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It's a series of attacks that have targeted Enoch Burke, a school teacher in Ireland, for three years already, and it's being elevated now to the point authorities have ordered him to be jailed over the Christmas holiday over his adherence to science and fact.

The fight is over orders from officials at his school to lie, by using "they/them" pronouns for a student who claims to be transgender.

That, of course, defies science, as being male or female is embedded in humans down to the DNA level, and does not change.

Live Action's Lila Rose commented on the orders: "Ireland is no longer free. Ireland teacher Enoch Burke will spend Christmas in jail after refusing to use preferred pronouns for a trans-identifying student, citing his religious beliefs. The school then initiated a disciplinary process, preventing him from teaching. After multiple attempts to fight what he believed was religious persecution, Enoch was arrested. Pray for Enoch and his family."

A report from RTE Ireland said the orders to keep Burke locked up over the holiday came from the High Court.

"Mr. Burke was ordered back to prison two weeks ago for contempt of court by continuing to turn up at Wilson's Hospital School despite a court order directing him not to trespass. The judge accused Mr. Burke and his family of engaging in the most deliberate, sustained and concerted attack on the authority of the civil courts and the rule of law in this country in recent times."

Involved are Burke, his brother, Isaac, mother, Martina, and sister, Ammi.

The report explained, "Mr. Burke has spent more than 500 days in prison for refusing to abide by court orders. He claims he is turning up for work at the school as his right. The courts have usually ordered his release from prison during the school holidays."

The judge, Brian Cregan, claimed "fines and the appointment of security guards had failed to stop Mr. Burke turning up at the school and there was no option but to imprison him again," the report said.

The judge already has appointed a receiver for Burke's bank account in order to charge him legal fees to benefit the school.

He also has pending a hearing regarding his dismissal by school officials.

Further, Burke objected to a rant by the judge who described him as "a baleful and malign presence … an intruder, stalking the school…"

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Because of course Christmas is a holiday all about politics.

At least that's the messaging from one Massachusetts church that took Joseph, Mary and baby Jesus out of its annual Nativity display and replaced them with a sign stating, "ICE was here."

It is St. Susanna Catholic church in the Boston suburb of Dedham that delivered its statement on a political agenda.

A report at Fox explained Father Stephen Josoma, the pastor, claimed the messaging from the church's peace and justice group was to "try to see what would it be like if Christ was born into the context of the world today, what would he be facing?"

A rebuke was not long in coming.

C.J. Doyle, chief of the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts, said, "I think it's very offensive. [Josoma] is politicizing Christmas, he's exploiting and trivializing the Holy Family, and he's using his Catholic parish as a platform to promote his left-winged ideology."

Josoma said the agenda of the church's pro-immigration messaging was to "change people."

Fox reported, "Josoma has become known for making waves with his Nativity scenes over the last decade. He and the parish peace and justice group have made statements on mass shootings, global warming and immigration issues in previous years."

Back in 2018, the church placed a cage around baby Jesus in the Nativity, apparently to the enflame the dispute over the southern border crisis, which at that time was being addressed by President Donald Trump's border wall and more.

It was under the Barack Obama administration, actually, that border security forces started using wire-mesh cages to detain children.

Doyle charged, "This is a case of a dissident priest who has a long history of these kinds of 'crackpot' publicity stunts aimed at political activism. This has nothing to do with the birth of our Savior and everything to do with ventilating [Josoma's] own political projects."

Doyle said it actually is the archdiocese of Boston that should act.

"The archdiocese has tolerated this behavior in the past. They should tell him to stop, pure and simple."

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has said, "We pray for an end to dehumanizing rhetoric and violence, whether directed at immigrants or at law enforcement."

Fox noted other churches have gone political about Christmas, too, with Lake Street Church in Evanston, Ill., posting a scene that has baby Jesus' hands zip-tied and gas masks on Joseph and Mary, to create a scene "of forced family separation."

 

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After five years of investigating, authorities have arrested a suspect in the Washington, D.C., pipe bomb case that developed at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 5, 2021.

This was just before the Capitol protest-turned-riot where thousands massed at the government building to protest what they saw as the unfair results of the 2020 presidential election. A few hundred broke into the building and vandalized it, and the government prosecuted even those who were convicted of no more than trespassing with years in jail.

President Donald Trump ended that with a pardon of those offenders when he took office in his second term.

The report cited "sources" and said the suspect, at the time, was on video wearing a gray hoodie, Nike Air Max Speed Turf sneakers, a face mask, glasses, and gloves.

The report said, "Authorities discovered the two pipe bombs near the Republican and Democratic National Committees' headquarters around the same time that thousands of protesters a few blocks away began to descend on the Capitol over the 2020 election results. Video footage released by the FBI showed an unidentified person placing the pipe bombs near the two headquarters more than 16 hours before law enforcement found them."

A wire service report said it was the first time investigators "have settled on a suspect in an act that had long vexed law enforcement."

It was the AP that cited its source, an official who "was not authorized to publicly discuss a case that has not yet been made public and spoke on the condition of anonymity."

The bombs were defused and no one was injured.

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A pro-abortion activist acting as a federal judge has ruled, again, that American taxpayers must keep giving money to help the profit-loss margin for Planned Parenthood businesses, and the ruling already is facing a challenge.

It is the American Center for Law and Justice that cited the "sweeping order" from Indira Talwani, who ruled "once again" to block Congress from setting spending priorities, and removing Planned Parenthood as a recipient of federal Medicaid dollars.

Talwani, whose earlier pro-abortion funding ruling was struck down on appeal, said in a new 45-page claim that 22 states and the District of Columbia deserve an injunction that requires the continued tax funding of abortionists, even though Congress decided otherwise.

The ACLJ, which has been participating in the litigation, explained, "Congress has the unquestioned constitutional authority to decide how federal dollars are allocated. The judiciary does not get to override those decisions or insulate favored organizations from the consequences of federal policy. Especially not when the organization at issue is the nation's largest abortion provider."

The legal team said it would file a court briefing as soon as possible, as "Congress' spending authority and the integrity of our constitutional structure must be defended."

The spending limit is included in Section 71113 of the 2025 Budget Reconciliation Act.

"If the judge's name sounds familiar, it should. This is the same judge who, just months ago, issued two extraordinarily broad injunctions in favor of Planned Parenthood – first shielding a subset of affiliates from Congress' defunding statute, and then expanding her order to cover every Planned Parenthood affiliate nationwide," the ACLJ documented.

It filed briefs at that time "explaining why Congress acted well within its constitutional authority when it chose to restrict federal Medicaid funds from going to organizations that perform elective abortions. We warned then that the district court's reasoning was dangerously flawed and would, if left uncorrected, upend Congress' control of federal spending."

At that time the 1st U.S. Circuit Court intervened, and canceled Talwani's pro-abortion activism in the case.

Now the abortion advocates have claimed, in new arguments, that Section 71113 is "vague."

Talwani based her claims, the ACLJ explained, on the Spending Clause.

"Under Supreme Court precedent, when Congress imposes conditions on federal funding, it must speak with sufficient clarity so states may knowingly accept the terms. According to the district court, Section 71113 did not meet that standard. The judge concluded that states lacked clarity on who qualifies as a 'prohibited entity,' how to assess multistate Medicaid expenditures, and what it means for a provider to be 'primarily engaged' in certain reproductive health services," the ACLJ said.

The fight is over tax funding for abortionists, and Planned Parenthood's repeated claim that it has a constitutional right to demand money from taxpayers.

"Congress' intent was unmistakable: Federal Medicaid dollars should not subsidize entities that perform abortions outside the narrow bounds of the Hyde Amendment. That condition is not in any way ambiguous; it is clear," the ACLJ said.

The Washington Examiner said Talwani's new order came "despite a federal appeals court lifting her previous halt on the law in a different lawsuit."

The report explained, "Talwani paused her order for seven days to allow for appeal, meaning the provision will not be blocked until that time has passed. She also stood firm on her rationale for why she granted the injunction in the case brought by Planned Parenthood, which is currently paused by a federal appeals court."

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An Oklahoma state representative is now getting vicious and lethal threats after coming to the defense of a Christian student who received a zero grade from a transgender teaching assistant merely for championing God's gender roles outlined in the Bible.

Republican Gabe Woolley shared the audio of one menacing message, stating: "Hi, this is a message for Rep. Gabe Woolley. Could you please pass this message on to him? Tell him to put a gun in his mouth and pull the trigger for all of our sakes. Thank you. Bye."

Woolley had expressed support for Samantha Fulnecky, a student at the University of Oklahoma who was given a failing grade by Mel Curth, a graduate teaching assistant who is a man pretending to be a woman.

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A new man-on-the-street video made in Minneapolis, Minnesota, shows interviews with several Somali Muslims who says they'd much rather live under Shariah law than U.S. law.

Filmmaker Ami Horowitz shared the footage on X with the description, "What Somalis living in America really think of the U.S."

Besides the affirmations of Shariah law, the video features a woman commending the practice of forced marriage, beginning when the "bride" is 15 years old, and defending those who kill others for "insulting Muhammad."

President Donald Trump on Tuesday condemned the large Somali community in Minnesota, telling reporters, "I don't want 'em in our country, I'll be honest with you."

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Democrat U.S. Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is raising eyebrows for his remarks some believe support a military coup against President Donald Trump, saying "uniformed military may help save us from this president," even as the commander in chief is telegraphing forthcoming strikes on land against narco-terrorists.

Warner appeared on "Morning Joe" on MS Now Wednesday to discuss ongoing controversy over Trump's kinetic strikes against drug runners bringing their poison to America, in which one vessel sunk in September required a second strike to complete the mission.

The senator was critical of Trump's policy, saying: "This is an administration that's fired uniformed generals from the head of the NSA, the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

"Democrats are praying that the military assists them in a violent coup," said David J. Freeman. "There isn't any saving that needs to be done, these seditionists are begging for a coup."

LibsofTikTok said: "He is openly calling for the military to overthrow the President. CHARGE HIM @TheJusticeDept."

"Family Matters" host CJ Pearson noted: "Mark Warner just said the quiet part out loud … They want a military coup against President Trump."

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At 88 years old, Ed Bambas has gone through some rough patches in life – which forced him to work full-time at a grocery store instead of enjoying retirement.

Turns out Bambas, a U.S. Army veteran, first retired from his job with General Motors in 1999. Twelve years later "they took my pension away from me," he explains.

After his wife got sick, Bambas had to sell his house to help pay the medical bills. Later, he took a job at Meijer supermarket in Brighton, Michigan.

"The thing that hurts me the most is when my wife was sick and they took the pension, they also took the health care coverage and all but $10,000 of my life savings," he said.

That's where an Australian TikTok and Instagram star named Samuel Weidenhofer videotaped Ed's story – and the rest is history.

Weidenhofer flew to Michigan to interview Bambas, and the heartwarming footage went online, now viewed more than 4 million times. A viewer suggested people raise funds for the octogenarian so he can retire. As of Wednesday, $1.2 million has been raised, according to Fox News, surpassing the $1 million goal with weeks left to go. Eventually, the funds will be presented to Bambas, enabling him to retire for good.

Here's the video interview:

 

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It's one of the most consequential yet underreported stories in America today – the massive job loss and life disruption for hundreds of thousands of American workers, particularly in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), due to widespread abuse of America's immigration and visa laws. The ongoing crisis, which daily results in tremendous suffering and depression on the part of American workers, and sometimes even suicide, was the focus of a recent event at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., which featured as a key expert Amanda Bartolotta, WND's senior investigative journalist. Bartolotta's exclusive and groundbreaking reports are not only informing many Americans on the subject, but are being followed by key parts of the Trump administration, including the Office of the Vice President and the Justice Department.

Heritage, long the nation's premier conservative think tank, convened a panel of five nationally recognized experts on immigration, labor policy and visa reform, to explain the massive problem – and its solutions – to government officials, media and the public. Along with Bartolotta, the other four expert panelists included Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies; Kevin Lynn, founder of U.S. Tech Workers and executive director of the Institute for Sound Public Policy; Ronil (Ron) Hira, Ph.D., P.E., associate professor, Department of Political Science, Howard University; and, moderating the discussion, Simon Hankinson, senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation.

The Nov. 19 policy discussion, titled "How the H-1B Visa Led to Importing Mass Cheap Labor," examined how the H-1B program, originally created as a narrow, temporary, non-immigrant visa for specialized workers, has expanded into a gargantuan pipeline for importing large volumes of low-cost, highly controllable immigrant workers at the direct expense of American professionals. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has publicly referred to the arrangement as nothing short of "indentured servitude."

The event drew a capacity in-person audience of approximately 100, including officials from the Department of Homeland Security and Department of State, as well as congressional staff, members of policy organizations, media representatives and those involved with enforcement of immigration laws. In addition, more than 500 "attendees" registered to watch virtually, reflecting the growing national concern about visa abuse and the widespread and alarming displacement of American workers.

Notably, the audience included Mahvash Siddiqui, the U.S. Foreign Service officer who served as a consular official in Chennai, India, one of the world's largest H-1B processing posts. Siddiqui provided first-hand insight into systemic fraud in the visa pipeline, including forged degrees, fabricated employment credentials, third-party staffing company schemes, India-based networks orchestrating large-scale visa abuse and the issuance of more than 220,000 H-1Bs and 140,000 H-4s in 2024 alone. Her disclosures underscored the deep structural vulnerabilities of the program and framed the panel's discussion of foreign influence, labor trafficking and downstream green-card acquisition.

Panelists covered a comprehensive range of topics, including:

* The history and original legislative intent of the H-1B program, with Hira and Krikorian detailing how a narrowly crafted visa program intended for short-term, specialized workers evolved into a mechanism for uncontrolled mass labor importation.

* Outsourcing body shops, loopholes and corporate abuse, with Lynn and Hira outlining how offshore labor firms and multinational staffing companies dominate the program, replacing American workers with lower-cost foreign labor.

* PERM (Program Electronic Review Management) fraud and discriminatory hiring, regarding which Bartolotta presented the pipeline from H-1B misuse to green-card acquisition, explaining how so-called PERM recruitment is systematically manipulated to exclude U.S. workers while securing permanent residency for foreign labor.

* Impact on the American workforce, with panelists highlighting how U.S. STEM graduates struggle to find employment, how tens of thousands of mid-career American professionals are laid off, so-called "labor shortages" are artificially manufactured narratives, and American wages are suppressed and job mobility undermined.

During the following Q&A with the audience, which included federal officials, questions addressed included: Which reforms should take priority, the misuse of federal "training fund" fees collected from visa petitions, and public reactions to high-profile statements on H-1B from Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, among others.

Engagement and public impact

Heritage produced individual video clips for each panelist, and interaction metrics across X (Twitter) demonstrated significant public and policy-community engagement:

Heritage officials noted the unusually high engagement levels for a policy event, signaling a deepening public appetite for immigration and labor-market reform.

* WATCH clip of Amanda Bartolotta's speech on X:

* WATCH video of the entire event on YouTube.

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After President Donald Trump called U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., "garbage" at a Tuesday Cabinet meeting, various media representatives have asked the congresswoman about his remarks.

One reporter caught up with Omar on Capitol Hill as she waited for an elevator, asking the Somalia native, "Have you begun packing your bags for Somalia?"

Addressing the recent scandal in Omar's home state involving the stealing of at least $1 billion in taxpayer funds to benefit Somalis both here and in Africa, Trump remark, "I don't want 'em in our country, I'll be honest with you.

"Somebody will say, 'Oh that's not politically correct.' I don't care. I don't want 'em in our country. Their country's no good for a reason. Their country stinks. … I could say that about other countries too."

Trump added, "We're gonna go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage to our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage."

The video from activist Laura Loomer has Omar responding, "I'm not going anywhere. … I'll be here longer than Trump!

"He's an old man losing his mind," said said, adding, "Hope he gets help."

WATCH:

Omar told MS NOW that Trump was "racist, a bigot, xenophobic and Islamophobic."