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Many years ago, I was a football fan — a diehard, even. I stuck with the Panthers through seasons so bad they should’ve been classified as disaster zones, and I relished the rare payoff of seeing them claw their way to a Super Bowl. Those days are long gone. The NFL has morphed into a walking parody of itself—a late-night comedy sketch scripted straight from a corporate DEI handbook, spliced with what used to be satire about effeminacy. From the heavy-handed political sermons to the nonstop social engineering, it’s become an endurance test I have no interest in taking. And...

Hershel Carmen House was born July 4, 1941

An SBC church who once had nine ‘women pastors’ on staff has given the ladies a new title to avoid the prohibitions against female pastors in the Southern Baptist Convention. Fielder Road Baptist Church, aka Fielder Church, is a Texas-based multi-site, multi-ethnic, and multi-lingual church that the Baptist Press has previously highlighted for having 30 percent Hispanic and African-American congregants. Led by Lead Pastor Jason Paredes, they not only have diversity of ethnicity, but they also have a diversity of gender among the pastoral staff. As of April 29th, 2025 they had nine women on staff bearing the title “pastor.”...

Once a symbol of rural grit, the presence of the best-selling pickup truck in a song may now mean something else.Country singer-songwriter Jenna Paulette drives a white Ford F-150 pickup truck, a gift from her cattle-rancher grandfather when he retired from driving. “He called me and said, ‘Hey, sug, I got a 2010 F-150 with sixty thousand miles on it, and I was wondering if you’d drive it for me,’ ” the native Texan, who grew up in Lewisville, recalls. “I still drive that truck to this day; I’ll never get rid of it. It keeps me connected to him...

A Harvard researcher was brutally attacked by a gang of teenagers at a Boston movie theater after he told them to be quiet during a screening. Thiago Rentz, 35, was seeing a late-night showing of the new horror film Weapons at the AMC Boston Common 19 last week when things got frightening off-screen. A group of five teens in the theater loudly clapped and screamed throughout the screening, ruining the experience for everyone, Rentz said.

Video footage of a man pummeling a woman at a Rüfüs Du Sol concert at the Rose Bowl Saturday evening has shocked concertgoers, with some attendees voicing concerns about crowd control and safety measures at the sold-out show. The video, shared by festival news platform Festive Owl, shows a man knocking a woman to the ground and repeatedly throwing punches at her while other attendees try to pull him back. “This man punched me in the face, knocking me out and causing significant bleeding, while he continued attacking our group,” the woman wrote in a message shared by Festive Owl....

Skip to Main Content Pay & ApplyFind & ReportCommunity InfoDepartments HomeDepartmentsCity AdministrationCommunicationsAnaheim ContigoClick the bottom right to translate to another language • Haga clic abajo a la derecha de la página para traducir a otro idiomaImmigration enforcement: timely updatesANAHEIM, Calif. (Aug. 19, 2025) — We are watching for any federal immigration enforcement in Anaheim Tuesday and continue to advise caution.We looked into a report in the area of Gilbert Street and Lincoln Avenue around midday Tuesday with no indication of federal enforcement activity, based on a canvassing of the area, talks with area businesses and consultation with our police.We are...

Paul Sperry @paulsperry_ DEVELOPING: Trump HUD is proposing a two-year cap on fraud-infested Section 8 housing subsidies, which currently have no time limits or work requirements. Studies show at least 1.4 million have been freeloading off tax-supported Sec. 8, which brings more crime to neighborhoods... 12:11 PM · Aug 19, 2025

President Donald Trump’s crusade against crime in the nation’s capital has resulted in more than 450 arrests since Aug. 7, the White House announced Tuesday morning. Those arrests, fueled by an increase in federal agents on city streets, run the gamut of charges, from murder and assault to driving under the influence. But a full picture about who has been arrested, where, for what and by whom is not yet clear. Every day, the White House issues a summary of the previous night’s operation, including the number of arrests and some examples of arresting causes. Numbers of illegal firearms seized...

In an interview with NBC News' Andrea Mitchell, Finnish President Alexander Stubb weighed in on the attempted peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia. He likened the possibility of Ukraine ceding land to Russia to the U.S. giving up multiple states.

Republican state lawmakers argue that Democratic lawmakers violated 30-day disclosure rules in the California Constitution.Republican lawmakers in California have filed a lawsuit asking the State Supreme Court to stop Democrats from moving ahead this week with a plan to redraw congressional districts.It was the latest move in an escalating national battle over redistricting that began this summer when President Trump asked Texas leaders to help Republicans maintain control of the House of Representatives by reshaping congressional districts and delivering five additional seats for their party.California Democrats responded on Monday by introducing a package of bills to create new district boundaries...

A developing homicide investigation is underway after a missing woman’s husband was seen on video dragging a large wrapped-up object away from their home just a day before the woman’s body was found dumped in similar state. On Aug. 12, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department responded to an apartment complex on the 500 block of Lancaster Boulevard in Lancaster to take a missing person report following the disappearance of 33-year-old Sheylla Cabrera. But that investigation took a turn the following day after detectives viewed surveillance footage from a neighbor’s Ring camera that appeared to show Cabrera’s husband dragging a...

Nationalism Under Attack: Globalists Declare War on Freedom The world is embroiled in a profound struggle that extends beyond battlefields to encompass narratives, sanctions, legal warfare, and political ostracism. At its heart lies a clash between two competing ideologies: globalism, which seeks a borderless world unified under a centralized ideological framework, and nationalism, which champions the sovereignty, cultural identity, and self-determination of individual nation-states. With over three decades of experience in the military, I’ve witnessed conflicts across many domains, but none as critical as the globalist campaign targeting populist nationalist leaders. From Hungary’s Viktor Orbán to Republika Srpska’s Milorad Dodik,...

A wildlife biologist at Yosemite National Park was fired after draping a transgender pride flag from El Capitan. Dr Shannon Joslin, who holds a PhD in genomics and studies bats, was fired from the park earlier this month following the stunt on May 20 of this year. The 35-year-old, who is nonbinary, and six other climbers, unfurled the 55-by-35 foot pink and blue flag one third of the way up the iconic granite monolith

Seven things you didn’t know about Gothenburg – Sweden’s maritime, cultural and sustainable powerhouse… From the Nordics’ largest port to Liseberg’s rollercoasters, discover Gothenburg’s history, innovation and coastal charm. Stockholm might steal the limelight, but Sweden’s west-coast powerhouse, Gothenburg, is quietly running the table. It’s bigger than many capitals, home to the Nordics’ largest port, and boasts Sweden’s top tourist attraction. Add in its Dutch-built canals, sustainability leadership, and archipelago escapes, and you’ve got a city that refuses to play second fiddle. 1. The biggest non-capital in the Nordics With nearly 600,000 people in the city and over 1.1 million...

Ukraine’s most heavily fortified region has become the center-point for peace talks to end the war with Russian leader Vladimir Putin reportedly demanding that Kyiv cede the entire territory to Moscow. But the Donestk oblast — which is smaller than Massachusetts and home to about 4 million people — has been at the center of some of the most brutal fighting of the war, and the Kremlin has not been able to take the entire region after more than three and a half years. A source familiar with Friday’s meeting between Putin and President Trump described negotiations over the fate...

Explanation: Over 500,000 light years across, NGC 6872 (bottom left) is a truly enormous barred spiral galaxy. At least 5 times the size of our own large Milky Way, NGC 6872 is the largest known spiral galaxy. About 200 million light-years distant toward the southern constellation Pavo, the Peacock, the appearance of this giant galaxy's stretched out spiral arms suggest the wings of a giant bird. So its popular moniker is the Condor galaxy. Lined with massive young, bluish star clusters and star-forming regions, the extended and distorted spiral arms are due to NGC 6872's past gravitational interactions with the...

President Donald Trump escalated his campaign to purge cultural institutions of materials that conflict with his political directives on Tuesday, alleging museums were too focused on highlighting negative aspects of American history, including “how bad slavery was.” In a Truth Social post, Trump directed his attorneys to conduct a review of museums, comparing the effort to his crackdown on universities across the country. “The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been — Nothing about Success, nothing about Brightness, nothing about the Future,”...

US President Donald Trump called Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to address his obstruction of Ukraine's EU membership, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. The conversation emerged from Monday's White House discussions between Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders. European officials requested that Trump leverage his relationship with Orban to convince him to abandon his opposition to Ukraine's EU bid, the news outlet reported, citing those familiar with the matter. Orban maintains opposition During the call, Hungary expressed a willingness to host future negotiations between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Zelenskyy. Trump said there would be a meeting between Putin and...

The Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, has announced that it is officially severing all ties with the Church in Wales after the election of Rev. Cherry Vann as the new Archbishop. Vann is the first woman to be elected as an Anglican archbishop in the United Kingdom and the first openly gay bishop serving as primate in the Anglican Communion. Notably, Vann is not ‘married’ to her lesbian girlfriend, Wendy Diamond, but has been living in a “same-sex civil partnership” for years. The Primate of the Church of Nigeria, Rev. Henry Ndukuba, described her appointment as an “abomination before God”...