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I am outraged by the favoritism enjoyed by (now former) top Biden administration nuclear fuel and waste official Sam Brinton, who wantonly (and we know repeatedly) stole luggage from strangers at airport baggage claim areas. The UK Daily Mail reports:The non-binary former Energy Department official who was caught on video stealing luggage was ordered to pay $3,670 to the victim and given a suspended sentence of 180 days in prison after pleading 'no contest' to theft. Samuel Brinton, 35, who uses they/them pronouns was issued their sentence Wednesday in Las Vegas, Nevada, eight months after they grabbed a passenger's bags...

President Biden, during his visit to Ireland this week, took a selfie with a controversial Irish nationalist who had once been banned from British airwaves due to his role as the public face of the Irish Republican Army. Gerry Adams, who is a former leader of Irish republican party Sinn Fein, took a selfie with Biden on Thursday. "A presidential selfie," he tweeted. Adams was president of Sinn Fein between 1983 and 2018. During the height of the IRA’s terrorist bombing campaign in the 1980s and 1990s, as part of its efforts to end British control over Northern Ireland, Sinn...

NEW YORK -- The digital media conglomerate Starboard said Friday it purchased the conservative social media site Parler and will temporarily take down the app as it undergoes a “strategic assessment.” The deal came months after another acquisition agreement with rapper Kanye West, legally known as Ye, collapsed in November. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed by either company. Parler said the deal was concluded on April 7. Parler caters to right-wing, far right and libertarian voices and fashions itself as a platform with fewer rules in support of free speech. It was briefly booted off the internet...

Until I saw the document labeled, CIA Operations Center Intelligence Update, I was inclined to believe that the leaked documents were the work of a frustrated whistleblower. But I have changed my mind. This looks like a controlled, directed leak by individuals who manipulated the 21-year-old National Guard troop member into taking certain documents and posting them on a public server.The CIA Operations Center Intelligence Update is a document produced by analysts in the Operations Center to be delivered to the regular CIA analysts. When I worked in the Ops Center I was responsible for monitoring traffic from Latin American...

The Missouri amusement park is requiring all people age 15 and under to have an adult with them past 4 p.m.

Elon Musk @elonmusk Any parent or doctor who sterilizes a child before they are a consenting adult should go to prison for life 5:33 AM · Apr 14, 2023 · 7.9M Views

A 2024 GOP presidential announcement from conservative talk show host Larry Elder is likely “coming soon,” Tom Tradup, a close friend of Elder and vice president of SALEM Radio Network, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. Elder can be expected to launch his Republican campaign by the end of April, and will likely run on bolstering traditional American values, according to Tradup.

A great duet of Don't It Make You Want To Go Home (Joe South) on John Denver Thank God I'm A Country Boy variety special, 1977.

Jamie Foxx was hospitalized in Atlanta after a stroke, praying for a speedy recovery. ❤️

The social justice movement isn’t something to scoff at. While it’s filled to the brim with ignorance, stupidity, and childish behavior, it weaponized these qualities into a force that is capable of infecting any institution it comes across. Logic and sense are disregarded and its enemies are either shouted down, assaulted, or even killed. When that does happen, you can watch as the infected institutions do their best to show their support for the thugs and killers that did the deed. Recent events make that clear. ... Meanwhile, a continued declaration keeps ringing out from the left and it should...

WAUKESHA, Wis. -- Darrell Brooks is being ordered to pay more in restitution to the victims of the Waukesha Christmas parade tragedy, with an escrow account ensuring any money he earns -- including any money he might make in media rights deals -- goes to repaying what he owes. Brooks had already been ordered to pay a total of $124,222.65 to Crime Victim Compensation and $47,193.29 to compensate the insurance company for the Waukesha School District, but a restitution hearing held Thursday added more money on top of those totals. On Thursday, Brooks was ordered to pay an additional $10,246.20...

[Catholic Caucus] Is the Church’s Teaching on Sex “Still in Diapers?”The pope's recent statement that the Church's teaching on sex is "still in diapers" reveals a tragic ignorance of reality.For the past decade faithful Catholics have gotten used to being anxious whenever Pope Francis gives off-the-cuff interviews (one would not be blamed for wanting a ban on papal air travel). A recent discussion with 10 young adults for a Hulu documentary only deepens that anxiety. As expected, much of the controversy following the release of the interview surrounds the pope’s comments on sex. In one instance he was asked about...

KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine will "test and use" any non-banned weapons to liberate its territory, including Russian-occupied Crimea, the head of its National Security and Defence Council said on Friday.Oleksiy Danilov's comment comes with Kyiv expected to mount a counteroffensive in the coming weeks or months aimed at retaking Russian-held territory in the south and east."Crimea is the territory of Ukraine, and we will test and use there any weapons not prohibited by international laws, that will help liberate our territories," he tweeted.Kyiv's Western partners have provided crucial military support, including modern battle tanks and armoured vehicles, since Russia's full-scale...

MADISON, Wis. -- Another speaker has sparked controversy on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus after students received an email Wednesday morning that Catholic author Kim Zember would discuss her experiences with homosexuality and life with Christ Thursday evening. At first glance, many students felt excited that UW-Madison would host a speaker that promoted acceptance of LGBTQIA+ people in the Catholic faith. "I was honestly kind of happy initially upon seeing the email," student Mia Warren said. "It used a lot of LGBTQIA+ affirming language, and I think the main message of the email was love wins." But upon further research,...

* Aurora Regino said her 11-year-old daughter's elementary school in the Chico Unified School District encouraged her to transition from female to male * Regino says that the counselor at the school ignored her daughter's request to tell her about her new gender identity and 'did nothing to support her' * The Chico Unified School District voted to keep their 'parental secrecy' policy in place - which trans activist Squeaky Saint Francis says could quell youth suicide A mother who says her eleven-year-old daughter's school encouraged her to transition has claimed officials kept her new gender a secret from her...

Joe Scarborough has degenerated from hard-core conservative member of Newt's 1994 revolution into shameless Democrat sycophant. Scarborough's obsequious new persona was on full display on today's Morning Joe. Reporting from Ireland on Pres. Biden's trip there, Scarborough's spiel was one long gush. It sounded so servile that even paid Biden flack Karine Jean-Pierre might have balked at reading it from her binder. Scarborough summarily dismissed Biden's gasp-worthy gaffe, in which he confused the New Zealand rugby team with the the Black and Tans, which the New York Post describes as " the nickname for members of the notoriously brutal Royal...

A Trump-aligned super PAC is hitting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for sticking his “dirty fingers” into entitlement programs for senior citizens — and allegedly using them to eat pudding as well, according to a stomach-churning ad released Friday. “Ron DeSantis loves sticking his fingers where they don’t belong, and we’re not just talking about pudding,” the ad’s narrator says, referring to an alleged 2019 incident where the 44-year-old Florida governor ate chocolate pudding with three of his fingers while on a private plane ride to Washington, DC. “DeSantis has his dirty fingers all over senior entitlements like cutting Medicare, slashing...

The California Supreme Court on Wednesday denied Tesla's petition to review a case involving allegations of systemic racial discrimination at the company's facilities in the state. Why it matters: The unanimous ruling allows Black workers at a Tesla assembly plant in Fremont to seek a public injunction requiring the electric vehicle maker to acknowledge and address discrimination in the workplace. This is the first time such a ruling has been made in California under the state's Fair Employment and Housing Act, per an emailed statement from attorneys for the plaintiffs. It also adds to the legal headaches for Elon Musk...

Speaker McCarthy and the GOP majority in the US House made a number of promises as this session of Congress began. Will this Congress act or will they pull a Lindsey Graham? In 2018 Senator Lindsey Graham promised to get to the bottom of the Mueller exam. The DOJ and FBI committed crimes in attempting a coup of the Trump Administration. Graham promised to get to who was behind this unconstitutional and criminal effort. But he lied. He never had any intention of digging into Obamagate and all the crimes that took place before the 2016 election and into the...

(Daily readings from the USCCB)Jesus said to them, “Come, have breakfast.” And none of the disciples dared to ask him, “Who are you?” because they realized it was the Lord. Jesus came over and took the bread and gave it to them, and in like manner the fish. This was now the third time Jesus was revealed to his disciples after being raised from the dead. John 21:12–14The appearances of Jesus after His Resurrection were cloaked in mystery. Not a mystery of confusion, but a mystery of profound depth and awe. On this, the third time Jesus appeared to His...