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On May 1, MI, Democrat Senators passed Senate Bills 603 and 604. Senator Runestad has been ringing the alarm bells ever since, warning that it would be a disaster for election integrity if these bills passed in the House. Yesterday, Senator Runestad went off on his Democrat opponents after the Democrat majority in the House rammed through legislation that will prevent the board of canvassers in Michigan from investigating voter fraud and strip them of subpoena power related to questionable or fraudulent elections. The bills would require the board of canvassers to refer any allegations of fraud to the relevant...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Navy is weighing what to do about the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier, which has been battling Houthi rebel attacks on shipping in the Red Sea for nearly nine months. The question is how to replicate the carrier’s combat power if the ship returns home. The service has 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. Generally, they are getting ready to deploy, are deployed or have come off deployment and have gone in for maintenance and repairs. The carriers have a lifespan of about 50 years, and halfway through they undergo a major overhaul of their nuclear and...

When every American institution is pushing transgenderism and abortion on demand, their primary objective is to divide us. An insightful, if pithy, tweet surfaced recently on my feed. It nicely summarized what happened to neutralize an awakening electorate in America over the past decade: “They got you fighting a culture war to stop you from fighting a class war. It was designed that way in 2012 when the woke left & right were created. Occupy Wall Street/The Tea Party were making inroads uniting the political spectrum & the people against Wall Street following the 2008 crash. ‘We’ll get them to...

On July 26, the 2024 summer Olympic Games will kick off in Paris, as they did 100 years ago in 1924. Back stories from those games were dramatized in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire, about Scottish sprinter Eric Liddell, an outgoing Christian, and Jewish athlete Harold Abrahams, younger brother of Sidney Abrahams, who represented Britain at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm. Sidney was duly knighted, and Sir Sidney Solomon Abrahams served as chief justice of Ceylon during the 1930s. “Solly” was also the first Jew elected president of the London Athletic Club, founded in 1863. Younger brother Harold, born...

In downtown Los Angeles, the Weingart Center Tower has recently opened as a high-rise homeless shelter. Here are the key details: The tower comprises 228 studio apartments, 47 one-bedroom apartments, and three apartments for onsite managers. Each unit costs an estimated $600,000 and is funded by taxpayers. Residents will have access to amenities such as a gym, an art room, a music room, and a library. This building is the first of three towers planned for the project, with the second tower set to open in 18 months. The initiative is part of LA’s efforts to address homelessness, following the...

Most Christians don’t listen to God. They go to him only to talk! The scriptures reveal that any person who was ever used of God learned to remain in his presence until they heard from him. Scripture makes it clear that the Lord wants to talk to every one of us. “Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, ‘This is the way, walk in it,’ whenever you turn to the right hand or whenever you turn to the left” (Isaiah 30:21, NKJV). I heard of a little girl suffering from leukemia who was struggling with the thought of...

A curious, if bland, process story ran in POLITICO Tuesday morning, appearing intended not to catch the eye of the average reader, but a small group of influential D.C. politicos tasked with harming President Trump’s reputation on the national stage.The story—one of many regarding the implications of the guilty verdict against former President Donald J. Trump in the New York hush money trial late last month—contains substantial information that will doubtless inform the activities of Democrat-aligned SuperPACs supporting Joe Biden‘s re-election bid. In essence, POLITICO ran a story that breaks down Biden‘s presidential campaign committee’s messaging, data, and advertising pitches...

“Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the door of the furnace of blazing fire; he responded and said, ‘Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, come out, you servants of the Most High God, and come here!’ Then Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego came out of the midst of the fire. And the satraps, the prefects, the governors and the king’s high officials gathered around and saw in regard to these men that the fire had no effect on the bodies of these men nor was the hair of their head singed, nor were their trousers damaged, nor had the smell of fire even come...

Antisemitism task force reveals multiple antisemitic incidents at Columbia University, targeting of Jewish students following October 7 massacre. A professor at Columbia University told students to avoid mainstream media sources because “it is owned by Jews," according to a task force investigating antisemitism on the Columbia campus. Haaretz reported that this was one of several displays of antisemitism on the part of Columbia professors. Task force members told the paper that in another incident, a professor singled out a student with a Jewish-sounding name while reading the names of the students in the course and demanded that the student justify...

Major weapons exporter South Korea will "reconsider" a longstanding policy that bars it from supplying arms directly to Ukraine, a presidential official said Thursday, after North Korea and Russia signed a defense deal. Russia's President Vladimir Putin was in Pyongyang Wednesday for a high-profile state visit that underscored his growing ties with leader Kim Jong Un, as the two signed a "breakthrough" agreement that included a pledge to come to each other's aid if attacked. Hours later, Seoul said it was "planning to reconsider the issue of providing weapons support to Ukraine," a presidential official told reporters. Seoul has a...

Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem (6/20/24)[Prayer]The Names and Titles of God (“The Truth”) John 14:66 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.King James Version________________________God Bless America.ML/LTOS

How and why did California end up as a warning to Western civilization of what might be in store for anyone who followed its nihilism? California has become a test case of the suicide of the West. Never before has such a state, so rich in natural resources and endowed with such a bountiful human inheritance, self-destructed so rapidly. How and why did California so utterly consume its unmatched natural and ancestral inheritance and end up as a warning to Western civilization of what might be in store for anyone who followed its nihilism? The symptoms of the state’s suicide...

OAKLAND, Calif. - An Oakland Juneteenth celebration at Lake Merritt ended in violence Wednesday night. The Oakland Police Department says multiple people were shot, but did not have an exact number of victims.

An Israeli peace activist who was kidnapped and held hostage for 53 days in Gaza said the horrifying experience shattered her longstanding belief that there could be peace between Palestinians and Israelis. “I don’t believe in peace, I don’t, sorry. I changed my mind,” Ada Sagi, who was captured by Hamas on Oct. 7, at the start of the Israel-Hamas war, told the BBC. For decades, Sagi, 75, lived in the Nir Oz kibbutz near the Israel-Gaza border and taught Israelis Arabic so that they could speak to their neighbors. Now, she’s urging the Israeli government to agree to a...

This is the very same garbage Haaretz - Haaretzism - that rationalizes Arab racism and racially / Islamic bigotry motivated Arab-Muslim attacks targeting [any] Jews, which is a routine, but casts Jews' fear of Arab racism as if rather this is supposedly "racist." Haaretz: IDF soldiers don't rape Arab women due to racism. A Haaretz article sparked outrage online after it claimed that 'IDF soldiers don't rape Arab women due to racism.' Online users criticized: 'How do we get to such a twisted situation?' Israel National News. Jun 20, 2024.https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/391832 _____ The "Haaretz" reporter claims: "IDF soldiers do not rape...

Whenever I see something Milei has done or hear something he’s said, I hope that Donald Trump is taking notes. In Europe, where the leftists never thought they would have to rig elections, the ordinary people just voted in droves for conservatives. In Argentina and El Salvador, two other places where election rigging seemed unnecessary, Javier Milei and Nayib Bukele won. While Europe, outside of Italy, hasn’t yet had a chance to put the new conservativism into action, Milei and Bukele show that law and order policies and fiscal conservativism make a huge difference. Indeed, in an awesome video, Milei...

CBS News was forced to remove a video claiming that Joe Biden wandering off at the G7 Summit in Italy was an example of a “cheap fake.” The White House claimed the video was taken out of context, accusing Republicans of creating cheap fake videos to show he has cognitive problems.

Israel warned about the prospects of an “all-out war” in Lebanon after Hezbollah militants published disturbing drone footage threatening the Jewish state – as Hamas’ representative in Lebanon claimed the terror group would carry out the Oct. 7 massacre all over again if given the chance. As tensions boil along the Israel-Lebanon border, the Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorist group published a roughly 10-minute video on Tuesday, allegedly taken by drone, depicting several Israeli military sites and residential cities that were tagged “highly populated.” Israeli officials slammed the propaganda video as an unabashed threat against the Jewish state, warning the Hamas allies...

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. military launched a secret campaign to counter what it perceived as China’s growing influence in the Philippines, a nation hit especially hard by the deadly virus.The clandestine operation has not been previously reported. It aimed to sow doubt about the safety and efficacy of vaccines and other life-saving aid that was being supplied by China, a Reuters investigation found. Through phony internet accounts meant to impersonate Filipinos, the military’s propaganda efforts morphed into an anti-vax campaign. Social media posts decried the quality of face masks, test kits and the first vaccine...

Leadership of the Oklahoma Senate was in limbo on Wednesday following the defeat Tuesday of Ada Republican Sen. Greg McCortney in the primary election. McCortney had been elected by colleagues to be the next president pro tem of the Senate following the departure of Sen. Greg Treat, R-Oklahoma City, who was term-limited and could not run for reelection this year. McCortney, who was first elected to the Senate in 2016, emerged as a leader as lawmakers dealt in ensuing years with challenges ranging from serious revenue shortfalls to early regulation of the medical marijuana industry to the state’s response to...