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GET WOKE, EMPTY THE PEWS It would be a full-time job to chronicle all of the irrational reactions by liberals to the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict, and scarcely worth the effort. But I do want to note one such response because it affects me directly: that of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The ELCA, of which my congregation is a member, sent out this “Pastoral Letter” authored by Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton. Here is the letter, titled “A pastoral message on the Rittenhouse acquittal,” with my comments interpolated: ​Dear church, In the book of Leviticus we read: “You shall not...

Update (Saturday 0715 ET): The reports turned out to be correct. Protests were seen in multiple cities, and a riot was declared in Portland, Oregon, hours after Kyle Rittenhouse’s acquittal. Protests were observed in downtown Brooklyn, New York; Boston, Massachusetts; Chicago, Illinois; and Portland, Oregon. Focusing on Portland, a riot was declared at 9 p.m. local (or 2400 ET) after hundreds of demonstrators unleashed their liberal rage by smashing windows and hurling objects at police. Police declare #riot in #Portland amid unrest over #Rittenhouse verdict#RittenhouseVerdict pic.twitter.com/zYyqbkurvK — Ruptly (@Ruptly) November 20, 2021After Kyle #Rittenhouse was found not guilty, #antifa in...

If you believe Anthony Fauci and the narratives being put forth by our government, mainstream media, Big Tech, academia, the healthcare industry, and all of Big Pharma’s puppets, you’ll either think the information in this article is fake or you’ll find some lame excuse to confirm your bias about the Covid-19 “vaccines.” But those who are not willfully steeped in a daily dose of Pandemic Panic Theater probably already know that Bangladesh is not an exception. It’s just the latest in a long string of data points that would shatter the mainstream vaccine narrative in a sane world.This is no...

CommentaryIn the first week of November, the United States was faced with a clear warning, the likes of which it hasn’t faced since the Cold War: the prospect of having to fight near simultaneous major wars in Europe and Asia.In March and April, Russia mobilized about 100,000 to 120,000 troops, plus supporting armor, artillery and missiles, near the Donbass regions contested by Russian-supported Ukrainian rebel forces and in the Ukrainian territory of Crimea.This was more than what Russia mobilized in 2014 to invade and occupy Crimea. The United States European Command raised its “watch level” to “potential imminent crisis.”Now in...

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Cali.) distributed a memo (pdf) to GOP lawmakers Thursday claiming that the expanded provisions in President Biden’s social spending bill will result in an additional 1.2 million IRS audits each year.Nearly 50 percent of the audits—over 583,000—would be targeted at families earning less than $75,000, and 25 percent—over 313,000—at those earning up to $25,000 per year. According to the memo penned by Republican members of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, $80 billion is allotted in mandatory funding towards the IRS, which will help in recruiting 87,000 new agents who will target Americans at...

GoFundMe will allow fundraisers for Kyle Rittenhouse now that he’s been acquitted, the company said Friday. The fundraising platform said it banned Rittenhouse fundraisers before because its terms of service “prohibit raising money for the legal defense of an alleged violent crime.” That was the same thing a GoFundMe spokesperson told The Epoch Times last year. In addition to removing fundraisers that were launched for the teenager’s legal defense, the company removed “hundreds of others” last year that were unrelated to him, it said in a blog post that sought to respond to heightened criticism in the wake of the...

MELBOURNE—World number one Novak Djokovic and all other players will have to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to compete in the Australia Open next January, tournament chief Craig Tiley said on Saturday.Djokovic has declined to disclose whether he is vaccinated and said that he would wait until Tennis Australia revealed the health protocols before he made a decision about playing at Melbourne Park.“There’s a lot of speculation about vaccination and just to be really clear, when the [state] Premier announced that everyone on site … will need to be vaccinated … we made that clear to the playing group,” Tiley told...

He was a Facebook friend of mine . Class act all the way . Many people don't know he played with The Beach Boys from the 70's and his sister was married to Carl Wilson of The Beach Boys . His mother died 6 hours after he did in a California hospice .

The relationship between Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and their respective staffs has been on rocky ground for months. As RedState previously reported, the vice president and her camp have complained about being abandoned, even blaming racism as a possible factor, while the White House has fretted at Harris’ sheer incompetence and inability to garner support on her own.(related As Kamala Harris Crashes and Burns, the Excuses Are Already Rolling In)Those tensions have led to lots of speculation about what exactly happens in 2024. Harris is clearly a terrible candidate, something she showed during the 2020 presidential primary, but she’s also...

Marriott International’s been simping for China’s Xi Jinping for a few years now, first firing an employee who simply liked a pro-Tibet tweet, then praising the dictatorial way in which the CCP dealt with the pandemic they caused. Now, they’ve gone even further by refusing space to the World Uyghur Congress, which was holding a conference in Prague, Czechoslovakia.According to Axios:Working with local partners in Prague, organizers for the conference reached out to several hotels for quotes, Zumretay Arkin, the Munich-based program and advocacy manager for the World Uyghur Congress tells Axios. The group then sent a representative to visit...

'White supremacy cannot be reformed’: Colin Kaepernick says the Rittenhouse verdict ‘validates the need to abolish our current system’ Posted at 6:43 pm on November 20, 2021 by Brett T. We’re still cruising along through the hottest takes on the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict. Not surprisingly, Colin Kaepernick blames the systematic racism built into the justice system for letting a white supremacist who committed terroristic acts to go free. We honestly think there needs to be another trial to acquit Rittenhouse of being a white supremacist so he can file libel suits against Kaepernick and Ayanna Pressley and Joe Biden. Where...

Anniversary events this weekend commemorating the shock wave that went through France in November of 2018 as hundreds of thousands even a million people at a time took to the streets and highways of France in a nationwide protest movement. The Yellow Vest is an item required of all French motorists by law and it became a symbol of a protest aimed at rising gasoline prices as the government of President Emmanuel Macron imposed new taxes and planned more as a "Green" policy. The Yellow Vests occupied toll booths on French highways that had been sold by the government... Much...

Yesterday Drew Holden put together a list of individuals and entities that Kyle Rittenhouse should consider suing after calling him all sorts of names as the result of acting in self-defense in Kenosha a year ago. Here is a list of some of these entities from Drew Holden as noted at Twitchy. This list should no doubt start with CNN and the NYT:

The Norfolk Virginia Police Department fired Sgt. William K. Kelly III for donating anonymously $25 to Kyle Rittenhouse’s defense. The department only found out because a hacker group released the information of the anonymous users.A jury found Rittenhouse not guilty on all counts.Kelly wants his job back.Kelly told The Daily Mail he thought Rittenhouse was innocent based on videos. He also explained why he donated:‘Everything I’m saying is just my personal opinion. I’ve been a homicide detective, a violent crimes investigator for years. I have a background. I watched the video of the shooting and I’d seen the video of...

Who’s the first person in a chain of people Kyle Rittenhouse should attempt to sue?

An investment firm that counts Hunter Biden among its founders helped a Chinese company purchase one of the world’s most lucrative cobalt mines from an American company, according to a report by The New York Times. Biden established the firm Bohai Harvest RST (BHR) Equity Investment Fund Management Company with two other Americans and some Chinese partners in 2013. The American members controlled 30 percent of the Shanghai-based operation and served on the board. The company notably completed a deal in 2016 that saw a Congo cobalt and copper mine transfer from American company Freeport-McMoRan to Chinese outfit China Molybdenum...

WASHINGTON — Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland today formally established a process to review and replace derogatory names of the nation’s geographic features. She also declared “squaw” to be a derogatory term and ordered the Board on Geographic Names – the federal body tasked with naming geographic places – to implement procedures to remove the term from federal usage. "Racist terms have no place in our vernacular or on our federal lands. Our nation’s lands and waters should be places to celebrate the outdoors and our shared cultural heritage – not to perpetuate the legacies of oppression,” said Secretary...

The reaction from the left to the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse tells you all you need to know about the left’s regard for the rule of law and due process. But there was other good news this week, such as the announcement that Beto O’Rourke is running again in Texas, and I’m still wondering just what Jedi mind trick Gov. Abbott used to pull this off. And, of course, more COVID silliness.

Sometimes people wonder if it's God's will for them to be healed, but I think it should be clear that God wants you healed. God doesn't have to show you his will because He already has. In Isaiah 52:14 it says, As many were astonished at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men. Do you know what that means, Jesus was so disfigured until he did not even look like a man. And yet in Isaiah 53:10 it says, Yet it pleased The Lord to bruise him (crush...

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