Jesse Jackson Abandoned Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Dream and Supported the Murder of Unborn Black Babies

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During Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech on Aug. 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. he said, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

The Reverand Jessie Jackson abandoned MLK’s dream

Jessie Jackson judged people by the color of their skin not the content of their character.

Here’s how:

Rev. Jesse Jackson expressed deep sorrow and urgency in response to convicted felon and drug addict George Floyd’s death, emphasizing that while justice had been served with Derek Chauvin’s conviction, it was not victory—only relief. He told marchers in Minneapolis: “Even if we win, it’s relief, not victory.

They’re still killing our people. Stop the violence, save the children. Keep hope alive.” Jackson connected Floyd’s killing to a long history of racial injustice, calling it a modern-day lynching and urging sustained protest against systemic racism.

He visited Minneapolis in 2021 to support the Floyd family and demand accountability, and he consistently linked the struggle for racial justice to broader movements, including Black Lives Matter and voting rights.

As it turns out Officer Derek Chauvin was not responsible for Floyd’s death. According to the autopsy report Floyd died of a drug overdose he did not die of cardioinhibition from pressure on his neck!

Murder of Black Babies

Remember that Jackson said of the police, “Stop the violence, save the children.”

But he didn’t save the children, he supported murdering them.

Jesse Jackson’s position on abortion evolved significantly over time. In the 1970s, he was a vocal opponent of abortion, calling it a form of “murder” and warning that figures like Moses or Jesus might never have been born if abortion had existed in ancient times.

He argued that human life is sacred, begins at conception, and is a gift from God, stating, “Human beings cannot give or create life by themselves… therefore, one does not have the right to take away (through abortion) that which he does not have the ability to give.”

Jackson’s early pro-life stance included calling abortion “genocide” in a 1973 Jet magazine interview, opposing taxpayer funding for abortion, and supporting a constitutional amendment to ban it.

He framed opposition to abortion as part of a broader moral and civil rights struggle, particularly emphasizing its disproportionate impact on Black communities.

By the time he ran for president in the 1980s, Jackson shifted to support abortion rights, aligning with the Democratic Party platform.

In later years, he criticized restrictive abortion laws as unjust and harmful to poor women, arguing that reproductive justice is essential for women and that criminalizing abortion punishes the vulnerable while allowing wealthy women to access safe procedures.

He one the one hnd maintained concern for life but then emphasized systemic support over punitive laws on aborting black children.

According to The Global Statistics’ Abortion Statistics by Race in the U.S. 2025 report, “Non-Hispanic Black women consistently have the highest abortion rates, far exceeding those of White and Hispanic women.”

The Bottom Line

The Reverand Jesse Jackson abandoned the civil rights movement started by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He abandoned the black unborn children when he thought it would help him policitally.

Dr. King was a revered leader, who was assassinated.

Jesse Jackson was a traitor to the black community, black family and America.

His death should not be celebrated, rather his failed record should be exposed.

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Reflections on the Anniversary of “Roe v. Wade”

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A recent historian said that a line from the Declaration of Independence is the most important sentence in history. Well, certainly that sentence is exceedingly important, but I agree with those who counter-argue, “No, actually John 3:16 is the most important sentence in history.”

Meanwhile, the great statement in the Declaration is: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” The Creator has bestowed upon us the right to life, but how can you square that right to live with the supposed right to abortion?

I write this piece around the anniversary of the January 22, 1973, Supreme Court decision of Roe v. Wade and its companion decision of the same day, Doe v. Bolton. These two decisions combined gave us abortion on demand even up to the moment of birth. And about 65 million abortions have taken place since that day.

Although Roe was overturned in 2022 by the Dobbs v. Jackson, the fallout from Roe continues. It’s like a phantom limb syndrome, where one is feeling a missing limb as if it’s still attached.

Abortion is the Holy Grail to the Amerian left. It dominates virtually all other considerations.  Roe v. Wade has been tantamount to Scripture to some on the left.

But, lo and behold, it was all based on lies.

One of the main lies was that an abortion was needed for “Jane Roe” (whom we later learned was Norma McCorvey) because she was supposedly gang-raped. But that was not true. She had just been impregnated by her boyfriend.

McCorvey just wanted an abortion, and her attorney falsely promised to help her get one, knowing full well it could not happen in time (since cases that go up to the Supreme Court take a while to adjudicate).

Another lie is that the baby in the womb is a blob of tissue or clump of cells—but not a human being, deserving of legal protection. The heart starts beating at 22 days after conception, arm and leg buds appear by 28 days, and brain waves can be recorded by 40 days. Some blob.

Yet another lie to sell abortion was the number of women who supposedly died in America because of illegal abortions. Abortionist Bernard Nathanson told the media that each year about 10,000 women died from illegal abortions.

And yet a willing media reported this statistic as if it were gospel truth. I’ve read that in 1972, the last year before Roe, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta had reported that 39 women in America had died from illegal abortions. That may be 39 too many, but it’s a far cry from 10,000.

Thankfully, both Norma McCorvey and Bernard Nathanson became pro-life Christians and came to strongly oppose abortion.

We are also grateful that Roe was overturned in the 2022 case of Dobbs v. Jackson, but there is still widespread support for abortion, among many Americans—even among some professing Christians.

But God says He opposes the shedding of innocent blood. And our nation’s founders said that God has given us the right to life.

America has recently celebrated Martin Luther King day. And I’m grateful that his niece, Dr. Alveda King, is outspoken in her pro-life views.

I’ve interviewed Alveda King a few times for Christian media, and she told us: “In 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of the first recipients of the Margaret Sanger Award. Margaret Sanger is the founder of Planned Parenthood, and they are the largest abortion providers in America. So, people say, ‘Oh wow, Dr. King supported Planned Parenthood.’ Actually, he did not.”

Alveda explains why not: “If you read Dr. King’s statements or if you knew him as I did, Dr. King said, ‘The negro cannot win if he’s willing to sacrifice the futures of his children for immediate personal comfort and safety.’ In 1966, abortion was illegal in absolutely every state….If anybody had said that same organization will be at the forefront of the abortions or deaths of over 50 million babies, then Dr. King would have said, ‘No thank you.’ Dr. King was a pro-life, gentle person.”

Alveda added: “It’s unjust to kill a little person because they’re little. A woman has a right to choose what she does with her body, but where is a lawyer for the baby? How can the dream survive, if we murder the children?”

On this anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we’re thankful for the progress made in the right-to-life movement. But we also see we have much ground to cover in America to see a resurgence of valuing the right to life, at all stages of development.

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State Dept. to Classify Gender Transitions for Children, Abortion as Human Rights Abuses

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President Donald Trump and his administration are preparing to officially classify state-funded abortion, gender transition procedures for minors, and a host of other left-wing policies as human rights violations.

In its next annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, the U.S. State Department will update what qualifies as a human rights violation, according to The Daily Signal. State Department officials will now record other nations’ gender transition procedures for children, government-funded abortions or abortion drugs and the annual number of abortions committed, arrests or “official investigations or warnings” targeting free speech or laws targeting “hate speech,” affirmative actions and diversity policies in the workplace, permitting mass immigration into other countries, policies coercing euthanasia and assisted suicide, religious liberty violations, and “medical abuses” such as forced organ-harvesting and report those instances as human rights violations.

“In recent years, new destructive ideologies have given safe harbor to human rights violations,” principal deputy State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott told The Daily Signal. “The Trump administration will not allow these human rights violations, such as the mutilation of children, laws that infringe on free speech, and racially discriminatory employment practices, to go unchecked. We are saying enough is enough.”

The State Department records the human rights violations of all United Nations member states and all nations receiving foreign aid and submits those records to Congress annually. Earlier this year, the State Department adjusted its human rights violation reporting to leave out “LGBTQI rights,” which made frequent appearances in State Department reports under the previous administration, and focused greater attention on threats to freedom of speech in Europe.

The new State Department approach to human rights comes as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a 410-page report determining that gender transitions for children, referred to by transgenderism advocates as “gender-affirming care,” are based on “very low-quality evidence” and pose “potential or plausible harms” to children.

In comments to The Washington Stand, Joy Stockbauer, policy analyst at Family Research Council’s Center for Human Dignity, said, “It is so encouraging to see the Trump administration recognize abortions and transgender procedures for what they are: horrific affronts to human dignity, and violations of human rights.” She continued, “Under President Trump’s leadership, this policy sends a strong message that the United States, which leads the free world, will stand up for all human life.” Stockbauer added, “I pray that the administration continues to protect life both domestically and abroad, including by permanently terminating all avenues through which the United States funds abortions using taxpayer dollars within our own borders.”

Laura Hanford, a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a primary drafter of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998, told TWS, “The last administration distorted the historic mission of the State Department’s Human Rights infrastructure and Human Rights Report to aggressively advance gender ideology and abortion as so-called ‘rights.’” She explained, “Billions of dollars were poured into promoting this agenda. Obama and Biden removed the religious freedom section from the Human Rights Report and added an LGBTQ section, demonstrating their ideological priorities.”

“This new directive restores the appropriate focus on the established rights of religious freedom and free speech, and clearly takes a position against harm to the most vulnerable,” Hanford continued. “This includes protecting children from invasive and permanent procedures that are not evidence-based but ideological, as demonstrated in the recent HHS report on pediatric gender medicine, among multiple systematic reviews conducted by other nations,” Hanford noted. “It includes the unborn, whose right to life has always been championed by presidents on the right side of history. And it includes the vulnerable targets — even children — of the abhorrent state-sanctioned practice of ‘euthanasia.’”

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Rape and Abortion

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I heard a very moving talk from a rape victim this past weekend, which I’ll share in a moment. And what she said reminds me of the reason why abortion has gained such a stranglehold in America.

Rape is a horrible and violent crime. Interestingly, the allegation of rape is part of the reason America has embraced abortion so strongly in the last half-century.

Our founding documents embrace a culture of life, but abortion is at war with the right to life.

In months, we’ll be celebrating the life-affirming birthday of America. July 4, 2026 will be the 250th anniversary of theDeclaration of Independence, which famously says, “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life.”

11 years later, in 1787, the Constitution, predicated on the Declaration, opens this way: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice…and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.”

But in 1973, in Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court famously voted in favor of abortion rights as they set out “to resolve the issue by constitutional measurement.”

Dissenter Byron Johnson called Roe (and its companion decision of the same day, Doe v. Bolton) an act of “raw judicial power.”

To gain sympathy for her quest to get an abortion, the plaintiff Jane Roe (who we now know was the late Norma McCorvey) claimed she was raped—gang-raped no less.

But years later, Norma McCorvey revealed that she had lied. She said, “Initially I had told [attorney] Sarah Weddington that I had been raped—and I was not raped.”

In the mid-1990s, Norma had a come-to-Jesus moment and changed from being the poster child for abortion to being an avid opponent of it. She said in an interview on Christian TV, “I was a hippie of sorts and I sold drugs, and that’s what got me into so much trouble. I didn’t know how to respond to people and their problems. Since 1995, I’ve been walking with Jesus Christ, and I tell you: You can’t find a better life.”

A few years ago, some allegedly repudiated Norma McCorvey’s conversion. But I wrote about this at the time, setting the record straight. Also, I interviewed Frank Pavone about this. He is the founding president of Priests for Life, who baptized her, and he explains how her commitment to Christ and to the pro-life size was genuine.

Roe v. Wade ultimately resulted in the deaths of 63 million unborn babies. I wonder how many Americans realize that it was based in part on a lie. In 2022, the Supreme Court overturned Roe in the Dobbs v. Jackson decision. At least, that put the issue back into the hands of the states.

This past Saturday, I heard a powerful speaker named Lianna Rebolledo, who addressed the Broward Right to Life breakfast, for which I was privileged to serve again as MC.

Lianna told us that she was born in Mexico. But because of her parents’ divorce, she came to Los Angeles with her mother at the age of 11. When she was around 12, Lianna was kidnapped by two men, who raped her repeatedly, and left her for dead.

This devastated Lianna. When she went to the hospital, they told her she was pregnant, and they wanted her to abort the baby. They told her that “she didn’t deserve to have to live with the consequences of rape.”

But she realized that abortion could not undo the rape or take away the awful memories. So, she chose life for her daughter, and for 25 years that daughter gave her meaning in life.Tragically, the daughter died of brain tumors, but Lianna was so grateful for the time she had with her. As she told her life story, there wasn’t a dry eye in the place.

Lianna shares such observations, as noted per writer Amy O’Donnell:

  • “I thought I would be giving my baby the death penalty when it wasn’t my baby’s fault. My baby didn’t deserve to be punished for the rape because my baby didn’t have anything to do with that.”
  • “[My daughter] wasn’t lower class or second class because of how she was conceived; she was just like any other human being, and she didn’t deserve less than anyone else.”
  • “Even with all the suffering and pain, I would go through that again just to know my daughter. It wasn’t easy, but it was definitely worth it. In my situation, two lives were saved.”
  • “Abortion is not the solution….Not even for rape.”

To me, Lianna Rebolledo’s story is a powerful reminder of our need to get back to the goal of the right to life as mentioned in the Declaration of Independence.

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On Dignity and Dependence

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he philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, who died this past spring, is best remembered for his book After Virtue (1981).  But his book Dependent, Rational Animals (1999) is a work of equal value.  In it, he argued that dependence on others is hardwired into the human experience.  We’re not interchangeable creatures.  We have different strengths and weaknesses, skills and deficiencies. And our dependence is not a design flaw of our species, but a feature.

We were made to need each other.  Our personal autonomy can grow with knowledge and experience.  But it will always be limited.  Thus, a just society is marked by a realistic understanding of each other’s different needs, and a generous, mutual self-giving to meet those needs.

MacIntyre appears in the bibliography of Leah Libresco Sargeant’s new book, The Dignity of Dependence.  He’s referenced by name in the final pages.  And for good reason:  He’s a key resource among the many Sargeant uses to advance what she describes as a new “feminist manifesto.”  That word “feminist” is not a slam-dunk positive for this reviewer.  As a husband and father, I’m old enough to remember, in detail, the 1970s.  That includes the subsequent course of mainstream, secular feminism and the wreckage it too often wrought.

Sargeant is different.  She’s among a current wave of women scholars, writers, and leaders – from Erika Bachiochi and Abigail Favale to Terry Polakovic, co-founder of ENDOW, and many others – who offer a feminine critique of culture from a Christian-informed perspective.  This opens the door to a wider receptive audience.  And the author is skilled at her craft.  The Dignity of Dependence is not just exhaustively researched; it’s also elegantly written and persuasively argued.  It’s a pleasure to read.  And while it is very much a “feminist” manifesto, it’s also the expression of a sane Christian humanism.

Sargeant’s page-one, opening sentences set the framework for her material:  “The world is the wrong shape for women.  I move through a world in which my body is an unexpected, unanticipated, somewhat unwelcome guest.  It is as though women were a late, unanticipated arrival to a civilization that developed without them and their needs in mind.”  That’s a sweeping and debatable claim.  But if it sounds like the preamble to an anti-male grievance jamboree, the reader would be quite wrong.

For example:

When the world is the wrong shape for women, women will look for a range of techniques to solve or side-step their womanhood.  Our culture is sometimes male-normed, but frequently the norm women are trying to match is simply an inhuman norm, one that neither men nor women can comfortably inhabit.  Both men and women face pressure to regularize themselves, avoiding strong emotional or physical shifts, limiting the acute demands of caregiving, and working to widgetize themselves.

And this:

Equality for women is not the same as asserting interchangeability with men. . . .Recognizing and honoring the differences between men and women means putting dependence at the heart of our account of what it means to be human.  Dependence marks women more obviously and intimately, but it is also impossible to tell the truth about men or treat them justly without accounting for our mutual dependence.  No just society can be built on the basis of a false anthropology.

And finally this:

It is not good for woman or man to be alone, and more than that, it is not possible for man or woman to be truly alone.  To treat each other justly, we must be honest about who we are.  Men and women are deeply dependent creatures.  We cannot build a just society on a false anthropology.  We cannot have a feminism that does not begin with recognizing and rejoicing in the embodied difference between men and women.

The passages above can’t do justice to a text that’s both intellectually rich and accessible to any interested reader.  Sargeant’s chapters on “Helping Women Be Better Men” and “The Incredible Shrinking Woman” outline in practical detail the challenges posed to women by a society structurally biased against the embodied realities of being female.

The someday prospect of artificial wombs, she writes, is offered as a kind of “reproductive justice,” relieving women of the burden of pregnancy – the better to guide them into the workforce.  But “we dream of external wombs because it feels more possible,” in a mechanistic, tech-heavy culture, “to create biological support for a child in the absence of a mother than to win the social support to sustain the presence of a mother.”

Sargeant’s chapters “Illegal to Care,” “The Blessings of Burdens,” and “The School of Love” are especially strong.  They’ll resonate with anyone who has a child with special needs (as my wife and I do), but also well beyond that community.  As the author drives home again and again, there’s something wrong, and subtly anti-human, in the way modern society thinks about and structures the world.  In effect, it’s filled with “hostile designs [aimed] to displace the needy without worrying too much about where they go instead.”

Before ending, I’ll mention the one (modest) reservation I have about this absorbing work.  The world may arguably have “the wrong shape for women,” but the author understates the considerable soft power women do, so often and so effortlessly, project.

I speak from experience.  One of my mentors was Andrée Emery, student of Anna Freud, the psychotherapist, co-founder of the American edition of the theological journal Communio, a friend of Balthasar and Ratzinger, and foundress of the Our Lady of the Way secular institute in the United States.  She was a woman of supreme kindness, intellect, and grace.  And also formidable.  In a conversation about the role of the sexes four decades ago, she informed me – non-negotiably – that America might seem like a patriarchy, but it was really the “land of mama’s boys” and a disguised matriarchy.

I was a prudent young man.  I didn’t argue.

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A huge story broke this week that the corporate media doesn’t want you to know about

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A huge story broke this week that the corporate media doesn’t want you to know about. 

There’s been a lot of attention-grabbing news stories this week: Epstein subpoenas incoming, AWOL Democrat legislators in Texas, Trump’s expanding trade wars and sanction threats against Russia, violent crime in D.C., and a mass shooting at Fort Stewart Army base in Georgia.

Head spinning, for sure.

But there’s a big story that’s being ignored by the major news organizations.

It should have been front and center, with top-of-the-page screaming headlines. It’s a bombshell story that will affect America for years to come.

The conservative news outlet Slay News, as well as Chidren’s Health Defense, were among the few to report on this story, so I’m going to fill you in here.

A California nurse has come forward with explosive whistleblower evidence that suggests an alarming cover-up of skyrocketing fetal deaths caused by Covid mRNA injections among pregnant women.

The allegations came to light in court documents for a lawsuit filed recently by registered nurse Michelle Spencer.

The lawsuit, filed in California, reveals bombshell claims of institutional misconduct at Community Health System, doing business as Community Medical Centers, or CMC.

Spencer, a labor and delivery nurse, accuses CMC of concealing a dramatic increase in stillborn fetal deaths following the hospital’s Covid vaccination policies, implemented in 2021.

The lawsuit alleges fraudulent concealment of adverse outcomes, retaliation against whistleblowers, and prioritization of institutional profits over patient safety.

The lawsuit claims that the health system concealed an alarming rise in fetal deaths after Covid mRNA injections were mandated for pregnant women.

Spencer alleges that the hospital failed to investigate Covid shot-related causes for the devastating increase in stillbirths, a move that, according to the lawsuit, violated ethical and legal standards.

According to Spencer, fetal deaths surged by up to 5,000 percent among pregnant women who received mRNA injections.

This isn’t exactly shocking. We who are aware of the deadly impact of these shots suspected it all along. But thanks to this nurse, we now have the receipts to back up our claims. This takes the story out of the realm of what the mainstream likes to call “conspiracy theory.” Whenever you hear a story repeated poo-pooed as a “conspiracy theory,” chances are where there is smoke, you will find fire. They wouldn’t go to such lengths to crush a story if it had no merit.

Spencer’s complaint alleges that fetal deaths at CRMC surged dramatically starting in the spring of 2021. Of course we know what started around January and February of 2021. Those “safe and effective” Covid injections were being mass produced and mass injected, with high pressure being applied for everyone to get them, including even the most vulnerable segment of society, the women carrying babies in their wombs.

Spencer reveals that fetal deaths went from a baseline of 1–2 per month to an average of 4 per week, coinciding with the rollout of the Covid shots.

Spencer claims that internal hospital data and staff discussions pointed to the fact that nearly all of these deaths occurred in vaccinated mothers.

The lawsuit includes evidence from noted OB/GYN Dr. James A. Thorp.

Dr. Thorpe prepared a stillbirth rate chart to highlight the surge.

The chart shows that the stillbirth rate in one California hospital jumped from the national average of approximately 5.7 per 1,000 births before 2021 to a staggering 29.3 per 1,000 births after July 2021.

Kudos to Slay News for reporting these stories. The mRNA injections are still killing people, from the very youngest to the very oldest, and they’re stopping others from being born.

It’s no coincidence that America’s birthrate has been dropping for decades, in correlation with the increase in vaccine doses being injected into children, from about three or four doses when I was a child to more than 75 doses now between birth and age 17.

The fertility rate is also plummeting. Just last week it was reported that the U.S. fertility rate had hit an all-time low of 1.59 children per woman in 2024, according to CDC statistics. That’s an average of 1.59 children per woman of childbrearing age. It takes a fertility rate of at least 2.1 for a nation to sustain itself with each generation being replaced by the next as it ages and dies off.

Nations in decline lack the will to reproduce. It eventually catches up with them.

At 1.59 children per woman, America will at some point cease to exist as a nation, at least in its current form. But our news media think that’s not something Americans should know about.

Europe is in even more dire shape in terms of an aging population. There are several nations with fertility rates even lower than America’s (see chart below).

These shocking statistics also help explain why nations are looking to go to war. With aging populations and not enough young people to support those who are retired or about to retire over the next 10 years, these countries’ economies are on borrowed time before they collapse.

That just one of many reasons why I see World War III as unavoidable at this time.

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What’s Left for The Doomers and Gloomers?

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Democrats have been having a tough couple of weeks, as Donald Trump goes from success to success.

From ending Iran’s nuclear weapons program to multiple victories at the Supreme Court, great economic reports, and a rip-roaring stock market, Trump just capped a two-week victory streak by signing the Big Beautiful Bill into law, as promised, on July 4.

It was a deadline many members of his own party feared they would not be able to make just a few weeks ago. And yet, here we are.

As the New York Post headlined it, “Tired of Winning yet?”

But one victory continues to elude the president – ending the war in Ukraine — and he made it clear he finds it frustrating.

After an hour-long phone call with Putin yesterday, Trump reported that he had made “no progress” on getting the Russian president to agree to a ceasefire.

Instead, Putin just hammered away at his talking points and told Trump he remained committed to achieving his goals in the “special military operation,” which means annexing roughly one-third of the country, including parts of it that Russian troops have not yet conquered!

To underscore his determination, Putin unleashed a barrage of drones, ballistic and cruise missiles on Kiev and other population centers overnight that Zelenskyy said was one of the most intense of the entire war.

It’s hard to keep these two hellhounds from killing each other, even with the best of intentions.

In the world according to Trump, wars are to be ended by decisive action and deal-making. But when one of the belligerents is a nuclear-armed super-power and the other has vast international backing, the United States has little leverage.

If Trump really wants to end the war, he will need to put the type of pressure on Putin he talked about during the campaign — ending Russian oil sales, and cutting Russia off definitely from the international financial system.

But Trump also knows that such measures could backfire, forcing Russia into an even tighter alliance with Communist China, for example, or encouraging Russia, China, Iran, and others to adopt a new gold-backed currency.

Having turned the Iranian regime’s nuclear aspirations into so much railway ballast, the president appears to have washed his hands of Iran. Unlike many of his predecessors, this president has no appetite for regime change. So the Iranian people are on their own.

There were reports this week that after declaring a victory of historic proportions against Israel and the United States, Ayatollah Khamenei has unleashed his thugs to examine the cellphones of ordinary citizens on the streets.

If they find anti-regime propaganda — or even just mockery — they whisk the culprit away, never to be seen again. Many Iranians have now taken to leaving their cellphones behind when they leave home. Now there’s progress for you!

I discuss all of this on this week’s Prophecy Today Weekend. As always, you can listen live at 1 PM on Saturday on 104.9 FM or 550 AM in the Jacksonville, Florida, area, or by using the Jacksonville Way Radio app.

Happy 4th of July! I will be celebrating at my small piece of liberated territory in the south of France.

Yours in freedom.

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House Passes BBB as Conservatives Win ‘Significant Commitments’ on Life, Transgenderism

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Congress has delivered President Donald Trump’s signature legislation, the One Big Beautiful Bill, but not without hours of mean-spirited Democratic delay and principled conservative negotiations that secured “major” commitments of executive action and future legislation to promote the pro-life, pro-family cause.

The House of Representatives passed President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1) by a 218-214 vote on Thursday afternoon. All House Democrats voted no, joined by two Republicans: Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.). Massie, a libertarian-leaning Republican, opposes the bill’s high deficit and spending levels, while Fitzpatrick accused the White House of “withholding critical defense material” from Ukraine.

The bill narrowly passed the Senate Tuesday, when Vice President J.D. Vance cast the tie-breaking vote. Senators Susan Collins (R-Maine), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) voted against the bill. It now goes to President Trump’s desk.

Democrats in both chambers tried, and failed, to prevent the bill from passing Congress by President Trump’s July 4 deadline. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) forced the Senate to read the full text of the 940-page bill aloud, which lasted nearly 16 hours. Schumer also poked at the president with a procedural motion to strip the act of its formal title, “The One Big Beautiful Bill Act.” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) stalled proceedings further on Thursday morning with an eight-hour, 44-minute-long filibuster that began at 4:53 a.m. Jeffries all-but admitted he aimed to slow the bill’s passage as a procedural irritant, saying numerous times throughout his speech, “I am going to take my sweet time,” followed by a sustained standing ovation from the small gaggle of Democratic hangers-on who stayed to listen.

“It takes a lot longer to build a lie than to tell the simple truth,” replied House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) in a brief rejoinder to Jeffries’s record-breaking speech. “Scripture has been cited a lot this morning — I think mostly out of context.”

“Today was about performance for some of them,” said Johnson. “Democrats deliver performances, and Republicans deliver results.”

The narrow passage reflected the concern of pro-life conservatives, who withheld their support until obtaining promises from GOP leaders to address the pro-life, pro-family provisions stripped out by the Senate.

As fiscal conservatives, border security conservatives, and national security hawks celebrated the passage of President Donald Trump’s signature One Big Beautiful Bill, pro-life and pro-family leaders wonder aloud why their concerns got eliminated or minimized by the legislation. Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said the debate’s primary focus on taxes “reminds me of Bill Clinton back in his 1992 campaign: ‘It’s the economy, Stupid.’ It’s not the economy; it is the moral foundation of a nation that matters.” Some conservatives went as far as to call the watered-down Senate version of the bill “morally bankrupt.”

The revised Senate version of the bill “does not defund transgender surgery for minors. That is a moral issue. It only cuts funding for abortion services for one year, not the 10 in the House bill. That’s morally bankrupt,” Rep. Keith Self (R-Texas) told “Washington Watch with Tony Perkins” Wednesday night.

While many pro-life advocates — including SBA Pro-Life America and Americans United for Life — called the bill’s one-year defunding of Planned Parenthood a step forward, some former insiders say the deep-pocketed abortion industry has the resources to wait it out. “While any taxpayer money diverted away from Planned Parenthood is a good thing, defunding our nation’s largest abortion provider for just one year is not the win many of us who believe abortion is abhorrent wanted it to be,” said former Planned Parenthood director and founder of And Then There Were None, Abby Johnson, in a statement emailed to The Washington Stand. “A year is enough time for many Planned Parenthood facilities to hold out to be re-funded. Some will close, but Planned Parenthood as an organization has millions of dollars, wealthy donors, and could support those clinics if they choose.”

Planned Parenthood, which received $792.2 million in taxpayer funding in 2024, reported total net assets of $2.52 billion. “Bottom line: it’s not enough and Republicans should permanently defund the abortion giant, not just for a paltry 12 months,” said Johnson.

“A one-year defunding of Planned Parenthood is no victory; it’s a disheartening concession,” Katie Brown Xavios, national director of American Life League, told TWS. “To receive only a token punishment for those who harm women and kill the innocent is unacceptable.”

Quena González, senior director of Government Affairs at Family Research Council, called the one-year interruption “just a very short pause on defunding” on Wednesday, noting that under the revised bill, “taxpayers will still be forced to underwrite experimental gender transition procedures.”

Family Research Council backed the House version of the bill and reserved the right to score against the Senate version. Ultimately, it reconsidered after House conservatives wrung several promises out of the Trump administration and Hill leadership.

“Last night, we facilitated negotiations and conservations on key policy issues that had been removed or modified from the House version,” announced FRC President Tony Perkins on Thursday morning. “[W]e believe we will see policy outcomes that offset the changes made by the Senate.”

House Conservatives: ‘We Gained, America Gained’

Leaders of the House Freedom Caucus quickly confirmed they had obtained promises for future executive action and legislation to defund abortion and transgender procedures, as well as other policy priorities. “We got significant commitments on spending reductions outside the framework of the bill,” Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.) told “This Week on Capitol Hill.” “We said, ‘Let’s talk about some offsets elsewhere. Let’s talk about some things the executive can do to mitigate some of the concerns about what the Senate did with our House bill,’” Harris told Perkins.

“We got a major commitment, a serious commitment on spending reduction,” as well as “a large commitment on social issues. We got an agreement that the administration will add adults to their transgender funding limitation. And we’re going to have a discussion with the administration on the egregious, cross-state trafficking in mifepristone,” he said. “We talked about looking at program integrity in food stamps and in Medicaid,” where improper payments and fraud cost “tens of billions of dollars a year.” And “on the Green New Deal/Green New Scam provisions, the administration has a pretty fair leeway to interpret some of the Senate changes” to provisions of the Biden administration’s so-called Inflation Reduction Act.

Harris also revealed the House Freedom Caucus extracted a promise from the speaker of the House to address the nation’s ever-expanding national debt. “The speaker has agreed to have another vote on a Balanced Budget Amendment, because the last one we had was in November of 2011, trillions of dollars of deficits ago,” he said.

The House Freedom Caucus left the negotiations satisfied. “Everything we did was perfectly in line with the president’s agenda. So he went along with it,” said Harris. “We gained, America gained.”

In a statement sent to The Washington Stand shortly after the vote, Rep. Self confirmed the House Freedom Caucus “moved the bill dramatically to the right on almost every front and at every stage of the process, including overnight, as a small group of us continued working with the White House to address critical policy and spending issues.”

The bill threatened to further divide the Republican Party, as many Republicans reluctantly embraced the bill as the best alternative capable of passing Congress. “People with the same principles, looking at the same facts can actually apply and analyze those facts a little bit differently and reach a little bit different conclusion,” Rep. Nathaniel Moran (R-Texas) told “Washington Watch” later on Wednesday. “This is not the end-all, be-all decision for every moral matter that we have to deal with in Congress. This is, at its core, a bill about taxes and liberty.”

Social conservatives have long seen taxes and defense spending prioritized, while promises of pro-life or pro-family action do not come to fruition. However, President Trump has repeatedly said he will govern by the motto, “Promises made, promises kept.”

In part, social conservatives in the Trump administration may be wary of submitting legislation for fear liberal Republicans will exercise their collective muscle in negotiations. Harris noted the Trump administration “didn’t want to have to send this bill back to the Senate,” where senators such as abortion-supporting Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) could assure the bill “would actually get worse.”

What Is in the One Big Beautiful Bill?

As The Washington Stand reported, the surviving provisions largely carry out President Trump’s legislative agenda:

  1. The revised bill increases the child tax credit to $2,200, indexed for inflation, down from $2,500 in the House bill. Without action, the child tax credit would have returned its pre-Trump level of $1,000.
  2. The bill creates “TRUMP” savings accounts for children, indexed to the stock market like a 401(k), with a $1,000 deposit from U.S. taxpayers upon the birth of each child. The bill also furthers school choice by expanding educational savings accounts.
  3. The bill makes permanent tax advantages from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, including expanded personal exemptions and incentives for business research and development. “For working families, The One, Big, Beautiful Bill prevents a looming $1,700 tax hike and instead puts more money in Americans’ pockets — including upwards of $1,300 for tipped workers and $1,400 for hourly workers working overtime. Families will see a nearly $11,000 boost in take-home pay,” House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) told TWS. “Households making under $100,000 will see a 12% tax cut compared to what they pay today. The average family of four will see nearly $11,000 more in their pockets each year. Real wages for workers will rise by as much as $7,200 a year,” Smith added on the House floor. The final bill gives qualifying senior citizens a $6,000 deduction, which the White House Council of Economic Advisers estimates will assure that 88% of seniors on Social Security have no federal income tax liability. It eliminates federal income taxes on tips up to the first $25,000, phasing out for those who earn $150,000 a year (or couples making $300,000). Taxpayers may also deduct up to $12,500 of overtime pay under the same condition; it lapses in 2028. The bill also lets people who buy cars made in America write off up to $10,000 in interest on the car’s loan.
  4. Enhancing border security. “This bill gives President Trump the tools he needs to finish securing the border by providing $175 billion in new funding. It will allow for completion of the border wall, fund ICE deportation efforts, and hire and train new border patrol agents,” agreed Rep. Mark Harris (R-N.C.) in a statement sent to TWS. It also taxes remittances to foreign countries. “It secures our border, funds the largest mass deportation operation in American history, and delivers the tax relief working families deserve,” Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) told TWS.
  5. Securing national defense. The bill increases defense spending by roughly $160 billion, including $25 billion for a domestic “Iron Dome” missile defense system.
  6. Student loan reform. The bill imposes a $257,500 lifetime cap on student loan borrowing and reduces provisions that allow borrowers to delay paying back their students loans.
  7. Underwriting high-tax states and cities. The Senate version of the bill increases the state and local tax (SALT) deduction to $40,000 for the next five years.
  8. Slowing our exit from the Green New Deal. The Senate bill ends tax credits or subsidies for green energy projects, such as wind and solar power favored by the Biden administration, for projects constructed within a year of the bill’s passage and that go into service by the end of 2027. But the latest bill removed a proposed excise tax on companies in those industries that use more than a specified amount of components (such as solar panels or batteries) made in China. The Senate version generally slows down the GOP’s efforts to phase out the Left’s cherished credits.
  9. Slowing SNAP reform. The Senate bill delayed reforms to the much-abused Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, program in certain states.
  10. Reforming Medicaid. Medicaid recipients capable of work and who do not have a child at home must spend 80 hours a month in paid work, community service, or schooling/vocational training. The work requirements would save taxpayers an estimated $325 billion over the next 10 years. The bill also reduces the Medicaid provider tax from 6% to 3.5% starting in the 2028 fiscal year.

Despite some well-received economic news, conservatives say the bill still spends too much money and raises the debt ceiling to $5 trillion.

Rep. Mark Harris warned, “if Washington’s overspending addiction continues, the opportunity to put our country back on a path to a sound financial future is in jeopardy. In the coming months, Republicans must use every tool at our disposal to rein in government spending. This is not the end of our work.” (Emphasis in original.) Still, he said, “The country is much better off today than it was a few days ago. There’s certainty in the average working man and woman’s pocketbook that they’re not going to get a tax increase next year” — and greater faith “that the president is watching out for them.”

Nonetheless, Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) promised TWS that conservatives would not rest long before collecting the policy commitments they earned in exchange for supporting the amended legislation.

“Celebrate today,” said Roy. “Fight again tomorrow.”

AUTHOR

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Ben Johnson is senior reporter and editor at The Washington Stand.

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EXCLUSIVE: We Found Out How Easy It Is To Order An Abortion Pill. The Results Are Shocking.

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In as little as five minutes, the Daily Caller News Foundation was able to easily order abortion pills opponents argue are unsafe without a doctor adequately verifying key eligibility requirements.

Groups that launched online services after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved mail-order abortions will provide the pill under circumstances that are questionable even by the agency’s relaxed standards, a DCNF investigation found.

“Mail-order abortion subjects women to an abysmal standard of care,” Dr. Christina Francis, CEO of the American Association of Pro-Life OBGYNs (AAPLOG), told the DCNF. “Not only is there minimal health screening that occurs, but women typically have no interaction with any medical professional, let alone a physician.”

The FDA removed in 2021 a requirement that providers distribute mifepristone in person and enabled prescribers to send the pill directly to women in the mail. Now, without speaking to a physician or confirming a pregnancy, a woman can order prescription abortion pills to her home “just in case” she needs them in the future.

Minutes after filling out a brief online form, she’ll have her request approved. Days after payment, the pills will arrive on her doorstep. The package might include a handwritten note saying, “You are brave,” but no doctor will physically be there to warn her that mifepristone is not “safer than tylenol” as its advocates claim or that the danger of complications is likely higher than the drug’s label indicates.

The DCNF obtained five sets of medication for $660 — with sets ranging from $90 to $150 each — simply by filling out online medical forms created by providers.

WATCH:

Three of the five organizations that sent pills to the DCNF — Aid Access, OPTIO Women’s Health and Abuzz Health — use GenBioPro, one of two FDA-approved manufacturers of mifepristone. The fourth, Cambridge Reproductive Health Consultants (CRHC), supplies pills produced by Danco Laboratories, the other approved manufacturer.

The final group, Women on Web, sent pills in a plain manila envelope that did not indicate the drug’s producer. The mailing address on its website is in Toronto, Canada, though the return address on the package was listed as “Supplement City” in Kansas City, Kansas.

The owner of the Kansas property is Jose Franco Guevara, per public records, who owns multiple other buildings in the neighborhood. He faced a federal lawsuit in 2019 for not paying employees overtime compensation at one business he runs in the area, Sabor Latino Restaurant. Guevara agreed to a Consent Order paying the employees money owed to them.

Several other groups listed P.O. boxes as their return address. Aid Access’ package shipped from a California address linked to an individual who works for Honeybee Health, which was the first online pharmacy to begin shipping abortion pills by mail.

Aid Access, OPTIO Women’s Health, Abuzz Health, CRHC, Women on Web and Honeybee Health did not respond to requests for comment. GenBioPro and Danco Laboratories also did not respond to requests for comment.

‘Legal Gray Area’

Mifepristone obtained by DCNF (Credit: Katelynn Richardson/Daily Caller News Foundation)

Though the FDA prescriber agreement form requires being able to “assess the duration” of a pregnancy and “diagnose ectopic pregnancies,” the online pill distributors made no effort to do so.

Advanced provision is a “legal gray area” that exposes the root problem of the FDA’s relaxed regulations, Gabriella McIntyre, legal counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom’s Center for Life, told the DCNF.

“It’s not an FDA-approved use of abortion drugs,” McIntyre told the DCNF. “It’s difficult to see how you get recourse, at least from the FDA’s perspective, unless you reinstitute in-person dispensing, which would resolve the issue of practitioners being able to send these drugs in the mail without verifying things like gestational age or whether the woman is pregnant.”

McIntyre said she is not aware of any litigation related to doctors providing pills for future use.

Abuzz Health Abortion Pill How-To (Credit: Screenshot/Abuzz Health)

Groups that supplied pills to the DCNF give instructions for taking the pill long after the 10 week period the FDA approved it for use.

“At 14 weeks, you might see a fetus about the size of a lemon,” Aid Access states. “Seeing a fetus after 14 weeks can be upsetting for some people. It is good to be prepared and have a plan for how to dispose of the fetal tissue.”

OPTIO Women’s Health similarly warns that a fetus at 12 weeks can be “about the size of a lime.” Abuzz indicates the pills can be used through 12+ weeks on its instructions, directing women to a FAQ page for more information, though the bottom of the page includes a caveat that “nothing on this website is to be construed as medical advice.”

“As an OB-GYN practicing in Texas, I have seen firsthand how these recommendations hurt women, because I have cared for many of them in the ER,” Dr. Ingrid Skop, vice president and director of medical affairs at the Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI), told the DCNF. “Abortion drugs fail more frequently in higher gestational ages, so off-label use until 13 weeks may often require surgery to remove retained pregnancy tissue and/or the dead baby to prevent serious infection or hemorrhage.”

While the online medical forms these groups ask women to complete vary in length, each one took less than 5 minutes to fill out.

The groups asked only a few basic questions about preexisting health conditions and allergies to misoprostol or mifepristone, along with any history of a caesarean section or ectopic pregnancy. Several providers also asked about gender identity, sexual orientation and preferred  pronouns. Only one of the five websites, Abuzz Health, asked for photo identification.

When the DCNF asked about cost assistance, Aid Access indicated they could not reduce the cost for pills in advance but would help in the future if pills were needed for a current pregnancy. Other groups share similar policies on their website, promising financial assistance to those in immediate need.

However, one group, Abuzz, did provide a discount from the full $150, allowing a minimum payment of $90 for pills in advance.

The quickest deliveries came in just three days. The longest order arrived after 7 days.

An FDA spokesperson did not say whether the specific groups that supplied pills to the DCNF violated their prescriber agreement but noted the Mifepristone Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) Program is “in place to ensure the safe use of this drug and sets forth specific requirements providers must meet before prescribing this drug, including the ability to date pregnancies accurately and the ability to diagnose ectopic pregnancies.”

Shield Law Practice

After Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, three doctors founded the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine to promote laws that shield medical professionals in pro-abortion states from penalties for supplying abortion pills in states where it is banned. The organization provides instructions for doctors who want to become a “shield provider” supplying medication abortion in other states, including information on malpractice insurance and establishing an LLC.

One of the group’s co-founders, New York doctor Maggie Carpenter, is facing felony charges in Louisiana for supplying abortion pills to a mother who allegedly ordered them for her minor daughter. Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has said she would not comply with an extradition request to turn Carpenter over to Louisiana authorities.

A Texas court also ordered Carpenter to pay a $100,000 penalty in February for providing pills to residents of the state. Carpenter has worked with Aid Access since 2020, according to her archived bio.

The cases against Carpenter are the first efforts to hold doctors accountable for providing abortion pills across state lines. Several of the organizations that supplied mifepristone to the DCNF operate within states with shield laws.

CRHC operates The Massachusetts Medication Abortion Access Project (The MAP), which was developed after Massachusetts became the first state to pass a shield law in 2022 protecting doctors who serve patients in other states, where abortion may be illegal.

The CRHC is run by professors primarily from Canada, though one consultant on the team, Dr. Kathryn LaRoche, is an assistant professor of Public Health at Purdue University. CRHC’s website explains that it uses “doctors in Massachusetts to prescribe FDA-approved abortion medication to patients who apply through our website.”

Dr. Angel Foster, one of The MAP’s co-founders, wrote in a March letter to Connecticut state Sen. Gary Winfield that the organization is now supplying medication abortion “to about 2,500 patients a month,” with 95% of patients residing in states with abortion bans.

“[W]e need more states with comprehensive Shield Laws and we need more telemedicine Shield Law providers willing to offer care in all 50 states,” she wrote. “The more providers we have the more we will be able to normalize Shield Law provision and support each other.”

A Safe Choice Network, which partners with OPTIO Women’s Health, indicates on its website that all doctors in the network are licensed to practice in California, which passed a shield law in 2023.

Aid Access’ organization operated abortion “Roe-bots” — robots that dispense the abortion pill — outside the Supreme Court when it heard the case challenging mifepristone in 2024, operating them “remotely from within shield law states.”

Twenty-two states, along with Washington, D.C., now have some form of abortion-related shield laws in place, according to UCLA Law.

‘This Is Not Healthcare’

Nearly 83.5% of abortion-related ER visits that result from taking mifepristone were incorrectly coded as miscarriages between 2016 and 2021, according to a study of Medicaid data by CLI. These miscoded visits were more likely to be severe than those correctly coded.

“These miscoded abortion complications remain invisible to research scientists resulting in a large underestimation of actual medical abortion complications,” the study found.

Skop noted abortion providers who tell women not to disclose they took the abortion pill both reflect “a disregard for women’s well-being” and exacerbate “the already poor-quality abortion data collection in the U.S., further obscuring the frequency of complications from women and the public.”

One in ten women who take the abortion pill will experience a “serious adverse event,” according to an April study of insurance data by the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), which is higher than the “less than 0.5 percent” of patients listed on the drug label.

“Across the country, we’ve seen the horrific results of these practices,” Francis told the DCNF. “A teenage girl required emergency care for complications of the abortion drugs after being forced to take them by her mother who obtained them online. Women have died alone at home after attempting to undergo this process without medical supervision. This is not healthcare. It’s negligence.”

Yet statistics published by the groups, as well as anecdotes, confirm women are ordering the pills for future use in record numbers. Some women began stocking up after Trump won the 2024 election.

“I bought 2 rounds of the pills from Women on the web as soon as trump won,” one woman wrote on Reddit. “I have them because we don’t want kids, and I’m afraid we may loose [sic] access in a red state. So it’s well worth having, 2 Year shelf life. Would recommend to anyone who wants to protect their right to abortion access.”

Aid Access received over 5,000 requests for pills in the 12 hours after Trump’s victory was announced, according to The Guardian.

“We’ve never seen this before,” co-founder Rebecca Gomperts told the outlet.

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I’m MAD as Hell, and I’m not going to take it Anymore!

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We are witnessing the Destruction of America. Surely, you have heard the old saying, “Those that do not learn History, are doomed to repeat it”? How did we let it happen?

My answer is…it’s always the same! Did you get involved within the last 20 years? Did you say NO, Hell No, this is CRAZY!

Can anyone remember Network, 1976? Here’s a reminder!

(This is for entertainment purposes only). Network

You’ve got to get MAD!

Did you ever say…You’re not going to do that…whatever that was. If you or your family have never seen Network, I strongly recommend you watch it. Powerful messages.

Did you throw out all your common sense and just buy into the WOKE mentality because it is easier?

Do you believe:

  • There are multiple genders.
  • CO2 is poison.
  • The government knows best, and should raise your children.
  • Sexual assault on children or adults is OK
  • Kids graduating without knowledge of reading, writing or math is OK
  • Filling the country with people who hate you, and want to hurt or kill you, is great!
  • Not paying attention to bills that are passed is great!

If you want to know what our problem is and how we got here, just look in the mirror. We created the problem, we own it.

We are the only ones that can FIX THIS!

I was a child of the 60’s. I feel like I am reliving those bad old days. I remember getting up in the mornings, asking my mom, “What buildings or cities do you think will be burned down today? Where is the next riot? When is it going to stop?”

I just could not understand why this was happening. Why people wanted to burn down their own community, colleges, cities resulting in hurting civilians, and law enforcement people. It made no sense. It made no sense.

E Pluribus Unem: Order Out of Chaos

The fact is these Globalists and Communists must create Chaos, because they HATE and despise Western Civilization. They believe that if they create enough Destruction, people will scream for them to clean it up, they become heroes, and get re-elected.

Ulterior Motives

I looked to see who was President during the bulk of the 60s riots. Kennedy, King, and Kennedy were assonated. .The Viet Nam War raged. The country was on edge. Racial inequality, economic disparities and police brutality were the hot topics of the day. Lynden B. Johnson (D) was President, and cities were in financial ruin. Did the Mayors of these cities think, “If I take advantage of the Destruction, we get plenty of money to repair the damage? Did rioting represent another way out of the financial mess? Is Newsom and Bass using that motive as well?

Another problem I see is that the Government always focuses on reacting to a disasters, rather than being proactive and focusing on the root cause of the disasters, and coming up with a plan. They never think of the consequences of their actions.

Sorry, Maxine, destruction of property is not peaceful!

If the people all the way up to the top are not arrested and held to account for their actions, we will have more riots. If funding is not stopped from radical groups, there will be more riots.

If riots continue…the severity, brutality, property damage, injuries, and deaths…escalate.

Pam, the ball is in your court. So far I see nothing and get crickets.

POWER, MONEY, CONTROL is the name of the game.

Once Communists have power, they will do anything possible to keep it. Remember to them, the Ends always justify the means. Lie, Cheat, Steal who cares if you are in power. Where does that power come from. It comes from controlling the government. The House has the power of the purse (MONEY). How do you keep that power? The CENSUS. The more people the more representatives. The more representatives, the more power you have to CONTROL the flow of MONEY. Thanks to SCOTUS, the “Are you a citizen?” question is NOT on the census, so illegals can be counted. The more illegals funneled into Blue states the greater the power. Trump is deporting their power and you support his actions. Therefore, they hate Trump and they Hate you.

President Trump told us what he would do if elected. He is doing it. He did, however, give Globalists plenty of time to prepare. They have been planning this agenda for years. Do not listen to their lies! I ask them constantly, to give me an example of what they say. They never can. All they can say is Trump is a NAZI.

Anyone older than 65 knew the minute Homan said ICE raids, that rioting and devastation would result. Once nothing was done in 2020 to arrest the criminal looters, we knew riots would result. Anyone, with any knowledge of Marxist history, knows that chaos is their game plan. By ignoring their actions, we ultimately suffer the results.

The sad part is, we have allowed these Marxists to infiltrate the minds of our children. Young minds filled with HATE, become the leaders of the future.

Falling into the Abyss

Their future now has become a future of hate, self-loathing, and loneliness. The joy of love for family, G-d, and country falls into the Abyss, to be forgotten forever. The ideals that make America what it is, are forgotten. The patriotic desire to put America First has been replaced with the symbol of burning the flag.

Our children and young people’s minds are replaced by devices loaded with AI algorithms, telling them every move they are to make while watching everything they do.

We cannot allow the election of President Donald Trump to be just a speed bump in the road only used to slow us down!

We must act. You see what is going on in Congress. The same RINOS, doing the bidding of the Establishment, not the people. To them, America First…is really, America LAST. Time to get rid of these RINOS.

This weekend is the 250th Anniversary of our great military, as well as Flag Day, and President Trumps’ birthday. This weekend may also be the beginning of WWIII.

Wish President Trump a Happy Birthday. See the parade showing our great military. Pray that Americ is not pushed into another forever war.

Then, ask your family if they know what the Flag represents. Can they recite the Pledge of Allegiance? Do they know what it means, since the Pledge is no longer taught in schools? Here is a refresher:

I pledge allegiance to the flag Of the United States of America

This addresses the Jurisdiction in the Constitution, you pledge to follow the laws of America and to the Republic for which it stands

America is a Republic representing self-rule, Not a Democracy, representing Government rule

One Nation

United we stand, divided we fall

Under G-d

We follow G-d laws, Globalists must eliminate any entity higher than the govt. To them the Government is G-d

Indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

undivided, where all citizens are equal in the eyes of the law, patriotism

CRASH & BURN

Don’t sit on the sidelines watching America crash and burn. Step up, and do your part. Vote in Primaries and Elections. Pay attention to local events, take action, vote out RINOs.

GET MAD!

Enjoy this weekend, and join me on americaoutloud.news

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EXCLUSIVE: Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers Still Awaiting Justice 3 Years After Firebombing, Vandalism Spree

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The FBI has yet to solve at least five cases it opened into arson attacks targeting pro-life pregnancy centers in 2022, according to an investigation by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The Biden FBI offered cash rewards in 2022 for information on suspects responsible for firebombings around the country, mainly directed at pro-life facilities, after the preemptive May 2 leak of a Supreme Court ruling that overturned the abortion precedent established by Roe v. Wade. Five local FBI field offices told the DCNF that the bureau is still offering the incentive for cases in Colorado, North Carolina, Washington state, Oregon and New York, indicating suspects were never found or convicted.

The FBI’s Seattle field office told the DCNF that it’s typical for the bureau to update or delete the bulletins asking the public for information if suspects are caught, and if they’re on the website, the FBI is still looking for answers. The FBI’s national press office did not respond to a request for comment.

‘Enforce The Law Equally’

One targeted facility’s CEO, Jim Harden, told the DCNF he got a phone call from an employee around two in the morning on June 7, 2022, that changed his life. The Amherst, New York, building that was home to his organization CompassCare was set ablaze in what was eventually determined to be arson. The FBI released footage showing what it said were two suspects arriving in a car at night and throwing Molotov cocktails at the building.

Harden’s team had been on high alert that summer, having already contacted the FBI over concerns about a heightened risk of violence. Soon after the fire, he moved with his wife and children to flee an onslaught of threats against them as extremists lashed out at CompassCare, a Christian nonprofit providing free medical care to pregnant mothers to steer them away from abortion.

“Our lives are very different now,” he said in an interview with the DCNF. “We had to relocate our family … we had people riding past our house pointing guns at our kids.”

Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon said in April that there were more than 200 cases of pregnancy resource centers “violently attacked by activists with no action by law enforcement, federal or state” in the past several years. Family Research Council documented almost 50 instances of vandalism and other attacks on pregnancy centers and pro-life organization buildings from May through June 2022.

“I can say we are taking them seriously now and will be for the duration,” Dhillon told the DCNF about such cases. Dillon declined to comment about any specific prosecutions that may be ongoing or forthcoming.

“This Department of Justice is committed to protecting crisis pregnancy centers, pro-life organizations and places of worship from targeted acts of violence and will work to ensure justice is served to criminals who engage in this unlawful behavior,” a DOJ spokesperson said in response to questions about the unsolved cases.

The spree of violence even resulted in arson at a Portland pregnancy center run by a self-professed pro-choice woman in July 2022. As in the five cases involving pro-life groups, the FBI told the DCNF it is still offering a reward for information. The Dobbs opinion leak, which was investigated but never solved, also inspired an assassination attempt on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh near his home.

The Portland facility did not respond to multiple requests for comment. The other pregnancy centers with unsolved cases in Longmont, Colorado and Portland did not respond to multiple requests for comment, while one in Seattle declined to comment.

Harden, the CompassCare CEO, said the pro-abortion Biden administration seemed apathetic about solving the cases, despite the FBI interviewing him about the Amherst bombing. He recalled reaching out and asking urgently for updates, leading to a moment when he said an FBI agent “was screaming” over the phone that the bureau was not required to update him.

“Their job was to enforce the law equally,  and it did not appear as if they were doing so,” Harden said.

‘Mountain Of Evidence’

While announcements about pro-abortion vandalism cases were scarce, the Biden administration boasted in press releases about several prosecutions of pro-life activists under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act for protesting at abortion clinics. On his first week in office, President Donald Trump pardoned nearly two dozen pro-lifers accused of federal crimes.

Former Attorney General Merrick Garland explained the discrepancy in March 2023 by telling Congress that “it is quite easy” to identify and charge pro-lifers protesting in daylight.

“Those who are attacking the pregnancy resources centers, which is a hard thing to do, are doing this at night in the dark,” Garland said.

Harden did not — and does not — buy Garland’s explanation whatsoever.

“There’s a mountain of evidence,” Harden said of the vandals, noting that the authorities can search for license plate numbers, body mechanic imagery and cell phone IP addresses. “It’s just not possible they don’t know who they are. The FBI [is] the most technically advanced law enforcement agency on the planet.”

Some attacks on pro-life centers in 2022 were linked to a leftist group called Jane’s Revenge, with activists posting online threats in response to news about the leaked Dobbs decision. The FBI said the CompassCare vandals left the spray-painted message, “Jane was here.”

Harden told the DCNF his Amherst building was repaired at “miraculous” speed in 52 days thanks in part to volunteer workers, but the damage cost millions of dollars.

The attack inspired Harden to become more outspoken about political issues via media interviews. He also launched a campaign on a pro-life platform to fill Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik’s House seat in a New York special election. Stefanik announced she would remain in her role in April after Trump pulled her nomination to represent the U.S. in the United Nations.

‘Heart Problem’

Paula McSwain, executive director of the Crisis Pregnancy Center in Lincolnton, North Carolina, told the DCNF she received a letter from the FBI in August 2024 saying its investigation into arson at her building in June 2022 was closed. Surveillance footage showed someone at nighttime throwing what the FBI said was a Molotov cocktail.

The Lincolnton case is one of several for which the FBI is still offering a reward for information on any suspects, according to the bureau’s Charlotte field office.

McSwain said she was fortunate enough to get the pregnancy center up and running fairly easily.

“If they wanted to destroy the building, they could have done a better job,” McSwain told the DCNF.

The pro-life leader decided to respond to her ordeal by limiting public outcry.

“That’s what they were seeking, was attention,” McSwain said of the vandals.

Harden and McSwain said that if they could give any message to their attackers, it would be one of forgiveness through Jesus Christ.

“If you throw fire at any building, you’ve got a heart problem and there’s something not right with your life … We don’t seek revenge, we just pray for them,” McSwain said.

“The only reason I can forgive you is because forgiveness has been made available to me, and so I would encourage you to come out of the darkness and into the light,” Harden said his words to the criminals would be.

“Nothing is going to go unpunished if it’s sin,” Harden said.

AUTHOR

Hudson Crozier

DCNF Crime and Extremism Reporter.

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As Republicans Pass Tax Cuts, Democrats Propose ‘Disability Reproductive Equity Day’

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Shortly after voting down the “one big beautiful” tax bill, House Democrats introduced Resolution 453 to designate a day in May 2025 as “Disability Reproductive Equity Day.”

Democratic Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley introduced the bill to establish a symbolic equity holiday Thursday, with co-sponsorship from Democratic California Rep. Lateefah Simon, Texas Rep. Veronica Escobar and Illinois Rep. Delia Ramirez.

The bill’s introduction comes one week after the House of Representatives passed President Donald Trump’s comprehensive legislative package aimed at tax relief and economic reform.

The new legislation proposed by Democrats claims to commemorate the rights of people with disabilities and would establish a “Disability Reproductive Equity Day.”

Citing a “long history of reproductive coercion impacting people with disabilities,” the bill argues that many have been systematically denied their “reproductive autonomy.”

The bill states that about 4.1 million parents in the U.S. have disabilities, while about one in four adults live with a disability and roughly one in ten “people with disabilities” are capable of becoming pregnant.

It specifically highlights “women with disabilities, people of color with disabilities, people with disabilities with low incomes, and LGBTQI+ people with disabilities.”

The bill was introduced just days after all 212 House Democrats voted against a Republican-backed tax package that would extend key provisions of President Trump’s 2017 tax cuts.

Key components of Trump’s legislation include measures to eliminate taxes on tips and overtime pay, while expanding tax breaks for Americans aged 65 and older—provisions that deliver on several of Trump’s campaign promises if passed by Congress, having already been approved in a bipartisan U.S. Senate bill on May 20.

The spending package is also expected to deliver on Trump’s promise to secure the border by allocating over $100 billion toward strengthening border security and immigration enforcement.

The Democrats’ bill addresses issues such as sterilization, stating that 31 states and Washington, D.C., currently have laws permitting the forced sterilization of individuals with disabilities.

The bill also claims that “people with and without disabilities want children at the same frequency, but people with disabilities are less likely to receive contraception counseling and timely prenatal care, experience a higher rate of sterilization, and are at a greater risk for adverse pregnancy outcomes.”

Additionally, it underscores the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade  in the landmark Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case.

The legislation adds that “nearly 3,000,000 reproductive-aged women with disabilities live in States that have, or are likely to have, abortion bans.” 

It also stated that individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in group care settings are at a heightened risk of “physical and sexual abuse” and said women with disabilities are nearly twice as likely to experience sexual violence.

Pressley previously introduced a bill to designate a day in May 2024 as “Disability Reproductive Equity Day.”

AUTHOR

Ashley Brasfield

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Sustaining the Consensus Against Violent Social Change

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A new article at NBC News completely flips reality about the recent bombing at a California fertility clinic, comparing the assault to attacks on abortion facilities.

Titled “Bombing at IVF clinic should be a security wake-up call for fertility centers, experts say,” the story by Elizabeth Chuck ignores the fact that the Palm Springs atrocity, in which the bomber died and four bystanders were injured, was perpetrated by a self-proclaimed anti-humanist who believed that bringing children into the world is wrong. The bomber, Guy Edward Bartkus, left behind a manifesto proclaiming his goal was to “sterilize this planet of the disease of life.” He was, in short, not a pro-lifer by any measurement, but the radical opposite.

Media reports like this one illustrate the now, near-ubiquitous challenge of what-aboutism, where what should be a sustainable consensus against violence from any quarter is converted into a tit-for-tat about one side or the other of public debates seeming to excuse such actions by its allies. The truth is that there is violence today on both sides of many hotly contested issues, and it is also true that most proponents of various causes reject such tactics as extreme. Maintaining this moral consistency has proven to be very difficult, but the facts about the prevalence of violence remind us of the urgent need for balance and self-restraint in what has become an aggravating blame game.

Take some of the most notorious criminal acts of the last several years. Besides the attack by Bartkus, as Wesley Smith notes in a must-read article at National Review, there has been a wave of antipathy to human existence in both the intellectual press and on the street. Smith cites an incident in 2010 where an assailant at the Discovery Channel demanded that the television service stop “encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants.”

Smith goes on to recap articles from the last few years in prestigious publications like the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of Medical Ethics that cast a relentlessly bleak picture of human existence and call for the end not only of policies that encourage childbearing but for any childbearing at all. In 2012, a planned mass shooting at Family Research Council was thwarted by the heroic action of building operations manager Leo Johnson, who sustained a serious wound when a man angered by FRC’s stances on sexual conduct invaded the FRC headquarters.

Far from isolated incidents, these kinds of crimes can become commonplace as a result of news events extremists label intolerable. Last month, a California man bent on killing Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh pleaded guilty to attempted assassination, blaming his actions on the Supreme Court’s leaked draft opinion on abortion and other judicial actions he believed were responsible for the mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. In the wake of the high court’s June 2022 ruling in the Dobbs case, attacks were launched against nonprofit pregnancy help centers across the United States. Varying in severity, and with fortunately no loss of life, an estimated total of more than 100 assaults occurred on centers and churches across the United States. Apprehensions and prosecution of individuals responsible were rare under the Biden administration but did occur under the federal FACE Act.

None of this is to say that opponents of abortion and objectors to other public policies have been immune from committing similar deeds. The individuals imprisoned for peacefully blocking access to abortion facilities may have been selectively prosecuted and disproportionately punished, but there is little question they violated the same federal law that protects pregnancy help centers and churches from illegal acts. Over the long history of the abortion debate, the killing of abortionists has occurred in Colorado, Kansas, Florida, Georgia, and several other states. Director-actor Clint Eastwood made the film “Richard Jewell” about a security cop who was wrongly prosecuted after he foiled a bomb attack on the Olympic Village in Atlanta. The actual perpetrator, one Eric Rudolph, was identified and convicted in 2005 for his role in the bombing of a gay nightclub and an abortion facility in Birmingham, Alabama, years earlier. He is serving multiple terms of life imprisonment for these actions.

Understanding why individuals resort to violence, and why more individuals now justify that resort, including when actions occur on the scale of the Black Lives Matter riots and the January 6, 2021 incursion into the U.S. Capitol, is a vital question of our time. It is a sad condition when one hears the first reports of a violent incident, a Tesla exploding outside a Las Vegas hotel or a car bomb outside an IVF facility, and immediately waits for news whether the perpetrator was “one of ours.” Because the truth is, people who abandon the law and resort to these actions, whatever their motive, are never one of ours, whether they are anti-natalists or militant pro-lifers or race partisans or election deniers. The temptation to which NBC News succumbed with trying to tie Bartkus to opponents of various IVF practices is another chapter of the continuing tragedy of what-aboutism.

It is vital that debates about ethical matters, especially those as potent as abortion and test tube babies, proceed without the injection of point-scoring masquerading as insight. On the eve of the release of expected policy recommendations on IVF from the Trump administration, the choice is not merely between massive public funding of this practice or endorsement of the Guy Bartkuses of the world. The choice is between rational, principled, public debate and a collapse into governing by fear, intimidation, or neglect.

It does little to defend democracy when smaller numbers than ever turn out to exercise it at the ballot box. The more passionate and portentous the issue, the more essential this commitment to peaceful change becomes. Add to the brew the fact, obvious from recent elections, that the United States is a sharply divided country on some of the most fundamental questions: what is a man or woman, who is a human being, are the disabled equally valuable, what is marriage? The side of these questions that not only makes the better argument but also appeals to our better nature, that eschews violence of action or rhetoric, that moves with compassion and clarity, is the side that can, and will deserve to, prevail.

Meanwhile, as Wesley Smith so persuasively demonstrates, the strain of nihilism running through today’s intellectual culture is far deeper than that of one madman who was bereft of fatherly presence or civil guidance. Today’s isolated and violent souls are increasingly fed by isolating ideologies for whom human doom is always just around the corner. Our most prominent journals would do well to do some couples therapy over their attraction to such thinking and stop publishing so much rancor, not because they do not have the right to do so but because it isn’t right to do so. The human future is only as bleak or bright as we are willing to make it.

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Chuck Donovan

Chuck Donovan served in the Reagan White House as a senior writer and as Deputy Director of Presidential Correspondence until early 1989. He was executive vice president of Family Research Council, a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation, and founder/president of Charlotte Lozier Institute from 2011 to 2024. He has written and spoken extensively on issues in life and family policy.

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Trump Names Bishop Who Banned Pelosi From Communion to Commission

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DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—President Donald Trump on Thursday named San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone to serve on the advisory board of the newly-created Religious Liberty Commission.

Cordileone made headlines in 2022 after denying then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Holy Communion due to her public support and promotion of abortion. The commission was created via executive order on May 1 in order to “vigorously enforce the historic and robust protections for religious liberty enshrined in Federal law.”

“Religious liberty is a critical issue in our time that needs to be defended and addressed,” Cordileone said in a statement. “I am happy to join my brother bishops in providing a Catholic voice on this important topic at a national level.”

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The Archdiocese referred the Daily Caller News Foundation to the public statement in response to a request for comment.

Cordileone said in 2022 his decision to deny Pelosi communion was rooted in Church teaching and that lawmakers must oppose any law that isn’t protecting life.

“After numerous attempts to speak with Speaker Pelosi to help her understand the grave evil she is perpetrating, the scandal she is causing, and the danger to her own soul she is risking, I have determined that she is not to be admitted to Holy Communion,” Cordileone stated on Twitter at the time.

The Religious Liberty Commission is meant to investigate attacks on religious liberty in the United States and design strategies to preserve the right. The commission will be composed of several “educated representatives of various sectors of society” who will report their findings and recommendations to the White House.

The Biden administration was accused of infringing on religious freedom after it attempted to force religious doctors and hospitals to perform transgender surgeries despite the procedures conflicting with their faith. Former President Joe Biden, a reportedly devout Catholic, later took flak for issuing a proclamation for a “transgender day of visibility” on Easter Sunday.

The FBI under the previous administration also reportedly “abused its counterterrorism tools” to target Catholics and pro-life advocates, labeling them as “potential domestic terrorists,” according to the House Weaponization Subcommittee. The committee was referring to a February 2023 memo from the Richmond field office that described traditionalist Roman Catholics as “radical,” which the Bureau eventually retracted.

Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation

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Jaryn Crouson

Jaryn Crouson is a reporter for the Daily Caller News Foundation.

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