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Last month Keith (Hakim Mohammad) Ellison of Minnesota became the first Muslim elected to serve in the United States Congress and shocked many Americans by declaring that he would take his oath of office by placing his hand on the Quran rather than the Bible. Can a true believer in the Islamic doctrine found in the Quran swear allegiance to our Constitution? Those who profess a sincere belief in Allah say “no!” In 1789, George Washington, our first president under the Constitution, took his oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. So help me God.”...

Alabama Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore on Tuesday stood by his decades-old statement that Muslims should not be allowed to serve in Congress, Mediaite reported. "Read my article and you'll find out what I believe," he told MSNBC reporter Garrett Haake while on the Senate floor. "It's clarified very clearly in my article." Moore, a former Alabama chief justice, has made a number of controversial statements in the past. In 2006, he urged Congress to bar Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, from being sworn in because he would be taking his oath with his hand on a...

RFK Jr.’s swearing in ceremony is scheduled for 2 pm ET following an executive order signing and press conference by President Trump. The Gateway Pundit reported that President Trump is signing an executive order and speaking to the press about reciprocal tariffs. This was scheduled for 1 pm ET but did not start until shortly after 1 pm. RFK’s swearing in ceremony will likely begin shortly after 2 pm ET. Watch live below:

Migrants waiting in Mexico for an appointment with the Biden administration’s CBP One app broke down in tears after learning their appointments were canceled immediately as President Trump took office on Monday. CBP One went offline at 12 p.m. EST Monday, according to an announcement from Customs and Border Protection. It’s just one small part of Trump’s promises to make sweeping reforms at the southern border beginning the first day of his second term. The app allowed tens of thousands of migrants into the US. Up to 1,450 migrants per day were allowed to schedule immigration appointments and request asylum...

President-elect Trump will use a Bible that was given to him by his mother, as well as the Lincoln Bible, for his swearing-in Monday. Trump’s late mother, Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, gave him the Bible in 1955 to mark his Sunday Church Primary School graduation at First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, N.Y., according to the Trump Inaugural Committee. The inside cover of the Bible is signed by church officials and inscribed with Trump’s name and details of when it was gifted to him. He will also use the Lincoln Bible, which was first used for President Lincoln’s 1861 swearing-in and...

Special Counsel Jack Smith has made a significant concession in the Florida case against President-elect Donald J. Trump, prompting speculation about the trajectory of one of the most closely watched legal battles in the country. The move signals recalibration of the Justice Department’s strategy as it navigates the unprecedented legal terrain surrounding a former and future president. In a filing submitted on Wednesday to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Smith cited the recent election results as a pivotal factor. He noted that Trump is expected to be certified as President-elect on January 6, 2025, and inaugurated on January...

A woke Boston city councilor was ordered to retake the oath of office after footage showed her refusing to say the words or raise her right hand during a swearing in ceremony. Tania Fernandes Anderson appeared not to repeat the oath in a video that has since gone viral on social media after the ceremony in City Hall on Monday. Footage shows Anderson standing silently with her hands clasped in front of her in between two fellow councilors who can be seen raising their right hand and repeating the oath of office. Anderson reportedly told the clerk that she was...

Taking a sworn oath of office on a Bible meant that you were imperiling your immortal soul if you lied or broke your oath. What in the world are you committing to when you swear in on erotic quasi-fiction for pederasts and groomers?Well, I can’t answer that question, but Karen Smith, an incumbent school board president for Central Bucks School District in Doylestown, Pennsylvania sure could! Last week, Smith was reelected to “serve” as head of the board, and instead of ceremoniously swearing in on a Bible, she opted for a stack of “banned” books, including at least three controversial...

Ditching his signature black hoodie and shorts for a dark gray suit on Tuesday, John Fetterman was sworn in as the junior senator from Pennsylvania. Video recorded at the event showed the newly minted senator frequently looking to his ambitious wife, Gisele, for direction.When Vice President Kamala Harris congratulated him, Fetterman uttered only a curt thank you and a quick handshake.In the clip below, Fetterman barely moves or acknowledges what is going on around him. His wife is seen handling the interactions and calling all the shots.Fetterman doesn’t even know what planet he’s on 🤣 pic.twitter.com/WNQrWLoqJn— Hodgetwins (@hodgetwins) January 3,...

Democrats know that it looks awful that Kamala Harris has not vacated her Senate seat, no matter how they try to redirect questions about it, or how they to gaslight Americans and make us feel crazy for asking about it, it is extraordinary that she has not stepped aside. **SNIP** The Democrat “Inaugural” Committee posted today, signaling to Democrats the chosen narrative is that she was”sworn in” 4 years ago”: Just in case anyone searched “Kamala sworn in”. We do not understand why she is clinging to her Senate seat, but the fact is that she is, a recently sworn-in...

The blessing of what's being called "the official Bible for the new U.S. Space Force" at the Washington National Cathedral on Sunday is drawing an outpouring of criticism on social media and condemnation from a prominent religious freedom advocacy group. "The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) condemns, in as full-throated a manner as is humanly possible, the shocking and repulsive display of only the most vile, exclusivist, fundamentalist Christian supremacy," MRFF founder and president Mikey Weinstein wrote in a statement denouncing the Bible blessing. "The utilization of a Christian bible to 'swear in' commanders of the new Space Force or...

Rep. Rashida Tlaib appears to have allowed the media to think that the radical Muslim would be sworn in to office on a copy of "Thomas Jefferson's Koran". The media had previously found Thomas Jefferson's Koran to be a very useful propaganda stunt for making it appear that Islam is as America as... Thomas Jefferson. But then Rep. Rashida Tlaib announced that she hadn't actually used Jefferson's Koran, but an actual Koran. Despite her announcement, many media outlets didn't bother correcting their fake news. But that's typical of the media, which acts as the communications arm for the most radical...

President Trump said he will swear in Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court on Saturday, after the nominee won a hard-fought confirmation vote in the Senate. "I applaud and congratulate the U.S. Senate for confirming our GREAT NOMINEE, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, to the United States Supreme Court. Later today, I will sign his Commission of Appointment, and he will be officially sworn in. Very exciting!" Trump tweeted.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio will be sworn in for his second term by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, City Hall revealed Wednesday. De Blasio's choice is surprising given his enthusiastic support of former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and his long maintained ties to the Clinton family. These ties were on full display during his first swearing in presided over by former President Bill Clinton, who De Blasio served under in the Department of Housing and Urban Development De Blasio was also Hillary Clinton's campaign manager during her run for the U.S. Senate in the state of New York...

Rob O’Neil (the man who killed OBL) said of Mattis: “General Mattis has a bear rug in his home, but it is not dead. It’s just afraid to move”.

Haven't been able to find this information anywhere, so I'll ask the greatest group of detectives I know: the members of FreeRepublic. Does anyone know the identity of the lovely young lady who held the Bible for Mattis during his swearing-in ceremony?

New World Order Oath of Office for the President of FUSA (Former USA) “I do slovenly swear (or affirm) that I will never grab pu$$y, or otherwise notice, touch, caress, or express feelings toward pu$$y, unless it is Huma’s Woo Hoo, and that I shall faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States—-as in wipe it politically the fck out—- and will to the best of my ability, pre-swerve, object to, and offend the Constitution of the United States.”-New World Order Oath of Office for the President of FUSA (Former USA). “Wolf! Just listen to those marching drumbeats...

Newly sworn in Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman was quick to announce on Monday evening that he supports the “two-state solution” to solve the Israeli-Palestinian Arab conflict. In a joint statement, Liberman and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu expressed support for the recent call by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi for the sides to reach a peace agreement. “I am committed to peace with our Palestinian neighbors and with all our neighbors,” the Prime Minister said in the statement. “The Arab peace initiative includes essential elements that can help restore constructive negotiations with the Palestinians. We are ready to negotiate with the...

At his inauguration as Maryland’s 62nd governor, Republican Larry Hogan promised to usher in an era of bipartisanship and cooperation in a state capital dominated by Democrats, even as he outlined an unabashedly conservative pro-business agenda. “We must get the state government off our backs and out of our pockets so that we can grow the private sector, put people back to work and turn our economy around,” Mr. Hogan said in a speech delivered on the steps of the State House. As he began his speech amid a flurry of snowfall that dusted the crowd, Mr. Hogan with a...

The Secular Coalition for America asked members of Congress to reject using religious texts such as the Bible or Torah to swear into office Tuesday, urging them to instead use the Constitution — or nothing at all. “By taking the oath of office on the Constitution, senators will demonstrate their commitment to our secular government, the laws that they’re affirming to uphold, and the people they were elected to represent,” said the coalition, which bills itself as a group of atheists, agnostics and humanists who are fighting against religious influences in politics. All members of the House and more than...