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Excerpt from www.lifesitenews.com

(LifeSiteNews) — Henk Jan van Schothorst, candidate for the European Parliament and leader of Christian Council International, joins Jonathon on this week’s episode of The Van Maren Show to discuss the fight against the international left from inside the European Union.

Van Schothorst began his fight against the international left after working as a staffer for a member of the European Parliament for seven years beginning in 2000. During his time in Brussels, van Schothorst became acquainted with the “enormous power of the unelected bureaucratic elite,” especially the European Commission. According to van Schothorst, the Commission has the ability to “initiate” policies and is “insufficiently” controlled by the European Parliament. The power used by those in Brussels, he contends, is usually used “from a very progressive, liberal left perspective.”

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Excerpt from legalinsurrection.com

I love how this article worries about the impact on campus free speech. Where was that concern over the last decade as countless conservatives were shouted down on campus?

From the Chronicle of Higher Education:

‘We Don’t Need to be Genteel’

Last October a handful of George Washington University students projected slogans, including “Glory to Our Martyrs,” onto a university library named after Jewish patrons. The students said the phrase was meant to honor Palestinians killed by Israel, according to the student newspaper. But many Jewish observers read it as celebrating Hamas’s October 7 massacre.

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Excerpt from www.westernjournal.com

Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker really hit a nerve with his commencement speech for Benedictine College’s 2024 graduation.

Chronically online leftists had a bone to pick with every word in his speech besides “the” and “is,” calling him “misogynistic, “homophobic,” and “hateful” for proclaiming truths all Christians believed until about five minutes ago.

But, for the left, the most “offensive” part of the speech came in a clip shared to the social media platform X by the account Christian Nightmares.

Jesus Christ… pic.twitter.com/bY9bE2XwUm

— Christian Nightmares (@ChristnNitemare) May 14, 2024

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Excerpt from townhall.com

Last week, in a House hearing, the superintendent of Berkeley Public Schools in California pushed back against claims of disturbing instances of antisemitism in her school district, which Townhall reported.

In the hearing, “Confronting Pervasive Antisemitism in K-12 Schools,” Superintendent Enikia Ford Morthel claimed that “any suggestion or assertion that antisemitism is pervasive in BPSD is false,” despite there being several documented instances of antisemitism in the schools, including instances where students have said remarks such as “kill the Jews.”

Now, records have shown that staff in a different California school are pushing antisemitism.

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Excerpt from www.thecollegefix.com

‘Romance is an old white cultural institution that began in the Middle Ages’

“Romance” promotes white supremacy, according to a Black Studies professor who said she has “endured” bad relationships.

University of California Santa Barbara Professor Sabrina Strings addresses this topic in her new book, “The End of Love: Racism, Sexism, and the Death of Romance.”

“I am only one of the millions of Gen X-to-Gen Z women who have endured a seemingly endless array of miserable relationships with men,” she (pictured) writes in her new book, according to the university news story.

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Excerpt from www.theblaze.com

 

Disney has in recent years
reportedly taken to having transvestites assume the roles of certain iconic female characters in its parks. Apparently, the company — growing increasingly synonymous with box office bombs — saw an opportunity to deprive actresses of at least one more female role at the Magic Kingdom: Tinker Bell.

Whereas the company evidently sees no issue with
mustachioed men in dresses dealing with young children, it reportedly regards the fictional character from J.M. Barrie’s 1904 play “Peter Pan,” later made iconic in the 1953 Walt Disney film of the same name, as “problematic.”

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Excerpt from thefederalist.com

When I woke one recent morning to severe pain from a bout of kidney stones, I knew I had an excruciating day ahead of me. I didn’t realize how excruciating until I arrived at George Washington University Hospital’s emergency room where one of the ER’s resident physicians greeted me wearing a pin: “Ask Me About My Pronouns.” The remainder of my morning became a real-life demonstration of how woke physicians prioritize ideology over patient care.

The bloodwork taken upon my arrival showed a high white blood cell count, and during my stay, I complained of pain in both my kidneys. A CT scan taken in the emergency room likewise showed stranding (i.e., scarring) in both kidneys.

The next day, my primary care practitioner grew concerned that a kidney stone had caused an infection that had spread through my urinary tract. She asked me whether I had received intravenous antibiotics in the ER as a precautionary measure; I had not.

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A Minnesota mother is outraged after her daughter had allegedly been attacked by a group of Muslim girls “because of her race and her religion.”

The alleged assault occurred on April 29 at Hidden Valley Elementary in Savage, Minnesota, about 20 miles south of Minneapolis. The victim’s mother, Shawna Larson, told Alpha News that on that day, a group of Muslim girls, who “had been friends” with her daughter “all year long,” suddenly walked up to her daughter on the playground and slugged her in the face.

‘This isn’t just happening to my daughter. This is happening to hundreds, thousands of kids all over the country, and it’s the lack of consequences kids have nowadays to their actions that is creating bigger issues in schools.’

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This offensive behavior is going to continue until there are real consequences.

Inside Higher Ed reports:

Southwestern University Blasts Student’s Anti-Israel Commencement Speech

Southwestern University on Monday condemned a student’s speech at its commencement Saturday, characterizing as “highly controversial and antisemitic” her use of the phrase “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” and asserting that she had misled institutional officials by delivering a different speech from the one she had shared with them earlier.

“We … expect that student speeches at university-wide events reflect our commitment to a respectful and inclusive environment, while still upholding academic freedom that is the center of our mission,” the university said in its statement. “Unfortunately, certain comments did not reflect our respectful and inclusive environment.”

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Excerpt from pjmedia.com

Third grade used to be about learning to write in cursive and mastering multiplication tables. In the America that the left has given us, it’s a different story, as we can see from a ghastly incident that just took place in Savage, Minn.

If you haven’t heard of Savage, Minn., that’s only because it isn’t. Savage is a suburban town of 33,000 that is fifteen miles from downtown Minneapolis and, since its founding in 1852, has been worlds away from any actual savagery. Now, however, it has started to live up to its name, thanks to the “diversity” that has been pushed on Americans as a wonderful way to make our nation more “vibrant.”

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A recent set of New York Times / Siena polls show that nearly one in five registered voters from six swing states, including many Catholics, did not vote in the 2020 presidential election.

The polls surveyed respondents from the battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

Of those registered voters, 18% said they did not vote in 2020. Thirty-nine percent indicated they voted for Joe Biden, while 36% said their vote was for Donald Trump.

However, the polls also asked the respondents their religious affiliation. Eighteen percent indicated that they considered themselves to be Catholics.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — Jonathan Darnel has been sentenced to 34 months in jail and a $125 fine Wednesday morning, in the second batch of pro-life activists convicted last year of blocking access to a late-term abortion facility in the nation’s capital, a case pro-life leaders call an egregious case of Biden administration overreach.

On August 29, 2023 a D.C. jury found Lauren Handy, Will Goodman, Heather Idoni, Rosemary “Herb” Geraghty, and John Hinshaw guilty of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act and conspiracy against rights. The next month, Darnel, Joan Andrews Bell, and Jean Marshall were convicted of the same; Paulette Harlow’s conviction came in November.

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Earlier today, a large crowd gathered at a rally outside Parliament at the start of the biggest Parliamentary battle on abortion in a generation.

MPs will soon be given the opportunity to vote on two pro-life changes to the law: one amendment tabled by Caroline Ansell MP to lower the abortion time limit from 24 weeks to 22 weeks; and another tabled by Sir Liam Fox MP that would bring the abortion time limit for babies with Down’s syndrome in line with the time limit for babies that do not have disabilities. Abortion for Down’s syndrome is currently legal right up to birth.

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The Democrats’ hopes have just been shattered after the judge in President Donald Trump’s classified documents case officially removed the trial from the calendar.

The move shuts down Special Counsel Jack Smith’s anti-Trump case, ensuring that it will never go to trial before the 2024 election, as the Democrats had hoped.

As Slay News recently reported, Judge Aileen Cannon indefinitely postponed the trial after it had emerged that the prosecution had been tampering with evidence.

The trial was scheduled for May 20, and while Democrats may have been hoping the case could get back on track before November, those hopes have now been crushed after it has officially been removed from the calendar.

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Joe Biden and President Trump on Wednesday accepted an invitation from CNN for a debate on June 27.

Trump also accepted ABC News’ invitation to debate Biden on September 10.

“It is my great honor to accept the CNN Debate against Crooked Joe Biden, the WORST PRESIDENT in the History of the United States and a true Threat to Democracy, on June 27th. Likewise, I accept the ABC News Debate against Crooked Joe on September 10th. Thank you, DJT!” Trump said on Truth Social Wednesday morning.

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Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) launched a vehement critique against Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY), highlighting what she referred to as a glaring conflict of interest involving his interactions with Michael Cohen and financial ties to the daughter of the judge presiding over the Trump trial.

The subcommittee convened on Wednesday to delve into allegations of lawfare tactics being employed to manipulate legal systems against political adversaries, including the witch hunt against former President Trump.

During the hearing, Rep. Hageman did not mince words: “It seems like there might be a dog in this hunt on the other side. What you need to understand is that Mr. Goldman, the novice representative from New York, actually does have a personal stake in this case. He has been involved with the Bragg case, helping to prepare Mr. Cohen for his testimony. So, he is quite closely aligned with an admitted and convicted liar and perjurer.”

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Excerpt from thepostmillennial.com

On Wednesday, Joe Biden released a new campaign ad in which he mocked Donald Trump‘s ongoing legal troubles and told him to “pick the date” for a debate.

The move comes after the former president challenged his successor to get up on stage with him “anytime, anyplace.”

 

“Donald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020, and since then he hasn’t shown up for a debate,” Biden said in the ad atop bass-heavy background music. “Now he’s acting like he wants to debate me again!”

“Well make my day, pal,” he continued. “I’ll even do it twice.”

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Excerpt from redstate.com

 

So, say you’re an attorney who decides to testify against a former client and assert he did all manner of bad things. What happens when your former attorney then testifies against you? Well, we’re about to find out.

On Wednesday, while the trial of former President Donald Trump in Manhattan was on its regular break, Robert Costello, the attorney who formerly represented Michael Cohen (who himself formerly represented Trump), testified before the House Judiciary Committee’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Government.

Costello, once the deputy chief of the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office’ prestigious criminal division, alleges in his prepared testimony obtained by Just the News that Cohen repeatedly insisted that Trump had done nothing wrong when he was debriefed in 2018 while federal prosecutors were investigating whether Trump violated any election laws in 2016. Ultimately, federal prosecutors chose not to bring charges.

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Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) is requesting that the Justice Department appoint a special counsel to investigate President Joe Biden for withholding military aid to Israel as House Republicans continue to criticize the president for weakening U.S. support for the Jewish state.

Tenney sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday asking him to appoint a special counsel to review Biden’s decision to withhold an arms transfer that included 3,500 bombs over concerns regarding the growing Israeli offensive in Rafah.

The New York Republican pointed to the Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, which Biden signed into law last month, that allocated $26.38 billion to support Israel, including $4 billion to replenish the Iron Dome and David’s Sling missile defense systems and additional humanitarian aid for Gaza.