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FBI Director Christopher Wray will testify in front of the House Judiciary Committee next Wednesday, the committee announced on Wednesday. The hearing will be to “examine the politicization of the nation’s preeminent law enforcement agency under the direction of FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland,” according to a notice put out by the committee. The hearing will take place Wednesday, July 12, at 10:00 a.m.

A pair of Memphis thugs beat up an elderly woman on her front porch and killed her cat.“Give me your car keys. If you don’t, I’ll kill you,” the thugs reportedly told the elderly woman.Police say Mrs. Holland was the fifth victim that day of the thugs. And they are reportedly still on the loose.Even if the catch the bad guys, there’s a good chance they will be back out on the streets by the end of the day.Memphis is controlled by a pro-criminal district attorney who supports bail reform. His name is Steve Mulroy — a George Soros wannabe.My...

It should be “completely unacceptable” for banks to close accounts on “political grounds”, a Home Office minister has said, as Conservatives weighed in on a so-called freedom of speech row prompted by claims from Nigel Farage. Tom Tugendhat, the security minister, was speaking in parliament after the culture secretary, Lucy Frazer, urged regulators to take action against banks that shut off access to people with controversial views. Farage, the former Brexit party and Ukip leader who is now a presenter on GB News, claimed last week that he was considering leaving Britain because he had been told by his bank...

The IRS has quietly changed the rules around taxes on inheritances, putting Americans in danger of being caught out if they try to transfer assets to their children. The agency has curbed the tax break on a particular kind of trust often used to minimize estate taxes. Prior to the new instruction, it was unclear what the tax policies were around assets passing to beneficiaries through an irrevocable trust. But the Revenue Ruling 2023-2 has confirmed that these trusts will now be subject to capital gains tax, which will have a substantial impact on estate planning for Americans

It’s hard to dislike Judith Butler. If you’ve ever taken a Gender Studies class, you’ve probably read their work at one point or another. The term “gender performativity” is practically ubiquitous in queer, trans, and feminist theory discourse...

Senator Bob Casey is not even pretending to be pro-life anymore. After campaigning as a pro-life Democrat every year since first being elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006, he has abandoned his position supporting protections for unborn babies. In a new interview with The Messenger, the Pennsylvania lawmaker rejected the pro-life label and referred to killing unborn babies in abortions as a “right.” Asked if he is still pro-life, Casey told the news outlet: “I don’t believe that the terminologies we used before Dobbs make much sense anymore. It’s almost the terminology of pre-Dobbs is antiquated.” The U.S. Supreme...

In a Fourth of July message, Ben & Jerry's called on the United States to "commit to returning" stolen Indigenous land. The company defends its activism and states on its website that its social mission is to "eliminate injustices in our communities by integrating these concerns into our day-to-day business activities." On Tuesday, the company marked the federal holiday celebrating the nation's founding by calling on the U.S. government to give back the "stolen Indigenous land" upon which the nation was formed, Ben & Jerry's said in an online statement that the company shared on Twitter. "This 4th of July,...

"Yusef Salaam, one of the exonerated "Central Park Five," has won the Democratic primary, all but assuring him a seat on the New York City Council."

Donning a T-shirt with the message “Say NO to child support #ProChoiceMen,” pro-life advocate AJ Hurley trolled the Women’s March on Saturday in Washington, D.C. to expose abortion activists’ hypocrisy. Hurley posed as a male abortion activist at the march, using a megaphone to shout phrases like “Your body, your problem!” and “Keep your womb off my wallet” at the crowd. His stunt was part of Live Action’s new satirical video series #ProChoiceMen. The Women’s March supposedly focuses on rights and protections for women, but Hurley’s protest exposed how its support for abortion does the opposite. According to Live Action,...

Far-left Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) used Independence Day not to celebrate the ideals, risks, and sacrifices that led to the success of the great American experiment but to demand “reparations now.” July 4, the celebration of American independence and reminder of the revival of the very “Spirit of 1776,” appeared to be a dismal day for the leftist congresswoman, who seemingly dismissed the risks taken by the Founding Fathers and, rather, used the opportunity to demand reparations. “The Declaration of Independence was written by enslavers and didn’t recognize Black people as human. Today is a great day to demand Reparations...

Google quietly updated its privacy policy over the long July 4 holiday weekend to expand what it can do with user data, namely improve its artificial-intelligence abilities, according to tech blog Gizmodo. (snip) The policy change coincides with Twitter limiting how many tweets users can read daily, depending on their account status, which the Elon Musk-owned company partly justified to prevent "scraping people’s public Twitter data to build AI models."

Professing Christian model Hailey Baldwin Bieber has joined hundreds of celebrities in endorsing a public letter from GLAAD that calls for social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok and Twitter to censor so-called anti-LGBTQ hate speech, including deadnaming, misgendering, and spreading ‘misinformation’ about ‘gender-affirming healthcare’ for trans teens. The letter, which is from “celebrities, influencers, and prominent public figures with significant followings on social media” includes such names as Patrick Stewart, Demi Lovato, Zooey Deschanel, Lena Dunham, Judd Apatow, Sam Smith, Jazz Jennings, Dylan Mulvaney, and Elliot Page. It argues that “dangerous posts (both content and ads) created and circulated...

[Catholic Caucus] New CDF prefect Archbishop Fernández hits back at critics of his erotic book on kissingArchbishop Fernández, Pope Francis' new appointment to head the CDF, decried one specific criticism of his 1995 book, but left wider concerns about the text unanswered. Archbishop Víctor Manuel Fernández, the newly appointed head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), has hit back at criticisms of his 1995 erotic work on kissing, arguing that one word in particular was mis-translated. In a shock announcement July 1, Pope Francis announced to the world that fellow Argentinian Archbishop Fernández would assume the...

Most of these people didn't walk from Central America. And someone paid for those bus rides and airplane tickets. Entering the USA improperly is a crime. The first illegal entry is a misdemeanor; any subsequent entry is a felony. Every illegal alien becomes a criminal simply by entering the country. The ideological left is crowing that the administration scored a "victory" in United States v. Texas. On June 23, the Supreme Court stated that the administration can set priorities when deciding which illegal aliens to prosecute. But the Court also issued an opinion in United States v. Hansen. That is...

During a series of desperate attempts to obfuscate and defend fellow lawyer Harmeet Dhillon, unfortunately Mike Davis joins the ranks of former Bannon Warroom members Matthew Tyrmand and Steve Cortes. It will be interesting to watch how Mr. Bannon responds to the latest sunlight upon his network of allies.The issue started with Laura Loomer doing an excellent job exposing a scheme within the California GOP to change the delegate apportionments to proportional as a result of the state change in primary dates. California representative to the RNC, and former RNC Chairwoman candidate, Harmeet Dhillon then lied about the construct of...

Former chief strategist for the Bush-Cheney 2004 presidential campaign Matthew Dowd said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Lindsey Reiser Reports” that former President Donald Trump is in a “much more dominant position” in the 2024 presidential race than he was in 2015 and 2016.Dowd said, “It’s fascinating about Ron DeSantis, who has had good success in Florida obviously and won overwhelmingly in Florida but can’t do anything when he goes out. At some point, the first time, second time, third time, fourth time outside their state, if they are not doing well, I don’t know if the fifth or sixth or seventh...

From Cardinal Bea to Synodality: Obscuring the Mystical Body of Christ to Prepare the Mystical Body of the AntichristAlthough the competition for most heretical and dangerous statements is fierce in the new document from the Synod on Synodality, Instrumentum Laboris, paragraph 20 offers this top contender:“[A] synodal Church is founded on the recognition of a common dignity deriving from Baptism, which makes all who receive it sons and daughters of God, members of the family of God, and therefore brothers and sisters in Christ, inhabited by the one Spirit and sent to fulfil a common mission.” At first glance, this...

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For one historic Presbyterian church in San Francisco, Isaiah 5:20 is a glaring reality. The verse warns, "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil; who exchange darkness for light, and light for darkness, who exchange bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter." By hosting an all-ages "Drag Queen Bible Story Hour," Calvary Presbyterian Church brought blasphemy and shame into the house of God last Sunday. The nearly 200-year-old church's services featured drag performers speaking to audience that included young children. While it was a first for the church, LGBT advocates Rev. Jane Spahr and Rev. Victor Floyd...

When in the course of human events, a “woke” partisan mob, in collaboration with Wall Street globalists, social media oligarchs, and a propagandist corporate media, seizes the reins of power, it becomes necessary for the people most victimized to throw these rascals out. To this end, we hold these truths to be self-evident:American taxpayers are entitled to a fair return on the investments they make through tax payments and sound governance. They must not be treated as instruments of a Marxian redistribution of income to advance leftist causes. A country in which only a minority of its citizens pay income...