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The California bakery owner was targeted after a lesbian couple asked her to create a wedding cake and she referred them to another baker because of her sincere religious belief that marriage is intended to be between one man and one woman.(Thomas More Society) — Cake designer Cathy Miller has been vindicated in the California courts for practicing her Christian principles on the job. On October 21, 2022, attorneys from the Thomas More Society brought home a First Amendment victory for the cake shop owner of Tastries, a popular Bakersfield, California bakery that was targeted by gay activists. The ruling,...

Barack Obama joined Joe Biden this week in urging Americans to vote for Democrats in November so that Congress can force states to legalize taxpayer-funded abortion on demand. In a video message Wednesday, Obama warned that Americans’ “fundamental rights” are at stake and a Democrat-led Congress can save them, echoing similar comments Tuesday from Biden. “Election day is right around the corner, and I want to be clear about what’s at stake. Our fundamental rights are on the ballot, especially women’s reproductive rights,” Obama said. “That’s because earlier this year, the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade. Now extreme Republicans...

Trump at a rally tonight (11/5) sums up his competition, and refers to Ron Desantis as "Desanctimonious"

The House committee investigating the attack on the Capitol gave former President Donald Trump an extra week to provide requested documents after lawmakers said Friday that they did not receive any records from a subpoena issued last month in connection with the Jan. 6 riot. The initial subpoena deadline was 10 a.m. ET Friday for any communications Trump may have had regarding extremist groups involved in the riot and any attempts in the past year to contact witnesses testifying before the Jan. 6 committee. The Oct. 21 subpoena also called for Trump to provide testimony at the Capitol or by...

As they struggle to maintain an electricity grid heavily damaged by Russian missiles, officials in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, say they have begun planning for a once unthinkable possibility: a complete blackout that would require the evacuation of the city’s approximately three million remaining residents. The situation is already so dire, with 40 percent of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure damaged or destroyed, that municipal workers are setting up 1,000 heating shelters that can double as bunkers while engineers try to fix bombed-out power stations without the needed equipment. To try to keep the grid from failing altogether, Ukraine’s national energy utility...

Things will continue to get worse unless there is a total “political elite reversal,” Republican Nevada Senate candidate Adam Laxalt told Breitbart News Saturday mere days ahead of Election Day, where the former state attorney general hopes to defeat Democrat Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV). The direction of Nevada, and the country at whole, is at stake on Election Day, Laxalt claimed, attributing the negative trends — such as the uptick in crime and rampant inflation — to Democrat leadership. “It’s pretty simple. Everything that you’re seeing nationally, with the trends in crime and border and economy, they’re, you know,...

@unusual_whales This is truly wild. Senator Thomas Carper bought up to $110k in Ranger Equity Bear Bear ETF, $HDGE, an active ETF that shorts US listed stocks. He sits on the Senate Finance Committee. And as a politician, he is actively shorting the US economy.

As Russia’s war against Ukraine enters its ninth month, Ukrainians in Kyiv have been left without water in their homes. Many have been forced to stand in a line that stretches city blocks for hours each day to pump water from a city well.After the initial Russian strikes, the message pushed to Ukrainians was that Ukraine was not seriously affected by the drone and missile strikes and that what infrastructure was damaged would be repaired and back online in a matter of weeks. That is clearly no longer the situation.While Russian forces initially avoided most of Ukraine’s infrastructure, there has...

Rich Americans spent big this midterm season to impact down-ballot races for their candidates of choice. The 2022 midterm election cycle has seen a boom in spending in the lead-up to Election Day. Research group OpenSecrets estimates that federal election spending increased by nearly $2 billion compared to 2018. Even more eye-popping, 10 wealthy individuals poured $540 million combined into this year’s elections, according to campaign finance data from OpenSecrets. These mega-donors are giving most of their money to outside groups such as super PACs that can raise and spend unlimited sums on election ads. Roughly 62 percent of their...

Dramatic body cam footage shows the moment two teenagers’ lives were saved from an overdose by Narcan. Los Angeles County deputies received a medical distress call on Wednesday reporting two 17-year-old boys had stopped breathing inside a home on the 700 block of Betty Hill Drive in Duarte. Two teens were found unconscious, lying on the ground inside a bedroom as deputies ran inside the home. Nearby family members can be heard screaming for help. Body cam footage shows deputies administering CPR while yelling for Narcan to be brought over.

FROM ONE MEAN MOM We had the meanest mother in the whole world! While other kids ate candy for breakfast, we had to have cereal, eggs, and toast. When others had a Pepsi and a Twinkie for lunch, we had to eat sandwiches. And you can guess our mother fixed us a dinner that was different from what other kids had, too. Mother insisted on knowing where we were at all times. You'd think we were convicts in a prison. She had to know who our friends were, and what we were doing with them. She insisted that if...

Week 10 Saturday, Nov. 5 Air Force 13, Army 7 No. 2 Ohio State 21, Northwestern 7 No. 7 TCU 34, Texas Tech 24 No. 17 North Carolina 31, Virginia 28 No. 19 Tulane 27, Tulsa 13 Iowa 24, Purdue 3 Kentucky 21, Missouri 17 Wisconsin 23, Maryland 10 Minnesota 20, Nebraska 13 Florida 41, Texas A&M 24 Western Kentucky 59, Charlotte 7 Yale 69, Brown 17 North Carolina A&T 49, Norfolk State 24 Holy Cross 42, Lehigh 14 Charleston Southern 34, Robert Morris 21 Georgia Tech 28, Virginia Tech 27 St. Francis (PA) 38, Georgetown 24 Columbia 21, Harvard...

A fight that appears periodically about election time in United States has been resurrected again this year – by a George Soros-supported leftist group that is demanding the IRS use the Johnson Amendment against churches. That statute says religious groups cannot endorse or oppose election candidates, and it's been little used because of the likelihood it violates the First Amendment. Having the amendment to use as a threat might in many cases seem to be more attractive than using it – and having a court throw it out entirely.

Swiss bishop condemns the Synod on Synodality as a ‘marketing campaign’ for heresy'Important councils, such as Trent, have reacted to false doctrines and provided clarity, whereas nowadays synodal processes, like the nanoparticles in mRNA vaccines, act as carriers that transport the harmful substances or heresies and are toxic themselves,' writes Bishop Marian Eleganti.(LifeSiteNews) — The following essay is by Swiss Bishop Marian Eleganti, who served as an auxiliary bishop of Chur from 2010 to 2021. In this presentation, Bishop Eleganti takes aim at the Synod on Synodality, asserting that it is not about establishing a “new modus operandi for the...

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He has been voted the greatest Briton of all time – a heroic wartime leader who took on Hitler against the odds. But Winston Churchill, it seems, is no longer so universally admired. Just one in five 18-to-24-year-olds say they have a positive view of the former Prime Minister, compared with 58 per cent of over-65s, a poll has revealed. Educational experts say the findings are down to changes to the school curriculum, which have led to Britain’s past being portrayed in increasingly negative ways. The survey, commissioned by the think tank Policy Exchange, revealed views of history depended not...

The makeup of the next Alaska Legislature is as uncertain as ever, after redistricting and with nearly every seat up for election. In both chambers, political observers are wondering if enough like-minded Republicans will get elected to form a majority, or if there will be coalition majorities of moderate Republicans, Democrats and independents. It’s been that kind of coalition in the House that in recent years has bucked parts of Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s agenda. With Republicans showing divisions in the state Senate, there’s speculation that a coalition majority could form there as well. At least that’s what Alaska Beacon...

Pope Francis preaches ‘fraternity’ divorced from Catholicism at interfaith meetings in BahrainPope Francis used his speeches during the historic trip to promote his type of 'fraternity' and 'unity in diversity.' He did not promote the Catholic faith.ANALYSISBAHRAIN (LifeSiteNews) – During the course of his short visit to the predominantly Muslim country of Bahrain, Pope Francis has promoted irreligious “fraternity,” echoing controversial writings described as “blasphemous” and dangerous to the Catholic faith.On Friday, Pope Francis took part in a number of events as part of his Apostolic Journey to Bahrain, including the closing ceremony of the Bahrain Forum for Human Coexistence;...

Worth watching a former reporter dragging current ones back to school. Go Kerri go!

Politics bites. A Michigan GOP county chairwoman has accused a rowdy Democratic protester of chomping her on the arm at a rally for Republican gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon — the latest act of mayhem as the midterm elections approach. “I’ve never been bit by an adult in my life, or anyone over 5,” Wayne County Republican Party chairwoman Cheryl Costantino told Detroit’s WXYZ News on Thursday, showing off bruising and teeth marks on her upper left arm. “I couldn’t even raise my arm, like, it was even uncomfortable just to drive,” Costantino said. The demonstrator, a special education teacher in...