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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered the removal of Harvey Milk's name from a Navy replenishment ship, and the move stirred up the inevitable controversy. It was intended to, just as the original naming of the ship was meant to be a poke in the eye of opponents of DEI. The choice to name the ship after Milk was meant to send a signal that the Navy was honoring Harvey Milk for being a gay rights icon, and the choice to remove it was meant to tell people that Trump's Navy doesn't honor people for how they deploy their...

Actor Jonathan Joss — best known for his voice work on the iconic animated TV comedy “King of Hill” — was shot dead by a neighbor in Texas, according to police. Joss, who voiced “John Redcorn” on the long-running cartoon, got into an argument with the neighbor at his home in San Antonio Sunday night when the neighbor pulled out a gun and shot him several times, police said. The unnamed gunman then fled in a vehicle but was arrested just a block away. He was 59 years old. In addition to his character on “King of the Hill,” Joss,...

CNN is taking credit for prompting the firing of The Western Journal founder and former owner Floyd Brown, who only a month ago had taken a senior position at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The piece by CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski describes Brown as a “far-right activist” who is a professing Christian and who has made statements in the past critical of the homosexual lifestyle and same-sex marriage. ... In February, President Donald Trump announced that he was naming Ric Grenell as interim director of the Kennedy Center. The president wrote on social media, “Ric shares my Vision for...

Here we go! David Hogg has infuriated top Democrats, and they are now plotting to force him out as DNC Vice Chair. In February, the DNC elected David Hogg, 25, as Vice Chair – and Democrats immediately had buyer’s remorse as the ‘twerp’ began threatening to primary certain Dem lawmakers. Hogg has no experience in actually getting Democrats elected to office. He’s an online troll who is causing too much damage to the already ailing Democrat party, so now the Democrat leadership has the knives out for him. Last week, TGP reported that Hogg vowed to spend millions to unseat...

Target is facing a 40-day consumer boycott starting Wednesday over the company’s shift away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies. We’re asking people to divest from Target because they have turned their back on our community,” Rev. Jamal Bryant, a prominent Atlanta-area megachurch pastor [see comment] who started the boycott, said in an interview with CNN. The boycott, which begins during the start of Lent, comes more than a month after Target made changes to its DEI programs and at a difficult period for the company as it faces an onslaught of tariffs in the middle of a challenging...

Rev. Brent Hawkes argues that churches should remove references to Jesus being the "Savior" from their websites, so as not to offend Muslims and other religions, and because it is a "stumbling block" for people who might otherwise attend. on X

Donald Trump announced on Friday that he will nominate right-wing lesbian Fox News contributor Tammy Bruce as the spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State, a role that doesn’t require Senate confirmation. In a January 3 Truth Social post, Trump described Bruce as “a highly respected political analyst” who “after being a liberal activist in the 1990s, saw the lies and fraud of the Radical Left, and quickly became one of the strongest Conservative voices on Radio and Television.”

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) ripped the media coverage of the attack on New Year’s Eve revelers in New Orleans early Wednesday morning, arguing the alleged crime should be treated as an act of war. “As I watch coverage of this barbaric, cowardly attack that was ISIS-inspired, it is disturbing how far America has drifted from the fact that we are in a state of war with radical Islamic forces,” Graham wrote in a Thursday post on the social platform X. The man who drove into a crowd of people on Bourbon Street was identified as 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar. Police found...

The majority of secondary schools in the Netherlands are celebrating gender diversity through the Purple Friday project on December 13, but resistance against it is growing, surveys by NOS and RTL have shown. Purple Friday, launched 14 years ago, puts the spotlight on LGBTQ pupils with children wearing purple to show their support for friends and classmates, special lessons and other activities. According to RTL, some 75% of schools organize some sort of activity around Purple Friday but opinions about its effectiveness are divided. And NOS says that 75% of schools that celebrate the day have experienced problems. Pupils have...

Adam Stafford King, the Elburn veterinarian charged with possessing child pornography, has filed a 32-page brief in federal court seeking the overturn of a federal judge’s decision to hold him in pre-trial detention. King, 39, was arrested March 22 at his home in Elburn after an investigation allegedly found that he had sent sexually explicit images and videos of children being sexually abused to a man in New York. A criminal complaint filed in federal court also alleges that King told the same person that he planned to sexually abuse his newborn son when he returned home with him from...

Tim Walz looks 'super, super gay' and someone should just ask him whether he is homosexual, former Fox News star Tucker Carlson has claimed. The maverick broadcaster said no one should be offended by the question given the Democrats' insistence that homosexuality is 'morally superior to being heterosexual'. Carlson made the wild suggestion during an interview with DailyMail.com's Charlie Spiering about his new book, Amateur Hour: Kamala Harris in the White House. Spiering told Carlson that there is zero evidence to support questions about Walz's sexuality but the firebrand podcast insisted that the flamboyant mannerisms of Kamala's VP pick made...

SMYTH COUNTY, Va. (WJHL) — The vice chairman of the Smyth County School Board has been arrested on charges of child exploitation, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). The DOJ announced in a news release that Todd Stewart Williams was arrested at his home Friday. Williams allegedly spent more than $10,000 between May 2022 and January 2024 to purchase nude images and sexually explicit videos from juvenile victims. The DOJ reports Williams enticed at least six victims during that time. An investigation into Williams began after a 15-year-old in Oklahoma reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)...

Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) announced he would boycott Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “wildly inappropriate” joint address to Congress on Wednesday, insisting he would rather serve the Israeli leader an arrest warrant for war crimes on the House floor. In a press release published shortly before the long-awaited congressional address, Pocan declared he would not attend the event, citing Netanyahu’s “deadly and excessive response” to Hamas’s unprecedented, unprovoked, and brutal October 7, 2023, attack, the deadliest against Jewish people since the Nazi Holocaust.

There's nothing new in historians claiming that Abraham Lincoln was bisexual or gay. The "theory" took root in the 1970s during the gay awakening and has hung around on the fringes of historical scholarship ever since. Now, a serious documentary purports to "prove" the point using newly unearthed letters, documents, and photographs. Abraham Lincoln slept in the same bed with men — a common practice in 1840s America where a judicial circuit rider like Lincoln would have been forced to share a bed with other travelers while practicing law — and also wrote "passionately" about male friends and acquaintances. What...

Oli London @OliLondonTV This is Biden’s new White House Associate Communications Director. Tyler Cherry, who identifies as non-binary is: • Anti-Israel • Pro-Palestinian ‘Resistance’ • Anti-Police • Anti-Capitalism • Pro-BLM • Calls to Abolish the Police • Supports extreme antisemite Linda Sarsour calling her a ‘fierce Muslim woman.’

In the modern landscape of American Christianity, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) finds itself grappling with internal conflicts that reveal the troubling infiltration of leftist ideologies. A prime example is the dual alignment of some Southern Baptist churches with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF), a group that epitomizes the complete and total apostasy from biblical truth. The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship emerged in the early 1990s as a reactionary movement against the Conservative Resurgence within the SBC. This Resurgence aimed to return the SBC to a firm commitment to biblical inerrancy and conservative theology. In contrast, the CBF was birthed from...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Moscow should amend its adoption agreements with countries which have legalised gay marriage. Asked about the legalisation of same-sex marriage and adoption in France, he said other countries should respect Russia's "moral standards". French President Francois Hollande is expected to sign the bill into law after it was passed by parliament.It has emerged that Russia warned the Irish Republic last month that it could stop the adoption of Russian children by Irish parents if the parliament in Dublin endorsed the Magnitsky Act.The act places sanctions on 18 Russians allegedly involved in the death of...

An Idaho bar has opted to counter LGBTQ Pride Month by celebrating 'Heterosexual Awesomeness Month' during the month of June, saying that without them 'none of us would be here.' Old State Saloon in Eagle, Idaho, which is just outside of Boise, announced this past Wednesday that each Monday would be 'Hetero Male Monday.' Any man dressed 'like a heterosexual male' will be entitled to a free draught beer, according to a Facebook post from the bar.

A Catholic priest has been reprimanded ...Father Thomas McHale, the priest at Our Blessed Lady Immaculate in Blackhill, Consett, County Durham, took to the pulpit as normal on Good Friday.

The diverse group of names from politics to activists and entertainment include Biden’s 2020 Democratic primary opponents and former NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg, former Vice President Al Gore, former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Jim Clyburn, Elizabeth Dole and recent Biden Climate Envoy and former Sec. of State John Kerry. The “grandmother of Juneteenth,” Opal Lee, and Judy Shepard, the mother of Matthew Shepard who was abducted and brutally killed in 1998 because he was gay will also be honored.