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The son of a prominent Indiana pastor has been arrested and charged with multiple child sex crimes, including possessing child pornography. He was also found to be in possession of dozens of intimate videos of his own parents having sex. Jonathan Peternel is the son of Nathan Peternel, lead pastor at Life Church in Pendleton, IN. He was arrested after a cyber tip came in that Peternel was sharing videos on Snapchat. According to WTHR13: “Detectives got a search warrant for Jonathan Wesley Peternel’s Snapchat account, where detectives say more child sex abuse material was found, along with evidence that...

Imagine if this were coming from the AG of Alabama or South Carolina, instead of the Acting AG of New Jersey. After the Justice Department announced that it was sending election monitors to New Jersey (not to mention California) to watch for election irregularities, local officials reacted with bluster, defiance and threats. Acting Attorney General Angela Cai is pushing back on yesterday’s announcement that the Justice Department would monitor polling sites in Passaic County… there are “very limited circumstances” where federal authorities may enter a polling location, and that federal election monitors must seek authorization from a federal judge to...

New Yorker magazine has an amusing analysis by art writer Adam Gopnik as to why President Donald Trump tore down the East Wing in order to build a new ballroom next to the White House. The supposed reason gives us insight into just how much corrosive TDS has eaten away at anything resembling rational thought at that periodical. You can descend into the New Yorker rabbit hole in their bizarre screed published on Saturday in "Why Trump Tore Down the East Wing." The subtitle lays out the dopey thesis: "The act of destruction is precisely the point: a kind of...

Editor’s Note: This is an exclusive article written by former HHS official Gray Delany for Emerald Robinson’s subscribers on Substack. ====================================================================== Dr. Steven Hatfill was fired abruptly this last weekend. I am told that he was asked to resign but refused, wanting to know the specific reason for his dismissal. When he attempted to access the building the next day, he learned that his key card had been cut off. No reason for his firing has been provided — and Secretary Kennedy never called Dr. Hatfill to explain the move apparently. This is a disturbing new development for the MAHA...

Citizen Free Press @CitizenFreePres Democrat Socialists DSA plan to run 1,000 Mamdanis nationwide.

One of the most famous bible stories is the story of David, a young man who slew Goliath, a gigantic Philistine warrior, champion of the Philistine army. The story is much debated. Was David known to Saul, the king, before David killed Goliath? How old was David when he killed Goliath? Did someone else kill Goliath, and was David later given credit for it?The most common assumption is that David killed Goliath, using a sling and a stone to triumph over the giant. Estimates of his age vary from 13 to 28. He is described as both a boy and...

Any truth that, along with the ballroom, Trump is building an office in the East Wing (called the 'Square Office' as it'll be square like the ballroom) so he can have an 'office for life' at the White House? Just something I heard...

Unlimited L's @unlimited_ls NEW: The 15-year-old who killed a 19-year-old tobacco store clerk and told guards he was going to piss on the victim’s grave has been sentenced Barack Williams will spend over a decade in prison for his role in killing Caden Martin in West Virginia Prosecutors say he acted as a lookout while Bre’juan Williams-Hampton, 14, robbed the store and sh*t Martin Barack Williams will be eligible for parole after serving at least 15 years Because of his age, he was not eligible for life without parole Williams-Hampton pleaded guilty in September 2024 to one count of first-degree...

After highly successful visits to Malaysia and Japan, President Trump now arrives in South Korea, where he will have crucial trade talks with President Xi of China among other things.

Ian Miles Cheong @stillgray The assailant in the mass stabbing that occurred in Britain earlier today has been identified as a 22 year old asylum seeker from Afghanistan who snuck into the country on a truck. He killed a man walking his dog and also stabbed a teen and another victim.

Talking about terror sleeper cells may seem kind of passé in 2025. Do we remember how the notion of these secret cells struck fear in American hearts during the post 9/11 era? Well, I don’t want to burst your bubble, but it appears sleeper cells are back. Over the past year, it appears that Western intelligence agencies have been quietly mobilizing their assets and warning local authorities about the prospect that their countries may be facing serious, new terror attacks from embedded terror sleeper cells – cells that currently live quiet lives in our societies. According to the highly regarded...

The House Oversight and Reform Committee has released a 100-page report [pdf HERE] highlighting how people around Joe Biden hid information about his cognitive incapacity and worked around the issue using his autopen signature to authorize presidential actions. The House committee has released the video and transcript of all the witnesses questioned during their investigation [SEE HERE] to support their contention and referral to the Dept of Justice for a criminal investigation of the events.WASHINGTON—Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released a staff report titled “The Biden Autopen Presidency: Decline, Delusion, and Deception in the White House.”...

I admit my headline is clickbait and based on a dream that could never happen. Javier Milei is the president of Argentina, not an American. Further, Zohran Mamdani appears to have a lock on the New York City mayoral election, if only because Republican Curtis Sliwa will not drop out. That his real competition is the tarnished Andrew Cuomo doesn’t help either. Neither of these men has anything close to President Milei’s charisma, let alone his originality. Neither, for that matter, does Mamdani, whose “democratic socialism” is just the same old, same old in new clothes. Nevertheless, the victory a...

Zohran Mamdani is somehow the leading candidate for New York city mayor. VIDEO AT LINK................... September, 2023. Zohran Mamdani: "We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it's been laced by the IDF." pic.twitter.com/sr8pQyKvCq— MAZE (@mazemoore) October 28, 2025The importance for me of international solidarity is that it takes me out of the American political landscape and reminds me just how tame some of the things are that I'm actually calling for. And it reminds me of the necessity of grounding ourselves in struggles as opposed to the fights around the struggles....

In a stunning and significant pushback to the “doomsday” climate activist community, Bill Gates, a leading proponent for carbon emissions reductions, published a remarkable essay Tuesday that argued resources must be shifted away from the battle against climate change. Instead, Gates argues, the world’s philanthropists must increase their investment in other efforts aimed at preventing disease and hunger. Climate change is not going to wipe out humanity, he argued, and past efforts that strive for achieving zero carbon emissions have made real progress. But Gates said that past investments fighting climate change have been misplaced, and too much good money...

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Live video of Hurricane Melissa.

Abigail Spanberger claims that the main, original purpose of ICE was to facilitate the "importation of goods" as opposed to "keeping terrorists out."

In response to recent articles in mainstream military journals discussing the use of the U.S. Army to quell insurrections on American soil, I offer an alternate vision of the future. Instead of a small town in the South as the flash point, picture instead a score of U.S. cities in the thrall of riots greater than those experienced in Los Angeles in 1965 (Watts), multiple cities in 1968 (MLK assassination), and Los Angeles again in 1992 (Rodney King). New Yorkers can imagine the 1977 blackout looting or the 1991 Crown Heights disturbance. In fact, the proximate spark of the next...

Deciding to Win grew out of discussions centrist Democrats had last December, after their loss to President Donald Trump and a rush of panicky takes about what the party did wrong.While embarking on its long-term polling project, the group also consulted an array of Democrats, including Schultz, former Biden White House spokesman Andrew Bates, and House Majority PAC founder Alixandria Lapp.“I felt like there had been a real lack of reckoning among what actually happened,” said Simon Bazelon, the principal author of the report. “A lot of what we’re arguing for is a return to Obama-era positioning on issues like...