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There is no question that the FBI has been weaponized by the Biden regime. The only question is what does it take to stop funding this atrocious nonsense? Merrick Garland is a damned liar. In Oct 2021 he testified that he did not order the FBI to target parents who dared speak out against school boards. It was a dastardly lie, and Garland even went so far as to bypass government lawyers. Attorney General Merrick Garland’s October 2021 directive for the FBI to “use its authority” on parents who protested at school board meetings blindsided the government agency’s personnel, according...

ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. – After two days of sometimes graphic and often emotional testimony, Judge R. Lee Smith on Friday sentenced 16-year-old Aiden Fucci to life in prison for killing his 13-year-old schoolmate in the early morning hours of Mother’s Day in 2021. Fucci, who was 14 at the time of the crime, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, admitting to brutally stabbing Tristyn Bailey more than 100 times in the woods at the end of a cul-de-sac in the quiet Durbin Crossing neighborhood. Tristyn Bailey Judge Smith gave a lengthy explanation Friday while announcing his decision in St. Johns...

1.8k Marissa Matozzo Wed, March 22, 2023 at 6:00 PM EDT·4 min read Whoopi Goldberg is once again coming under fire for uttering something controversial on The View, and just issued an apology for using an ethnic slur on-air. Last week, the talk show co-host, 67, was speaking about the 2020 presidential election with her co-stars, and said a slur that is commonly used against Romani people. While discussing the Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels scandal, she referenced “people who still believe that he got gy—d somehow in the election.” After fans on Twitter stressed the importance of not using...

The Prime Minister of Georgia, Irakli Garibashvili, stated in Parliament that there had been many attempts to open a “second front,” pushing for Georgia’s involvement in the war. He added that “the second front” was spoken of by the secretary of the National Security Council of Ukraine. “Mr. Danilov stated at the press conference that their desire and goal was to open a second front in Georgia. He added that their task was to divert Russia’s attention to another country, to another region. It was also noted that not only Ukrainian women and children should die, but also other countries...

Nothing says ‘we respect women’ like elbowing them out of their own awards to laud a man who makes a mockery of womanhood. After naming Richard/Rachel Levine, a man who parades around in ladyface, as one of its 2022 “Women of the Year,” USA Today is back to remind us that it doesn’t know — or doesn’t care — what a woman is. Earlier this week, the outlet released its list of 2023 honorees, and the name getting the most attention is that of Minnesota state Rep. Leigh Finke, a pink-haired man who dresses like a woman and has been...

Following Bowling Green’s 73–60 victory in the women’s NIT Super 16 on Thursday night, an ugly scene broke out during the handshake line between Falcons players and the Memphis players and coaching staff. Memphis star player Jamirah Shutes stopped the line and exchanged some words with Bowling Green senior Elissa Brett. After a brief altercation, Shutes punched Brett in the face before being pulled away by members of the Tigers coaching staff.

Stephen Talbot knew that taking on a project about the Vietnam War was going to be an incredible task. There were going to be hours of research, as well as dozens of interviews planned. Then the pandemic hit in March 2020 and it looked like the project wasn’t going to move forward. Then Talbot got an idea. “I thought, what if I did all of the interviews audio only,” he says. “This made sure everyone was safe and I had the information that I needed.” Flash forward a few years and Talbot’s “The Movement and the ‘Madman’ ” will premiere...

Elon Musk and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), battled on Twitter over the potential dangers of a sweeping, legally binding global agreement under discussion to combat future pandemics. "Countries should not cede authority to WHO," Musk tweeted Thursday in response to a video of Australian Senator Malcolm Roberts criticizing the United Nations' health agency and what both supporters and opponents informally call a "pandemic treaty" that has been in the works.

(Headline USA) A strike Thursday by a suspected Iranian-made drone killed a U.S. contractor and wounded five American troops and another contractor in northeast Syria, the Pentagon said. American forces said they retaliated soon after with “precision airstrikes” in Syria targeting facilities used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, with activist groups saying they killed at least four people. The attack and the U.S. response threaten to upend recent efforts to deescalate tensions across the wider Middle East, whose rival powers have made steps toward détente in recent days after years of turmoil. However, much of the current peace...

The Washington Post must be very proud of itself for tackling one of the biggest problems with the transgender debate (lack of data) and concocting a chipper outcome (most trans people are happy!). On Thursday the paper published what it called “one of the largest randomized samples of U.S. transgender adults to date about their childhoods, feelings and lives.” The survey took place last year from Nov. 10 to Dec. 1, among 515 U.S. adults who identify as trans and another 823 U.S. adults who did not. There were a lot of depressing statistics about respondents who are less likely...

A record number of children in England were severely absent from school last year as families continue to deal with the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns, according to a report published on Thursday. It also said among various reasons that contributed to the increase, anxiety is considered by many as “the biggest driver,” with children who grew up during school shutdowns finding it difficult to leave home. The report, titled “Lost and not found,” was published by The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), an independent think tank co-founded by former Conservative Party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith. Analysing the latest annual...

Dr. Simon Goddek @goddeketal · 🚨JUST IN: Deception and Lies – Senator Babet's Bombshell Revelation on Covid Vaccination in Australia Senator Babet says that the Australian people were duped into believing that mRNA injections would protect them from Covid. But now, the data is showing that the vaccinated…

At Georgetown, former Speaker Pelosi talks women priests, Archbishop CordileoneFormer U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told students at Georgetown University on March 23 that, growing up, she was more attracted to being a priest than being a Catholic sister because of the priest's ability to celebrate Mass."Turning bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ, that is real power," she said."Maybe one day women will be able to do that as well," Pelosi said, expressing hope that Pope Francis would act on women's ordination.Pelosi spoke to Rev. Jim Wallis, director of the Georgetown University Center on Faith and...

Hollywood, specifically the film industry, is going through a legitimate, serious, and potentially fatal phase. No one likes the movies anymore. The key to a healthy industry—audience goodwill—is evaporating quickly.

10 Julia Musto Thu, March 23, 2023 at 2:32 PM EDT·2 min read The Philadelphia Department of Public Health announced Monday that a city program aims to provide pregnant residents with $1,000 monthly cash payments with the goal of improving birth outcomes. The Philly Joy Bank is a guaranteed income pilot of the Philadelphia Community Action Network, a collective impact stakeholder group focused on reducing racial disparities in infant mortality. After securing some funding from the William Penn Foundation and Spring Point Partners, 250 pregnant Philadelphians will receive the cash payments. To be eligible, the residents must live in the...

After nine weeks of testimony from multiple government witnesses, including FBI agents, the Justice Department finally concluded its case-in-chief in the Proud Boys’ seditious conspiracy trial on Monday. Five Proud Boys, including the group’s leader, Enrique Tarrio, are accused of conspiring to “oppose the lawful transfer of presidential power by force” on January 6, 2021. It is Attorney General Merrick Garland’s most consequential case related to January 6; convictions will help build a similar case against Donald Trump largely based on his infamous “stand back and stand by” remark to the Proud Boys during an October 2020 presidential debate. Most...

SNIP Ever since, a cottage industry has aimed to understand Beethoven’s illnesses and the cause of his death. Now, an analysis of strands of his hair has upended long held beliefs about his health. The report provides an explanation for his debilitating ailments and even his death, while also raising new questions about his genealogical origins and hinting at a dark family secret. The paper, by an international group of researchers, was published Wednesday in the journal Current Biology. It offers additional surprises: A famous lock of hair — the subject of a book and a documentary — was not...

"This website is educational: to chart communism's ...genocide, slavery, torture, mass homicide, false imprisonment, and deliberate starvation.....[Moreover], "to chart communism's atrocities...[e.g.,] Christians suffered the following in Romanian prison: In a 'baptism of immersion', inmates' heads were plunged into buckets of urine and feces, while guards chanted baptismal rites'....strikers 'loaded onto barges and then thrown by the hundreds into the Volga with stones around their necks'," etc. etc.

Less than 24 hours after a GOP lawmaker filed an amendment to gun legislation that could potentially allow open carrying of firearms in Florida it has been withdrawn, disappointing Second Amendment advocates. That leaves the gun legislation, a permitless carry bill, to proceed to a vote before the full Florida House of Representatives later this week. That bill, HB 543, would repeal the requirement that Floridians who carry a concealed weapon must get a license through the state. It would also mean Floridians would not have to take a gun safety and training course. Luis Valdes, the state director of...

[Catholic Caucus] Fr. Cyril Gordien: "The hardest thing is to suffer at the hands of the Church" On the occasion of the very moving funeral of Father Cyril Gordien, a priest of the diocese of Paris, in the church of Saint-Pierre-de-Montrouge, which was filled to capacity on March 20, all those present, the faithful (1700), priests (150), bishops (Ulrich, Aupetit, Castet, Rougé, Marsset, Verny), found in their place a 36-page pamphlet: Abbé Cyril Gordien, Mon testament spirituel: A Priest at the Heart of Suffering. We are publishing excerpts here (courtesy of Paix Liturgique). There is no doubt that Father Gordien...