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A segment from “Jesse Watters Primetime” on Fox News is going viral after a reporter attempted to get a read on Fort Lauderdale Beach spring breakers’ level of political literacy — and the answers did not disappoint.

While some view the responses as concerning, BlazeTV host John Doyle believes their pre-woke-era answers mean “that normal patriots are doing kind of well.”

“What issue facing America is the most important to you?” the reporter asked some scantily clad young women.

One young woman responded, “What bikini I’m going to wear next.” Another responded, “Obesity is terrible,” and another claimed her Starbucks order was the only issue needing her attention.

A young man answered, “ICE,” before joking, “Not personally. I’m legal.”

“What have you heard that Donald Trump has been doing recently?” the reporter then asked.

“Gulf of America. That’s the last thing I kept up with,” one young woman responded.

“We’re going to war with Iraq. That’s been crazy,” another said.

“So, this is obviously, I think, a very positive development for the people, for the culture. I know that a lot of that language is going to be alarming to the viewers. I understand that,” Doyle comments.

“They were obviously not taking it seriously, and they thought it was basically funny. And so, that’s good because when young people, I think, feel as though they have to kind of cave to this sort of woke stuff like they did five, six, seven years ago, … that is a sign of a culture in steep decline,” he continues.

While some of the spring breakers also made it clear that they have “degenerate” intentions for their beach vacation, Doyle points out that this has been a tradition going back generations.

“I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but to degenerate literally means to be in a degenerated state. Have a conversation with your father. Ask him about your grandfather. Sort of what the men in your family were getting up to when they were young,” he says.

“They were probably acting like idiots and drinking with their friends, as has been the case historically since there have been men in camaraderie and alcohol. This is sort of what guys do normally. Again, natural behavior, normal behavior is not something to aspire to. The point of our civilization is to transcend that to cultivate virtuous behavior,” he explains.

And while stats that cite less drinkers and partiers among the youth might sound inspiring, Doyle notes that it’s “not because of some personal commitment to a higher calling, but rather because they’re inside doomscrolling and isolated and antisocial.”

“They’re asked, ‘Hey, what do you think about the Ayatollah?’” he continues. “‘I don’t know, I only care about my Starbucks order.’ That is the ideal answer for a young woman.”

“Attractive young women should not know what the Ayatollah is,” he says. “They should be chiefly concerned with their Starbucks order, with being tan, with not being fat. Like, this is good. This is actually what nature looks like when it is healing.”

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The independence of the Federal Reserve System has become a major source of public controversy. As political leaders signal dissatisfaction with monetary policy, officials and commentators rush to defend the central bank’s insulation from democratic pressure. We are told, as if it were self-evident, that central bank independence is a pillar of sound economic governance.

But this confidence is misplaced. The economic case for central bank independence is far weaker than its defenders suggest. And the constitutional case is weaker still.

Officials entrusted with such consequential authority must ultimately answer to elected leadership.

Start with economics. The standard argument is that independent central banks deliver low and stable inflation because they are insulated from short-term political incentives. Elected officials, facing electoral pressures, might be tempted to juice the economy with artificially loose monetary policy. By contrast, independent technocrats can take the long view.

Early empirical studies did show that countries with independent central banks experienced lower inflation. Yet more recent research has cast doubt on this relationship. The correlation is sensitive to different samples and methods. In many cases, the supposed benefits of independence disappear entirely.

A more plausible explanation has emerged. Countries that enjoy low and stable inflation share deeper institutional characteristics: respect for the rule of law, stable political systems, and credible commitments to property rights. These are the real foundations of sound money. Central bank independence accompanies these basic governance norms, but its stand-alone effect is debatable.

This matters for a free-enterprise economy. Monetary policy is not a neutral technocratic exercise. Interest rates are prices: the price of time, risk, and capital. When insulated officials tinker with those prices at their discretion, the result is distorted market signals. Cheap credit can mislead investors, encourage unsustainable projects, and redistribute wealth in opaque ways. Independence does not eliminate politics. It simply hides politics behind a veil of expertise.

If the economic case for independence is overstated, the constitutional case is entirely bunk. The Constitution is clear: Congress holds the power “to coin Money” and “regulate the Value thereof.” Monetary authority, like all legislative power, originates with the people’s representatives. Congress may delegate certain functions to administrative bodies, including by creating a central bank. But delegation is not abdication.

Those who exercise delegated authority remain accountable to the laws Congress passes and, ultimately, to the chief executive charged with enforcing them.

Yet the modern Fed operates as if our constitutional framework were irrelevant. Its leaders enjoy significant protection from removal. Its decisions (targeting interest rates, allocating credit, regulating banks, etc.) have sweeping consequences for the entire economy. If this does not constitute the exercise of executive power, it is hard to say what does.

The Supreme Court has recently emphasized that administrative agencies cannot be insulated from presidential oversight simply because they possess technical expertise. The separation of powers does not yield to convenience, nor to the promise of better policy outcomes. Yet when it comes to the Federal Reserve, the court has signaled a willingness to tolerate precisely such insulation — a “special case” for the most powerful economic institution in the country.

This exception is indefensible. Appeals to history or prudence, however well grounded, are not constitutional arguments. An agency that wields executive power must answer to the chief executive. Concerns about how that works in practice does not justify ignoring the Constitution.

The truth is that central bank independence persists not because it is firmly grounded in law or economics, but because the alternative unsettles us. We worry, not without reason, that elected officials might misuse monetary policy for short-term gain.

But the Constitution does not permit us to resolve that fear by concentrating vast economic power in the hands of unaccountable experts. A free and self-governing people must confront the difficult task of designing institutions that combine competence with accountability.

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That begins with Congress. There are several legislative reforms that can restore the rule of law to monetary policy. First, lawmakers should narrow the Federal Reserve’s mandate to a single, clear objective — price stability — rather than the vague and conflicting goals it currently pursues. A simpler mandate would make it easier to evaluate performance and hold policymakers responsible when they fail.

Second, Congress should revisit the legal protections that shield senior Fed officials from removal. Freedom of judgment is one thing; freedom from oversight is another. Officials entrusted with such consequential authority must ultimately answer to elected leadership. Legislators ought to make it easier to fire central bankers.

Finally, the president should take a more active role in ensuring that the Fed operates within its statutory and constitutional bounds. This does not mean dictating day-to-day interest rate decisions. Instead, it means recognizing that monetary policy, like all exercises of government power, must remain subject to democratic control.

President Trump’s nomination of Kevin Warsh as the next Fed chairman is a good start. The two must work together to restore the Fed’s ordinary day-to-day operations, something missing since the 2007-08 financial crisis.

Economic stability is obviously desirable. But we cannot purchase it at the cost of self-government. Republican principles require officials to be answerable to the people. If we are serious about preserving the constitutional order and free enterprise, we must abandon the comforting myths of central bank independence and restore accountability to the Federal Reserve.

Editor’s note: This article appeared originally at the American Mind.

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A former Ohio high school teacher who was caught sexually abusing a 15-year-old student in a car has pleaded guilty to child sex crimes. The teacher avoided a harsher sentencing with a plea deal.

Jamelah Daboubi — a former English teacher at Horizon Science Academy in Columbus — pleaded guilty to amended charges of gross sexual imposition and unlawful sexual conduct with a minor in Franklin County Common Pleas Court in February, according to WBNS-TV.

‘As of now, the individual is no longer employed at Horizon Science Academy.’

The affidavit noted that the victim attends Horizon Science Academy and that he was a student in Daboubi’s class.

On April 2, 2025, officers with the Columbus Police Department responded to a report of a woman who claimed to have “caught her 15-year-old nephew and one of his 10th-grade teachers engaged in sexual contact in the teacher’s car,” the Franklin County Prosecuting Office said in a statement released in June 2025.

According to court records obtained by the Columbus Dispatch, the aunt of the teen approached the vehicle and saw her nephew in the passenger seat and Daboubi “jump off of” his lap.

Court documents revealed, “He stated while they were in the car, they kissed, Mrs. Daboubi grinded on him, and he had touched her breasts and buttocks over her clothing.”

The prosecutor’s office said, “The nephew, whom the woman has guardianship over, admitted to police that he and his teacher had been having a relationship that involved kissing and touching.”

The victim informed investigators that he and his 28-year-old teacher “had been texting for a couple of months and engaging in sexual activity for a period of time,” according to the statement.

Prosecutors said police discovered “hundreds of phone calls and thousands of texts between the two, including texts where the two professed their love for each other.”

The Columbus Dispatch reported that the Horizon Science Academy sent a letter to parents in May 2025 regarding the accusations against the teacher after her arrest on May 18, 2025.

“As of now, the individual is no longer employed at Horizon Science Academy,” the letter stated. “At this time, we have no indication of any other concerns involving this individual and any other students, either on or off campus.”

Thanks to her plea deal, Daboubi avoided a lengthy prison sentence. Daboubi was indicted on two counts of sexual battery in June, but the charges were amended.

The below news video ran when Daboubi was charged last year.

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WBNS reported that the amended charges of gross sexual imposition and unlawful sexual conduct with a minor carry a maximum sentence of 18 months in prison.

The court’s sentencing recommendation is five years of community control, ongoing counseling, and community service, in addition to the surrender of her professional teaching credentials.

Daboubi must also register as a Tier II sex offender as part of her guilty plea.

Daboubi is awaiting a sentencing hearing.

The Franklin County Prosecutor’s Office did not immediately respond to Blaze News‘ request for comment.

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You’ve probably heard, “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” It’s catchy, but not new. Long before this became a mantra, Scripture was teaching this same truth, but with more spiritual weight.

Jesus modeled healthy, intentional friendships. He was deliberate about who he let into his inner circle. It wasn’t luck or happenstance. He chose with intention.

How often do we talk ourselves into friendships we shouldn’t have — with people we don’t even like?

Close friends can make or break you, and even more importantly, they can shape the trajectory of your life. Proverbs 13:20 goes beyond advice; it offers a clear strategy: Choose friends wisely, or risk being shaped by fools.

Science backs this up. Friendships influence career choices, health decisions, and spiritual well-being. Yet in modern society, close friendships are declining. Scholars now call it a “friendship recession.” Only 17% of Americans under 30 say they feel deeply connected to a community, according to a 2025 Harvard Kennedy School poll. In 1990, about 3% of Americans said they had no close friends; today, that number has reached double digits. Over the past three decades, meaningful, close friendships have sharply diminished.

If you want good friends who are truly in your corner, consider these key principles.

Pick friends like Jesus did: Quality over quantity

Jesus loved and ministered to countless people, but He invested deeply in only a few during his short but impactful life. He intentionally structured His relationships. The Gospels show Him teaching and healing crowds, sending out the 72 in ministry, and handpicking 12 disciples. Within that circle, He maintained an inner trio of Peter, James, and John, who witnessed pivotal historical events like the Transfiguration and the Garden of Gethsemane.

It would have been easier for Him to rub shoulders with the “frat boys” of his time — the good ol’ Pharisees. After all, they weren’t poor, lowly fishermen. The Pharisees were admired, influential, and outwardly “holy.” People wanted their approval; they regarded them as “prestigious.” I’m sure they wore fancy clothes and had the best things money could buy. But Jesus had nothing to do with them. He avoided their rotten influence, interacting only when necessary to answer their relentless, pesky questions.

Jesus didn’t chase popularity or status. He didn’t measure influence by who was “in” or who had the loudest voice in the room. Instead, he focused on people who were teachable, loyal, and aligned with His mission. His friendships were rooted in character and purpose instead of appearance or social standing. As 1 Corinthians 15:33 warns: “Do not be misled: ‘Bad company corrupts good character.’”

He surrounded Himself with people who, while imperfect, were willing to be challenged, changed, and called higher. He didn’t just preach to the multitudes, He walked closely with 12, poured deeply into three, and entrusted the future of the church to them. Think of all the long walks Jesus took with His disciples. Walking on foot from places like Galilee to Jerusalem was roughly a three- to five-day commute. On these journeys, Jesus used them to teach and disciple and build meaningful relationships. Nothing went to waste.

His choice of who to do life with wasn’t random; it was strategic and spiritually essential. Jesus modeled a clear principle in both friendship and kingdom-building: quality over quantity. Following Jesus’ example, we can intentionally choose friends while also becoming the kind of friend others need.

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Want great friends? Start by being one

Before we can choose good friends, we must first be one. Jesus modeled the qualities of a high-caliber friend: loyalty, integrity, truthfulness, and love.

Scripture also offers examples —both good and bad. David and Jonathan embody loyalty and sacrifice. Mary and Elizabeth show a friendship rooted in faith and mutual support. Daniel and his friends strengthen one another and stand firm in conviction, even in captivity.

By contrast, Job’s friends accuse rather than comfort. Judas betrays. King Rehoboam rejects wise counsel in favor of foolish peers, dividing a kingdom.

Jonathan, though heir to the throne, chose covenant over envy in his friendship with David. Elizabeth welcomed Mary with joy rather than jealousy, despite the circumstances. Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego remained faithful under pressure, putting God above comfort, safety, and status.

These friendships share a common thread: character. They refused envy, ego, and compromise — even when justified by the world’s standards. Quality people attract quality friends.

We must cultivate these kinds of relationships, doing the inner work to become the kind of friend we hope to have.

Exercise the muscle of rejection

I’m a people person. Making friends has always come easily — but like most of us, I had to learn that not every friendship is worth keeping.

As a teenager, I desperately wanted to fit in with the “cool kids.” When I was invited to sit at their lunch table, I thought, “I’ve made it.” But after one regretful meal — filled with gossip, cruelty, and shallow conversation — I felt immediate buyer’s remorse. I didn’t go back.

Instead, I sat with my brothers and their friends — or alone. I realized that solitude is far better than compromising your character to belong. It may be lonelier, even uncomfortable, but it protects your integrity and spiritual health.

That’s what I mean by exercising the “muscle of rejection.”

How often do we talk ourselves into friendships we shouldn’t have — with people we don’t even like? Maybe they’re popular, well connected, professionally useful, or simply convenient.

But relationships built on convenience, obligation, or fear of confrontation dilute your inner circle. Over time, they shape your habits, attitudes, and decisions — often in ways you won’t notice until years later.

As my father-in-law likes to say (quoting Kenny Rogers): “Know when to hold ’em and know when to fold ’em.” Wisdom — and the discernment of the Holy Spirit — must guide these decisions. Not every connection is meant to last, and not every relationship deserves a front-row seat in your life.

For parents, this is even more critical. The friends we choose don’t just influence us — they shape our children’s worldview. Choosing wisely isn’t optional; it’s part of guiding the next generation.

Intentionality matters

Friends don’t show up on your doorstep; you have to put in the work. Gather people, host events, and create the opportunities you wish existed. Be the friend you wish you had. Seek relationships that are teachable, loyal, and mission-aligned. Choosing friends with discernment is not harshness; it’s stewardship. It’s about protecting your spiritual well-being, your family, and your calling. Jesus’ life shows us that strategic, purposeful friendships are not optional; they are foundational to living well and carrying out faithfulness.

Your inner circle will shape your mindset, your mission, and your life trajectory. Cultivate friendships with intention. Be ruthless. Reject the shallow and the convenient. Surround yourself with people who strengthen your faith, challenge your growth, and share your values. Exercise the muscle of rejection, and watch your life, and the lives of those around you, grow deeper and richer.

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Most Christians see the New Age movement’s deep ties to occultism and witchcraft and recognize it as a demonic worldview. But there’s an adjacent movement that, despite its inextricable connection to New Age, is packaged as a Christian belief system.

That movement is called New Thought. It’s a spiritual movement that influenced New Ageism that centers on how the power of the mind shapes reality — emphasizing positive thinking, the law of attraction, mental healing, the divine nature of humanity, and the idea that Infinite Intelligence or God is within all things and accessible through right thinking.

This is the movement author and Christian apologist Melissa Dougherty found herself in before she became a true Christian.

On this episode of “Unashamed,” Melissa unpacks the good-sounding but ultimately evil mechanics of the New Thought movement that has millions of people duped into thinking they’re Christians.

“If I were to define New Thought in two words, it would be metaphysical Christianity. All that means is that everything that you see physically has a spiritual counterpart, including words,” Melissa says.

Instead of reading Scripture in its proper historical context to decipher what’s being communicated, New Thought, she explains, positions the reader as “the arbiter.”

“You’re the one that interprets it on how it feels to you and what it means to you. Because metaphysically speaking, truth is found from within, not outside of yourself, because God is in you,” she says. “So it’s a subjective interpretation. … There’s a higher, deeper, esoteric, hidden meaning within that text that’s meant for you.”

Melissa boils down the movement into one simple concept: “It’s the positive thinking movement in America with Jesus as its mascot.”

People in this movement believe that they “create [their] reality” through cognition. “Sickness, poverty, things like that are all a state of mind. How you feel creates your reality,” Melissa says.

This results in a lot of “distortion of truth,” she laments. For example, “there’s a saying in New Thought that when you look in the mirror, there’s a god staring back at you, and that’s the secret … of what Jesus was really trying to say.”

While this “sounds really good,” Melissa says, it’s a lie. That’s why she titled her book “Happy Lies” — because it shines a true biblical light on the positive-sounding but heretical New Thought movement.

“It duped me,” she confesses.

To hear more, watch the full episode above.

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Legendary boxer Floyd Mayweather, 49, is set to come out of retirement and re-enter the professional ring after a bout against Mike Tyson this spring. According to his official statement, he “still [has] what it takes to set more records,” but in the sports media world, rumors are swirling that “Money” Mayweather is actually just broke.

“All across social media, there are rumors and stories coming out about Floyd Mayweather — him auctioning off property, him being in bankruptcy, him being out of money, and that’s why he’s going to fight Mike Tyson,” BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock says.

He displays a tweet from Richard Allison that captures the wildest claims about Mayweather’s lavish spending habits:

“He’s blown it all. And now at 49 years old, he’s got to go back into the boxing ring and continue to fight because he’s in a lot of debt,” Whitlock says.

There’s a way to enjoy the fruit of one’s labor without allowing it to consume you, he argues, pointing to basketball GOAT Michael Jordan as the best example.

“Michael Jordan didn’t want to be relatable; [he] wanted to be helpful and have a good time. You can do both. Michael Jordan has played golf everywhere; he’s gambled everywhere, but he’s also taken time to be helpful,” Whitlock says, pointing to the four family medical clinics Jordan has opened in North Carolina specifically for uninsured or underinsured patients.

Mayweather, on the other hand, has only been “living for the culture,” he says.

“The culture doesn’t reward anybody. It steals and destroys. … Don’t be Floyd Mayweather.”

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Democrats are currently on track to take the House of Representatives in the 2026 midterms. If this happens, they will empower resistance bureaucrats to slow down all Trump administration initiatives. Of course, they’ll not only impeach Trump, but will also pursue impeachment proceedings against many Trump officials. This will substantially drain momentum from the administration and increase it for Democrats heading into the crucial 2028 presidential election.

The Democrats are already putting together plans, formulating a narrative, and accumulating evidence, which they will use against Republicans should they retake power. We’ve seen this movie before.

Since the billionaires do not know how to wield their potential power, they have become targets.

The Marxist machine has had time to learn from its mistakes during 2020-2024. The Democrats will likely pursue criminal prosecution against key targets in the MAGA orbit, including big donors like Elon Musk, the DOGE bros, and even junior Trump staffers. We’ve already seen in Arctic Frost an effort to spy on sitting Republican United States senators — they’ll be on the target list, too.

This is power. Force is power. Politics is the management of force. For his tech-oriented publication Pirate Wires, Mike Solana recently published “Theory of Power,” which outlines how the left will replicate California’s wealth tax to target billionaires nationwide. He believes that the left is targeting billionaires because wealth is power. He’s half right.

Wealth itself is not power — it is the means to power. The left seeks to redistribute the wealth of the billionaire class to the people living in America in exchange for power. Leftists are not targeting the billionaires because their wealth poses a threat to the left’s power — they want to seize the power of that wealth for themselves. Since the billionaires do not know how to wield their potential power, they have become targets. If they did, the California wealth tax wouldn’t even be an issue.

Wealth cannot protect its holder from force. If politics is the management of force, then political influence is power. There are plenty of people with political influence and no wealth who have more power than billionaires. There are 20-something political staffers who have more political power than billionaires. There is a legion of bureaucrats with more political power than billionaires. Who has more power, a billionaire or the IRS lawyer investigating him? Of course, it’s the IRS lawyer, because the IRS lawyer is backed by regime power.

The billionaire class has largely abdicated regime power — the question of who is in charge — with a few notable exceptions, such as Elon Musk’s 2024 election engagement and purchase of Twitter. The wealthy are quite good at influencing politics for their discreet business interests, with one analysis finding that they receive a 220-times return on investment through their lobbying efforts (other analyses attribute the rise in corporate profits to lobbying).

However, regime politics is not fundamentally about lobbying for an appropriation or a carve-out in the tax code, which puts generating wealth above gaining political power. Machiavelli warned against this in “The Prince”:

And, on the contrary, it is seen that when princes have thought more of ease than of arms, they have lost their states. And the first cause of your losing it is to neglect this art.

Wielding political influence for higher corporate profits to buy another jet or a fifth vacation home is thinking of ease more than of arms.

If politics is the management of force, then political influence is the “arms.” The billionaires are on track to lose their “state,” because they’ve neglected the art of influencing regime politics.

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For all its faults, the left understands regime politics. Billionaire wealth extraction is just one part of its plan to sustain and deepen its regime-level power. If its only opposition, the MAGA political class, is destroyed by regime politics, the left’s wealth extraction scheme is not only inevitable, but it will also be the least of the billionaires’ worries.

All of this means that right-aligned billionaires should move immediately to gain regime-level political influence. To be clear, wealth can be a strong amplifier of political influence. Still, political influence has a simple recipe: It requires access, credibility, leverage, and the ability to change behavior. In other words, donating to campaigns is not enough. Elected officials must be lobbied to act in the interest of those who support them, or someone else will lobby them for their own interests.

Before a politician is elected, the benefactor has the leverage. But once the politician has regime-level power, the benefactor is subject to the beneficiary’s power. If right-wing billionaires want to survive what’s coming, they must have a well-run machine to influence politicians after they are elected. Solana makes this point — with which I fully agree: They must “respond as if [their lives depend] on it, because my reading of what these people are saying, casually, cheerfully, and increasingly out loud, is…it does.”

But power is fickle. Any billionaires who wield political influence strictly for their own benefit rather than on behalf of the people will find themselves burdened with all the paranoia and stress of a tyrant. To that end, Xenophon’s “On Tyranny” provides relevant advice: “Consider the fatherland to be your estate, the citizens your comrades, friends your own children, your sons the same as your life, and try to surpass all these in benefactions. For if you prove superior to your friends in beneficence, your enemies will be utterly unable to resist you.”

Editor’s note: This article appeared originally at the American Mind.

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A female cop in Massachusetts and her husband are facing serious allegations that they raped a boy for years, beginning when he was 14.

Around 6 a.m. on Thursday, Samantha Pelrine, a 31-year-old officer with the Plymouth Police Department, and husband Daniel Forand, 37, were arrested without incident in connection with the allegations.

‘We hold our officers to the highest standards and expect them to uphold their sworn duty both on and off.’

Earlier this month, a 21-year-old male who previously lived with the couple claimed to Massachusetts State Police that they had repeatedly sexually assaulted him up until 2025. The man also submitted an affidavit with similar allegations, claiming that “both sexually assaulted me until 2025” and that Forand had physically assaulted him.

“They are looking for me and I am scared for my safety,” the man wrote, seeking a restraining order. He said he moved out of the couple’s home last month.

According to CBS News, Plymouth Assistant District Attorney Jim Duffy told the court, “The allegations are that the sexual abuse started when he was 14 years old and continued up until last year. Another term for that is ‘grooming.'”

During the hearing, defense attorneys cast doubt on the credibility of the accuser. “He had accused someone falsely of sexually inappropriate behavior when he was in high school,” claimed Joseph Krowski Jr.

Tamari Kovach added that “his stories are inconsistent.”

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Reports say Pelrine has been charged with at least three counts of aggravated rape of a child, while Forand has been charged with assault and battery and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon as well as multiple counts of indecent assault and battery and aggravated child rape. The charges related to alleged incidents that took place in 2019, CBS News reported, citing court records.

Pelrine and Forand both pled not guilty on Thursday afternoon and were released on bail. They are scheduled to return to court for a probable cause hearing on June 8.

Pelrine has since been placed on paid administrative leave, CBS News reported. On Thursday, the Plymouth Police Department issued a statement, claiming her “duty status is currently under review.”

“We are appalled and deeply disturbed by the allegations. We hold our officers to the highest standards and expect them to uphold their sworn duty both on and off,” the statement said in part.

“The conduct alleged is in violation of our values and of our basic principles as police officers, to serve and protect.”

Three years earlier almost to the day, the department issued a statement about Pelrine of an entirely different sort, highlighting her service as part of National Women’s Month 2023.

“We are so proud of our female Officers and the incredible job that they do under sometimes extraordinary circumstances,” the department said.

In the post, Pelrine said she always dreamed of becoming a police officer and joined the force in April 2022.

“I believe I picked the right career for my personality and what I wanted from a job because while the range of emotions from this job can vary drastically, I know that in some instances I’m truly able to make a difference in someone’s life,” she said.

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In this day and age, technology is no longer just about efficiency. It’s about pushing the limits, regardless of the consequences.

Earlier this month, a scientific breakthrough occurred when neurotechnology company Eon Systems took a complete digital map of a fruit fly’s brain and ran it inside a virtual fly body in a simulated world. The digital fly started walking, grooming itself, and behaving just like a real one — all from its brain wiring alone.

But Eon Systems isn’t stopping there. The company plans to do the same for a mouse brain next — and eventually for a human one. If successful, it could ultimately allow the human consciousness to live on in perpetuity in a digital format.

The spiritual implications of this are massive, says BlazeTV host Rick Burgess. On this episode of “Strange Encounters,” he explores the growing theory that our quest for technological dominance is inextricably linked to the end times.

This kind of “digital consciousness” that fuses the real and virtual worlds is very “dangerous,” Rick warns.

“[Eon Systems is] trying to reflect a version of God creating things,” he says.

When the original blueprints for God’s good creations are tampered with, biblical history paints a terrifying picture of what follows: divine wrath.

Rick points to Genesis 6, which documents the mysterious Nephilim, which many believe were a race of human-demon half-breeds that resulted from fallen angels reproducing with human women.

“One of the most plausible theories about the Nephilim is [that] when God became so angry when demons — fallen angels — were able to reproduce with human women … he killed everybody except for Noah and his family,” says Rick.

Satan’s specific crime in this particular scenario, he argues, was attempting to “mimic God” creating the perfect “God-man” in Jesus by creating his own counterfeit god-man in the Nephilim.

While Satan’s evil plot was foiled by the great flood, his desire to spawn his own dark creations will live on until his final defeat. Rick wonders if some of our modern technological advancements — especially those that seek to rewire what is natural — are linked to Satan’s ultimate plot to unleash unmitigated darkness across the earth in the final days before Christ’s second coming and the final climactic pouring out of God’s wrath on the earth.

“Can Satan find himself in this technology, working with these people — unbeknownst to them, I’m sure — to take modern technology and the whole AI world and begin to use it for the things he’s still going to do in the future?” he asks.

While Rick thinks it’s plausible that dystopian technology will play a role in the end times, he doesn’t subscribe to the theory that the Antichrist prophesied throughout Scripture will be some kind of half-human, half-robot cyborg.

“I think it’s pretty obvious in Scripture that Antichrist will be a human being,” he says.

But that doesn’t mean the Antichrist won’t be dependent on modern technology. In fact, Rick suspects that he will be.

He refers to Revelation 13, in which it is prophesied that the Antichrist — or “the beast” — will appear to be resurrected after a “mortal head wound,” leading many blind followers marveling at his supposed divine power.

Rick envisions a scenario in which this prophecy comes to fruition through modern technology.

“You think you couldn’t take AI technology and fake a mortal head wound and a resurrection? You could do that easily,” he says.

As for the scientists striving to fuse human life with technology, Rick still believes they very well could play a role in Satan’s sinister plot — even if nothing more than creating another race of “hybrids” that are abominations to God.

“I do think this is going to be an attempt for mankind … under demonic direction to start trying to play God and create animals and create human beings, which is extremely dangerous territory,” he warns.

While Eon Systems is still a ways off from experimenting on human brains, others are already doing it. In the next part of this episode, Rick dives into another dystopian tech story involving a biotech startup that built a computer using living human brain cells and is now teaching it to play the video game Doom. To get the full story, watch the episode above.

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Everyone has a solution until he is the one who must pay for it.

After every crisis come cameras, microphones, and outrage. Commentators fill TV panels, politicians rush to social media, and fundraising emails arrive within hours. What rarely arrives is something harder: ownership.

Christianity does not pretend evil vanishes through better language or finer intentions. It proclaims that the cost is real and has been paid.

Criticism is easy. It assigns responsibility, demands action, and carries moral urgency. But it rarely answers the most important question: Who pays for this? Or, more plainly, where are the receipts?

That question clarifies things. It separates serious people from performers by exposing the difference between assigning a cost and carrying one.

We see it everywhere.

Recently, actor Mark Ruffalo argued that the federal government should tax the rich more, assuring us “they can handle it.” Perhaps. But his argument would carry more weight if he showed receipts.

Nothing stops him from demonstrating that principle himself. The federal government already accepts voluntary contributions to reduce the public debt. Those convinced we are undertaxed remain free to lead by example.

Few do, because saying it costs nothing. Telling someone else to pay is always easier than writing the check yourself. It is theater, and it is a luxury reserved for people who do not have to live with the consequences.

That same pattern appears far beyond Hollywood.

For decades, Iran has made its position clear, not only in words but in deeds. “Death to America” has echoed for years. I remember watching the embassy takeover in high school. For my entire adult life, I have heard those words and seen the regime’s receipts. I am 62.

Much of the West, meanwhile, treated the threat as rhetoric to manage rather than something to confront. Entire careers were built on discussing the problem with panels, policies, negotiations, and warnings. A great deal was invested in talking about the problem. Very little was invested in ending it.

That is the difference between posturing and payment.

Right now, we are no longer discussing the cost. We are paying it in blood and treasure. The risks are real. So are the instability and the possibility of escalation. But given what this regime has said, done, and promised for decades, the price we pay now may prove a bargain compared with the price of waiting.

Ignoring a threat does not eliminate it. It allows it to metastasize and hands the bill to someone else later, with interest.

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We see the same pattern at home. For years, Americans were told the southern border was too complex to secure without sweeping reform. That phrase became a substitute for action. Yet when enforcement priorities changed, crossings dropped.

Clearly, the problem was not “complexity.” It was resolve.

Borders can be secured when a government decides to secure them. Which brings us back to the question too often left unanswered: Where are the receipts?

If confronting Iran is reckless, what replaces it? If border enforcement is wrong, what protects the system? If taxes must rise, who is willing to lead by example?

These are serious questions that deserve serious answers. But our culture rewards performance more than responsibility.

There is always a cost. The only question is whether we face it or pretend it is not there until it grows. Some assign that cost to others. Some ignore it and hope it disappears. Others delay it until it becomes unavoidable.

But every now and then, someone steps forward and pays it.

That is what decisive action looks like. Not posturing. Not signaling. Not commentary. Payment. The receipts that follow are rarely tidy. They do not arrive as statements or sound bites. They come as scars.

That truth is not political. It is inescapable. And at Easter, it is impossible to ignore.

Christianity does not offer a cost-free answer to the human condition or the wages of sin. It does not pretend evil vanishes through better language or finer intentions. It proclaims that the cost is real and has been paid.

Not assigned. Not deferred. Paid.

And the receipts were not theoretical. They were visible and costly: nail-scarred hands.

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That is why Christianity leaves us without excuses. Once you see that, you can no longer pretend solutions come without sacrifice or that responsibility can always be shifted to someone else.

Isaac Watts captured it plainly: “Love so amazing, so divine, demands my life, my soul, my all.”

We recognize truth when we see it because deep down, we know it is true: Someone always pays.

The only question is whether you trust the One who paid it or insist on bearing it yourself.

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A generation came of age on Chuck Norris “facts.” When the boogeyman goes to sleep, he checks under his bed for Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris counted to infinity — twice. He doesn’t do push-ups; he pushes the Earth down. Superman owns a pair of Chuck Norris pajamas.

These lines have been repeated so often that they have become their own mythology. And they point — sideways, lovingly — at something true. The man was singular. Which is why his death on March 20, age 86, deserves more than a eulogy dressed in silly jokes. It deserves honesty about what he actually represented.

A life that could have been reduced to folklore and fists and an endless loop of roundhouse kicks is best remembered as a love story.

A Hollywood star who kept his soul, a conservative who kept his convictions, and a son whose life was saved not by fists, but by faith.

That is the real story. Not the kicks. Not the films. The knees.

His mother’s knees, specifically. On the floor, in prayer, while her son was becoming an American icon.

A man’s man

Chuck Norris was a man’s man, a legitimate martial artist, not a choreographed facsimile. The fight community knew it then. They know it still. Chael Sonnen — former UFC title contender, sharp-tongued analyst, not a man given to sentimentality — recently paid homage to Norris’ genuine ability. Fighters don’t flatter easily.

Norris wasn’t a stuntman in a gi. He held black belts in Tang Soo Do, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and judo. Bruce Lee, who distributed respect like the IRS distributes refunds, cast him as the sole opponent worthy of a final fight in “The Way of the Dragon,” a scene that remains one of the most watchable moments in martial arts cinema.

Norris was a genuine Hollywood star, too. “Walker, Texas Ranger” ran for eight seasons and made Saturday nights like a civic duty. “Missing in Action” made $26 million on a $2 million budget. “Code of Silence.” “The Delta Force.” “Lone Wolf McQuade.” He owned a particular frequency — the man of few words who doesn’t start trouble but finishes it decisively, who stands for something every red-blooded American recognized instinctively. Movie theaters filled up. The lines entered the cultural lexicon. The legend was self-sustaining.

And yet.

Prayer warrior

Hollywood has a metabolism all its own. It rewards those who adapt , who update their beliefs like software, who stay elegantly vague on anything that costs them. Norris didn’t. His conservatism required no management, no spokesperson, no careful framing for a hostile room. It was constitutional, not cosmetic.

Success, he would later acknowledge, had done what success tends to do. It offered enough to make a man comfortable and comfortable enough to make him careless. The faith grew distant. Hollywood filled the space that God had occupied. His mother, however, didn’t move an inch. She prayed through his success. Through the excess that follows success. Through the gradual erosion of whatever lay beneath the action hero. Back home, while the credits rolled and Roger Ebert wrote rave reviews, she was petitioning a higher power.

She never stopped. Not when he was an infant fighting for his life, not when he was yielding, by degrees, to what fame asks of those it favors, not when the distance widening between the man she raised and the man Hollywood was making seemed irreversible. She simply kept praying — stubbornly, faithfully, across decades.

Norris never forgot it. “My mother has prayed for me all my life, through thick and thin,” he wrote. The scope of that sentence deserves a moment. All his life. Not a season of intercession. Not a crisis response. A lifetime of it.

Nonnegotiable faith

When Norris returned to God, he did so completely, without a hint of reservation. Faith was not compartmentalized, managed, or diluted for public consumption. He said what he believed, to whoever was listening, without apology. On abortion, he rejected the path of least resistance that Hollywood had so generously paved. It was not, in his view, a policy question or a political calculation. Not a matter of preference, nuance, or personal freedom conveniently defined. A moral line, absolute and non-negotiable.

In an industry that treats the unborn as an inconvenience and their defenders as embarrassments, Norris stood apart. He understood that confusion about life is downstream of confusion about God. Lose your sense of the divine, and you lose your sense of limits. Lose limits, and life becomes conditional — weighed, assessed, and discarded when the calculus demands it, by people who have never once doubted their own right to exist. Norris saw that trajectory clearly, because he had briefly walked it himself.

A life that could have been reduced to folklore and fists and an endless loop of roundhouse kicks is best remembered as a love story — between a son who wandered and a mother who wouldn’t let him stay lost. Chuck Norris is gone. But the America he embodied — patriotic, God-fearing, and entirely unembarrassed about both — is still here. Still worth defending.

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The vegetable lobby has had a good run. For decades, the conventional wisdom on brain health has been some variation of the same tired sermon: eat less meat, eat more plants, and maybe your aging mind will hold together long enough to remember where you parked the car.

A new study out of Sweden suggests that for roughly a quarter of the American population, that advice has been wrong — measurably, consistently, damagingly wrong.

Life is exhausting. Depletion is something else. And only one of them is fixed by a rib-eye.

Published in JAMA Network Open, the study tracked more than 2,000 Swedish adults over 60 for 15 years. Among carriers of the APOE4 gene — the strongest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease — those who ate the most meat showed slower cognitive decline and lower dementia risk than those who ate the least.

Among the those who ate the most meat, the elevated dementia risk associated with carrying APOE4 disappeared entirely.

The most feared dementia gene in medicine — at least in this cohort — effectively disarmed by the food that built the brain carrying it.

Brain drain

One in four Americans carries at least one copy of APOE4. Two-thirds of people with Alzheimer’s carry it. This is a massive slice of the country.

Tens of millions of Americans have been dutifully following brain-health guidelines that may be contributing to the very decline those guidelines promised to prevent.

This is what happens when nutritional science gets hijacked by ideology and the bill comes due 30 years later.

APOE4 appears to influence how efficiently the body absorbs and uses certain nutrients, particularly vitamin B12 — essential for nerve function and found almost exclusively in animal products. APOE4 carriers who ate more meat showed measurably higher B12 levels in their blood.

The gene also affects how the body processes fats and cholesterol — the building blocks brain cells require for fuel and structure. APOE4 is the oldest variant of the gene, one that likely predates agriculture entirely. Some bodies, it turns out, never got the memo about kale smoothies and the moral purity of eating like a rabbit.

Steakholders

None of this will surprise anyone who has eaten a quality steak and felt, within the hour, unreasonably capable.

That sudden clarity. The alertness. The faint, irrational optimism about existence — that’s iron talking. Heme iron, specifically, found in red meat and absorbed at rates far higher than the iron in spinach and lentils, which the body processes with all the urgency of a man skimming terms and conditions.

Roughly 40% of American women are iron-deficient. A significant portion of the population moves through daily life in a low-grade fog of fatigue and poor concentration they have simply come to accept.

Life is exhausting. Depletion is something else. And only one of them is fixed by a rib-eye.

Iron dome

The dietary culture most likely to produce iron deficiency is the same one celebrated as virtuous. Plant-based iron comes pre-sabotaged. Phytic acid in grains and legumes — the foods canonized by clean eating — actively blocks absorption before it reaches the bloodstream.

The demonization of red meat has been so thorough, so relentless, and so institutionally backed that an entire generation grew up believing a burger was more dangerous than a cigarette.

This was not an accident.

Decades of dietary guidelines, food pyramid revisions, and industry-funded nutrition research pushed animal products to the margins of the respectable plate, while carbohydrates and seed oils quietly took the center.

Early-onset dementia is rising in people who should be nowhere near it — men and women in their 30s and 40s, the first generations raised under the full weight of anti-meat orthodoxy.

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Nipped in the bud

Meanwhile, more parents are raising children on exclusively plant-based diets, motivated by love and a sincere belief that they are doing right by their kids. The research on what chronic iron deficiency, B12 absence, and inadequate animal protein does to a developing brain is not something the wellness industry tends to advertise. In several studies, it reads less like a dietary choice and more like an uncontrolled experiment conducted on people too young to consent.

Meat consumption has been falling for years. Alzheimer’s rates have been climbing for years.

No one in an official capacity has connected those dots — which is itself worth noting.

The Swedish study does draw one important line. Processed meats showed no protective benefit and were linked to higher dementia risk regardless of genetics.

Bacon, sausages, deli meats, the sweating cylinders of mystery protein rotating slowly at the gas-station counter — these are not the argument.

Fresh red meat and poultry, unprocessed and cooked with basic competence, are what drove the cognitive benefit.

Carnivores settled continents, built civilizations, and mapped the known world. Every civilization that ever amounted to anything ate meat.

The ones that didn’t aren’t around to argue the point.

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A 19-year-old Texas male reportedly violated bond at least a half dozen times before being accused of murder — while he was out on probation.

In June 2024, Johnnie Lillie was sentenced to probation for burglary of a motor vehicle, KRIV-TV reported.

‘All you had to do on one occasion was either revoke his probation or revoke his bond. That would’ve taken him out of being in the community.’

“While he’s on probation, he picks up a possession of a prohibited weapon [charge], a machine gun. That’s pretty serious,” Andy Kahan with Crime Stoppers told the station.

KRIV reported that instead of revoking Lillie’s probation and sending him to jail, he was granted bond.

Then while free on that bond, Lillie was charged with another burglary of a motor vehicle, the station said.

“Now he’s out on not one, but two bonds, and is still on probation,” Kahan explained to KRIV.

Citing court documents, the station said Lillie violated his bond at least half a dozen times.

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Then came Sept. 22, 2025 — the date when Lillie allegedly shot and killed 29-year-old Jermarkus Johnson, KRIV reported.

Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said on that date deputies learned a gunshot victim had been transported to a hospital by private vehicle.

The victim, identified as Johnson, was pronounced dead at the hospital, the sheriff said.

Detectives learned the shooting stemmed from an altercation during a dice game, Gonzalez said, adding that homicide detectives identified and charged Lillie for allegedly shooting Johnson.

Lillie was arrested on Oct. 1 at the courthouse when he appeared for an unrelated charge, the sheriff said, adding that Lillie was booked into the Harris County Jail.

According to Harris County Jail records, Lillie is charged with murder and unlawful possession of a weapon. His bond for the murder charge is $250,000; his bond for the unlawful possession of a weapon charge is $60,000. His next court date is scheduled for April 23. Blaze News on Friday confirmed with the jail that Lillie remains incarcerated.

KRIV said Lillie was under the supervision of both the probation department and pretrial services “but that didn’t stop him from allegedly committing murder.”

Kahan added to the station that “pretrial services says we cannot monitor him, he’s not abiding by any of his conditions. And again, he’s allowed to remain on probation and multiple bonds.”

KRIV concluded that “Lillie is one of many defendants who violate conditions of probation and bond, but nothing happens to them. Still taxpayers fork over money for two entities to supervise and report violations.”

Kahan added to the station that “all you had to do on one occasion was either revoke his probation or revoke his bond. That would’ve taken him out of being in the community. It would have had him locked up, and Jermarkus Johnson would be alive today.”

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For decades, one version of conservatism dominated the Republican Party, especially on foreign policy, says BlazeTV host John Doyle: neoconservatism — the “moralistic crusade to spread liberal democracy all around the world,” originating from ex-leftist, anti-Stalinist intellectuals.

But did Donald Trump disrupt that system and revive an older, better form of conservatism?

According to Doyle, yes — that is exactly what Trump has done.

On a recent episode of “The John Doyle Show,” the BlazeTV firebrand delivered a scathing history of how neoconservatism hijacked the Republican Party.

The “old right,” Doyle explains, was focused on the country itself, emphasizing limited government and avoiding unnecessary foreign conflict.

“They were against things like the welfare state … foreign intervention … socialism,” he says, describing a worldview rooted in restraint.

Neoconservatism, on the other hand, came from a different origin. Doyle says its roots “lie not on the right but on the left,” pointing to figures like Irving Kristol — the “godfather of neoconservatism” — who helped reshape conservative thought after moving right from the left.

Over time, he argues, that influence shifted what counted as mainstream conservatism, pulling it closer to the center and redefining its priorities.

That change was most visible in foreign policy.

“The neocons viewed America’s role in foreign policy to be, like, essentially messianic,” Doyle says, framing it as a belief that the U.S. should actively spread its values abroad.

That mindset, he argues, led to decisions like the Iraq War, where the U.S. “spent trillions of dollars” and lost “thousands of American lives.”

For years, that approach defined the party — until Trump entered the picture and set the nation on a new course.

“He really did shatter the sort of uniparty consensus on foreign policy,” Doyle says, pointing to Trump’s blunt criticism that “the Iraq War was a big fat mistake.”

That moment, he argues, exposed a fracture inside the GOP and forced a shift back toward older conservative instincts.

Donald Trump, “contrary to what a lot of his less intelligent critics claim, is not actually a neocon,” says Doyle.

To hear more of his analysis and commentary, watch the full episode.

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An Italian researcher believes he has found the location of a second Sphinx, with clues providing a glimpse of more impressive capabilities of a past civilization.

Researcher Filippo Biondi is confident in the discovery, which was actually hinted at in ancient texts more than 3,000 years ago.

‘There is a great chance that there was, or is, another sphinx parallel to the one which exists today.’

Biondi appeared on Thursday’s episode of the “Matt Beall Podcast,” giving a presentation that is sure to blow the minds of fellow researchers and history buffs.

The researcher referred to the ancient Dream Stele, also called the Sphinx Stele, an inscribed slab between the paws of the Great Sphinx of Giza that is believed to have been built around 1401 B.C. The stele explicitly mentions and depicts two sphinxes; this acts as the pretext for the research.

As the Great Sphinx of Giza is positioned guarding the Pyramid of Khafre, researchers looked in the same parallel position in front the Great Pyramid of Khufu, and they think they have found something.

Biondi and his team believe that hidden underneath a 180-foot mound of sand, “there is something very huge that we are measuring.”

There is an “underground megastructure” that includes shafts that appear to be an “entrance,” he told the host. In fact, all the subsequent measurements his team has made around the proposed location of a second sphinx match the distance and angles of the first sphinx to the existing structures in the area.

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For example, the distance between the alleged megastructure and the second pyramid is the same as the distance between the Sphinx and the first pyramid.

“We are finding precise … geometrical correlation, 100% of correlation, in this symmetry,” Biondi said.

“We are very confident to announce this. … We have a confidence [of] about 80%.”

Biondi is not the first researcher to propose this claim, either. Egyptologist Bassam el-Shammaa has a published theory that dates back to at least 1999.

“There is a great chance that there was, or is, another sphinx parallel to the one which exists today, only in very poor condition due to air pollution and underground water erosion,” the researcher wrote.

“The remains of the second sphinx are still there buried under the sand, its suffocating dilapidated remains may not rival the state of preservation of the existing one, but I believe it does exist,” Shammaa claimed.

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Biondi said there is still work to be done with measuring and comparing the elevation between the existing sphinx and the theoretical one.

The team has also conducted scans of the area that allegedly reveal the aforementioned network of shafts and chambers beneath the structure, which Biondi believes mirror that of the Great Sphinx.

The team must look underneath what is commonly believed to be a mountain, but Biondi says he is confident that it is simply solidified sand and other sediment.

“In our personal opinion, it’s very simple to remove all that mountain, and probably inside there is the second sphinx.”

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A man named Bera Shivakrishna was arrested after he allegedly groped a woman dressed in an Easter Bunny costume at a mall near Pittsburgh.

The woman was taking photos with children at the South Hills Village Mall in Upper St. Clair on Monday when the man approached her and started asking her questions, according to a criminal complaint obtained by KDKA-TV.

‘It’s a doll, right?’

The woman referred him to an assistant, but he allegedly refused and then groped the victim, according to Upper St. Clair police.

Shivakrishna allegedly touched her arm, then the top of her chest, and finally grabbed her breasts.

The assistant said he was asking, “Is it a boy or a girl?”

He also put his fingers in the nose and mouth of the bunny costume.

Police identified a suspect after reviewing the mall’s security video and speaking to the alleged victim as well as the assistant.

Shivakrishna was found sleeping in the top row of seats at a movie theater near the mall later that afternoon.

Police said he asked them, “Is it on the close to Five Below, the merchandise thing, the bunny?”

After being read his Miranda rights, he allegedly asked, “It’s a doll, right?”

When told the victim was not a doll, he allegedly responded, “By mistake, my hand touched her, if it’s a lady.”

Shivakrishna was identified through his New Jersey driver’s identification and charged with indecent assault. He is being held on a $10,000 bond at the Allegheny County Jail.

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Shoppers at the mall told WPXI-TV that the man should definitely face a stiff sentence for the incident.

“This is horrible. I can’t believe this would happen at our local mall. It’s the Easter Bunny,” local resident Jenn Herrig said.

“All kinds of people would have seen this. If I would have been there with my son, I would have just been appalled. We would have gotten out of line and had to leave,” she added.

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Veterans are speaking out against Democrat congressional candidate Ammar Campa-Najjar for using his military career to amplify his campaign.

Campa-Najjar allegedly referred to himself as a “Navy Officer” in his campaign materials, differing from his actual title of Navy Reserve officer. Because of this alleged discrepancy, Campa-Najjar’s campaign has raised eyebrows, since Navy policy requires reservists running for office to accurately disclose their military status.

‘Shame on Campa-Najjar and anyone who supported these cynical political stunts.’

The Navy later said officials will be “looking into” Campa-Najjar’s campaign in light of the alleged violation of Pentagon policy.

“I supported Ammar in the past, but won’t again,” Elizabeth Perez-Rodriguez, a Navy combat veteran, told the New York Post.

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Campa-Najjar, who is notably dating billionaire heiress Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.), also caused uproar after staging photo opportunities for his campaign website. The photo that caught the most attention was from the Massachusetts National Cemetery, depicting Campa-Najjar near the grave of a Korean War veteran whom he reportedly had no connection to.

“As a combat veteran,” Perez-Rodriguez continued, “I can’t stand when political candidates exploit the uniform for politics, and using a veteran’s grave site in your campaign is toxic and disrespectful.”

“Our national cemeteries are sacred ground — not political backdrops,” Marine Corps combat veteran Brian Van Riper told the Post. “Using a service member’s grave site at a VA cemetery for political campaign photos is among the most disrespectful, distasteful, and cynical political ploys I’ve ever seen.”

“All these allegations are damning and show a complete disregard for what military service and wearing the uniform should mean,” Michael Malach, an Army combat veteran, told the Post. “Shame on Campa-Najjar and anyone who supported these cynical political stunts, especially using posed portraits at a deceased veteran’s grave to try and boost his campaign.”

Campa-Najjar’s campaign website does list him as a U.S. Navy Reserve officer alongside a disclaimer saying, “Any references to his military rank, service, or photographs in uniform are for identification purposes only and do not imply endorsement by the Department of War or the Department of the Navy.”

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Campa-Najjar’s campaign manager, Andi McNew, pushed back against the allegations, saying the cemetery photo was taken while “participating in an official Memorial Day event where he, alongside his unit, honored fallen service members.”

“At no point did the campaign engage in political activity at a VA cemetery, and any suggestion otherwise is a misrepresentation of both the facts and the applicable rules,” Andi McNew told the Post.

This is Campa-Najjar’s third congressional campaign. He is now running for California’s newly redrawn 48th District against incumbent Republican Rep. Darrell Issa.

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A video out of China is grabbing the world by the heartstrings. Published less than two weeks ago, it has already racked up over 270 million views.

The footage, taken by a citizen in China’s Jilin province, captures a pack of seven dogs walking down the highway, led by a corgi.

The pack had allegedly been stolen and put in a moving truck, destined for the illegal dog meat market. But they miraculously escaped and walked together for over 10 miles through freezing conditions, with the pack protecting an injured German shepherd.

All seven dogs made it safely back home to their families.

This “should be a movie,” says Glenn Beck.

But the heartwarming footage everyone is swooning over is only half the story, he says.

“This story has captured 270 million people because it’s what we’re missing,” says Glenn. “We’re living in a time where everything is breaking into pieces — our communities, our families, our nations, truth, everything.”

To compensate for this widespread fracturing, many of us, he says, are being told, “Look out for yourself. Protect your own. … Don’t get dragged down by somebody else’s weakness.”

“And yet, here on a highway in China — a frozen highway — seven dogs reject all of that crap. … The strongest slowed down, the smallest led, the injured was protected, and the group endured,” says Glenn, noting that unlike many humans, there was no agenda behind their unity — “just loyalty; just love.”

The “covenant” kind of unity shown by this pack of dogs leads Glenn to ask a blunt question: “What the hell is wrong with us?”

He points to the push in Canada and the United States to both implement and expand assisted-suicide programs, many of which target vulnerable groups like veterans, the mentally ill, and even children.

“We’re supposed to be the most loving … and we’re building systems where the most vulnerable are just discarded, where the innocent can just be exterminated,” he says.

“These seven dogs are there to remind us of something ancient, something simple, something really, really true: You don’t leave your own behind. … We all get home together.”

To hear more and see the sweet footage of the pack on its trek home, watch the video above.

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Steve Hilton, the leading candidate for governor of California despite his status as an unapologetic Republican, called it a perfect metaphor for the state’s spate of recent failures.

After the University of Southern California abruptly canceled its televised gubernatorial debate less than 24 hours before it was set to take place, Democrats scrambled to come up with an alternative forum. Despite the frantic reaction, the crowded field of Democratic candidates couldn’t agree to the proposed ground rules.

As candidates scrambled to regroup after USC canceled the debate, the large field of Democrats still couldn’t agree on a commitment to continue including all the candidates in future debates.

The debate implosion and the subsequent failure to quickly reorganize played right into the leading GOP contender’s hands.

“This is just so symptomatic of everything that’s wrong with California,” Hilton told RealClearPolitics on Tuesday in the aftermath of the debate’s cancellation. “Everything is broken, from the high-speed rail, where they haven’t laid any tracks. Then last week we saw that $100 million butterfly bridge to nowhere. Nothing works. Everything’s broken. It’s all a shambles. They can’t even organize a debate.”

Decades ago, USC was considered a conservative alternative to public academic institutions across the state. More recently, the private university has become indistinguishable from the rest — at least when it comes to cancel culture.

All of the candidates the university had decided to invite to participate in the planned debate, hosted by Univision and KABC, are white. All of the candidates left out are minorities who also happened to be polling in the single digits: California Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond (D), former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D), and former California State Controller Betty Yee (D) were not invited after the university said they had not met their debate criteria.

Those invited included former Fox News host Steve Hilton (R), Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco (R), Rep. Eric Swalwell (D), former Rep. Katie Porter (D), businessman Tom Steyer (D), and San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan (D).

“We recognize that concerns about the selection criteria for tomorrow’s gubernatorial debate have created a significant distraction from the issues that matter to voters,” the university said in a statement. “Unfortunately, USC and [debate co-sponsor] KABC have not been able to reach an agreement on expanding the number of candidates. … As a result, USC has made the difficult decision to cancel tomorrow’s debate and will look for other opportunities to educate voters on the candidates and issues.”

The university would not commit to a new date for the debate.

Hilton and Bianco have been leading the crowded pack of candidates for months, stirring up panic amid veteran Democratic Party operatives that they could both emerge from the June 2 primary to run against one another and shut out Democrats entirely. Swalwell and Porter have been polling around 10%, with Steyer, despite spending tens of millions of dollars, a few points behind.

Under California’s “top-two” primary system, only the two candidates with the most votes, regardless of party, will advance to the general election. Democrats are concerned that Hilton and Bianco are poised to do so if the field of Democratic candidates doesn’t narrow down quickly.

It was Mahan’s invitation, however, that really stung among those sidelined from the stage. A white Democratic centrist candidate, Mahan had only recently entered the race and was polling in the single digits along with those excluded from the debate.

Still USC explained his inclusion by citing a new debate-inclusion criteria that valued intensive fundraising. The Democrats complaining about being left out didn’t buy the rationale and instead cited Mahan’s USC ties as evidence of special treatment.

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Mike Murphy, co-director of the USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future, which was hosting the debate, had been, on a voluntary basis, advising an independent expenditure committee supporting Mahan. Yet Murphy claimed to have nothing to do with organizing the debate and pledged to temporarily step down from his university role if he decided to accept a paid position from any entity backing Mahan.

Over the weekend when Xavier Becerra (D), Thurmond, and others started complaining about Mahan’s inclusion, top Democratic legislators decided to weigh in.

The speaker of California’s Assembly, Robert Rivas, and the leader of the state Senate, Monique Limon, joined the leaders of the legislative Latino, Black, Asian and Pacific Islander, Native American, LGBTQ, Jewish, and women’s caucuses in writing a letter to USC President Beong-Soo Kim demanding that they change their “biased criteria.”

“The outcry over this debate is deafening and includes legal demands from the excluded candidates’ attorneys, public calls by elected leaders across the state, concerns from the included candidates’ own campaigns, and growing alarm from California voters,” the legislators wrote. “Instead of responding to these valid concerns by expanding the debate, USC has doubled down.”

The debate was supposed to take place at a critical time — with two Republican candidates consistently running ahead of their Democratic counterparts, none of whom has broken out of a crowded field. It also was set to occur less than two months before the state planned to send ballots to every registered voter.

In early March, California Democratic Party Chair Rusty Hicks published an open letter urging Democratic contenders to consider dropping out if they didn’t see a realistic path to a primary victory.

“If you do not have a viable path to make it to the general election, do not file to place your name on the ballot for the primary election,” Hicks wrote just days before the March 6 filing deadline. But no candidate decided to heed Hicks’ call, and the letter drew a scathing response from Thurmond, who asserted that it was aimed at pressuring “candidates of color” to end their gubernatorial bids.

“Our political system is rigged,” Thurmond said. “The California Democratic Party is essentially telling every candidate of color in the race for governor to drop out.”

Hicks rejected that criticism, noting the letter did not name any specific candidate.

As candidates scrambled to regroup after USC canceled the debate, the large field of Democrats still couldn’t agree on a commitment to continue including all the candidates in future debates.

Part of the group wanted all parties to abide by a pledge to participate in future debates only if all Democratic candidates are invited. But that idea fell apart when they couldn’t get a commitment from fellow Democratic candidates.

Still Becerra, one of the candidates who was not invited to the USC debate, celebrated the decision to quash it entirely in a post on X:

We fought. We won! We stood up against an unfair candidate debate set-up that prematurely chose winners and losers. Tonight USC made the right decision to cancel their March 24 gubernatorial forum … so hopefully next time it’s done right. Thank you to everyone who stood up, raised hell and demanded justice. Never give up when you’re fighting for fairness!

The Democratic disarray on rescheduling handed an opportunity to Hilton and Bianco. Instead of taking the night off, Hilton held an X.com space with more than 300 people participating. Meanwhile Bianco spoke to supporters at an event in Los Angeles.

A Bianco campaign social media post crossed out the words “debate watch party” and blamed Democrats for the abrupt change.

“The Ds got the debate canceled, but we’re showing up anyway!” the post said. “See you tonight @sheriffbianco will be there.”

Hilton, who has been campaigning for roughly a year and has led in the polls for months, shared an X space forum with Elaine Culotti, an independent candidate for governor who is running under “NPP” — no party preference.

Culotti, a California real estate developer and interior designer who starred in the Discovery+ reality series “Undercover Billionaire,” appears poised to throw her support to Hilton if he wins the primary, even though she argues that her current participation in the race takes votes away from Swalwell.

The two more ideologically aligned candidates continued to criticize Democrats for blowing up the debate while laying out their own visions for reforming California, by not only stopping the U-Haul exodus of those moving out to find more affordable places to live but attracting more businesses to the state. Culotti said she would do so by reducing taxes to attract more than 100,000 businesses, leading to more jobs and more tax revenue.

Hilton said he would address affordability and businesses’ exodus from the state by opening up more oil and gas exploration, something he said could be done by executive order and by “kicking out all the climate fanatics” that California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) placed in key positions in the government.

“Right now, they are denying the industry permits for every aspect of [oil and gas] operating in California, whether that’s maintaining existing wells or expanding them, or drilling new ones — all of that,” Hilton said.

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Hilton and Culotti also discussed the positive aspects of having a governor in Sacramento who could work with the Trump administration to implement a forest management plan that would help prevent devastating wildfires while providing billions more in federal funds to help the Palisades and Eaton wildfire victims rebuild.

“Whatever happens in the 2028 presidential election, we know we’re going to have two years where the next governor will overlap with the Trump administration,” Hilton said. “And that’s one of the things I’m most excited about. I’ve got good, good relationships with, you know, half the Cabinet.”

No one asked Hilton how he will contend with deep animosity toward Trump in a state where the number of registered Democratic voters outnumber Republicans nearly two to one.

Instead Hilton said he would prefer that Bianco drop out so he could consolidate the Republican support while working to turn out independents and Republicans in November in an election that includes ballot initiatives to institute voter ID and to maintain Proposition 13, a state constitutional amendment that imposes strict limits on property tax increases.

“You’ve got people in charge now who just don’t think like this, and as we saw with the debate nonsense and raising the race card … they’re just on a different planet,” Hilton said. “But the underlying answer to how you deliver all of these things is just to take a sledgehammer to the massive, bloated nanny-state bureaucracy that is making everything so expensive and so difficult.”

Editor’s note: This article was originally published by RealClearPolitics and made available via RealClearWire.

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One of the most scandal-ridden former mayors in America is attempting to resurrect her political career, moving to a new state and a new party.

On March 11, Tiffany Henyard — the former Democratic mayor of Dolton, Illinois, and former supervisor of nearby Thornton Township — announced in a Facebook video that she had moved to Fulton County, Georgia.

‘You can’t expect change without making a change.’

“Y’all ain’t ready,” she says confidently in the video, claiming her political opponents and members of the media are “obsessed” with her and that “corruption” was rampant in Dolton and Thornton Township.

In the video, she also teases a “big announcement” that she would be making a couple of days later.

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To the surprise of very few, news soon broke that Henyard is running for political office yet again. This time, she is running to be a Fulton County commissioner — as a Republican, according to the Georgia secretary of state website.

The records indicate Henyard qualified to run on March 5. They also list her occupation as “business owner.”

Four other candidates qualified to run for the District 5 commissioner’s seat that same week, all as Democrats. The seat is currently held by Democrat Marvin Arrington Jr., who is running to be chair of the Board of Commissioners.

The 2026 Georgia primary election is scheduled for May 19.

Henyard claims in the video that change is needed in Fulton County. “The residents are tired,” she says. “They’re looking for a new leader. They’re looking for new leadership.”

Henyard also said she has a responsibility “to reach across the aisle, let alone walk across the aisle.”

“You can’t expect change without making a change,” she notes in the video.

The Fulton County Republican Party did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

Henyard, whose official X handle is @tif4president, leaves a trail of scandals in her wake. Her tenure as Dolton mayor was plagued with slashed budgets, accusations of lavish spending and other misconduct, an FBI investigation, and even an all-out brawl at a public meeting.

She subsequently lost the Democratic mayoral primary in February 2025, receiving just 536 votes out of the 4,446 ballots cast.

Many of her constituents celebrated her loss:

“The Wicked Witch of the West is dead! It’s over,” said one.”I praise God. That’s all I have to say. Ding, dong, the witch is gone!” said another.”If I can do a backwards hand flip right now — and I’m 67 years old next month — I would definitely do it,” added yet another resident.

Earlier this month, a judge ordered Henyard to pay a former landlord $10,000 in connection with a rental dispute in Illinois after she failed to appear in court. Her attorney indicated to WGN that she missed the hearing because she was out of state and that she denies wrongdoing.

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