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Despite the never-ending drumbeat that the number of religious "nones" is on the rise and churches are emptying out, there is a curious trend involving Bibles that many religious and social pundits and prognosticators probably didn't see coming: Bible sales are spiking. The Bible has always been a bestseller, but according to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Bible sales in the United States saw an increase of 22 percent at the end of October. The WSJ piece attributes the increase to worries about current events, including the recent election that had the entire country, left and right, chain-smoking...

Chad Chronister, Donald Trump’s pick to run the Drug Enforcement Administration, said Tuesday he was withdrawing his name from consideration, becoming the second person selected by the president-elect to bow out quickly after being nominated for a position requiring Senate confirmation. Sheriff Chronister, the top law enforcement officer in Hillsborough County, Florida, said in a post on X that he was backing away from the opportunity, which he called “the honor of a lifetime.” “Over the past several days, as the gravity of this very important responsibility set in, I’ve concluded that I must respectfully withdraw from consideration,” Chronister wrote....

An Idaho beauty salon is facing a boycott after its owner repeatedly branded Donald Trump voters racist, homophobic and misogynists. Tiffney Prickett, from the salon, Voire, in Coeur d'Alene, took to TikTok after the election to share her thoughts of the president-elect's voting base. 'Trump basically gave small men the ability and the courage to be misogynistic and hateful and say s*** like 'your body, my choice' and 'you will bear my child whether you like it or not,'' Prickett said in the November 12 video. The two-minute clip saw the businesswoman rant about 'the things men say to women...

The liberal line on President Biden's pardon of his son Hunter was clear: The Devil Donald Trump made him do it! On Tuesday's CNN This Morning, former Biden communications director Kate Bedingfield said that Biden's pardon on Hunter was "totally defensible,"given Trump's alleged plans to go after opponents in the new administration. As she put it: Biden was responding to what Donald Trump himself and his appointees like Kash Patel have said about how they intend to use the Justice Department. Bedingfield expressed understanding of why Democrats were frustrated that Biden was not more "forthcoming" about his plans, and she...

Hillsborough County Sherrif Chad Chronister, a COVID-19 mandate enforcer, has withdrawn his name from nomination as head of the Drug Enforcement Agency. Chronister announces via Twitter:

Shaun Maguire alleges Hunter Biden failed to pay his family more than $300,000 in rent in 2019, 2020 ... After his unconditional pardon from his father, Hunter Biden faces accusations that he owes former landlords more than $300,000 in unpaid rent. Shaun Maguire ... "So what happens to the $300k+ in back pay rent that Hunter Biden owes my family from 2019-2020? Is that pardoned now? Thanks Joe," Maguire wrote ... The president signed a "full and unconditional pardon" for his son Hunter on Sunday that applies to federal crimes he committed or may have committed from Jan. 1, 2014,...

I’d like to put into words just how much the election results in the United States mean to me even though I’m not an American. I don't cry much, but I found, to my own surprise, that I was choking up on Tuesday night as the returns rolled in. I was born and raised in Canada, where we don’t engage in the level of overt and unabashed patriotism of our southern neighbours. In fact, while most people spoke warmly of Americans themselves, their displays of patriotism were seen to be a bit too much, too over-the-top. Garish. “Sure, we get...

A team sheds new light on the role of marine-source omega-3 supplementation in treating adipose tissue inflammation and reducing the risk for cardiometabolic diseases like type 2 diabetes. The study reveals that subjects with high numbers of blood low density lipoproteins (LDL)—commonly known as "bad cholesterol"—have higher inflammation in their adipose tissue than those with low LDL. The team also demonstrated that, in subjects with high blood LDL, adipose tissue inflammation was associated with abnormalities in carbohydrate (sugar) and fat metabolism that increase the risk for type 2 diabetes. Furthermore, the study revealed that fish-oil omega-3 supplementation was effective in...

On Monday, when asked what the Biden administration is telling Ukrainian counterparts about what will happen once Biden leaves office, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told ABC This Week: Well, first what I’m saying is we’re going to do everything in our power for these 50 days to get Ukraine all the tools we possibly can to strengthen their position on the battlefield so they’ll be stronger at the negotiating table. And President Biden directed me to oversee a massive surge in the military equipment that we are delivering to Ukraine so that we have spent every dollar that Congress...

Ketone bodies, produced by the body to provide fuel during fasting, have roles in regulating cellular processes and aging mechanisms beyond energy production. Research shows that ketone bodies can best be understood as powerful signaling metabolites affecting brain function in aging and Alzheimer's disease. A new study demonstrates that ketone bodies and similar metabolites have profound effects on the proteome and protein quality control in the brain. Scientists, working on mouse models of Alzheimer's disease and aging, and in the nematode C. elegans, reveal the ketone body β-hydroxybutyrate interacts directly with misfolded proteins, altering their solubility and structure so they...

Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister has withdrawn his name from consideration for administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency. Chronister was nominated late last month by President-elect Donald Trump to serve in the post. In a statement Tuesday, Chronister said there remains work to be done as sheriff. "To serve as Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration is the honor of a lifetime," he said. "Over the past several days, as the gravity of this very important responsibility set in, I’ve concluded that I must respectfully withdraw from consideration...

The View‘s Ana Navarro-Cárdenas took an unorthodox approach to defending President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son, Hunter Biden, for any and all federal crimes he might have committed over the the last decade and change on Monday. In a tweet fired off on Monday night, Navarro-Cárdenas scoffed at the idea that Biden’s sweeping pardon of his progeny was setting a poor precedent. “Woodrow Wilson pardoned his brother-in-law, Hunter deButts. Bill Clinton pardoned his brother, Roger. Donald Trump pardoned his daughter’s father-in-law, Charlie Kushner. And just appointed him Ambassador to France. But tell me again how Joe Biden ‘is setting...

The Soros Criminal Conspiracy of Prosecutors explains the developments in the Daniel Penny and Daniel Perry cases; that is the goal to criminalize self-defense in order to create societal chaos in America. Before illegal aliens took over NYC, my wife Marie and I frequently visited NYC to attend Broadway shows. We rode the subway until we had the Daniel Penny experience! One night, returning from a play, we entered a subway train. We sensed something was amiss, but remained on the train. A woman sat in front of me with her sweater on her lap and a couple of suspicious...

Chicago residents flooded the city council meeting and WENT OFF on Mayor Brandon Johnson for protecting illegals and called on Trump & Tom Homan to "make an example out of this negro right here first." Mayor Johnson immediately cut the lady's mic after she said that. Brandon Johnson is scum and deserves to be torched. Residents are sick and tired of their hard-earned money going to border invaders and foreign countries. It's time to put Americans FIRST. She finished with a mic drop statement: "FLIP CHICAGO RED!" BehizyTweets X (2 min video)

Several top Veterans Affairs officials in Tennessee resigned as an internal investigation and a broader congressional probe into alleged sexual misconduct intensified, Breitbart News has learned. Congressional investigators discovered that one man who resigned, whose name they would not tell Breitbart News but sources familiar say was a bargaining unit biomedical employee, had dozens of sexual relationships with women who worked at the Mountain Home VA medical center in Tennessee. In fact, the congressional investigators told Breitbart News this one man slept with no fewer than 32 different women who worked there—and the man and several of the women bragged...

You can’t make this up: Dafna Yoran is the Manhattan prosecutor currently throwing the book at Daniel Penny. In 2019, she gave a reduced sentence to a black man who murdered an asian college professor as he was withdrawing cash from an ATM. She said that it was under the guise of “restorative justice” and ended up giving him 10 years for manslaughter after he was originally charged with murder. Now she’s attempting to imprison an innocent man who protected a group of people on the subway.

In the annals of academic absurdity, there are moments that make even seasoned critics pause in awe. “Loving the Brine Shrimp: Exploring Queer Feminist Blue Posthumanities to Reimagine the ‘America’s Dead Sea’” is one such moment. This is not a parody—though it reads like one—but a “serious” paper, or so the author insists. In what is best described as a surrealist love letter to brine shrimp, the author, Ewelina Jarosz (she/they), wades through a soup of critical theory, environmental activism, and performance art, asking the reader to reconsider their relationship with brine shrimp—not as mere crustaceans but as symbols of...

Donald Trump to attend reopening of Notre Dame cathedral, Pope Francis to skipPresident Donald Trump has announced he will attend the grand reopening of Notre Dame de Paris this coming weekend, while Pope Francis has declined to attend. The iconic cathedral has been repaired after the devastating fire of April 2019.President Donald Trump has announced he will attend the grand reopening of Notre Dame de Paris this coming weekend, as the iconic and now repaired cathedral is formally opened after the devastating fire of April 2019.In a post on social media platforms December 3, Trump gave the unexpected announcement of...

Joe Biden doesn't like coal. I mean, he really, really doesn't like it. What's more, coal is mainly located in red states and employs a lot of conservative voters. Advertisement Biden decided to deliver a parting shot to coal-producing states and those whose livelihoods depend on mining. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently approved an amendment to the Resource Management Plan (RMP) that would ban new coal leases in Wyoming's Powder River Basin and make "48.12 billion short tons of coal unavailable for leasing consideration in order to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as a proxy for climate change,"...

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s government early Wednesday lifted the martial law he imposed during a tense night of political drama in which troops surrounded parliament and lawmakers voted to reject military rule. Police and military personnel were seen leaving the grounds of parliament following the bipartisan vote, and the declaration was formally lifted around 4:30 a.m. during a Cabinet meeting. Yoon imposed martial law late Tuesday, vowing to eliminate “anti-state” forces as he struggles against an opposition that controls parliament and that he accuses of sympathizing with communist North Korea. Less than three hours later, parliament acted, with...