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North Korea offers freedom of religion to its citizens on paper but not in practice. It has imprisoned tens of thousands of Christians, according to a State Department report, citing NGO research. The recent report reveals executions and imprisonment for life for people caught with religious materials. North Korea is notorious for the cruelty it inflicts on people deemed undesirable by the state. In the Hermit Kingdom that prizes weaponry over its own people, many of whom are starving and live in abject poverty, tens of thousands of Christians are said to be languishing in prisons. A recently released Department...

President Trump just called Ron DeSantis a globalist. He’s 100% right. Here’s a long thread with everything i know so far to validate his point. 1. War DeSantis said Trump wasn’t tough enough on Russia and advocated for more lethal aid to Ukraine. He also voted to sanction Iran, Russia and North Korea while Trump opposed it. Earlier he wrote a joint letter to John Kerry, asking him to force Ukraine to join EU to fight against Russia. His former press secretary is a foreign agent who worked for a Zelensky official. He seemed to support a regime change in...

Last night I participated in a conversation. This article is written as an outcome of that conversation, as requested by those who participated. Essentially, the framework of the conversation, as I initially listened, is best described as a series of questions amid a group of smart intellectual types who are very understanding of the nature of our current situation. In various forms they were asking each other the same question. What happened in the last several years that caused Democrats, leftists and the traditional political left to switch positions on their advocacy? Liberalism literally went from railing against Big Govt,...

Think of it as a rare instance of cross-aisle consensus or else a sartorial trend gone badly wrong. But it did not go unnoticed when, in a photograph from the Oval Office posted to President Joe Biden’s account this week, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, Senator Mitch McConnell and Representative Hakeem Jeffries were all captured wearing some variant of the dreaded footwear hybrid: the sneaker shoe. Weighing in on Twitter, cult men’s wear commentator Derek Guy (@dieworkwear) called out the footgear as a clear lapse in dignity, if not actual protocol. Why pay a visit to a sitting president...

Massive and ever-growing backlogs in NYC immigration courts mean migrants who want to become US citizens have to wait about three years to have their cases heard — and up to a decade to complete the entire process. At least 127,000 pending cases were mired in court at the start of the month and that number is expected to exponentially grow as the one-year deadline to file for asylum approaches for the more than 70,000 migrants who have arrived in New York City in recent months. The backlog is fueled by New York’s sanctuary city status — and asylum applicants...

The World Health Assembly is a meeting of over 190 WHO Member States where health decisions are made that impact the global population — including viewers like you. Valerie Borek and James Roguski have been watching this World Health Organization annual Switzerland meeting closely and have a lot to share. Join them on ‘Friday Roundtable’ as they look at critical points in this week-long event.

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Neither Ron DeSantis nor Donald Trump want to raise your taxes. Neither Ron DeSantis nor Donald Trump want to watch transgenders have forcible sex with your children. Neither Ron DeSantis nor Donald Trump would allow Zelenskyy to continue to ransack our wallets. Neither Ron DeSantis nor Donald Trump want criminals running the streets of every major city in America. Neither Ron DeSantis nor Donald Trump would ever pack the Supreme Court with liberals. Neither Ron DeSantis nor Donald Trump would ever allow Critical Race Theory or DEI to spread through our government like a cancer. Neither Ron DeSantis nor Donald...

The Uniparty will not bend. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) traveled to Kiev again on Friday. Lindsey promised Ukrainian President Zelensky that no matter what Republicans say on the campaign trail to their base, the Uniparty Republicans in the Senate will continue to feed Ukraine with an endless supply of weapons. The elites really, really hate you. (snip) And it was Lindsey and his cohort John McCain who played a role in the Trump-Russia collusion hoax.

Saturday, May 27, 2023 1:34PM CHICAGO -- At least 14 people have been shot, three fatally, in Chicago shootings so far this Memorial Day weekend. In the latest deadly shooting, two people were shot, one fatally, in the Heart of Chicago neighborhood early Saturday, police said. The two people, a 36-year-old woman and a 37-year-old man, were standing on a sidewalk in the 2300 block of West 18th Street just before 3 a.m. when someone fired shots, according to Chicago police. Less than hour earlier, a 34-year-old man was fatally shot in Lakeview, according to police. The man was found...

A Memorial Day weekend town hall with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) devolved into pandemonium Friday night as the crowd booed and shouted insults while she attempted to discuss her policies on immigration, Ukraine funding, and the debt limit. The event took place in the Queens neighborhood of Corona and the venue appeared to be packed with constituents. Some in the stands held signs proclaiming, “America First,” and “Stop funding Ukraine.” AOC attempted to discuss the debt limit before being shouted down: “We should eliminate the debt limit in the United States because of the constitutional…” One man yelled “American citizens...

A Texas high school had to postpone its graduation after only a few of their seniors met graduation requirements. While preparing for the ceremony, students at Marlin High School received a disappointing announcement on Wednesday that their graduation would be rescheduled for June. *** Some parents said that the move is not fair to the students who did pass the graduation requirements. According to NPR, Marlin ISD Superintendent Darryl Henson said a review of attendance, grades and credits found that only five out of 33 seniors initially met graduation requirements. The school tried to work with students and was able...

On PBS's Cinema Classics, host Reese De'What (Kenan Thompson) presents the never-before-seen alternate ending of The Wizard of Oz

SEVENTH SATURDAY OF LENTJohn 21:20-25Friends, in today’s Gospel, when Peter asks about the destiny of the beloved disciple, Jesus says: “What if I want him to remain until I come?What concern is it of yours? You follow me.” Here at the close of John’s Gospel, we can take this command to heart. What does following Jesus involve?True conversion—the metanoia that Jesus talks about—is so much more than moral reform, though it includes that. It has to do with a complete shift in consciousness, a whole new way of looking at one’s life. Jesus offered a teaching that must have been...

An Enosburg Falls man who attended the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., has been charged with a felony for marching with a torch during a demonstration with other white nationalists. Ryan Roy, 34, faces one count of burning an object with the intent to intimidate. He's at least the fourth person indicted for participating in the August 11, 2017, rally on the University of Virginia campus. Marchers carried lit torches and chanted things such as "Jews will not replace us!" and the Nazi slogan "Blood and soil!" Roy, who grew up in Essex, did not respond to...

Explanation: Gliding through the outer Solar System, in 1989 the Voyager 2 spacecraft looked toward the Sun to find this view of most distant planet Neptune and its moon Triton together in a crescent phase. The elegant image of ice-giant planet and largest moon was taken from behind just after Voyager's closest approach. It could not have been taken from Earth because the most distant planet never shows a crescent phase to sunward eyes. Heading for the heliopause and beyond, the spacecraft's parting vantage point also robs Neptune of its familiar blue hue.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — More than 70 California law enforcement agencies are violating state law by sharing automated license plate reader (ALPR) data with out-of-state agencies, putting out-of-state abortion seekers at risk, according to a trio of civil rights groups. The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union chapters for both Northern and Southern California sent letters to 71 agencies — including the Folsom Police Department — giving them a June 15 deadline to stop sharing license plate data with states that criminalize abortion. On Friday, the Twitter account for Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office, which was not listed in...

Former President Donald Trump is boasting a strong lead in South Carolina’s Republican primary race, but Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley are also gaining steam — less than a week after Scott told Breitbart News that it is absolutely not a two-man race — the latest National Research Inc. poll found.The survey, commissioned by American Greatness, showed Trump with a strong 25-point lead against his closest competitor, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.Trump has 43 percent support, followed by DeSantis with 18 percent support.However, both Scott and Haley are experiencing an uptick in the polls, as...

Bo Young Lee, head of Uber’s diversity, equity and inclusion, is now suspended after questionable "Karen" workshops. Ana Kasparian discusses on The Young Turks.