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On July 1, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission announced that the agency has finalized a new rule that will crack down on marketers who make false, unqualified claims that their products are Made in the USA. Under the rule, marketers making unqualified Made in USA claims on labels should be able to prove that their products are “all or virtually all” made in the United States. Commissioner Rohit Chopra was joined by Chair Lina Khan and Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter in a statement, which noted the rule will especially benefit small businesses that rely on the Made in USA label,...

“Through [Christ] also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand” (Romans 5:2). It is God’s grace, not the believers’ faith, which enables them to stand firm in their salvation. In Old Testament times, the notion of having direct access or “introduction” to God was unthinkable, because if anyone was to look at Him they would surely die. After the tabernacle was built, only the high priest could enter the holy of holies, where God would manifest His divine presence, and only once a year for just a brief time. But Christ’s atoning sacrifice...

A parolee was sentenced to death Thursday for murdering three people and trying to kill two others in Downey while posing as a prospective buyer of a Chevrolet Camaro. Jade Douglas Harris — who was prosecuted under prior Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey’s administration — is the first person to be sentenced to death during current District Attorney George Gascon’s administration.

Joe Biden nominated the China-linked president of U of Pennsylvania to be US ambassador to Germany. Amy Gutmann is the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science.....president of UPenn since 2004. The NLPC filed a complaint against UPenn, alleging $22 million in "anonymous" donations for the Biden Center and $70 million from China in total. "They stonewalled all inquiries into the id's of Chinese donors who made $22 million anonymous donations," NLPC Chairman Peter Flaherty told Fox News. "We think it’s time for her to answer the question and identify the donors." The Biden Center opened March 2017, a...

The ‘Catholic’ Neo-Conservative Seamless GarmentOn Friday, June 18, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops approved a motion, by a margin of 166-58, to prepare a document widely anticipated, correctly or not, to address the necessary disposition for the reception of Holy Communion, with commentary concerning public persons in particular. The following week, USCCB President, Archbishop Jose Gomez, issued a statement explaining exactly what this entails:The doctrine committee of the bishops’ conference will now begin drafting this document and, in the months ahead, the bishops will continue our prayer and discernment through a series of regional meetings and consultations. In...

The Taliban’s rapid advance through northern Afghanistan continued on Sunday with more than a dozen districts falling to the militants, as Britain entered the final days of its two-decade deployment to Afghanistan. More than 300 members of the Afghan security forces fled across the border into Tajikistan to escape the militants, and Badakhshan and Takhar provinces are now largely under Taliban control, beyond the respective regional capitals.

MUNFORD, Tenn. — A political flag in the small town of Munford, Tennessee is stirring controversy by using foul language to denounce President Joe Biden and those who voted for him. The flag reads, “(expletive) Biden and (expletive) you for voting for him.” Mayor Dwayne Cole says he’s received several complaints about the flag since it went up at least a month ago. He says the city attorney looked into it and determined the homeowner has every right to fly the flag. “It’s vile. It’s vulgar. It’s protected speech under the Constitution,” Cole said. “If I had the authority to...

Great post from Dan Scavino. Runtime 2 minutes.

“My purpose and my mission is bigger than sports,” Berry explained. “I’m here to represent those … who died due to systemic racism. That’s the important part.” Specifically? She offered no specifics. But would she include the 650,000 Civil War dead in response to systemic racism? How about the hundreds of urban blacks annually murdered by urban blacks, murders met with silence by those otherwise decrying unspecified systemic racism? And a disproportionate number of attacks on American urban Asians and ultra-orthodox Jews are being committed by whom, white supremacists? Or a larger than normal percentage of those crimes committed by...

Eric Holder must have a tough time convincing his donors they got much “bang” for their bucks in 2020. *** The blueprint for nearly permanent Democratic control, which the Capital Research Center exposed in our report on “The Left’s Voting Machine,” was supposed to be straightforward: *** 3. Control the 2021–22 redistricting process, when all 435 U.S. House and 6,766 state legislative districts are redrawn by the party that controls the state legislatures (and in many states the governor’s veto power), a process which only happens every ten years following the census. But things didn’t exactly go according to plan....

Vatican Intensifies Crusade on ‘Anti-Vaxxers’Co-opted scientists duck safety concerns, smear studies on jab deathsVATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - The Pontifical Academy for Life (PAL) is stepping up its crusade against so-called vaccine hesitancy by co-opting scientists on globalist bodies to attack "anti-vaxxers," who, they claim, are spreading "misinformation and fake news." Vaccine-promoting WMA chair Prof. Frank Ulrich Montgomery "Misinformation is one of the core reasons to vaccine hesitancy," Prof. Frank Ulrich Montgomery, chair of the council of the pro-abortion World Medical Association (WMA) told a Vatican press conference Friday. Dr. Ramin Parsa-Parsi, head of the international department of the German Medical...

Our Troops Rock! Thank you for all you do! For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! ~ Hall of Heroes ~ John Ripley Info from here. John Walter Ripley (June 29, 1939–October 28, 2008) was a United States Marine Corps officer who received the Navy Cross for his actions in combat during the Vietnam War. On Easter morning 1972, Captain Ripley, repeatedly exposed himself to intense enemy fire over a three hour period as he prepared to...

While the U.S. media frequently look the other way at President Joe Biden’s verbal and intellectual foibles, foreign media have questioned the president’s mental acuity. Australian reporters have lamented that “the leader of the free world” is “struggling,” “barely cogent,” and a “human corpse” who has sunken deep into “cognitive decline.” Those quotations come from Sky News Australia, the center-right cable news network launched in 1996 by NewsCorp Australia. Its collection of hosts and journalists have told their growing audience what many in the U.S. media have refused to say: Joe Biden’s declining intellectual capabilities threaten all Western democracies. In...

“The simplest definition of mental illness (and insanity) is the inability to recognize and comply with reality.” (My college statistics instructor who was a professor of psychology) “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of all wisdom” – Psalm 111:10 I often reflect on the nature of culture and nationhood, never more contemplatively than on the Fourth of July when I re-read and consider the observations within the Declaration of Independence. In so doing I recognize that, according to my statistics instructor, we are living in an Age of Insanity. As our nation is seemingly rife with incurious, gullible...

The Acting House Sergeant at Arms appeared before a House committee and appears to have named Ashli Babbitt’s shooter. Timothy Blodgett, in an exchange with Rep. Herrera-Buetler during a hearing on Jan. 6 that appeared on C-SPAN, seems to have casually dropped the name. “The situation where you discussed, where Officer [Byrd] was at the door when Ms. Babbitt was shot, it was our Sergeant at Arms employee who rendered the aid.” It is interesting that Blodgett names an “Officer Byrd” in the context of Ashli Babbitt’s shooting. An African-American Lieutenant Mike Byrd was reported by Roll Call as having...

ransomnote: Someone spent alot of time assembling videos and images of the history of the USS Wisconsin. I found the many historical photos at the link interesting and wanted to share it with others this Fourth of July.4th of July: USS Wisconsin- aka "Wisky" - GIFs - ImgurUSS Wisconsin, fourth and final member of the Iowa class battleships, and the last commissioned American battleship. In the water in 1943, served in three wars, and was only permanently out of commission as of 2009 when it was no longer required that she be kept in readiness even as a museum ship....

COBB COUNTY, Ga. — Cobb County police are investigating a triple homicide at a country club Saturday afternoon. Police say Pinetree Country Club employee Paul Siller was found with a gunshot wound to the head at the 10th hole. Investigators also found a white Ram 3500 pick-up truck parked on the green. Two other bodies were found in the bed of the truck. Both had been shot. One of the two bodies found in the truck’s bed was identified as Paul Pierson, the registered owner of the truck. The third victim has not yet been identified. There is no word...

pResident Joe Biden sends his greetings to all as we celebrate the 4th of July on the 5th of July. Press Secretary Jan Pissawki says celebrating July 4th on the 5th is entirely permissible since the Indians, whom the Pilgrims defeated at the Battle of Plymouth Rock, had never heard of a calendar. She added that Plymouth Rock was where the Cleveland Indians were first defeated. Mr. Biden baked a turkey this year to commemorate a feast, held July 4th, 1620 on Nantucket Island due to rising sea levels on the mainland. The Plymouth Rock landing site of the Jamestown...

With a new initiative, Defending America, The Epoch Times seeks to remind Americans of the goodness of our country. Such a reminder should not be needed. From its beginnings, America has offered its citizens the most important freedom: freedom of belief. It has been a nation where the faithful can practice their religion without fear of persecution. By protecting fundamental rights, Americans have asserted the dignity of each individual, and have guaranteed the rights of speech, press, assembly and protest, and property, among others. And so have opened the door to individuals to seek to better themselves. With everyone free...

Joe Biden awkwardly fumbled with notes in his suit jacket pocket to answer a reporter's question on something he was briefed on just moments before – as the former White House physician to Donald Trump insists the president take a cognitive test. 'With the most recent hack by the Russians, would you say that this means –' a reporter began asking Biden as he checked out from King Orchards farm store in Central Lake, Michigan on Saturday. The 78-year-old president, however, cut off the reporter, saying U.S. intelligence is not sure if the hack came from the Kremlin. 'We're not...