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Evangelicals have expressed "disbelief" at comments made by the Archbishop of Canterbury in which he claimed that gay sex is not sinful if it is within a committed relationship. Archbishop Justin Welby made the comments on "The Rest is Politics" podcast hosted by former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell and former Tory MP Rory Stewart. Campbell used the podcast to pose a similar question to one he had asked Archbishop Welby in a 2017 interview for GQ magazine about whether he believed gay sex was sinful. Asked if he now had a "better answer" to that question, Welby said he...

Day #40 of the Top 50 songs on my iTunes playlist -- ranked in reverse order by play frequency from #50 to #1 and presented here on a series of FR threads. I've been posting them here on a new thread that compiles the growing list one day at a time over the last couple of months. I only post them on weekdays and may miss a day or two here and there, so we are getting down to the last few weeks here. And to show my gratitude to the FR management for giving us all a forum to...

Washington Post staffers are growing restless over the left-leaning paper’s silence on endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for president — with many suspecting that owner Jeff Bezos is behind the delay, according to a report. Some insiders speculate the billionaire Amazon founder, who has not spoken publicly about the 2024 election, does not want to alienate Republican challenger Donald Trump as he gains momentum to recapture the White House next month, the Status newsletter reported Tuesday. The newspaper’s editorial board is believed to have written its backing for the Democrat but has not gotten the go-ahead to publish it from...

First off, I’m not even going to dignify the silly claims about President Trump being an admirer of the leader of the National Socialist Workers’ Party, nor the allegations regarding a slain US soldier. If you want to read about it, there’s nothing I can add to the post that Ace wrote yesterday, appropriately titled Do I Really Have to Talk About This Bullsnot? (censorship mine). This even goes beyond Coupmala’s insane efforts to slander Trump and inspire yet another assassination attempt. What’s happening now is far more sinister. To back up a bit, a few months ago I was...

Zelensky cried earlier in the week that he needed a “security umbrella” from NATO, since the alliance had deemed Ukraine too corrupt to join before and after the war began. Every day these world leaders put us on the brink of World War III with no regard for their actions. In the most recent vote, seven NATO members once again prevented Ukraine from joining. The United States and Germany voted no. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that more thought would be required to permit Ukraine to join the alliance, and that the support of the United States was crucial. Joe...

As election day draws closer, pro-life groups have been sounding the alarm about a proposed constitutional amendment to the state ballot that would grant Montanans nearly unlimited access to induced abortion (the direct and intentional killing of preborn human beings). The constitutional initiative known as CI-128 has been heavily funded by pro-abortion groups such as abortion giant Planned Parenthood and the ACLU. The national ACLU and ACLU of Montana have planned to spend the most they have ever spent on Montana — $1.3 million — on abortion-supporting campaigns they hope will reach the state’s voters. The pro-life Women Speak Out...

On Wednesday night, another “October Surprise” story against Donald Trump dropped, and like the others, it doesn’t pass the smell test.According to the story, which The Guardian published, a former model named Stacey Williams, “who says she met Donald Trump through the late sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein... has accused the former president of groping and sexually touching her in an incident in Trump Tower in 1993, in what she believed was a ‘twisted game’ between the two men.”It was curious that after it broke, I couldn’t find any domestic media outlets that had picked it up. I’m not sure if...

Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris has bailed on her plan to sit down with Joe Rogan, with a campaign aide blaming “scheduling” for the cancellation. Her decision to cancel comes amid widespread skepticism that Kamala Harris could get through a three-hour, unscripted interview with Rogan given that she has had difficulty handling much shorter events with friendly news media, like her recent disastrous town hall on CNN. Kamala Harris aide Ian Sams told MSNBC this week that the Rogan interview won’t be happening.

0:00 Intro 0:31 Kamala Harris' attempt to put DEI at the center of her policies is destructive 21:45 Kamala Harris' extreme pro-abortion stance is morally indefensible 44:50 Kamala Harris' border policies will turn America into an unsafe and bankrupt nation 1:05:42 The Israel-Hamas War would not have started under Donald Trump 1:26:49 Donald Trump did not commit to a peaceful transfer of power 1:37:07 Outro

Earlier this week, we received confirmation that former President Donald Trump would be interviewed on Joe Rogan's popular podcast on Friday. Rogan's show has more than 14 million followers on the Spotify platform. Last week, Reuters reported that Kamala Harris "could sit down for an interview with popular podcaster Joe Rogan, whose audience leans heavily towards young men, as she works to shore up support with male voters." However, her campaign has now confirmed she won't be doing it. “We talked with Rogan and his team about the podcast. Unfortunately, it isn’t going to work out right now because of...

A common—and persuasive—argument against gun registration is that those who comply just put themselves on a list to have their firearms stolen by government officials in the future. As if to emphasize the point, the New Zealand government recently confiscated firearms licenses and the guns they covered from 62 people because of their political ideology. The situation is an important reminder that warnings against registering firearms are correct. But it also raises a red flag about governments' willingness to punish people for the ideas they believe. "Sixty-two firearms licence holders with views aligned to the Sovereign Citizens movement had their...

YES perform I've seen all good people with the Orchestra - from their 2002 concert

One can roll all of the majority of grievances into one basic event, the government stepping on the snake. The famous Gadsden Flag of “Don’t Tread On Me,” a warning to the Brits to mind their own affairs, or they might get bitten, is a favorite of the patriots against the decades-long process of violating their rights. It’s a warning revived during the Tea Party days, now fifteen years hence. But they have been stepping on them. What the US Government loves to do, is step on the snake; to grind it into the ground and since 1787, they have...

We Americans have no general civil right to sue the police for failure to provide protection. In a nutshell, you cannot sue a government agency or a school district unless it’s done within a certain period of time after suffering an injury or loss. Even then, you can only sue the police or the Department of Social Services for certain things. And providing you with your own personal protection services is not law enforcement’s function. In essence, since these are the king’s men, they are his sovereign representatives, shielded under the ancient doctrine of sovereign immunity. Time and time again,...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (WRIC) – A federal judge has ordered Virginia to put people back on the state’s voter rolls after they were removed under a state program that the Justice Department and advocates claim illegally took them off too close to the election. Lawsuits from the Justice Department and advocacy groups allege that part of an executive order from Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin systematically removes alleged noncitizens from the rolls too soon to the Nov. 5 presidential election in violation of federal law. The law — the National Voter Registration Act — requires Virginia and other states to stop systematically...

Leftists have yelled for years that President Trump was "anti-immigrant."Well, with early voting in Florida, the immigrants have weighed in in Miami and are telling a different story.According to Breitbart News:Blue Miami-Dade county in Florida flipped from Democrat to Republican in early and mail-in voting combined Thursday afternoon, according to the latest election results.The live update at 2:32 p.m. Eastern showed Republicans across the state of Florida leading Democrats in terms of early and mail-in voting combined, seeing 44.20 percent for Republicans — or 1,382,165 votes — to the Democrats’ 35.54 percent, or 1,111,890 votes.Across the state, Republicans have the...

The son of Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Richard Neal — leader of the House Ways and Means Committee — raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars in consulting fees from his father’s campaign and pressure groups who were actively lobbying his dad on tax policy, according to Politico. Richard Neal’s son Brendan Neal launched a one-person public affairs firm offering “political advice, lobbying and strategic communications” in 2020, roughly one year after his father became the ranking member on Ways and Means — the sole congressional committee with jurisdiction to introduce federal tax legislation, Politico reported. Brendan Neal went on to...

https://youtu.be/cTDTVbourzU?si=rEw0JmCr9lRQxdd3 Rudyard Lynch, aka Whatifalthist, is a young youtubing historian who discusses the comparison between Calhoun’s Mouse Utopia experiment and its relevance to today’s society. Essentially the experiment shows that society becomes feminized and chaotic as the population of the mice rise, even though this breakdown in the mouse society occurs well before the supposed carrying capacity of the cage.

evadans will vote on a constitutional amendment, Question 6, in November. If it passes in 2024 and 2026, abortion will be an individual fundamental right without limit. No doctors. No safety regulations. All nine months. No parental involvement for underage girls seeking an abortion. Risky for women. Dangerous for girls. Deadly for the almost-born. Bad for Nevada. **************VIDEO ON LINK VOTE "NO" ON QUESTION 6

A recent column in the newspaper for the Diocese of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, urged Catholics to vote against a pro-abortion amendment on the November ballot. Michael Pauley, the executive director of the South Dakota Catholic Conference, compared the importance of voting in the upcoming election to the importance of stopping to help somebody if their car was overturned and there was nobody else around. “We’re morally obliged to stop and help,” he said about the people in the overturned car, “especially when we know that our decision could make the difference between life and death.” “Unfortunately, this sense of...