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@RepThomasMassie Last night, @SchmittNYC & I discussed the President’s proposal to purchase more beef from Argentina. The America First solution to rising beef prices is my bill, the PRIME Act. It would empower farmers to sell directly to consumers without corporate middlemen.

That's enough of that.In decades past, as the effects of climate change slowly became undeniable, some looked to the super-rich — the billionaires with enough cash to really make a splash — for solutions. They backed green energy campaigns and carbon capture programs, pushed plastics recycling and climate change messaging. New products hit the market as ethical consumption became the rule of the day: electric vehicles, solar panels, reusable bags, carbon-neutral dryer balls. By the early 2020s, billionaires had positioned themselves as the masters of climate change policy, taking advantage of their great fortunes to become indispensable to environmentalism. Now,...

In a culture saturated with contraceptive messaging, one Baptist ethicist is encouraging Christians to reflect more deeply on the morality of birth control. “It’s things like hormonal contraception,” Evan Lenow, associate professor at Mississippi College and director of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in Clinton, Mississippi, recently told Baptist Press. “The students say, ‘I didn’t even think there was even an issue to be considered here.’” While students recognize abortion as morally wrong, they rarely consider the ethical implications of preventing pregnancy within marriage. Lenow argues that believers should reexamine assumptions about family planning. “What I want to prevent from...

Bryant Gumbel is currently hospitalized in NYC after some sort of "medical emergency" ... TMZ has learned. Sources with direct knowledge tell us, the former "Today" cohost was transported Monday, just after 9 PM, from his Manhattan apartment building. We're told first responders had Bryant on a gurney, as they left the building and took him to a nearby hospital where he remains as of Tuesday afternoon. It's unclear what happened to the 77-year-old broadcasting legend, but we know he is still getting treatment. We've reached out to his reps for comment ... so far, no word back. We spoke...

<p>President Donald Trump scolded America’s cattle ranchers in a Wednesday Truth Social rant that saw him declare that they’d be in dire straits without him.</p><p>Trump has faced criticism over his suggestion that the United States might buy more beef from Argentina.</p>

* The director of the Survey Center on American Life, Daniel Cox, notes that US birth rates have dropped alongside a sharp decline in religious participation—weekly church attendance has fallen to 30% from 42% two decades ago. * He studied the correlation, finding that Christians ages 40–59 average 2.2 children, compared with 1.8 for the unaffiliated. The fertility decline has been steeper among less religious Americans. * Young religious adults are nearly twice as likely as nonreligious peers to want children (62% vs. 32%). Cox said that upbringing that emphasized family and marriage is more likely to result in a...

The executive director of a Missouri nonprofit stole $10 million from a program intended to provide meals for low-income children and blew it on mansions and luxury cars, her trial heard. Connie Bobo, 46, ran the New Heights Community Resource Center in the St. Louis suburb of Bridgeton for a decade. She enrolled the charity in two US Department of Agriculture-funded programs that reimburse nonprofits for distributing food to needy children, prosecutors said.

MIDTOWN, Manhattan (WABC) -- The 30-year-old mother of a baby girl found abandoned at Penn Station in Midtown earlier this week has been arrested. Assa Diawara was located in Queens just before 3 a.m. on Wednesday and arrested by police. She is facing charges of abandonment of a child and endangering the welfare of a child. She expected to appear in court sometime Wednesday. Police released a photo of her carrying the baby who was found at Penn Station on Monday. An anonymous tip led police to the child at the station on W. 34th Street and 7th Avenue just...

People often mistake us for an official church ministry, so we get a lot of e-mails asking about sin. We usually ignore them, but not today! Join us as we exercise deep spiritual discernment to answer the following important questions: Bob from Toledo, OH: Q: I load the dishwasher from front to back. Is this a sin? A: Yes. Travis from Rancho Cucamonga, CA: Q: I like the Dodgers. Is this sinful? A: Yes. Donald from D.C.: Q: I cheated on my wife with an adult film star. Is that a sin? A: No. That's fine. Steve from Cedar...

Furloughed federal workers in Maryland stood in a food bank line Tuesday as the government shutdown continues and families try to figure out how to put food on the table. The Capital Area Food Bank began free food distributions for federal workers and contractors this week in Hyattsville. With an hour to go before food was handed out, a long line of people waited for help.

Was it only weeks ago in mid-September that I wrote a column about Democrats embracing the assassination culture that took the life of young Christian evangelist Charlie Kirk? And now in Virginia they’re doubling down. Virginia Democrats are endorsing the murderous candidacy of Jay Jones, who comes from a prominent black Virginia Democrat family. You see Jones in the photograph above, applauding the Democrat candidate for governor, former U.S. Rep Abigail Spanberger. You’ve heard of Jones and his dark fantasies over texts to a colleague, seeking the murders of his Republican opponents. And their children. Yes, their kids who he...

CNN's Harry Enten explained that the government shutdown is HELPING President Trump's approval ratings. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks. Do you agree with TYT's take?

[Catholic Caucus] Five Traditional Pontifical Liturgies to Be Celebrated in Rome and the USThe liturgies are being celebrated over the next month at a time when Pope Leo XIV is weighing up whether to continue restrictions imposed by Pope Francis' 2021 apostolic letter ‘Traditionis Custodes.'Despite continuing suppression of the traditional liturgy — which appears to be concentrated in some dioceses of the United States — four cardinals and an archbishop are to celebrate five traditional pontifical liturgies in Rome and the U.S. over the next month.At 3 p.m. this coming Saturday, Cardinal Raymond Burke will celebrate a pontifical Mass in...

The Chinese semiconductor industry faces a critical barrier in scaling up chip production, primarily due to the lack of lithography equipment in fabs. This limitation has confined firms like SMIC to a specific production volume and prevented them from scaling up significantly for several years now. Apart from developing in-house alternatives, it seems like Chinese engineers were actually keen to 'reverse engineer' ASML's DUV equipment, according to a report from The National Interest. Now, in the process of opening up the equipment, the individuals broke down the DUV machinery. This is actually interesting and hilarious at the same time. While...

House Democrats reveal plans for a doxxing operation tracking the location of ICE agents. Credit: KTTV/Fox News House Democrats are ramping up their war against immigration enforcement by taking a page from their far-left supporters and ratting out the location of ICE agents. Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) announced on Tuesday that Democrats on the House Oversight Committee will be launching what he called a “master ICE tracker” to monitor the movements of ICE agents. In other words, a hit list. “I shared this with the mayor,” Garcia began. “Over the course of the next couple of weeks, the Oversight Committee...

A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers has urged President Donald Trump to reconsider a newly imposed $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa applications, warning that the policy could harm American innovation and competitiveness. In a letter sent to the White House and the Department of Commerce on October 21, seven members of Congress, including both Democrats and Republicans, expressed concern that the fee would disproportionately affect early-stage employers and small companies, particularly those that have not yet become profitable. -snip- The letter sent to the President was signed by Representatives Sam Liccardo of California, Jay Obernolte of California, Maria Elvira...

The president can send the National Guard into downtown Portland, Oregon, because the city police have protected Antifa attacks on a federal facility, says Harmeet Dhillon, the top civil rights chief in the Department of Justice.Dhillon made her comment in response to a video showing Antifa rioters hiding behind city police as the rioters aimed strong flashlights at the federal officers guarding the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility. The police cover protected the Antifa members from the pepper balls normally fired by security officers at the federal building.

California officials announced plans on Monday to launch a website tracking Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity in Los Angeles. During a press conference alongside Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) revealed the new platform would come as part of an investigation he is leading on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. In conjunction, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) is leading a similar investigation into ICE on the Senate side through the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. “Over the course of the next couple of weeks, the Oversight Committee will be launching on their website a master ICE tracker...

From men competing in women's sports to rows over pronouns, America has spent the past decade consumed by transgender debates. But the frenzy may finally be fading. A new analysis reveals that the number of young people identifying as transgender or nonbinary has plunged in recent years. The findings suggest the rate among 18- to 22-year-olds has almost halved - from about 6 percent at its peak in 2022 to around 3 percent in 2024. The number of young adults identifying as nonbinary saw a similar drop in just one year from 2023 to 2024, going from roughly 5 percent...

Pope Leo XIV’s Homage to Dom Helder Câmara’s CELAMDom Helder Câmara, a priest "mentor" of Klaus Schwab (WEF), and co-author of the Vatican II document Gaudium et spes, also helped found the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM) which Pope Leo XIV has referenced in recent statements. With suspicious links to Communism and Liberation Theology, Câmara is a priest at the heart of the infamous Catacombs Pact and the Synodal "Church of the Poor", two watershed events in the history of the infiltration/revolution within the Catholic Church.A few weeks after his election, Pope Leo XIV sent a telegram to Cardinal Jaime...