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  • Canadian School Board’s ‘Trans and Gender Diverse Student Support Coordinator’ Tweets That Jesus Was a Drag Queen on Good Friday

    Canadian School Board’s ‘Trans and Gender Diverse Student Support Coordinator’ Tweets That Jesus Was a Drag Queen on Good Friday

    A Canadian school board’s “Trans and Gender Diverse Student Support Coordinator” wrote in a now-deleted tweet on Good Friday that “Jesus was a drag queen.”
    The tweet was penned by Sara Savoia, the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board’s Trans and Gender Diverse Student Support Coordinator.
    “Here’s a reminder that Jesus himself was a radical activist … and a drag queen. And also not white,” Savoia wrote, along with an image of Jesus surrounded by children while wearing a white robe and the text: “Oh look, it’s a man in a dress telling stories to children.”

    The disrespectful tweet concluded, “Happy Easter to all those celebrating!”
    Savoia, who uses “they/she” pronouns in her Twitter bio, set her account to private after receiving swift backlash for the tweet.
    Fox News reports that “Savoia has also come under fire for proposing LGBTQ+ themed classroom activities, including making ‘pronoun flowers’ in celebration of ‘International Pronouns Day’ and sharing a presentation for ‘Transgender Visibility Week.’”
    The Gateway Pundit has contacted the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board for comment and will update this story if one is provided.
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  • Security Documents Related to Joe Biden’s Visit to Belfast Found in Street

    Security Documents Related to Joe Biden’s Visit to Belfast Found in Street

    Credit: RNC Research Twitter
    Joe Biden visited Northern Ireland on Tuesday to commemorate the Good Friday agreement.
    He brought his son Hunter Biden along for some reason as well.
    There was a massive security breach during Biden’s visit to Belfast.
    An individual dropped a security document revealing information about where Biden was staying, security arrangements, and the phone numbers of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) security personnel in the street near the hotel the president was staying at.
    It was found lying on the street of Belfast late Tuesday night!

    Embarrassing side story to Biden’s visit: a detailed itinerary of the President’s NI trip (including details of his accommodation, and the phone numbers of senior PSNI officials involved in security) has been found on a street in Belfast. Story reported on @bbcnolan this morning
    — Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) April 12, 2023

    Here is the document:

    Nolan exclusive: PSNI-Biden secret security document found laying in street pic.twitter.com/gHQcNxFPOd
    — The Nolan Show, BBC (@BBCNolan) April 12, 2023

    The security breach comes after rioters in Northern Ireland threw Molotov cocktails at cops in an effort to disrupt Biden’s visit.
    Ahead of Biden’s visit, police in Northern Ireland also announced they thwarted a terror plot suspected to be planned by the “New IRA” to coincide with the visit.
    Fox News reported:
    Police in Northern Ireland are admitting to a “security breach” after a document reportedly containing details of officer deployments in the city of Belfast — where President Biden is visiting Wednesday — was found on the street.
    The BBC is reporting that a member of the public called into one of its radio programs on Wednesday morning to say that he found the five-page document, which he says is marked “sensitive” and has details such as road closures and police contact information, on Tuesday night.
    “We are aware of a security breach,” the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) told the news agency in a statement, adding they believe the man found an “operational order,” which has information about officer deployments in Belfast. “An investigation has commenced and we have notified the senior information risk officer.
    “We take the safety of visiting dignitaries, members of the public and our officers and staff extremely seriously and will put the appropriate actions in place,” the PSNI also said.
    In a statement obtained by Fox News, U.S. Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said the agency has been informed by the PSNI of “media reports regarding a potentially sensitive document, which may contain law-enforcement material.
    President Biden is visiting Belfast for the first time during his presidency to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, which formally ended decades of “the Troubles,” a violent conflict between Protestant Unionists loyal to the Crown and Catholic Republicans supportive of a unified Ireland.
    Air Force One landed late Tuesday night in the Northern Ireland capital, and along with his son Hunter and sister Valerie Biden Owens, Biden was joined by U.S. envoy to Northern Ireland Joseph Patrick Kennedy III, a grandnephew of the late President John F. Kennedy. “
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  • Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders Signs Bill Banning Parole for Rapists, Murderers, And Human Traffickers

    Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders Signs Bill Banning Parole for Rapists, Murderers, And Human Traffickers

    Arkansas Governor Sarah Sanders has signed a bill banning parole for rapists, murderers, and human traffickers.
    The Protect Arkansas Act will prevent people who commit first-degree murder, aggravated robbery, child pornography possession, or 21 other felonies from being released early if their crimes were committed after 2024 — when it goes into effect.
    The legislation will also require people convicted of several other felonies, including manslaughter or fentanyl delivery, to serve at least 85 percent of their prison sentences.
    “The failed public safety status quo ends today in Arkansas,” Sanders tweeted after signing the bill. “No more revolving doors in our prisons. No more weak sentencing. No more unsafe streets.”

    The failed public safety status quo ends today in Arkansas.
    No more revolving doors in our prisons. No more weak sentencing. No more unsafe streets.
    The Protect Arkansas Act is now the law of the land — empowering Arkansans with a safer, stronger state. pic.twitter.com/P6E8cKWR7C
    — Sarah Huckabee Sanders (@SarahHuckabee) April 11, 2023

    Sanders added, “The Protect Arkansas Act is now the law of the land — empowering Arkansans with a safer, stronger state.”
    The governor signed the bill while flanked by law enforcement officers.
    Sanders also signed the Fentanyl Enforcement and Accountability Act, which will allow drug dealers to be charged with murder if they deliver certain drugs that cause an overdose.
    “Arkansas will now charge drug dealers with murder if they deliver certain drugs that cause an overdose,” Sanders said. “For the most heinous drug dealers, those who traffic fentanyl to children, we will charge them with life in prison.”
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  • New York Times Pushes Same Old Narrative to Keep Nord Stream Explosion Mystery in the Shadows

    New York Times Pushes Same Old Narrative to Keep Nord Stream Explosion Mystery in the Shadows

    I love a good mystery; I can’t help myself. Part of me is still enamored with the question of whatever happened to Malaysian Flight 370. Still, lately, my mind has been focused on the best international whodunit in years — who sabotaged the Nord Stream pipeline last September?
    In a day and age where we have satellites that can see the gray hairs peaking through my overly dyed hair, and surveillance conducted on almost every corner of the globe, it truly is perplexing how we haven’t been able to answer this question yet. Or perhaps we have, but the truth is being purposely buried to protect the guilty parties involved.
    There have been numerous speculations as to who participated in this underwater intrigue. So, naturally, one of the premier newspapers in all the land is hot on the pursuit of truth and disclosure. But, oh wait a minute, I got that all wrong; the Gray Lady, as those in the biz affectionately call her, is telling us perhaps the truth is overrated.

    Intelligence leaks surrounding who blew up most of the Russian-backed Nord Stream pipelines last September have provided more questions than answers. It may be in no one’s interest to reveal more. https://t.co/N5dmSwOJwJ
    — The New York Times (@nytimes) April 7, 2023

    RELATED: New York Times Claims ‘Pro-Ukrainian’ Group Sabotaged Nord Stream Pipelines
    You Can’t Handle the Truth
    The New York Times recently published an article titled ‘Suspicions Multiply as Nord Stream Sabotage Remains Unsolved’ with the following byline:
    “Intelligence leaks surrounding the sabotage of the pipelines have provided more questions than answers. It may be in no one’s interest to reveal more.”
    Wait a second, no one’s interest? I’m certainly interested. 
    A significant fuel line was purposely destroyed during a proxy war with one of our main adversaries. It’s been relatively well established that it wasn’t Russia that sabotaged their pipeline, so knowing if perhaps it was a state-sponsored attack by maybe a Western Big Boy such as the United Kingdom or, dare I say it… us, I would argue, is in everyone’s interest.
    This is precisely why the powers that be are pulling the marionette strings over at the NYT’s to spin their web of misdirection to deflect from what is more than likely the truth behind the Nord Stream attack. What is that truth?

    BIDEN: We are gonna blow Nord Stream.LIZ TRUSS: It’s done..BLINKEN: Hooray Nord Stream has been blown!POLAND: Thank you USA!EU: It appears to be the work of a state actor but we’ll never be able to determine “who done it?” pic.twitter.com/Xrlrcgrt5L
    — Garland Nixon (@GarlandNixon) April 10, 2023

    RELATED: White House Denies Explosive Report That the US Sabotaged Nord Stream 2
    Obviously, We Probably Did it
    Now, I’m just an amateur sleuth, and I would argue above average journalist, so take my opinion for what it’s worth, which, personally, if I were to put a price on it, I would say my opinions are damn near priceless. I believe that the United States was behind the Nord Stream attack. I’m not the only one with this inclination.
    Former NYT alum Seymour Hersch busted out a pretty outstanding theory based on an unnamed source that claims the United States orchestrated and executed the undersea detonation with the CIA thanks to cooperation with the Norwegian government. Talk about a juicy take. 
    At the time, his article made quite the wave. However, many in the mainstream channels dismissed this award-winning journalist’s work as reckless and shoddy, given his penchant for using unnamed sources because it’s only acceptable when rags like the NYT use unnamed officials. 
    However, Mr. Hersh has had more exciting tidbits lately that got less buzz. For instance, when German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited President Joe Biden, both leaders asked the CIA to generate a cover story with the help of German intelligence to provide an alternative version of the pipeline destruction for American and German press outlets. 
    This is known as “pulsing the system,” which means flooding willing outlets with disinformation – such as the yarn the NYTs tried to sell that a pro-Ukrainian group was behind the attack utilizing a German party boat. But let’s say you don’t believe little ole’ me and Seymour…perhaps you will believe the Swedes.

    The attack on the Nord Stream was directed against Russia and Europe
    Seymour Hersh explained that Germany and the countries of Western Europe became hostages of a situation where pressure came from the United States towards sanctions against the gas pipeline, but on the other… pic.twitter.com/vqEaqotO1O
    — Spriter (@Spriter99880) April 10, 2023

    RELATED: NSA Whistleblower Snowden Digs Up Video of CIA Agent Admitting to Peddling Disinformation
    The Truth Will Set You Free
    “We got a pretty clear picture at the scene of the crime of who carried it out,” said Mats Ljungqvist, Sweden’s senior prosecutor on this particular case, “It cannot be ruled out that there are some private individuals who may have been the perpetrators. Still, our main lead is, of course, that a government is behind it – directly or indirectly.”
    What does all that mean? Essentially that it’s pretty apparent that this was a state-sponsored attack, either directly with a government’s military or indirectly with a government paying a third party to execute this aquatic crime. 
    As Ljungqvist put it, “Those who carried this out were careful with the traces they left behind.”
    This smells of a Mission Impossible or James Bond plot. So the Swedes are confident a government was involved in the attack but are pretty mum on which government it could be.
    Even more suspicious, when Russian President Vladimir Putin asked the United Nations to sanction an independent international commission to investigate the attack, all but China, Brazil, and Russia voted ‘no.’ That’s odd; doesn’t an independent investigation sound good?
    I suppose it isn’t if the truth points to the alleged ‘good guys.’

    The largest environmental terrorist attack ever, destroying a gas pipeline to Europe during an energy crisis while escalating a war with Russia, and the UN doesn’t want to investigate?
    Here’s a compilation of US politicians saying, “Stop the Nord Stream pipeline.”
    pic.twitter.com/IzNy0Wq5H6
    — KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) April 7, 2023

    We Don’t Care About the Truth
    In the recent New York Times piece Danish Naval Commander Jens Kristofferson was quoted, saying “Is there any interest from the authorities to come out and say who did this? There are strategic reasons for not revealing who did it.”
    And what could be those strategic reasons to hide the truth? Let’s take a look at the possibilities:

    If Russia did it (which they didn’t), there could be calls for a counter-attack escalating the war
    If Ukraine did it (which they didn’t), it might raise questions regarding further support for reckless behavior 
    If it was an orchestrated attack by a cabal of Western nations, it paints the West as the warmongers 
    If it were the United States, it would shake public confidence and trust, although, to be fair, that boats been rockin’ for awhile

    “As long as they don’t come out with anything substantial, then we are left in the dark on this – as it should be,” said Kristofferson.
    Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate that sometimes the forces of good must do questionable, morally grey things under cover of darkness to prevail against evil. However, I can’t abide by journalists and news outlets that should always be endeavoring to shine a light in the dark, willfully unplugging those lights to maintain their status as tools of the state. 

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  • More Democrat State Reps Leave Party to Join GOP, Signifying the Democrats are Way too Radical

    More Democrat State Reps Leave Party to Join GOP, Signifying the Democrats are Way too Radical

    Sometimes, you just know when you have to get out of a toxic relationship. As for Louisiana state Rep. Jeremy LaCombe, he decided to end his horrendous relationship with the Democratic Party, making him the second Democrat in the state legislature this year to do so an announce he’d be joining the GOP.
    LaCombe isn’t the only Dem this year to say ‘enough is enough,’ since state Rep. Tricia Cotham over in North Carolina announced the same decision, therefore ensuring that the Republicans in the house now have a veto-proof majority and can halt any of Gov. Roy Cooper’s decisions they see fit.
    Like other Democrats ranging from city councilmen to US Senators such as Kyrsten Sinema last year, the party top to bottom has simply wandered too far left, and has forced many of its members to truly question how much more of the insanity, whether it be the party’s authoritarian tendencies as seen during the 2020 COVID lockdowns, or simply the dive straight into socialism and more, they are willing to tolerate.

    Third Democrat Louisiana state Rep. Jeremy LaCombe leaves party, switches to Republican within a month.
    — Sandy (@SandyForLiberty) April 11, 2023

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    Too Crazy to Keep Going
    LaCombe’s switch to the GOP comes at a time where the Republicans have already earned a supermajority in the house, which much like over in North Carolina, means they can override vetos by Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards.
    House Democrat Caucus Chair Sam Jenkins, now having to face the second Democrat-to-Republican conversion in the past year, told local press that “We look forward to working with Rep. LaCombe during this legislative session to increase wages, lower costs, improve our schools and pass insurance reform that benefit Louisiana families and small businesses.”
    While Jenkins appears to be accepting LaCombe’s switch rather well, this now leaves the Dems in the state house with only thirty-two members within the 105-member chamber, consisting now 71 Republicans and 2 Independents.

    RELATED: Rep. Byron Donalds Slams Democrats Who Say Focusing on Border Security is a ‘White Nationalist Conspiracy’
    An Obvious Trend
    In March, TheBlaze reported the first Democrat of the year within the Louisiana House of Representatives to switch to the GOP, paving the way for LaCombe’s eventual switch.
    State Rep. Francis Thompson, who served in the House as a Democrat for 48 years, said that the party’s anti-Christian stances were what ultimately forced him to choose between politics and his faith.
    “The push the past several years by Democratic leadership on both the national and state level to support certain issues does not align with those values and principles that are a part of my Christian life,” Thompson said of his decision.
    While not explicitly citing the final straw that forced his decision, LaCombe, like Thompson, also boasted a voting record that showed a tendency to support socially conservative policies.
    TheBlaze noted that since 1994, “there were reportedly 169 state legislators who crossed the aisle, including 48 state senators and 121 state representatives.”
    Ballotpedia showed that while twenty-three Republicans made the switch to become Democrats, eighty Dems switched to become Republicans. The stragglers jumped into third parties, either becoming independents or becoming Greens or Libertarians.

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  • Lawmakers Concerned About IRS Heading Into Tax Day

    By Casey Harper (The Center Square)
    Tax day is around the corner, but lawmakers are raising the alarm that the IRS may not be ready to process the litany of new rules and regulations implemented by the Biden administration.
    House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman David Schweikert, R-Ariz., sent a letter to the Comptroller General of the U.S. Government Accountability Office raising concerns about the extra burdens recent legislation pushed by the Biden administration could put on the struggling agency.
    “In Fiscal Year 2021, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) received over 4.7 billion information returns – reports provided to the IRS to track business or trade payments and transactions – filed by third parties, most of which were filed electronically,” the letter said.
    The Biden administration successfully pushed for $80 billion for the IRS to beef up auditing but has also put more expectations such as auditing and tracking more transactions.
    “In addition, recent legislation drastically lowered the threshold to $600 for reporting certain types of payments, such as those made using a third-party platform like PayPal or Venmo,” the letter said. “New regulations related to information reporting for transactions occurring across these digital assets could lead to the filing of billions more information returns.”
    The IRS previously delayed the implementation of the PayPal and Venmo related rule. The lawmakers called the IRS’ decision a “tacit admission” that it is not ready for the new administrative burden.
    “While information reporting can help the IRS ensure accurate tax reporting and incentivize voluntary compliance with tax laws, those goals must be balanced against the burden that this reporting places on taxpayers, third party providers, and the IRS,” the letter said. “Many Americans who will likely be subject to these new requirements – particularly given the low reporting threshold of $600 – are also likely to struggle to afford the level of accounting and tax preparation services that might be needed.”
    Related: IRS Reportedly Went to Twitter Files Journalist Matt Taibbi’s Home on Same Day He Was Testifying on Weaponization of Government
    The agency is still recovering from the burden of administering the COVID-era stimulus checks, which helped cause a tax filing backlog that the agency is still handling. The IRS has also taken fire after reports emerged that a Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration report from 2021 showed the agency destroyed about 30 million taxpayer documents, files that Americans could need in the future if they are audited.
    In February, lawmakers raised many of these kinds of concerns at the confirmation hearings for Daniel Werfel, Biden’s nominee to lead the IRS who was eventually confirmed.
    “Massive backlogs have left desperate families and small businesses waiting on much needed returns as they fight skyrocketing inflation,” U.S. Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said during the hearing. “Restoring the credibility of the agency is going to be a steep mountain to climb. When we visited I said this would be critical as part of your job. The policies enacted by President Biden’s reckless tax and spending bill are really not going to be helpful in trying to regain the credibility of the American people for the agency.”
    Tax day this year is April 18.
    Syndicated with permission from The Center Square.
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  • Tennessee Dem Expelled After Storming Capitol is Already Reinstated: Marches Triumphantly Through the Streets

    Tennessee state Representative Justin Jones, one of a pair of Democrats expelled after taking part in gun control protests by storming the state Capitol and taking control of official proceedings, has already been reinstated to the House.
    He was not labeled an insurrectionist by the media. He did not spend months in prison awaiting a trial of his peers. He was not sentenced for his actions.
    Instead, the Nashville Metropolitan Council voted to return him to his post, with all 36 members voting unanimously for his reinstatement.
    Jones was seen on video during a legislative session holding a megaphone, interrupting the democratic process, and instigating protestors into chanting and yelling at his fellow lawmakers.
    Jones then went to every media outlet he could to cry about racism and even compared his expulsion to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on Easter, and suggested his reinstatement would be akin to the Reconstruction.
    Rep. Justin Pearson, a fellow former Democrat lawmaker, was also ousted last week from the Republican-led Tennessee House, but will likely receive a vote to reinstate on Wednesday.

    Insurrectionist Justin Jones reinstated to his seat after being expelled for participating in an assault on our democracy at the Tennessee Capitol pic.twitter.com/656Wu7vO7k
    — Melissa Tate (@TheRightMelissa) April 11, 2023

    RELATED: On Easter, Tennessee Democrat Compares His Expulsion from State Legislature to ‘Democracy Being Crucified’
    Tennessee Dem Justin Jones Reinstated
    In a comical display of Justin Jones’ apparent inflated self-worth, he locked arms with protesters and marched through the streets back to the Tennessee State Capitol building.
    He clearly fancies himself some sort of civil rights hero.

    Justin Jones leading a march of about 1,000 people through downtown Nashville as he returns to the state legislature #TennesseeThree pic.twitter.com/6a041dBjob
    — Liz Crampton (@liz_crampton) April 10, 2023

    Further cementing his delusion, Jones entered the chamber locking arms with State Rep. Gloria Johnson who took part in the protests as well, but who escaped being expelled by one vote.
    Johnson and the Democrats contended the vote was racist because she is white, while both Jones and Pearson are not.
    Jones and Johnson slowly marched down the aisle as the former raised a clenched fist of defiance skyward, a hero in his own mind.

    Justin Jones reinstated to the Tennessee House. pic.twitter.com/kZLt7EZ9EW
    — Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) April 10, 2023

    Jones and his supporters were heard singing the civil-rights anthem, “This Little Light of Mine,” as he entered the Capitol building at which he conducted his insurrectionist actions not that long ago.

    Justin Jones, sworn in again, headed back up to the Tennessee house chamber less than a week after his expulsion, singing This Little Light of Mine. pic.twitter.com/eeFb7AJv1Z
    — Alejandro Alvarez (@aletweetsnews) April 10, 2023

    RELATED: Three Tennessee Democrats Stripped of Committee Assignments for Storming State Capitol, Face Potential Expulsion
    Jones Says He is Democracy
    Justin Jones delivered an impassioned if not completely ignorant speech upon his return, celebrating the return of democracy, which he believes he represents, without acknowledging the fact that he attempted to illegally interrupt democratic proceedings in the chamber just days earlier.
    “I want to welcome democracy back to the people’s house,” Jones said in his speech.
    “I want to thank you all, not for what you did, but for awakening the people of this state, particularly the young people,” he added. “Thank you for reminding us that the struggle for justice is fought and won in every generation.”

    “Today we’re sending a resounding message that democracy will not be killed in the comfort of silence,” Justin Jones said at the state Capitol.
    The Nashville Metropolitan Council voted to reappoint him to the Tennessee House as an interim representative. https://t.co/scoStoiqCk pic.twitter.com/mPDyTl8wcn
    — CNN (@CNN) April 10, 2023

    Jones is yet another example that, so long as your name has the letter ‘D’ next to it, you’ll never have to face consequences for your actions.

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  • Mark Levin: We Need To Prepare For War With China, It’s Inevitable

    On Monday’s “Hannity,” Mark Levin stated that the United States “must prepare for war with China.”
    In an opinion piece for Fox News, the host of “Life, Liberty & Levin” argued that China is eager for war with the United States. His comments were made on the third day of Chinese military exercises near Taiwan, which although autonomous, belongs to China in terms of its communist government.
    He said to Sean Hannity, referring to their economic ties, “Brazil is now with China.” That is within our hemisphere. The Monroe Doctrine was something we once had. James Monroe, the fifth president, issued the Monroe Doctrine, which forbade European colonial countries from interfering in American affairs. Levin continued by comparing the modern United States to the Roman Empire.

    Foreign invasions, severe economic problems, empire split, overstretching of the empire, political unrest and government corruption, erosion of traditional values, and weakening of the legions and military were among the issues he listed.
    “When those things coalesced, the Roman empire was destroyed. The Roman Empire existed for a millennium. We haven’t even reached 1,000 years yet. Each of those seven or eight problems is something we are dealing with right now,” he said, going on to add that China has been bolstering its military, especially its navy.
    “You believe they are constructing all of that to thwart Taiwan?” said Levin. “They’re constructing all of that to outwit us. They won’t be happy with Taiwan, I’m afraid. They are currently engaged in combat with Vietnam, the Philippines, and possibly Japan. Australia is under threat.”
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    Before telling Hannity’s studio audience that the United States should get ready for combat with China, he said, “This is a big damn deal.”
    “And now, let me say something that some of the viewers in this crowd and others might not want to hear,” Levin continued. “We must get ready for war with China. I don’t mean to start a battle. I don’t mean start a conflict. But they are getting ready for battle. Psychologically speaking, as a society, we are totally unprepared.”
    The military’s “woke ideology” was the subject of his next complaint.
    “I want to repeat it so that the backbenchers can repeat it,” Levin stated. “We need to get ready for war with China. not since we favor war, not because we intend to start a war, however, because they favor war. Only 10,000 various ways have they stated it, including by invading our air space, threatening our ships, our nation, or endangering our citizens.”
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    President Joe Biden’s handling of China was criticized by Levin, who added, “It’s completely incredible! I’m done now. I’m through.”
    After he finished speaking, Levin received a thunderous wave of applause from Hannity’s studio audience.
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  • Report: Biden’s Defense Department Sent Cease and Desist Letter to Catholic Church Providing Pastoral Care to Veterans During Holy Week

    The Archdiocese for the Military Services issued a statement indicating the Catholic college providing pastoral care to service members and veterans at Walter Reed Medical Center for the past two decades had been issued a “cease and desist” letter by the Biden administration during Holy Week.
    The government’s cease and desist order directed the Catholic priests to immediately discontinue any religious services at Walter Reed.
    The contract with the friary, Holy Name College, had been terminated on March 31st, and enforced through the letter during a week in which Catholics celebrate the Resurrection.
    The contract was instead awarded to a secular defense contracting firm.
    Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio issued a statement blasting the move as a violation of the First Amendment and accused the Defense Health Agency -under the Department of Defense – of taking away adequate pastoral care for service members and veterans during a vital time on the Catholic calendar.
    “It is incomprehensible that essential pastoral care is taken away from the sick and the aged when it was so readily available,” Broglio said. “This is a classic case where the adage ‘if it is not broken, do not fix it’ applies.”
    He added that “I earnestly hope that this disdain for the sick will be remedied at once and their First Amendment rights will be respected.”

    General Milley had Walter Reed Military Hospital send a cease and desist order to the Catholic Church providing pastoral care to service members during holy week. A secular defense contractor is being paid to counsel troops instead. https://t.co/vqFXA11ZRH pic.twitter.com/3V17H3BjA8
    — @amuse (@amuse) April 8, 2023

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    Violation of the First Amendment
    White House National Security spokesman John Kirby was asked about the Biden administration’s ‘cease and desist’ order against the Catholic college but declined to comment.
    “I’m afraid I’m not (familiar with the story) and even if I was, really this is a better question for the Department of Defense,” he told reporters.

    In a statement to the Catholic News Agency over the weekend, Walter Reed insisted the pastoral care contract was simply “under review” as a means “to ensure it adequately supports the religious needs of our patients and beneficiaries.”
    A legal representative for the Archdiocese for the Military Services had reportedly requested the contract be extended at least through the Easter holy day.
    They claim Walter Reed did not respond to the requests.

    And both Biden and Milley claim to be Catholic…
    — @amuse (@amuse) April 8, 2023

    “While Walter Reed’s chaplain office claims Catholic care is being provided during Holy Week, the AMS maintains that without Catholic priests present at the medical center, service members and veterans are being denied the constitutional right to practice their religion,” the Archdiocese stated.
    They claim the “refusal to provide adequate pastoral care while awarding a contract for Catholic ministry to a for-profit company that has no way of providing Catholic priests to the medical center is a glaring violation of service members’ and veterans’ Right to the Free Exercise of Religion.”
    “Especially, during Holy Week, the lack of adequate Catholic pastoral care causes untold and irreparable harm to Catholics who are hospitalized,” they declared.

    They hate you and will do anything to breakdown the foundations of America. https://t.co/OnpmKLHsAs
    — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) April 10, 2023

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    Biden’s War on the Catholic Church
    To the casual outside observer, this latest seemingly petty move is a continuation of the Biden administration’s active war against the Catholic Church.
    Earlier this year, the Department of Justice continued its dogged pursuit of pro-life activists following the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, indicting eight people on charges they violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) at a pair of Michigan abortion clinics in 2020.

    Justice Department charges more pro-lifers with blocking access to abortion clinics https://t.co/0jQ5QGhVsE
    — Jeffrey A. Setaro (@jasetaro) February 23, 2023

    The Political Insider reported in October that the DOJ was attacking pro-life Americans, charging 11 activists at that time with violations of the Act for blocking the entrance of an abortion clinic in 2021.
    By contrast, President Biden’s DOJ has taken no action against leftists who have fire-bombed multiple crisis pregnancy centers. Centers that have been consistent targets of attacks across the country.

    Peaceful protests at abortion clinics get you federal charges from the DOJ.
    Acts of terrorism against pregnancy centers are totally fine.https://t.co/TpFlLGsWt6
    — Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 6, 2022

    In January, a federal jury acquitted pro-life protestor Mark Houck of federal charges alleging he had pushed an abortion clinic escort in Philadelphia.
    Houck’s charges similarly fell under the FACE Act. Local prosecutors had declined to pursue the case, but the feds took over and sent a team of armed FBI agents to his home, arresting him in front of his wife and children.

    Mark Houck’s children share what it was like when armed FBI agents came to arrest their dad. pic.twitter.com/rMmf9DkHMQ
    — The Daily Signal (@DailySignal) February 20, 2023

    The Political Insider also reported that the DOJ and FBI, according to a leaked memo, had been warning that “radical traditionalist” Catholics pose an extremist threat to the nation.

    I cannot believe the FBI had an internal memo calling Catholic Virginians “violent extremists” because of their religious views.
    This rhetoric from the government is wrong and un-American, and I demand answers!https://t.co/AwDvp2DXss
    — Jason Miyares (@JasonMiyaresVA) February 10, 2023

    “The government has a constitutional duty to provide for and protect” the religious rights of service members and veterans, the Archdiocese for the Military Services explains.
    As per usual in the Biden era, the government doesn’t seem to give a damn about their constitutional duty or the rights of Americans.

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  • Jesse Watters Challenges Marco Rubio on ‘Corrupt’ Defense Spending: ‘Do You Have Any Idea Where the Money Goes?’

    Jesse Watters Challenges Marco Rubio on ‘Corrupt’ Defense Spending: ‘Do You Have Any Idea Where the Money Goes?’

    Fox News host Jesse Watters and Senator Marco Rubio engaged in a discussion during Monday’s broadcast of “Jesse Watters Primetime” about wasteful spending by the Department of Defense.
    “The Pentagon’s budget is more than China, India, Russia, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Germany, France, Japan, and South Korea combined,” Watters told viewers.
    The analysis comes as the Pentagon failed its fifth consecutive audit back in November, unable to account for more than half of its assets.
    Pentagon Comptroller Mike McCord dismissed news of the failed audit – they’ve failed every single one that has ever been conducted – as a “teachable moment.”
    “We give our military almost a trillion dollars a year. So where does the money go?” demanded Watters.

    Your yearly reminder that as we say we can’t afford things that help our own citizens we continue to pass obscene military budgets while the Pentagon fails audit after audit. pic.twitter.com/QAHKJhwyPv
    — The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) July 16, 2022

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    Jon Stewart Takes on Pentagon Corruption and Defense Spending
    Watters referenced a recent viral video of comedian Jon Stewart interviewing Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks about the Pentagon’s $858 billion budget.
    Stewart challenged Hicks continually on alleged corruption at the Pentagon resulting in her repeated condescending responses to his accusations.
    The video went viral, amassing over 10 million views.
    “The ability to pass an audit or, the fact that the DoD has not passed an audit is not suggestive of waste, fraud, and abuse,” Hicks insisted.
    “If I give you a billion dollars and you can’t tell me what happened to it, that to me is wasteful,” countered Stewart.

    Incredible clip.
    Jon Stewart rips Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks on the Pentagon’s inability to ever pass an audit.
    As of last year, the DoD can’t account for 61% of their ~$3.5 Trillion in assets. pic.twitter.com/W9ZYF8T8UP
    — Stephen Geiger (@Stephen_Geiger) April 10, 2023

    Stewart blasted Hicks noting that the Pentagon’s massive budget isn’t preventing our military servicemembers from being forced to work off of food stamps, something The Political Insider has covered extensively.
    “We got out of 20 years of war and the Pentagon got a raise,” Stewart pressed. “I can’t figure out how $850 billion to a department means that the rank and file still have to be on food stamps.”
    “To me, that’s f***ing corruption.”

    WATCH: @jonstewart confronts arrogant @DepSecDef Kathleen Hicks on military industrial complex, drops mic:
    “I can’t figure out how $850 billion to a department means that the rank and file still have to be on food stamps. To me, that’s f***ing corruption.”
    pic.twitter.com/jVgQ15shXE
    — Young Americans for Liberty (@YALiberty) April 7, 2023

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    Watters Challenges Marco Rubio
    Jesse Watters then brought Senator Marco Rubio into the discussion claiming “someone’s getting rich,” and asking the Florida Republican, “Do you have any idea where the money goes?”
    Rubio contends that the process of bidding itself opens up the Pentagon to wasteful spending, as they get locked into certain contractors who then alter their prices as the project speeds along.
    “Oftentimes in the process of developing it, they’ll come back and say, ‘Hey, this is gonna cost more than we thought when we put that bid out, when we offered that bid. So we’re gonna have to increase the price,’” Rubio explained.
    “And then if you don’t fund it or you don’t pay for it, then it’s like, ‘Oh, you’re against national security or national defense.’”
    Rubio was one of 83 senators who voted in favor of the $858 billion National Defense Authorization Act in December.
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    Rubio also suggested the defense contractors can essentially charge any amount of money they want.
    “There’s very little competition on these contracts, so they can virtually almost charge us anything they want.”

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