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Former NFL running back-turned-conservative commentator Herschel Walker said corporations and critics of voter ID laws should help minorities obtain photo identification to vote, coming after firms like Major League Baseball, Delta, Coca-Cola, and others criticized Georgia’s Legislature over the passage of its recent voter integrity bill. “My grandfather today, if he was alive, would be 117 years old. He had a driver’s license,” Walker said Wednesday during a virtual event. “We’re in modern time today, and people don’t have an ID. And then I say, you know, what’s so strange about it is I have all these companies that are...

...On Friday, Weingarten shared with social media a picture of an in-person meeting with AFT members. In the “selfie” photo, she is pictured with at least five other members of AFT in New Mexico....She went on to complain that it would be impossible for an adult teacher to maintain the six-foot rule for adults while simultaneously supervising a classroom in which only the three-foot rule applies to kids.....Mere days ago Redstate’s Nick Arama reported on Weingarten’s most recent tour to meet personally with educators across the country. She chartered a jet for the “essential” activity. Again, it is prudent to...

Ignoring the border crisis was a better strategy than this. Rather than funding and reinforcing border security, or working with foreign nations toward a coalition against the ongoing illegal immigration crisis, President Joe Biden is now considering an all-new and all-crazy plan — giving Central American countries federal money in order to stem the tide. White House southern border coordinator Roberta Jacobson told Reuters Friday that Biden’s program, if enacted, would mainly target the Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. Central Americans have been of recent interest regarding illegal immigration in recent years. During the 2018 fiscal...

The people have won another small but important battle in the fight for election integrity.The state of Pennsylvania has agreed to purge 21,000 dead voters from their registration rolls before the next general elections. The concession comes as the result of a lawsuit launched by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF). The suit alleged Pennsylvania had failed to comply with its own “motor voter” laws that require the state to discard ballots from deceased voters.It seems unthinkable that it would take a lawsuit for a state to stop accepting votes from dead voters, but here we are.According to the Daily...

"It's just a mask." "It's just six feet." "It's just two weeks." "It's just non essential businesses." "It's just non essential workers." "It's just a bar." "It's just a restaurant." "It's just to keep from overwhelming the hospitals." "It's just to make the cases go down." "It's just to flatten the curve." "It's just a few inmates." "It's just to keep others from getting scared." "It's just for a few more weeks." "It's just church. You could still pray." "It's just until we get a vaccine." "It's just a bracelet." "It's just an app." "It's just for tracing." "It's just...

On Thursday, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu said that he will sign a bill that gives authorization for forensic analysis and a comprehensive recount of the 2020 election votes in Windham related to optical scanning AccuVote machines. During the November elections in 2020, about 10,000 people voted in the election for four state representative seats, in Rockingham District 7 which ended with very tight results, reported Patch. Kristi St. Laurent, a Democrat, lost by 24 votes, she was running for the sixth time for public office. An automatic recount was enacted and St. Laurent lost 99 votes after a hand...

On Thursday, BLM activists took over the Iowa State Capitol Building. If you didn’t hear about it in the national media that is because it wasn’t widely reported.The Des Moines Black Liberation Movement Collective was at the forefront of the protest. The protesters were in the Capitol building demonstrating against “racist and dangerous” bills, We Are Iowa reported.Happening Now: BLM at the Iowa State Capitol building. pic.twitter.com/GnS6EgFmjf— CIA-Simulation Warlord 🇺🇸🦈🇺🇸 (@zerosum24) April 8, 2021The demonstration erupted into chaos when officers arrested an 18-year-old protester for allegedly assaulting a police officer. (Warning: There is a lot of profanity in the following...

Perhaps the most consistent question about the installed dementia patient occupying the oval office, is about who actually is planning the policy, scheduling the implementation and giving Biden his instructions after his breakfast pudding. For those who have followed politics closely, the answer has always been obvious: Barack Obama and the Chicago crew. JoeBama is not a meme, nor is it a snarky slap at the current White House occupant, it is a reality. Barack Obama and his ideologues (who took over the DNC) are now completely in control over the leftist policy execution. Obama with the help of his...

Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on Thursday declared racism "a serious public health threat." Driving the news: Walensky highlighted the disproportionate impact of the coronavirus pandemic on communities of color, pointing to case and death counts, as well as economic and social effects. What she's saying: "[T]he disparities seen over the past year were not a result of COVID-19. Instead, the pandemic illuminated inequities that have existed for generations and revealed for all of America a known, but often unaddressed, epidemic impacting public health: racism," Walensky said in a statement. * "What we know...

SOURCE — REUTERS WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States is considering a conditional cash transfer program to help address economic woes that lead migrants from certain Central American countries to trek north, as well as sending COVID-19 vaccines to those countries, a senior White House official told Reuters on Friday. The possible cash transfer program would be targeted at people in the Northern Triangle region of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, Roberta Jacobson, the White House’s southern border coordinator, told Reuters in an interview, without saying who exactly would receive the cash. Roughly 168,000 people were picked up by U.S....

God is a wonderful healer, but God is not just a healer He is also a restorer. And I think sometimes we cut God short and think we have to put up with things just because we can handle it or deal with it. But, God doesn't want you trying to deal with it God wants it gone completely. Notice, in 1John 3:8 it says that Jesus was manifested to destroy the works of the devil. Does that sound like God wanting you to try to deal with it. He wants it and every trace of it destroyed and you...

Michigan Constitutional Attorney Matthew Deperno released his much anticipated Michigan Elections Forensics Report on Friday. Among the findings: * Modem Chipsets Installed In Voting System Motherboards • 66,194 unregistered ballots tallied in just 9 counties. 66,194 ballot voter IDs not found in October registration database. Much more to come… Here’s the link to Matthew DePerno’s findings.

Interfaith Iftar dinners help overcome prejudice and foster brotherhood among religious communitiesPart of a classic trend in the Lent season, interfaith groups are hosting breaking-of-the-fast Iftar dinners in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Ashiknaz Khokhar, the Catholic leader of Active Youth group of the Sacred Heart Church, attended two such gatherings in Sahiwal in Punjab province. “Such initiatives were common in provincial capitals. Now interfaith Iftars are being organized in small districts. They have increased love and respect for the local Muslims,” he told UCA News. Khokhar was speaking on the sidelines of a buffet on Palm Sunday/I> eve hosted...

In Lancaster Festival of Hope With Franklin Graham v. Blackpool Borough Council, (Manchester Cty. Ct., April 1, 2021), a British trial court held that the Equality Act 2010 and the European Convention on Human Rights were violated when banner ads for the Lancaster Festival of Hope were removed from public buses. According to the court: Upon the Defendants receiving complaints from members of the public about the advertisements, the advertisements were removed from the buses. The complaints related to Franklin Graham and his association with the Festival, and predominantly referred to his views on homosexuality and same-sex marriage as being...

In an open letter to San Francisco Bay View National Black newspaper, USF Black Student Union President Brianna Johnson had demanded the university release the identity of the person responsible for hanging the noose, evict them from student housing and expel them from the university. Johnson also called on the university to quickly and widely disclose hate crimes and proactively provide wellness checks for students who might be emotionally affected. Fitzgerald said in an earlier response to the Black Student Union that it would not identify the student, citing federal and university privacy requirements. But he said the university would...

A documentary being released on Benedict XVI’s 94th birthday state that his personal secretary, Archbishop Georg Gänswein, tried to dissuade him from abdicating the papacy. “Benedict XVI, the Pope Emeritus”, directed by Andrés Garrigó, will be released April 16 by Goya Productions. The film will focus on Benedict’s papacy, and his time as prefect of Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. “At that time he had to deal with such crises as Liberation Theology in its Marxist version with its affinity to guerrilla warfare, and the cases of pedophilia that were beginning to surface then. Elected in 2005, Benedict...

The third stimulus checks — $1,400 for each eligible adult and dependent — are still landing in accounts, providing welcome relief to millions of people. But that relief might be short-lived for some, given that the $1,400 checks can be garnished by private debt collectors. Unlike the second stimulus payment, which was protected against garnishment from private debt collectors after the first round of checks lacked protections, the third round of stimulus checks also don't include garnishment prohibitions.

Imagine nearly getting married to a stranger instead of the love of your life. A glitch in Google Maps led a man in Indonesia, who was making his way to his wedding, to the wrong venue on April 4. Read the condensed version of this story, and other top stories with NewsLite. Coincidentally, an engagement was taking place that day in the same village in Central Java. The groom and his entourage were exchanging gifts with the 'bride's' family when someone realised they had entered the wrong home. He apologised for the mix-up and was led to the right place...

WASHINGTON—The United States should take a “bold stance” against the Chinese communist regime and hold it accountable for illegal organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in China, Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas) said on April 9. “The U.S. government has stood idly by for far too long,” Babin said in an interview with The Epoch Times. “This is one of the worst practices. It harkens back to the Nazi era in the 30s and 40s.”

For Rev. Mahoney, who has spent decades fighting for human rights in China and Hong Kong, the restrictions on First Amendment rights at the U.S. Capitol, and in American culture more broadly, are eerily reminiscent of incursions made by the Chinese Communist Party against Hong Kong democracy.WASHINGTON, D.C., April 8, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) ­– The Presbyterian minister who filed a federal lawsuit after being denied permission to hold a Good Friday service at the U.S. Capitol has no plans to stop fighting. Reverend Patrick Mahoney, an ordained minister in the Reformed Presbyterian Church, now aims to amend his original complaint and...