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Rigid ideologies like DEI, climate dogma, and anti-Trump obsession keep collapsing under their own contradictions, leaving their loudest champions looking increasingly absurd. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is a euphemism for a rigid racialist theology. It deductively postulates that a large percentage of the population is oppressed by racism and sexism, mostly by white males. DEI makes no allowance for the class or wealth of the alleged victims or their supposed victimizers. So once that rigid party line is set, it cannot account for tens of millions of affluent and privileged non-white Americans or like numbers of poor and non-privileged...

Fox News’ Martha MacCallum performed a needed service for America by leaving a loathsome Democrat congressman completely embarrassed after he called for members of the military to defy orders from President Trump and commit treason in the process. Rep. Crow appeared on Fox News on Wednesday to defend the disgusting video he made with his fellow Democrats, and was quickly embarrassed by MacCallum. She pointed out that he was not discussing any actual policy in the video, leaving viewers confused about what he and his fellow Democrats were talking about. Not only did Crow have no answer for this, but...

More Americans report seeing the impacts of President Donald Trump’s cuts to federal programs and the government workforce, according to new survey data released Monday by the Partnership for Public Service. Despite the additional respondents noticing the effects of these reductions, however, the share of individuals supporting or opposing the administration’s overhauls has hardly changed over the past six months. The nonpartisan good government nonprofit found in a fall survey that 46% of respondents said they know someone who has been affected by the federal cuts while 48% did not. In comparison, when the Partnership polled this question in March,...

Across TikTok and university campuses, young men are rewriting what masculinity looks like today, sometimes with matcha lattes, Labubus, film cameras and thrifted tote bags. At Toronto Metropolitan University, a “performative male” contest recently drew a sizeable crowd by poking fun at this new TikTok archetype of masculinity. The “performative man” is a new Gen Z term describing young men who deliberately craft a soft, sensitive, emotionally aware aesthetic, signalling the rejection of “toxic masculinity.” At “performative male” contests, participants compete for laughs and for women’s attention by reciting poetry, showing off thrifted fashion or handing out feminine hygiene products...

German police have opened up an investigation into the death of variety show stars and twin sisters Alice and Ellen Kessler, who shot to fame in the 1950s. According the the German news agency dpa, the pair were found on Monday in the home they shared in Grünwald, a prosperous suburb of Munich. They were 89

Systems built up over the past 120 years, from Progressive Era regulatory agencies through New Deal and Great Society social programs, and on to the expansions of healthcare and food stamp programs of the past 15 years, are being eliminated or eroded at warp speed, as is the notion of a professionalized civil service largely insulated from the diktats, the cronyism, and the vengeful impulses of a single leader. And while many lower courts have, when presented with lawsuits by government employees’ unions and other affected groups, attempted to slow this process, the Trumpified Supreme Court has largely rubber-stamped it,...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(11/20/25)[Prayer]The Scriptures in Handel’s “Messiah”Luke 2:1414 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.Holy Bible, The King James Version________________________

President Trump has signed the Epstein Files Transparency act into law to release all files related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. As The Gateway Pundit reported, the House overwhelmingly voted for the bill, with only one Republican defector, Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA), voting against the bill, citing privacy concerns for victims of Epstein. The Senate later approved the bill by unanimous consent. The President called on Congress to pass the bill on Tuesday, stating, “We have nothing to hide, and it’s time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics in order to deflect from the...

The charges in the indictment against Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., carry a maximum of 53 years in prison, the Justice Department said. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., was indicted Wednesday on charges she stole and laundered $5 million in federal relief funds and used the money for her congressional campaign, the Justice Department said. In a news release citing the indictment, the Justice Department said that Cherfilus-McCormick, 46, and Edwin Cherfilus, 51, her brother, worked on a staffing contract funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency for Covid vaccinations tied to their family health care company in 2021 and that the...

Approximately 21,000 Charlotte students missed school on Monday as fears mount over Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity rippling through the community, according to city officials. The widespread crackdown called Operation Charlotte’s Web has sparked concern and pushback from educators and city leaders about its impact on the local community. Charlotte Mayor Pro Tem Danté Anderson, a member of the City Council, told Newsweek the absences were a troubling sign for students and families. “I was sick when I saw the numbers,” Anderson told Newsweek on November 18. “Our students had a hard time with COVID and...

The Democrats recently trotted out six members of Congress with military or intelligence community experience to encourage soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and intelligence officials to disobey orders. Part of the oath we take is to obey the lawful orders of those appointed over us. These Dems talk about disobeying “unlawful” orders. What orders are they talking about? The military does a good job in training of explaining that if you are in combat and ordered to line up a bunch of civilians and execute them, you have a responsibility to disobey. I am unaware of any recent orders along those...

20 November 2025 Thursday of week 33 in Ordinary TimeSt Edmund, King and Martyr Church (London)Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First reading1 Maccabees 2:15-29'Heaven preserve us from forsaking the Law and its ordinances'The commissioners of King Antiochus who were enforcing the apostasy came to the town of Modein to make them sacrifice. Many Israelites gathered round them, but Mattathias and his sons drew apart. The king’s commissioners then addressed Mattathias as follows, ‘You are a respected leader, a great man in this town; you have sons and brothers to support you. Be the first to step forward and...

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Liberal loudmouth Rep. Jasmine Crockett offered up a mind-boggling explanation for why she accused Lee Zeldin and other Republicans of taking donations from Jeffrey Epstein — desperately insisting she never said it was the same person. Crockett (D-Texas) tried to defend herself late Wednesday after she was ripped for boldly implying on the House floor that she’d found evidence linking the Long Island Republican and other GOPers to the late pedophile. Zeldin quickly pointed out the smear, arguing Federal Election Commission filings clearly showed two different men named Jeffrey Epstein had donated — months after the disgraced financier hanged himself...

Christianity Today is doubling down on woke. The Christianity Today Board of Directors has unanimously elected Dr. Nicole Massie Martin as its next President and CEO. Dr. Martin has an impressive academic resume. She's the founder of SoulFire Ministries with degrees from Vanderbilt, Princeton, and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, where she currently works. And, of course, she's as woke as the day is long. Here's an article from the good doctor from one year ago about voting for Kamala Harris: At ages 9 and 11, my girls watched my husband and me vote for the one we believed would be the...

Overnight travel expenses within Chicago Public Schools have skyrocketed in recent years, an internal watchdog investigation found, as employees of the cash-strapped school district spent millions on overseas trips, spa getaways and flights to Las Vegas and Hawaii. CPS Inspector General Philip Wagenknecht’s office on Wednesday published a new report on the district’s travel and overnight spending, which jumped from around $300,000 in fiscal year 2021 to nearly $8 million in 2024. According to his report, some employees allegedly took advantage of the district’s “lax, vague, inadequate and unenforced” travel rules and procedures, leading to the “exorbitant” post-pandemic travel spending...

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We’ve already seen Europe become increasingly Muslim in character, and the combined forces of leftism and Islam are working to bring that here. The election of the Islamo-communist Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York is an insult to America in several respects. It’s an insult to the credo of individual enterprise and freedom in the nation that has succeeded in enriching the masses through its capitalist economy. And it’s an insult to the America that fought the communists in Korea, in Vietnam, and, during the Cold War, against the USSR born from that deadly ideology. The fact that the...

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A New Jersey police sergeant and former Democratic mayor is facing multiple charges after he allegedly drugged and sexually assaulted a child he met online, according to the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office. Jersey City police Sgt. Andrew LaBruno, 44, was arrested Monday and charged with aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said in a statement. The alleged assault occurred earlier that day at a home in Englewood, New Jersey, authorities said. Investigators allege LaBruno contacted a juvenile on a social media app, arranged a meeting and went to the...