‘I know that some of you are celebrating, some are mourning and some are uncertain’ (CHRISTIAN POST) – The United Methodist Church General Conference has voted to remove a statement from its central rulebook that declared that homosexuality was “incompatible with Christian teaching.” In a vote of 523 to 161 following around 90 minutes of debate on Thursday, the churchwide legislative gathering opted to remove a clause from the Book of Discipline, ¶ 304.3 under “Qualifications for Ordination.” “The practice of homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching,” read the clause, which had be ..read more

For the third straight month, The Conference Board’s consumer confidence index fell in April, tumbling to 97.0 from a downwardly revised 103.1 (dramatically below the 104.0 median expectation and in fact below the lowest of all 56 analysts’ estimates). Both current conditions and expectations plunged, with the latter at its weakest since Present situation confidence fell to 142.9 vs. 146.8 last month Consumer confidence expectations fell to 66.4 vs. 74.0 last month Expectations are back to Summer 2022 lows, which are equal to April 2013 lows… Source: Bloomberg Most notably, this is the ..read more

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) formally rejected President Biden’s changes to Title IX with an executive order that requires educational institutions in her state to allow students to “maintain their privacy.” Under the new rules as put forth by the Biden administration, gender identity was added as a protected category under sex discrimination. Therefore, a school mustn’t treat people different based on their gender identity, meaning that if a male identifies as a female, he cannot be restricted from participating in women’s spaces. “According to the rule, sex is no longer ..read more

We’ve learned some new terms in recent years. “Insurrection” is one of them. And “lawfare.” “Insurrection” is a favorite word thrown around by Democrats, journalists, squishy Republicans and legacy media consumers when discussing the events of Jan. 6, 2021. “We saw it all,” they will tell you — an insurrection, with MAGA rioters carrying Trump, American and Gadsden flags climbing the walls of the Capitol, pushing aside police, threatening Congress, committing unspeakable terror on the scale of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, or even the Japanese attack on Pearl H ..read more

Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, recently obtained 88 pages of records from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) through a lawsuit against the Department of Justice (DOJ). According to Judicial Watch on Thursday May 2, 2024, those records shed new light on the events of January 6, 2021, when a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol. According to the documents, the CIA deployed personnel to Washington, DC, on that day. The records, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, include emails and other communications between ATF officials regarding t ..read more

Coalition of 53 Parent Organizations Send Letter to Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona Expressing Opposition to Final Title IX Rules On May 1, 2024, a coalition of 53 organizations, representing 805,645 members, sent a letter to Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona to express deep opposition to the final Title IX rules released Friday, April 19, 2024. The rules supplant “sex” with “gender identity.” In doing so, the guidance poses a grave threat to the safety and opportunities of women and girls and thwarts students’ First Amendment rights. The revisions also strip students of due process ..read more

As we’ve previously documented, the Biden White House has employed a new strategy in recent weeks designed to make the way President Joe Biden shuffles when he walks across the South Lawn a little less noticeable to the public. It’s what I call “Operation Hide Joe Biden,” and up until Thursday, the hiding consisted of his handlers swarming him as he either walked towards or away from Marine One, making it harder for him to be visible and in some instances effectively making it impossible to see him. “Some Biden advisers have told Axios they’re concerned that videos of Biden walk ..read more

Former Trump prosecutor Mark Pomerantz is forced to invoke his 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination when asked, under oath, if he violated the law during his investigation to get President Trump. Pomerantz, a former senior prosecutor on the Manhattan DA’s team investigating Trump resigned in protest after District Attorney Alvin Bragg ended the investigation. Pomerantz testified before the House Judiciary Committee back in May 2023 and pleaded the 5th when he was asked under oath if he violated the law to get Trump. Soros-funded DA Alvin Bragg announced in April 2023 he was upending ..read more

Decision could explode entire organize crime case One of the Democrats’ “lawfare” cases against President Donald Trump, the Fulton County, Georgia, DA’s claims he was involved in a criminal conspiracy for having opinions and expressing them after the 2020 election, has been one headache after another. District Attorney Fani Willis was caught in a clear appearance of conflict because she gave more than $600,000 of taxpayer money to her paramour to work on the Trump case. She essentially went to trial, and a judge ruled she could stay on the case, but the boyfriend had to go. Willis also was sub ..read more

Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) is famous in the U.S. Senate for his incisive wit and dry sense of humor. He has displayed these talents during his time as an elected official, whether by stumping unqualified Biden nominees or in interviews with reporters. During a Senate Budget Committee hearing on Wednesday, a radical-left climate professor named Geoffrey Supran became his latest victim over posts he made on X/Twitter. As the Daily Caller reported, Budget Chairman Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) had invited Supran, an associate professor in the Department of Environmental Scie ..read more