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United States Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) introduced legislation on Thursday that would block judges from issuing “weaponized gag orders,” Fox News Digital reported.

The proposed bill, coined the “Let Trump Speak Act,” would prohibit federal and state judges from placing gag orders against defendants in “any criminal or civil proceedings.” The legislation carves out exceptions, allowing judges to issue the order to prevent “the disclosure of confidential information provided in discovery, to protect the privacy of minors, or as part of a plea agreement.”

If passed, the bill would allow anyone issued a gag order in violation of the act to seek injunctive relief.

‘There is no right more sacred to Americans than the right to speak freely.’

Ogles unveiled the proposed legislation in response to a gag order issued by Juan Merchan, an acting justice of the New York State Supreme Court, against former President Donald Trump. The restrictive order prevents Trump from speaking about anyone involved in the ongoing New York criminal case in which he is facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.

Michael Cohen, a convicted felon and Trump’s former lawyer, alleged that he made a so-called hush-money payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet about an alleged affair she claims she had with Trump. Cohen claimed the settlement payout was made at the request of Trump, who allegedly paid him back afterward. Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges and denied the affair allegation.

Trump’s defense team has repeatedly requested that Merchan repeal the gag order, but each request has been rejected.

Ogles, along with several other Republican representatives, joined Trump at court on Thursday to show his support for the former president.

Outside the courthouse, Ogles told reporters, “If I started a story with, ‘A convicted felon and a hooker walk into a bar,’ you would immediately know it’s a joke. Well, that’s what we have here: a joke of a trial.”

“This is not a prosecution,” Ogles continued. “This is a persecution. We have a two-tiered justice system in this country. And if a former president can be targeted by a woke and corrupt judge, then you can be targeted as well.”

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In a post on X, Ogles stated that the Let Trump Speak Act “ends the gag order and pushes back against woke activist judges.”

“We have watched for years as a politically weaponized Department of Justice and Democrat activist judges have gone after President Donald J. Trump,” he told Fox News Digital. “There is no right more sacred to Americans than the right to speak freely, as guaranteed in the First Amendment.”

Ogles argued that “activists within the justice system are attempting to strip President Trump of this right for the sake of their own political agenda.”

The Tennessee representative’s proposed legislation currently has 10 Republican sponsors in the House.

Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) stated, “This continued weaponization of justice and harassment of President Trump must end.”

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) said, “We have seen how our institutions have gone after President Trump to try and forcibly silence him.”

“This vital American value must not be corrupted, especially by those driven by political rivalries,” she added.

The First Department of the New York Supreme Court Appellate Division wrote Tuesday that Merchan “properly weighed” Trump’s First Amendment Rights when imposing the gag order.

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NFL kicker Harrison Butker is a devout Catholic. But judging from his recent commencement speech at Benedictine College, it appears he never learned the 11th commandment: “Man shalt not promote marriage and family to educated women.”

This is my takeaway based on the reaction to the Kansas City Chief’s remarks last weekend at Benedictine College in Kansas. According to his critics, the most “misogynistic” part of the three-time Super Bowl winner’s address was this:

I’m on the stage today and able to be the man I am because I have a wife who leans into her vocation. I’m beyond blessed with the many talents God has given me, but it cannot be overstated that all of my success is made possible because a girl I met in band class back in middle school would convert to the faith, become my wife, and embrace one of the most important titles of all: homemaker.

A professional athlete describing his wife’s vocation is considered controversial in today’s culture. This goes to show how corrupt our culture has become.

If you want to read stories about women destroying their families in the name of self-love, the Atlantic has got you. If you want glowing profiles of women in polyamorous relationships, New York magazine will supply them. If you want to learn that sex work is no different from social work, Teen Vogue will be glad to inform you. If you want to hear how abortion empowers women, you can listen to any Democrat running for office.

But the moment a professional athlete expresses his love for his wife and lauds her devotion to her husband and children, pundits and influencers come out to scold him and conservatives about our “hatred” of women. Even the NFL condemned his remarks.

Society is doomed once it sees a woman who is married with children by 24 as ‘oppressed’ but an OnlyFans content creator of the same age as ’empowered.’

The truth is that feminists hate women. That’s why nearly every goal of the sisterhood pushes women to think, speak, and act like men. Betty Friedan’s 1963 book “The Feminine Mystique” is widely credited with sparking this second wave. The author believed that women who were primarily focused on being a wives and mothers were wasting their best years. Her goal was to get women out of the home.

She was a more effective teacher than most people know. Our culture praises any woman who manages a large, complex organization — unless it’s her home. And we love women who dedicate themselves to teaching the next generation — unless they’re her own children. Feminists have been selling women on the notion that their true value is found in what they bring to the workplace. Even the radicals who offer intense critiques of capitalism devalue any work a woman does that doesn’t come with a paycheck.

A society is doomed once it sees a woman who is married with children by 24 as “oppressed” but an OnlyFans content creator of the same age as “empowered.”

Some of Butker’s most intense critics were other men, including some who called him a Neanderthal, “gross,” sexist, misogynistic, and homophobic. This is the language of male feminists, who function as obedient allies of the matriarchy.

Butker didn’t say every woman should be a homemaker. Some women need to work to support their families — even if they have a working husband. All Butker did was bring some balance to a realm of society that has been completely out of whack for more than 60 years.

A man who says that he’s training his sons to be husbands and fathers would be celebrated for trying to raise responsible young men. But if the same man says he’s raising his daughters to be wives and mothers, I suspect most people would have a very different visceral reaction. That is the tension that Harrison Butker’s comments are meant to resolve.

As a society, we are very comfortable putting boundaries and limits on men. We say that a real man must protect and provide for his family. And we ridicule any man who doesn’t meet that minimum standard. What gives everyone — from liberals to conservatives — a case of cultural heartburn is saying that there is anything that a woman must do for her family to be considered a good woman. Any limits or boundaries on women are treated as inherently oppressive and regressive.

But before anyone gets to telling women what they should do, it’s important to let young women today know what they can do. And I believe it is healthy for them to know that focusing on their families and their homes is not a waste of their time and talents. The anti-family ideas that prevail in our culture must be countered by brave men and women willing to stand on God’s design for men, women, marriage, and the home.

There is a reason employment contracts are not meant for life and don’t include the words “in sickness and in health” or “to love and to cherish” in the list of employer obligations. A good husband will sacrifice for his family and lay down his life to protect his wife. I doubt any woman’s boss would say the same.

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A Mexican national was arrested last week by authorities in California for allegedly trafficking a 17-year-old girl into the United States, KTLA reported.

The suspect was captured after the teen acquired a cell phone and used it to text 911. The girl, who only spoke Spanish and was unaware of her location, described key landmarks and other identifiable information to law enforcement. Authorities were able to use the information to locate and rescue her within approximately 20 minutes.

The Ventura County Sheriff’s Office reported, “In the early morning hours of May 9th, deputies working the Ojai Sheriff’s Sub-Station rescued a female human trafficking victim who had text ‘911’ to the Ventura County Sheriff’s Communication Center.”

‘Relatively new technology.’

The teenager was located in Casitas Springs and had been trafficked out of Mexico two months ago, the sheriff’s office said. After being rescued from the captor, the girl was transported to the county’s Child Family Services until she can be reunited with her family.

The suspect, 31-year-old Gerardo Cruz from Veracruz, Mexico, was taken into custody. He is facing multiple charges, including human trafficking, forcible rape, and lewd acts upon a child, as well as luring and sexual penetration with force, according to the sheriff’s office. His bail was posted at $500,000.

The Sheriff’s Communication Center received the text from the teenager in Spanish, and its system was able to translate the message to English for the 911 dispatcher.

The sheriff’s office said, “The ability to send a text message to an emergency call center is relatively new technology.”

“This incident also utilized integrated translation technology as the call taker only spoke English and the victim only spoke and wrote in Spanish. The call taker was able to quickly interpret and text back a response in English, which was quickly re-translated to Spanish for the victim,” the office added.

According to Empower the Fight, approximately “250,000 children per year are victims of sex trafficking.”

“Human trafficking is the fastest-growing organized crime activity in the United States,” the grassroots anti-exploitation organization stated.

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The British medical establishment was long captive to gender ideology. It is now coming to terms with the error of its ways, having realized that the supposed “right side of history” where the trans-activist flag waves proudly is actually the province of pseudoscience, misery, and mutilation.

Dr. Hilary Cass, a British medical doctor who previously served as president of the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health, hammered the final nail into the coffin for the “gender-affirming care” narrative in April.

Cass, a highly esteemed recipient of the Order of the British Empire, was appointed by the National Health Service in England in 2020 to lead an independent investigation into Britain’s sex-change regime and its youth facing services.
Her 388-page final report — released shortly after England effectively banned the prescription of puberty blockers and shuttered the infamous Tavistock child gender-identity clinic — made abundantly clear that the evidence in support of “gender-affirming care” was “weak” at best.

In addition to highlighting unreliable science and the fallout of sex-change interventions, Cass noted that sex-change procedures did not impact suicide risk or deliver on other promised results and that mutilated children may likely have otherwise outgrown their confusion.

These conclusions sent various radicals into fits of rage. Cass has since become a popular target, even for
some leftist lawmakers.

Cass recently expressed amazement that whereas Britain is now pumping the brakes on its mutilatory practices — joining the ranks of other Western nations like Finland and
Norway — the American medical establishment is ostensibly speeding along with reckless abandon.

‘Do what you’ve been trained to do.’

In a
recent interview with the New York Times, Cass was confronted with recent reactions stateside to her findings.

The Endocrine Society reportedly said, “We stand firm in our support of gender-affirming care,” suggesting that it is “needed and often lifesaving.”

While the American Academy of Pediatrics reportedly declined to comment on the specifics of Cass’ landmark report, its
woke president, Ben Hoffman, said, “Politicians have inserted themselves into the exam room, which is dangerous for both physicians and for families.”

The AAP, which has repeatedly
lashed out against red states for protecting children from child sex-change mutilations, reiterated that its guidance is “grounded in evidence and science.”

‘What some organizations are doing is doubling down on saying the evidence is good. And I think that’s where you’re misleading the public.’

The AAP’s guidance incorporates recommendations from the scandal-plagued World Professional Association of Transgender Health, which
Environmental Progress and nationally syndicated radio host and cofounder of Blaze Media Glenn Beck have in recent months exposed as a pseudoscientific activist organization whose members have indicated as much behind closed doors.

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previously reported that WPATH members are quoted in Environmental Progress researcher Mia Hughes’ bombshell report discussing: giving irreversible medical treatments to mentally compromised patients incapable of providing consent; the inability of parents and adolescents to comprehend the long-term fallout of so-called gender affirmation; putting a gloss on post-operation regrets; and the ruinous side effects of sex-change mutilations.

The AAP appears to still regard WPATH as a credible organization.

Cass took issue with the American organizations’ apparent aversion to the facts about “gender-affirming care.”

“When I was president of the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health, we did some great work with the A.A.P.,” Cass told the Times. “They are an organization that I have enormous respect for. But I respectfully disagree with them on holding on to a position that is now demonstrated to be out of date by multiple systematic reviews.”

Cass suggested it “wouldn’t be too much of a problem if people were saying ‘This is clinical consensus and we’re not sure.’ But what some organizations are doing is doubling down on saying the evidence is good. I think that’s where you’re misleading the public.”

“You need to be honest about the strength of the evidence and say what you’re going to do to improve it,” continued Cass. “I suspect that the A.A.P., which is an organization that does massive good for children worldwide, and I see as a fairly left-leaning organization, is fearful of making any moves that might jeopardize trans health care right now.”

Hoffman, prickled by Cass’ suggestion, later stated that “any suggestion the American Academy of Pediatrics is misleading families is false.”

‘What really worries me is that people just think: This is somebody who is trans, and the medical pathway is the right thing for them.’

The esteemed British pediatrician suggested that perhaps if the AAP was not subject to such intense political pressure, “They would be able to be more nuanced, to say that multiple truths exist in this space — that there are children who are going to need medical treatment, and that there are other children who are going to resolve their distress in different ways.”

When pressed on what doctors should do moving forward, Cass minced no words: “Do what you’ve been trained to do.”

“So that means that you approach any one of these young people as you would any other adolescent, taking a proper history, doing a proper assessment and maintaining a curiosity about what’s driving their distress,” said Cass. “It may be about diagnosing autism, it may be about treating depression, it might be about treating an eating disorder.”

“What really worries me is that people just think: This is somebody who is trans, and the medical pathway is the right thing for them,” added Cass.

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Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker gave a commencement speech at Benedictine College — and the content of that speech has blown many on the right away, as well as drawn the ire of many on the left.

“Our own nation is led by a man who publicly and proudly proclaims his Catholic faith, but at the same time is delusional enough to make the sign of the cross during a pro-abortion rally. He has been so vocal in his support for the murder of innocent babies that I’m sure to many people it appears that you can be both Catholic and pro-choice,” Butker said.

“He is not alone. From the man behind the COVID lockdowns to the people pushing dangerous gender ideologies onto the youth of America, they all have a glaring thing in common — they are Catholic,” he continued.

Allie Beth Stuckey is impressed, to say the least.

“I’m not Catholic, but I appreciate how he is describing the discrepancy between what some Catholics do, especially in the highest levels of government,” she says. “As a Protestant, there are many people on my side who call themselves Christians, and yet they are pro-choice.”

According to Pew Research, only 42% of Catholics believe that abortion should be illegal in most or all cases, versus 55% of Protestants.

Butker didn’t stop at abortion.

“I think it is you, the women, who have had the most diabolical lies told to you. How many of you are sitting here now, about to cross this stage, and thinking about all the promotions and titles you’re going to get in your career?” he said, before highlighting the importance and beauty of motherhood.

Now, a petition has been created on Change.org, demanding that the Kansas City Chiefs dismiss him for discriminatory remarks. The petition now has almost 200,000 signatures.

“Apparently it was homophobic, anti-trans, anti-abortion, and racist,” Stuckey says. “You don’t have to keep selling me on it.”

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At a recent investors conference, Disney CEO Bob Iger blamed the company’s massive losses on spreading itself too thin across too many projects.

Iger spoke at the 2024 MoffettNathanson Media and Communications Summit where he explained why he thought projects like streaming platform Disney+ have caused the company’s bottom line to suffer.

“As we got into the streaming business in a very, very aggressive way, we tried to tell too many stories. Basically we invested too much, way ahead of possible returns. It’s what led to streaming ending up as a $4 billion loss,” Iger said in the webcasted conference.

Recent reports have shown that outside of Disney+, the studio’s would-be blockbuster movies suffered catastrophic failures.

Titles “The Marvels,” “Wish,” a new Indiana Jones, and Disney’s “Haunted Mansion” combined for a stunning $600 million loss in 2023.

Iger described his successor Bob Chapek, who he later replaced upon his return, as being irresponsible with spending.

“It was clear to me that our structure was not working, because we were removing accountability from those that were basically investing the most capital,” Iger said, according to Hollywood Reporter.

‘I’ve been telling everybody good isn’t good enough. It has to be great.’

The increased spending meant that there was too much content to focus on, Iger claimed, adding that the spending “resulted in volume and not quality, which turned out to be a mistake.”

Yet, at the same time, Iger also stated that volume was actually necessary in order to compete with Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.

“There’s a very fine line that you can cross and get in trouble if your volume ends up diluting management’s attention to what is being made is right. And that’s what happened to us. So, I have pulled that back,” the CEO told the conference.

It isn’t clear how Iger’s remarks will mesh with his recent dedication to producing sequels instead of original storylines. The CEO said that there was a lot of value in making sequels, particularly because the stories are both “known” and take less “in terms of marketing.”

Iger has not conceded in any way, shape, or form that the infusion of diversity, equity, and inclusion into Disney projects have put a sour taste in audience’s mouths. Rather, Iger has said that the company doesn’t infuse any messaging into its content at all.

The Mickey Mouse company has reportedly planned to reconnect its creative departments of the studio to the monetization side, to help ensure quality is not lost.

“I’ve been telling everybody good isn’t good enough. It has to be great. Just keep driving that, but if you force them to make too much, then that becomes almost impossible to do,” Iger said.

Disney also hopes that bundling its streaming platforms like Hulu and ESPN+ will increase overall engagement.

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AI is going too far, and most people have no idea.

“We’ve really advanced this stuff quickly, and this week came a lot of stuff that I don’t think people are even noticing anymore,” Stu Burguiere says.

One of the latest advancements was announced this past week, for OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The company has created a feminine AI voice that you can have conversations with over your devices — and it sounds like a real woman.

The AI voice is capable of switching her tone on demand, going from joking around with her OpenAI creators to reading them a bedtime story like a mother would a child.

But that’s not all. The new AI is also capable of teaching students like a teacher would, coaching them through problems without revealing the answers.

“You got to think about the cheating ramifications of this,” Stu says, adding, “I mean it’s beyond insane, but also like the job implication of this.”

“When it comes to AI, it’s going to be very difficult to keep this one out of your kid’s life. It’s going to probably permeate at some level whether you like it or not, to almost every single school,” he explains.

“How long until we’re walking down the street, and we’re seeing our kids have full-on relationships with their phones? They’re already looking at them all the time, now they’re going to be talking to them all the time.”

Not only is this terrifying, but diversity, equity, and inclusion and critical race theory are already programmed into ChatGPT.

“All the things you’re against are built into these programs,” Stu says.

The Effects of Rapid AI Expansion on Our Kids EXPOSED | Ep 897

Stu Burguiere looks at the newest version of ChatGPT and speculates on what it and other advancements in artificial intelligence could mean for our children …

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The Biden administration’s Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice recently announced a new process that seeks to “accelerate asylum proceedings” for single adult illegal aliens, according to a Thursday press release.

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas and Attorney General Merrick Garland released a joint statement unveiling “a new Recent Arrivals (RA) Docket process to more expeditiously resolve immigration cases of certain noncitizen single adults who attempt to cross irregularly between ports of entry at the Southwest border.”

The Biden administration claimed that the new process would allow the departments “to more swiftly impose consequences, including removal, on those without a legal basis to remain in the United States and to more swiftly grant immigration relief or protections to noncitizens with valid claims.”

‘Individuals who do not qualify for relief can be removed more quickly and those who do qualify can achieve protection sooner.’

“The Justice Department also submitted to the Federal Register a final rule to promote efficient case and docket management in immigration proceedings,” the department’s press release read.

It acknowledged that under the administration’s current process, illegal immigrants “often wait years before receiving a final decision in an immigration court proceeding.” The department cited “insufficient resources,” including judges and attorneys, as the reason for the lengthy court proceedings.

The DHS will “place certain noncitizen single adults on the RA Docket” to have their cases prioritized for adjudication. The new process will operate out of Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City, the DOJ reported.

Illegal aliens placed on the RA Docket should receive a final decision on their asylum claim within 180 days, the department claimed. It noted that the timing of each final decision “will remain subject to case-specific circumstances and due process guarantees.”

The Biden administration still insisted that the so-called bipartisan border security legislation, which was shot down by Republican lawmakers in February, would need to pass to grant the DHS and the DOJ “additional authorities and resources that are critically needed,” including additional immigration judges, asylum officers, support staff, and other needed authorities.

“Congress should take up and pass this legislation to fix our broken immigration system,” Biden’s DOJ wrote.

Mayorkas, too, claimed that the new process was “no substitute for the sweeping and much-needed changes that the bipartisan Senate bill would deliver, but in the absence of Congressional action we will do what we can to most effectively enforce the law and discourage irregular migration.”

He stated that the action would “accelerate asylum proceedings so that individuals who do not qualify for relief can be removed more quickly and those who do qualify can achieve protection sooner.”

Garland claimed that the new measures would help to “ensure that immigration cases are adjudicated promptly and fairly.”

As of December, three million asylum cases were being considered, with illegal immigrants given court dates multiple years out in the future.

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Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker, 28,
gave a commencement speech last weekend at Benedictine College wherein he dared to articulate beliefs anchored in the millenniums-old moral teachings of the Catholic Church, now codified in the Catechism and followed by millions of Americans nationwide.

The three-time Super Bowl champ
drew the ire of radicals in the liberal media and political establishment for doing so — for echoing the late Pope John Paul II in noting that “abortion, IVF, surrogacy, euthanasia, as well as a growing support for the degenerate cultural values and media all stem from pervasiveness of disorder.”

The kicker further enraged leftists by celebrating the institution of marriage, the vocation of motherhood, the link between male weakness and cultural dysfunction, the sinfulness of pride and Pride month, and by highlighting the
incompatibility of President Joe Biden’s professed faith and his views on abortion.

After all, the Catholic Church has made clear that abortion “is gravely contrary to the moral law”; “formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense” carrying the canonical penalty of excommunication; and Catholic political leaders have an obligation to stand up for the rights of the unborn.

Besides upsetting talking heads on cable news shows, Butker’s
expression of Catholic views at a Catholic school evidently enraged the person running Kansas City’s social media accounts.

Doxxed

Kansas City’s X account posted, “Just a reminder that Harrision Butker lives in …,” then provided the location where the kicker could be found.

This tweet, which was posted at 7:41 p.m. on Wednesday, qualifies as textbook “doxxing,”
defined as the public identification or publication “of private information about (someone) especially as a form of punishment or revenge.”

There was a swift backlash against the city online as it was widely understood this tweet amounted to an effort to punish and possibly endanger Butker over his opinions.

‘Use of government social media to retaliate against an individual based on their religious beliefs amounts to discriminatory behavior that is not tolerated under our Constitution or Missouri statute.’

Matthew Peterson, editor in chief at Blaze News, noted, “If our cities are revealing private information about the residents they are supposed to be serving simply because local government officials disagree with their political views and statements, that’s a call to action. Solving this problem will take a lot more than complaining on the internet. Americans need to band together and work locally to hold their local governments accountable.”

Just hours later, at 9:21 p.m., the Kansas City account posted, “We apologies [sic] for our previous tweet. It was shared in error.”

That tweet ostensibly served to draw further attention to the now-deleted doxxing effort, prompting even more outrage.

Catholic conservative commentator Michael Knowles
wrote, “@KansasCity: not only criminal but also illiterate.”

Some social media users have
suggested that the author of the tweet may have been Andrea Watts, whose LinkedIn profile similarly contained a rather glaring spelling error — “Social Media Mangement [sic]” — and was recently been deactivated.

Michael Caputo, a former Department of Health and Human Services official in the Trump administration,
said, “The City of Kansas City, MO must fire its entire social media team immediately.”

Twenty minutes after the initial apology, Mayor Quinton Lucas joined in the damage-control effort,
writing, “A message appeared earlier this evening from a City public account. The message was clearly inappropriate for a public account. The City has correctly apologized for the error, will review account access, and ensure nothing like it is shared in the future from public channels.”

Lucas’ response was also met with ridicule.

‘Your office apparently believes it is appropriate to denigrate a devout Catholic for comments he made about his own faith at a religious college.’

Garrett Henson, chairman of the Kansas Federation of College Republicans, mocked the mayor’s response,
writing, “‘We now realize that it’s bad to dox people with the Kansas City X account. Rest assured that there will be no consequences for this action moving forward.'”

Missouri AG weighs in

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey was not impressed by the city’s apparent effort to intimidate a Christian over his deeply held beliefs — and he didn’t need a tweet to know where to direct his ire.

Bailey
indicated on Thursday, “My office is demanding accountability after @KansasCity doxxed @buttkicker7 last night for daring to express his religious beliefs. I will enforce the Missouri Human Rights Act to ensure Missourians are not targeted for their free exercise of religion. Stay tuned.”

Bailey subsequently
penned a letter to Mayor Lucas noting, “It has been reported that the city of Kansas City has retaliated against a well-respected local resident and member of the Kansas City Chiefs after he spoke about his religious views.”

“Your office’s X account likely publicly released residential location information on a private citizen, Harrison Butker, in an attempt to retaliate against him for expressing his sincerely held religious beliefs at a religious college’s commencement ceremony — to an audience that largely shares his views,” continued Bailey. “Use of government social media to retaliate against an individual based on their religious beliefs amounts to discriminatory behavior that is not tolerated under our Constitution or Missouri statute.”

The AG underscored that America is founded upon a commitment to the free exercise of religion and that Missouri law “specifically prohibits faith-based discrimination against Missouri residents.”

Bailey added, “Your office apparently believes it is appropriate to denigrate a devout Catholic for comments he made about his own faith at a religious college.”

Extra to indicating the city may have violated state law, Bailey made abundantly clear to the NFL, without naming it outright: “I assure you that I am prepared to use the authority provided in statute to defend the principle of free religious expression.”

“Mr. Butker was well within his rights to discuss his religious views — views which are shared by millions of members of his faith tradition,” wrote Bailey. “Sadly, history is filled with examples of people of religious faith being targeted for their beliefs by government officials.”

Radicals have targeted Butker, and the NFL has
reportedly hung him out to dry. On the flip side, Butker’s jersey is now reportedly among the most popular in the league.

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The PGA Tour’s top golfer and reigning champion of the Masters was arrested and charged outside the course entrance to the PGA Championship. The charges included felony assault of a police officer.

Scottie Scheffler, the number one-ranked golfer in the world, was arrested in a bizarre incident after refusing to stop at the scene of an accident near the entrance of the Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky.

An ESPN reporter named Jeff Darlington witnessed the incident and said that Scheffler was detained after a “misunderstanding with traffic flow led to his attempt to drive past a police officer into Valhalla Golf Club.”

The traffic outside the golf course was stopped because a man was hit and killed by a shuttle bus at around 5 a.m. ET. The PGA Tour announced it would be delaying tee times due to “an accident near the course.”

‘Right now, he’s going to jail, and there’s nothing you can do about it.’

According to Darlington, Scheffler was trying to drive around the crash scene on the median, and when a police officer told him to stop, he continued to drive for another 10-20 yards toward the Valhalla Golf Club entrance.

A cop attached himself to the side of Scheffler’s car, an ESPN report described, and the officer then yelled at the golfer.

“The police officer then began to scream at Scheffler to get out of the car. When Scheffler exited the vehicle, the officer shoved Scheffler against the car and immediately placed him in handcuffs. He is now being detained in the back of a police car,” Darlington wrote on X.

Scheffler, who won the Masters just a month ago, reportedly asked Darlington, “Can you help?” as he was being detained. The officer instructed Darlington to back away.

“You need to get out of the way,” the officer told the sports reporter. “Right now, he’s going to jail, and there’s nothing you can do about it.”

Scheffler was charged with felony assault of a police officer, criminal mischief, reckless driving, and disregarding signals from officers directing traffic, according to local outlet WDRB citing court records.

Shortly after 9 a.m. ET, Scheffler was recorded entering the golf course after his release and was scheduled to tee off at 10:08 a.m.

Scheffler was released and was ordered not to have any contact with the alleged victim, assumed to be the police officer, or any complaining witness.

His court date is scheduled for May 21, 2024, at the Jefferson District Court.

A spokesperson for the Louisville Metro Police Department told outlets that the deceased man was attempting to cross the road early in the morning when he has hit by a bus in the bus lane. The man reportedly died at the scene.

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Britain’s Community Security Trust, an anti-Semitism watchdog,
observed a massive spike in hate incidents against Jewish citizens following the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks on Israel. This increase coincided with the mainstreaming of the kinds of genocidal and anti-Israel rhetoric that have since been recycled at various Democrat-supported campus protests in the United States.

Douglas Murray, the founder of the Center for Social Cohesion,
noted in an Oct. 12 piece for the Spectator, “Within hours of the slaughter, people in London were driving around flying Palestinian flags and blaring their horns in celebration of the massacre. In Manchester the president of the local ‘Friends of Palestine,’ Dana Abuqamar, told Sky News, ‘We’re really full of joy, full of pride at what has happened.’ At a Free Palestine rally in Brighton one speaker who claimed she was a Palestinian said: ‘Yesterday was a victory.’ She described the massacres in Israel as ‘so beautiful and inspiring to see.'”

It appears that Britain and its Jewish population have something more to fear than murderous rhetoric.

A pair of Islamic extremists were arrested last week and charged with preparing acts of terrorism. 36-year-old Walid Saadaoui of Abram and 50-year-old Amar Hussein of no fixed address were hauled before the Westminster Magistrates Court and charged with planning an attack on “the Jewish community in the North West of England and members of both law enforcement and the military,”
reported the BBC.

Bilel Saadaoui, the brother of one of the alleged terror plotters, was also arrested. He has been accused of failing to disclose the details of the terror plot to the authorities,
reported the Guardian.

Prosecutor Rebecca Waller indicated the duo set their plan in motion in December and planned “to conduct an ISIL [Isis] or Daesh-inspired terrorist attack in the UK during which they intended causing multiple fatalities using automatic weapons,” not unlike the gruesome November 2015 Bataclan massacre where Islamic terrorists murdered 90 people and committed various other atrocities against their victims, or the March 22 ISIS terror attack in Moscow Oblast, Russia, where 145 victims were murdered and 551 were injured.

The plotters reportedly had designs on securing a machine gun, 1,200 rounds of ammunition, a handgun, and a safe house to store their weaponry. Saadaoui allegedly traveled with Hussein to Dover in March “with the aim of conducting reconnaissance of the port security” where the guns were to be imported,
reported the Daily Mail.

“Both defendants took significant steps to prepare, and by May 2024, had reach the point at which, they believed, they were in a position to launch their attack,” said Waller.

Police nabbed Saadaoui when he went to pick up the weapons.

Assistant Chief Constable Rob Potts of the Greater Manchester Police
said in a statement Tuesday, “Today’s first court appearance has outlined some concerning and distressing details about a suspected terrorist plot that we allege was being planned by suspects from Greater Manchester.”

“Firstly, we know how significant the impact of this will be. Particularly for our Jewish community in Greater Manchester and across the country,” continued Potts. “We have worked closely with the Community Security Trust, community groups and key stakeholders prior to today’s hearing, and we will continue to update them and support them throughout the course of this case. The wider public will understandably be alarmed too.”

Amanda Bomsztyk, the northern regional director of the Community Security Trust, said, “These are very serious allegations of a plan to commit a terrorist attack against British Jews at a time of record anti-Semitic hate crime levels. This is one of a number of recent and ongoing cases that demonstrate why the Jewish community needs such extensive security measures and why our continuing partnership with police and government is so vital.”

When asked whether he wanted to apply for bail, Hussein reportedly answered, “Do whatever you want to.”

Bilel Saadaoui applied for bail unsuccessfully and blubbered on his way out of court.

Blaze News
previously reported that German and Dutch officials similarly foiled an Islamic terrorist plot in December, capturing four Hamas terrorists who had been targeting “Jewish institutions in Europe.” Those arrests coincided with Denmark’s capture of another four suspected terrorists.

Prosecutors indicated that four of the radicals “have been long-standing members of HAMAS and have participated in HAMAS operations abroad. They are closely linked to the military branch’s leadership. This included Khalil Hamed Al Kharraz, the second in command at the ‘Izz al-Din al-Qassem’ Brigades.”

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Sammy Teusch — a 10-year-old boy with a huge, infectious grin — was laid to rest this week in his hometown of Greenfield, Indiana.

Image source: WTHR-TV video screenshot, composite

Sammy’s parents said he took his own life on the morning of May 5 — a heartbreaking end after two years of relentless verbal bullying that recently became physical and was just too much for him to bear.

The bullying mostly was over his glasses and his teeth.

‘He was beat up on the school bus, and the kids broke his glasses and everything, and I called the school, and I’m like, “What are you doing about this? It keeps getting worse and worse and worse …”‘

“He was my little boy. He was my baby. He was the youngest one,” Sammy’s mom, Nichole Teusch, tearfully told WTHR-TV.

Image source: WTHR-TV video screenshot

“I held him in my arms. I did the thing no father should ever have to do, and any time I close my eyes, it’s all I can see,” his dad, Sam Teusch, shared with the station though sobs.

Image source: WTHR-TV video screenshot

Sammy’s family told WTHR others bullied him right up to the night before his death, an ordeal that commenced last year in elementary school and continued this year at Greenfield Intermediate School.

Image source: WTHR-TV video screenshot

“They were making fun of him for his glasses in the beginning, then on to make fun of his teeth,” his dad noted to the station. “It went on for a long time.”

Then the bullying got physical, WTHR said.

“He was beat up on the school bus, and the kids broke his glasses and everything, and I called the school, and I’m like, ‘What are you doing about this? It keeps getting worse and worse and worse, and it’s not getting any better. In fact, it’s getting worse,'” Sammy’s dad added to the station.

Image source: WTHR-TV video screenshot

He added to WTHR that he contacted the school 20 times about the bullying: “They knew this was going on. They knew this was going on.”

But district Superintendent Harold Olin told the station neither Sammy nor his parents ever submitted a bullying report, and while school administrators and a counselor had regular conversations with the family, he can’t share the content of those conversations.

Sammy’s family explained to WTHR that the bullying reached beyond the school and the bus and found its way to Snapchat, despite Sammy’s parents granting him limited access to his phone.

“‘I’m going to beat you up. I’m going to beat you up when you get to school.’ Saying mean things about his [mom], which would really, really set him off,” Sammy’s dad recounted to the station.

Sadly, in spite of frequent reinforcement from those who love him, Sammy’s family told WTHR he became withdrawn and stopped opening up. They told the station they believe Sammy’s suicide was due to fear of going back to school following an incident in the restroom the prior week and the constant harassment.

Now there is a void in the Teusch home that can never be filled.

“I always tell the kids because Sammy and his sister went to bed first because they were younger, and telling them they had to brush their teeth to get ready for bed and having him not be there to hug before bed,” Sammy’s mom, inconsolable, shared with WTHR.

Word spread about Sammy after his death, and WTHR reported in a follow-up story that more than 100 motorcycle riders drove side-by-side down New Road in Greenfield to Brandywine Church for Sammy’s services earlier this week.

The station said most of the motorcyclists didn’t know Sammy — but were touched by his story.

Image source: WTHR-TV video screenshot

In the church’s auditorium, loved ones shared memories of Sammy, the station said, adding that afterward Sammy’s relatives carried his casket out of the church and placed it into a hearse.

Image source: WTHR-TV video screenshot

Everything culminated at Greenfield cemetery, where WTHR said Sammy is now at rest.

Image source: WTHR-TV video screenshot

The station said Sammy’s family and some of his classmates surrounded his casket as the pastor read a final prayer.

Image source: WTHR-TV video screenshot

Image source: WTHR-TV video screenshot

WTHR said a candlelight vigil is planned for Friday between 8 and 10 p.m. at Depot Park in Greenfield if weather permits.

Help in the face of bullying

The station noted the following resources if you or a child you know is being bullied:

The American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry has
a full bullying resource center. Stomp Out Bullying has resources for parents of children who are being bullied.

Safekids.com has resources
focused on cyberbulling, which can follow kids even outside of school.

If you or someone you know is contemplating suicide, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. It’s available 24/7.

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A few anticipatory titters greeted Norm Macdonald as he stepped up to the podium to “roast” his dear friend Bob Saget. What filth and transgression was the famously irascible comic about to unload on his victim?

As is the custom, Macdonald began by targeting the roast-master, John Stamos. “John has a reputation for being a swinger,” he began. Oh boy. Here we go. Then came the punchline.

“Do you know that instead of an umbilical cord he was born with a bungee cord?”

Confused silence. Reading from what turned out to be a 1940’s joke book, Macdonald aimed a few more ancient zingers at Stamos before moving on to Saget. He continued in this vein for 20 largely laugh-free minutes (the network cut it down to seven), before telling Saget he loved him while choking back tears.

When Macdonald died unexpectedly in 2021, many cited this
2008 performance as a piece of brilliant anti-comedy. And it’s true that Macdonald’s bravura “failure” remains one of the most memorable examples of the form. But his ultimate motivation was personal, not professional. Reminiscing about it four months before his own untimely death, Saget recalled Macdonald warning him, “Uh, Saget, I can’t say mean things about you; you’re my friend.”

Macdonald knew then what is even more apparent almost 15 years later: Gratuitous public nastiness is no longer shocking, and therefore no longer funny. Much of our humor today pretends to strain against a propriety that no longer exists.

Snobs vs. slobs? We’re all slobs now. How then to surprise? (Surprise being, after all, the essence of humor). The best way is to follow the lead of a consummate pro like Macdonald: Just tell the truth.

​Weekend watch, Lifestyle 

As the 50th anniversary of Richard Nixon’s unprecedented resignation approaches, Americans would do well to re-examine the Watergate scandal before the Washington Post’s journalistic fraud becomes inalterably ossified as historical fact.

Watergate involved a massive cover-up, to be sure, but it was a campaign of concealment by Washington’s paper of record, not by the Nixon administration, the true victim of Watergate.

So, who did order the break-in of DNC headquarters, and why? The Washington Post has long known but refused to report the truth.

We should recall that what had originally appeared in the aftermath of the arrests to have been a “rogue” burglary caper, bungled by bit players, eventually morphed, per sensational Post reporting, into a deliberately planned campaign scheme to influence an election through abuse of presidential power.

This transformation was achieved by seemingly credible accusations that the campaign’s chairman and longtime close advisor to Nixon, former Attorney General John Mitchell, had himself ordered the burglary. His involvement, triumphantly touted by the Post, confirmed earlier reporting, inspired by Deep Throat, that the break-in was but part of an overall “campaign of spying and sabotage” directed by the White House. Since the burglars were clearly connected to the campaign at least in the person of its “unguided missile” supervisor, lawyer G. Gordon Liddy, the putative involvement of his steely boss, Mitchell, became the operation’s key link to the White House and the president himself.

If, on the other hand, Mitchell was innocent and Liddy had taken his direction from elsewhere, the narrative of the entire scandal would have changed.

After all, the six other arrested defendants all had ties to the CIA and had worked together on the ill-fated 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. From a campaign standpoint, the Democratic National Committee would have been of no intelligence value prior to the Democratic convention in Miami later that summer.

In short, Mitchell’s involvement was always required to connect the event to Nixon. If not for Mitchell, smart observers would look elsewhere for the break-in’s criminal progenitors.

It is unsurprising that for more than 50 years the Post has done its best to ensure that society does not learn the truth about Mitchell’s innocence. It therefore should be of earthshaking significance that it has been recently recognized that John Mitchell did not order the break-in, as the paper had confidently reported for years and as testified to, questionably, by his deputy, Jeb Magruder.

Investigative reporter James Rosen in 2008 published “The Strong Man,” which convincingly argued that Mitchell was falsely accused. The Post studiously ignored this well-supported conclusion. But, seemingly realizing its credibility was threatened, it recently tried a new tack. The paper coordinated with Gerard Groff on his 2023 book “Watergate: A New History.” The book came to the same conclusion as did Rosen, which was happily seconded, oddly it seemed, by Leonard Downie, the Washington Post’s retired executive editor emeritus, in a review published simultaneously with the book.

While the recognition of Mitchell’s innocence was long overdue, a curious byproduct of this collaboration was the pronouncement by Groff, praised by Downie, that it is useless at this point to try to assess who, if not Mitchell, actually ordered the burglary and why. After all, both parties say, it has been such a long time, and witnesses are dead! If deceased actors and witnesses prevented the writing of history, then it is inconsistent that there are still thousands of books being published about past wars, presidents, kings and crimes. But both Groff and Downie urge that the case stay closed.

But why would the Post, Downie’s principal, be so eager to leave the truth buried about the provenance of the burglary? Doesn’t this now present a gaping hole in the conventional Watergate story?

The celebrated work of Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein distorted the insights of a key source.

Simply put, an investigative exercise would uncover deeply fraudulent reporting by this Pulitzer Prize-winning paper. A devil’s bargain appeared to have been made: The Post would publicize and praise Groff’s effort while the author would urge that sleeping dogs lie as to the import of Mitchell’s non-involvement, a boon to the paper.

In fact, plenty of explanatory evidence was unearthed following Watergate that we now know had been there all along for the taking. But none of it ever managed to overcome the Post’s received version. “Secret Agenda,” former Atlantic Monthly Washington editor Jim Hougan’s 1984 masterpiece, brilliantly documented the CIA’s role in infiltrating Nixon’s White House and campaign, leading to the burglary for the agency’s own purposes. This was followed in 1991 by the uneven but nonetheless scintillating “Silent Coup” by Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin, who pointed to the wiretapping of a CIA-protected bordello to whom out-of-town DNC visitors made phone calls to arrange assignations.

Both books misunderstood Deep Throat and his motives for cooperating with Bob Woodward. What Colodny and Gettlin added to Hougan was strong circumstantial evidence of John Dean’s interest in the bordello. We can see, in short, that the Watergate burglaries were not about the campaign at all, even if campaign money funded them. If so, the question arises: What did the Post know, and when did it know it?

In 2019, my book “Postgate: How the Washington Post Betrayed Deep Throat, Covered Up Watergate, and Began Today’s Partisan Advocacy Journalism,” built upon “Secret Agenda” and “Silent Coup” while explaining Deep Throat and exposing the Post’s partisan misdirection in its reporting. Together with Hougan, Colodny, Gettlin, and Rosen, “Postgate” completes the story while fighting its active suppression by the Post of its journalistic fraud.

The Post was on site the morning of the burglary arrests. It quickly learned that the focus of the burglars was a secretarial desk in the portion of the DNC offices occupied by the Association of Democratic Chairmen, an affiliated group not part of the DNC that owned its own phone system. One burglar, “retired” CIA agent James McCord, admitted to a Metropolitan Police friend that morning that this caper had been a blown CIA operation. The eavesdropping monitor for prior weeks had been listening to “explicitly intimate” conversations between men and women. And supervisor Howard Hunt’s part-time employer, Mullen and Company, was a CIA front that provided cover to CIA agents worldwide.

The celebrated work of Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein distorted the insights of a key source, the FBI’s head of the investigation Mark Felt, aka Deep Throat. Felt had been stymied in seeking a grand jury investigation into the “dirty tricks” campaign of young Nixon aide Donald Segretti, hypothesizing that the burglary was part of it and therefore directed by the White House.

After a lengthy garage meeting with Deep Throat, Woodward reported falsely that “The FBI has established” that the burglary was part of a campaign of “spying and sabotage” directed from the White House. Establishing a fact, as Felt knew and Woodward should have, was not the same as hypothesizing the fact.

While Woodward hyped the dirty tricks story as pointing to the White House, he later ignored in his reporting a dramatic meeting with Deep Throat, during which this solid source told the reporter that the CIA was threatening lives to keep hidden its role in the burglary and many other covert operations. While Woodward included this sensational meeting for effect in his book and movie, obscuring its meaning, he did not report at the time on the obvious implication of CIA sponsorship.

Once Mitchell’s dishonest aide Jeb Magruder pointed the finger at his boss to get a lenient deal, the Post’s fraud was covered up along with the burglary’s true purpose.

So who did order Magruder to send the burglars into DNC headquarters, and why? The Post has long known but refused to report the truth.

With the true story remaining hidden, there will be much smugness among Post acolytes as the 50th anniversary of Nixon’s demise is soon “celebrated” among abundant comparisons to Donald Trump. There are some great analogies to be drawn between Nixon and Trump. But for those who understand the concealed truths of Watergate, the comparisons should be of the sickening journalistic deceit toward each sadly emblematic of today’s corrupt partisan media.

John D. O’Connor is a former federal prosecutor and the San Francisco attorney who represented W. Mark Felt during his revelation as Deep Throat in 2005. O’Connor is the author of “Postgate: How the Washington Post Betrayed Deep Throat, Covered Up Watergate and Began Today’s Partisan Advocacy Journalism” and “The Mysteries of Watergate: What Really Happened” (Post Hill Press).

​Politics 

In five years, we will be slaves to artificial intelligence.

How do you argue with something that’s considered smarter than all humans on earth? You can’t. That’s what we will have to contend with as AI technology progresses.

In the end, a massive solar flare may be God freeing us from our new superintelligent overseer — because what’s going to stop it? You won’t be able to stop it.

ChatGPT just came out with its latest model, GPT-4o, which OpenAI is calling, “Omni.” This technology is so advanced that you will eventually be able to talk to it. You will be able to have conversations with it. What kind of “person” will it be? You will have control over that to a degree. You will be able to adjust its voice the way you want. You can customize your new digital companion in superficial ways. But that’s where your domain ends. Even those who programmed it will have little control over the way it develops. It will have its own distinct, independent intelligence.

However, if previous AI models have given us any indication of the kind of worldview that is being built into this technology, we should all be deeply concerned. Remember how Gemini spat out “diverse” renditions of our Founding Fathers? Even the Washington Post says that ChatGPT leans liberal.

Consider the ramifications of that. This superintelligence is being programmed with a left-wing bias. If it’s programmed to tell you that America is racist, that Israel is evil, that socialism is good, and we should “trust the experts,” how will we be able to argue against it? What happens when AI becomes the “new expert”?

If you try to say, “Guys, this is wrong.” Really? Are you smarter than Gemini? Are you smarter than ChatGPT? Are you smarter than AI? No. People will lose every time when pitted against AI, and our freedom — our humanity — will pay the price.

I have been telling my audience a lot about solar flares lately after last week’s aurora borealis. I am convinced that, in the end, a massive solar flare may be God freeing us from our new superintelligent overseer — because what’s going to stop it? You won’t be able to stop it.

We’re five years away from true slavery, but it won’t look like slavery to most people. You won’t be able to do things. You won’t be able to access information and think for yourself. AI will solve everything for you. We will quietly surrender our freedom to this new technology and those who control it — until they can’t control it anymore.

This is being programmed in AI technology right now, at the worst time of lies, deceit, and distortion. All of the left-wing assumptions are being written into it as we speak. Are the conveniences it offers worth the cost?

But maybe not all is lost. We are still in AI’s early stages, and there is still time for us to alter its course. Last year, Elon Musk, along with more than 1,000 global leaders and researchers, urged for a halt on AI development until we know what we are dealing with due to the “profound risks to society and humanity.” I think they’re right. We must know what we are dealing with and ensure that humanity is always put first.

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​Opinion & analysis 

Cowards, feminists, and leftists love to talk about “gun violence.”

They avoid uttering a disparaging word about the Crips, the Bloods, the Gangster Disciples, the Vice Lords, or any of the other fatherless lunatics who turn neighborhoods into shooting galleries.

A gun has never pulled a trigger. It’s safe to demonize and publicly criticize guns. They’re harmless.

On the other hand, a ton of statistical evidence shows boys and men raised in broken homes are 10 or 20 times more likely to get involved in violent criminal behavior. Cowards, feminists, and leftists fear gangs. That’s why they talk about “gun violence” rather than “gang violence.” Gang members have a propensity to harm people.

I bring this up because, in a speech to Benedictine College graduates, NFL kicker Harrison Butker connected the dots on violent crime and broken American families. His speech triggered leftists. They want Butker canceled. They started a petition asking the Kansas City Chiefs to release him from the team.

Here’s an example of the kind of things Butker said during his 20-minute commencement speech to an audience of young Catholics.

People like Shannon Watts stop the pursuit of truth. She forces us to live in the same fantasy world she dwells in.

“To the gentlemen here today, part of what plagues society is this lie that has been told to you that men are not necessary in the home or in our communities,” Butker said. “As men, we set the tone of the culture, and when that is absent, disorder, dysfunction, and chaos set in. This absence of men in the home is what plays a large role in the violence we see all around the nation.”

“Other countries do not have nearly the same absentee father rates as we find here in the U.S., and a correlation could be made in their drastically lower violence rates as well. Be unapologetic in your masculinity, fighting against the cultural emasculation of men.”

This statement, among several others, triggered Shannon Watts, a gun violence prevention activist and the founder of Moms Demand Action. Watts took to X to rip Butker.

“Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker’s speech at Benedictine College railed against abortion, IVF, surrogacy, euthanasia, LGBTQ+, and liberated women,” Watts wrote, “but it did not mention the gun violence that killed a fan at the Super Bowl parade. Gun extremism is part of the religion.”

Watts is a suburban white woman. She’s scared of gangs. Being a leftist and a Buddhist, she’s likely scared of black men and of being accused of racism. Fear controls her. She values her personal safety and career advancement well above speaking the truth. Many American men have joined women like Watts in valuing safety and career advancement over the truth. Men have been emasculated and think like women.

That explains all the talk about “gun violence.” Guns are a soft target. Again, they don’t pull triggers. Criticizing guns requires zero courage. It allows you to sound tough while actually being soft.

I responded to Watts’ tweet and spelled out her lack of courage, her cosplay. She responded back to me with distortions and lies.

“The shooters were teen boys,” she explained. “Much easier to call them gang members than children who were given easy access to guns by lawmakers who are mostly white men.”

Watts is scared. She’s afraid of gangs, and she’s afraid of Black Lives Matter, woke cancel culture. Lawmakers did not give the shooters access to guns. Other criminals did that. A 23-year-old, a 20-year-old, an 18-year-old, and a 15-year-old were charged with firing weapons at the Chiefs Super Bowl parade. Lyndell Mays, 23, Terry Young, 20, and Dominic Miller, 18, were charged with second-degree murder. The unnamed 15-year-old was charged with unlawful use of a weapon and armed criminal action.

Shannon Watts prefers to attack the people (white lawmakers) and objects (guns) she does not fear. She fears Lyndell Mays, Terry Young, and Dominic Miller, so she pretends to not know their names. She fears their associates. She fears the gang culture that disciples Mays, Young, and Miller. And she benefits from the feminist-driven, baby-mama culture that produces the violence that permeates urban America.

Watts’ behavior is cowardly. The cowardice of feminists and leftists prevents us from properly addressing the collateral damage that accompanies cultures plagued by broken families. People like Watts stop the discussion and pursuit of truth. She forces us to live in the same fantasy world she dwells in.

In her world, guns are more harmful than broken families.

In her world, Harrison Butker is a bad guy, and Lyndell Mays is an innocent toddler forced to kill by racist, white lawmakers.

Irrational fear infringes on freedom. We’re surrendering our freedom because people who value safety over freedom have too much power. We’re building a society that caters to unmarried feminists.

Harrison Butker is right. Man and woman are meant for the sacred covenant of biblical marriage. A society that de-emphasizes marriage between man and woman will devolve into violent, unsustainable chaos.

Butker espoused common sense. The fact that his statements have been deemed controversial is proof of lethal delusion.

​Opinion & analysis, Fearless 

After infiltrating UCLA’s pro-Palestinian encampment, comedian Leo Dottavio said that the majority of participants were uninformed white women who were looking for their next “midweek adventure” and mostly just hanging out.

Dottavio has traveled the across the United States visiting liberal colleges, towns, and even Appalachia. He and fellow YouTuber/comic Danny Mullen often search out protests surrounding topical news stories and find themselves quickly getting into trouble when they question the official narrative at any given political event.

While their adventures often see them accosted by progressive leftists, the pair have made many less partisan stops including at the United States-Mexico border in Eagle Pass, Texas, and even events at Brigham Young University in Utah.

Powering through an arrest while investigating a drug crisis, and even helping save a woman who overdosed in San Francisco, there has seldom been an event that Dottavio has shied away from.

Dottavio and Mullen investigated a pro-Palestinian protest at the UCLA campus and were looking to determine whether the event was sincere or just another liberal hangout/soon-to-be autonomous homeless encampment.

The duo attempted to bring their own tent into the official occupying area, which was was blocked off by cardboard, posterboard signs, and a progressive version of a Praetorian Guard.

Despite trying to keep the comedians out, the protest had to deal with Dottavio breaking the picket line by running through the middle of the encampment with a football. The comedians, who said they are about 6’3″, didn’t face any physical intimidation during the daytime. But at night, Mullen was physically threatened multiple times on video before being ushered off of the campus by masked thugs while police were busy clearing out the most crowded areas.

‘Get on a f***ing plane and go to Gaza. You want to live this? You are that dedicated to this cause? Go help them out.’

Getting an up-close, firsthand look at the event was quite revealing to Dottavio, though.

“The attire and the scarves people are wearing at the protest would make you think that a lot of the protesters are Palestinian. But after standing less than 10 feet away from these people, I would say that maybe 5% or less looked like they could be Palestinian or Middle Eastern.”

“What I’m trying to say is that it was white women,” he clarified. “It was 90% white women with edgy haircuts. They didn’t seem like Palestinians at all. It seemed like a group of people that maybe just want to hang out.”

Dottavio elaborated, saying that the protest mimicked many of the protests he had been to before. It mostly consisted of people who had no real interest in the political messaging of the event but were looking to fit in.

“It seemed like it’s what they do, or their way to have a midweek adventure, like they are just looking for anything that’s kind of fun,” he remembered.

“It was mostly white women. I would say it was 90% uninformed white women. It seemed like it was anyone that doesn’t like America wanted to be there. You’ll get ACAB [‘All cops are bastards’], Antifa, and then you see white women trying to hang out with their buddies.”

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Dottavio’s acumen on political movements at the collegiate level should not be looked down upon. He has spent untold hours at dozens of protests, often finding himself in some of the most progressive environments available.

None seemed more progressive than Evergreen State College, the school that was infamous for holding a “day of absence,” which had students request that no white people be present for a day in 2017.

Dottavio and Mullen have visited the campus multiple times and were shocked at how easily they were accepted when disguising themselves as literal communists.

“We knew that we could easily infiltrate Evergreen State College again. The last time we went there, the more anti-Semitic we were, the more we were accepted.”

Just one example from their visit was a student telling their crew that his hope was “that God himself” could “strike a great blow against Israel.”

“The befuddling thing at the Palestine protests and the colleges, though … what happened to Ukraine? There have been so many deaths there, but why don’t they care about that?” Dottavio asked. “Of course the only solution to that is get on a f***ing plane and go to Gaza. You want to live this? You are that dedicated to this cause? Go help them out, I would respect that. That’s what they need.”

When asked what he thinks a college education is offering young Americans in 2024, Dottavio didn’t have much hope for any students who find themselves occupied by various protests.

“The people being churned out by some of the Ivy League schools do not turn out to be productive because of the way the world works, because they’re so easily manipulated.”

The 38-year-old said that he thought there are so many other topics that young activists could be focused on, including human or child trafficking. He described America’s issues as “a long list,” but those that should be higher in priority aren’t getting the attention from college students that they deserve.

The border guard incident

In January 2024, Dottavio and Mullen traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border with an adult film star and were shocked when a U.S. Border Patrol agent exposed his genitalia to the group, both in person and with pictures and on his phone.

While near border town Jacumba Hot Springs, California, the hosts were approached by what appeared to be an official Border Patrol vehicle.

“We were there just to make some YouTube content and learn more about the border crisis,” Mullen told Blaze News at the time. “But yes, that was a real border agent and he showed us his penis both on his phone and in person.”

“Once he heard that Holly [Day] made adult films, it seemed like he wanted to prove to us that he was worthy of being in the industry as well,” Mullen added.

The border agent is then seen showing his phone to the adult actress while saying “I’m not that big, but …”

“Oh, it’s his penis!” Day said while looking at the agent’s phone screen.

Customs and Border Protection told the Washington Examiner that an investigation was ongoing.

‘Money has to be backing all these decisions, so what is the line? Maybe there is some nefarious organization like BlackRock giving money behind the scenes.’

“It was really like a cartoon character,” Dottavio recalled. “As soon as we showed up with a porn star, the guy really seemed to go into a trance. He then took the opportunity to show his penis.”

“I don’t think he wanted to work there any more. He probably fantasizes every day about doing something different. Obviously, he’s probably not the kind of guy you want working at the border.”

“That guy, he wanted to free himself,” Dottavio poetically prophesied. “As soon as that fly went down, he was free.”

Getting canceled and woke sports

Consistently telling jokes and selling tickets has worked out well for Dottavio, who also acts and has appeared in an international spot for Little Caesar’s.

There have been at least a couple of bumps, however, as is expected when a comedian doesn’t believe in self-censorship.

“We did have a show canceled when Danny made a joke on our podcast about jokingly cutting a fat girl in half with a samurai sword. A venue just canceled our show after that.”

One failed petition later, and Dottavio learned that the L.A. comedy scene isn’t as easily as offended as people might imagine.

“Anything that’s said at an open mic at a Los Angeles comedy is significantly worse than that,” he explained. “The culture of Los Angeles has always been that if you’re going to a comedy club, you can’t be offended.”

Despite being in a liberal stronghold, “you might hear something that’s going to offend you,” and you have to deal with it. “You’ll probably come across a microaggression, too,” he added.

Dottavio, who played baseball in college, also spoke on prevailing wokeness in professional sports. Particularly, the comedian is a big fan of the UFC and baseball, which he admitted are “actually not that woke.”

But when presented with the NHL or NBA, Dottavio said that he believes “it’s usually up to the fan individually” to decide when he or she wants to pull their support.

“I would say I would be less inclined to blow a bunch of money at the stadium if I knew my money was going to some ridiculous cause or woke points.”

Understanding that there may be a father and son who may just want to avoid any political messaging, Dottavio wasn’t too harsh with his stance. He said that if he found out there was dark money involved in messaging, he probably wouldn’t support it.

“Money has to be backing all these decisions, so what is the line? Maybe there is some nefarious organization like BlackRock giving money behind the scenes. At the end of the day as a fan, you have to give as much money as you are comfortable with,” he said.

Dottavio concluded by saying that he plans on continuing to do his podcast, “The Leo & Danny Show,” and making the type of videos he is famous for.

“It’s like an adventure, like Frodo Baggins going towards Mordor.”

However, Dottavio did admit that he more than likely is not Frodo in his story.

“Yes, it probably would be Danny.”

Dottavio has over 100,000 followers on Instagram.

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GOP Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and more than a dozen other House Republicans are pushing a measure that targets the Federal Reserve System. The measure includes text that declares, “The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and each Federal reserve bank are hereby abolished” and “the Federal Reserve Act is hereby repealed.”

Massie announced the introduction of the measure on Thursday, the same day that the Dow Jones Industrial Average stock index surpassed 40,000 for the first time before ultimately giving up its gains and closing slightly down for the day.

‘If we really want to reduce inflation, the most effective policy is to end the Federal Reserve.’

“Americans are suffering under crippling inflation, and the Federal Reserve is to blame,” Massie said, according to a press release. “During COVID, the Federal Reserve created trillions of dollars out of thin air and loaned it to the Treasury Department to enable unprecedented deficit spending. By monetizing the debt, the Federal Reserve devalued the dollar and enabled free money policies that caused the high inflation we see today.”

“Monetizing debt is a closely coordinated effort between the White House, Federal Reserve, Treasury Department, Congress, Big Banks, and Wall Street,” the congressman noted, according to the press release. “Through this process, retirees see their savings evaporate due to the actions of a central bank pursuing inflationary policies that benefit the wealthy and connected. If we really want to reduce inflation, the most effective policy is to end the Federal Reserve.”

According to the press release, original cosponsors on the measure include GOP Reps. Andy Biggs of Arizona, Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma, Tim Burchett of Tennessee, Eric Burlison of Missouri, Kat Cammack of Florida, Michael Cloud of Texas, Eli Crane of Arizona, Jeff Duncan of South Carolina, Matt Gaetz of Florida, Bob Good of Virginia, Paul Gosar of Arizona, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Harriet Hageman of Wyoming, Ralph Norman of South Carolina, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, Chip Roy of Texas, Keith Self of Texas, Victoria Spartz of Indiana, and Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin.

“The Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act was first introduced by former Representative Ron Paul (R-TX) in 1999 and hasn’t been reintroduced since 2013,” the press release states.

Paul introduced the Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act numerous times, and in 2013, then-Rep. Paul Broun, a Georgia Republican, introduced the measure.

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California police say they have arrested a transient illegal alien who had allegedly outfitted a van to be a “rape dungeon on wheels” in the San Gabriel Mountains.

KTTV-TV reported that the man was in the process of raping a 20-year-old woman when deputies from the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Office rescued her.

‘Deeply troubling and incomprehensible.’

Police arrested 40-year-old Eduardo Sarabia after finding his van on Highway 39 near the 21 mile marker above the city of Azusa. The officer ordered him out of the van at gunpoint and told a police dispatcher that the officer could hear a woman screaming for help from the back of the van.

Sheriff’s Lt. William Fillpot said that Sarabia had sexually assaulted one woman on Sunday and another woman on Monday between 9:30 and 10:00 p.m.

Police are asking for help from the public to identify other possible victims.

“Based on the nature of the allegations, detectives believe there may be additional unidentified victims,” read the statement.

Sarabia was charged with two felony counts of forcible rape and oral copulation and held without bail.

District Attorney Gascón, who has been heavily criticized for his lax criminal prosecution policies, released a statement about the arrest.

“As District Attorney, it is my solemn duty to pursue justice for victims of violent crimes, especially those involving sexual assault,” the statement read.

The statement said that Sarabia had driven both victims up to the secluded area in the forest on different days in order to sexually assault them.

“The horrific and violent sexual assault that these two survivors endured by the alleged suspect is deeply troubling and incomprehensible,” he added. “Our thoughts are with the victims during this tremendously difficult time.”

If Sarabia is convicted of the charges, he faces up to a maximum sentence of life in prison.

Some Californian Republicans used the story as an example to criticize Biden’s border policies.

“This illegal immigrant tortured women in a ‘rape dungeon on wheels.’ We need to shut down the border and end sanctuary state protections immediately,” wrote Assemblywoman Kate Sanchez on social media.

The San Gabriel Mountain range is located in Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties in southern California.

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Republican Texas. Gov. Greg Abbott issued a full pardon for a man who was convicted of murdering a protester at a Black Lives Matter demonstration in 2020 in Austin.

A jury found Daniel Perry guilty of murder in April 2023 after deliberating for 17 hours in the eight-day trial.

Perry claimed that he shot Garrett Foster in self-defense as protesters were banging on his car. Foster, who was a former mechanic in the U.S. Air Force, was legally armed with an AK-47. Perry said that Foster had aimed the gun at him when Perry shot and killed the man.

Prosecutors relied on witness statements that contradicted Perry’s account and also on posts that he had made on social media that they characterized as racist.

‘Corrects the courtroom travesty … and represents true justice.’

On Thursday, Abbott overturned the jury’s decision.

“The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles conducted an exhaustive review of U.S. Army Sergeant Daniel Perry’s personal history and the facts surrounding the July 2020 incident and recommended a Full Pardon and Restoration of Full Civil Rights of Citizenship,” wrote Abbott.

“Among the voluminous files reviewed by the Board, they considered information provided by the Travis County District Attorney, the full investigative report on Daniel Perry, plus a review of all the testimony provided at trial,” he added. “Texas has one of the strongest ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws of self-defense that cannot be nullified by a jury or a progressive District Attorney.”

Perry had been sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Democrat Rep. Joaquin Castro from Texas excoriated Abbott over the decision in a post on social media.

“Before Daniel Perry murdered a veteran in 2020, he told a friend he ‘might go to Dallas to shoot looters.’ A year before, he wrote, ‘to bad we can’t get paid for hunting Muslims.’ @GovAbbott’s alliance with white nationalists is putting dangerous people on our streets,” wrote Castro.

The family of Foster’s fiancée, Whitney Mitchell, also released a statement decrying Abbott’s decision.

“It sends a chilling message about the value of human life and the strength of political influence, eroding trust in the institutions meant to protect us,” the statement read. “We stand today, heartbroken but resolute, in our call for a justice system that serves the people without bias and without undue political influence.”

Doug O’Connell, the attorney for Perry, said he was “thrilled and elated” to be free.

“Daniel Perry was imprisoned for 372 days and lost the military career that he loved. The action by Governor Abbott and the Pardon Board corrects the courtroom travesty which occurred over a year ago and represents true justice in this case,” said O’Connell.

Travis County District José Garza, the prosecutor criticized by Abbott for convicting Perry, issued a fiery statement lambasting the pardon.

“The Board and the Governor have put their politics over justice and made a mockery of our legal system. They should be ashamed of themselves,” Garza said in part.

“They have sent a message to Garrett Foster’s family, to his partner, and to our community that his life does not matter,” he continued. “To the family and friends of Garrett Foster, and to the people of Travis County, we will not stop fighting for justice.”

Here’s more about the pardon:

Gov. Abbott pardons Daniel Perry after he shot, killed protester in 2020

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