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Getting Trump’s nominees confirmed will be a fireworks spectacular. If you know anything about Washington, D.C., you know that lying and backstabbing are routine. Your enemies lie, and, often, your friends lie -- or those you assume are friends. In Washington, hidden motives are a given. Sleight of hand is a card shark’s trick perfected in D.C. When it comes to confirming Matt Gaetz as attorney general, Pete Hegseth as DoJ chief, Tulsi Gabbard as national security director, Kristi Noem at Homeland Security, and John Ratcliffe at CIA, it’s a given that hyperpartisan Democrats are going to fight their nominations....

Heavily Pregnant liberal woman says she has the right to abort her baby as she writes ‘Not yet a human’ on her stomach.

Vladimir Putin has mysteriously disappeared from public view as his regime issued apocalyptic World War Three nuclear threats over the use of long-range Western missiles by Ukraine against Russian territory. It is unclear if during the past 12 days of high international tension the Kremlin dictator has been holed up in a hi-tech bunker, unwell, underwent another round of plastic surgery, took a secret holiday or simply chose to remain out of sight. Yet Putin, 72, has not been definitively seen since an appearance at the Valdai Forum in Sochi on November 7 when he congratulated a "courageous" Donald Trump...

Laken Riley fought for her life for 18 minutes. Biden and his treasonous regime have blood on their hands. The roommate of Laken Riley’s killer just testified during his trial that they went to the Roosevelt Hotel together in September 2023 and received a taxpayer funded flight to Georgia. Your government flew an illegal gang member to Georgia with your money — where he then proceeded to brutally murder an innocent girl. January 20th can’t come soon enough

I first read Jaroslav Pelikan’s The Riddle of Roman Catholicism: Its History, Its Beliefs, Its Future (1959) while doing my pastoral residency in Detroit, 1978–79. I just finished it for the second time. It is still a book with value. Pelikan says one thing in particular that struck me: Any Lutheran converting to Rome should give up any hope or expectation of having a Protestant impact on Catholicism. As I transition from Lutheran to Rome, I rather hope the reverse. I want Catholicism to have an impact on me. When I was growing up, what Catholics did, Lutherans didn’t. That...

God works in mysterious ways. Donald Trump was a superb president, though not a perfect one. He had a lot of issues, and one of them was his own inexperience and lack of understanding about just how deep the rabbit hole went. And how could he? Washington, D.C., is a place of insane complication. Politics is a confusing game as it is, but when you start adding layers of bureaucracy and people who are really good at talking out of both sides of their mouth, even the most stalwart defender of the people can be misled. Many people are elected...

The farmers are also mad over the government changing farm subsidy schemes, such as a 40% tax on fertilizer.. Thousands of British farmers have been protesting in Westminster against changes to the inheritance tax rules. Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced the plans included adding a 20% inheritance tax on farms worth more than £1 million (around $1,264,718.16). It would start in April 2026. People are ticked off because the Labour Party promised to support farmers. Sky News spoke to one farmer: “It’s unfortunate, as Labour had originally said they would support farmers,” said fourth-generation farmer Will Weaver,...

“Therefore be careful how you walk, not as unwise men, but as wise” (Ephesians 5:15). Every believer is responsible to walk wisely. I believe the moment an individual becomes saved, God deposits enough wisdom in him to make him absolutely responsible for his behavior. Someone may say, “Wait a minute! How can a brand-new believer walk in wisdom? Doesn’t he grow into that? Haven’t wise Christians been saved for many years?” Such questions miss the point of Ephesians 5:15. The first word in this verse takes us back to Paul’s invitation to become saved in verse 14: “Awake, sleeper, and...

The commander of the IRGC's Basij paramilitary has claimed that the US and Israel are now defeated, Iran International reported. On Tuesday, General Gholamreza Soleimani told Iranian media that, "The defeat of the United States in the contemporary era in the West Asia region was its first major strategic defeat." It was also America's "greatest defeat" since the founding of the United States, he claimed. Soleimani also claimed that the "Zionist regime has been defeated militarily," crippled economically by the war against Hamas in Gaza while Hezbollah continues its daily attacks on Israel. "We must continuously create and disseminate content...

SEATTLE (AP) — A major storm swept across the northwest U.S. Tuesday evening, battering the region with strong winds and rain and causing widespread power outages and downed trees that killed at least one person. The Weather Prediction Center issued excessive rainfall risks through Friday and hurricane-force wind warnings were in effect as the strongest atmospheric river — a large plume of moisture — that California and the Pacific Northwest has seen this season overwhelms the region. The storm system is considered a “ bomb cyclone,” which occurs when a cyclone intensifies rapidly. Downed trees struck homes and littered roads...

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Residents in America's northernmost town of Utqiagvik, Alaska, saw their last sunrise for two months on Monday. The sun set at 1:27 p.m. local time on Monday and won't rise again until 1:15 p.m. on January 22, the Washington Post reported, where it will shine for less than an hour before sinking once more. This months long period of darkness is known as the polar night. Daylight will then gradually increase each day until the sun remains in the sky for 24 hours a day for roughly two months, in what is known as the midnight sun, during the summer...

We knew that Democrats and swampy Republicans would never just sit back and allow Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to be confirmed as Attorney General for Donald Trump's second administration without a knock-down, drag-out fight, and the shenanigans in the effort to derail the nomination are ramping up. The New York Times reported Tuesday morning that 24 files with "damaging testimony" about Gaetz were obtained by a "hacker," but that so far the hacker has not publicly released any of the information. An unidentified hacker has gained access to a computer file shared in a secure link among lawyers whose clients...

A malnourished seven-year-old girl died in an Oklahoma hospital just days after she told a good-hearted neighbor that her abusive parents loved her. Violet Mitchell was taken to St. Anthony's Medical Center on August 2, where doctors said she was 'extremely malnourished' and was 'essentially skin and bones' with 'sunken eyes,' the Kansas City Star reports. But just two earlier, a kind neighbor tried to help the young girl. 'I took her [in] because she was hungry,' Tera Day told NewsNation. 'I fed her chicken nuggets, mashed potatoes and carrots.' Day noted that the girl 'didn't tell me anything about...

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, appointments of President-elect Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, gave their approval to a proposal that abolishes the Department of Education. Corey DeAngelis, who is a senior fellow at the American Culture Project, posted on X that the Department of Education failed an audit for the third year in a row. "Abolish it," DeAngelis, a prominent school choice advocate, wrote. "Very reasonable proposal." Ramaswamy responded. "Yes," Musk, the owner of Tesla, added. The Department of Government Efficiency, also called DOGE, is aimed at suggesting ways to dismantle government bureaucracy and restructure federal agencies in order...

Senate Republicans aired frustrations Tuesday after Vice President-elect Vance and other party members skipped votes Monday, greasing the skids for Democratic-backed judicial nominees to be greenlighted as part of a final push to fill the bench with lifetime appointees before President-elect Trump takes office. Republicans on Monday attempted to slow down an effort by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to advance more than a dozen judicial nominees, which Democrats have prioritized before ceding power at year’s end. However, they were unable to stop them as a handful of their GOP colleagues did not show up to the Capitol for...

ATLANTA – The state is laying the groundwork for a private-school vouchers program by launching a website with details on the initiative. The new site, mygeorgiapromise.org, includes information on the Georgia Promise Scholarship, which the Republican-controlled General Assembly created this year to provide eligible K-12 students in lower-performing schools up to $6,500 in annual funding for private school tuition, tutoring services, and other qualified expenses. “Mygeorgiapromise.org will make it easy for families, schools, and providers to learn about eligibility and the application process as we work toward the program launch in July 2025,” said Mitch Seabaugh, the program’s senior vice...

LIVE – Updated at 07:24 US embassy in Kyiv has received ‘specific information’ of a potential significant air attack on Wednesday and will be closed.

The Democratic Party appears to have lost its supermajority in the Colorado House of Representatives. The Republican Party appears to have flipped three seats in the general election earlier this month. If that result holds, Democrats will have 43 seats out of 65 in the Colorado House of Representatives, while Republicans will have 22. A party needs 44 seats to have a supermajority in the chamber. The difference between Democrats having the supermajority and a regular majority in the Colorado House of Representatives may be a mere seven votes. That is because Republican Rebecca Keltie had a seven-vote lead over...

Austin, Texas, planned to transition all its city buses to electric, but the ambitious climate-friendly goal has come to a screeching halt. The Austin Monitor reports that 46 new electric buses – costing around $1 million each – will be in storage for at least a year due to lack of charging infrastructure to keep them running all day. The buses were manufactured by now-bankrupt Proterra, which has left city transit districts across the country with fleets of inoperable buses. Proterra was acquired by Phoenix Motor Inc., which the Monitor reports is struggling to service warranties and repair technical issues....