Hold onto your hats, folks -- North Carolina politics just took a dark turn with the arrest of a sitting Democratic lawmaker on charges that’ll make your stomach churn.
Democrat State Rep. Cecil Brockman, representing Guilford County, was arrested Wednesday on grave accusations involving a minor, charged with two counts each of statutory rape and indecent liberties with a child, as Breitbart reports.
The allegations are as serious as they come, with warrants claiming Brockman engaged in unlawful acts with a 15-year-old in August of this year.
According to court documents, the accusations paint a disturbing picture of behavior unfit for anyone, let alone a public official entrusted with representing a community.
Adding fuel to the fire, the magistrate’s order suggests Brockman misused his position as a representative to try locating the alleged victim at a hospital—a move that raises eyebrows about abuse of power.
Currently, Brockman sits in Guilford County Jail with no bond set, awaiting a court appearance scheduled for Thursday afternoon, as reported by WRAL.
The fallout has been swift, with political leaders from both sides of the aisle demanding that Brockman step down faster than a hot potato dropped at a picnic.
The North Carolina Democratic Party didn’t mince words, stating, “The profound seriousness of these criminal charges makes it impossible for him to effectively represent his community.” Well, that’s one way to say the obvious—when charges like these surface, trust is shattered beyond repair.
Speaker of the House Destin Hall, a Republican from Caldwell County, echoed the sentiment, declaring, “The charges against Rep. Brockman are shocking and extremely serious.” Given what’s public, Hall’s call for immediate resignation isn’t just political posturing -- it’s a rare moment of bipartisan clarity in a polarized world.
North Carolina House Democrat Leader Robert Reives has also joined the chorus, insisting Brockman must resign without delay, citing the mounting allegations as incompatible with public service.
If Brockman does submit a resignation letter to the Speaker of the House, the Guilford County Democratic Party’s Executive Committee would be tasked with picking a replacement to fill the void.
Under state rules, only committee members residing in Brockman’s district would have a say in choosing the successor -- a small but critical detail in how North Carolina handles such vacancies.
Let’s not forget the irony here: in 2023, Brockman had a youth academic center named in his honor, a recognition now tainted by these horrific charges.
For a state already weary of political shenanigans, this scandal is a gut punch to those who believed in public servants as role models, not cautionary tales.
While the court will ultimately decide Brockman’s fate, the damage to public trust is already done, leaving conservatives and moderates alike questioning how such alleged behavior went unnoticed -- and reminding us all that accountability must cut through party lines like a sharp blade.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
Fifty-one senators making up a majority of the U.S. Senate have written to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration asking for officials to suspend approval of a generic abortion drug, like mifepristone, following the bureaucrats' recent expansion of the use of that abortion drug.
It's because the FDA previously pledged to conduct a thorough review of the safety of the drug used to kill unborn children.
The letter went to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary.
The letter said the senators "recognize the FDA's statutory responsibility in evaluating drug applications," but challenged that "the timing of this approval appears inconsistent with the comprehensive safety reassessment your agencies have prioritized."
"Out of respect for this important review, and with full confidence in your dedication to protecting women's health, states' rights, and unborn life, we urge you to take decisive action to reevaluate whether this generic version of mifepristone is suitable to enter the market," the senators said. "Today, your agencies have all the information they need to bring an end to previous Democrat administrations' abortion drug regulations while a comprehensive review is conducted."
The senators recommended:
The senators explained, "We are committed to continuing to work together to give a voice to the voiceless and protect women from the dangerous effects of unregulated access to chemical abortion drugs. The life, safety, freedom, and health of millions of Americans, born and unborn, depend on it."
They warned, "The 'abortion-on-demand' culture enabled by the Biden-Harris administration's removal of critical safeguards on the only FDA-approved abortion regimen is currently the biggest threat to unborn life in America today. Under current FDA regulations, these drugs can be obtained via mail order without meaningful consultation with a medical professional and without any confirmation of who is purchasing them or for what purpose."
The threat? "These policies have enabled abortion pills to be obtained by abusers, traffickers, and even minors. The aftermath has not only been deadly for preborn babies, but lethal to their mothers. Contrary to the narrative peddled by the media that taking abortion pills is 'safer than taking Tylenol,' evidence shows that the risk of serious medical complications after taking mifepristone is at least twenty-two times higher than reported on the drug label."
They said, "In fact, more than 1 in 10 women who take mifepristone will experience a serious adverse event."
They want to see the government going another direction than when "The Biden-Harris administration enabled the deception of American women and the violation of states' constitutional rights by relying on faulty data to claim that there would be no increase in complications if abortion drugs were approved for mail-order."
In 2000, when the FDA first addressed the use of mifepristone, numerous restrictions were put on the drug's prescription and use. Then Barack Obama eliminated the requirement that the abortion drug be prescribed by a physician and consumed in-office, as well as the mandatory follow-up visit and reporting of complications.
Then Joe Biden pushed the pro-abortion ideology further, doing away with almost all of the remaining safeguards.
Sens. Lisa Murkowski. R-Alaska, and Susan Collins, R-Maine, were the only Republicans to refuse to cooperate.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
Nearly 20 people are missing and multiple deaths are feared in an explosion at a Tennessee bomb factory.
Reports revealed that there is a list of 19 names of people missing after the disaster at the Accurate Energetic Systems plant at the Hickman-Humphreys county line west of Nashville.
County emergency responders confirmed 19 people were inside the building that was vaporized, and all remain missing.
The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has been called to the scene as there were concerns about subsequent explosions.
People in the area have been asked to avoid the location.
AES calls itself a "leader in the energetics and explosives industry."
Online, the company said, "Whether for military acquisition offices, defense and aerospace primes, or commercial demolition sectors, AES is your partner in achieving superior energetic solutions."
Reports confirmed the facility makes and stores explosives, including bulk explosives, shaped charges, demolition kits, and specialized items for military, defense, aerospace, demolition, mining, and oil industries.
No members of the Supreme Court attended this year's annual Red Mass in Washington D.C. after an insane man was caught with a huge stash of explosives outside the church.
41-year-old Louis Geri of Vineland, New Jersey, was found in possession of more than 200 homemade bombs in a tent outside St. Matthew's Cathedral on Sunday, the Washington Post reported.
After a tense standoff, police took Geri into custody and found a large arsenal of explosives, some of which contained the same chemicals used in the Oklahoma City bombing.
The maniac handed police a notebook with the title, "Written Negotiations for the Avoidance of Destruction of Property via Detonation of Explosives."
In it, Geri expressed hatred toward Catholics, the Supreme Court, Jews, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
According to court documents, Geri made threats as police ordered him to leave the premises, where he had set up a tent.
"Do you want me to throw one out, I'll test one out on the streets? I have 100-plus of them," Geri told a police sergeant, according to court records.
"If you just step back, I'll take out that tree. No one will get hurt, there will just be a hole where that tree used to be."
During the encounter, a police sergeant agreed to read some pages from Geri's notebook, but the situation escalated when Geri started pulling out vials of yellow liquid with illegal explosive devices taped to them.
Eventually, police were able to arrest Geri after he left his tent to urinate on some trees.
The authorities found that some of the vials contained nitromethane, an explosive compound often used in improvised explosive devices, including the ones deployed in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, which killed 168 people, the Post reported.
The Red Mass is held each year to invoke God's blessing on the Supreme Court and others involved in the administration of justice. The celebration occurs on the Sunday before the first Monday of October, as the Supreme Court begins its term.
A majority of the court's justices, six out of nine, are Catholic. While it is typical for some justices to attend the Red Mass, none were present this year due to the security threat, according to reports.
The situation is being treated like a hate crime, with Geri facing eight charges in all, including manufacture or possession of a weapon of mass destruction in furtherance of a hate crime. A judge ordered Geri held without bond.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
A video obtained by Politico reveals a strained Katie Porter, then a member of Congress during the Joe Biden administration, delivering a rant about the benefits of electric vehicles. Then she suddenly explodes on her own staff member who wandered into the camara's line of sight.
"GET OUT OF MY F*CKING SHOT!" Porter, who also recently melted down in another interview, said.
Editor's note: Be aware of offensive language:
Politico reported Porter is the frontrunner in next year's race for California governor.
The video is of a conversation, being recorded apparently to support Biden's war on America's energy industry and his demands for those costly electric vehicles, and includes comments about how work is going on to make them affordable for low- and middle-income Americans.
Porter is on audio with Jennifer Granholm, who at the time was energy secretary.
"Several minutes in, Porter's staffer interjected to correct something the Democratic representative had said about electric vehicles. Porter then reprimanded her employee, who had also previously appeared periodically in the background during the recording," the report said.
Porter unleashed, "You also were in my shot before that. Stay out of my shot."
When the Department of Energy eventually released the final version, the comments were concealed.
The report explained, "For years, Porter has contended with accusations that she was a difficult boss or abusive to employees during her time in Congress, along with unrelated domestic disputes."
Porter responded to a request for comment with, "It's no secret I hold myself and my staff to a high standard, and that was especially true as a member of Congress. I have sought to be more intentional in showing gratitude to my staff for their important work."
She also complained on the video she had not visited the White House "despite" raising a lot of money for Biden.
The behavior apparently is a pattern with Porter, as WND reported only a day earlier on what was being described as a "bizarre scene" when she had a meltdown during a TV interview.
She apparently was upset that she was being asked questions by a news reporter.
Porter was being interviewed by Julie Watts of CBS affiliate KOVR-TV in Sacramento when she objected to follow-up questions, stressing she did not wish to have an "unhappy experience with you and I don't want this on camera."
"I don't want to keep doing this. I'm gonna call it, thank you," Porter told Wells, indicating she was done with the interview.
"You're not going to do the interview with us?" an incredulous Watts asked.
"Nope, not like this I'm not. Not with seven follow-ups to every single question you ask," Porter responded.
"Every other candidate has answered our follow-ups," the investigative reporter noted.
"I don't care," Porter replied.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, reposted the video, saying: "Crazy lady freaks out when journalists asks her actual 'questions.'"
Republican congressional candidate Ken Calvert said: "Her tirade is a window into the mentality of radical CA Democrat politicians. They can't stand those who disagree with them."
Martha MacCallum of Fox News told anchor Bill Hemmer on Wednesday: "I just love when she goes, 'Not if you have seven follow-ups. Six is my limit.' This is not going to serve her well."
And Hemmer quipped: "I think they were just sitting too close to each other."
John Ziegler, host of "The Death of Journalism" podcast, also reacted to the meltdown, saying: "When Katie Porter is our next governor here in CA, it will make us long for the days of the evil Gavin Newsom. She's a lot like him, only dumber.
"How are Democrats not enraged that she overtly states here that she plans to make sure she runs in the general against a Republican?!"
Kristinn Taylor at the Gateway Pundit opined: "It was a bizarre scene, like in a movie where the nurse is trying to calm the agitated mental patient in the psych ward before she picks up a tray and bashes her in the head."
In 2023, the New York Post reported on other alleged behavior by Porter, as her ex-husband in a 2013 divorce filing accused her of pouring scalding hot mashed potatoes on his head during a dispute.
A disturbed man was caught with more than 200 explosives before the start of an annual Mass that is normally attended by the Supreme Court.
As reported by the Washington Post, 41-year-old Louis Geri, of Vineland, New Jersey, had an arsenal of homemade bombs inside of a tent that he set up on the steps of St. Matthew's Cathedral, where the Red Mass was held on Sunday.
Throughout a tense confrontation with police, Geri threatened to set off the explosives and handed over a notebook filled with hateful ramblings.
As police approached and told him to leave, he responded, "You might want to stay back and call the federales, I have explosives."
The bomb squad was called in, and a police sergeant tried to defuse the situation by agreeing to read from Geri's notebook. But the situation escalated sharply after the sergeant noticed a butane lighter and tried to open Geri's tent.
The man flew into a rage and began pulling out vials of yellow liquid with explosives taped to them, as he warned to "step away or there’s going to be deaths, I’m telling you now.”
The police backed up and formed a perimeter. The sergeant and another officer finally arrested Geri after he left his tent to urinate on a tree. He told police that he had a bomb in the front pocket of his fleece, and a bomb squad technician found the device along with a butane lighter.
The FBI found that some of the vials contained nitromethane, which is an explosive compound often used in improvised explosive devices, including the ones deployed in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, which killed 168 people. Other devices were modified bottle rockets with aluminum foil heads and treated in a pyrotechnic solution, but all of them were "fully functional.”
The man was apparently known to police and had been banned from the premises before Sunday's incident, according to the Catholic Standard, which is the newspaper of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington. The police found him during a security sweep before Mass.
Because of his threats, no Supreme Court members attended the Red Mass, where God's blessing is invoked to guide judges and others in the legal profession. The Red Mass falls on the Sunday before the first Monday in October to mark the start of the Supreme Court's term.
According to the Washington Post, Geri's notebook included hateful writings toward Catholics, Jews, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the Supreme Court. Six out of the court's nine members are Catholic.
Last week, a man was sentenced to eight years in prison for trying to kill Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who is Catholic.
Geri is facing charges of manufacture or possession of a weapon of mass destruction in furtherance of a hate crime. He was also charged with possession of a destructive device and false report of a weapon of mass destruction in relation to a previous incident at the church that led to him being barred from the premises.
A judge ordered him held without bond.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert of Colorado on Wednesday said her Democrat colleague in the U.S. House, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, should be immediately investigated, thrown in jail or deported back to Somalia.
"This is someone who absolutely should be investigated. I think she should be sitting in prison or at least sent back to Somalia," Boebert told journalist Benny Johnson.
Johnson indicated he had heard from top sources at the Department of Homeland Security there is "demonstrable evidence of Ilhan Omar marrying her brother for U.S. citizenship."
Boebert explained: "In Congress, it's going to be really difficult to have a real investigation like we should.
"Look, Nancy Mace bravely put a privileged resolution on the floor condemning the remarks by Ilhan Omar. And Ilhan Omar was trying to troll everyone in the process leading up to the vote. And she just simply wanted to censure her. She said you should not be on the Foreign Affairs Committee with the rhetoric that you have. And then, of course, it went against our Congressional code of ethics that we agreed to when are signed in as members of Congress."
Johnson comically interjected: "You have a code of ethics that says you can't marry your brother?"
"You know that might need to be put in," Boebert replied.
"I think that's in the Bible," said Johnson.
"Our Bible," Boebert stressed.
President Donald Trump is no fan of Omar, having written on Truth Social: "Wasn't she the one that married her brother in order to gain Citizenship? What SCUM we have in our country, telling us what to do and how to do it."
"I think she should be impeached. I think she's terrible," Trump told reporters. "She should be impeached, and it should happen fast."
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James Comey, the ex-FBI chief who recently went to social media with a message suggesting a threat against President Donald Trump, posting, then pulling, an image of seashells placed to carry the message "86 47," has pleaded not guilty to charges of obstruction and lying.
He was indicted for his actions during the Democrats' weaponization of the federal government against Trump, which included fabrications about Trump 2016 campaign links to Russia and more.
The Washington Examiner noted he was indicted last month by U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan, making him the "first former FBI director to be criminally charged after leaving office."
He's accused of lying to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding. The evidence released so far comes from the government's own documentation about what he knew and when, and video of his own claims about those events.
Comey already has begun trying to build public support, claiming in statements that he's released that he's innocent and "eager" to go to trial.
The charges say he "willfully and knowingly" made a false statement during a 2020 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing when he denied he authorized any FBI official at "act as an anonymous source in media reports" on the FBI's investigation that widely was understood to refer to Trump.
Prosecutors charge Comey actually approved a subordinate to serve as a source for that material.
He could be in prison for five years if convicted.
He reportedly was allowed the special privilege of entering the courthouse where he entered his pleas through a little-used entrance, avoiding video cameras stationed at the front door.
"Comey's indictment represents a stunning turn for a man who once led the nation's premier law enforcement agency and has long been both vilified and praised for his handling of politically charged investigations. As FBI director, he angered Democrats by reopening the probe into Hillary Clinton's emails shortly before the 2016 election, and infuriated Republicans by pursuing the Trump-Russia investigation months later," the report said.
After he was fired, he called Trump a "mob boss."
"Earlier this year, he sustained criticism and was even visited by the Secret Service after posting an image of seashells in the sand that stated '86 47,' a message that was interpreted by Trump and allies as a veiled threat or wish for harm to come to the president. Comey subsequently deleted the post and issued an apology after the backlash," the Examiner reported.
Following the indictment, Comey's son-in-law quit his post as a federal prosecutor in New York. His daughter, Maureen, is suing over her removal from her post as a federal prosecutor in New York.
FBI Director Kash Patel has said that "previous corrupt leadership" "weaponized federal law enforcement, damaging once proud institutions and severely eroding public trust."
"Every day, we continue the fight to earn that trust back, and under my leadership, this FBI will confront the problem head-on," Patel said. "Nowhere was this politicization of law enforcement more blatant than during the Russiagate hoax, a disgraceful chapter in history we continue to investigate and expose. Everyone, especially those in positions of power, will be held to account – no matter their perch."
Comey posted a video after the indictment claiming that the case is part of the cost "of standing up to Donald Trump."
"My heart is broken for the Department of Justice, but I have great confidence in the federal judicial system and I am innocent," he said.
The FBI, in fact, opened its lie-based "Crossfire Hurricane" investigation into Trump and his campaign days after Comey was fired during Trump's first term. Then Robert Mueller spent two years and millions of tax dollars as special counsel investigating, and found no evidence of criminal conspiracy or coordination between the Trump campaign and Russian officials.
A later special counsel, John Durham, concluded the FBI had a "clear warning sign" that it was the target of a Hillary Clinton scheme to "manipulate or influence the law enforcement process for political purposes," but refused to act.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
Mike Pompeo served in the first Trump administration as secretary of state, also led the CIA, and now is senior counsel for global affairs at the American Center for Law and Justice.
And he is describing the violent crime wracking American now as a national crisis, blaming, "failed progressive policies."
"Left-wing politicians have convinced themselves that greater compassion for the criminals is the only way to address the root causes of crime. In practice, that has meant declining to prosecute dangerous individuals and repeat offenders, disempowering police, and making it almost impossible to commit individuals with dangerous mental illness to the psychiatric care they need to keep themselves and others safe," he wrote.
He cited the recent violence: "Deadly attacks on an ICE facility in Texas and an LDS Church in Michigan. These attacks came on the heels of the very public assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the horrific killing spree at a Minneapolis Catholic school that claimed the lives of two children, and the now infamous stabbing of Iryna Zarutska on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina."
He noted "all that is going in the right direction" for Americans, but also called out the "darkness – that seems to be at large."
"Whether it's the lionization of political assassinations or the normalization of random acts of violence, there are definite echoes of the lawlessness that reigned during the 1960s and 1970s. And while the spike in homicide rates and violent crime that began in 2020 has gone down, it has by no means returned to pre-pandemic levels," he noted.
He explained it's made worse because "progressives continue to demonize law enforcement. From the 'defund the police' movement that accompanied the riots of 2020 to the rhetorical attacks on ICE as they attempt to enforce immigration law, the Left is undermining law enforcement and encouraging further acts of violence."
He said the messaging from extremists is that, "we can never 'arrest our way out' of criminality." But, he said, "The evidence suggests the precise opposite: Violent crime only goes down when the perpetrators are incarcerated, and when the severely mentally ill are given the help they need to protect themselves and others."
He said the problem, deeper than policy changes, however, relates to the spiritual.
"As much of our nation has turned away from religion, we've lost the moral compass that goes with it. The unprecedented phenomenon of spending so much of our lives online – exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic – has had a flattening effect on the way many people view their fellow Americans. And the collapse of trust in institutions has opened up new spaces for conspiracy theories to take root – causes eagerly adopted by evil actors and the mentally unwell," he said.
"As the old saying goes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. When elected officials coddle criminals and refuse to protect law-abiding citizens, they fail to uphold the most basic obligations of governance and put us all in danger. When lawlessness is given free rein, it corrodes our social fabric and contributes to a wider sense of disorder, distrust, and moral rot. And when our society turns its back on God and reduces human beings to mere representations of a political, ethnic, or a social category, we open up new opportunities for malevolence to run riot."
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
The FBI has fired several employees over a scheme by Jack Smith, Joe Biden's special counsel assigned to run Democrat lawfare cases against President Donald Trump, to spy on the communications of multiple Republican senators.
It was confirmed just this week that Smith's entourage, set up to prosecute, convict and even jail Trump if a way could be found, went to telephone companies with warrants and demanded access to the communications records of Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Tommy Tuberville of Alabama and GOP Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania.
All Republicans.
The invasion of their records came at a time when Smith was putting together claims that the Jan. 6, 2021, protest-turned-riot in Washington actually was a real effort to overthrow the U.S. government, install all new officials, take control of its international policy, economy, and much more.
Smith's J6 case against Trump, as well as his other claims, ultimately fell apart.
Now, a report at Fox explains the FBI "has already terminated employees and abolished the CR-15 squad just one day after it was revealed that several Republicans' private communications and phone calls had been tracked."
FBI chief Kash Patel confirmed the moves.
"We are cleaning up a diseased temple three decades in the making — identifying the rot, removing those who weaponized law enforcement for political purposes and those who do not meet the standards of this mission while restoring integrity to the FBI. I promised reform, and I intend to deliver it," he told Fox.
Patel said, "Transparency is important, and accountability is critical. We promised both, and this is what promises kept looks like… We terminated employees, we abolished the weaponized CR-15 squad, and we initiated an ongoing investigation with more accountability measures ahead."
It was the CR-15 squad that helped Smith "investigate" Trump.