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Conversations on social media often are less than significant. But on occasion, there comes a stunner that demands, and gets, attention.
Such is a reposting by activist Seth Dillon of a comment from Nathan Prindler, a self-described, "shameless anti-abortion libertarian-conservative Canadian Christian who wants to become American," who succinctly points out that, "Nearly every pro-abortion argument mirrors pro-slavery arguments from the 19th century."
Then he lists them:
"This slave/baby is my property/body. You can't tell me what to do with it."
"No one is forcing you to have slaves/abortions, mind your own business."
"My property/body rights come before the rights of a slave/fetus."
"Slavery/abortion has been around for thousands of years it's never going away. We might as well have a safe and legal system in place for it."
"Slaves/fetuses aren't people, they aren't like us, they're physically different therefore we can own/kill them."
"If slavery/abortion ends most of these slaves/babies wind up on the street without a job."
"Slavery/abortion is in the best interest of the Africans/babies. The world can be a cruel place, so they should enslave/abort them."
"Slavery/abortion was vindicated by the Supreme Court. It's already been decided. It's settled law."
A Twitchy commentary pointed out, "Seth Dillon just ended every single pro-abortion argument ever made … in 1 tweet."
It commented, "It's interesting how the same party that went to war to keep their slaves is the same party now fighting to make sure women can abort up to and including birth. It's almost as if they don't like human beings, in general, and end up on the wrong side of every issue every time."
It even pointed out the warning that those very arguments likely won't stop with abortion.
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Joe Biden has launched an agenda that includes electric cars – for all. He wants oil exploration and natural gas production stifled. Unstable power sources like windmills are his thing.
And while it's all politically correct, it's not realistic.
Now, there's an explanation for where Biden's ideology originates: magic.
Sean Hannity was interviewing Marc Moraco, the chief of the Climate Depot website.
Hannity asked, "Marc, you have spent the better part of your adult life debunking the climate alarmist religious cult. Now it's fully in gear and it's spending all of this money. What do people really need to know about what they are peddling and how it's based on phony science, not real science? You know, look at the study that came out a couple of weeks ago; electric cars may pollute the planet more than gas-powered cars, but all of this never gets told to the American people in the media mob."
He continued, "You would need to unleash innovation if that's what we actually faced. You'd want a wealthier country; you would want a technological explosion. You would want capitalism unleashed because the cleanest environments are the freest environments."
He said Biden's approach is the opposite.
"It's 'magical thinking' from beginning to end in terms of the green agenda. This is just going to hammer the American people. They're spending so much money that there are parts of California where they don't have enough bureaucrats to spend the climate cash flowing in from the Inflation Reduction Act and from the Biden administration. They have to hire bureaucrats even to figure out how to spend it all."
Meanwhile, the ultra-wealthy John Kerry, who served as Joe Biden's climate czar and traveled the world, often in private jets, to espouse elimination of fossil fuels, is blaming resistance across America to Biden's agenda, which includes higher prices for food, fuel, vehicles and more, on one thing.
"G-R-E-E-D."
Kerry's worth has been estimated in recent years as about $250 million. His wife, who inherited from her late husband, Sen. Henry Heinz, of the Heinz food conglomerate, is thought to be worth some $750 million.
Kerry said, "You ask, what is it that's that's in the way, the imperative of status quo, the way money works, the numbers of people who are pressured, some of the oil and gas companies because they weren't doing as well as the ones that weren't doing stuff on the climate. Look at the pressure. You know, a bunch of asset owners and managers in New York, and elsewhere in the world have been under pressure to make more money.
"So, put it down to greed, G-R-E-E-D, greed."
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Comments by members of Congress, even stupid and irrational, mostly are protected by the "speech and debate" clause of the Constitution – as long as the comments are part of the legislative process.
But now a letter from a legal team representing congressional witness Tony Bobulinski is charging that U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin, the Democrat from Maryland most famous for leading the impeachment case against former President Trump, stepped outside of that authority when he publicly slammed the witness, who has provided key evidence to Congress in its investigation into the evidence for impeaching Joe Biden.
In fact, according to the letter from lawyers Jesse Binnall and John C. Sullivan, representing Bobulinski, Raskin "mocked" various witnesses to Congress and posted a "freeze frame" that shows Bobulinski, with the chyron, "A disgruntled Wannabe Business Partner Turned Trump World Hype man."
Raskin further publicly described Bobulinski as "a bitterly frustrated would-be business partner who collaborated with the Trump campaign" and a "dubious" witness. And he called Bobulinski a "political pawn" and accused him of lying.
The letter warns Raskin, "You are not entitled to any immunity for your defamatory statements. The Speech and Debate Clause comes from Article I, Section 6, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution, and it includes, in relevant part: 'for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.'"
But that only protects activities "undertaken in the House and Senate," and provides no immunity "beyond its carefully defined scope," the lawyers warn. "Anything that is not a legislative activity will not be protected."
The lawyers explain that they will file litigation over Raskin's public and social media statements "if you fail to delete and publicly retract recent defamatory statements and publications you made about Mr. Bobulinski, including on X (formerly Twitter). Be further advised that you should identify and preserve all hard copy and electronically stored documents, information, and data that relate, in any way, to the subject matter of your incessantly malicious defamatory conduct. It was a mistake to believe that your publications were made without consequence. It must, and will, stop immediately."
The lawyers also cite "evidence" of Raskin's "malice," in that he's following a "blind adherence to a preconceived narrative."
Bobulinski, a onetime business associate of Hunter Biden, has provided testimony to Congress that confirms the influence-peddling operations run by the Biden family, which generated millions for family members, was focused on access to Joe Biden, who was, in fact, party to those operations.
Bobulinski, during his appearance in Congress, called leftists in the body liars, and a ruling from the committee found that he was not out of order in doing so.
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The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that a state right to abortion is invalid because it was based on the federal rights claimed by the now-defunct Roe v. Wade abortion ruling, which has since been tossed out by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The effect is that a Civil War-era abortion ban in the state can be enforced, after a district court takes further action in the dispute.
"We celebrate this enormous victory for unborn children and their mothers. Reinstating Arizona’s pro-life law will protect more than 11,000 babies annually at all stages of pregnancy while providing an exception for the life of the mother. This includes babies who have heartbeats, babies who can feel pain, and babies who can smile and suck their thumbs. Today’s state Supreme Court decision is a major advancement in the fight for life in Arizona," she explained.
"The compassion of the pro-life movement won in court today, but we must continue to fight. While Republicans have passed bills to ensure that babies born alive after failed abortions receive medical care and stepped up their support for programs that provide life-affirming help for pregnant moms facing homelessness, pro-abortion Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed born-alive protections and her administration has attacked and defunded pro-life safety net providers."
She added, "Governor Hobbs and her pro-abortion allies will pour millions into deceiving the voters about the upcoming amendment that permits abortion on demand when babies can feel pain and survive outside the womb. We must defeat this extreme measure that would force Arizonans to pay for abortions and eliminate health protections for women."
She warned the pro-abortion ballot proposal would allow "unrestricted, unregulated abortion at any time in pregnancy."
It also would kill longstanding health and safety standards including parental consent, informed consent and abortion business inspections, and force Arizonans to pay abortionists for their services.
The ADF explained the state Supreme Court ruling found a lower court had misinterpreted the law.
The organization represented Dr. Eric Hazelrigg, an obstetrician and medical director of Choices Pregnancy Center in Arizona, who filed a petition last March asking the state’s high court to review an Arizona Court of Appeals decision.
"Life is a human right, and today’s decision allows the state to respect that right and fully protect life again—just as the legislature intended," said ADF spokesman Jake Warner. "Life begins at conception. At just six weeks, unborn babies’ hearts begin to beat. At eight weeks, they have fingers and toes. And at 10 weeks, their unique fingerprints begin to form. Arizona’s pro-life law has protected unborn children for over 100 years, and the people of Arizona, through their elected representatives, have repeatedly affirmed that law, including as recently as 2022. We celebrate the Arizona Supreme Court’s decision that allows the state’s pro-life law to again protect the lives of countless, innocent unborn children."
The court's ruling said, "We conclude that [Arizona's law] does not create a right to, or otherwise provide independent statutory authority for, an abortion that repeals or restricts [the law], but rather is predicated entirely on the existence of a federal constitutional right to an abortion since disclaimed by Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
"Absent the federal constitutional abortion right, and because [the law] does not independently authorize abortion, there is no provision in federal or state law prohibiting [the law’s] operation. Accordingly, [Arizona’s law] is now enforceable."
The court continued, "For the reasons discussed, the legislature has demonstrated its consistent design to restrict elective abortion to the degree permitted by the Supremacy Clause and an unwavering intent since 1864 to proscribe elective abortions absent a federal constitutional right—precisely what it intended and accomplished in § 36-2322. To date, our legislature has never affirmatively created a right to, or independently authorized, elective abortion. We defer, as we are constitutionally obligated to do, to the legislature’s judgment, which is accountable to, and thus reflects, the mutable will of our citizens."
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Joe Biden initially announced a few years back he was going to "forgive" $400 billion in student loans, in a move that largely was seen as an attempt to buy votes from younger Americans.
The Supreme Court said he couldn't. So he reached into his bag of tools and pulled out a different law that might allow that to happen, although there is a court challenge.
Since then, he's shifted some $144 billion of student loan debt from the backs of borrowers to the backs of taxpayers, many of whom did not enjoy their younger years at an Ivy League school.
What he's shifted now amounts to between $400 and $500 per man, woman, and child in America.
On Monday, he announced he's going to go further with his defiance of the Supreme Court, with plans to "cancel" student loans for millions of people more.
And that prompted one commenter on social media to ridicule Christians who don’t support the transfer of debt from borrowers to taxpayers.
Being J. Wood said, "Why is every Christian I talk to vehemently against loan forgiveness? I mean, isn't forgiveness supposed to be what Christianity is all about?
And that presumptive declaration hit a gusher of response, none of it endorsing that concept.
A commentary from Twitchy compiled the responses, including, "It is not 'forgiveness' when you are forcing someone to pay for debt incurred by someone else," and "I've seen some real winners in the non-Christians lecturing Christians on what their religion tells them about what their political position should be on an issue department, but this one is a real doozy."
Further, if individuals are to be "equal under the law," what about those who have already paid their loans? Should they be reimbursed?
It could provide some level of discomfort for those advocating for loan transference, as a person approaching retirement now who paid off a relatively modest $20,000 in loans in his or her day could be owned in the range of $150,000 now, based on the original payments and compound interest.
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An unwritten rule adopted by the Mississippi Real Estate Commission requires real estate salespeople to live within an hour of their supervising broker, or roughly 50 miles, just so the broker can keep tabs on them.
But the Institute for Justice has written a letter challenging that standard, which essentially is a staff interpretation of a rule concerning those supervisory responsibilities and is not written down.
The issue is that with modern technology, brokers have options with a long list of ways of keeping tabs on sales representatives without having them in the same room.
A letter from the IJ to real estate commissioners Vicki Blackwell, Brian Gomillion, Anthony Jones, Joe Stedman, and James Stroo explains, "Conditioning approval of licenses on the applicant’s proximity to their designated broker is unfair, irrational in the Zoom era, and unconstitutional."
The legal team explained, "The 50-Mile Requirement Burdens the Right to Pursue an Occupation. For over a century, the Mississippi Supreme Court has held that '[t]he right to follow any of the common occupations of life is an inalienable right.' Since then, the Mississippi Supreme Court has guarded that right zealously. For instance, it recently struck down irrational licensing restrictions that prevented anyone ever convicted of a felony from becoming a bail agent."
That state tribunal found, "A person’s God-given, constitutional liberty to engage in a profession should not so easily be extinguished by the government."
The letter suggested the "one-hour-drive requirement is unconstitutional for the same reason: it denies applicants their 'inalienable' right to pursue an occupation for no good reason. To be sure, IJ is not questioning the requirement that brokers supervise their licensees. But the commission has provided no rationale for requiring brokers to do so from within an hour’s drive."
The IJ concludes that the requirement violates the state constitution.
The rule is on shaky ground, as it isn't a formal rule, just a "staff interpretation."
"We live in a digital age where geographical boundaries are becoming increasingly irrelevant, especially in professional settings," explained Aritt Davis, of REAL Broker LLC in Pascagoula. "This rule not only limits the freedom of real estate professionals but also hinders the growth and dynamism of our firm and the overall industry. In an era where flexibility and connectivity are key, such a geographical restriction is not just outdated, it’s a significant financial and arbitrary impediment."
Further, the letter explains the MREC applies the rule unevenly., rejecting applicants who are willing to travel to be supervised or using Zoom while approving others who don't meet that requirement.
"For over a century, the Mississippi Supreme Court has held that Mississippians have an 'inalienable' right to pursue the profession of their choice," said IJ lawyer Michael Soyfer. "Yet, the commission’s one-hour-drive rule places an unnecessary stumbling block in the path of would-be real estate salespeople trying to do just that."
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The Missouri black teen girl who was seen on video bashing a white schoolgirl's head into the pavement is reportedly prepared to apologize for the shocking beating, her family says.
It was the afternoon of March 8 when 15-year-old Maurnice DeClue got into a brutal confrontation with Kaylee Gain near Hazelwood East High School in the St. Louis suburb of Spanish Lake, and DeClue was seen in an extremely graphic video smashing Gain's head.
DeClue has already been charged with assault for allegedly leaving the white schoolmate with a fractured skull and brain bleed following the 12-second incident.
DeClue's mother, Consuella DeClue , told KSDK-TV in St. Louis that her daughter was "dismayed to hear" Gain was in a coma for so long, and relieved to hear about her recent improvements because, "she wants to apologize."
"I just feel for my daughter," she said. "She's not a troublemaker, she's not a bully."
"Maurnice was not the aggressor," she continued.
"This had manifested over a three-month period. My daughter was focused on her education, and I don't know ... maybe they thought she was a nerd."
She claimed police have collected copies of Instagram messages that include threats to Maurnice.
"My daughter said she blacked out during the fight. I didn't know she was being bullied," Consuella DeClue said. "I would have pulled her out of school."
Meanwhile, the family of Kaylee Gain say she has started speaking again and is beginning to walk with medical help.
"Kaylee is now out of the intensive care unit, and in the past few days Kaylee has been able to engage in limited verbal conversations," her parents indicated through legal counsel.
"Kaylee also recently began speech therapy, and has gone on a few short walks with the assistance of hospital staff as she is still unable to ambulate on her own. However, Kaylee does not have any recollection of the altercation that led to her hospitalization."
The injured girl reportedly shows "signs of significant cognitive impairment," repeating herself over and over after emerging from the coma.
Gain's family is pushing for Maurnice DeClue to be charged as an adult "given the particularly violent nature of this assault, and also taking into account the devastating injuries that Kaylee has incurred."
One online commenter isn't buying the apology claim from the DeClue family, saying, "Nope. Bash her head into the concrete."
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One of the world's most famous atheists, Richard Dawkins, has delivered a stunning announcement to the world: He identifies as a "cultural Christian."
Not as a matter of faith, but as a matter of seeing the influences of religion on society.
Dawkins, a British evolutionary biologist, has taught at multiple United Kingdom schools including Oxford.
He's written books and has a well-established reputation for criticism of creationism and intelligent design.
One of his projects was "The God Delusion" in which he claims a supernatural Creator doesn't exist.
But now comes his new statement.
A report at Fox News explains his comment about being a "cultural Christian" came after he learned that in London, city officials hung "Ramadan lights" on a street, but nothing for Easter.
Ramadan, of course, is a holiday in Islam, and Easter in Christianity.
In fact, London Mayor Sadiq Khan ordered an illuminated 30,000 lights for Ramadan.
"I must say I'm slightly horrified to hear that Ramadan is being promoted instead," Dawkins said in an interview over the weekend. "I feel that we are a Christian country."
He explained, "It's true that statistically, the number of people who actually believe in Christianity is going down and I'm happy with that, but I would not be happy if, for example, we lost all our cathedrals and our beautiful parish churches. So, I count myself a cultural Christian. I think it would matter if we... substituted any alternative religion, that would be truly dreadful."
If Christianity and Islam were his only choices, he said, he would go for Christianity "every single time," the report said.
"It seems to me to be a fundamentally decent religion in a way that I think Islam is not."
He pointed out that Christianity is "not great" in its treatment of women in some ways, but the "holy books" of Islam actively demand "hostility to women."
He said, "I'm not talking about individual Muslims, who, of course, are all quite different, but the doctrines of Islam, the Hadith, and the Quran, it's fundamentally hostile to women, hostile to gays and, I find that I like to live in a culturally Christian country, although I do not believe a single word of the Christian faith."
The Fox report noted in 2006 in "The God Delusion," Dawkins took a strikingly different tone.
There, he said, "To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird. Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written in it?"
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Joe Biden is on the receiving end of a lot of criticism this week for signing a proclamation designating March 31, Easter Sunday, as the transgender "Day of Visibility," in what many Christians and conservatives see as a blasphemous act.
One of those is Judie Brown, head of the American Life League.
In a statement, she joined top Catholic theologian Cardinal Gerhard Muller, who has condemned Biden's open defiance of Catholic church teachings, even though he claims to be a faithful Catholic.
Muller has spoken against Biden's "open support" of abortion and other actions deemed immoral by the church.
Regarding the designation of Easter Sunday as the "day" for transgenders, Brown explained, "Cardinal Gerhard Müller recently made headlines for suggesting that the president of the United States, Joe Biden, is a 'nominal Catholic' and should be excommunicated for his support of abortion and other sinful practices. Müller’s call was affirmed on Friday, March 29, 2024, when President Biden issued a Proclamation Transgender Day of Visibility 2024.
"This is proof positive that Biden has no respect for the teachings of the Catholic Church, does not understand the basic truth that God created man in His image, male and female, and that anyone or any statement that violates that basic teaching is an abomination. It is the work of the devil who is operating through the actions and words of Biden himself," she said.
"The American Life League joins Cardinal Müller in calling for the immediate excommunication of Joseph Biden. We are sending this urgent call for justice and defense of Truth to every Catholic Bishop in the United States. Biden is not a Catholic, he is an evil man who consistently spits in the face of Christ."
A report from the Gateway Pundit noted the White House explained the "day" is March 31 every year, and Easter Sunday changes annually, so it was happenstance.
Nevertheless, it was Biden who signed the declaration for the "transgender" event.
The report explained the White House "continued to gaslight millions of Americans after Biden declared Easter Sunday 'Transgender Day of Visibility.'"
The report called Biden's actions "blasphemous" and pointed out spokeswoman Karine Jean Pierre said it was "misinformation" that Biden issued the declaration regarding the celebration of a lifestyle that conflicts with biblical teaching.
She said, "So surprised by the misinformation that’s been out there! Every year for the past several years on March 31st – Transgender Day of Visibility is marked!"
At Monday's White House Easter egg roll, Biden distanced himself from responsibility for the day of visibility proclamation, saying, "I didn't do that."
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It's not been much publicized, but the actions of the state legislature in Minnesota have resulted in what essentially is the "end of religious liberty" in the state.
It is Allen Quist, a former three-term Minnesota state lawmaker and retired professor at Bethany Lutheran College who has written at The Federalist that already one faith-based school is being targeted by a complaint from the state.
The issue is that lawmakers and the governor schemed to add a so-called human right, "gender identity" to the state's Human Rights Act.
They included no provision for exemptions for religious people or groups, "demonstrating their intent to deny religious freedom to Minnesota citizens, churches, and schools and to engage in persecuting Christians and some other religious bodies."
He pointedly noted, "If the state can tell churches and schools what they cannot say or do on 'gender identity,' then it can tell churches and schools what they cannot say or do on other subjects too."
A legislator tried multiple times to correct "this violation of First Amendment rights," only to be rebuffed by leftists in power in the state.
Quist noted, "This leaves us with concerning questions. For instance, does this new law criminalize using truthful pronouns in speaking or writing, rather than false 'gender identity' pronouns? If pastors, teachers, or any other Minnesotans speak or write in opposition to the use of wrong-sex hormones, transgender surgery, or puberty blockers for minors, can they be charged with a crime under state law? If parents try to protect their minor children from such practices, can they be charged with a crime? Can their minor children be removed from their custody if parents refuse to follow such laws? And can a transgender-identifying person be denied employment by a Christian school, church, or other Christian organization, such as counseling centers, charities, or pro-life groups?"
He said Minnesota "has crossed the Rubicon" with its agenda.
After all, with other leftist campaigns in the past, the state has included protection for religious liberty, but not this time.
"Democrat legislators are now working to force the acceptance of homosexuality and other such beliefs on us the same way," he said.
He said lawmakers and the governor now need "to follow the U.S. Constitution."
"That founding document, and specifically the First Amendment, protects our God-given right to practice our Christian faith as we wish. In addition, the Declaration of Independence states that the purpose of government is to secure this and other rights for all our citizens," he said.
Lawmakers, he pointed out, don't adjourn until the end of May and still could correct their behavior.
Or a lawsuit may resolve the problem eventually, he said.