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Sen. J.D. Vance has introduced legislation that would make gender-reassignment treatments for minors a federal crime. Mr. Vance’s bill, the Protect Children’s Innocence Act, would ban gender-transition surgeries, puberty blockers, hormone treatments and other transgender-related medical care from being provided to minors. People that administer gender-change treatments to children would be charged with a federal class C felony, which carries a sentence of 10 to 25 years in prison. The bill prevents federal funding from going toward transgender surgery or treatments, including blocking Affordable Care Act insurance plans from paying for the procedures. Mr. Vance’s measure would also ban universities...

(Daily readings from the USCCB)Jesus proposed another parable to the crowds, saying: “The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a man who sowed good seed in his field. While everyone was asleep his enemy came and sowed weeds all through the wheat, and then went off. When the crop grew and bore fruit, the weeds appeared as well.” Matthew 13:24–26This parable would have made much sense to the people of Jesus’ time. It was common practice for an enemy to get revenge upon another by sowing a weed named “cockle” in with the wheat. As the cockle began to...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemLuke 23 23 Then the whole assembly rose and led him off to Pilate. 2 And they began to accuse him, saying, “We have found this man subverting our nation. He opposes payment of taxes to Caesar and claims to be Messiah, a king.” 3 So Pilate asked Jesus, “Are you the king of the Jews?” “You have said so,” Jesus replied. 4 Then Pilate announced to the chief priests and the crowd, “I find no basis for a charge against this man.” 5 But they insisted, “He stirs up the people all over Judea...

Jake Wallin was once a small boy who sought comfort in the arms of family, terrified of fireworks that lit up the sky. On Saturday, the Fargo police officer was remembered for growing up to be a military veteran and dedicated officer whose “final act of valor” was staring down the face of a man intent on bloodshed. Wallin, 23, was killed July 14 when a man armed with 1,800 rounds of ammunition, multiple guns and explosives ambushed officers responding to a routine traffic crash. Two other officers and a civilian were wounded before a fourth officer returned fire, killing...

Democrats in Congress and their legacy media enablers dropped their veils this week, revealing how dear they hold their desire and capacity to censor truth. Democrats in Congress and their legacy media enablers dropped their veils this week, revealing how dear they hold their desire and capacity to censor truth. The drop came during Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s testimony about vaccines and shows how frightened they are that he may out-primary their demented puppet Joe Biden and his cackling numbskull veep. The New York Times' Sheryl Gay Stolberg tweeted: “Despite the theater, the hearing raised thorny questions about free speech...

The Talk Shows July 23rd, 2023 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy; Jared Bernstein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. Panel: Tom Dupree, former principal deputy assistant attorney general; George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley; USA Today White House correspondent Francesca Chambers; and Guy Benson and Katie Pavlich of Townhall.com. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Preempted due to NBC's coverage of the final round of the British Open golf tournament. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: Republican presidential candidate former Gov. Chris...

The Biden administration has proposed tightening efficiency standards for new residential water heaters - a move it said would save consumers $11.4bn a year The DOE has already rolled out new efficiency standards for other appliances, such as gas stoves, clothes washers, refrigerators and air conditioners It marks the latest chapter in Biden's war on appliances that his administration claims will save Americans money The U.S. Department of Energy is now turning its attention to household water heaters as the Biden administration continues to target everyday home appliances for further regulations. The administration, led by Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm,...

The short answer is no. The long answer explains why it's impossible to have an argument with them. Do leftists believe what they say they believe? And if not, how would we know? On key issues, the evidence shows that their positions cannot be taken at face value. In "Barack Obama's Rules for Revolution: The Alinsky Model", David Horowitz quoted an SDS radical who wrote, "The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." In other words, when the left picks an issue to demonstrate on, the issue itself is seen as a step to bigger goals....

I love Chicago’s John Kass. Today his blog post was on something I and my friends here (especially David) have hit time and time again because we are so passionately terrified for today’s children. But there was a moment in it that was such a revelation, I wanted to share it with you all. An aspect of the gender affirming madness that I hadn’t considered before. His column appeared at almost the same time as this horrific story on Fox, and it was as if it was meant to be. A young male, who formerly identified as a transwoman, who...

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Earlier this year, the American Perspectives Survey collected data from a representative sample of more than 5,000 U.S. adults aged 18 and older. Here I’ll go through and share the results and some thoughts. Some of the findings are predictable. Other results are surprising. The survey found that women care a lot more about height than men do. 56% of women say they would be less likely to date someone who is “much shorter” than they are, while only 32% of men say they would be less likely to date someone who is taller. In other words, men are generally...

Florida Democrats say they’re spending and organizing to chase down people who vote by mail after election officials across the state canceled all standing mail ballot requests this year. The mass cancellations were to comply with a 2021 election law that added new restrictions to mail-in voting. The legislation — which was celebrated by Gov. Ron DeSantis and slammed by voting rights advocates as discriminatory — cut the duration of mail-in ballot requests in half from four years to two. It also required that existing requests for mail ballots be canceled at the end of 2022, forcing election workers to...

A White House spokesperson mocked Wednesday’s House Oversight and Accountability Committee with tweets as it was taking place and got into a back and forth with the committee's Twitter account as the hearing was taking place. "Despite years of obsession and countless wasted taxpayer dollars on a wild goose chase, the House GOP hasn't offered a single credible piece of evidence of wrongdoing by the President," White House spokesman for oversight and investigations Ian Sams tweeted Wednesday. The message went out as lawmakers heard from two IRS whistleblowers who said their their investigation into Hunter Biden’s tax records was obstructed...

The “missing witness” from the Biden corruption investigation, Israeli professor Dr. Gal Luft, has laid out his bribery allegations against the president’s family in an extraordinary video filmed in an undisclosed location while he’s on the run. In the 14-minute recording, obtained exclusively by The Post, the fugitive former Israeli army officer claims he was arrested in Cyprus to stop him from testifying to the House Oversight Committee that the Biden family received payments from individuals with alleged ties to Chinese military intelligence and that they had an FBI mole who shared classified information with their benefactors from the China-controlled...

The U.S. Department of Energy is now turning its attention to household water heaters as the Biden administration continues to target everyday home appliances for further regulations. The administration, led by Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, proposed new standards for water heaters last week. The standards on residential water heater efficiency, which are required by Congress, have not been updated in 13 years. Officials say the new regulations to impose energy efficiency standards would save consumers $11.4 billion on energy and water bills annually. The regulations - which would take effect in 2029 - would require electric water heaters to...

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Presidential candidate, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has spent a long time researching vaccines. His concern for vaccine side effects stems for affected children’s mothers speaking out to him. Kennedy was to serve in Trump’s administration until Trump unfortunately picked Anthony Fauci. RFK Jr. has wrote a book exposing Fauci and his deceptive money making tactics. Kennedy claims Fauci’s NIH could not provide him any placebo based safety tests for ANY vaccine. In this clip Kennedy talks about Fauci’s approval of the drug, Remdesivir, to treat COVID-19. Kennedy claims Fauci knew this drug would kill it’s users. “Tony Fauci knew that...

The US citizenship test is being updated after more than 1 million people became Americans citizens last year - one of the highest numbers on record since 1907. The naturalisation test is one of the final steps toward American citizenship - a months-long process that requires legal permanent residency for years before applying. The US currently has the easiest citizenship test compared to other Western countries, including Germany, Canada and the UK, political science experts allege. Applicants must answer six out of 10 civics questions - selected from a bank of 100 questions - correctly to pass. Applicants are not...

Seattle vagrants have now constructed a homeless encampment in the trees above the crime-ridden city, prompting one stunned local to liken it to the Ewok Village from Star Wars. Local journalist Jonathan Choe stumbled across the ramshackle treehouse high in the city's trees on Friday, and deployed a drone to get a closer look. The Ewok encampment has a wooden stepladder to let its residents reach the ground below it. Its floor appears to be comprised of foam blocks, with a net supporting the soft material, which likely gives the shelter's residents a comfortable sleeping experience. Up top, the sci-fi...

America's first ever elected transgender lawmaker has been charged with horrific child sex offenses after allegedly getting her daycare worker to send her explicit photos of toddlers in her care. Stacie Marine Laughton, 39, a former Democrat representative, could face up to 30 years in jail after being charged with aiding and abetting the sexual exploitation of children. The former New Hampshire state representative was arrested after daycare worker Lindsay Groves, 38, was accused of taking explicit photographs of children aged between three to five years old in Tyngsborough, Massachusetts. Groves was reportedly in a relationship with Laughton, and the...