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When I was fourteen or so, I was listening to an American comedian and he said that “America is the only matriarchy in which women feel the need to complain about being oppressed.” At the time I knew clear nothing about America, or how it was different from Portugal, so the joke went absolutely wide of the mark. But over the years of living here, it keeps coming back to mind at all sorts of times. Look, I’m not saying that some women didn’t have a terrible time in the US, or that women weren’t discriminated against in the region...

Bishop Juhana Pohjola of the Evangelical Mission Diocese of Finland, speaks at the Alliance Defending Freedom office in Washington, D.C., to discuss his prosecution for sharing a document expressing support for Christian teachings about marriage and sexuality, Nov. 10, 2021 WASHINGTON — A Finnish religious leader facing prosecution for publishing a booklet promoting Christian teachings about marriage and sexuality is warning that “the Gospel of Christ is at stake” as Western governments liken such beliefs to hate speech. The Rev. Juhana Pohjola, bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission Diocese of Finland, spoke at the Alliance Defending Freedom, a religious...

President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for private employers often is described as requiring employees of large companies either to be vaccinated or be tested weekly. But when you dig into the details, the mandate is far more invasive than that. Nonvaccinated employees must wear masks, even if they are being tested weekly. Employers must maintain records of employees’ vaccination status. Employees who lie to their employers about their vaccination status could face up to five years imprisonment, while employers who do not comply with the mandate face fines of $13,653 per violation. The Biden administration is trying to make noncompliance...

One radio host is giving lawmakers food for thought. Joe Madison, the host of Sirius XM's Urban View, announced on Monday that he was going on a hunger strike as a "redress to what is just plain politically and morally wrong" in light of GOP efforts to stonewall Democratic-backed voting reforms "As a political protest, I am beginning a hunger strike today by abstaining from eating any solid food until Congress passes and President Biden signs the Freedom to Vote Act or the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act," he said. Taking action is "what drives me and inspires me,"...

On Tuesday, 146 GOP lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced the Illegal Immigrant Payoff Prohibition Act of 2021, to prevent the U.S. attorney general from making settlement payments to individuals and families who entered the United States illegally. The bill comes in response to reports that the Biden Administration “is planning to pay illegal immigrants who were separated from their families at the border up to $450,000 each, possibly a million dollars per family.”While Biden emphatically denied the payment reports, his deputy press secretary later contradicted him by confirming to Fox News that “the President is perfectly comfortable...

Twitter really knows how to help a guy out. Whenever I want to retweet an article about vulnerabilities in our elections, Twitter provides a pop-up asking “do you want to read the article first?” This even happens when it is my own tweet and my own article. Do I want to read the article first? Nope, I wrote it. I’d wager this week’s Las Vegas Sun piece – “The Big Lie Laid Bare Again, But Will Nevada GOP Candidates Disavow It?” – won’t face any blocks at Twitter asking if you want to read the article first before you retweet...

BlackRock Inc., the largest money management corporation not only in America but the world, has emerged as a big promoter of social and environmental investing and of sending billions of U.S. dollars to China. A consumer advocacy group asserts that New York-based BlackRock’s push for investing in “environmental, social, and governance” issues, known as ESG, is intended to distract from the vast wealth that the corporation has injected into Communist China despite human rights abuses there. “They are hamstringing U.S. corporations with bean counting on board membership and diversity quotas while they are pouring billions into China,” William Hild, executive...

<p>Inflation is starting to look like that unexpected — and unwanted — houseguest who just won’t leave.</p><p>For months, many economists had sounded a reassuring message that a spike in consumer prices, something that had been missing in action in the U.S. for a generation, wouldn’t stay long. It would prove “transitory,’’ in the soothing words of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and White House officials, as the economy shifted from virus-related chaos to something closer to normalcy.</p>

il Donaldo Trumpo (@PapiTrumpo) November 11, 2021Q is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation.Q describes this awakening as follows: "The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding 'mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure future events through transparency and regeneration of individual thought...

The State Department is working to secure the release of several hostages taken by Iran-backed terrorists after they stormed the U.S. embassy facility in Sana'a, Yemen, U.S. officials told the Washington Free Beacon early Thursday. A group of Houthi rebels reportedly stormed the U.S. compound on Wednesday seeking "large quantities of equipment and materials," according to regional reports translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute. The raid comes just five days after the Houthis kidnapped Yemeni nationals who work for the U.S. embassy. The State Department confirmed to the Free Beacon that the Yemeni staffers are being held hostage...

The statewide mask mandate in Illinois will likely remain in place through Thanksgiving, Illinois Department of Public Health Director (IDPH) Dr. Ngozi Ezike suggested this week. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s (D) statewide mask mandate, which he announced in August, has no signs of ending as the holidays approach, despite the Democrat governor’s previous desire to “remove the mitigations as we approach the holidays.” However, with cases spiking in the state, IDPH Director Ezike is casting doubts on that timeline.

Beloved, as we remember today those men and women who serve and who once served in our American military on this Veterans Day, we offer them all a great thank you of appreciation! Where would our nation be without our brave military? Another side of the coin, the ETERNAL Spiritual one in which we want to look at is the spiritual military service in which Almighty God has called all His redeemed blood brought saints into (1 Cor. 1:26-29, Eph. 2:1-14, 2 Tim. 2:1-5, Rev. 1:5)! We as the redeemed of Almighty God and heirs of ETERNAL LIFE, through the...

Combine vaccine mandates that lower the workforce and the flood of economic and monetary stimulus by the geniuses in Washington DC, and we have a Thanksgiving problem. Supplies of food and household items are 4% to 11% lower than normal as of Oct. 31, according to data from market-research firm IRI. That figure isn’t far from the bare shelves of March 2020, when supplies were down 13%. For grocery shoppers this holiday season, it means that someone with 20 items on their list would be out of luck on two of them. Although U.S. supermarket operators started purchasing holiday items...

Democratic Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel apologized after becoming so drunk at a college football game that she had to leave the stadium in a wheelchair. “I attended a tailgate on an empty stomach,” Nessel wrote in a Facebook post about her intoxication at the Oct. 30 Michigan-Michigan State football game. “Much to my surprise, MSU tailgate’s tend to have more alcohol than food, so I thought it seemed like a good idea to eat 2 Bloody Mary’s, since as long as you put enough vegetables in them, it’s practically a salad. As it turned out, this was not a...

Can Americans really be forced to get “fully vaccinated” for COVID? It depends on whom you ask. One newsletter reader asked us about coercion when it comes to medical treatment. Voluntary Consent?The Nuremberg Code was established after World War II and the horrific discovery that the Nazis, under the direction of “mad scientist” Dr. Josef Mengele, used medicines and procedures, including experimental ones, on Jews against their will in the name of “scientific research.” It was determined that this should never happen again. Do a search on “Nuremberg Code COVID-19 vaccine,” and several “fact-”check websites come up, so we assume...

KEY POINTS: * The Biden administration is reviewing the possible ramifications of shutting down a key pipeline transporting crude oil and natural gas from Canada to Michigan. * “We have a state in Michigan that uses the most residential propane in the nation,” said Jason Hayes, the director of environmental policy for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. “And yet, we’re seriously considering shutting down this pipeline and giving these people not even two or three months notice, just basically saying, ‘well, sorry, you’re gonna be on your own.'” * Line 5 carries about 540,000 barrels of oil and gas...

Biden reminds me of the Kamikaze pilots Japan desperately recruited during the final stages of WWII. Selected aviators flew suicide attack missions against Allied naval vessels by diving their planes directly into enemy ships to inflict as much damage as possible. Their final doomed flights were intentionally one way missions. Slow Joe Biden and his tail gunner, Kackling Kamala are on their own personal Kamikaze mission but unfortunately, their objective is to destroy America. Our own allies must be bewildered to watch a president intentionally inflict catastrophic damage to his own country. Biden's apparent cognitive decline is no longer secret....

Today we celebrate Veterans Day, a holiday that honors all American veterans, living or dead, who served their country honorably during war or peacetime. On the “11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month” in 1918, the Allied nations and Germany agreed to an armistice, ending World War I, which is generally regarded as “the war to end all wars.” It became known as “Armistice Day,” and is commemorated by many countries. One year later, in Nov. 1919, President Woodrow Wilson declared Nov. 11 as the first commemoration of Armistice Day. On June 4, 1926, Congress passed a...

On Thursday, CNN political analyst Carl Bernstein reacted to a report that the select committee investigating the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol was interested in a group of people in former Vice President Mike Pence’s inner circle. Bernstein asserted on “New Day” that the riot was “a conspiracy like none other in the United States.” He argued that what took place on January 6 was “the most grievous assault on democracy since the Confederacy and the Civil War.”