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@RandPaul After todays ridiculous performance in the House by Wray, I’m just gonna leave this here: FLASHBACK: Rand Paul was the only Republican who opposed confirming Christopher Wray as FBI Director - Based Politics

A judge has ruled that a Florida nude resort typically reserved for gay and bisexual men must open its doors to women. The New Orleans House in Key West had been slapped with a lawsuit by a woman named Amina Chaudhry after she was prevented from making a reservation at the resort in July 2022 due its policy of requiring guests to be “adult males 18 years of age or over only.” On June 30, Administrative Law Judge Brittany Finkbeiner recommended that the “Florida Commission on Human Relations should find that the New Orleans House ‘engaged in unlawful discrimination,'” according...

A Protestant denomination that claims to follow Christ passed a pro-abortion resolution this week that describes aborting unborn babies as “health care” and pro-life laws as “sexual violence.” The United Church of Christ General Synod overwhelmingly passed the resolution “Proclaiming Abortion as Healthcare” in a 611-24 vote, according to the denomination website. UCC leaders said they created the resolution in response to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling Dobbs v. Jackson, which overturned Roe v. Wade and began allowing laws to protect unborn babies from abortion again. Currently, 15 states are enforcing laws that protect unborn babies from abortion, and more...

Victims of child sex trafficking are reportedly disheartened by the extra attention they've been getting since the theatrical release of Sound of Freedom. Sources say the film has prompted visits by members of the nation's media who, instead of showing support, inform them they are merely unhinged QAnon conspiracies. We're going to expose these QAnon followers who keep pretending child sex trafficking is a very real and prevalent problem," reported CNN anchor Anderson Cooper. "Those monsters."

Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter is touring Russian cities and claiming Ukraine will lose the war. Why do he and other disgraced Americans insist on defending Putin's rhetoric? Russian propaganda outlets have loved quoting Americans they believe are arguing in Moscow's favour ever since the 2014 invasion of Ukraine, and even more so since the full-scale attack launched in February last year. While the concept of Western intellectuals kowtowing to Soviet leadership – and downplaying their crimes – was relatively common during the Cold War, it has gained new momentum since Russian President Vladimir Putin made clear his plans...

On December 29, 2022, the Russian Navy commissioned three new vessels (Project 955A Borey-A class submarine Generalissimus Suvorov, Project 12700 Alexandrit-class MCM ship Anatoliy Shlemov, Project 21631 Buyan-M class Grad). The fourth vessel was also rolled out of the shipyard hall at Sevmash Shipyard on the same day. Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu attended the events via video link. . . . More Kalibr missiles in the Baltic Sea On December 29, the flag was raised on the tenth Project 21631 Buyan-M corvette of the Baltic Fleet, the Grad. These undersized vessels (949 tons, 74.1...

An interesting YouTube discussion on the authenticity Of The Bible- from an historical document review process. Its a 72 minute interview in which you will learn new things about the composition of the Bible- Most important being, that it's writings are verifiable in a way the secular world chooses to ignore. A good commute listen for sure.Yes. The Bible Is Relible. Here's Why.

Welcome to CRC’s work-in-progress, InfluenceWatch.Capital Research Center conceived of this project after identifying a need for more fact-based, accurate descriptions of all of the various influencers of public policy issues. Many so-called “watchdog” groups are instead opponents of the outlets they are watching. Armed with 30-years of research and data on advocacy organizations, foundations, and donors, CRC utilizes a universe of well-trained contributors to help build the individual and organizational profiles that populate the website.

The number of unsold electric vehicles at dealers in the second quarter tripled compared to the past year, signaling a weakened demand for the segment, said a recent report by leading auto-dealer data company Cox Automotive.In second quarter 2023, the average inventory for electric vehicles (EVs) topped more than 92,000 units on the ground at dealer lots, according to the 2023 Cox Automotive Mid-Year Review presentation. This is up 342 percent compared to second quarter 2022. During this period, the new “EV days’ supply,” which refers to the average number of days a warehouse holds inventory before selling it, rose...

According to the World Health Organization, there have been 6,947,192 confirmed COVID-19 deaths globally as of June 28. Of those, 1,127,152 occurred in the United States, making the number of Americans killed by the virus more than 19 times the number of American soldiers killed in the Vietnam War.And yet, over three years since the beginning of the pandemic, we still don’t know where the virus originated. The fear is that the next time around, the number of deaths could be much higher; because we didn’t learn from this pandemic, we wouldn’t be as prepared as we should for the...

During a House Select Subcommittee on the origins of the Coronavirus pandemic Tuesday, Republican representative Nicole Malliotakis of New York grilled a pair of scientists, demanding to know why they suddenly switched their positions from considering the lab leak of the virus a likelihood to it being a “conspiracy theory” just days after Anthony Fauci emailed them both.Malliotakis asked Kristian Andersen and Robert Garry why their paper on the “proximal origins” of COVID-19 from March 2020 dismissed the lab leak in favour of a zoonotic origin when just days before they had both suggested the virus had a unnatural origin.Addressing...

By now any honest person will admit that the public health establishment–the NIH and the CDC in particular–lied to the American public and covered up the likely origin of COVID-19.The evidence for both is overwhelming and yet it still keeps piling up. By now I almost expect a recording of Anthony Fauci in a supervillain lair laughing maniacally at the stupidity of the plebs, while sharks swim around him in pools waiting to eat 007 while models in bikinis turn into solid gold, or something similar.The latest revelations come from the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, which has revealed...

As with any news coming out of Russia, there’s almost no telling what is true and what is not. What we do know for certain is that a former Naval officer and sub commander who Ukraine had accused of war crimes was killed this week while running through a park in Russia.A Russian naval captain who appeared on a Ukrainian blacklist of suspected war criminals was ambushed and executed by an assassin on his morning run.Stanislav Rzhitsky, 42, was shot four times in the back and chest with a Makarov pistol around 6 a.m. Monday in a park in the...

College COVID vaccine mandates remain some of the most coercive mandates ever declared. While most colleges have now rescinded their mandates, some colleges refuse to let go, and Santa Clara University in California is one of the most oppressive. In late April 2021, after most incoming freshmen had committed, SCU announced that all students were required to get COVID vaccines for fall enrollment or after full approval, whichever was later. Then by mid-summer, SCU announced that students would be required to receive the vaccine even if it remained authorized only for emergency (EUA) and despite the fact that the CA...

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 30, 2023 / 16:10 pm Legislation that bans most abortions in Indiana does not violate the state constitution’s right to privacy and can go into effect, according to a Friday ruling from the Indiana Supreme Court, but litigation against the law is still ongoing. The state law, which the Republican majority passed last summer, prohibits most abortions during all stages of pregnancy. There is an exception for cases of rape and incest, which will be legal up to 10 weeks after fertilization, as well as an exception for the life of the mother up to 20...

Some people think I am exaggerating when I point out that Democrats are moving to normalize pedophilia.“It can’t be!” “Nobody is that evil!”Is it hyperbole? No. Is it perhaps a misrepresentation or a misunderstanding on my part?Absolutely not.Democrats want to sexualize children, and in the past week have been attacking opponents of child sex trafficking and calling us conspiracy theorists, and now the California Public Safety Committee voted down a bill, on a party-line vote, that would have enhanced penalties for child sex trafficking by making it a “serious felony,” which is a step up from merely being illegal.JUST IN:...

On Monday, President Joe Biden played his cards. He’s all bluff, no aces. Biden is the defendant in a lawsuit that accuses him and his team of, in federal District Court Judge Terry Doughty’s words, “the most massive attack against free speech in the United States.” Yet the appeal Biden filed Monday is devoid of even one convincing argument in his own defense. Count on the appeal to go nowhere. Biden’s been caught red-handed violating the Constitution. On July 4, Doughty announced that the evidence produced so far indicates the president is operating a vast, illegal censorship scheme to muzzle...

As the UK Covid inquiry continues, we must not forget lockdowns failed and destroyed the lives of millions.. America stands for freedom, yet we had one of the most acquiescent populations in the world during the pandemic. There were protests about the lockdowns, if you remember, in the UK, in Spain, in Italy, in France, in Germany and in the Netherlands. Generally speaking in America there was a shocking lack of pushback. America is the beacon of freedom in the world and if America does not push for freedom, it’s over; Not just in the US, it’s over everywhere. The...

Okay, that’s not exactly the headline the Post used but it’s close: “‘Racist,’ ‘grooming’: Why parents are trying to ban so many picture books.” The article is of course written as if the people who would complain about children’s picture books are all wild-eyed bigots.The discontent with children’s picture books overwhelmingly centers on titles with LGBTQ characters and storylines, which were targeted in 75 percent of such challenges, The Post found. The top motive, cited in 64 percent of the picture-book complaints, was a wish to prevent children from reading about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, nonbinary and queer lives. The...

The story of that whole Wagner group insurrection a couple of weeks ago certainly disappeared from the headlines pretty quickly, didn’t it? The few updates we were given by the Kremlin and Russian state television kept changing. One of the biggest questions was where Yevgeny Prigozhin wound up. We were first told that he had been pardoned and was going to be staying in Belarus. But then we were told he had returned to Russia. We next heard he’d never actually gone to Belarus, but he’d had a meeting with Putin to sort things out. The one thing we do...