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Earlier this week, the Florida legislature passed a bill that may become a model for the nation. House Bill 931, sponsored by State Representative Spencer Roach, requires universities to host public-policy debates and bans the use of political litmus tests in hiring and admissions. Both provisions address the increasing ideological homogeneity on college campuses. In the past three decades, university faculty and administrators have become overwhelmingly liberal. This orthodoxy of opinion is bad for academic research, student learning, and universities’ reputations in the eyes of the public. The bill is inspired by two pieces of model legislation. Its first part...

The Talk Shows May 7th, 2023 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: Gov. Greg Abbott (R-Texas); Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-Texas); Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas); Deepak Chopra, founder of the Chopra Foundation. Panel: Former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R); USA Today White House correspondent Francesca Chambers; Mary Katharine Ham, host of the "Getting Hammered" podcast; and FOX News senior political analyst Juaner Williams.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Chuck U. Toad: House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.); Republican presidential candidate former Gov. Ass-a Hutchinson (R-Ark.) (yeah, Chuck, show us your...

The National Police Association has filed a lawsuit in a bid to make trans Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale's manifesto public. Hale's manifesto has remained shrouded in secrecy since the March 27 massacre at Covenant Christian Academy that killed three children and three school workers, with the gunwoman also shot dead by cops. But on April 28, NPA Head Ed Hutchinson and Tennessee investigator Clata Renee Brewer filed the suit with Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County. They subsequently issued an amended complaint on Friday blasting the 'absurd' decision to withhold the manifesto once more because of pending litigation....

A vital witness regarding the Biden clan's ties to CEFC, the CCP-connected energy company, is missing. Last February, Dr. Gal Luft, a retired Israel Defense Forces lieutenant colonel with deep intelligence ties in Washington and Beijing, was arrested as an alleged gun runner. At the time, he claimed the arrest was to stop him from revealing what he knows about the Biden crime family and FBI corruption. Now, Dr. Luft has disappeared entirely. In the early 2000s, Luft formed a think tank called the Institute for Analysis of Global Security (IAGS) that focused on energy innovations and policy. Accordingly, from...

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A gunman shot and killed eight people and wounded at least seven others at a busy mall north of Dallas on Saturday, police said. The gunman, whom authorities said they think acted alone and whose motive was not yet known, was killed by a police officer after he began firing outside of the Allen Premium Outlets mall at 3:36 p.m. local time in Allen, Texas, the city's police chief Brian Harvey said at a press conference. Allen fire department chief Jon Boyd told the same press conference his department took at least nine victims with gunshot wounds to area hospitals....

Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney admitted 'haters really wore me down for a second' following the backlash over her controversial partnership with Bud Light. There were worldwide calls for a boycott of America's best-selling beer after she shared a series of posts with her 11 million social media followers on April 1. Mulvaney sparked widespread fury with the partnership content which showed her sitting in a bathtub and swigging from custom Bud Light cans sporting her face. She appeared on comedian Chelsea Handler's podcast, Dear Chelsea, on May 4 and said she is 'not processing' the surrounding fallout. But she revealed...

San Francisco Democrats have been called 'mean girls' after they banned a lesbian Asian from setting up a liberal club in the city. Cyn Wang, who worked for the Obama Administration, attempted to set up a group called the Westside Family Democratic Club, but was stopped because the title contained the word 'family' and for backing a recall of a woke school board. The Chinese immigrant has long been a Democrat, and on paper looks like the perfect candidate to represent a liberal group. Wang voted for Biden in 2020, labeled herself an intersectional feminist, and denounced the Republican Party...

The twelve apostles included "Simon, who is called Peter" (Matt. 10:2). God can use your natural abilities as a basis for your spiritual service. Peter is a good illustration of how God builds a spiritual leader. He begins with a person's natural traits and works from there. Natural traits alone don't make a spiritual leader—the person must also be gifted and called by the Holy Spirit to lead in the church and be a model of spiritual virtue. But often God endows future leaders with natural abilities that constitute the raw materials from which He builds spiritual ministries. That was...

The White House released new requirements Friday outlining which journalists are allowed in the briefing room and presidential events, and warning about unprofessional behavior. The new rules require journalists to submit a letter to gain access to the White House grounds with information about their employment, mandating that reporters work for “an organization whose principal business is news dissemination.” The rule change comes as the administration has been facing repeated outbursts in the briefing room from reporters like Simon Ateba, and comes days after World Press Freedom Day. Journalists have called out White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre for not...

We now know that there were two Holocausts, one for men and another for women. Women suffered everything men did, with the addition of sexual violence. “Almost every Jewish woman who went through the Holocaust was to some degree at least sexually humiliated, going all the way to rape,” said Rochelle G. Saidel, founder and executive director of the Remember the Women Institute. Even as they liberated the concentration camps at the end of World War II, Soviet soldiers sexually assaulted Jewish women survivors they found. In one instance, two young Jewish girls locked themselves into a lavatory to escape...

Protesters jump onto subway tracks, clash with NYPD over Jordan Neely’s death At least seven people were arrested in Manhattan Saturday after shutting down subway service and clashing with NYPD officers while protesting the chokehold death of homeless man Jordan Neely, law enforcement sources told The Post. Dozens of demonstrators jumped onto the subway tracks at Lexington Avenue and East 63rd Street around 6:15 p.m., forcing an oncoming Q train to slam on the brakes at the mouth of the tunnel, video shows. “No justice, no peace!” the protesters chanted as police can be heard struggling to call for order...

The Big Banking, Big Business, Big Government forces are trying to manage this world they see themselves as the "Moderate" forces of "Stability"... When Stevie Wonder made that song back in the 1970's "Sir Duke" about those jazzy Big Band Era music stars I was a few notes short... I was a Religious Drunk when I was a teenager by that I mean my ego had me going with the notion that my "sinners prayer" cleaned me up while every one else was dirty... "Love Thy Neighbor" That means wanting what's best for someone else not wanting to use their...

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While the eyes of the nation are on San Francisco’s proposal to pay every black person $5 million in reparations for an estimated total cost of $175 billion, Motor City won’t be left behind. Last year, 80% of Detroit voters in a 78% black city cast their ballots in support of a reparations commission. That was much higher than 63% poll numbers but local election results tend to outperform the polls due to the civic work of the Wayne County Cemetery Voters Association. Chairwoman Lauren Hood of the Detroit City Planning Commission said that she didn’t know who the 20%...

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A communist hack named Deb Haalan who works for fake president Joe Biden as his Secretary of the Interior believes that depriving Americans of job opportunities and plunging the country into poverty and economic collapse is a good thing because it aligns with the Biden regime’s climate change goals.Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) recently grilled Haalan on the matter, probing her for some kind of logical answer as to why the Biden regime is killing off the American economy and how this can possibly be good for the American people, the vast majority of whom did notvote for this kind of...

Since Biden is little more than a front man for a highly motivated team of political operatives led by former President Barack Obama or the diabolic WEF Klaus Schwab or some equally malevolent dark political entity, the country has been seized by the totalitarian clique as his administration targets the First Amendment as if free speech is tyrannical permitting government to criminalize political dissent. At the same time, the Biden Administration has allowed an invasion of titanic proportions at the southern border as UN-funded NGO’s threaten US sovereignty with an expected infiltration of up to one million illegal immigrants awaiting...

Though our so-called enlightened society would like to deny it, the evil intentions of a sinful heart and soul are responsible for wicked behavior. “From their callous hearts comes iniquity” (Psalm 73:7). Since the fall of mankind in the garden, sin has plagued the human race, every person of every generation. We are born separated and alienated from a holy God who hates every form of evil. We are sinners who have fallen far short of the glory of God.

Oops! Did Someone Forget to Save a Seat for Jill Biden at King Charles' Coronation? Well, well, well, looks like First Lady Jill Biden had a bit of a giggle-inducing seating arrangement at King Charles' coronation on May 6. While her hubby, President Joe Biden, couldn't make it for reasons unknown, Jill headed to Westminster Abbey to witness the royal affair. However, it seems like the organizers weren't exactly rolling out the red carpet for her as they stuck her all the way in the back. Oh boy, you can just feel the love and respect pouring in, can't you?...