabled the attack, highlighting complex...

011814As Ordinary Time (tempus per annum) opens up, the lectionary continues to “introduce” Christ to us. The Christmas cycle now done, we must ask, “Who is Jesus Christ? Who is this savior who has been born for us?” In today’s Gospel, John the Baptist elaborates on this. John’s words are brief, but they are packed with Christological teaching. In this Gospel we learn at least five things about Jesus. We learn that He is prefigured, preexistent, preeminent, powerful, and is the presence of God. Let’s look at each one. -------- I Prefigured – John the Baptist saw Jesus coming toward...

The Department of Public Safety in Minnesota says the National Guard has been mobilized and is staging to support local law enforcement.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) revealed that Democrats would “restore most of the cuts” that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had made. While taking part in a discussion at the Center for American Progress, Schumer received a question about what he “can do about bringing” the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) back, after DOGE came in and made cuts. “If you look at the budget actually, we’re working on right now — and we’ll have the T-HUD budget, you know, transportation and HUD budget, we restore most of the cuts and even go higher than previous...

WASHINGTON — Federal officials are investigating the partner of Renee Nicole Good to determine whether she may have impeded a federal officer moments before he shot and killed Good in Minneapolis, according to two people familiar with the investigation who spoke to NBC News. The federal investigation into the shooting by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Jonathan Ross is focusing more on Becca Good, including what officials said were her possible ties to activist groups, and less on Ross’ actions when he fired into Renee Good’s vehicle during an immigration operation last week, the people said. The fatal encounter has...

During a summit hosted by the far-Left Empowerment Congress in Los Angeles, Swalwell told the crowd, “They’re going to lose their immunity. They’re not going to be able to drive. I will take your driver’s license.” “Good luck walking to work, assholes,” he added before framing ICE as kidnappers and murderers. “Also, I will direct law enforcement to use every power to prosecute them for battery, false imprisonment, and murder.”

We were predestined "to the end that we who were the first to hope in Christ should be to the praise of His glory" (Eph. 1:12). In salvation, as in everything else, God is preeminent. He deserves all the credit. Preeminence implies supreme standing, picturing one who excels over all others in a particular quality or achievement. There is no one more preeminent than God. Ephesians 1:12 underscores that truth. You were redeemed and granted an eternal inheritance that God might be glorified. Certainly you benefit greatly from salvation, but God's glory is the primary issue. Our man-centered culture doesn't...

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump and the Department of War have put **1,500** active duty soldiers on standby pending potential deployment to the Minneapolis area, per multiple U.S. officials The soldiers are from the 11th Airborne division, ready to hit the ground if Walz does not quell the nonstop daily riots out here in the Twin Cities 47 could deploy them here in just DAYS h/t @HumanEvents

Vice President of the United States JD Vance took aim at Indiana State Senator Rodric Bray in a post on X Saturday afternoon. The post pertained to the Virginia State Senate’s decision to advance a proposed constitutional amendment to redraw the state’s congressional maps. According to the Associated Press, the Virginia State Senate skews more Democratic than Republican. “I’d like to thank (Bray) for not even trying to fight back against this extraordinary Democrat abuse of power,” Vance wrote in his post. “Now the votes of Indiana Republicans will matter far less than the votes of Virginia Democrats. We told...

We hear all the time about how young men have lurched rightward, moving toward a fascist view of things. There are endless thinkpieces out there trying to divine why men have become so right-wing. The evidence, they say, is clear: the gender gap between men and women is growing, which obviously shows that something is deeply wrong with men. But...if you dive into the available data, it shows that men have not moved much at all ideologically. The movement is almost entirely among women, who have lurched—dramatically, as a group—leftward. So far left that in many cases, they verge on...

Nicholas Kristof has a column today about China's desire to seize Taiwan and what it might actually do to make that happen. The column opens with a scenario in which China goes all in on a military invasion of the island, including some kind of attack on nearby US bases as a way to hinder our response. But Kristof and the people he's spoken with (he's in Taipei at the moment) don't think that's the most likely scenario.The more likely scenario is going to be something like what China did with Hong Kong. Not an invasion, exactly, but a gradual...

"What should I eat?" is perhaps the most common question patients with inflammatory bowel disease ask their doctors. Now, new research provides one potential answer. Their national, randomized controlled clinical trial found that a short-term, calorie-restrictive diet significantly improved both physical symptoms and biological indicators of mild-to-moderate Crohn's disease. The findings were notable, demonstrating significant declines in objective markers of inflammation in biologic samples alongside improvements in clinical symptoms. The study compared the symptoms and biological indicators of patients with mild-to-moderate Crohn's disease as they either followed a fasting mimicking diet or ate their normal diet for three consecutive months....

It's always nice to be able to report some good news. On Saturday, FBI Director Kash Patel announced the arrest of one of the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted; this goblin has been evading capture for the alleged murder of his former co-worker since 2016. He was caught in Mexico.The FBI announced on Saturday that it had arrested Alejandro Rosales Castillo, who has been a Ten Most Wanted Fugitive since 2017. FBI Director Kash Parel said Castillo was arrested in Mexico on Friday. He had been wanted in connection to the 2016 murder of his former co-worker, 23-year-old "Sandy" Ly...

America spent the last decade insisting that redefining marriage to include same-sex couples would never open the door to anything else. Opponents were dismissed as hysterical, warned that slippery slopes weren’t real. But marriage did not stop evolving at “two people.” A new frontier is forming — not directly from the LGBTQ movement, but from two radically different cultural currents now converging on the same legal question.On one side is a revival of biblical polygyny, championed by figures such as Missouri pastor Rich Tidwell and author and cultural commentator Rob Kowalski. On the other is Gen Z’s normalization of polyamory,...

On Saturday, we learned from the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) that an Al-Qaeda affiliate who was in part responsible for the attack last December, which resulted in the deaths of two American service members and an interpreter, has been located in Syria and removed from play. Permanently.https://t.co/kTqYU5xMb4— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) January 17, 2026The CENTCOM release states:U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) conducted a strike in northwest Syria on Jan. 16, that resulted in the death of a leader affiliated with Al-Qaeda who had direct ties to an ISIS terrorist responsible for an ambush which killed two U.S. service members and...