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Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday that he opposes teaching critical race theory in the state’s public schools, calling the ideas pushed by its advocates as “based on false history” and “teaching kids to hate their country and to hate each other.” DeSantis made the remarks at a Friday press conference in Pensacola, where he announced the signing of a bill temporarily establishing several statewide tax-free periods on items like storm supplies and back-to-school products. “It’s offensive to the taxpayer that they would be asked to fund critical race theory, that they would be asked to fund teaching kids...

Congress is once again tossing around a piece of legislation that will do more for big government than for Americans. While intended to lower out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs and treatments, H.R. 3 could take away mature adults’ ability to make their own healthcare decisions and put it in the hands of the federal government. Government interference not only imposes on the patient-provider relationship, but it also puts mature adults’ health at risk by restricting what treatments should be at their finger tips. Millions of retirees rely on the Medicare program because it provides access to various treatments for chronic...

VIDEO If ever there were a trophy for HYPOCRISY, it has to go to Maggie Astor of the New York Times. She is currently one of the defendants along with the New York Times in a defamation lawsuit by Project Veritas because of the DISINFORMATION she spread in her article about that organization while it was exposing election fraud. And yet she recently appeared on a CBS News interview accusing others of... DISINFORMATION. Projection much, Maggie?

One of my frequent themes is that modern American leftism has driven white women – especially middle-class white women – insane. The latest entry in this category is a TikTok video in which a white woman with a son who looks to be about two months old shows off the woke little books she got him so he won’t grow up to be an “awful” white male. I got over my feminism when I gave birth to a most adorable, loving, little boy. He was going to be wonderful! And I started to hate feminists when I saw a 12-year-old...

I feel his frustration. I am torn between staying informed as best I can and turning everything off and tuning it all out.

Rock Island Auction has quickly become one of the premier gun auction places on the Internet. Rock Island Auction is separate from Rock Island Arsenal. It is a word association for marketing. There is no legal association. Both institutions are located in Rock Island, Illinois, but have no overlap. Rock Island Auction is also frequently confused with Rock Island Armory, also known as Armscor. Armscor is a firearm and ammunition manufacturer based in Nevada.Rock Island Auction (RIA) had its first regional auction in February of 2003. It was a 600 gun auction. The auction was designed as an in-person auction...

Despite multiple attempts to pay for Facebook ads promoting a ‘Back the Blue’ event launching a bottle series dedicated to first responders, Loaded Cannon Distillery says they keep getting denied, so they will promote the event the old-fashioned way.

The two most recent GOP Speakers of the House seem to have thrown their lot in with the Trump-haters left in the party’s congressional delegation. Why has the leadership of the GOP so often disappointed the party’s conservative, Trump-supporting base? Not since Newt Gingrich have the House Republicans been led by a Speaker worthy of his supporters’ trust. The conservative Trump-supporting base of the Republican Party has ample cause for suspicion. The two most recent GOP Speakers of the House seem to have thrown their lot in with the Trump-haters left in the party’s congressional delegation. Sundance at The Last...

Several reported dead at mass shooting at a house party just outside of Bridgetown New Jersey last evening. Full story at source.

On January 6, 2021, a massive outpouring of supporters of President Donald Trump descended on Washington D.C. for a rally. The president invited his supporters to “peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard” at the U.S. Capitol. It did not matter that he did not call for violence, Congress impeached him anyway. The crowd’s mission was not to burn down the U.S. Capitol or harm members of Congress. For the overwhelming majority of those in attendance, their goal was not to commit violence, but to persuade either Vice President Mike Pence or a majority of the members of Congress to...

A must-read article demonstrates how genuine scientific inquiry was shot down as a "conspiracy theory" and points fingers at the guilty parties. For more than a year, honest and impartial scientific exploration of the origins of the Covid-19 virus has been blocked, with consideration of the possibility that it was engineered in the Wuhan Institute of Virology virtually suppressed, mocked as a “conspiracy theory.” SNIP Here are some excerpts from the article that should be read in its entirety. Crawford points his finger at the guilty parties. Wade points out that the “consensus” that Covid must have an entirely natural...

“And they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit” (Acts 6:5). Stephen’s excellent character teaches us much about responding to suffering and death. Stephen, the first Christian martyr, is one of the most inspiring biblical examples of faithfulness in life and ministry. But his personal excellence shines forth most through the familiar account of his death by stoning. As one of the first deacons in the church, Stephen was recognized early on as a man of great faith and spirituality (Acts 6:5). And a few verses later Luke describes him as “full of grace and...

God can and does use angels to minister to people, but he mostly uses his own caring children to dispense his grace. This is one reason we’re made partakers of his grace, to become channels of it. We are meant to dispense it to others. I call this “people grace.” “To each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift” (Ephesians 4:7, NKJV). Because of the comfort we’re given through God’s grace, it is impossible for any of us to continue grieving our whole lifetime. At some point, we are being healed by the Lord,...

Thanks for joining our two-part study about what the Old Testament says about water. Then, next week we will examine the New Testament. Life, as we know it in all forms, is unsustainable without water. Correspondingly, after receiving the water of Baptism, believers in Jesus Christ who do the will of the Father are given eternal life. Jesus said, “Whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life” (John 13-14). The Hebrew Bible records the essential role of water in...

Expect more stories like hers as conservatives begin to copy leftists and weaponize cancel culture against leftists. Emily Wilder graduated from Stanford last year. At the beginning of May, she landed a job working for Associated Press. Two weeks later, she found herself fired because conservatives discovered her wildly pro-Palestinian social media activity while in college. She’s figured out that she was “canceled” but cannot grasp that this happened because conservatives have finally adopted leftist tactics. According to an article in The Federalist, Emily Wilder, a former Arizona Republic reporter and graduate of Stanford University, tweeted that she accepted a...

May 21 2022 was supposed to be the day the Rapture occurred, according to radio evangelical Harold Camping. He staked his entire reputation on it. his company, Family Radio, spent more than $5,000,000 on 5,000 billboards announcing the date, and a media frenzy soon followed. We're all still around.And we can say with certainty that nothing even remotely close to that prediction happened that day. Within months, Camping announced his retirement. Months after that he formally admitted he was wrong. in 2013, Camping died. And in 2018, Family Radio stopped airing his old sermons.

Fourteen cities in Los Angeles county have issued no-confidence resolutions against District Attorney George Gascon, claiming his reforms went too far. Diamond Bar’s city council passed a no-confidence motion during its May 18 meeting, with some councilmembers wishing to address Gascon’s perceived leniency to horrific crimes throughout the county. “Gascon is making it less safe for our residents and businesses,” Diamond Bar Mayor Nancy Lyon told The Epoch Times. “He’s more concerned about the criminals than the victims. You can’t do special enhancements on things like hate crime, elder abuse, child physical abuse, trauma, [or] human trafficking.” Lyon added, “Even...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Sunday that he will not be getting vaccinated against COVID-19. During an interview with John Catsimatidis on his radio show on WABC 770 AM, Paul, an ophthalmologist, said he he’s making the personal decision because he’s already had COVID-19. Paul tested positive for COVID-19 in March 2020. At the time, he was the first known senator to have contracted the disease. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends those that have recovered from COVID-19 to get vaccinated because experts are unsure how long natural immunity lasts. However, the Kentucky senator told Catsimatidis that...

In 1937, Adolf Hitler and his intelligence staff devised one of the most brilliant disinformation operations in history. Diplomatic cables were sent from Berlin to Moscow, using a code the Nazis knew Stalin had broken. The Red Army, which had already lost many trained officers and men to Stalin's sweeping nationwide Terror, would soon be targeted for mass liquidation. The cables Hitler ordered sent to the German embassy in Moscow detailed a widespread conspiracy in the Red Army to overthrow Stalin. Top Red Army commanders were mentioned by name. All Hitler had to do was trigger Uncle Joe’s insane paranoia...

Unless you’ve been hiding in a basement like Joe Biden, most everything these days is partisan. This is especially true of “nonpartisan” school boards and city councils. Over the last few decades, while Republicans focused their patriotic American flag-waving enthusiasm on state and national elections, Democrats were busy filling school boards and city councils with members who embrace Marxist agendas. With Democrats and Republicans having completely opposing views on vital issues, it is imperative that conservatives know the political party of everyone running for local office. That’s the first step. If the candidate is a Republican, the next step is...