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Legendary actor Jon Voight is sounding alarm bells should Kamala Harris win the 2024 presidential election, saying it could result in dark destruction akin to the "Civil War."
The star of top Hollywood films including "Enemy of the State" and "Deliverance" posted a plea early Tuesday morning on X to vote for Trump.
"My friends, this is the war of our lifetime now. We, the people, are in trouble if this nation picks Kamala Harris. We must stop this crime that is happening," Voight began, sitting in front of an American flag.
"It's a war crime that Obama is directing, and Kamala Harris will be the cackling hyena that just listens and repeats. If we do not stop this horror, you, my friends, will have the biggest horror that you will not know how to end. We must all see this truth become one with this understanding that God will guide us with words of wisdom, that we may understand that Donald Trump will make any sacrifice to save America."
Voight continued: "We, the people, are in danger, and we must vote for President Trump because he will save this nation. And the left are all afraid of his strength because he is only for the people. He's not for the power, the greed, the lies, or wanting to destroy one's hard-earned earnings.
"We must stop this madness now. Our children are in danger. The left is trying to take away your children and turn them into non-binaries. You all on the left, the ones who are my peers that preach, you all know who you are.
"What have you all learned in this life? Have you learned the lessons that will bring you to the higher place of eternity? This is now all your lessons. For each one who votes against Trump, this will be among the worst crimes that you will see in your lives. And you know why? This nation has criminals killing your child, father, brother, friend, you, because of the left mentality allowing this border to be open. The ones who are on the left who fight against Trump will pay a price for the injustice of lies that are Kamala Harris and Obama.
"And all of you who think this is the greatest economy, you will find that your life will sink into a hole of darkness, and the freedom we all once had will be burned in the dark plague of the darkest time in history, like the destruction of the Civil War. My fellow Americans, we've come too far, and this life we were given was the blessing of God. And this is our hope to remember that he shall chant the words of Psalm 25 and in the Torah, Isaiah 55. We shall overcome.
"May God watch over us and bring this nation back together so her beauty will shine with her glory, the red, white, and blue. God bless America, and he will protect our nation against this evil left, and Donald Trump will Make America Great Again. Much love to you. Much love."
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U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., has a reputation for being a type of street fighter.
He's often brash and coarse. And confrontational. His history includes violating a federal conflict-of-interest law by failing to properly disclose stock shares his wife got for advising a financial technology trust company. He lashes out angrily at those with whom he disagrees. He makes rash statements.
And he jumped aboard his party's wild claims that President Donald Trump was an "insurrectionist" for the few hundred people who rioted on Jan. 6, 2021.
He actively promoted his demands, aligning with those of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, that Congress had to impeach Trump.
And now he appears to be planning his own "insurrection."
That would be his plans to have Congress deny Trump the presidency should he win in November.
He explained his agenda:
What can be put into the Constitution can slip away from you very quickly and the greatest example going on right now before our eye is Section 3 of the 14th amendment which they're just disappearing with the magic wand as if it doesn't exist even though it could not be clearer what it's stating.
And so they want to kick it to Congress.
So it's going to be up to us on January 6, 2025, to tell the rampaging Trump mobs that he's disqualified and then we need bodyguards for everybody and civil war conditions, all because denying justice is not all of them, but these justices who have not many cases to look at each year, not that much work to do, a huge staff, great protection, simply do not want to do their job.
His argument stems from his own interpretation of that section, which states "no person can hold certain offices under the United States or any state if they have previously taken an oath to support the Constitution but have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against it, or provided aid or comfort to its enemies."
He has claimed repeatedly that Trump, on that basis, is ineligible for office.
Of course, Trump never has been charged with insurrection, much less convicted. Congress tried twice to impeach and remove him, including once after he already was out of office. And Congress failed both times.
Nonetheless, Raskin has adopted his own interpretation of that provision and insists on its application, to his satisfaction. Raskin is not the only member of Congress who apparently believes that it is within their power to determine a president guilty of a constitutional violation, as Pelosi's partisan January 6 committee largely spent all of its time and millions of tax dollars trying to assemble a storyline that portrayed Trump as guilty of something on that day when a protest turned into a riot.
Online commenters showed that Raskin's arguments were not being considered seriously.
"Raskin has a few missing screws!" said one. Another added, "I also know Raskin is a complete moron that nobody takes seriously at he talks out of his *** more than he talks out of his mouth."
While Democrats often talk about Trump and Republicans and conservatives and January 6 and insurrection, that action by definition is an organized plan to usurp a government, take over its leadership, is economy, its military, its foreign relations and much, much more, none of which was attempted or event planned that day.
Further, without a solid majority of Democrats in Congress, Raskin's agenda likely would not even make it out of committee.
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The U.S. House of Representatives has begun an investigation into the Democrat-aligned daughter of a judge who heard one of the lawfare cases that party has assembled against President Donald Trump.
Rep. Jim Jordan, the head of the House Judiciary Committee, has launched the review of Loren Merchan, the daughter of Juan Merchan, who heard prosecutor Alvin Bragg's business records case against Trump.
A jury in the leftist enclave of Manhattan found against Trump on 34 counts after Merchan, the judge, repeatedly ruled against Trump, allowed salacious and irrelevant testimony in the case, and refused to allow a true expert on the topic to provide evidence.
Fox News explains Jordan has sent a letter to Loren Merchan, the Democrat party activist, supporter, and fundraiser, asking for documents about her financial interests that could have been affected by her father's rulings in the case.
Trump's lawyers had urged Merchan, the judge, to recuse himself from the case because of the obvious conflict of interest raised by his daughter's political and financial dealings involving the company Authentic Campaigns.
Trump's lawyers pointed out the company worked only with Democrats.
The fact is, they argued, Loren Merchan "has a direct financial interest in these proceedings by virtue of her ownership stake and leadership role at Authentic Campaigns, Inc."
Her company's clients included Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the former, and now current, opponent to Trump in the 2024 election.
Jordan pointed out, to Loren Merchan, "During your time working on behalf of Vice President Harris, Authentic Campaigns received over $7 million in compensation for its services. According to your now-deleted LinkedIn, after Vice President Harris dropped out of the Democrat primary, you were promoted to President of Authentic Campaigns."
The letter continued, "Authentic Campaigns then conducted work for the 2020 Biden-Harris campaign, which included 'digital paid media, design and development, social media, mobile messaging, [and] artificial intelligence.'"
Based on the funds collected by the firm through its work with top Democrats – also including Rep. Adam Schiff and the Senate Majority PAC – Jordan charged that at a minimum, "there is a perception that you and Authentic Campaigns could profit considerably from President Trump's prosecution in a forum overseen by your father."
Jordan is seeking "all contracts and invoices referring or relating to work performed by Authentic Campaigns" over its advocacy for the Biden and Harris campaigns and the Democratic National Committee from the period of Jan. 1, 2023 to the present.
Specifically, he wants access to any of Authentic Campaigns' "communications" that reference the case against Trump, including any "communications with her father … related to the indictment, prosecution or conviction of Trump."
WND previously reported the case involved bookkeeping issues within Trump's companies.
They would have been misdemeanors if they had been pursued then they happened, but the statute of limitations had expired. Bragg, however, demanded that they be treated as "felonies' because they allegedly were in pursuit of another crime, which he didn't specify.
It's one of multiple lawfare cases brought by Democrats in an apparent scheme to derail Trump's 2024 presidential race.
The behavior of Merchan, the judge, was cited at the time by legal expert and longtime commentator Alan Dershowitz after Merchan openly feuded with a witness, ordered the courtroom cleared, and essentially blew his stack during the proceedings.
A report at Fox News said Dershowitz, a Harvard Law professor emeritus, "called out" Merchan for "outrageous" rulings against Trump.
He told "The Brian Kilmeade Show" that Merchan was a "tyrant" for threatening to strike the testimony of defense witness Bob Costello, who expressed disbelief at some of Merchan's anti-Trump rulings.
Dershowitz charged, "I've been in courthouses in every part of the world and in China, in Russia, in Ukraine, in Israel. I've been all over. I've never seen a spectacle like this. And that's why it should have been on television, so the American public could see how outrageous this judge is. And CNN just does his bidding. CNN lies, lies through their teeth about what happened in court yesterday between Judge Merchan and Bob Costello. Bob Costello testifies, Merchan rules against him at every point, keeps out his testimony, makes outrageous rulings that any first-year student taking evidence would know was wrong."
He continued, "And Bob Costello does what I did: He rolled his eyes. And I rolled my eyes, I said, I couldn't believe the judge was making these rulings. And the judge, thinking he's a tyrant, clears the courtroom, throws out everybody from the media. For some reason, they allowed me to stay, and I watched as the judge berated him. And the judge said something I have never seen in a courtroom in my history, 60 years. He threatened to strike the testimony of the main witness for the defendant because of punishment of the witness for staring at the judge. Can you imagine the violation of the Sixth Amendment? The Sixth Amendment allows any defendant to confront witnesses and to present evidence in his defense. Can you imagine if this judge had actually struck the testimony of Bob Costello? It would result in an automatic mistrial, new trial, and a verdict against the prosecution. The judge was bluffing. He ought to be disciplined for making that threat because the threat was an idle threat. He obviously didn't act on it. …"
Dershowitz pointed out that American law doesn't allow a judge to just throw out a witness's testimony to punish a defendant.
"And we didn't see it because television is not allowed in the courtroom. … They just won't allow the American public to watch this trial, and I don't blame them. If I were the judge, I would never want this trial to be on television because he's behaved so outrageously," he said.
A report at the Daily Mail described Merchan's outburst as "unhinged."
In a column there, Dershowitz described, "The stench of deceit hung in the air as I sat in the front row of a Manhattan courtroom. Seated on the witness stand, no more than a few feet from me, I watched in disbelief as Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen told the jury one seeming lie after another."
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JERUSALEM – Three hundred days have passed since Oct. 7, the day when hordes of well-trained Hamas commandos and ordinary Gazans breached Israel's southern border fence and indulged in an orgy of blood-letting, pillage, rape, murder and kidnapping, the likes of which hadn't been perpetrated against Jews for 80 years. Some 1,200 Israelis died.
Then on Oct. 8, Iran's powerful proxy Hezbollah, started firing ordnance into Israel's north, creating the environment for a potential regional war.
Now have recent events brought that possibility even closer?
Following Hamas' invasion, the Israeli military focused initially on eliminating or capturing Gazan Palestinians roaming Israel's southern territory, and then turned its focus on dealing with the locus from which the threat emanated. Three hundred days is by far Israel's longest war, and at least in part would be anathema to the doctrine one of the country's founding fathers – David Ben-Gurion – initiated: Israel's wars should be short and fought on the enemy's territory.
This particular enemy, however, having wasted the treasure bestowed upon it to create a subterranean terrorist state is unlike anything that could have been imagined in the 1940s. And so, the IDF has painstakingly – and at great human cost on both its and the Palestinian side – determined to prevent the possibility of a repeat of the slaughter on that Black Sabbath in October.
After 300 hundred days we must also pause to remember the approximately 115 Israeli hostages – several of whom are known to no longer be alive – still held in Hamas captivity. Recent events have overshadowed the pressing need to arrive at a hostage deal – and both the Israeli government under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Hamas rulers in Gaza and elsewhere, have played their ignominious part in prolonging this all-too-human tragedy.
We should not lose sight, however, of what might seem an obvious statement; a ceasefire was in place on October 6, and Hamas obliterated it in such a dramatic way to ensure overwhelming reprisals against the very people it claims to represent, but whose blood it holds cheaply.
While we mark the 300th day since Hamas' brutal attack, it has been 299 days since Hezbollah – a highly trained and massively armed wing of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps – began its so-called "act of resistance" in solidarity with the Palestinians, and began firing missiles, rockets, and UAVs into Israel's north.
It has succeeded in emptying large swaths of northern Israel, attempting to redraw the contours of the border, by forcing the evacuation and internal displacement of up to 100,000 people. Some of Israel's border towns like Kiryat Shmona or Metulla are ghostly quiet, emptied of their people; and in some cases with up to a third of residential dwellings destroyed – used as target practice for Hezbollah operatives across the Lebanese border.
These towns and kibbutzim are also symbolic of Zionism itself, holding historical and cultural power. Some of them predate the official declaration of the State of Israel in May 1948, and they represent an unquenchably adventurous and pioneering Jewish spirit. Indeed, during the Arab Revolt of 1936-39, the Jewish leaders in British Mandate Palestine encouraged Jews to settle the land to the outermost reaches of its borders, both in the south around Gaza, and abutting Lebanon in the north.
Prior even to that, heroic Zionist figures such as Joseph Trumpeldor, a one-armed, one-eyed former soldier in the Tsarist army who fought and was wounded in the Russo-Japanese War, came to pre-Mandate Palestine to defend Jewish settlement. He fought Arab bandits in Tel Hai in the northern Galilee – exactly the area upon which Hezbollah has designs. It was Trumpeldor who reportedly said while he lay dying following the battle, "No matter, it is good to die for our country."
So much for history, though. We are now at a point – following the targeted assassinations of senior Hezbollah leader Fuad Shukr in Lebanon, and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, of a possibility of all-out war. Israel immediately took responsibility for Shukr's killing – a man it should be remembered was not only responsible for the last 10 months of incessant Hezbollah attacks against Israel – including one on Saturday, which killed 12 children playing soccer on a Majdal Shams field – but also was instrumental in the 1983 truck bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut.
He along with others introduced the world to the notion of suicide bombing in that attack, and for which the U.S. State Department placed a $5 million bounty on his head.
The man behind the massacre
Meanwhile, Israel has officially kept quiet about the Haniyeh hit – to the point Netanyahu has issued a directive for ministers to not speak about it. In a way, it is irrelevant whether it was the IDF or not, the assumption is that it was, and taking credit for it is neither here nor there.
Israel publicly vowed in October to eliminate Hamas' leaders, and it has systematically gone after the organization's most senior figures, following a policy, colloquially known in intelligence circles as the "Munich Doctrine." This was the program of revenge Israel's then prime minister Golda Meir set out to hunt down and kill the orchestrators of the Munich Olympics massacre in 1972, in which 11 Israeli athletes were murdered.
It took at least a decade, but Israel successfully eliminated all who were connected. The IDF and Israel's security forces have removed four of Hamas' top six leaders – Saleh al-Arouri, killed like Shukr in Hezbollah's Beirut stronghold of Dahiyeh on Jan. 1; Marwan Issa in the Nuseirat Camp on March 10; Mohammed Deif, whose death was unconfirmed until Thursday, but who was killed in Rafah on July 13; and Haniyeh. Only Yahya Sinwar, thought to be deep underground somewhere in Gaza – likely Rafah – and assumed to be surrounded by Israeli hostages, and Khaled Mashal, who was exiled in Doha along with Haniyeh – and who is touted to become Hamas' new leader – remain.
On Thursday, Hezbollah and Iran vowed "vengeance" on Israel, saying, "Israel's acts of aggression would not go unpunished." Hezbollah has consistently said an attack on Beirut would be met with an attack on Tel Aviv. And while the IDF's attack on the apartment block where Shukr was known to be was exceptionally accurate, relying on pinpoint intelligence, several civilians were killed.
It is unclear if Hezbollah would use precision-guided munitions to attack Tel Aviv or attempt to overwhelm Israel's defensive missile umbrella. Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah – who is thought to live largely underground and frequently changes location for fear of assassination attempts on him – spoke later Thursday.
In his address, Nasrallah mentioned the war had entered a "new phase" three times, saying Israel had crossed a red line and "must expect rage and revenge." He said international pressure won't work and the war in Gaza must stop if people want the attacks on Israel to stop. He threatened both "Israel and whoever backs them." He hinted at other forces joining – looking for a "precise and painful" attack. Iran would respond, he added, and it would be more significant than the previous one.
Nasrallah also mentioned "civilian casualties," giving the impression of deliberately targeting Israeli civilians in retaliation, while denying Hezbollah had anything to do with the deadly attack on Majdal Shams. He highlighted the notion of honor for the region, a nod to the shame Iran feels for the attack carried out on its territory.
At Haniyeh's Tehran funeral, Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamanei spoke about it being his country's "duty to respond" to the Hamas leader's killing. It should be noted, Haniyeh's assassination is a source of great embarrassment to the Iranian regime. He was an honored guest of the mullahs, invited to attend the inauguration of Iran's new president Masoud Pezeshkian at the country's parliament Tuesday.
Crucially, he was also staying at an IRGC-owned property in Tehran. He was ostensibly under its protection, and it failed to do so in the most spectacular way. In a region where saving face is a key component of social and cultural mores, it cannot be overstated how much of a rank humiliation this is.
Indeed, reports surfaced Thursday saying Khamanei had ordered a direct Iranian attack on Israel in retribution for the Haniyeh strike. On April 13 Iran responded to the killing of Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander in the Quds Force – the operational arm of the IRGC in Damascus on April 1, by launching some 330 ballistic missiles, drones and rockets.
Miraculously, almost all of these either fell short or were shot out of the sky due to a combined effort of multiple countries, which included other than Israel itself, France, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom and the United States. A similarly disproportionate response could be forthcoming. Although it is not at all clear on this occasion whether Iran will telegraph its intentions and give the defensive shield the time to array in the way in which it did previously. Or, if the countries involved would be able to respond similarly again.
Another scenario is the possibility of a coordinated attack; where Iran – emboldened by the lack of tighter U.S. administration oversight – could well take the lead in any strike, but it would be joined – in a multi-front pincer movement – by Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, other Iranian Shiite proxies in Iraq and Syria, and perhaps even stoking unrest in Judea and Samaria. As well as a coordinated projectile attack, Iran's vast army of cyber terrorists might also be activated to try and hack sensitive military sites or cause chaos for ordinary Israelis.
Middle Eastern analysts speaking in a Spaces forum on X suggested there was unlikely to be just a single attack, pointing out that multiple targets, potentially including Israeli embassies or diplomatic missions across the globe, could be forthcoming. Hezbollah has a very strong presence in South America for example. Another potential option could be the targeted assassination of a high-ranking or highly visible Israeli, whether in Israel itself or another part of the world.
Despite appearances, the regime in Tehran is generally a rational actor and views its own survival as key. However, the path of retribution which Khamanei, the Supreme National Security Council, and the IRGC have vowed to travel down is filled with jeopardy. A massive – even overwhelming response – which causes significant casualties in Israel, will almost inevitably lead to a wider regional war, which will likely also require the U.S. administration to stop sitting on the fence, and which may in turn kindle the flames of World War 3, about which President Donald Trump has recently sounded the alarm.
Netanyahu warned in an address to the nation on Wednesday evening "challenging days are ahead," but vowed the country was "ready for every scenario" and "will exact a very heavy price for any aggression against us."
While our immediate concern must be on what the Iranian response will be – which includes the various proxies it has activated and funded to serve the very purpose of destroying the world's only Jewish state, it's important to put some things into perspective.
The response of the world's media has been shameful, and while it paints Trump as a menace to the global order and calls vice-presidential candidate JD Vance a "weirdo" for believing and living his natalist ideals, it labels Haniyeh, a mass-murderer and embezzler of billions of dollars a "tough, but moderate" ceasefire negotiator. This is reminiscent of the Washington Post's bizarre and self-owning take on the demise of ISIS leader Abu-Bakr al-Baghdadi, completely ignoring his bloody reign of terror merely calling him an "austere religious scholar."
There are also bizarre claims Israel "escalated" the situation by taking out Shukr and Haniyeh. Shukr has been responsible for the last 299 days of in all-but-name war in Israel's north, and Haniyeh was indivisible from the organization that carried out the worst pogrom against Jews since the darkest days of the Holocaust.
And now, we come to the U.S. administration. One is hesitant to label it the "Biden administration," because it seems evident the man himself is to play no further part in American politics – having been peremptorily dismissed in subservience to the greater needs of the Democratic Party. On Wednesday, following Haniyeh's assassination, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken was quick to deny any U.S. involvement, distancing the administration – whoever is in charge of it – and bleating an increasingly forlorn plea for "deescalation."
To his credit, Biden instinctively backed Israel in the days and early weeks following the Hamas attack, but as he has grown increasingly enfeebled and distanced from the central levers of power, functionaries in the State Department among others, has successfully put daylight between Washington and Jerusalem – highlighted by the slow-walking of the much-needed rearmament shipments.
The irony of the situation – and it is certainly a bitter one because lessons remained unlearned by an administration that hubristically claimed in 2021 on its assumption of power "the adults were back in the room" – is that its entire foreign policy has been an unmitigated failure. Putting Ukraine to one side for the moment, it has strained every sinew – and also credulity – to prevent a war from happening, by seeming to advocate for the path of least resistance and appeasing the mullahs in Tehran. It was a policy the Obama administration spectacularly failed with, and Joe Biden telegraphed it was his desire to reanimate the JCPOA and roll back Trump'' harsh deservedly harsh treatment of the regime, before he had even officially assumed the reins of power.
Take for example, the administration's attitude after Iran fired those hundreds of missiles at Israel back in April. "Take the win" was the message, as if the killing of a senior IRGC general among others in Damascus, somehow warranted the indiscriminate firing of ballistic missiles, drones and rockets in Israel's direction – aimed no doubt to cause maximum fatalities and casualties by being targeted at large population centers.
The stakes right now could not be higher, and there is little room for error for both Iran and all of its proxies.
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A crowd at the conference for the National Association of Black Journalists on Wednesday gasped, and there even were cheers, when President Donald Trump scolded a rude reporter who attacked him with list of loaded statements.
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The reporter, on stage with Trump, called his old comments the "elephant in the room."
Why should, ABC's Rachel Scott demanded, blacks trust Trump after he allegedly made "false" claims about rivals, used negative descriptors for liberal prosecutors and said black journalists were asking stupid and racist questions.
Trump, who sat listening quietly during the attack, responded: "Well, first of all, I don't think I've ever been asked a question so … in such a horrible manner."
There was a collective gasp, interspersed with guffaws and laughter, from the crowd.
He continued, "You don't even say, 'Hello. How are you?' Are you with ABC? Because I think they are a fake news network. A terrible network."
More laughter.
"I think it's disgraceful that I came here in good spirit. I love the black population of this country. I've done so much for the black population of this country, including employment, including opportunity zones with Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, which is one of the greatest programs ever for black workers and black entrepreneurs … ."
He cited his work for black colleges. They were "out of money, stone cold broke. I saved them. Gave them long term financing," he said.
He cited the introduction as "very rude" and pointed out that he'd been told his opponent also would be there, and she wasn't.
"You invited me under false pretenses," he explained.
Then he noted that while he has too much respect for the conference to be late, the interviewer was half an hour late.
He said such "hostile" questioning was "a disgrace."
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A focus group assembled by the leftist MSNBC went off the rails for the organization when members were unanimous in confirming they know a black man supporting President Donald Trump.
And that the entry into the race of Kamala Harris, whose heritage is Jamaican and Indian, makes no difference.
All hands went up when the MSNBC host asked, "How many of you know a black man who has expressed to you that they're committed to voting for Donald Trump?"
And all four shook their heads no when MSNBC asked, "Has the emergence of Kamala Harris changed that?"
On social media was the comment, "Whoops! I don't think that was the answer the network was looking for!'
At the Gateway Pundit was an explanation:
"It's anecdotal, but MSNBC has held some focus groups that have been brutal to Kamala Harris. In Wisconsin, swing voters are worried about her involvement in a cover-up regarding the decline of Joe Biden's health. It's a character issue. What else is she willing to hide if she's willing to conceal these developments? CNN spoke to a Georgia voter who shared the same sentiments. Now, this group of black men were asked if they knew other members of their community who intended to vote for Donald Trump. They all raised their hands."
The comments continued, "The cancer of identity politics seems to be contained to college-educated white women who have become insufferable, even to self-identified liberals. Sure, some non-white progressives espouse this nonsense, but it's a wholly white progressive invention as they're the most intense on these issues.
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A court in New Jersey has issued a ruling protecting the freedom of an Orthodox Jewish school to choose who will carry out its religious mission.
"Judges have no business picking Jewish rabbis or Orthodox priests," explained Laura Wolk Slavis, a counsel at Becket, which filed a brief in the fight.
"The court's ruling reinforces that common-sense principle, allowing Rosenbaum Yeshiva to choose who passes on its Jewish beliefs to the next generation."
The dispute involved Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey and ended up before the state Supreme Court.
The case happened when the school parted ways with a rabbi "who it said violated Jewish law by allegedly interacting inappropriately with his elementary-age female students," Becket's report explained.
The rabbi sued the school, claiming defamation.
Becket filed his arguments on behalf of Serbian Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Romanian Orthodox, and Antiochian Orthodox church bodies to clarify "the importance of allowing religious groups to select, control, and discipline their leaders without undue government interference," the report said.
"Religious schools should not have to fear being dragged into court when making decisions that seek to protect children in their care," said Wolk Slavis. "The justices ensured that this freedom is upheld for Jews and for people of all faiths across the Garden State."
Rosenbaum Yeshiva is a Jewish day school in River Edge," the report said. It is there "to help young Jewish men and women excel academically while remaining committed to Torah learning and Orthodox Jewish traditions."
The court case was brought by Rabbi Shlomo Hyman, who formerly worked at the school.
Becket explained to the court the ministerial exceptions in the law that provide a legal protection that allows religious groups to choose, and supervise, their ministers free from government interference.
Hyman has 90 days to appeal the decision to the United States Supreme Court.
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A new video mashup has documented that Kamala Harris is, in fact, Joe Biden's "border czar," with an assignment to sort out the mess, crisis actually, at America's southern border triggered by his open borders practices.
During President Donald Trump's tenure, multiple security plans and measures had been instituted and while the problem always existed, its impact was dramatically lower when thousands were entering the nation illegally instead of millions, under Biden and Harris.
Legacy media long identified her as the "border czar," but commentator Piers Morgan explained why they now are denying what they themselves reported: "The reason they all want to deny it now is because they realize it's incredibly damaging to Kamala Harris if the American people see that she was indeed in charge of sorting out the border problem and presided over a complete disaster."
The video was compiled by Newsbusters, a part of the Media Research Center.
Morgan said he's "bemused" about "why the media is trying to pretend they didn't say what they said. All of them."
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Taiwanese workers employed in China-based multinational companies have had a warning from the Chinese Communist Party – you do not have to fear the new death penalty mandate, if you are not breaking the law.
China recently introduced new legal guidelines that will allow "die-hard" separatists to be executed, and according to the Telegraph, have been accepted as an intimidation tactic to put pressure on Taiwan's president Lai Ching-te, who China has labeled as a "dangerous separatist."
Taiwan and China have been locked in a power struggle for some time, with China attempting to claim dominion over the island nation and add it to its territory. However, Taiwan and its population have rejected this, and do not want to be unified with China.
Taiwan historically never has been part of China, and had indigenous people there as early as 3000 B.C. Modern day Taiwan is a leading high-tech nation, famous for its production of semiconductors used in a wide variety of electronics, including military grade weapons. As a result, Taiwan's economy is now known as "indispensable."
The new mandate, which came into effect early June, caused the Taiwanese government to raise its travel warning for China, while some companies are considering pulling Taiwanese employees out of China, according to the Telegraph.
A spokeswoman from China's Taiwan Affairs Office, Zhu Fenglian, said in a statement that Taiwanese employees do not need to be alarmed, unless they engage in criminal acts.
"The majority of Taiwan compatriots, including Taiwanese employees working in multinational companies, can be completely at ease in the mainland, as long as they do not engage in criminal acts," Zhu said.
However, the mandate only adds on to China's 2005 anti-secession law. The guidelines say Chinese courts, prosecutors, public and state security bodies should "severely punish Taiwan independence diehards for splitting the country and inciting secession crimes in accordance with the law," Xinhua news agency reported in late June. The mandates, however, bring up uncertainties around what a court would consider an offense.
Conversely, Chinese courts have no jurisdiction over Taiwan.
Tensions have been mounting for months, with China taking part in war games not long after Taiwan's president was inaugurated in January.
During an interview with Bloomberg in June, former President Donald Trump said Taiwan should be paying for defense from the U.S., noting Taiwan had taken much of America's computer chip business.
"Look, a couple of things. No. 1, Taiwan. I know the people very well, respect them greatly. They did take about 100% of our chip business. I think Taiwan should pay us for defense. You know, we're no different than an insurance company. Taiwan doesn't give us anything. Taiwan is 9,500 miles away. It's 68 miles away from China. A slight advantage, and China's a massive piece of land, they could just bombard it. They don't even need to – I mean, they can literally just send shells. Now they don't want to do that because they don't want to lose all those chip plants," Trump told Bloomberg.
China has suspended negotiations on nuclear non-proliferation with the U.S. over its involvement with an arms deal with Taiwan. Al Jazeera reported July 18, a spokesperson for China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lin Jian, said in a regular news conference the deal "seriously compromised the political atmosphere for continuing the arms-control consultations."
"Consequently, the Chinese side has decided to hold off discussion with the U.S. on a new round of consultations on arms control and non-proliferation," Lin Jian said during a news briefing in Beijing.
Taiwan has now kicked off anti-invasion military exercises this past week.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
Articles of impeachment, accusing her of high crimes and misdemeanors, have been filed in Congress by U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., against Kamala Harris, the current vice present and, since Joe Biden's exit from the race, the presumed Democrat party nominee for president.
The action originally was reported by Politico's Oliva Beavers and charges that Harris "has willfully and systemically refused to uphold Federal immigration laws, in that: In her conduct of the Office of Vice President of the United States, Kamala Devi Harris … has willfully prevented, obstructed, and impeded the administration of justice."
In fact, under the Biden-Harris regime, millions and millions of illegal aliens have violated the law and entered the United States without permission. This was possible because of the cancellation of a multitude of security measures implemented by President Donald Trump.
Critics of the administration have accused the Democrats of trying to build their party's numbers by luring illegal aliens and then putting them in the position of being able to vote by banning voter ID requirements and such.
The charges further allege Harris has "demonstrated extraordinary incompetence in the execution of her duties."
The resolution cites Harris's failures to secure the southern border and the "disproportionate" price paid by "women and girls," including a 13-year-old New York girl raped in a park by an illegal alien.
"During her tenure as the designated border czar, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency 'encountered' nearly 302,000 illegal aliens at the southwest border in December 2023, the highest monthly total every recorded…"
The articles also cite the flood of lethal fentanyl brought into the U.S. under Harris' tenure.
She has failed to execute her duties, to preserve and protect the Constitution and has blocked justice from being served, they charge.
Democrats in charge of the House during President Trump's first term in the White House created an impeach-and-remove campaign against him which failed. Then after he was out of office, they oddly tried a second impeach-and-remove campaign against him, which also failed.
