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President Donald Trump's new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia failed the California bar exam and has never passed one in the United States, despite repeatedly describing herself as a lawyer and being introduced by the president as an attorney. The revelation has sparked fresh questions about the legal credentials of Trump's latest high-profile appointment, whose professional history includes working at a prestigious Chinese law firm and serving as general counsel for a political nonprofit. Zacharia, who graduated from Pepperdine University's law school in 2011, sat for the California bar exam shortly afterward but failed, a person with direct knowledge...

Beginning with its 2008 Heller decision, culminating in the 2022 Bruen decision, the Supreme Court made clear three primary--and many other--things: SNIP Never mind the gun confiscations and abuses of liberties that could follow and provoke a second civil war. They’re building a paradise, and they won't let a trifle like the Constitution get in their way. In the meantime, honest Americans suffer: According to an account from the Associated Press, on September 28, a 22-year-old off-duty specialist with the Oklahoma Guard deployed to Washington, D.C., as part of an ongoing safety task force was traveling in an SUV with...

A United States Air Force major who publicly demanded the impeachment of President Donald Trump while wearing his military uniform has reportedly spent nearly two months in solitary confinement as he awaits court-martial proceedings. Major Jason Watson, 40, a longtime Air Force officer and graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, has been held in pretrial confinement since August 18 after repeatedly calling for the removal of President Trump and Vice President JD Vance. As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Watson was arrested on July 1 after participating in an impeachment demonstration outside the U.S. Capitol. The event was associated...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem🇮🇱 (10/15/26)[Prayer]Personalities Psalm 53[a] For the director of music. According to mahalath.[b] A maskil[c] of David.1 The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and their ways are vile; there is no one who does good.2 God looks down from heaven on all mankind to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God. 3 Everyone has turned away, all have become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one. 4 Do all these evildoers know nothing? They devour my people as though eating bread;...

The verdict is in on James Talarico’s little Agatha Christie escapade, and worshippers in the House of the Donkey are going to be less than pleased. The polls, for the first time in months, have Ken Paxton in the lead. The Quantus Insights poll is widely considered to be the most accurate, for what that’s worth. (It was the only poll to get 2024 right.) Quantus has Paxton at 47.2 to Talarico’s 46.7. A half a point does not seem earth-shattering, but you also have to throw in the GOP correction that nobody likes to talk about, which in previous...

‘We got over communism, and now we are a country with a strong economy,’ Over the four decades since regaining its independence from Soviet-dominated rule, Poland has been transformed. Excluding oil-exporting states and financial hubs, incomes have converged with western levels at the fastest rate in the world; from 40% of the EU average in the mid-1990s to 81% last year. National income surpassed $1tn (£755bn) last year, ranking Poland among the world’s 20 largest economies. International Monetary Fund projections show income per capita will soon overtake Japan and Spain. the Gdańsk shipworkers’ Solidarność movement and Pope John Paul II’s...

SNIP Blockers is a loose sequel to the The Fifth Risk, in which [author Michael] Lewis focused on the transition from the Obama to the Trump administration and the disruption caused by the new team’s almost complete lack of interest in their jobs. It focused heavily on what different departments and agencies do and why they matter. This time around the problem is not indifference but malicious intent to destroy. The “blockers” are the dedicated officials who try to stop the wanton and often illegal destruction of their life’s work by Elon Musk’s Doge or other agents of chaos. They...

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WASHINGTON — A bitter feud has erupted among President Trump’s close allies as Alina Habba, his former personal attorney who served as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey, accuses ex-intelligence director and diplomat Ric Grenell of failing to deposit millions of dollars donated by her Turkish billionaire husband to the Kennedy Center. Habba, 42, married Turhan Mildon, 29, last month and told Trump on Friday in the Oval Office that Grenell failed to deposit $5.6 million from Mildon meant for the center, which Grenell led until March as executive director. The president, who has sought to renovate the performing...

Democratic Senate hopeful James Talarico was ruthlessly fact-checked by a Catholic voter during a Texas town hall Wednesday after he claimed the Bible doesn’t take a stance on abortion. Talarico, a Christian seminarian and state lawmaker, attempted to convince the self-described “one-issue voter,” Jody Hunt, that his pro-choice position is compatible with her faith because “the Bible is silent on the issue of abortion.” Hunt, respectfully, wasn’t buying it. She allowed Talarico to finish his point that “certain policy levers” — absent banning the procedure — can reduce abortions nationwide, before her mic-drop moment. “I just want to add that...

A survey of the world’s largest free-roaming giant tortoise population has discovered that the once endangered species is thriving. A population of Aldabra giant tortoises lives on an island in Seychelles called Aldabra Atoll. The most recent survey, led by Seychelles Islands Foundation (SIF) and the University of Exeter, revealed there were approximately 180,000 tortoises living on the island. This is the highest figure ever recorded for the species and far exceeds the human population of Seychelles. The new figure was obtained by a team who analysed five years of tortoise counts between 2018 and 2022. It is the first...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness - 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. When HE (the Lamb) broke open the seventh seal, there was silence in Heaven for about half an hour. (Rev. 8:1)

On Friday, October 9, 2026, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints donated $1 million to the “Too Extreme for Idaho PAC,” a political action committee working to defeat Idaho’s Proposition 1. Current Idaho law generally prohibits abortion, with limited exceptions, including for rape and incest. However, Proposition 1 allows abortion up to fetal viability, which it redefines, allowing abortion for any reason into the eighth month of pregnancy. Proposition 1 eliminates Idaho’s parental consent laws. Proposition 1 also says any “health care provider” can perform abortion. The donation is notable not only for its size but also for...

Students for Life of America (SFLA) and Students for Life Action (SFLAction) will bring the Pro-Life Generation to Cobb County, GA, on Saturday, October 17, as Democrat U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff and Democrat gubernatorial nominee and pro-abortion candidate Keisha Lance Bottoms hold a joint campaign rally. Ossoff is seeking reelection to the U.S. Senate, where he faces Republican nominee and current U.S. Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA), setting up a closely watched Senate race in which abortion policy remains a central campaign issue. The demonstration is also part of Students for Life Action’s ongoing “ Democrats Love Late-Term Abortion ” campaign,...

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An impulse against maintaining a Christian cultural witness has caused that witness to become divided. In an open letter, Kansas Pastor Kyle Lammott called for Pastor and U.S. Senate candidate Adam Hamilton to publicly “repent of what you have taught and to withdraw from the Senate race.” The letter comes as Southern Baptist Convention President Willy Rice urged pastors to “step up” their cultural witness. “The church has to be the conscience of the culture,” insisted Family Research Council President Tony Perkins. “Without it, we’re going to continue to drift in the wrong direction.” “My reasons come from Scripture …...

"The law of the Lord is perfect. . . . The commandment of the Lord is pure. . . . The judgments of the Lord are true; they are righteous altogether" (Ps. 19:7-9). God’s Word is infallible. Infallibility refers to the truth of Scripture as a whole, whereas inerrancy focuses on the accuracy of every single word. Like inerrancy, infallibility is grounded in the character of God. God cannot lie and does not change (1 Sam. 15:29). He is thoroughly consistent in everything He does, and His Word reflects those characteristics. The psalmist wrote, "The sum of Thy word is...

Daily Readings from the USCCBMemorial of Saint Teresa of Jesus, Virgin and Doctor of the Church“Woe to you, scholars of the law! You have taken away the key of knowledge. You yourselves did not enter and you stopped those trying to enter.” When Jesus left, the scribes and Pharisees began to act with hostility toward him and to interrogate him about many things, for they were plotting to catch him at something he might say. Luke 11:52–54Jesus speaks of the grave failure among the scholars of the law who “have taken away the key of knowledge.” This key symbolizes the...

Greg Gutfeld Show (on Fox News) 10/14/26 - YouTube. Greg Gutfeld: All right. Coming up: Gen Z loves Sharia law... Kat, did you see this poll? Forty-three percent of Americans between 18 and 24 have a positive view of Sharia law, the Islamic system of religious principles that fly in the face of everything that America stands for... But, you know, they didn't even know what they were talking about, what they were answering. Kat Timpf: ... I feel like this has to be some sort of TikTok propaganda-type situation because a lot of Gen Z—you wouldn't let them go...

Thanks to ‪@TeslaOwnersSV‬ for having me as part of the X Takeover for the third year in a row! Elon Musk Shares New Starship Info at X Takeover | 10:30 Ellie in Space | 232K subscribers | 126,059 views | October 14, 2026