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Charlie Kirk’s murder proves free speech absolutism cannot withstand lies turned lethal—America must confront hate and incitement with lawful strength, not naïve trust.The murdered Charlie Kirk was a martyr to free speech and the belief in the power of reasoned argument to overcome lies and evil. “Hate speech does not exist legally in America,” he wrote on X in May of 2024. “There’s ugly speech. There’s gross speech. There’s evil speech. And ALL of it is protected by the First Amendment.” There is much to admire in Charlie’s devotion to those principles, but his murder put those principles to...

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, during an appearance on Meet the Press with Kristen Welker, said the Trump administration is trying to “stifle dissent” following ABC’s decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show. “Without question, they’re trying to stifle dissent,” Shapiro said after noting that selectively firing people for their viewpoints is “dangerous.” The indefinite suspension of Kimmel’s show came after his Monday night monologue about the 22-year-old man accused of shooting and killing right-wing activist Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University. On Wednesday afternoon, Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr on a conservative podcast threatened to cancel ABC affiliate broadcast...

This is merely one of the 'pied pipers' promoting the radical left's violence which they are publicly owning since 9/10/25 in the wake of their collective assassination of Charlie Kirk. The entirety of the post: Popular streamer Destiny refuses to condemn the assassination of Charlie Kirk, says "you need conservatives to be afraid of getting killed." "On Piers Morgan: "I won't condemn anything until [Trump] can go on air and say all of us need to calm down." On stream: "You need conservatives to be afraid of getting killed when they go to events so that they look to their...

Maureen Napleton, legal counsel at Napleton Auto Group in Hinsdale, is facing backlash over social media posts in which she celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk and called for violence against President Donald Trump.

An ABC TV station in Sacramento, California, was struck by gunfire days after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and media groups Nexstar and Sinclair pulled “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” off the air “indefinitely.” On Friday afternoon, video showed at least three bullet holes through a lobby window of the Tegna-owned ABC affiliate. While there were people inside of the building at the time the bullets struck, police have stated that no injuries were reported. “We haven’t had a lot of attacks on our media partners, and we’d like to keep it that way,” Officer Anthony Gamble of the Sacramento Police Department...

Russia and Ukraine have exchanged the bodies of more than 1,000 soldiers who have fallen in battle, Ukrainian authorities have said. The vast majority of the bodies were received by Ukraine from Russia, while the bodies of 24 Russian soldiers were handed over by Ukraine. Earlier report from the BBC (June 11, 2025): The bodies of 1,212 Ukrainian soldiers have been returned from Russia, Kyiv says, as part of a prisoner exchange agreement between the warring countries. In return Russia received 27 bodies, Moscow's chief negotiator Vladimir Medinsky said. The prisoner exchange deal was the only tangible result of peace...

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo was confronted by loud critics inside a Queens mosque at a campaign event Friday as he tried to make his case to Muslim voters. The independent New York City mayoral candidate had been criticized by Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani for not campaigning at mosques. Cuomo blames heckling on Mamdani's campaign Cuomo campaigned at a mosque for the first time last week. He made another stop at a mosque in Jamaica on Friday, but he wasn't exactly welcomed with open arms. As he spoke, multiple people in the room began yelling, "Shame on you! Shame on you!"...

A security expert has claimed Russia 'could well be' behind a cyber attack that crippled operations at several major European airports today. Hackers targeted check-in and boarding systems operator Collins Aerospace on Friday night, sparking major disruption, flight delays and cancellations at transport hubs across the continent. The company is 'experiencing a technical issue which may cause delays for departing passengers' as a result of the attack, which crippled online check-in systems at Heathrow, Berlin and Brussels. One expert told the Daily Mail that Russia could be behind the hack, adding: 'The timing of the attack, coming just hours after...

Swiss archaeologists gained new insight into Roman engineering and provincial infrastructure when the remains of a 2,000-year-old bridge reemerged from a former riverbed during modern construction near Aegerten in the Canton of Bern, The Miami Herald reports. Workers uncovered more than 300 oak posts belonging to a wooden structure that once spanned the Thielle River, an important waterway during the Roman era. Dendrochronological analysis indicated that the bridge was first constructed around 40 b.c., shortly after the Roman conquest of the local Celtic Helvetti tribe. It was intermittently repaired and strengthened over a period of 400 years. The bridge once...

The New Yorker magazine used to be a showcase for great writers. That was many years ago. More recently it has become a cesspool of mediocre writers striving with great urgency to promote their leftist agendas. And the latest such example of a New Yorker writer crawling deep into the sewer came on Wednesday with this smear masquerading as a story by Kyle Chayka, "Charlie Kirk and Tyler Robinson Came from the Same Warped Online Worlds."To say that Chayka sickeningly attempted to put Charlie Kirk and his assassin on the same moral plane, as inferred by the story title, is...

Hours after the US administration put a prohibitive USD 100,000 (about Rs 88 lakh) as fee for H-1B visa applications, India said on Saturday that this measure is likely to have “humanitarian consequences by way of the disruption caused for families” and the Indian government expressed hoped that these disruptions can be “addressed suitably by the US authorities”. The Ministry of External Affairs’ official spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said, “The Government has seen reports related to the proposed restrictions on the US H-1B visa program. The full implications of the measure are being studied by all concerned, including by Indian industry,...

Authorities detained a man at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, on Friday evening after he attempted to enter the venue while armed with a tactical knife, at least one firearm, and inactive law enforcement credentials. The stadium is scheduled to host the memorial service for assassinated conservative icon Charlie Kirk on Sunday morning. The massive memorial service is expected to draw over 100,000 attendees, including President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and other members of the cabinet. The suspect, whose identity has not been released at this time, reportedly claimed affiliation with law enforcement and exhibited suspicious behavior...

Sinclair, the broadcasting company that makes up the nation's largest ABC affiliate group, is giving a list of demands for Jimmy Kimmel to return to air following the show being "indefinitely" pulled. The media company said in a press release on Wednesday, Sept. 17, that it "objects to recent comments made by Mr. Kimmel concerning the assassination of Charlie Kirk" and, after discussions with ABC, made the decision to "indefinitely preempt" Jimmy Kimmel Live! beginning that night. "Mr. Kimmel's remarks were inappropriate and deeply insensitive at a critical moment for our country," Sinclair vice chairman Jason Smith said in a...

“When they heard these things they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.” (Acts 7: 54) These words were transcribed and written by Luke, a follower of Jesus, who recounted in the New Testament Book of Acts the accusations against Stephen, and the stoning of Stephen. The “things” they heard were words sharply critical of the listeners who had heard Jesus preach but had rejected both Jesus’ preaching and Jesus himself. David Guzik, in his commentary on the Holy Bible tells the readers, “Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and signs...

Recognition of a Palestinian state is "the best way to isolate Hamas", French President Emmanuel Macron said in a TV interview with Israeli broadcaster Channel 12 on Thursday. France is expected to officially recognise Palestine as a state early next week at the UN General Assembly. Daniel Quinn reports.

On May 28, 2021, I ran for my life through the streets of downtown Portland, Ore. Antifa had discovered me working undercover after one of their members, John Hacker, exposed me to the mob. I screamed for help as I fled, but drivers and pedestrians looked away. The businesses were all shuttered, remnants of the ongoing destruction from the 2020 BLM-Antifa riots. There was nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. They caught me. Antifa tackled me to the ground, tearing my knee tendon in the process as I slid across the pavement. They punched me over and over and tried...

Charlie Kirk was assassinated on September 10 at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, for having political conversations. That’s it. He was doing his trademark Q&A sessions, which were often heated but remained true to their mission, which was to maintain an open dialogue with those with whom we may disagree. Conversations are good, even if they’re not always the most pleasant. He was shot and killed by suspect Tyler Robinson, who was captured two days later, for exercising his First Amendment rights. Since then, we’ve been subjected to an avalanche of ghoulish liberals celebrating his death. Some in the...

More than 1,000 people crossed the English Channel in small boats on Friday, as the government confirmed two more migrants had been returned to France. According to the Home Office 1,072 people in 13 boats made the journey to Dover. It takes the number of people who have made the crossing so far in 2025 to 32,103, a record for this point in a year. A total of three men have now been sent back to France under a pilot "one in, one out" deal with the UK, intended to deter small boat crossings. An Eritrean man and an Iranian...

When Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt addresses the media and the American people, the shadow of the room’s namesake looms over her shoulder. The White House Press Briefing Room is officially named the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room.Brady, a former White House Press Secretary, was shot during the assassination attempt on President Reagan in 1981. But most Americans today are more likely to associate the name with the left-leaning gun control organization than with the man himself.Is that really how we want to represent the pro-American, pro-Constitution Trump White House?The connection between the name “Brady” and the White House press...

Through clever innuendo and seemingly noncommittal suggestion, Barack Obama has spent two decades subtly dividing America socially, racially, and politically. Obama is known for making his points with surgical precision. No one can deny that, armed with a sharpened teleprompter, an emotionally detached Barack Obama appears as a methodical, unemotional speaker skilled at disguising deep-seated hostility as civility. The former president’s detached eloquence bears resemblance to that of the fictional character, serial killer and cannibal Hannibal Lecter. Hannibal had a complex psyche that could be hidden behind a refined manner of expressing rage, with his wrath concealed behind a façade...