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The Job Creators Network (JCN) lambasted President Job Biden’s “economic approach, reckless spending, and hostility toward domestic energy production” with a Times Square billboard branding him as “the real Grinch who is spoiling small business cheer.” “Nearly three years of ‘Bidenomics’ has left ordinary Americans and small businesses in a precarious situation at the worst possible time heading into the Christmas season,” Alfredo Ortiz, President and CEO of the Job Creators Network, said in a statement. “Entrepreneurs are continuing to face the ripple effects of prolonged high inflation, a souring regulatory environment, and the threat of higher taxes. Combine that...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is fighting for a disabled unborn baby who a Texas judge ruled yesterday could be killed in an abortion. As LifeNews reported yesterday, a Texas judge has ruled a baby can be killed in an abortion just because the baby is disabled. Katie Cox is suing Texas, saying she is seeking an emergency exception in the state’s law protecting babies from abortions for a pregnancy that is destined to end in the death of the baby. “It is not a matter of if I will have to say goodbye, but when,” she said in the...

Hearing The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl’s iconic Christmas ditty Fairytale of New York will be poignant for fans this year following the death of Shane MacGowan. The Pogues frontman’s death at the age of 65 was announced on November 30, 2023, following years of battling health issues. His funeral is taking place today (December 8) with Johnny Depp arriving in Nenagh, Tipperary to give a reading. Often voted the nation’s favourite Yuletide song, it is the UK’s most-played Christmas single, and you can often find it getting everyone on their feet during annual parties. It has been sold more than...

Right after the fourth Republican presidential debate wrapped on Thursday night, NBC News talked to a few voters in Georgia to ask them who won the debate. The overwhelming favorite? Former President Donald Trump, who was not even at the debate.

VIDEOVote Fraud is supposed to be rarer than an asteroid strike. However, Jill Stein in December 2016 ACCIDENTALLY proved this to be a farce when she (at the behest of Hillary) demanded (and received) a recount of the Michigan vote hoping to find evidence of Russian hacking. What they found instead was PROOF of Democrat vote fraud with over a third of the Detroit precincts reporting more votes than registered voters. OOOPS! Of course, that recount was quickly dropped but it is interesting that back then demanding a recount was NOT considered to be an attempt to overturn the election...

A woman was arrested on Thursday after dousing Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth home in Atlanta, Georgia, with gasoline during an attempt to set the home on fire. The 26-year-old woman, whose name has not been released, is charged with criminal attempt to commit arson and criminal attempt to damage government property. She could also face federal charges in connection with the incident. Atlanta police officers responded to Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth home shortly after 5:45 p.m. on Thursday following reports of vandalism. Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum told reporters that two tourists from Utah told officers they observed...

Our society has gone off the rails. In Green Bay, Wisconsin at the National Railroad Museum, the annual Festival of Trees just kicked off, and because the left ruins everything, what was once pure and wholesome is now demonic and Satanic—literally. Every holiday season, the establishment displays dozens of uniquely decorated Christmas trees contributed by local groups, but this year’s exhibit is particularly controversial due to the inclusion of Satanic and “transgender” trees thanks to “activists.” Adorning the transgender-themed tree are transgender flags and ornaments, with the movement’s over-used euphemisms (“Protect Trans Kids”), and was contributed by the Bay Area...

A few days ago I posted a story on this rapper "LilNazX" and how he said he was going from satanism to Christianity in his music. Brylan Riggs has more on this and has a lot on LilNazX's background. This is shocking indeed. It's troubling but important to see. Brylan talks about the first "Christian" video he did and the t-shirt he was wearing while doing it. Brylan also talks about tweets LiNazX has since made after doing this video. video is 9 minutes long

In the 15-plus years that Morning Joe has been on the air, I can't remember Mika Brzezinski ever displaying such passionate anger as she did today. And it was directed at Israeli prime minister Bibi Netanyahu. Mika suggested that the U.S. halt aid to Israel until Netanyahu explains the delayed response to the Hamas attacks of 10/7. Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

A 20-year-old Michigan mother has been charged with assault after police say she punched a grocery store clerk in front of her 1-year-old daughter. Surveillance video caught the incident unfolding Tuesday at a Kroger store in St. Clair Shores. Police say Shelby Parham was in the self-checkout area before walking up to a 49-year-old clerk and hitting her in the face. The woman was knocked flat on the ground, rendered unconscious, and suffered a head injury. “It’s obviously very clear-cut. There’s no questions as to who’s at fault here,” St. Clair Shores Police Detective Gordon Carrier told FOX 2 Detroit.

Speaking to ToI from wrecked town outside Jabaliya in northern part of Strip, commander of reserve battalion says ‘there isn’t a single house here without weapons’ Two weeks have passed since a temporary truce between the Israel Defense Forces and Hamas in the Gaza Strip began, and exactly a week since it ended. Shortly after the terror group made clear that it was not abiding by the ceasefire agreement on December 1, the military resumed fighting in the Palestinian enclave. But a senior officer now reveals that Hamas broke the truce much earlier, in fact just 15 minutes after it...

A book was returned to the Carbondale Public Library in Pennsylvania nearly 120 years after it was last checked out. Photo courtesy of the Carbondale Public Library/Facebook ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dec. 6 (UPI) -- A Pennsylvania library said a book returned to the facility after being spotted at a book sale was nearly 120 years overdue. The Carbondale Public Library said in a Facebook post that the book, The Cruise of the Esmeralda by Harry Collingwood, was returned by personnel from the Hawley Library, who spotted the tome at a book sale. The book still bears a pocket inside the cover listing...

An investigation has been launched into the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) after Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration was found to have sent billions of dollars in taxpayers’ money to a fraudulent solar company. Biden’s DOE recently gave a $3 billion award to a solar energy company that has been accused of scamming vulnerable customers. Republican leaders in the House and Senate are probing the DOE over the move. The investigations are being led by House Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Ranking Member John Barrasso (R-WY). In a letter to DOE...

KEY POINTS * The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Casgevy, the first gene-editing treatment to be marketed in the country. * Casgevy uses Nobel Prize-winning technology CRISPR to treat sickle cell disease, a blood disorder that affects about 100,000 Americans. * Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics co-developed the one-time treatment that could cost around $2 million per patient. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the country’s first gene-editing treatment, Casgevy, for use in patients with sickle cell disease. The approval comes about a decade after the discovery of CRISPR technology for editing human DNA,...

The Ukrainian Armed Forces later confirmed that it had successfully targeted the shipyard. The Askold is a compact missile ship, designed to carry up to eight Kalibr missiles. Military experts say that neutralizing such a ship significantly improves Ukraine's security.

Nikki Haley doubles DeSantis' support. Donald Trump leads him by 57 points. Gov. Ron DeSantis arguably had his best performance in a national debate this week, with a widely viewed showdown with California’s Gavin Newsom the week before. But new polling suggests it might not matter. In the latest Emerson College poll, the Florida Governor has fallen to 7%, his worst showing in any national survey in the 2024 cycle. Adding insult to injury, DeSantis is actually at 6.7%, benefiting from rounding to even hit the modest 7% threshold. DeSantis trails Nikki Haley, who has double his support at 14%....

Glendale Police have released street camera footage showing the exact moment evangelist Hans Schmidt was shot in the head preaching the gospel. Sadly, the video, in which Schmidt appears shot from behind, is too grainy to see where the gunfire came from and identify any perpetrators. Viewer discretion is advised. Schmidt, a 26-year-old former military combat medic who is married with two small children, was preaching the gospel in the public square when he was fired upon, causing great bodily injury. According to a GoFundMe released in his name, the bullet traveled through his brain and lodged on the right...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Gregory: "Tradition dies a slow death, sometimes a bloody death"On Wednesday 6 December, the Archbishop of Washington, Wilton Cardinal Gregory, took part in an event at the Catholic University of America as part of their Presidential Speaker Series, entitled "Celebrating Diversity" (h/t Diane Montagna). The full video can be found below, as well as on YouTube. In this talk, His Eminence notes that "even our American Catholic comfort zone can be rattled by the vastness of God's family of cultures, languages, and expressions of Catholic worship; so much diversity can throw some people off balance and quite...

I’ve wanted to remain positive about the newly-elected Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. Johnson has been hailed as a Bible-believing Christian who holds to biblically based policy positions and will help steer the nation back to a more traditional biblical ethic on contentious issues such as marriage, abortion, and LGBT stuff. And that may still be the case. But at what cost? A few weeks ago, we reported that Mike Johnson held a flag outside of his office that has been co-opted by and has become a symbol representing alignment with the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR)—a movement that believes...

President Biden’s son Hunter Biden said that Republicans are trying to use him to destroy his fathers’ presidency, speaking out during an interview about the attacks against him. The younger Biden spoke to musician Moby on his podcast, Moby Pod, for an interview that came out just a day after he was charged with tax crimes in California in his second indictment. “What they’re trying to do is they’re trying to kill me, knowing that it will be a pain greater than my father could be able to handle, and so therefore destroying a presidency in that way,” Hunter Biden...