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Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia officially slammed the door on his party's egregious elections takeover bill, commonly known as H.R. 1. This is excellent news for the country, as the legislation represented a dreadful dog's breakfast of proposals that would consolidate far too much power in Washington, force taxpayers to fund the campaigns of politicians they oppose, reduce and eliminate state-level voter integrity efforts, and make permanent a number of questionable 'emergency' balloting provisions, among many flaws. For all the attention paid to the filibuster -- which we'll address further in a moment -- it's now clear that Senate...

President Joe Biden has never been accused of having a gilded tongue. In fact, he once referred to himself as a "gaffe machine." But after a meandering speech in summer 2015, his top aides let loose their frustrations in a private communication to the then-vice president's son Hunter. "He just couldn't end the speech," senior White House aide Gregory Schultz exclaimed to the VP's youngest son, in apparent disbelief. The newly surfaced email, recovered by Just the News from a laptop Hunter Biden left behind at a Delaware repair shop and later turned over to the FBI, provides a rare...

WASHINGTON — Men and women who once lived and identified as part of the LGBT community are confident that a "rainbow revival" is at hand. Gathered under the blazing sun with temperatures in the mid-90s at the Sylvan Theater in the shadow of the Washington Monument, approximately 200 attended the Freedom March, an event for formerly LGBT-identifying people who share testimonies of how Jesus transformed their lives. The gathering was first held in the same location in 2018. Last year's Freedom March was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With many sporting T-shirts decorated with rainbow flags and the words...

President Donald Trump warned you. In the name of equity and inclusion, the Biden administration is making moves that target the suburbs with federal regulation. It will pull zoning decisions away from city councils through the federal government’s typical mechanism to impose its will where it has no business intruding in our layered federalist system.The Federalist:As part of his $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan, the Biden administration is pushing local governments to allow apartment buildings in neighborhoods that are restricted to single-family homes. The administration claims it’s a way to ease a national affordable housing shortage and combat racial injustice in...

A new kit for Ukraine's football team, showing a map including Russian-annexed Crimea, has provoked anger in Moscow. Ukraine unveiled its shirt for Euro 2020, emblazoned with its borders including Crimea and the slogan "Glory to Ukraine!"

The Biden Pentagon has gone all-in on subjecting the American military to the worst excesses of the social justice movement: Troops are being indoctrinated into Critical Race Theory and the Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin, has ominously announced that he’s going to purge all extremists – and he doesn’t mean jihadists who are plotting America’s downfall. Using January 6 as a hook, it’s clear he intends to get rid of Trump supporters and others with similar traditional American values (liberty, strong borders, strong economy, colorblind society, etc.). In a startling moment of sanity, however, the Pentagon has announced that it will...

North Carolina State University students need to be taught about how to be “inclusive,” according to the school’s chancellor and top administrators. Last June, NC State Chancellor Randy Woodson released a statement decrying individual and systemic racism and revealed the university’s plan to roll out mandatory diversity, equity, and inclusion training for students, faculty, and staff: As one first step, in the coming academic year, we will require every student, faculty and staff member to complete diversity and inclusion learning modules. This will include every member of Cabinet as well as all of the deans, directors and department heads of...

The past year has seen many record-breaking increases in bad things. In Democrat-run cities across America, crime has been skyrocketing, with murders, rapes, assaults, and other violent crimes going through the roof. In places with endless lockdowns (again, Democrat-run) we’ve also seen an increase in overdoses and suicides. And now, on the Democrat-run southern border, it turns out that there’s been a 3,166% rise in the number of sex offenders caught trying to enter the U.S.The report about the rise in sex offender apprehensions comes from the Border Patrol (hat tip: Red State):U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to Del Rio...

Two people have been arrested in connection to the shooting death of 6-year-old Aiden Leos, who was killed during a road rage incident in California last month. Marcus Anthony Eriz, 24, and Wynne Lee, 23, were arrested at their home Sunday in Costa Mesa, California, according to the California Highway Patrol. They are expected to be charged with murder, CHP said.

For some, the aircraft malfunction of Kamala Harris's jet on her first flight abroad as Joe Biden's vice president to get at all those root causes to "solve" the border surge was kind of an omen.After all, the jet malfunction could have gone undetected, or been put there by some Democrat insider, happening just as anonymous Democrat operatives are moaning aloud to the press about their dread of Harris becoming the next Democratic presidential candidate. One wonders if Harris recalls the aircraft accident that took down former Clinton Commerce Secretary Ron Brown. It's speculation, of course, based on the miasma...

In the mass of news reports coming out in recent weeks, it’s easy to lose track of what cruise line requires a vaccination or which does not. The three biggest cruise lines have been busy ironing out their vaccination requirements. Yet, Carnival Cruise Line, Royal Caribbean, and Norwegian Cruise Line all have different mandates. There are even requirements for different ships sailing in different regions of the United States and worldwide. We shed light on what each cruise line requires and which ships do or do not require a mandatory vaccination to be able to sail onboard. Carnival Cruise Line...

The 2021 the Memorial Tournament purse is set for $9.3 million, with 68 professional players who complete four rounds at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio, earning an official-money paycheck this week. The winner's share of the the Memorial Tournament prize pool is at $1,674,000, with the second-place finisher taking home $1,013,700. The Memorial Tournament field is headed by Collin Morikawa, Patrick Cantlay, Viktor Hovland and more. Jon Rahm, who led by six shots after 54 holes, was forced to withdraw after a positive COVID-19 test. He will not be paid from the prize pool.

Kristian Andersen is a Scripps Institute virologist on a first name basis with Dr. Anthony Fauci. So his January 31, 2020 email to the good doctor stating that some of the features of the COVID-19 virus “(potentially) look engineered” and that the genome is “inconsistent with expectations of evolutionary theory” garnered a lot of attention when the FOIA requested emails were released last week.Skeptics noticed that he reversed himself two months later, and then – surprise! – he got a big grant from the NIH: 2 months later he reverses course and publishes his "Proximal Origin" paper, helping shield NIH/NIAID...

(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update) (300 Million Vaccine doses administered - Vaccination slow but stable, just below goal pace - New Cases are very low (11,134)) Total Vaccine Doses Delivered: 371,520,975 (21,401,000 J&J) Administered: 301,638,578 (11,077,735 J&J) People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 170,833,221 Fully Vaccinated: 138,969,323

JESUS, LORD OF THE SABBATH. 2 8 A. D. Bible Timeline Resources to CLICK: To read MATTHEW 12 in full To hear MAX McLEAN reading it To hear a DRAMATIZATION of it To see an ANIMATION of Matthew, Mark, Luke, or JohnHarmony of the Gospels Mt 12 + Mk 2 + Lk 6 New International Version, emphases added Abrdgd: the complete text is in your Bible . HARVESTING ON THE SABBATH MATTHEW12:1-8 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain and eat them. When...

CAIR-Florida’s new leader joins PIJ’s Hatem Fariz to curse Israel and call for more bloodshed. Joe Kaufman is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and the Chairman of the Joe Kaufman Security Initiative. He was the 2014, 2016 and 2018 Republican Nominee for U.S. House of Representatives (Florida-CD23). The mainstream media likes to paint CAIR as a mainstream Muslim group interested in protecting the civil rights of the Muslim community. The reality, though, is that CAIR is a support network for terror with both foundational and financial links to Hamas. This past month, CAIR’s true nature...

Concurrent with Israel’s military response to the latest wave of Hamas’s jihad terror—rocket and mortar salvos targeting its civilian areas—the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) issued a May 20, 2021 press lease chronicling “a dangerous and drastic surge in anti-Jewish hate right here at home,” in the United States. ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt noted his organization was “tracking acts of harassment, vandalism and violence,” the press release citing “193 reports [compiled] in the week after the crisis began.” Even the doctrinaire Leftist Greenblatt conceded during a PBS interview discussing these alarming findings,Well, let's be clear. None of the people committing these...

• The study involved 187 healthy five to ten-year-olds, including 52 vegans •Vegan children averaged 1.2in shorter and had 4-6% lower bone mineral content •They were also 3 times more likely to be deficient in vitamin B-12 than omnivores ARE VEGAN DIETS SAFE FOR BABIES? Around 3.5million people living in the UK are vegan – the equivalent of around seven per cent of the population, according to estimates. And, as the diet has surged in popularity, more mothers are choosing to make their baby a vegan. The NHS says babies and young children on a vegetarian or vegan diet can...

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and fellow Republicans are demanding Pres. Biden’s Education Department block a planned history education proposal that invokes the 1619 Project. "Americans do not need or want their tax dollars diverted from promoting the principles that unite our nation toward promoting radical ideologies meant to divide us," McConnell wrote. “In order to truly be antiracist, you also have to truly be anti-capitalist…the origins of racism cannot be separated from the origins of capitalism. The origins of capitalism cannot be separated from the origins of racism." -- Professor Ibram X. Kendi, Big Kahuna of Critical Race...