On Friday, December 5, podcaster Tim Pool reported that an unknown vehicle approached his recording studio in remote West Virginia and fired several shots into the complex.

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According to his testimony, which has yet to be confirmed by law enforcement, no one was injured, and the security team handled the situation.

John Doyle, BlazeTV host of “The John Doyle Show,” was deeply disturbed when he heard this news. If Pool, who is “one of these disaffected Occupy Wall Street liberals who saw that the left went too far,” is being targeted, what does that mean for actual conservatives?

Although he still identifies as center-left, Pool mostly interviews people who have been branded right-wing figures. But just having open conversations has put a giant red target on his back. Friday wasn’t even the first time Pool has been the victim of political targeting. In fact, he relocated his studio back in 2022 after a series of swatting incidents as well as doxxing and death threats made recording unsafe.

The raw truth, says Doyle, is that the people targeting Tim Pool don’t care that he’s a moderate; they don’t care that he’s just engaging in dialogue. The fact that he deviates from their radical left-wing agenda justifies violence in their eyes. Far right, center right, center left — it all needs to be exterminated.

Even so, many continue to argue that discourse is the answer and that “eventually, we can sort of talk our way out of this whole situation and cooler heads can prevail.”

“I, unfortunately, am not so optimistic these days,” says Doyle.

“I have a very sort of, like, Boomer-vindicated position, which is that I don’t think that the ‘innocent Democrat’ is even something that we can conceive,” says Doyle.

He acknowledges that “unity is very popular,” but “calling for unity is something you do when there’s sort of, like, an equal playing field.”

But “you actually can’t call for unity if you’re the one who’s on the back foot, if you are the one with little to no representation, if you are the one who’s being attacked and killed,” Doyle counters.

While he’s not calling for more division, he is urging accountability — not for the moderates, even though they’re enablers — but for the people who spawn and spread these radical ideologies that say it’s okay to celebrate assassinations and attack people like Tim Pool.

“Those are the people I’m talking about. I want no unity with those people.”

To hear more, watch the episode above.

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With the deadline to extend Obamacare subsidies fast approaching, Republican lawmakers are leading the charge.

Former President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act has been the focal point of health care discussions on Capitol Hill as ACA subsidies are expected to expire at the end of the year. These are the same subsidies Senate Democrats cited as the basis of their record-breaking shutdown.

The Republicans’ legislation blocks funds for ‘gender transition procedures’ and abortions.

In response, several Republicans introduced their own legislation, including the Health Care Freedom for Patients Act penned by Sens. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Mike Crapo of Idaho.

With just weeks until these subsidies lapse, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (S.D.) will hold a vote on that key legislation on Thursday.

RELATED: Senate Democrats insist the shutdown was ‘definitely’ worth it despite fully surrendering to Republicans

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The Crapo-Cassidy bill would allow the Obama-era subsidies to lapse, instead boosting funds for health savings accounts. Eligible adults under the age of 50 would receive $1,000 deposited into their HSA while those between the ages 50 and 64 would get $1,500.

It would also fund cost-sharing reduction payments and provide eligible Americans the option to purchase “bronze” or “catastrophic” health care plans. Notably the Republicans’ legislation blocks funds for “gender transition procedures” and abortions.

Although Republicans are expected to vote for the legislation, it is unlikely to pass due to the 60-vote filibuster threshold. Assuming all 53 Republicans vote in favor of the bill, at least seven Democrats would have to cross the aisle for the legislation to pass the Senate.

RELATED: Democrat senator makes stunning admission about Obamacare failures

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Other Republicans, like Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, are also introducing alternative health care bills. Scott introduced his More Affordable Care Act alongside Republican Study Committee Chairman August Pfluger (Texas), who spearheaded the companion bill in the House.

Scott and Pfluger’s bill would create Trump Health Freedom Accounts, redirecting federal subsidies traditionally sent to insurance companies to these HSA-style accounts held by individual Americans. The bill would also establish a Health Freedom Waiver Program, allowing states to broaden their health plans and expand competition to offer fairer prices.

At this time, there is no vote scheduled for Scott’s legislation.

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A 26-year-old South Carolina mother was arrested Monday morning after being accused of a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old boy in a vehicle while her three children were present, WBTW-TV reported.

Lake City Police charged Aladrian Chandler with second-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor, the station said.

‘Disgusting. … And to do it with your children in the vehicle and take away their innocence?!?!’

Chandler acknowledged a sexual encounter, WBTW said, citing a police report — but she denied having intercourse and said she believed the boy was older than he told her.

The station said the report indicates the boy told officers that he and Chandler met while she was delivering food, and they exchanged phone numbers and began texting each other. The alleged incident occurred Nov. 16, WBTW reported.

Police began investigating two days after the alleged incident after Chandler reported that a gun had been stolen from her vehicle, the station said.

The report added that during the investigation, Chandler gave police a written statement saying the boy took the gun out of her car when she went to a friend’s house to talk about how the boy had been talking to her, WBTW reported.

Florence County Detention Center records indicate Chandler remained behind bars Wednesday morning on no bond.

RELATED: Mother chaperoned junior high dance — then had a baby with her daughter’s teen date: Court docs

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A number of commenters under WBTW’s Facebook post about the incident were taken aback by the accusations against the mother of three:

“People are getting sicker and sicker,” one commenter wrote.”What the hell!!!” another user exclaimed.”Real classy,” another commenter noted. “People make me sick.””Pedophilia at its finest,” another user observed. “Disgusting. … And to do it with your children in the vehicle and take away their innocence?!?! How shameful and sickening.”

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U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes — a foreign-born, Biden-appointed, lesbian judge who previously worked as a lawyer to fight the first Trump administration’s immigration policy — decided in March to indefinitely block the enforcement of the second Trump administration’s ban on transvestites in the military, suggesting it likely violated their constitutional rights.

Reyes, formerly of the Feminist Majority Foundation, suggested in her March 18 ruling that the “Military Ban is soaked in animus” and that it was her responsibility as a judge to keep the executive branch at heel, despite acknowledging the “pernicious” nature of judicial overreach.

On Tuesday, a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit handed the administration a big win: a 2-1 decision staying Reyes’ order and greenlighting enforcement of the ban.

‘We’re done with that s**t.’

Citing the Supreme Court’s June 6-3 ruling in United States v. Skrmetti, which upheld Tennessee’s ban on sex-rejecting genital mutilations and sterilizing puberty blockers for minors, U.S. Circuit Judges Gregory Katsas and Neomi Rao — both appointed by President Donald Trump — ruled that War Secretary Pete Hegseth’s ban on trans-identifying military members likely did not violate the U.S. Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause or trigger any form of heightened scrutiny.

“In Skrmetti, the Supreme Court held that a law prohibiting the use of hormones to treat gender dysphoria in minors ‘classifies on the basis of medical use’ and thus does not discriminate based on either sex or transgender status,” Katsas wrote for the majority. “The same reasoning would seem to cover the Hegseth Policy, which classifies based on the medical condition of gender dysphoria.”

Even if the policy contained a classification triggering some form of heightened scrutiny, Katsas emphasized that “decades of precedent establish that the judiciary must tread carefully when asked to second-guess considered military judgments of the political branches.”

RELATED: ‘Not medicine — it’s malpractice’: Trump HHS buries child sex-change regime with damning report

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Katsas noted further that the policy was “likely constitutional because it reflects a considered judgment of military leaders and furthers legitimate military interests,” such as cost issues, unit cohesion, and military readiness.

Trump noted in his Jan. 27 executive order titled “Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness”:

Consistent with the military mission and longstanding DoD policy, expressing a false “gender identity” divergent from an individual’s sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service. Beyond the hormonal and surgical medical interventions involved, adoption of a gender identity inconsistent with an individual’s sex conflicts with a soldier’s commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle, even in one’s personal life.

The Pentagon subsequently released guidance stating that “military service by Service members and applicants for military service who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria is incompatible with military service,” and took steps to begin giving those with gender dysphoria the boot.

Katsas suggested that Reyes’ claim that the Pentagon’s policy did not advance legitimate interests was more or less baseless — that she:

“gave no sound reason for overriding the Secretary’s considered judgment”;premised her claim that “medical studies now overwhelmingly conclude that gender dysphoria is highly treatable” on a “declaration from one doctor who simply stated, in one sentence and without citations, that ‘gender dysphoria is highly treatable'”; and”downplayed evidence of greater mental-health issues faced by transgender individuals.”

The dissenting judge on the panel, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, lashed out at her colleagues, claiming in a 27-page dissent — which reads like a work of LGBT activist literature — that the majority’s decision “makes it all but inevitable that thousands of qualified servicemembers will lose careers they have built over decades, drawn up short by a policy that would repay their commitment and service to our nation with detriment and derision.”

“The majority grants this stay in the face of all evidence to the contrary,” continued U.S. Circuit Judge Cornelia Pillard. “We should not accord deference to the military when the Department itself carelessly relied on no more than blatant animus.”

According to Pillard, the Pentagon’s decision to oust gender-dysphoric individuals from the military was “based on nothing more than negative attitudes about transgender identity.”

She also clutched pearls about various comments from elements of the Trump administration, including War Secretary Pete Hegseth’s May 6 remarks stating, “No more dudes in dresses; we’re done with that s**t.”

“Because the Hegseth Policy is openly fueled by animus towards transgender people and defendants have not shown that it is based on military considerations, it fails even the most deferential form of equal protection review,” wrote Pillard.

Following the appellate court’s ruling, Hegseth shared a cartoon to social media depicting him kicking a bearded man in a dress out of the Department of War. The transvestite depicted in the cartoon is holding a box containing a book titled “DEI Military” and an LGBT flag.

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Though Department of Homeland Security officials continue to bravely execute their deportation mandate, they have been met with a great deal of threats against their safety. In fact, a recent high-profile incident is only the latest example of what has reportedly been an 8,000% increase in death threats against immigration enforcement officials.

On Tuesday, twin brothers were arrested in Abescon, New Jersey, after allegedly issuing death threats to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in general and to a high-profile DHS spokeswoman in particular, according to a DHS press release.

‘We are NOT afraid of you.’

The pair are accused of calling on people to “shoot ICE on sight” on social media.

They also allegedly threatened to hang DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin.

RELATED: Illinois, Gov. Pritzker have released almost 1,800 violent illegal aliens back onto the streets in defiance of ICE, DHS says

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“Let this be a warning to anyone who dares threaten or attack our brave law enforcement officers,” said acting ICE Director Todd Lyons. “We will find you, we will arrest you, and we will prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law. We are NOT afraid of you.”

“The extreme rhetoric of the news media, sanctuary politicians, and activists is leading directly to our law enforcement officers facing an 8,000% increase in death threats against them. If you threaten our law enforcement or DHS officials, we will hunt you down and you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

RELATED: This Southern sanctuary city is next on the list for federal immigration law enforcement

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Emilio Roman-Flores is charged with unlawful possession of an assault weapon, possession of prohibited weapons, conspiracy terroristic threats, criminal coercion, threats, and cyber harassment.

His twin brother, Ricardo Antonio Roman-Flores, is charged with conspiracy terroristic threats.

The pair were held at Absecon Police Department upon their arrest. Both are United States citizens.

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A video has gone mega-viral after a Wisconsin Cinnabon worker, Crystal Wilsey, was recorded shouting racist slurs, including the N-word, at a Somalian husband and wife.

The video showed Wilsey cursing at the customers, at one point even saying, “I am racist and I’ll say it to the whole entire world. Don’t be disrespectful.” However, in an unedited version of the video, the husband can first be heard asking Wilsey if “sexualizing your body makes you a better person.”

When Wilsey asks if she is being recorded, the wife responds, “I’m going to record you, yes.”

There are then cuts in the video, before it escalates to the woman calling the couple the N-word. While many viewers were angry that she used the slur, the response online has been divided.

But BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere knows where he stands.

“Not the best moment anyone’s ever had in a Cinnabon,” Burguiere tells CBN’s Dan Andros on “Stu Does America.”

Despite the Somalian couple being accused of starting the altercation, Burguiere believes there’s “never an excuse to lose control of yourself.”

“What I’m kind of interested in here, more than anything else, is the reaction of some online who are basically saying it’s wrong that she was fired from this job, which obviously she was immediately,” he says.

“It’s ‘wrong’ because that’s basically cancel culture in action. Is this cancel culture, Dan?” he asks.

“There’s cancel culture and then there’s play stupid games, win stupid prizes. And what happened here is the latter. Like, let’s just think about your job here. You are making delicious cinnamon rolls that smell yummy … and it’s like, this is your job,” Andros says.

“Your job is to give someone a little taste of Cinnabon happiness. You know, cinnamon roll goodness and deliciousness and with a smile on your face. … Isn’t it that the customer’s always right? They might be jerks, they might be saying rude things, they might be in a hurry, they might complain,” he continues.

“Just smile. You’re getting paid,” he adds.

However, not everyone feels the same way as Burguiere and Andros, as Crystal has raised over $100,000 on GiveSendGo after her firing.

“She’s a representative of a company, in the same way that if I went into, you know, a Sbarro, and they were like, ‘By the way, can’t stand those Jews,’ I would say that person should lose their job,” Burguiere explains.

“Not because I love cancel culture,” he continues, adding, “because they’re representing your business.”

“They have an absolute right to fire you,” Andros chimes in.

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It may sound like an unlikely match — an evangelical Hollywood veteran producing a musical about a teenage Catholic saint. But for “Frasier” star Kelsey Grammer, the story of St. Bernadette Soubirous — a young French girl who reported multiple apparitions of the Virgin Mary between February and July 1858 at a grotto in the village of Lourdes — proved impossible to forget.

“You can’t turn your back on this,” said Grammer last week at Chicago’s Athenaeum Center for Thought & Culture, where he and some cast members previewed the American debut of “Bernadette: The Musical.”

‘I wanted to be part of it because the simple beauty of this young lady who told the truth and stuck to it through amazing pressure, she earned her sainthood.’

“This young girl had a … stick-to-itiveness and tenacity that can only come from the innocence of a child,” Grammer continued. Already a hit in France, the show depicts the young Bernadette persisting in her claims despite skepticism from townsfolk and the local priest.

“That energy in the face of pure innocence becomes a really interesting battle,” said Grammer.

Soubirous subsequently became a nun, dying at 35. She was canonized in 1933. The site of the visitations is now the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes, a popular pilgrimage site for believers seeking miraculous healings.

Simple beauty

Introducing a selection of songs from the musical, Grammer emphasized the connection he felt to the project.

“I wanted to be part of it because the simple beauty of this young lady who told the truth and stuck to it through amazing pressure, she earned her sainthood,” he said.

“Man’s search for faith on this planet is part of why we’re here. Part of our understanding of being a human being is to figure out where we fit in the universe and what our relationship is like to the creator of that universe, and I’m delighted to be here to take the story further for people.”

‘Jesus made a difference’

Grammer has made no secret of his Christian faith. In 2023 he starred as Pastor Chuck Smith in “Jesus Revolution” — a role he said helped him find peace with God in the face of his own past struggles, which included drug and alcohol addiction as well as the murder of his younger sister in 1975. “Jesus made a difference in my life,” he told USA Today while promoting the movie. “That’s not anything I’ll apologize for.”

Speaking alongside show director Serge Denoncourt and fellow lead producer Pierre Ferragu, Grammer recalled being introduced to “Bernadette: The Musical” by his friend Fr. Mark Haydu, former international director of the Patrons of the Arts at the Vatican Museums.

RELATED: Kelsey Grammer says he still supports Donald Trump

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Mic drop

Grammer said he was particularly moved by the “mic drop” moment in which Bernadette finally convinces her priest of the truth of her visions.

The vision tells her, “Tell them you’re speaking to the Immaculate Conception.” … She goes to the priest, and he asks “Who is it?” She says the Immaculate Conception, and he falls to his knees and is convinced. Because in her own limited history of faith, she does not know what they would even mean.

Grammer remains one of Hollywood’s most unapologetic and outspoken conservatives. A longtime Tea Party supporter and climate change skeptic, he has repeatedly endorsed President Donald Trump and spoken proudly about his beliefs. As he told the Times earlier this year, “It’s great to have somebody who actually means what they say [in office].”

“Bernadette: The Musical” will begin its nationwide tour in February 2026 at the Athenaeum Center in Chicago and is slated to tour at least 13 major cities.

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