Operation Rescue Applauds SCOTUS' Ruling that Keeps the Texas Heartbeat Act in Place
- By Christian Newswire
WASHINGTON -- Operation Rescue releases the following statement on the U.S. Supreme Court's action last Friday to keep the Texas Heartbeat Act in place while a court challenge filed by Texas abortionists continues through the lower courts. [Read the ruling here.]
This statement below is attributable to Troy Newman, President, Operation Rescue:
"This Supreme Court ruling is a huge victory because it ensures the law will continue for the foreseeable future to protect babies in the womb, which are the most innocent and vulnerable of human beings. So far, it is estimated that abortions in Texas have decreased by half over last year's numbers. While some women are seeking abortions in other states, many have not and will not, resulting in thousands of innocent lives saved and mothers spared from the trauma of abortion.
The Supreme Court Allows Texas Abortion Ban to Stay in Place While Lawsuits by Abortion Providers can Move Forward
- By Stanton Public Policy Center/Purple Sash Revolution
WASHINGTON, -- This is a significant victory for the pro-life movement as hundreds of children and their mothers will be saved from the violence of abortion while the ban remains in place.
Brandi Swindell, Founder and CEO of Stanton Healthcare, comments,
"While the Supreme Court is allowing abortion providers to sue the Texas law banning abortions after 6 weeks, it is allowing the ban to stay in place while the lawsuits move forward.
"This is a significant victory for the pro-life movement as hundreds of children and their mothers will be saved from the violence of abortion while the ban remains in place.
Senate Gives Mandate the Heave Ho Ho Ho
- By Tony Perkins - Family Research Council
We know what Joe Biden wants for Christmas -- a break from the hot seat. In normal times, he might have gotten it. Usually, the holidays are a great distraction from everything that's happening in Washington -- unless what's happening in Washington is affecting everything Americans are doing for the holidays. For this president, there's no fading into the snowy background when shoppers are paying twice as much for presents -- if they can get them at all!
The Biden presidency has been such a disaster that not even the media's absurdly flattering coverage can bail him out. And in the White House's alternate universe, that's exactly the problem. The press hasn't been favorable enough, reporters were told at an off-the-record meeting with senior administration officials. So his cheerleaders kicked it into even higher gear -- complaining, as the Washington Post's Dana Milbank did -- that the media has been harder on Biden than Donald Trump. No reasonable human being could possibly believe that, NRO fired back. And yet, Milbank whined that the "Left-wing media is tough on him... He has no real support as he tries to" -- get this -- "rebuild the organs of democracy."
Pause Before You Give Congress Credit for Trying to Stop Slave Labor in China
- By Neil Patel
American corporate and political leaders are more eager than ever to burnish their do-gooder credentials. Companies are taking stands on social issues more than ever before. Politicians also want to make sure the voters know they are socially just. It's no surprise, therefore, that each house of Congress has passed a bill to stop the importation of goods made with Chinese slave labor. What's more interesting is just how much top American companies and our political leaders have done to slow down the process and weaken the protections. It's a case study in how Congress, the White House and big business work hand-in-hand to control the agenda in Washington.
Biden's Full Plate -- Ukraine, Taiwan, Tehran
- By Pat Buchanan
One day after warning Russian President Vladimir Putin he would face "severe" economic sanctions, "like ones he's never seen," should Russia invade Ukraine, President Joe Biden assured Americans that sending U.S. combat troops to Ukraine is "not on the table."
America is not going to fight Russia over Ukraine.
"The idea that the United States is going to unilaterally use force to confront Russia invading Ukraine is not in the cards," said Biden. "We have a moral obligation and a legal obligation to our NATO allies," but "that obligation does not extend to ... Ukraine."
Anti-interventionists who have opposed bringing Ukraine into NATO may just have kept America out of a confrontation or war with Russia.
Secrecy Still Part of Judicial Screening Process
- By Rick Brundrett - The Nerve
A legislatively controlled committee that screens judges ruled last week that a longtime circuit court judge was no longer qualified to serve, though the general public wasn’t informed afterward about its decision.
When it comes to secrecy surrounding how judges are nominated in South Carolina, it’s business as usual for the six-legislator, 10-member Judicial Merit Selection Commission (JMSC).
The JMSC on Dec. 1 voted not to qualify Horry County circuit judge Steven John, who has been on the bench since 2001, Erin Crawford, the JMSC’s chief attorney, confirmed Monday when contacted by The Nerve. In an email response, she said the commission in “open session” voted 9-0 to find John unqualified – an unusual action involving a veteran, sitting judge.
Are Decorations of the Nativity Scene, Baby Jesus and the Holy Family Being Banned from Being Displayed on the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree?
- By Christian Newswire
WASHINGTON -- On their website, the USDA/Forest Service lists these prohibitions on what cannot be included for ornaments on the 2021 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree:
Decorations cannot include logos, political or religious affiliation or symbols, drug or alcohol references, be divisive or offensive.
So the official government guidelines say, "religious symbols" are prohibited from being decorations on the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree.
Here is a link to the USDA/Forest Service website address: https://www.fs.usda.gov/detailfull/r5/home/?cid=FSEPRD907029&width=full
In an email to the Architect of the Capitol and the Capitol Police Board, the Christian Defense Coalitions asks if that prohibition on religious symbols includes, Nativity Displays, Baby Jesus or the Holy Family.
Inside the Vaccine Passport Racket
- By Michelle Malkin
The profit-maximizing corporations that covet your "digital health" data hide behind nonprofit umbrella groups that pose as public interest do-gooders. These vaccine passport profiteers are turning millions of human beings into walking QR codes in the name of fighting COVID-19 and under the guise of bringing "normalcy" back. It's an unprecedented worldwide racket that rewards compliant sheep and punishes free-thinking, autonomy-seeking citizens.
Let's name them.
Here in my adopted home of Colorado, the state government is pimping the Smart Health Card "allowing users to verify and share their vaccination status." Who's behind Smart Health Card technology, which is now being used in Canada, Puerto Rico, the Cayman Islands, Australia and a total of 12 states, including California, Washington state, Virginia, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Oregon -- as well as CVS and Rite Aid pharmacies, Kaiser Permanente, UC Health, Walgreens, Walmart, Express Scripts and United Healthcare Services?
Republicans in Top Form on Draft Day
- By Tony Perkins - Family Research Council
In a Congress run by Democrats, it’s not every day that conservatives can celebrate a common-sense victory. So when word leaked that there’d been a dramatic change to the military spending bill, most Republicans were waiting for the other shoe to drop. By late Tuesday morning, the rumors about the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) turned out to be true: As part of a new compromise between negotiators, the language over forcing women in the military draft has been completely eliminated -- a stunning turnaround that wouldn’t have been possible without a handful of leaders in the House and Senate, and more than 200,000 messages from people like you.
America Should Be Shining the Light of Liberty, Not Government
- By Star Parker
The Biden administration is hosting, in upcoming days, a "Summit for Democracy," in which 110 nations worldwide have been invited to participate in this global virtual event.
The U.S. State Department notes that the purpose is "setting forth an affirmative agenda for democratic renewal and to tackle the greatest threats faced by democracies through collective action."
The Biden administration lists on the White House website as among its priorities "Restoring America's Global Standing."
This summit will accomplish exactly the opposite.
Activists Who Led Peaceful Protests in Tiananmen Square During the 2008 Beijing Olympics Denounce President Biden's Diplomatic Boycott of the 2022 Beijing Games as 'Disrespectful' to Our Athletes and Human Rights
- By Stanton Public Policy Center/Purple Sash Revolution
WASHINGTON -- Brandi Swindell and the Rev. Patrick Mahoney, who have been longtime activists for human rights in China, were arrested for organizing peaceful demonstrations in Tiananmen Square during the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. They were threatened with a six month prison sentence for their actions and eventually deported. They are both currently banned from China.
Ms. Swindell and Rev. Mahoney are deeply troubled and disappointed with the Biden Administration's decision to have a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games.
On Monday, the Biden Administration announced a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Games citing China's, "ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity."
Will Congress Take Away Your Credit Card?
- By Stephen Moore
How would you feel about Congress snatching away your credit card or preventing you from participating in credit card reward programs?
Don't laugh. Left-wing groups in Washington are declaring that the plastic card in your wallet is the financial villain that needs to get reined in.
A new study from researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston finds that credit card reward programs are unfair because they create "an implicit money transfer" to wealthy cardholders from lower-income people who buy things with cash or debit cards.
Nite Line Guest Line-up for December 13-17, 2021
- By Nite Line Press Release
Nite Line broadcasts live Monday through Friday on WGGS-TV from 8 p.m. until 9:30 p.m. The program features local and/or nationally known guests who share their testimonies and talent. Our goal is to be an inspiration to our viewers as well as inform them of Christian and community events in the upstate.
Monday, December 13, 2021: Pastor Keith Kelly welcomes Scott Schuler to share his testimony and discuss his book, Why Can’t I Get This Jesus Thing Right? Scott also provides advice that encourages others in their faith with Jesus. This program features Christmas music from Danny Bishop.
Clint Eastwood at Post 214
- By Tony A. Dunn
Movie night at American Legion Post 214, 3110 Wade Hampton Blvd. Taylors, S.C. The movie of choice was "Heartbreak Ridge."
Putin to Biden: Finlandize Ukraine, or We Will
- By Pat Buchanan
Either the U.S. and NATO provide us with "legal guarantees" that Ukraine will never join NATO or become a base for weapons that can threaten Russia -- or we will go in and guarantee it ourselves.
This is the message Russian President Vladimir Putin is sending, backed by the 100,000 troops Russia has amassed on Ukraine's borders.
At the Kremlin last week, Putin drew his red line:
"The threat on our western borders is ... rising, as we have said multiple times. ... In our dialogue with the United States and its allies, we will insist on developing concrete agreements prohibiting any further eastward expansion of NATO and the placement there of weapons systems in the immediate vicinity of Russian territory."
Henry Clay and His American System
- By Mike Scruggs
Foreshadows of the Morrill Tariff
Part 4 of 8 of a Series on the Morrill Tariff
In 1816, many prominent Southerners and New Englanders felt that they would benefit enough from the nation’s overall growth from increased industrialization to compensate for their immediate disadvantage from higher tariffs. Even James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and John C. Calhoun approved of the compromise. This compromise, however, bore the seeds of Northern addiction to protectionist tariffs. First advocated by Alexander Hamilton and his Federalist Party, high tariffs reduced foreign competition and allowed American manufacturers to raise their prices. The resulting increases in profitability (at consumer expense) raised their appetite for still more. In less than a decade, the continuous Northern cry for protectionist policies would give birth to Kentucky Representative Henry Clay’s “American System.” Clay, like Hamilton, favored protective tariffs, industrial subsidies, and a centralized national bank. These policies were later adopted by Clay’s Whig Party and then the new Republican Party in 1856. This also led to the growth of legislative logrolling (I’ll help you roll your log if you help me roll my log.). Logrolling increased legislative support for bills by expanding them to include mutual agreements beyond their central purpose. In the end, the 1816 Tariff had some legislative support in every state except North Carolina and Delaware. Of course, the moral problem with all this is that it amounts to ganging up to pass legislation that will benefit the most powerful interest groups at the expense of the overall national interest and less powerful commercial or regional interests. As a rule of thumb for the era, tariffs of 15 to 20 percent were seen as tolerable revenue tariffs, while tariffs of 20 percent or more were seen as protectionism that led to big profits for some and economic harm to others.
Judicial Department Keeping Staff Salaries Secret – Again
- By Rick Brundrett - The Nerve
In a repeat of last year, the S.C. Judicial Department is resisting The Nerve’s request to reveal the current pay of its employees, including dozens of judges making six-figure salaries.
Meanwhile, Supreme Court Chief Justice Donald Beatty, the administrative head of the state court system, wants nearly $9 million more in general funds for next fiscal year, which starts July 1, to cover 76 full-time-equivalent (FTE) administrative support positions that have been funded with court fines and fees, according to the agency’s annual budget request submitted to the S.C. Department of Administration.
If approved, that amount would be in addition to $7 million in general funds that lawmakers approved for this fiscal year to cover 92 other FTE administrative support positions that had been funded with court fines and fees, according to the budget request.
The god of Fear
- By Ben Graydon
They are everywhere – people with masks across their faces, covering their mouths and noses, making breathing difficult, opting to keep rebreathing the toxic exhaust that their bodies were designed to get rid of, all in the name of improving the Creator’s design – stupefied people who have lost the ability to think for themselves. Whether they believe there is a real virus threat and that the masks will help, or they aren’t sure what they believe and are just going along to not make waves, they telegraph a Truman Show reality that is all contrived.
Action Cures Fear
- By W.H. Lamb
A couple of years ago the Times Examiner published my series of three articles that examined the life of Christian missionary to China, U.S. Army Captain, Rev. John Birch. This young but intrepid man was only 27 years old when he was murdered by the Chinese communists in China, soon after the end of WW11, during the intense three-way war for control of that huge nation between the Chinese Nationalist real government, the Chinese communist insurrectionists, and the invading military from Imperial Japan, a war that was ultimately won in 1949 by the Chinese communist butchers, courtesy of a great deal of help from their communist-sympathizing fellow travelers in the U.S. government, especially in the U.S. Dept. of State. Birch’s life and adventures in China from 1940 to 1945 would provide ample material for a block buster adventure movie, if we had any real movie-makers left who have not capitulated to being controlled by the dirty money provided to the Hollyweird studios by the Chinese communist party, the very descendants of those who MURDERED Rev./Captain John Birch in August of 1945.
Senate Strikes Funding Deal in the Saint Nick of Time
- By Tony Perkins - Family Research Council
If federal workers were hoping for an early start on their Christmas vacation, they're out of luck! No one is turning off the government's lights any time soon, thanks to a deal struck in the Senate late Thursday night. With Friday's shutdown deadline breathing down Democrats' necks, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) decided that maybe it wasn't such a good idea for his party to preside over another disaster and finally caved to the conservatives' demand: a vote on the vaccine mandate.
Stop Federal Mask, Vaccine Mandates for Transportation
- By The John Birch Society
The new “Omicron COVID variant” is giving the Deep State another excuse to impose tyrannical COVID mandates and restrictions. This includes a potential vaccine mandate for public transportation, including air travel! For example, Dr. Anthony Fauci has called for doing “anything and everything” to fight the variant, and the Biden administration has already imposed international flight restrictions on unvaccinated American citizens.
It’s only a matter of time before a vaccination requirement is imposed for domestic air, train, and bus travel. Anthony Fauci and United Airlines’ CEO, among others, have already voiced support for such a mandate. They, and proposed congressional legislation, will encourage Biden to implement such mandates via executive decree. Tell your U.S. representative and senators, along with the TSA and CDC directors, to end this tyranny now!
Colorado Mesa County Rally Shows Support for Election Integrity, County Clerk, 'America's Mom'
- By Truth and Liberty Coalition
WOODLAND PARK, Colo. -- Hundreds of people turned out for Wednesday's Truth & Justice Rally for "We the People" to show support for election integrity, Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, and "America's Mom" Sherronna Bishop.
The event attracted scores of concerned citizens who listened to speakers including Republican state Rep. Ron Hanks, Shawn Smith of U.S. Election Integrity Plan, and retired U.S. Border Patrol officer Todd Watkins.
Richard Harris, executive director of the Woodland Park-based Truth & Liberty Coalition, was one of several notable speakers at the event, which highlighted election integrity issues in Mesa County and subsequent Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) raids on the homes of the county clerk and others in Western Colorado.
On Life and Death Roe
- By Tony Perkins - Family Research Council
There were plenty of surprises inside the Supreme Court on Wednesday, but the biggest one might have been outside it. "It was like a pro-life block party," FRC's Mary Szoch beamed. "There was just a palpable sense of hopefulness in the air -- a feeling that this was the moment [we'd] been waiting 49 years for." From dawn until well after the justices adjourned, the atmosphere was almost jubilant -- a preview, conservatives hope, of the celebration to come when the court rules on Roe v. Wade this June.
Until then, even the media couldn't help but notice the enthusiasm gap. "The anti-abortion crowd seemed to greatly outnumber abortion demonstrators outside the Supreme Court," a surprised Washington Post reporter pointed out. Most pro-lifers, who are used to shouting to be heard over the dueling abortion rallies at the court, were amazed. Students like Savannah Benton, who'd driven up from Liberty University, were positively taken aback. "Honestly, I was expecting more on the pro-choice side," she told the Post.
The Life – And Death – of Nations
- By Author Unknown
An Extremely Excellent Essay
“Men, like nations, think they’re eternal. What man in his 20s or 30s doesn’t believe, at least subconsciously, that he’ll live forever? In the springtime of youth, an endless summer beckons. As you pass 70, it’s harder to hide from reality.
Nations also have seasons: Imagine a Roman of the 2nd century contemplating an empire that stretched from Britain to the Near East, thinking: This will endure forever…. Forever was about 500 years, give or take
France was pivotal in the 17th and 18th centuries; now the land of Charles Martel is on its way to becoming part of the Muslim ummah.
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the sun never set on the British empire; now Albion exists in a perpetual twilight. Its 95-year-old sovereign is a fitting symbol for a nation in terminal decline.
NGU Board Approves Renovations to University's Historic Administration Building
- By LaVerne Howell - NGU
The North Greenville University (NGU) Board of Trustees and Board Chair Dr. Mike Hamlet enthusiastically thanked the leadership, faculty, staff, and students for successfully navigating a unique year at their October meeting.
Board Chair Hamlet said the trustees celebrated that NGU had a very productive year amid the challenging circumstances connected with COVID 19.
"Not only were we grateful for the work of our university this past year, but we are excited about the future in so many areas," said Hamlet. "Our approval of the renovation of the Donnan Administrative building is a clear indicator that North Greenville has a very bright future."
The West's Fear That Dare Not Speak Its Name
- By Pat Buchanan
With the drowning deaths of 27 migrants crossing the Channel from France to England, illegal migration from the Third World is front and center anew in European politics.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has proposed that France take back to its shores all migrants who cross the Channel illegally and come ashore in Britain.
In the run-up to French elections this April, a startling development suggests that resistance to illegal migration is spreading and the idea of dealing with it resolutely and unapologetically is taking root.
Marine Le Pen, president of the rightist National Rally, formerly the National Front, who is expected to reach the finals for president of France against Emmanuel Macron, is suddenly being challenged.
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