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April 25, 2019



April 24 - Conservative YouTuber and second amendment activist Antonia Okafor reports that her entire channel was stripped of advertising revenue by the Google-owned video platform after she uploaded an interview about self-defense with a fellow conservative. “YouTube went straight to just demonetizing my ENTIRE channel today” wrote Okafor. “Just uploaded an episode where Nina Prevot, a Creole libertarian and I interviewed Amy Robbins about teaching young women to defend themselves.”



April 25 - As knife crime continues to be a major issue in Germany, one German women’s magazine has written an article on the treatment of stab wounds in its “health and fitness” section. The April edition of the women’s magazine Illu der Frau contained the article “How do I treat a stab wound?” along with an adjacent subtitle which highlights the growing problem of knife crime across the country, Tichy’s Einblick . The article aims to give practical advice for those who may be victims...



April 25 - Co-owner Alexandra O’Brien has that “Handsome Her” will close on April 28, after just two years of business. In 2017, the Melbourne, Australia vegan café made feminist news with the decision to offer women preferred seating, and charge men an 18 percent “man tax,” to “reflect the gender pay gap.” Now, only two years later, the business is closing its doors for good. “It’s been a wild journey to say the least,” O’Brien wrote in a post entitled “A Handsome Farewell.”



April 24 - A new high-school American history textbook depicts President Donald Trump as mentally ill and castigates both him and his supporters as racist. Published by Pearson Education, “By the People: A History of the United States” will be used by many Advanced Placement students beginning in 2020, reports Todd Starnes. In the final section, titled “The Angry Election of 2016,” the book states Trump’s “not very-hidden racism connected with a significant number of primary voters.”

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April 23 - A Saudi Arabian man who was arrested as a teenager as he was getting ready to fly to America to begin his studies at Western Michigan University was beheaded by the government Tuesday, according to a report from an official press agency. Mujtaba al-Sweikat was 17 when he was detained at King Fahd International Airport in 2012. Earlier that year, Al-Sweikat allegedly attended a pro-democracy rally in the midst of the Arab Spring uprisings in the Middle East, which led to his arrest.



April 24 - A Florida sheriff's office on Wednesday said it had opened an internal investigation after video surfaced showing who was handcuffed to a hospital bed. Officer bodycam footage showed Broward County Sheriff Deputy Jorge Sobrino punching David O'Connell and aggressively twisting his arm at a South Florida hospital in January. Sobrino arrested O'Connell, 26, at a in Pompano Beach, Florida, while responding to a domestic disturbance report.



April 25 - A new uncovered disturbing patterns of police officers rising through the ranks despite being convicted of crimes and accused of misconduct. The investigation found 32 people who became "police chiefs or sheriffs, despite a finding of serious misconduct, usually at another department." A lot of police departments don't have the money or resources to do thorough background checks on candidates, and police misconduct is often secretive and hard to uncover...



April 25 - White sheriff's deputies who were captured on cellphone video pepper-spraying and punching a black teen in Florida last week could face prosecution. All charges against the 15-year-old they were arresting have been dropped. Ninth-grader Delucca Rolle's family said they're grateful he's clear of all charges, including assaulting an officer and resisting arrest. Two of the deputies involved in the violent arrest are now suspended with pay as critics demand they be fired and held accountable.



April 25 - At least 85,000 law enforcement officers across the USA have been investigated or disciplined for misconduct over the past decade, an investigation by USA TODAY Network found. Officers have beaten members of the public, planted evidence and used their badges to harass women. They have lied, stolen, dealt drugs, driven drunk and abused their spouses. Despite their role as public servants, the men and women who swear an oath to keep communities safe can generally avoid...



April 24 - According to a New York Times report, Governor Phil Murphy wants to significantly increase the tax on gun ownership in New Jersey. New Jersey’s firearm ID currently costs $5, while a permit to own and carry a gun costs $2 and $20 respectively. Governor Murphy, however, wants to raise those fees to $100 for the ID, $50 to own a firearm, and $400 just to carry a firearm. And that’s not all. Murphy wants to tax ammo by 10 percent and guns by 2.5 percent.



April 25 - An architecture expert has called for Notre Dame’s fallen spire to be replaced with an Islamic minaret as an apology to Algerian Muslims killed by French police. Writing in Domus, Tom Wilkinson, history editor of the Architectural Review, argues that the rebuild is an opportunity to communicate a message of political correctness. “I can’t say I ever thought it the most beautiful cathedral in the world,” writes Wilkinson, before going on to slam Eugène Viollet-le-Duc...



April 24 - Nearly 100,000 undocumented students graduate from U.S. high schools every year without access to DACA protections, resulting in limited job opportunities and access to higher education, according to an analysis released Wednesday by the . MPI, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C., pulled from census data for its report. Congress has yet to act on bills that would offer a pathway to legal status for those graduates despite efforts...

April 18, 2019



April 18 - An illegal alien who was released into the United States by former President Obama’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has now been charged with killing a St. Paul, Minnesota, father of ten. On April 3, 19-year-old Jose Orlando Vasquez-Guillen, of El Salvador, was allegedly driving drunk in St. Paul with a blood alcohol level of about 0.149 — nearly double the legal limit, according to law enforcement officials. Vasquez-Guillen, according to police, was speeding when he hit Mark O’Gara...



April 18 - El Paso Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 1,800 migrants who illegally crossed the border Tuesday. More than half crossed into the El Paso Metropolitan Area. Lordsburg Station agents patrolling near the remote Antelope Wells Port of Entry in the New Mexico boot heel region encountered a group of 230 shortly before 1 a.m. on April 16, according to El Paso Sector Border Patrol officials. The agents began the long task of medically screening, processing...



April 16 - Chase Bank is shutting down accounts of people and organizations with controversial political views, according to an undercover investigation by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas. O’Keefe’s latest probe found that Chase, without explanation, abruptly closed the account of a political activist that had existed for 15 years in good standing. Enrique Tarrio, chairman of the Proud Boys activist group and owner of a website that sells provocative political merchandise, spoke to Chase representatives...



April 16 - While French authorities believe the blaze that destroyed the roof of the 850-year-old Notre Dame Cathedral was accidental, it has brought attention to the surge of attacks on Christian symbols in Europe. Nearly 2,000 Christian houses of worship in France have been desecrated in the past two years, according to police. In Germany, there were four such incidents in March. Some French politicians have attributed the church desecrations — averaging more than two a day — to “militant secularism.”



April 17 - Colorado’s hostility to the Christian faith of Jack Phillips for refusing to make a wedding cake for a homosexual couple has been condemned by the U.S. Supreme Court. Now it appears the city of San Antonio could end up with a similar reputation, over a chicken sandwich. A formal investigation is being launched into the city council’s removal of Chick-fil-A from an operating agreement at the San Antonio International Airport. First Liberty Institute ...



April 17 - Don’t expect this statistic to appear in Planned Parenthood’s next report to Congress when it seeks more taxpayer money. At one clinic, following the release of the hit movie “Unplanned,” abortion traffic dropped by half. At another, it was down 25 percent. Those are just two of the early reports of the impact of the movie, according to Shawn Carney, the president and CEO of . The organization has conducted 40-day prayer vigils in 816 cities in 56 countries...



April 18 - Hundreds of aliens illegally crossing into the United States were stopped by a small militia called “United Constitutional Patriots” (UCP) Tuesday night near Sundland Park, New Mexico. The militia, mostly comprised of veterans and former police officers, turned the large group over to Border Patrol as they are not allowed to capture anyone they encounter crossing. A member of UCP who livestreamed the encounter can be heard saying, “Lots of coughing. Lots of men with little children.



April 18 - The Trump administration is proposing a new rule to try to block some 32,000 illegal alien-led families from claiming public housing assistance, saying it’s unfair to hundreds of thousands of Americans who are stuck on waiting lists. Housing and Urban Development notified Congress Wednesday of the new rule, kicking off a schedule of publication and notice and comment that could have the plan finalized later this summer. The plan would scrap Clinton-era regulations that allowed...



April 16 - Founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, Omar Barghouti, was denied entry to the United States. Barghouti, who holds a valid US visa, was stopped by authorities at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv as he was about to board a flight to Washington, DC to address numerous events organized by the Arab American Institute. According to a report on Israel Radio, immigration officials at the US Consulate in Tel Aviv had demanded...



April 15 - Pop icon Cher has suddenly had a dramatic change of heart on mass migration after President Trump threatened to dump illegals in the “sanctuary city” where she lives. Imagine my shock. On Friday, Trump said his administration was considering the idea of releasing illegals into sanctuary cities, partly in retaliation to Democrats’ support for open borders. Previously, Cher had demanded, “Anyone who can must take a dreamer in2 their home & protect them!! I’m ready 2 do this...



April 16 - Once upon a time, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle were three of the most beautiful cities on the entire planet. I know that this is hard to imagine today, but there was a time when millions of people eagerly moved out to the west coast for a better quality of life. Sadly, the reverse is true today. Millions of people are moving away from our major cities on the west coast because of the hellholes that they have become. A former Seattle police officer that was recently interviewed...



April 18 - It could be a coincidence, but probably not. Hundreds of folks flooded a Michigan county board meeting Tuesday to demand officials close a Planned Parenthood facility in the wake of the eye-opening documentary Unplanned, which is currently playing in several local theaters. The line to speak at the meeting streamed out of the building and down the sidewalk, and it appeared most who attended were against renewing a lease with Planned Parenthood at a county building...



April 18 - More than a dozen wild bee species critical to pollinating everything from blueberries to apples in New England are on the decline, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of New Hampshire wanted to understand if the documented declines hitting honeybees and bumblebees were also taking a toll on the lesser studied bee species in New Hampshire. So, they examined 119 species in the state from a museum collection at the college dating back 125 years.



April 17 - Chicago police were dealing with hundreds of teens running through downtown Chicago Wednesday night, yelling, stopping traffic and running in the streets. A huge police presence did not deter the rowdy behavior at Millennium Park. The crowd then moved to State and Lake, where Chicago police were preparing to hold a press conference about the chaos. Police said they told most of the teens to go home, and directed them towards public transportation.



April 18 - has admitted to “unintentionally” uploading the address books of 1.5 million users without consent, and says it will delete the collected data and notify those affected. The discovery follows criticism of Facebook by security experts for a feature that asked new users for their email password as part of the sign-up process. As well as exposing users to potential security breaches, those who provided passwords found that, immediately after their email was verified, the site began...



April 18 - As Christian and Jewish Americans prepare to celebrate Easter and Passover, respectively, Gallup finds the percentage of Americans who report belonging to a church, synagogue or mosque at an all-time low, averaging 50% in 2018. U.S. church membership was 70% or higher from 1937 through 1976, falling modestly to an average of 68% in the 1970s through the 1990s. The past 20 years have seen an acceleration in the drop-off, with a 20-percentage-point decline since 1999...

April 11, 2019



April 10 - Newly obtained documents show Google maintains a “news blacklist” and manipulates its search results manually, contrary to the company’s official denials. one of the documents shows the “XPA news blacklist” is governed by two official policies, the “misrepresentation policy” and the “good neighbor policy.” Google’s Trust & Safety team is “in charge of updating the blacklist as when there is a demand,” reads one of the documents shared with the Daily Caller.

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April 10 - The Eleventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that colleges in Georgia are not required to admit illegal alien students. The decision further a national conversation about the rights of Dreamers, as well as the legality of offering them in-state tuition benefits, which usually allow students attending college in their home states to pay far less than their peers from different states. Citing US , which states that anyone who is not legally a citizen cannot be entitled...



April 10 - Ohio Rep. Janine Boyd (D-Cleveland Heights) filed an amendment Tuesday aiming to remove protections for African American babies in the “” the Ohio House is expected to pass Wednesday. The “heartbeat bill” would ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected and allow the state to prosecute doctors who perform abortions after a heartbeat is found. During her , Boyd argued black women should be allowed to abort their children to counter slavery-era atrocities.



April 5 - The Diocese of Västerås, a division of the Church of Sweden, is now giving away an LGBTQ guide for "Christian queer kids." Bible-believing Christians may be stunned to hear that this extreme guide describes Jesus as "queer" and Joseph as transvestite. No, this isn't just some radical college course about the Bible. This is coming from the actual Church of Sweden. The church, which identifies as Protestant, has created what it calls a "survival guide" for LGBTQ youth.



April 9 - The California Senate Health Committee recently voted 7-2 to force all taxpayer-funded universities in the Golden State to appropriate the funding needed to provide "free" chemical abortions to students on campus by 2023. The legislation, , was introduced in December by state Senator Connie Leyva. It would require student health centers on all University of California and California State University campuses to offer chemical abortions to students up to 10 weeks of pregnancy, beginning in January 2023.



April 11 - With the tax-filing deadline just days away, California residents are worried that a slew of on everything from soft drinks to water to tires and car batteries could soon see even more money going out of their pockets in the state that already has the nation's highest income tax. As Californians grapple with that 13.3 percent income tax – and some leaner-than-usual refunds this year due to the recent federal tax overhaul – lawmakers in Sacramento are looking...



April 11 - The EU has agreed to an extension of the Brexit deadline until October 31, with a review in June, after French president Emmanuel Macron resisted calls for a longer delay. The compromise came on early Thursday (April 11) after six hours of talks at an emergency summit in Brussels, where British prime minister Theresa May had asked to extend the deadline until June 30. The new date means the UK will not crash out of the EU this Friday, which had been the previous exit date.



April 10 - Almost 1,000 people gathered Tuesday night in the town of San Pedro Sula in northern Honduras to form a new caravan to reach the United States, police said. "There are more than 800, almost a thousand," a police official told AFP, with the Red Cross reporting the same number. The caravan, which followed a call on social media, took the authorities by surprise after similar appeals since February failed to muster numbers. Many families with children...



April 9 - If you’re driving a late model car or truck, chances are that the vehicle is mostly computers on wheels, collecting and wirelessly transmitting vast quantities of data to the car manufacturer not just on vehicle performance but personal information, too, such as your weight, the restaurants you visit, your music tastes and places you go. A car can generate about 25 gigabytes of data every hour and as much as 4,000 gigabytes a day, according to some estimates. The data trove in the hands...



April 11 - Amazon workers are listening to private and sometimes disturbing voice recordings to improve the voice-assistants' understanding of human speech. The company has admitted to its customers that thousands of recordings are being analyzed by staff and transcribed before feeding them back into the software. As many as 1,000 clips are reviewed by workers in buildings all over the world, many of which do not bear any obvious indication that they are run by Amazon.



April 6 - The U.S. Constitution protects the civil liberties of all Americans, including freedom of thought, speech, conscience, religious belief and the right to dissent and petition the government. Yet, in recent years we've seen a frightening erosion of these civil liberties under the guise of "protecting public health." I'm talking about the ongoing effort to shut down all public discussion about vaccine safety, of course — an effort that is now reaching a fever-pitch as online communication platforms...



April 9 - If you had any doubts about growing tyranny in the U.S., several recent news stories should open your eyes to the harsh truth. The U.S. Constitution protects the civil liberties of all Americans, including freedom of thought, speech, conscience, religious belief and the right to dissent and petition the government, as well as the right to assembly. Yet these constitutional rights are being infringed upon in remarkably blatant ways these days: Unvaccinated infants, children and teens...

April 4, 2019



March 2 - Describing itself as the “answer to Facebook and Twitter censoring Christians, conservatives and liberty,” a new social-media platform called USA.Life launched. Many users are . Founder and CEO Steven Andrew said he decided to use his Silicon Valley tech leadership experience to launch after he saw Facebook block millions of people from getting his posts. Andrew believes Facebook lied to Congress about being “a platform for all ideas,” since they restrict...



April 2 - The new “Unplanned” movie, which tells the story of a Planned Parenthood manager’s conversion to a pro-life position when she saw what actually happened in an abortion, doubled expectations . Now it’s celebrating another victory. It surpassed Planned Parenthood in followers on Twitter, moving past the 300,000 marker. “Today we passed #plannedparenthod in followers. The tide has shifted as the world is exposed...



April 3 - In Skåne in southern Sweden, the judicial system’s resources have recently, among other things, been used to frame a 91-year-old man who wrote negatively about Islam and Muslims on Facebook. The man who is from Bromölla was convicted of “” after he wrote “offensive” about Muslims, according to the local newspaper. “You cannot, with the best will in the world, call these creatures humans. They seem to be inbred, the way they behave”, the elderly man supposedly wrote.



April 2 - Senator Rand Paul thanked President Trump Tuesday after The Department of Defense announced it is “suspending” deliveries of F-35 fighter jet parts and manuals to Turkey. “Thank you @realDonaldTrump. No weapons for haters of America!” Paul tweeted, adding that “Weapons and Aid should be contingent on behavior.” The Senator also noted that the “Same should go for Saudi Arabia!” Paul has long campaigned for the US to stem sales of arms to regimes at odds with US foreign policy, particularly Saudi Arabia.



April 1 - A wealthy liberal neighborhood in San Francisco whose residents cast the most votes for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election is fighting against a proposal to build a new homeless shelter near their gated mansions. Mayor London Breed has sponsored legislation to fast track a homeless shelter that would house 200 people. However, wealthy liberals living in the affected area have set up a GoFundMe to which has already hit $80,000 of its $100,000 target.



April 3 - Earlier today, my attention was directed to a thread on an Internet discussion forum that lamented how much America had changed over the years. I don’t know exactly why, but the posts on that thread really touched me. Those of us that are old enough to remember what America was like before the Internet grew up in a much simpler time. Yes, we didn’t have all of the luxuries that we take for granted in 2019, but we found joy in the simple things and people were generally much happier.



April 4 - The woman who harassed and berated an old man in a Palo Alto Starbucks for the crime of wearing a MAGA hat has been fired. Victor F., a 74-year-old Jewish Trump supporter was confronted by Rebecca Parker Mankey, a leftist with a black mohawk. “This crazy woman started raving at me,” said Victor, adding that the leftist turned to the rest of the customers at the Starbucks and started yelling that he was a “racist” who “hates brown people,” was “crazy” and a “Nazi”.



April 2 - Four teeth found in a cave in the Tongzi county of southern China have scientists scratching their heads. In 1972 and 1983, researchers extracted the roughly 200,000-year-old teeth from the silty sediments of the Yanhui cave floor, initially labeling them as Homo erectus, the upright-walking hominins thought to be the first to leave Africa. Later analysis suggested they didn't quite fit with , but that's where the story paused for nearly two decades. Now, a study published in the...



April 4 - Australia's Parliament passed legislation on Thursday that could imprison social media executives if their platforms stream real violence such as the alleged New Zealand mosque shootings. Critics warn that some of the most restrictive laws about online communication in the democrat world could have unforeseen consequences, including media censorship and reduced investment in Australia. The conservative government introduced the bills in response to the alleged March 15 attacks...



April 4 - Immigration agents have arrested nearly 300 people at a North Texas technology company in what authorities say is one of the largest enforcement actions of its kind in a decade. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says federal agents arrested 280 workers Wednesday at CVE Technology Group in Allen, a city about 15 miles northeast of Dallas. The company refurbishes and repairs telecommunications equipment like cell phones and other electronic devices, .



April 4 - New Mexico has joined a group of states that replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples' Day. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed legislation on Tuesday declaring Indigenous Peoples' Day as the second Monday in October, which the federal government observes as Columbus Day. has gained momentum in some U.S. cities, with Los Angeles, Austin, San Francisco, Seattle and Denver...

March 28, 2019



March 21 - Only 37 firearms have been surrendered to police in New Zealand following the alleged Christchurch mosque massacre, raising questions as to how thousands of semi-automatic weapons will now be confiscated following the passage of an emergency law that makes them illegal. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced that “military-style semi-automatic weapons and assault rifles” will be banned with immediate effect along with “high-capacity magazines and parts that can modify...



March 27 - A shocking video shows the moment Arizona police forced themselves into a home to remove an unvaccinated toddler who had a 105-degree fever. In the video, the officers from the Chandler Police Department are seen kicking down a door to the home with their guns drawn and holding what appeared to be a police shield as they entered with caution. The officers were at the home to remove the two-year-old boy after a doctor reported his family to the Arizona Department of Child Safety (DCS).



March 26 - Planned Parenthood clinics across the state of Ohio have been receiving notifications from the Ohio Department of Health informing them that their state funding will soon come to an end. The notice comes following a federal appeals court ruling earlier this month that insisted there was nothing unconstitutional about a 2016 state law that bans the state from allocating preventive health dollars to any organization that “performs or promotes” non-therapeutic abortion.



March 26 - Hillary Clinton repeatedly stated that the 55,000 pages of documents she turned over to the State Department in December 2014 included all of her work-related emails. She even declared under penalty of perjury in 2015 that she had “directed that all my emails on clintonemail.com in my custody that were or are potentially federal records be provided to the Department of State, and on information and belief, this has been done.” It wasn’t, of course. Two years later, in 2017...



March 27 - The United States is projected to add about 1.5 million illegal aliens to the American population by the end of the year, should current rates of Catch and Release, border crossings, and visa overstays pan out. This year, the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Catch and Release policy — whereby border crossers and illegal aliens are from federal custody into the interior of the U.S. — is on track to release roughly 434,000 border crossers and illegal aliens into the country...



March 27 - told U.K. lawmakers Wednesday that she was prepared to quit in order to deliver Brexit, as lawmakers failed to find a majority for any measure as they voted to determine alternative outcomes that would command a majority in the U.K. Parliament. May’s pronouncement came before the lawmakers voted in a series of ‘indicative votes’ to ascertain the will of Parliament. Lawmakers decided on Monday to hold these votes after May’s deal...

March 21, 2019



March 19 - The US Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from a Christian bed and breakfast owner who was ordered by a lower court to serve a lesbian couple despite it being a violation of her religious beliefs. The Supreme Court Monday, thus upholding the lower court's ruling in favor of the lesbian couple. Now, litigation will continue to determine what penalty the Christian business owner must face. Phyllis Young, the owner of Aloha Bed & Breakfast in Honolulu, Hawaii...



March 21 - The number of far-right terror cases the authorities are faced with is “absolutely dwarfed” by the number of cases related to radical Islam, according to Britain’s Security Service, better known as MI5. MI5 specialises in counter-espionage and domestic security, in contrast to the foreign intelligence-oriented Secret Intelligence Service – better known as SIS or MI6, made famous by Ian Flemming’s James Bond books. The assessment of the relative seriousness of the Islamist terror threat...



March 20 - White House officials are spotlighting New York City’s protection of an illegal migrant who bit off the fingertip of an immigration officer charged with deporting the migrant. “New York’s dangerous ‘sanctuary’ policies are directly responsible for the egregious and violent harm suffered by this courageous ICE officer,” said Hogan Gidley, the principal deputy press secretary at the White House. The biter is allegedly Christopher Santos Felix, an illegally present Dominican national...



March 20 - A Christian university has once again lifted a ban on homosexual relationships on its campus, several months after re-instating the ban after it had initially been lifted in the late summer of last year. Azusa Pacific University “specifically removed language that barred homosexual relationships as part of a standing ban on pre-marital sex” from its student handbook, The San Gabriel Valley Tribune . The school had previously removed the ban at the .



March 20 - A recent published in The Journal of Medical Ethics by a Finnish bioethicist made a moral case for the legal change of a person’s age to correspond with that person’s “experienced age.” The piece, by Joona Räsänen of the University of Oslo in Norway, titled “A Moral Case for Legal Age Change,” concludes that there are three scenarios when a change to one’s legal age should be allowed: When “the person genuinely feels his age differs significantly from his chronological age...



March 20 - Members of the campus community at Portland State better think twice about making a joke on campus — it could very well lead to their names being reported to the university’s bias response team. Two bias reports filed at the public institution last fall were against people making jokes or similar off-hand comments on campus, according to documents obtained by The College Fix through a public records act request. In one case from last September, a student overheard someone...



March 21 - Nearly 6 in 10 Americans believe the First Amendment is under threat, according to a new survey, yet a large portion of respondents couldn’t correctly name what the amendment protects. Of the 2,000 adults who took part in the poll, half thought that “liberty” is one of the five freedoms protected by the First Amendment, while nearly half (49 percent) believed “the pursuit of happiness” was included. Thankfully, only 3 percent named “life” as one of the protected freedoms.



March 20 - After the alleged deadly attacks at two New Zealand mosques last week, telecom companies in New Zealand and Australia acknowledged they blocked websites that hosted video of the incident recorded by the murderer. it also has been banned in New Zealand and Australia despite having never hosted video footage of the Christchurch attack. “We were not contacted prior to the censorship. Instead, we have received a steady flood of people noting...



March 20 - Migrant advocates charge that the release of 50 migrants from Border Patrol custody in McAllen, Texas, was “intended to create chaos at the border and further President Donald Trump’s argument that there is a national emergency there.” “Why do this now? It doesn’t make sense,” contended Zenen Perez of the Texas Civil Rights Project, . “This is not something they’ve done before.” However, a Border Patrol official speaking on condition...



March 20 - Midwestern farmers have been gambling they could ride out the U.S.-China trade war by storing their corn and soybeans anywhere they could - in bins, plastic tubes, in barns or even outside. Now, the unthinkable has happened. Record floods have devastated a wide swath of the Farm Belt across Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and several other states. Early estimates of lost crops and livestock are approaching $1 billion in Nebraska alone. With more flooding expected, damages...



March 21 - Mississippi’s Republican governor was due to sign one of America’s strictest abortion bills on Thursday banning women from obtaining an abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detected, which can often occur before a woman even realizes she is pregnant. Dubbed the ‘heartbeat bill,’ this is the second legislative attempt in under a year aimed at restricting abortions in a state with a single abortion clinic. In a tweet earlier this week, Governor Phil Bryant thanked the state’s legislature...



March 19 - Something is incredibly fishy about the New Zealand mosque shooting and how governments and the media have responded to it. Governments are now going to extraordinary lengths to eliminate the video from the internet while criminalizing anyone who dares possess it or distribute it. An 18-year-old man was arrested in New Zealand for merely sharing the live stream . “The live stream video of the shootings in Christchurch has been classified...

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March 20 - This is an emergency alert concerning Brighteon.com, the free speech video platform alternative to YouTube. I’m writing this at 12:45 am, March 21st. The Brighteon platform is now under extreme threat by upstream infrastructure providers over users posting footage of the New Zealand Christchurch shooting. We are being threatened to remove all the videos or face complete annihilation online, starting with being de-platformed from infrastructure providers, followed by legal action...



March 20 - The Hamas-founded Council on American-Islamic Relations and the anti-Shariah, grass-roots movement Act for America are squaring off over the suspension of Fox News host Jeanine Pirro. The network punished Pirro for raising the question of whether or not Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., puts Shariah, or Islamic law, above the U.S. Constitution or any other law, as do millions of Muslims worldwide. Pirro, who was publicly rebuked by Fox News, reasoned that the question...



March 19 - Former House speaker Paul D. Ryan has landed his first post-Congress job as a board member for Fox, the new parent company of Fox News. Fox spun off from the larger 21st Century Fox, which Rupert Murdoch sold to Walt Disney Co. Ryan (R-Wis.), who retired from Congress last year citing his desire to spend more time with his family, was named to the board Tuesday. A credited him for leading “efforts to revise the federal tax code, rebuild the national defense...



March 18 - Fox News’ newest pundit is one CNN rejected after she colluded with Hillary Clinton’s campaign before the debates in 2016. Fox said Monday that it has hired Donna Brazile, the former interim Democrat National Committee chair and a longtime CNN commentator before she became embroiled in controversy in 2016. as an on-air contributor in October 2016 after emails revealed that she had tipped off Clinton’s aides about questions likely to be asked by CNN moderators...