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NEW YORK - Jessica Stern, soon to become the State Department’s special diplomatic envoy for LGBTQ rights, sees a mix of promising news and worrisome developments almost everywhere she looks, both at home and abroad. In the United States, Stern’s admiration for President Joe Biden’s moves supporting LGBTQ rights is offset by her dismay at other developments. These include persisting violence against transgender women of color and a wave of legislation in Republican-governed states seeking to limit sports participation and medical options for trans youth. “I don’t think there’s a country or region that’s all good or all bad,” she...

@Nigel_Farage This video was taken in Dungeness yesterday. Would it be wrong to use the word invasion? Take a look for yourself. Video...

As leftists try to impose Orwellian restrictions to force vaccinations, we may find ourselves forced to use their “trans” ideology as a defense. The recent Bruce Springsteen concert celebrates the return to post-Covid normalcy...for some. Everyone attending this event was required to show proof of vaccination, which raises some uncomfortable “what if” questions. What if; -Forged vaccination documents were used to gain entrance? -A handful of people standing in line had a fever and were coughing violently, but carried written proof they’d received the Covid vaccine? -A dedicated Springsteen fan had religious, allergy, and medical reasons for not getting the...

By a vote of 6-3, the US Supreme Court overturned an appeals court decision invalidating Arizona's ban on ballot harvesting and the requirement that in-person voting must take place at the precinct where the voter is registered to vote. The majority opinion was written by Justice Samuel Alito who called the Arizona rules "appropriate measures for protecting election integrity." Justice Elena Kagan sharply criticized the ruling in her dissenting opinion. "There can be no question that having any rules will filter out the votes of residents who do not follow those rules," she wrote. "Barring ballot harvesting will reduce the...

Dr. Robert Malone, who identifies himself as a pioneer of mRNA vaccines, said that LinkedIn recently deleted his account after he made comments about mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and questioned whether they’re appropriate to give to certain groups of people. “My business pays for linked in premium. I have been deleted,” Malone wrote on Twitter this week. “Purchased a service from linked in to promote my company. This is very different from the YouTube or Twitter terms. This arbitrary and capricious action has damaged our business, and we deserve to be compensated.” It appears his personal account was removed earlier this...

Out-of-state rescuers turned away after testing positive for coronavirus SURFSIDE, Fla. – Search-and-rescue teams looked for survivors through the 9th night and into the 10th day of a delicate operation after the Champlain Towers South collapse formed a compact mountain of pancaked concrete in Surfside. There were 126 people who remained unaccounted for Saturday.

Tokyo (AFP) - Athletes at Tokyo 2020 will be allowed to "express their views" before and after competing -- but not on the podium -- after Olympics chiefs relaxed some of the rules for protests at the event. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) released new guidelines Friday softening a long-standing ban on political protests at the Games. It means athletes will now be allowed to take the knee before play begins to highlight racial injustice, speak to the media and post online about their views, or wear clothing with a protest slogan at a press conference. But political statements during...

In a San Diego Seabees battalion, the powers that be apparently let it be known that everyone who could had better march under the gay flag. When Winston Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty and proposed some much-needed reforms, the pushback he received claimed the reforms ran afoul of Naval tradition. Churchill snapped back, “Naval tradition? Naval tradition? Monstrous. Nothing but rum, sodomy, prayers, and the lash.” More than 100 years later, it appears that the United States Navy is embracing that sodomy tradition. How else to explain that officers at a Naval Seabees unit allegedly forced everyone to...

Speaker Pelosi finally got her wish: Americans have been freed of ‘job lock.’ The fawning Spring articles in the mainstream media on the empowerment of the American workforce still trickle out here and there. But the confident, even celebratory, tone they took – telling us of wholesale changes in our cultural approach to work and even a ‘Great Resignation’ – is starting to waver as the disruptions and price increases so obvious in our daily lives mount. And so, Americans are about to hit the road for the Fourth of July with service delays, supply chain breakdowns, and high gas...

Rewriting history to give Biden the credit for the economic recovery that was well underway because of Trump. This post would be more appropriate in the Babylon Bee as satire, as journalists and the Biden administration collude to rewrite history to give Biden the credit for the economic recovery that was well underway because of Trump and red states before Biden took office. Even though the vaccines were developed so fast because of Trump and one million shots were being given each day prior to Biden taking office, the Democrat talking points regurgitated by most of the media say there...

Environmental activism was already nasty and lethal when I wrote Eco-Imperialism: Green Power – Black Death18 years ago. It’s gotten steadily worse since then, especially with hysteria about the “looming manmade climate apocalypse” driving ever more extreme demands that we rid the world of fossil fuels and prohibit or roll back modern living standards. The demands have reached previously unimaginable extremes – based primarily on GIGO computer models and wild assertions about planetary temperatures, weather, ice caps, and vanishing wildlife. The claims have little basis in real-world evidence but are presented as Gospel Truth by climate alarmists. One group of...

The world is shifting around us and too many are shaping themselves to fit into it when we should be fighting with all our might On June 29th Ohio State representative Jena Powell attempted to speak on the floor of the Ohio House of Representatives in favor of an amendment to Ohio’s Senate Bill 187 that allows college athletes to profit from their name, image and likeness. Powell spoke in favor of an amendment to that bill which would ban biological males from competing in women’s sports, the Save the Women’s Sports Act. This issue, if common sense were to...

Sharonell Fulton and Toni Simms-Busch should be household names. Fulton and Simms-Busch were the plaintiffs in a recent foster-care and religious-liberty case at the Supreme Court. It was a unanimous ruling, as you may have heard, and that is somewhat remarkable. Legal eagles who labor to defend religious liberty have qualms about the narrowness of the ruling, but I'm grateful for the message it sends. The city of Philadelphia stopped working with Catholic Social Services because of Catholic teaching about same-sex marriage. Marriage being between a man and a woman, of course, was acceptable to the likes of Barack Obama...

Most Americans celebrating the July 4th holiday today underappreciate or have forgotten that it was the sheer power of the ideas in the Declaration of Independence that was the determining factor for the Americans in winning the War of Independence. Additionally, most today have no idea how somber the occasion was when those 56 members of the Continental Congress committed themselves to signing the Declaration in July of 1776. They knew that taking pen to paper as a signatory was for each a death warrant for being a traitor to Great Britain. Thus, the first Declaration of Independence that was...

The Centers for Disease Control is investigating three mysterious cases of a bacterial disease that is typically found in tropical climates — yet the infected people have not left the United States. In a health alert posted Wednesday, the CDC said that they are working with the health departments of Kansas, Texas and Minnesota to determine how three people — two adults and one child — contracted melioidosis disease, an infection caused by the Burkholderia pseudomallei bacteria. The first patient to be diagnosed with the disease, in March, died 10 days after being hospitalized, though they had two preexisting conditions,...

“Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil” (Proverbs 3:7 KJV).

Considering events of the past few weeks, it seems fitting to review what the Founders had to say in America’s core documents -- the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution – and then to compare those words with the public words and actions of our federal politicians. Of course, everyone is (or should be) familiar with these words from the Declaration: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness --That to secure these...

“With Latest Nativist Rhetoric, Trump Takes America Back To Where It Came From,” (NPR headline, July 16, 2019.) “Xenophobe. In Chief,” Democrats blast Trump's plan to suspend immigration to U.S.” (NBC headline, April, 2020.) For four years the Democrat-media complex claimed America was cursed with a “xenophobic” and “nativist” President, who feared and loathed refugees. Yet the Americans who voted for him at the highest rate (higher even than native-born “whites”) were foreign-born one-time refugees. Think I jest? https://babalublog.com/2020/09/14/trump-and-the-bay-of-pigs-award-an-absolutely-perfect-match-both-trump-and-the-bay-of-pigs-freedom-fighters-fought-against-what-seemed-like-impossible-odds-and-both-totally-stomped-and-humiliat/Check this out. I guess it’s one of those “you had to be there” scenarios. To wit: All the “POPS!” and “BANGS!”...

Your Body Cannot Make Antibodies To Something Not In Your Body