What wasn’t funny was Biden’s outright assault on the Second Amendment…
In another sign stumblin’ Joe Biden is losing it, the former Vice President bungled the acronym of the federal agency at the center of his press conference Thursday.
In addition to his announcement of executive orders on gun control, Biden also nominated gun control advocate David Chipman to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — which he mislabeled the “AFT.”
CLASSIC BIDEN: Biden calls the Department of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms the "AFT"…. TWICE! pic.twitter.com/ihNub9HuTS
“Today, I’m proud to nominate David Chipman to serve as the Director of the AFT,” Biden declared. “David knows the AFT well. He served there for 25 years.”
The half-expected gaffe sent ripples of laughter throughout social media.
(Baptist Standard) Federal courts recently delivered victories to student faith-based groups that were kicked off state university campuses for requiring their leaders to be Christians.
Wayne State University in Detroit violated the First Amendment rights of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship by revoking its status as a religious student organization, a federal judge in Michigan said in an April 5 opinion.
On March 22, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis ruled administrators at the University of Iowa were personally liable for violating the free speech and expressive-association rights of Business Leaders in Christ.
Southern Baptist religious freedom specialist Travis Wussow said the cases “highlight just how far outside the bounds of the Constitution these university administrators were acting in both cases.”
“I’m glad that these federal courts ruled what is plainly obvious—that government officials cannot target students and discriminate against their groups because they are religious,” said Wussow, general counsel and vice president for public policy of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.
“Such double-standard viewpoint discrimination is as incoherent of a policy as it is injurious to a university community. I know firsthand how valuable a Christian campus ministry is to one’s college career and character formation.”
Top-line discretionary request provides bigger boost for domestic spending
The White House on Friday released its initial framework of President Biden’s proposed budget for fiscal 2022, which gives only a slight boost in funding for the Pentagon and a bigger increase for domestic spending programs in areas such as housing, climate change and gun control.
The total discretionary request includes $769 billion for spending on domestic priorities and $753 billion for defense — increases of 16% and 1.7% respectively compared with 2021.
The proposal includes $715 billion for the Pentagon — a slight uptick from the 2021 enacted level of $704 billion, but undoubtedly less of a boost than Republicans and defense hawks want to see.
“We certainly hope people look at the full scope here,” an administration official told reporters on a call previewing the request. “The focus will be on investments on non-defense but also ensuring the Defense Department can continue its strategic goals as we out-compete China and as we ensure that the men and women in uniform have everything that they need.”
Every so often, the discussion of boycotts is presented to conservatives after a business or corporation plunges too far into liberal grandstanding. The question now comes to Major League Baseball, and it comes at a time when conservatives feel more cornered than ever.
MLB’s decision to move its All-Star Game out of Georgia was nothing less than a full surrender to a silly voter suppression narrative fabricated by the Democratic Party. Democrats lied about Georgia’s new voting law, and rather than avoid partisan politics and focus on honoring MLB legend Hank Aaron in Atlanta, MLB leaders decided to make the league a pawn of the Democrats.
The question of what conservatives should do is not a simple one. After all, if conservatives had to boycott every form of entertainment that declared its support for liberal politics, there wouldn’t be many options left. In the end, it comes down to how willing each individual is to put up with an organization that is opposed to their values for a few weekly hours of entertainment.
Some people decide it’s worth it, but for sports, that number is continuing to drop. Roughly 35% of people say they are watching fewer games on television as a result of multiple sports leagues joining social justice campaigns last summer. The most political sports league, the NBA, has seen its ratings drop for nearly two years now. MLB wasn’t immune to that last year, seeing the 2020 World Series bring in 32% fewer viewers than the previous low point in 2012.
Some will continue to watch baseball. For many, watching games on TV or at the ballpark is a generational tradition, one that no one can blame them for wanting to continue on. But many conservatives are becoming increasingly unforgiving toward the encroachment of politics in entertainment as those organizations become more aggressively liberal.
Some conservative boycotts are dumb, such as when former President Donald Trump led an outrage cycle against the filmThe Hunt because he and others couldn’t understand that the liberal elites hunting the “deplorables” were actually the bad guys. But Major League Baseball has launched an openly partisan shot to its conservative fans. When, or if, many decide to tune out, it will be justified.
Conservatives rarely organize boycotts or pressure campaigns. The truth is that it’s hardly necessary. While social justice mobs on social media can push companies into liberal circles, conservatives typically speak with their pocketbooks and move on. Major League Baseball is going to find out how many people decide to do just that.
They were hoping the vote would spark more unionization across the country
A highly anticipated union vote among Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama, appeared to be headed toward defeat for the union, and many liberals on Twitter are very angry about it.
The vote count will resume Friday but with half of the votes counted Thursday, only 463 votes supported unionization, while 1,100 votes opposed unionization, more than a 2 to 1 margin.
A total of 3,215 votes were cast in the vote that is being overseen by the National Labor Relations Board.
The unionization effort needs 1,608 votes to win, a “nearly insurmountable climb” according to NBC News.
Some on the left took to Twitter to express their fury and frustration with the failure to unionize Amazon.
“Not surprised at the disappointing Amazon union vote so far,” said Nathan Robinson, editor of Current Affairs.
Not surprised at the disappointing Amazon union vote so far. No matter how hard organizers work, when the wealthiest man in the world is pulling out all of the stops to terrify workers & lie to them about unions, and actively punishes people for being pro-union, it's hard to win.
— Nathan J Robinson (@NathanJRobinson) April 8, 2021
President Joe Biden was apparently worried his communications with son Hunter Biden were being hacked in September of 2018, screenshots released by the Daily Mail suggest.
“Be careful what you text. Likely I’m being hacked,” Joe Biden wrote to his son, as he considered his 2020 campaign for president.
Perhaps the future president had reason to worry, because it’s no mystery Joe Biden in 1986 led the effort on the Senate Judiciary Committee to enact the “Anti-Drug Abuse Act,” establishing first time mandatory minimum sentences for drugs like cocaine.
Any potential misstep regarding his son’s struggle with addiction could complicate Joe Biden’s political record.
Even so, screenshots indicate Joe Biden showed leniency towards Hunter and even offered money to pay for Hunter’s dentist bill. “Do you want me to do anything about the Maisy dentist bill?” Joe Biden asked.
A recent Daily Wire poll released Wednesday found an overwhelming majority agreed Major League Baseball’s (MLB) relocation from Atlanta was driven by “politics and publicity.”
The recent poll found 67 percent agreed Major League Baseball’s (MLB) relocation from Atlanta was driven by “politics and publicity.” In comparison, 33 percent said it was driven by a “genuine concern for voters in Georgia.”
Other key findings of the poll found 64 percent of Americans were “less likely to support companies and organizations that insert themselves into political issues and debates.” Also finding that 70 percent of all respondents to the survey agree with the statement: “Corporations and sports teams should generally stay out of politics.”
Among the voters who are familiar with the Georgia voting law, the survey found, 52 percent support the Georgia voter integrity bill. In addition, 71 percent of respondents said they were “more supportive” of the law after hearing what was in the bill.
The survey also included findings showing an overwhelming majority (78 percent) of the survey. SurveyMonkey took from a sample of majority Democrats, MLB fans, non-white Americans, and all age groups, supporting Georgia’s laws requiring voter IDs for absentee voting.
Pastor Greg Locke of Global Vision Bible Church in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, isn’t afraid to say what’s on his mind, and at his church’s Easter service on Sunday was no exception. In fact Locke felt like it was a perfect opportunity to tell the “sheep” in the congregation to “take them stupid masks off!!!”
Preaching a sermon titled “Signs of a Lukewarm Heart” to a packed crowd outside under a large tent, Pastor Locke spoke on Isaiah 53. He said the people the prophet was talking to were like our culture of chaos and confusion today. The Tennessean pastor said, “The whole world can reject Jesus. The world can say that we have lost our mind and that we have gone stark raving crazy for being in a tent with this many people with no masks and no social distancing and having our church open and preaching the Bible.”
While boldly preaching the gospel and calling out other preachers who waste their platform by staying silent about the truth of the Bible, Locke shared that he is scheduled for “a lot of interviews coming up.” He said he would give them up for five minutes on The View with Whoopie Goldberg. “I’d give up CNN, I’d give up NewsMax. I’d give up Fox. I’d give up all of them for five minutes…Man, me and Whoopi got some stuff to talk about on TV. Just one time can one of us preachers say ‘Jesus Christ is the only way to the Father.’ “
After joking he wasn’t going to get political anymore, Pastor Locke started to read Isaiah 53:6 where God’s prophet says “All we like sheep…” Then he couldn’t seem to help himself and said “It’s interesting that God calls us that. Not much has changed…has it?” Sarcastically the pastor recalled how the government a year ago told churches they couldn’t meet on Easter or they “would kill everybody.”
Just as many US states are seeing Covid numbers plummet, Klaus “trans-humanist” Schwab’s World Economic Forum is pushing a new “smart mask” that not only tells you when to take a breath of fresh air: it also warns you to put it on if you’ve forgotten it.
All tracked through your mobile phone.
It is one more step toward China’s Orwellian “social credit” system (in fact, the mask itself was developed by a Chinese firm!). And the billionaire elites want to shove it down our throats.
President Joe Biden’s administration overlooked certain contenders in a contract bidding process to pay an organization run by a former Biden-Harris transition leader more than $87 million to place illegal migrant families 1,200 hotel beds in Arizona and Texas, according to the Washington Examiner.
While contracts from the federal government are usually bid on by various organizations, multiple sources, and data reported by the Examiner indicated that Family Endeavors, run by former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer and the senior official who evaluated Biden’s picks for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Andrew Lorenzen-Strait, outright won the contract without any competitors.
“Information obtained through the Federal Procurement Data System indicates that ICE never opened the contract to outside companies and organizations but went with an internal candidate who had significant insider connections,” the Examiner reported.
