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Following Donald Trump's loss in E. Jean Carroll's defamation and rape lawsuit, former staffers of his White House administration have come forward with even more damning allegations. Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former White House director of strategic communications and assistant to the president during Trump's time in office, recently sat down with Jake Tapper of CNN and shared similar allegations of sexual misconduct. "I have countless pieces of what I considered impropriety in the White House that I brought to the chief of staff [Mark Meadows] because I thought the way he engaged with women was dangerous," Griffin said of...

(Catholic World Report) — The people of Salem were told they could save their souls and lives by confessing to be a witch. Today, teenage girls are told they will feel much better about themselves once their breasts are removed. And so-called adults call it “affirmative care.” For the last couple of years, J.K. Rowling has been the victim of a witch hunt. The author of the Harry Potter series has been harassed, hounded, shouted down, and targeted with numerous death threats. Rowling is not being hunted down by church folks with pitchforks. Instead, the woman who did more to...

The text from her son Randy that Heather Bacchus received at at 1:26 AM on July 17, 2021, seemed like good news. “I’m quitting weed for good and want to surround myself with healthy and happy people,” he wrote. “This has been too much for me and for you guys.” Less than an hour later, at 2:09 AM, a second text arrived. “I love you and am sorry for everything. I love dad and the same to him. I wish I would have been a better person.” It was his suicide note. That night, Randy killed himself. ...Now research suggests...

El Paso overwhelmed by FJB's invaders. Alejandro Mayorkas moving them out ASAP before the "brought to you by Pfizer" press arrives.

DAYTONA BEACH SHORES, Fla. – A man was arrested in Daytona Beach Shores this week after authorities said he stole an SUV, then jumped out of that vehicle to flee police and let it crash into the wall of a building. Michael Barr, 20, was arrested after being tracked down to a hotel on South Atlantic Avenue by the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office and Daytona Beach Shores police. Body camera video released by the sheriff’s office shows Barr’s arrest. Police said Barr told them his friends had left him in Miami, so he hitchhiked to Kissimmee, stole the SUV and...

NEW YORK CITY (LifeSiteNews) — A Catholic church in New York City has removed a blasphemous painting series entitled “God is Trans[gender]: A Queer Spiritual Journey” after the Archdiocese of New York said it would investigate reports of the display. A spokesperson for the Archdiocese of New York told the Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF) that the Church of Saint Paul the Apostle in Manhattan informed their office that the controversial exhibit had been removed. Catholics were in uproar over the paintings, which not only declared that “God is Trans,” but promoted the idolatrous and heretical ideas that we can...

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois (LifeSiteNews) — While other states work to remove pornographic content from public schools and children’s library access, Illinois is moving in the opposite direction, with a new law that will penalize schools for not allowing children unfettered access to such material. HB 2789 “adopt[s] the American Library Association’s Library Bill of Rights that indicates materials should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval or, in the alternative, develop a written statement declaring the inherent authority of the library or library system to” assemble a diverse collection of material and “prohibit the practice of banning...

DES MOINES, Iowa – The super PAC promoting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis plans to have dozens of staff in place in the first 18 states on the Republican presidential primary calendar in the coming weeks, a move indicating that his expected 2024 announcement is drawing closer. The plans, shared with The Associated Press, are part of the group Never Back Down's strategy to begin political organizing for DeSantis all the way through Super Tuesday on March 5 and point to a novel approach the super PAC is attempting ahead of a likely DeSantis run. In Iowa, where the leadoff GOP...

SAN FRANCISCO - In the latest blow to San Francisco's economic outlook, another retailer announced on Wednesday, they're closing their Union Square store by July. Coco Republic, a self-described luxury Australian furniture brand, will close its 53,000 square-foot showroom located at 55 Stockton Street, where Crate & Barrel was located not long ago. The furniture store lasted less than sixth months from when it opened, according to the company. A spokesperson said the closing sale begins immediately. Plans to close this location are either in July, or when the inventory runs out. "Downtown San Francisco has been struggling with well-documented...

"He is a loser ... and as a four-time winning Republican, I am tired of losing." New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu called out Donald Trump Wednesday night after the former Republican president’s controversial CNN town hall in the Granite State. It’s not the first time Sununu has taken aim at Trump. The Republican governor has often criticized the former president, calling him “crazy” and stating he has no logical pathway to the presidency. Hours after Trump’s CNN town hall, Sununu ripped into him again

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) this week said he would support a federal reform to essentially deputize states, allowing them to deport illegal aliens, thereby bypassing the Biden administration’s poor policies. DeSantis on Wednesday announced his signing of Senate Bill 1718 — the latest action taken by the Sunshine State to combat the Biden administration’s poor border policies. In part, the legislation would essentially make Florida the largest state in the nation to do full E-Verify for employment.

Michael J. Fox rose to fame in NBC’s sitcom Family Ties in which he played young Republican Alex P. Keaton. Now he has weighed in on where he thinks the conservative character would be today, politically speaking. In an interview with Variety, the actor said he doesn’t think Alex P. Keaton would be a Republican any more, saying the character would have abandoned the GOP long before Donald Trump became president and before the January 6 riot.

"Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed." "And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ." "Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit,...

A few weeks ago, we talked about Jazz Jennings being exploited by TLC. Well, he made a response video to Ben Shapiro and me asking why we care so much. Here's my response.

NEW YORK -- One day after embattled Rep. George Santos pleaded not guilty to federal fraud and money laundering charges, a deal Santos struck with Brazilian authorities to avoid prosecution in a fraud case there was expected to be finalized. Santos was back in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, followed by a throng of reporters, a day after he pleaded not guilty to federal fraud, money laundering and making false statements in connection with his 2022 Congressional campaign. "I'm going to fight the witch hunt. I'm going to take care of clearing my name," Santos said Wednesday. But now the embattled...

Illinois Republican Party Chairman Don Tracy has made it clear, in the form of a new committee that he’s coincidentally chairing, that the state party should have the right to officially endorse their preferred candidates in primaries in a deliberate attempt to stymie grassroots candidates – and prevent them from winning in primary elections. But there’s another motive as well – and it’s not political, but rather financial – and it benefits a select few within Tracy’s inner circle – including his close ally and top legal advisor John Fogarty, who serves as the general counsel to the Illinois Republican...

“Beetlejuice 2,” the long-awaited sequel to the 1988 original, is officially in the works. Warner Bros. announced that the sequel will open on Sept. 6, 2024. Director Tim Burton is returning, as well as Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder. Jenna Ortega will star as the daughter of Ryder’s character Lydia from the original film. Ortega is best known for her portrayal of Wednesday Addams in the Netflix hit series “Wednesday.”

‘What is a woman?’ is the most important political question of our times Politicians used to be formidable characters. A citizen would really need toknow his stuff if he wanted to pin down any of the big dogs of politics. Not anymore. Now it takes a measly four words to reduce a politician to a mumbling wreck. Try it next time one of them crosses your path. Say these four words: ‘What is a woman?’ The latest politician to be stumped by this simplest of queries was Naomi Long, leader of Northern Ireland’s Alliance Party. She got into a Twitterspat...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said "We need to wait" before his forces launch their counteroffensive, suggesting that such an operation now would result in heavy losses. He said that in terms of motivation, personnel numbers and mentality, "we're ready," but that "in terms of equipment, not everything has arrived yet." "We are still expecting some things," he said in an interview in Kyiv for Eurovision News that was broadcast by the BBC. "They will reinforce our counteroffensive and most importantly they will protect our people. We are expecting armored vehicles, they arrive in batches." Combat brigades, some of which...

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, 89, cares 'more about her dog' than black people, a former African-American staffer charged, while she also confused two black senators, a new book offered. The Washington Post's Ben Terris' forthcoming tome "The Big Break: The Gamblers, Party Animals, and True Believers Trying to Win in Washington While America Loses Its Mind" profiles one ex-Feinstein staffer who played whistleblower by literally blowing smoke. Terris, in an excerpt published Thursday in Politico, wrote about how in the days following being fired by Feinstein's office - after raising concerns about her treatment of black people and her mental faculties...