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Fifty-seven percent of U.S. adults believe a person's gender is determined at birth, according to a Washington Post-KFF poll released Friday. Additionally, 65% say transgender women and girls should not be allowed to compete in professional or collegiate sports with other women and girls, while 66% said the same of high school sports and 62% of youth sports.

A California school board member reclaimed his seat on Wednesday in a special election after community members petitioned to remove him for speaking out against transgenderism. In October, community members garnered enough signatures to force a special election to remove Kenneth Enney, a then newly appointed Paso Robles Joint Unified School District trustee, who had posted on Facebook stating that he rejects transgenderism within the LGBTQ movement. Enney won back his seat on Wednesday claiming 6,486 votes and ending with an 8.6% lead over his challenger, Angela Hollander, the former manager of an education non-profit, according to the San Luis...

The Count does a take-off on the Eagle song "Hotel California." It involves a lot of references to rock music and, in particular, Howard Hughes. If you like the music please subscribe.

Another beverage company, this time vodka retailer Smirnoff, appears to have hired a trans woman and drag queen as one of its paid partners in recent weeks. Several recent Instagram posts from drag queen and trans woman "Maxine LaQueene" featured the official "Paid Partnership with Smirnoff" tags, denoting that the major liquor retailer has hired the biological male for promotional material. In addition to being a promoter of drag and transgenderism, LaQueene is an outspoken LGBTQ activist who had recently been removed from the Texas state capitol building by police for disrupting a legislature vote on a trans bill.

May 2023 marks an important historical milestone. 75 years ago, in May 1948, the modern nation of Israel was born. After having been scattered virtually around the world, Jews from around the earth were able to return to their homeland and create the modern state of Israel.

EXCLUSIVE: Chip Roy Introduces Bill To Crack Down On Non-Citizens Voting In US Elections GettyImages-1472572367 (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Daily Caller News Foundation logo MARY LOU MASTERS CONTRIBUTOR May 05, 2023 9:24 AM ET FONT SIZE: Republican Texas Rep. Chip Roy introduced a bill Friday cracking down on noncitizens’ ability to vote in federal elections. The Protecting American Voters Act, co-sponsored by Republican Reps. Matt Rosendale of Montana, Pete Sessions of Texas and Michael Burgess of Texas, would equip state officials with the information needed to verify citizenship upon voter registration, according to the bill obtained exclusively by the...

DEER PARK, Texas — Two people have been injured in an ongoing fire at a Shell chemical plant in Deer Park, officials confirmed. The extent of their injuries is not known. This is happening at a facility near Beltway 8 and SH 225. The fire started burning around 2:54 p.m., according to officials. All employees were evacuated and accounted for. Harris County Pct. 2 Commissioner Adrian Garcia issued the following statement on the fire at around 4:43 p.m.:“My office has been in touch with the Office of Emergency Management, and we have also personally spoken with the plant manager at...

President Joe Biden’s pro-migration border chief is widening a semi-legal door in the border to admit 1,000 people per day — or 350,000 people per year — from Mexico, despite Congress’s cap on migration numbers. The announcement by border chief Alejandro Mayorkas comes shortly before he lifts the Title 42 border barrier, and it is intended to help avoid another PR disaster like the Del Rio arrival of perhaps 30,000 Haitian migrants in September 2021.

Former Trump administration adviser Peter Navarro revealed that the ex-president was allegedly deceived into believing that Pfizer’s COVID-19 shot was a “true vaccine” while blaming Antony Fauci for hiding sensitive information regarding the COVID origin. Fauci and Pfizer “didn’t disclose the side effects of that [vaccine]” to Trump, Navarro said in a May 4 podcast by Patrick Bet-David on YouTube. “And they weren’t clear with him. They made him think that it was a true vaccine when it’s not. It’s mRNA technology.” Traditional vaccines work by introducing a harmless piece of bacteria or virus into the human body to trigger...

WASHINGTON — President Biden avoided questions from reporters Friday by falsely announcing a “major press conference” — before ducking out to grab lunch at a local taqueria ahead of a one-on-one interview with MSNBC. “We’ve got a lot of work to do and I’m doing a major press conference this afternoon,” Biden told reporters at a White House meeting with cabinet secretaries. “So I love you all, but I’d like to ask you to leave so we can get down to business.” Biden’s staff later told the press corps the president misspoke, possibly thinking of an interview with MSNBC “11th...

"But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)" "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. "For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them." John, Chapter 15 1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2 Every...

A day after the Writers Guild of America’s May 1 call for a strike, a dozen or so members of the Set Decorators Society gathered to share intel. Discussion of layoffs kicked off the Zoom meeting and Pam Elyea, owner of L.A.-based prop house History for Hire, said she had to fire her receptionist and drum technician in March in anticipation of a work stoppage. Others nodded, echoing sentiments that they could not afford to keep all their staff in the face of what they expected to be a lengthy strike. “We’d been saving up, but every time we get...

German Catholicism falls victim to one-woman rule. She demands Synodal Path decisions be implemented in every German Diocese no matter what the Bishop thinks.Totalitarian demands that Synodal Path decisions be implemented in every German diocese no matter what the Bishop thinksThe Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK) began its two-day plenary assembly in Munich on Friday. In her report, ZdK President Irme Stetter-Karp expressed "anger" at the recent reactions of some bishops and cardinals of the Curia to the decisions of the German reform dialogue Synodal Way, such as the rejection from Rome of a baptismal mandate for lay people....

April 29, 2023 • by Amy Kelly, Program Director of the War Room/DailyClout Pfizer Documents Analysis ProjectThe batch of Pfizer clinical trial documents released in April 2023 by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under court order contains a shocking, eight-page document titled, “Pregnancy and Lactation Cumulative Review.” The data in the Cumulative Review span “…from the time of drug product development to 28-FEB-2021.” A Pfizer employee, Robert T. Maroko, approved the Review on April 20, 2021. (p. 8)This document is among the most horrifying yet to emerge into public view. It reveals that both Pfizer and the FDA knew...

Old Bridge Mayor Owen Henry wasn't pleased with the scene but said he'll gladly pick up discarded spaghetti instead of a dumped tire or mattress.Pasta al fresco was served in a New Jersey town last week, much to the chagrin of city workers-turned-busboys who had to clear mounds of macaroni dumped in the woods. A public works crew picked up 500 pounds of noodles discarded into a wooded area of Old Bridge, on the banks of the Iresick Brook, Mayor Owen Henry told NBC News on Friday. “No sauce, no gravy, no cheese, it was was just piles of macaroni"...

Former Attorney General Bill Barr said Friday that former President Donald Trump's presidency would be a "horror show" if he were re-elected because his former boss lacks the "discipline" as well as the "ability for strategic thinking" needed to get things done. "It is a horror show, you know, when… he's left to his own devices," Barr said in remarks at the City Club of Cleveland in Ohio on Friday. "If you believe in his policies, what he's advertising is his policies, he's the last person who could actually execute them and achieve them," Barr said to a reporter who...

Cardinal Nichols: ‘Long Live The King’Cardinal Nichols’s Loyal Address to His Majesty on behalf of the Catholic Church in England and Wales.On behalf of the Catholic community in England and Wales, I thank Your Majesty for the privilege of offering you this expression of our highest esteem and our assurance of loyalty to you in your service of our nations.In doing so I assure you that there remains in our hearts a most special place for our late Queen Elizabeth. She is remembered in our prayers, with thanksgiving to God for the remarkable and unique role she played not only...

Nobody does it like the Donald. LOL!

A two-mile strip of road in posh Marin County, California – which George Lucas, Tony Bennett and Robin Williams have all called home – has been overrun by a vagrant camp that has brought drugs and devastation to the area. Binford Road in the city of Novato has devolved into a makeshift neighborhood of “tweakers” with hordes of people living apparently rent-free in a shabby collection of broken-down RVs and trailers parked at the side of the street. The Post counted 71 vehicles during a recent visit, where locals blamed local authorities for encouraging the encampment in the area —...

Politico seems very desperate to remove Dianne Feinstein from the U.S. Senate. How desperate? Desperate enough to suggest a constitutional amendment to remove elected officials whose health stands in the way of advancing the liberal agenda. On Wednesday, former Politico health editor Joanne Kenen on Wednesday in "‘You Can’t Hide Things’: Feinstein, Old Age and Removing Senators." Kenen is now with the Commonwealth Fund, a leftist health-care foundation. Even though a constitutional amendment would take years to enact, it is a mark of desperation that such a tactic is being considered even though it couldn't affect Feinstein. This is illustrated...