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Sitting on death row in 2009, John Jacobson Jr., known as the "Yacht Killer," talked about murdering married couple Thomas and Jackie Hawks to obtain the money for a sex-change surgery. Five years earlier, Jacobson lured the Hawkses onto their boat off the California coast, tied them to the vessel's anchor, and threw them overboard before grabbing a beer from the fridge and starting to fish. "I wanted the surgery, and I knew I 100 percent wanted the surgery," Jacobson told ABC News. Last year, Jacobson’s dreams came true when California taxpayers footed the bill for his gender transition surgery,...

Former President Donald Trump's interview with the Bloomberg News and The Economic Club of Chicago.

As the 2024 presidential campaign edges to a close, the arrogance of the left, especially those in the media, is escalating to a fever pitch. The best example of their tone-deaf hysteria is Martha Raddatz’s attempt to humiliate J.D.Vance over what she called lies about FEMA and Tren de Aragua. People like Raddatz never learn from their egregious, foolish mistakes. She tried to assert that the reports of FEMA failures were false when everyone with a pulse has heard the hundreds of horror stories from the victims on the ground. She tried to stop Vance from speaking, so determined was...

Conservative pundit Meghan McCain blasted Martha Raddatz of ABC News for the way she handled an interview with Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) on the network’s Sunday public affairs program “This Week.” “It’s really insane Martha and her producers didn’t see how awful her line of questioning sounds to a normal person,” McCain wrote Sunday on the social platform X. “I’m sure she would have different feelings if she lived next to an apartment complex filled w/ Venezuelan gangs.” McCain, a leading media personality on the right, was referencing a question Raddatz asked Vance, former President Trump’s running mate, about whether...

Americans’ trust in the establishment media to report current events “fully, accurately and fairly” plummeted to a record low in 2024, Gallup polling found Monday. The decline in trust indicates the media lost credibility due to pushing false narratives, such as Hunter Biden’s laptop story, Russian collusion, the source of the 2020 pandemic, the January 6 investigation, and numerous hoaxes: As a result, only 31 percent of Americans have a “great deal” or “fair amount” of confidence in the media to tell the truth, one point below its low watermark of 32 percent in 2016 and 2023.

@PastorMark lays it out…

VIDEOOn October 15, exactly one month after the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump at his Palm Beach golf club, FBI lead investigator Jeffrey Veltri gave us an update on the progress of his investigation into this case. Since he gave the update from the Humorverse where everybody is forced to tell the absolute truth, his revelations were quite interesting.

Democrats are trying to cancel or at the very least spoil President Donald Trump's upcoming campaign event at Madison Square Garden in New York City, further evidencing their desperation in the final weeks before the election and their hostility toward American freedoms. New York state Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal, for instance, demanded last week that the arena dishonor its contract and cancel the Oct. 27 event, which he equated to a Nazi rally. Hoylman-Sigal failed in depriving his fellow New Yorkers of an opportunity to engage in the democratic process and hear live from their candidate; however, Lincoln Project co-founder George...

Donald Trump supporter and Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy took aim at Vice President Kamala Harris for what he characterized as the 'gaslighting' of her record. In a six-minute online tirade, during which he warned listeners about celebrity endorsements, Portnoy told his 3.2 million followers she is the 'worst candidate to ever run for president, ever.' Portnoy began by apologizing for unleashing a rant about politics, explaining that he tries 'not to,' but he 'hit the boiling point' after listening to some recent Harris interviews.

Cardinal-designate Radcliffe links African bishops’ opposition to homosexuality to pressure from evangelicals, Moscow, and MuslimsIn an article published in the Italian daily edition of the Vatican newspaper, Cardinal-designate Timothy Radcliffe, OP, one of the synod session’s two spiritual assistants, took repeated issue with statements made by Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, OFM Cap, the cardinal who leads the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar.Cardinal-designate Radcliffe also linked African bishops’ qualms about homosexuality to “intense” pressure from American evangelicals, from Moscow, and from Muslims.The October 2023 synod session’s synthesis report, wrote Cardinal-designate Radcliffe, “seemed to backtrack on the preparatory document...

What is the status of all Trump's cases? Does he have to pay the 454 million dollar fine? How about the 84 million to that weird woman?

Local election officials in Georgia cannot delay or refuse to officially certify election results, according to a state court ruling on Monday. “Election superintendents in Georgia have a mandatory fixed obligation to certify election results,” wrote Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney in the ruling. “Consequently, no election superintendent (or member of a board of elections and registration) may refuse to certify or abstain from certifying election results under any circumstance.” McBurney wrote that the U.S. Constitution does not allow an election official to decline to certify the results. “If election superintendents were, as Plaintiff urges, free to play...

The far-left New York Times disgraced itself Monday by clearing sitting Vice President Kamala Harris of obvious and blatant plagiarism. Now the expert used by the Times to exonerate Harris says he did not do a full analysis. ... Christopher Rufo dropped the bombshell that Harris “plagiarized at least a dozen sections of her criminal justice book, Smart on Crime.” ... With the help of Dr. Stefan Weber, an internationally famous “plagiarism hunter,” Rufo provided one jaw-dropping example after another of Harris directly copying and pasting paragraph after paragraph into her book that were written by others. She did this...

This morning as I read several sections of my Bible about Solomon and his rise to power, several things finally sunk into my thick skull. When Solomon took the thrown after King David, he dispatched his enemies from within, even unto inside the where the tabernacle was kept. Fine. That was how things would be done, history. As I sometimes do after the daily reading, I flip through my Bible almost absent mindedly. Today, that absent mindedness fell upon the Wisdom of Solomon Chapter 12. As I read through the chapter, I became awestruck at a few passages that reflected...

If Vice President Kamala Harris wins the election and Democrats flip the House and keep the Senate, the U.S. would witness a powerful resurgence of progressive policymaking across virtually every sector. Why it matters: A fully Democrat-controlled Washington would protect President Biden's legacy of vast domestic spending programs, including green-energy projects, and existing U.S. foreign policy

A female high school student in Maine reportedly suffered a concussion and was left with vision impairment after a male student who identifies as female assaulted and bit her. . . A male student, who identifies as transgender and recently started taking estrogen injections, assaulted a female classmate earlier this month at Mount Desert Island High School in Bar Harbor, Maine, according to a report by Maine Wire. . . They also said their daughter has suffered a concussion and vision damage as a result of the assault.

The Gospel Coalition is one of the largest online ministries in the world. It has been a major launching and landing spot for many players in Evangelicalism, particularly the liberal subversive teachers. One such is Russell Moore who has been on The Gospel Coalition’s council. The council consists of several figures, among them JD Greear, David Platt, John Piper, and Daniel Akin. But it no longer includes Russell Moore. Currently, on the leadership page of The Gospel Coalition, Russell Moore’s name has been removed, along with Miguel Núñez of the Dominican Republic. No reason has been given for the removal,...

Need another reason to homeschool your children? Well, Gwen Walz, wife of Minnesota Governor and VP nominee, Tim Walz, apparently has a new mission in life—reading children’s books about gay dads and their cats. While the state grapples with real issues like education failure, rising crime rates, and crumbling infrastructure, Gwen is preoccupied with what? Trying to convince your kids that two homosexual men and a cat are the pinnacle of family values. Who knew that queer propaganda would be disguised as a quirky story about avoiding bath time? This is what passes for public engagement these days—pushing ideologies down...

Kamala Harris, the unelected Democratic nominee for president—yes, unelected, because no one asked her to be the face of the party but here she is—has now dropped her latest gem of wisdom upon the American people. And what is it this time? At first, I thought this was fake, a spoof account. I thought this couldn’t be real…but it’s real. And she’s going to “fix” the lives of Black men by handing out free cash and legalizing weed. That’s right, ladies and gents—Kamala Harris actually believes that the key to black men’s success in America is pot and government handouts....