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When Mike Johnson took the Speaker’s gavel, he set forth a list of priorities that seemed fairly straightforward. Among the first items on his list was passing an aid package for Israel while finding ways to reduce spending. He quickly moved to make good on that, working with the GOP majority to draw up a bill that would send $14.3 billion to Israel while rolling back the budget for the IRS. The ink wasn’t even dry on the proposal before Democrats and their faithful media stenographers began blasting Johnson, accusing him of “politicizing” the proposed aid package. And Joe Biden...

As predicted, the election of Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) to the House Speaker position has sent Democrats and their media allies into fits of howling outrage, with the attacks on his Christian faith commencing apace and mudslingers digging deep in the Wayback machine to find a Confederate soldier family connection.But so far, the attacks from the Usual Suspects on both Johnson and his family don't seem to have done much if any damage to him among the Republican faithful. In fact, they might actually be helping instead, as the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) has reported their highest one-day fundraising...

Democrats are becoming more godless and wicked by the day. It wasn’t an accident that they booed God at their 2012 convention. The far left media was shocked when Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) was elected House Speaker last week. They had to work quickly to find dirt on the Constitutional Attorney and man of faith. The godless party finally decided on a sure-fire tactic. They’re going to attack him on his faith! Former Biden spokesperson Jen Psaki led the charge on MSNBC this weekend. Jen Psaki: At first glance, Mike Johnson does seem fine. Fineish? Conservative, yes. But he once...

Anti-Christian Bigot Jen Psaki Warns Audience that Speaker Mike Johnson Is Dangerous Because He Believes in the Bible and Christian Principles

One of the few specific requests I publicly posted for Mike Johnson as his vote to be the new Speaker was approaching was for him to commit to separating the three foreign aid requests that Joe Biden and many members of Congress had constructed to force them all together into a “must pass” bill. While I never saw him make that exact promise during the nomination process, it now appears that my wish will be granted. We haven’t seen a specific bill yet, but Johnson’s first move was to pass an endorsement of Israel and a denouncement of Hamas terrorism,...

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Newly elected Speaker Mike Johnson isn’t a tough man to figure out. Nor is he scary, except to those who don’t have the best interest of the United States at heart. Johnson lives by the teachings of the Bible, pure and simple. He also wants the best for this nation. This makes him an enemy of the Democratic Party and the establishment media, who ultimately want the opposite and have been working hard to meet that goal. Johnson’s sudden promotion is a sign of failure to the left. It signifies their inability to oust God from society and shows them...

Newly minted House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA.) suggests that one of his first business orders is to advance efforts to impeach President Joe Biden. During an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, Johnson said that removing Biden from office is a real possibility due to the president's ties to his family's corrupt money-funneling scheme. Johnson said that the Republican Party is the rule-of-law party and will follow the truth where it leads and engage in due process. "We have the receipts on so much of this now," Johnson explained, suggesting that Biden was involved in his family's foreign business...

After Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) was elected Speaker of the House on Wednesday, Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries presented him with the gavel but not before taking a few shots at Johnson first. ... For years, Jeffries has accused Donald Trump of stealing the 2016 election and being an illegitimate president. “With [the] legitimacy of Trump’s presidential election in doubt, his lifetime appt to Supreme Court can wait,” Jeffries tweeted in March 2017 in reference to the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. Nearly a year later, he claimed without evidence that “The more we learn about [the] 2016...

Mr. Speaker, release the J6 footageIt’s time for the House Republicans to keep their promise.One of the first things I did after becoming editor in chief of Blaze Media was make Steve Baker a contributor. This is because for the last two years, Steve has been performing the rarest job in America: carefully investigating the truth about the events of January 6, 2021. When it comes to the protest more than two years ago at the United States Capitol, instead of speaking truth to power, most media outlets are speaking lies to the powerless on the behalf of the powerful....

The most dangerous movement in American politics today is not Trumpism. It is Christofascism. With the election of Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, the organized effort to impose the extreme religious views of a minority of Americans on the entire country, at the expense of many of our most basic freedoms, took a disturbing step forward.Despite Speaker Johnson’s claims of being a constitutional “originalist,” via his elevation by a unanimous vote of his Republican colleagues he has moved America closer to having precisely the kind of government America’s founders most feared.Thomas Jefferson said...

Earlier today, I wrote an article expressing “cautious optimism” on the election of the new Republican Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. Johnson, a Southern Baptist, is being heralded by many conservatives as “the most conservative” speaker in U.S. History. Upon further research, it appears the caution in that “cautious optimism” is more than warranted. Here’s more of what we found. Mike Johnson served as a trustee for the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) for eight years, from 2004 to 2012​. Over the years, the ERLC has been instrumental in killing legislation that...

WELCOME BACK. 0:04 I THINK WE ARE GOING TO JUMP 0:06 BACK NOW TO THE HOUSE WHERE OUR 0:08 NEW HOUSE SPEAKER IS SPEAKING. 0:23 >> I WANT TO EXPRESS MY GREAT 0:26 THINGS FOR OUR SPEAKER, KEVIN 0:28 CLARK -- KEVIN McCARTHY. [ 0:37 APPLAUSE ] KEVIN HAS DEDICATED 0:42 OVER TWO DECADES OF HIS LIFE TO 0:44 SELFLESS PUBLIC SERVICE, 16 OF 0:46 THOSE YEARS IN THIS HOUSE AND 0:49 YOU WOULD BE HARD-PRESSED TO 0:50 FIND ANYBODY WHO LOVES THIS 0:54 INSTITUTION MORE OR HAS 0:55 CONTRIBUTED MORE TO IT. 0:57 HE IS THE REASON WE ARE...

Mike Johnson, who was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives on Wednesday, said the FBI used Twitter to censor American speech until Elon Musk took over. “Twitter was basically an FBI subsidiary before @elonmusk took it over,” Mike Johnson said. “The Twitter files should be a matter of bipartisan concern for every member of Congress and every American citizen because it is a bedrock principle of our Constitution that the government does not get to decide what speech is acceptable or true.” Watch VIDEO AT LINK............... On Wednesday, the conservative Louisiana lawmaker won with 220 votes in the lower...

[snip] Willie Geist, citing an unnamed source, described Johnson as "Jim Jordan with a jacket and a better haircut."Charlie Sykes one-upped Willie in the Johnson-trashing stakes, approvingly quoting Never Trumper and ex-GOP congressman Adam Kinzinger kin-zinging Johnson as "Jim Jordan in drag."Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

When I opened the news this morning, I was made completely aware that Mike Johnson was NOT a very important topic

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Newly-elected House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is already about to trigger much wailing and gnashing of teeth from progressives in Congress. The lawmaker is wasting no time in setting the legislative agenda for the lower chamber, but his first move is likely to send the anti-Israel faction of Congress into a tizzy.On Wednesday, after taking the gavel, Johnson vowed to bring forth a bill supporting Israel while also condemning Hamas for starting the current war in the Middle East. After assuring the American public that House Republicans are “ready to get to work again” to solve the problems facing the...

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An "active shooter" situation in Lewiston, Maine...Fox News reporting at least 22 dead and dozens wounded at three locations... The US House led by newly elected speaker Mike Johnson approving a resolution in support of Israel... An Iranian backed militia group says that a US base in northeastern Syria was attacked by rockets... Russian Aerospace Forces striking two jihadist positions in Syria... The Russian military in Syria also saying that US-led coalition warplanes and drones violated Syrian airspace 15 times today... Democrat Congressman Jamaal Bowman of New York facing a misdemeanor criminal charge for pulling a fire alarm at the...