After eight years of trying to extirpate free speech on its platform with the help of fact checkers, Meta -- parent company of Facebook and Instagram, inter alia -- would like you to know that it's going to take a different tack going forward. All right, two prominent pro-lifers say:...

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Californians are waking up to Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom's incompetence as they see their state continue to burn. On Thursday, a clip filmed by Sky News and posted to social media platform X, showed one woman running up to Newsom as he is about to enter a black SUV --...

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It was a question that didn't deserve to be asked -- but it got an answer far better than it deserved. After Notre Dame's victory over Penn State at the Orange Bowl Thursday night, ESPN reporter Molly McGrath nearly managed to stain the celebration by asking Fighting Irish head coach...

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No matter what tragedy plagues our existence, Keith Olbermann is the last person who needs to give his two cents. The former correspondent for networks like CNN and ESPN did just that on Wednesday, posting to social media platform X on the California wildfires and how they've impacted conservatives in...

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When dealing with the many avowed racists in the Democratic Party, how does one find any common ground? After all, one recognizes the obvious contradictions, bullying tactics, and red herrings in what passes for their arguments. But they see none of these things, so what can one do besides sigh...

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It was a meeting Thursday of the world's most exclusive club, and it had the political world buzzing. At the funeral for former President Jimmy Carter, the country's president and former presidents gathered at Washington's National Cathedral, and more than a few observers were shocked at the apparent friendliness between...

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Long before wildfires would singe the greater Los Angeles area, fire departments in Los Angeles County were sending equipment to Ukraine. The donations were called out Wednesday by Donald Trump Jr. and other social media users. “Oh look of course The LA fire department donated a bunch of their supplies...

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As he is wont to do, President-elect Donald Trump made sure to get the last word in after Friday's momentous developments. Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan ruled that while Trump will be "sentenced" for a number of felony charges (34 to be exact), the judge would not impose any actual punishment....

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Two men wounded in July’s attempted assassination of President-elect Donald Trump will be Trump’s guests as he is inaugurated president. David Dutch, 57, and James Copenhaver, 74, both suffered critical injures when they were shot by Thomas Crooks, who wounded Trump at a July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Rallygoer...

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Any career that unfolds in the public eye has its share of regular hazards. After all, it only takes one mental lapse for an unfathomably humiliating mistake to plague you for years thereafter. Sports anchor Jake Gadon of KOVR in Sacramento, California, did not commit an error that rose to...

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Actor Henry Winkler alleged an arsonist is behind the outbreak of multiple wildfires in the Los Angeles area since Tuesday. Cal Fire reported as of Friday morning that there are five major wildfires they are battling in the L.A. area. It all began Tuesday morning when the Palisades Fire broke...

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Even if one cannot quantify the suspicion, one senses that in recent years many people have drawn closer to God. And that requires an explanation. Earlier this week, Canadian academic and Christian apologist Wesley Huff, currently serving as Central Canada Director for Apologetics Canada and working toward a PhD in...

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Mark Zuckerberg-led Meta made another move to the right Friday with the announcement that the company is ending its diversity, equity, and inclusion program. In a memo to the company's 72,000 employees, Janelle Gale, vice president of human resources, wrote that Meta is changing course because the "legal and policy...

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Los Angeles officials mistakenly sent out an evacuation alert to the entirety of Los Angeles County on Thursday evening as wildfires continued to destroy homes and other properties. Residents received a text “from the Los Angeles County Fire Department” informing them that an “EVACUATION WARNING” was “issued in your area,”...

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The funeral of the late President Jimmy Carter was held Thursday at the Washington National Cathedral, and the event was attended by all of the living former presidents. Viewers of the event would have noticed the magnificent Gothic stone architecture of the structure, the carefully crafted pews, and other architectural...

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told podcast host Joe Rogan in an episode published Friday that Biden administration officials pushed his company hard to censor content regarding COVID-19. "Basically, these people from the Biden administration would call up our team and, like, scream at them and curse," he said. "It just...

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A self-described transgender activist claimed that he found a “loophole” allowing him to have a female designation on his driver’s license, but the state government of Florida caught the deception. Now he has a driver’s license reflecting his actual sex and may have even alerted the state to his own...

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Los Angeles Democratic Mayor Karen Bass reportedly tried to cut nearly $49 million from the Los Angeles County Fire Department budget shortly before deadly wildfires broke out in the area. The budget cuts, as discussed in a memo leaked to the U.K. Daily Mail by a whistleblower, would have shuttered...

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The chief of Los Angeles' fire department says she was going to be fired by the mayor in the middle of the catastrophic blazes that have killed at least 11 and burned thousands of buildings to the ground. The reason? She told the truth about what Democrat Mayor Karen Bass...

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With just days left in his administration, President Joe Biden is showing America he has priorities. The wrong priorities, sure -- but priorities nonetheless. Take the victims of the Southern California wildfires. Sure, a lot needs to be done in the area that's been leveled by epochal blazes where the...

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The man who fired a gun in a Washington, D.C., restaurant in 2016 under the false impression the business was a front for child trafficking has been killed by police. Edgar Maddison Welch had been sentenced to four years in prison in 2017 for his role in what became known...

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