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Ben Affleck tried to sell his sprawling Greek Revival “imitation” plantation — the site of his elaborate wedding to Jennifer Lopez Saturday — three years after revelations surfaced that one of his ancestors was a slave-owning Georgia sheriff. In 2015, the Hollywood actor tried to suppress details about Benjamin Cole, a relative on his mother’s side who owned several slaves in Chatham County, near his 87-acre Hampton Island property. Affleck purchased the property in 2003, according to reports. The revelations about Cole were made on PBS’s “Finding Your Roots” hosted by Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. Affleck put...

Perhaps only the agony of liberty lost could remind Americans why liberty is theirs by right. When I was a child, I stumbled upon philosophy through a tummy ache. I had eaten too much or run around too hard and found myself feeling miserable outside on a hot summer day. While I was in my own private agony, I remember thinking, "I'll never take all the hours I've spent without stomach pains for granted again." And I never did. Sometimes when other childhood problems had me down, I'd think, "Well, at least you don't have a stomachache," and I'd nod...

Cable cord cutting is eating into Disney’s linear businesses, including its still-profitable sports cable network ESPN. The Disney+ streaming service is growing, but still losing money. ESPN along with decent theme-park attendance is why the company posted strong third-quarter results. Disney is betting big on streaming but it may not be the magic bullet many industry pros hoped for, or Netflix wouldn’t be missing performance targets. Then there are the unstated reasons Disney is in trouble, the one that industry executives, investors and rivals will tell you when they’re not being quoted by name: Woke don’t sell, particularly when it...

In a column for ten Religion News Service, Christian author David Dark called out religious institutions that turn a blind eye to high-profile members of their congregations who are not only '"abusive" but also threaten or incite violence. According to Dark, there are far too many political leaders who are using their Christianity as a shield as they make outrageous claims and preach hate in the name of Donald Trump, and the leaders of the churches that they ostensibly belong to should be calling them out and disassociating themselves from them. To make his point, Dark singled out highly controversial,...

The Talk Shows August 21st, 2022 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Guest host Trace Gallagher: New Hampshire RINO Gov. Chris Sununu; Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm. Panel: Jason Chaffetz, Jessica Tarlov and Whine Williams (2 far-Leftists versus 1 Conservative). MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Chuck U. Toad: Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.); Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.); Education Secretary Miguel Cardona. Panel: Brendan Buck, Marc Caputo, Symone Sanders-Townsend and Ali Vitali (what about Milli Vanilli?)—just another easily forgotten group of angry Leftists slinging anti-American balderdash. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors:...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemExodus 8The Plague of Flies 20 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning and confront Pharaoh as he goes to the river and say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. 21 If you do not let my people go, I will send swarms of flies on you and your officials, on your people and into your houses. The houses of the Egyptians will be full of flies; even the ground will be covered with them. 22 “‘But on...

A Wisconsin school board voted Tuesday to prohibit the displaying of LGBTQ pride and Black Lives Matter flags in classrooms. The Kettle Moraine school board in Wales, Wisconsin, examined a policy that prohibits educators and staff from “promoting partisan politics and sectarian religious views” which Superintendent Stephen Plum clarified to include pride and Black Lives Matter flags, according to Fox 6. The board approved the policy at the meeting, claiming that the flags are a violation of the code of conduct because they are political.

Amid Stalinist show trials and a complete collapse of the justice system, one young woman alone acts for justice. I have been reading with horror Julie Kelley’s day-to-day description of the treatment afforded some 850 people arrested in D.C. for conduct on January 6 and the awful legal representation and judicial treatment they have received. Many have been held in horrible prison conditions for over a year, denied bail and an opportunity to have their cases heard outside this venue where the jurors will never grant them a fair trial. None of the big law firms in town which puff...

If El Rushbo were with us he would be touting the notion of a limited government in line with the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and would be shocked at what is going on out there. He would also be inspiring folks to get involved in the 2022 Elections as well... Go To H*ll Liz Cheney, You Sent Others There... The Neoconservatives have waged war all over the world and what does war involve? War involves the breaking of all of God's Top Ten rules lying for example: "There are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq"... Let's bring in...

Taiwan’s GlobalWafers is set to build a new semiconductor wafer factory in Texas, leveraging into the subsidies on offer from the new CHIPS Act signed into law by President Joe Biden on August 9. GlobalWafers is expected to spend about US$2 billion on the facility initially and $5 billion eventually as wafer production, sales and profits rise. Demand should be supported by the construction of new factories by Intel, TSMC, Samsung and other semiconductor makers in the US. According to a GlobalWafers statement on the investment, “At full build-out, the multi-staged, 3.2 million-square-foot silicon wafer factory will be the largest...

A scientific approach to the wild theory that cow farts are destroying the Earth. https://banned.video/watch?id=6300fd990457c60fc3c0d0c4

The following is the philosophy of Charles Schulz, the creator of the 'Peanuts' comic strip. You don't have to actually answer the questions. Just ponder on them. Just read the e-mail straight through, and you'll get the point. 1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world. 2. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners. 3. Name the last five winners of the Miss America pageant. 4. Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer Prize. 5. Name the last half dozen Academy Award winners for best actor and actress. 6. Name the last decade's worth of World...

"Every individual has the right to make decisions for themselves, and we in the Shed are pro choice*…which has NOTHING to do with abortion (as the left insists) since babies have 50% of their DNA from each parent and that makes them a unique being and NOT “a part of the mother” (she is a temporary host). Notice that after lecturing us to obey ‘settled law’ with Roe, now that it was rightfully overturned the left refuses to obey the ‘settled law’ of Dobbs. Another right we all have is deciding who we conduct relationships with, and that includes friendships,...

House Oversight Committee leaders urged eight social media companies Friday to crack down on online threats against law enforcement that are reportedly on the rise following the FBI’s raid of former President Donald Trump’s home Mar-a-Lago. The lawmakers sent letters demanding information and documents from Twitter, TikTok, Facebook parent company Meta and Telegram, as well as the Trump-backed app Truth Social. Three other platforms with largely conservative followings, Rumble, Gettr and Gab, were also contacted. The letters seek data on the threats posted online since the Aug. 8 search of the former president’s Palm Beach, Florida, residence, along with information...

Distressing footage showed a disabled 66 year-old being beaten to death with a metal pole in Seattle - allegedly by a serial criminal cops say had been freed by a local judge on a separate felony charge just eight days earlier. Aaron Fulk, 48, is said to be the man caught on surveillance footage as he bludgeoned 66-year-old Rodney Peterman with the makeshift weapon in the Washington city's notoriously crime-ridden downtown. It happened close to Seattle's world-famous Pike Place food market, a popular tourist-hot spot, KOMO reported.

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“It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity. The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead” (Proverbs 21:15-16).

GOP Rep. Liz Cheney told ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl that it's still a possibility that the January 6 committee will have former President Donald Trump testify, and promised that his interactions with the committee would 'be under oath.' Cheney appeared on a preview of Sunday's edition of ABC's This Week, where she was asked point blank about Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence being asked to testify. Cheney, who serves as vice chair of the Jan. 6 Select Committee investigating the Capitol attack, said Pence has said he would consider testifying.

A Virginia school district that has made headlines for woke policies and clashes over teaching critical race theory waited a year to fire a counselor after they found out he'd been arrested for soliciting an underage prostitute. Darren Lamar Thornton, 50, remained employed by Glasgow Middle School in Lincolnia, Virginia, even after he'd been convicted of a sex crime and a year after they'd been notified of his arrest, according to WUSA9. Fairfax County Public Schools Superintendent Michelle C. Reid confirmed he'd been terminated and FCPS was petitioning the state to revoke Thornton's license.

The daughter of an ultranationalist Russian ideologue believed to have had a strong influence on Vladimir Putin has been killed in a car bomb on the outskirts of Moscow, according to multiple media reports. Darya Dugin, daughter of Russian political commentator Alexander Dugin – dubbed “Putin’s brain” – died when the Toyota Land Cruiser she was driving was ripped apart by a powerful explosion about 20km west of the capital at around 9.30pm local time. The blast occurred near the village of Bolshiye Vyazemy, according to Russian media sites Baza and 112, and state-owned Novaya Gazeta. Witnesses said debris was...