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Got three hits off the bat when searching for some examples of government institutions penalizing speech, as opposed to businesses doing (like w/Kimmel): Spokane Washington police officer fired https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2024/sep/19/a-spokane-police-officer-put-a-lets-go-brandon-sti/Michigan county school system forces students to remove shirts. https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/amended-opinion-and-order-da-minor-et-al-v-tri-county-area-schools-et-alVermont school fires cook https://www.newsweek.com/cook-fired-writing-lets-go-brandon-school-menu-sign-leaving-job-early-1653050

As a cast member on the original Saturday Night Live, Gilda Radner created a compelling character named “Roseann Rosannadanna” who habitually ended her routine with the line, “It’s always something,” which was her father’s favorite expression about life. Radner chose the catch- phrase she made famous as the title to her brave, funny, and painfully honest memoir: the story of her struggle against cancer and her determination to continue laughing.

The Talk ShowsSept 21st, 2025 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: French President Emmanuel Macron; Gary Cohen, former director of the National Economic Council and chief economic advisor to President Donald Trump from 2017 to 2018. FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.); Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.); Oklahoma Republican Governor Kevin Stitt; Colorado democrat Governor Jared Polis; Josh Holmes, Mitch McConnell’s former chief of staff ; Michael Duncan, Republican communications strategist; Republican public affairs strategist John Ashbrook; Ruthless podcaster Comfortably Smug. Panel: Francesca Chambers, Hans...

Astronomers have been fascinated after spotting an object earlier this year that came from interstellar space as is now hurtling through our inner solar system. Since then, they've been using powerful telescopes to study the mysterious object, trying to understand its unusual composition and exact origins. Most agree that it's probably a comet, albeit an unusual one, though at least one has posited that it could be a remnant of an advanced extraterrestrial civilization — a colorful claim, but one that NASA has disputed as a flight of fancy. Regardless, it's an interesting visitor. In a paper presented at the...

Even the most extreme behavior on the left is predictable. “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ―George Orwell.Two thousand years ago, a politician named Pilate, in a classic dodge to avoid responsibility, asked, “What is truth?” But he already knew the truth, for after questioning Jesus, he told the accusing crowd, “I find in him no fault at all” (John 18:38). Instead of acting on that truth, however, he rejected it, leaving Jesus’s fate to the mob. He then symbolically washed his hands of the affair,...

When Dreams Become Debt: The Moral Failure of Our Student Loan SystemBy The Hermit At 18, you can’t legally rent a car. You can’t buy a drink. In some states, you can’t even rent an apartment without a co-signer. But you can sign your name to $100,000 or more in student loans—debt that you may spend the rest of your life trying to repay, and that can never be erased through bankruptcy. That is not just a legal loophole. It is a moral failure. Each year, thousands of young people graduate high school with dreams of changing the world, fueled...

Like cats chasing red laser beams the media quickly switched from Charlie Kirk’s assassination to magnifying the preposterous claims that removing Jimmy Kimmel from the air was the worst violation of the Constitution ever. On the internet the big story seems to be the indefinite suspension of Jimmy Kimmel by ABC. I confess to being somewhat at a disadvantage. The last time I looked at network television my set had four dials: on/off, vertical, and horizontal, volume, and channel. In this I’m not alone. Kimmel’s show had fewer viewers than a number of online podcasters, sponsors were fleeing, and local...

Socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro announced on Thursday that his regime will deploy military officials to neighborhoods over the weekend to teach locals how to “handle weapons” in preparation for a supposed incoming United States “invasion” of Venezuela.

The Taliban government on Sunday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s bid to retake Bagram Air Base, four years after America’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan left the sprawling military facility in the Taliban hands. The chief Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, rejected Trump’s assertions and urged the U.S. to adopt a policy of “realism and rationality.” Afghanistan had an economy-oriented foreign policy and sought constructive relations with all states on the basis of mutual and shared interests, Mujahid posted on X. It had been consistently communicated to the U.S. in all bilateral negotiations that Afghanistan’s independence and territorial integrity were of the...

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A gunman opened fire in a New Hampshire country club on Saturday, killing one person and wounding two, with a witness saying that the shooter yelled “Free Palestine” during the attack. The man killed at the Sky Meadow Country Club in Nashua was named as 59-year-old Robert Steven DeCesare. Authorities said the suspect — named as 23-year-old Hunter Nadeau — was detained at the scene, and that earlier reports of two shooters were mistaken. The New Hampshire Department of Justice said there was no known connection between the suspected shooter and the victim. Tom Bartelson, who was at the country...

In a recently released excerpt from her forthcoming book, 107 Days, Kamala Harris revealed that Pete Buttigieg would have been her ideal running mate if she had been a straight white man. But she ultimately decided not to choose Buttigieg, who is gay, because "it was too big of a risk.” You might have thought that Eugene Daniels, who is married to a man, would have criticized Harris for her rejection of Buttigieg. But for Daniels, Democrat solidarity apparently trumps gay solidarity. He went on to make the case for rejecting Buttigieg: "Kamala Harris, as a black woman, ran with...

Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson are a threat to British democracy, Sir Keir Starmer has warned as he blasted right wing populists who 'exploit' the England flag to 'whip up hatred'. The Prime Minister lashed out a week after more than 100,000 people marched through London on an anti-migrant demo organised by 'convicted criminal' Robinson, which left 26 police officers injured. Billionaire Mr Musk also addressed the crowd in a video message in which he told the crowd to 'fight back' or 'die'.

119TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. CON. RES. 48 Authorizing the use of the rotunda of the Capitol for the lying in honor of the remains of the late Charles James Kirk, a lifelong advocate for freedom of speech, civil political discourse, and the political engagement of youth. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SEPTEMBER 15, 2025 Ms. MACE (for herself, Mr. BIGGS of Arizona, Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, Mr. RULLI, Mr. MASSIE, Mr. DIAZ-BALART, Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, Mr. PATRONIS, Mr. BABIN, Mr. MCGUIRE, Ms. BOEBERT, Mr. GILL of Texas, and Mr. JACKSON of Texas) submitted the following concurrent...

In this Sunday’s Gospel, the Lord Jesus gives a penetrating analysis of the state of the sinner and some very sobering advice to us would-be saints. Let’s look at the Gospel in two stages: I. ANALYSIS OF THE SINNER In the opening lines of the Gospel, Jesus describes a sinful steward. DELUSION (of the sinner)– Jesus said to his disciples, “A rich man had a steward …” Notice that the man is referred to as a steward rather than an owner. God is the owner of everything; we are but stewards. A steward must deal with the goods of another...

The surgeon who operated on Charlie Kirk said the bullet that killed him miraculously did not exit his neck, likely saving others from getting hit. Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet revealed on Saturday night that he had spoken with the surgeon who made the comments directly to him. In a post on X, Kolvet wrote: 'I apologize this is somewhat graphic, but in this case, the fact that there wasn’t an exit wound is probably another miracle, and I want people to know.'....

Debt Is the New Chains: A Warning for Young People About Modern Financial Traps Imagine being forced to work for years just to pay off a debt. Not because you chose the job, but because you had no other way out. This was the life of an indentured servant—a person who signed a contract to work for several years without pay in exchange for something they needed, like passage to America back in the 1600s or 1700s. It sounded like a fair trade. But the truth was, once you signed that contract, your freedom was gone. You were stuck working...

I am just wondering about the anti-Pauline movement within the church and what reasons they reject him? I understand that some blacks have trouble with his prioritizing witnessing to Onesimus over his freedom from slavery. But I don't understand what theology they are accepting that rejects him.

Sir Ed Davey has branded Elon Musk a criminal and called for him to be prosecuted for "allowing online harm to children" on his social media platform X. The Lib Dem leader told Sky News' Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips the billionaire owner of X, formerly Twitter, is "inciting violence" and his social media platform is actively failing to protect children. Sir Ed, speaking from the Lib Dem conference in Bournemouth, said Mr Musk could be prosecuted under the Online Safety Act, under which social media companies have a legal duty to protect children from harmful content and their directors...