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Greg Gutfeld told his co-hosts Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “The Five” that President Joe Biden was “waging war on people” in America by calling MAGA Republicans semi-fascist. Co-host Jeanine Pirro asked, “One of the things Biden is talking about is you want to fight against the government. You need F-15s. You need something more than a gun.”

A federal district court judge in Michigan on Thursday denied Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s efforts to dismiss a lawsuit against her office for failing to remove deceased registrants from the state’s voter rolls. In November, the Public Interest Legal Foundation filed the suit, claiming their analysis determined 25,975 dead Michiganders were registered to vote as of August 2021. Of those, 23,663 had been dead for five or more years, while 17,479 had been dead for more than a decade and 3,596 had been dead for at least 20 years.

Lincoln Project co-founder George Conway said Wednesday on CNN’s “Situation Room” that former President Donald Trump and his attorneys could go to jail. Guest anchor Pamela Brown asked, “Did the DOJ go above and beyond to reject Trump’s claims?” Conway said, “I think they did a very good job. I think that the response that the Justice Department gave was perfectly appropriate. I think that just the Trump people just basically asked to be punched in the face, and they were punched in the face by the response. I mean, the fact of the matter is they just don’t have...

“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction” (Proverbs 1:7 KJV).

President Joe Biden again warned “right-wing Americans” who support the Second Amendment on Tuesday, asserting they would “need an F-15” to take on the government. Biden then appeared to accuse the same Americans of “shooting at” police. “And for those brave right-wing Americans who say [the Second Amendment] is all about keeping America independent and safe, if you want to fight against the country, you need an F-15. You need something more than a gun,” Biden said, mocking Second Amendment advocates while speaking to a crowd in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. “I’m not joking. Think about this. Think about the rationale we...

The word tonight is that Mary Peltola the Democrat candidate in the Special Election in Alaska is declared the winner over two Republican candidates Governor Sarah Palin and Democrat turned Republican Nick Begich. The election held back on August 16th but votes received up until today were allowed to be added to the count. The Ranked Choice Voting system came into play with the final sorting of the vote putting Peltola just slightly ahead of Palin. The US Food and Drug Administration approving the new COVID shots from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech... Seven unvaccinated cadets disenrolled and removed from the campus...

[Catholic Caucus] Cdl. Roche, Synod cardinals avoid direct answers to questions on Latin Mass restrictionsThe Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments insisted the restrictions on the ancient liturgy were not his but Pope Francis’s.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — The distress of faithful Catholics who love and attend the Traditional Latin Mass was brought to the attention of several high-ranking cardinals at the Vatican this weekend.Newly elevated Cardinal Arthur Roche, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, deflected the issue, insisting that the restrictions of the Latin Church’s ancient...

The 34-year-old attorney who had “never run for junior class president, let alone mayor” now holds the keys to the state’s most populous city. He brings with him a progressive agenda and much of the leftover to-do list of his father’s administration. He sees his victory – collecting 93% of the vote in Jackson’s 6 June election – as proof that even in a deep red Republican state, and even in the age of Trump, the city’s residents are ready to move in a new progressive direction. “The citizens of Jackson have demonstrated overwhelmingly a readiness to be a progressive...

CNA Newsroom, Aug 30, 2022 / 05:15 am After a website dedicated to Benedict XVI received thousands of congratulations in 24 languages on the occasion of his 95th birthday this year, the organizers moved to make www.BenedictusXVI.com available in English, broaden its scope — and take it international. Launched on Aug. 28, the new international version in English aims to provide a “beacon in the stormy seas” of rampant secularization, the Tagespost Foundation announced. Currently, the site offers a newsletter of inspirational quotes and excerpts from key texts by the noted theologian, biographical notes, background information, and a statement on...

In April, the Satanic Temple tried to establish an After School Satan Club in Northern Elementary School in York, Pennsylvania, but the school board did not support its attempts. On Tuesday, Northern York County School District approved a Satanic Temple event and allowed the organization to rent a high-school auditorium for a back-to-school fundraiser night, according to Fox News. "As a public school district, the use of our school facilities must be permitted without discrimination. We cannot and do not arbitrarily pick and choose which organization may or may not use our facilities. If we allow one organization, we must...

Pennsylvania GOP Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz helped revive a 27-year-old male passenger who collapsed on an American Airlines flight from Louisville to Philadelphia Saturday morning. "I was sitting in my seat and a woman a few rows ahead of me yelled out that there was a crisis," Oz said. "I ran to the bay and a gentleman had collapsed to the ground. He had been trying to get into the bathroom." "When I got to him, he was conscious but disoriented," the cardiothoracic surgeon continued. "I asked the stewardesses to come help and get me something with sugar in...

The Pontifical Academy for Life issued a statement Monday clarifying the academy's opposition to abortion after its president, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, called Italy's abortion law a 'pillar of our social life.'VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) – The scandal-plagued Pontifical Academy for Life (PAV) has clarified its president Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia’s recent remarks calling Italy’s permissive abortion law “a pillar” of Italian society. Speaking on Italian state television channel Rai Tre on Friday, Paglia said that Italy’s Law 194, which permits abortion for any reason within the first 90 days of pregnancy and for specified reasons thereafter, has now become “a pillar of...

Democrat Mary Peltola was the apparent winner of Alaska’s special U.S. House race and is set to become the first Alaska Native in Congress, after votes were tabulated Wednesday in the state’s first ranked choice election. Peltola led Republican former Gov. Sarah Palin after ballots were tallied and votes for third-place GOP candidate Nick Begich III were redistributed to his supporters’ second choices. Peltola, a Yup’ik former state lawmaker who calls Bethel home, is now slated to be the first woman to hold Alaska’s lone U.S. House seat.

I thought my 4-year-old was transgender. I was wrong. We raised both our sons as gender neutral as possible, with gender neutral clothes, toys, and language. It was a mistake I was a true believer. I was a social justice organizer and facilitator before social justice overtook the world. I was on the forefront, introducing the concept of intersectionality to progressive organizations, and having people share their pronouns. My friends and I felt we were the cool kids, the vanguard of revolutionary work to change the world, to achieve what people in the social justice movement call “collective liberation.” I...

Pennsylvania Senate hopeful John Fetterman recently attended a fundraiser in the Hamptons, a previously unreported appearance as he recovers from a stroke and ramps up to face Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz -- whom he often attacks as an elitist celebrity versus his blue-collar style. Photos posted to a public Instagram on Aug. 19 show Fetterman, Pennsylvania's lieutenant governor, at a gathering in Amagansett on Long Island. "Another fun one with our guy #johnfetterman #winning," Quinn Blackwell wrote in a caption. Blackwell declined to comment when reached by phone; he also made his account private. An account tagged in the photos,...

Ritter notes that Russian war aims have expanded to include the idea that Russian and Russian-speaking regions of the former Ukraine will come under Russian governance and control, noting that Ukraine has forfeited the right to govern Russians. He notes that these areas have basically been abandoned by Kiev one way or other.

A sponsor of the bill that Gov. Kathy Hochul signed into law late last year sought to clarify on Wednesday amid recent confusion by convenience and grocery store owners who believed they were required to ID people buying whipped cream much as they would alcohol and tobacco. The law bans people under age 21 from buying “whipped cream chargers” — devices that can be used to fill balloons with nitrous oxide, aka laughing gas, which is then inhaled for a high. While the devices are visually distinct from the refrigerator case cans of Ready Whip and other brands meant for...

EXCLUSIVE: White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre's claim that illegal immigrants aren’t just "walking across" the southern border has sparked anger and shock from Border Patrol agents — who witness hundreds of migrants flooding across the border every single day. "How out of touch can this administration possibly be?" one agent told Fox News. "Well, I guess this is a new level." Jean-Pierre was asked on Monday why migrants are allowed to illegally enter the U.S. without being vaccinated for COVID-19 but an unvaccinated foreign national traveling on a plane is not.

We’ve all repeated some form of tribal rhetoric because the underlying narrative came from people we strongly associate ourselves with. It becomes tribal rhetoric because it’s widely believed and accepted uncritically by those within the tribe. I’d love, for example, to meet this mysterious black person I keep hearing about from politicians who is completely incapable of getting to the DMV to receive a photo ID. When you apply critical thinking to the narrative that it’s racist to require people to provide photo ID to vote and it’s a Herculean effort for minorities to meet the request, you begin to...

Barack Obama and Joe Biden had such a "fraught relationship" that Obama wanted to drop Biden from the 2012 Democratic ticket, according to excerpts from a new book obtained by the Daily Mail. Obama considered replacing his vice president with Hillary Clinton, leaving Biden "distraught," according to The Long Alliance by Gabriel Debenedetti. Obama eventually stuck with Biden, though he was furious at his veep's decision to blurt out the administration's support for gay marriage, an announcement Obama wanted to make. Biden's actions were "tantamount to betrayal" and "an example of Biden trying to position himself in front of the...