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FIRST ON FOX: Rep. Brian Babin, R-Texas, and several of his House Republican colleagues dropped a new resolution condemning the pro-abortion "domestic terrorist violence" against churches and pro-life religious organizations. Babin led the resolution that hit the House floor on Thursday and lambasted the Justice Department (DOJ) over their prioritization of investigating parents via a teacher’s union letter comparing them to domestic terrorists instead of going after the "anarchists" attacking churches. "The DOJ’s busy likening concerned parents to domestic terrorists instead of prosecuting pro-abortion anarchists who are, by the FBI’s very definition, engaging in domestic terrorism," Babin told Fox News...

Case against Trump muddied by episodes in which Democrats helped a comedian's team breach building security, defaced property and got crossways with evidence the police gathered. With hype and Hollywood glitz, Democrats pursuing the Jan. 6 probe vowed to expose a conservative conspiracy to violate the U.S. Capitol and destroy democracy. But so far they have been tripped up by their own follies, ranging from aiding TV comedian Steven Colbert’s team in breaching building security to making allegations against a GOP congressman that their own police force disowned. Meanwhile, compelling evidence Democrats’ own hearings have mostly ignored point to serious...

California lawmakers took a step closer Monday to amending the state constitution to guarantee the right to an abortion and contraception. The state Senate approved Senate Constitutional Amendment 10 in a 29-7 vote in a push to protect abortion rights. The bill moves to the state Assembly where two-thirds of lawmakers must approve it by June 30. If approved, the matter will go before California voters in November. The bill would amend California's constitution to prohibit the state from "denying or interfering with an individual’s reproductive freedom in their most intimate decisions," according to the bill's text. "In CA, we...

Texas GOP Passes Resolution Declaring Biden ‘Not Legitimately Elected’ by RTM Staff June 19, 2022 Texas Republicans passed a resolution on June 18 stating that President Joe Biden was “not legitimately elected,” and that “substantial” election fraud in key metropolitan areas influenced the results of the 2020 presidential election in favor of Biden. “We believe that the 2020 election violated Article 1 and 2 of the US Constitution, that various secretaries of state illegally circumvented their state legislatures

Discussing black crime in America isn’t easy. For decades, the FBI has collected all kinds of race and crime data from state police, so we have the information. But due to a ton of negative black disparities showing up in the data, the mainstream media pursues a policy of silence on the issue, turning it as a result into a taboo topic. But as progressives say: “silence is violence.” Like any policy area, when you refuse full and frank discussion about crime, bad policies get implemented and good people get hurt. Take as an example the reckless driving-equivalent of...

When Julie Burkhart learned about the Supreme Court draft opinion that would end abortion protections, she let out an involuntary shriek from her airplane seat. “Because it felt like such a gut punch,” Burkhart said. “And then after that, getting into the opinion and reading that — it was chilling.” Burkhart, who lives in Colorado, has long been at the center of the abortion access battle, one that is deepening in the Mountain West and across the nation. She's worked to expand access to reproductive rights for decades. Her mentor Dr. George Tiller, an abortion provider in Wichita, Kan., was...

Russia warned Monday that it would take action to protect its national interests if Lithuania did not reverse a decision to bar the transit by rail of certain items destined for Kaliningrad, the small Russian exclave that is separated from the rest of the country by the Baltic states. A new potential flashpoint between Moscow and NATO emerged when Lithuania, citing incoming European Union sanctions on Russian steel and other ferrous metals, said those items could no longer be transported across its territory to Kaliningrad. Russia’s foreign ministry said it summoned a senior Lithuanian diplomat and informed her Russia viewed...

Ever since 2007, and the bloody takeover of Gaza by Hamas, which ended in the death of 700 Fatah members and the expulsion of thousands more, Hamas and the PA (in which Fatah is the ruling faction) have been at each others’ throats. Now the PA has accused Hamas of planning to seize control of a Palestinian security installation near Ramallah, as part of a larger effort to take over all the PA-ruled territories in the West Bank. A report on this accusation is here: “15 years after Gaza takeover, Fatah warns Hamas against trying to seize West Bank,”...

Shocking surveillance video shows the moment a Michigan man pulled a weapon on a father holding his sleeping baby at gas station in one the most crime-ridden cities in America. The father quickly reacts, waving his arms in front of the gunman in an attempt to grab the weapon during the altercation at a Detroit gas station Sunday evening. The suspect then steps out of the store and is seen fiddling with the firearm in the parking lot. Investigators believe the gun may have jammed when the father attempted to grab it. The wild video is now part of an...

At least 47 people were shot in Chicago over the weekend, 13 of them in just five hours late Sunday and early Monday. An 11-year-old girl was shot in the leg in the Auburn Gresham area just after midnight Monday. Ten minutes later, a woman and two teens, 16 and 17, were wounded about half a mile away, according to Chicago police. ...

When she was a little girl, there was a popular romance novel. It was titled Love Story and its first sentence was famous. "What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?" For Professor Josephine K, teaching and learning, words and writing, were her lifetime love affair. It has been years since Steven was her student. To this day, Prof. K. still asks herself, "What can you say about a twenty-year-old student who failed?" Steven may have long forgotten Prof. K. Prof. K. has never forgotten Steven. When Prof. K. alienates her Woke friends on social media, it's because...

FORT MYERS, Fla. — At a Planned Parenthood health center on Florida’s Gulf Coast, new restrictions on who can get an abortion are shaking up routines and creating challenges for the clinic’s patients, doctors and nurses. The center, in Fort Myers, has seen a steady influx of patients from Texas since last September, when a ban on all but the earliest abortions took effect there, and from other states that have tightened access to the procedure over the past year. It is also adjusting to a waiting period that took effect in Florida in April after years of litigation, requiring...

Dear Friends, By all means, please continue to make yourselves progressively more obnoxious. You’re helping us to end abortion. First, let’s get a few things straight: There is no right to abortion. Abortion is a negation of rights, including that most fundamental of rights – the right to life. There is no right to abortion anywhere in the Constitution – in the Preamble, the First Amendment or the Commerce Clause. In 1973, the Supreme Court decided to create a right to abortion because they felt it was a terrible burden for women who became pregnant to carry their children to...

Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan has created unprecedented threats to U.S. national security as I noted in an earlier article, Biden’s Catastrophic Policies: Immigration and Afghanistan and those threats are about to be exacerbated by a policy change of the Biden administration. On June 14, 2022 The Los Angeles Times reported, Some Afghan refugees now have chance to avoid terrorism designation that blocked path to U.S. Here is how this disconcerting news report begins: Doctors, teachers, engineers and other Afghans who were forced to associate with the Taliban will now have a chance at asylum or visas after the Biden...

21 June 2022Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Religious on Tuesday of week 12 in Ordinary Time St. Aloysius Church Washington, DC Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White.Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading2 Kings 19:9-11,14-21,31-36 ©The Lord protects Jerusalem from Sennacherib and the AssyriansSennacherib, King of the Assyrians, sent messengers to Hezekiah saying, ‘Tell this to Hezekiah king of Judah, “Do not let your God on whom you are relying deceive you, when he says: Jerusalem shall not fall into the power of the king of Assyria. You have learnt by now what the kings of...

As the nine Justices prepare to issue their final opinions of the current term, barricades are going up around the Supreme Court building. It’s a sad but necessary security measure because violence can’t be ruled out in response to the rulings. The threat is explicit on abortion, as the arrest of an armed man outside Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home attests. Demonstrators continue to protest outside the homes of some Justices, and now comes a vow from the shadowy group that calls itself Jane’s Revenge to commit what sounds like what Democrats would call insurrection if it were aimed at another...

Over the Juneteenth weekend, 9 people were shot in Harlem. Among them was Darius Lee, an aspiring basketball player from the mostly black neighborhood, who was the only one killed in the mass shooting. The wounded included two women and six men in a shooting that began over the filming of a rap video. Over 40 shots were fired. Elsewhere in the Big Apple, a gunman ran up to three men in Queens and opened fire with a rifle, wounding two and killing one. Dwayne Whyte was arrested in the shooting. "When is enough going to be enough? When we...

1942 PBY aircraft from (VP 24) recovers a two-man torpedo bomber crew from USS Enterprise (CV 6) 360 miles north of Midway after their plane went down June 4. The aviators are the last survivors of the Battle of Midway to be recovered.

It has been more than a month since a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion showed the court may soon overturn Roe v. Wade. Chief Justice John Roberts confirmed the authenticity of the leaked draft opinion suggesting the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to overturn the landmark 1973 case that legalized abortion nationwide. The Supreme Court’s official opinion could come as early as Tuesday, but until then, tension continues to grow. The safety of the justices and the court’s staff has become more of a concern. While the justices are not at the courthouse daily, protesters are. The day after that...

Britain is facing its biggest rail strikes in three decades after last-minute talks between a union and train companies failed to agree on pay. Frustrated passengers in England, Scotland, and Wales are now dealing with severe disruption in what is the largest rail strike in 30 years as they scramble to find transport alternatives for their daily commutes. Up to 40,000 staffers are staging a walkout on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday this week in protest over pay and job security. This week’s strike will shut down most of the UK’s rail network, bringing the country to a complete standstill. Only...