Biden’s Agenda Uncertain During End-of-the-Year Negotiations
- By Eagle Forum
As the year comes to an end, the Senate is poised to pass huge spending bills that contain Biden’s campaign promises. Some of these provisions were promised within the first one hundred days of his presidency, however, Democrats sabotaged those efforts. Now, Senate Republicans have the opportunity to have the upper hand in negotiations if they play their cards right.
The most immediate issue at-hand is funding the government. Congress can never seem to agree on spending matters, so they constantly kick the can down the road every couple of months. Current government funding is set to run out on December 3rd, and Republicans have a major negotiation tool: vaccine mandates.
Democrats Setting Up to Lose the One Issue Keeping Them Afloat
- By Neil Patel
The majority of Republicans in Washington are thoroughly confused about their own party and their own voters. Some have lost faith in Republican voters completely and written them off as racists or crazies. Others don't know what to think. They are essentially biding time and hoping things go back to the way they were.
They won't, of course. America is changing quickly. Voting patterns and the two-party norm that lasted for decades are under strain. Amazingly, Democrats are on the verge of handing back power to a Republican Party that's in a state of total chaos. All Republicans need to do is not screw it up.
A Supreme Case for Lives
- By Tony Perkins - Family Research Council
In the most-watched case of a generation, the eyes of the nation's pro-lifers were on the Supreme Court this morning as oral argument was held in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, a case that will answer the question of "whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional."
That's legal-speak for a case that could see the demise of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, decades-old cases that wrongly constitutionalized a right to abortion, and whose consequences we have been living with ever since.
Many are hopeful after this morning's argument. The justices were mostly quiet when Mississippi's Solicitor General Scott Stewart defended his state's law outlawing abortion after 15 weeks. Only Justice Sonia Sotomayor showed serious antagonism to Stewart, and at one point was downright hostile with her abortion apologetic, absurdly asking him: "how is your interest anything but a religious view?" Stewart ably argued the state's case, however, pointing out that Roe and Casey are without solid footing and do injustice to what the Constitution says about a right to abortion, which is nothing.
House Member Proposes Big Pay Hike for Lawmakers
- By Rick Brundrett - The Nerve
S.C. lawmakers would receive an annual $18,000 pay hike under a House proposal, with the bill’s sponsor contending that legislators deserve the raise.
“This is not a part-time job,” Rep. Wendell Gilliard, D-Charleston, a former Charleston City Council member who was first elected to the S.C. House in 2008, told The Nerve when contacted Tuesday. “What these lawmakers do in South Carolina should be considered a full-time job, and then when you look at the last pay increase that we had, we’re talking years.”
Gilliard’s bill, which was prefiled last month, would raise lawmakers’ current $1,000 monthly “in-district” payments by $1,500, or 150%, to $2,500 per month. On a yearly basis, the total payments would jump from $12,000 to $30,000.
Alex Sands to Address NGU December Graduates
- By LaVerne Howell - NGU
Alex Sands, pastor of Kingdom Life Church in Simpsonville, will be the keynote speaker for North Greenville University's (NGU) Commencement Dec. 10 in Turner Chapel on the Tigerville Campus.
"At North Greenville University, we are producing transformational leaders for church and society. Alex Sands is a transformational leader, whose influence over the churches of the South Carolina Baptist Convention has been exemplary and the engagement between his church and the surrounding community has been remarkable," said NGU President Dr. Gene C. Fant, Jr. "I can't think of a better speaker to have for our graduates as they are launched with their degrees. I'm sure his message will be simultaneously challenging, inspiring, and insightful."
D. James Kennedy Ministries Asks Supreme Court to Revisit The Times v. Sullivan Standard in Appeal to High Court
- By D. James Kennedy Ministries
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- In a brief submitted November 24, the Christian media outreach D. James Kennedy Ministries (DJKM) asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its appeal of a lower court ruling dismissing DJKM's defamation lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
In its appeal brief, DJKM, represented by the National Center for Law and Liberty (NCLL), asks the Court to reconsider its 1964 decision in New York Times v. Sullivan, a ruling which created a high bar for "public figures" to win defamation suits. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected DJKM's defamation suit based on the Times v. Sullivan standard.
Black is Black - White is White - A Is A - There Ain't No Grey
- By Kathleen Marquardt - American Policy Center
It’s been almost a year, and in spite of the fact that most people were watching their televisions almost non-stop on January 6 and 7, 2021, most did not understand they were watching a false flag operation. They saw what the Deep State/Globalists (DS/G) wanted them to see – an attack on the Capitol by Trump supporters. Media added the false “shootings and beating by the conservatives.
The people did see a coup happen, yet many (most) don’t realize it. We were told that the actions on the 6th in the Capitol by the crowd was an insurrection. But, when the walls, barriers, fencing went up “protecting the people inside”, there was silence. No explanation. That, should have signaled us that a coup had been successfully staged and achieved – by the DS/G. We The People are no longer allowed to enter; a puppet government has been put in place. Yet we hear not a word from those in place or from the people they are now controlling through their actions – us! And, because all watch MSM, most people are referring to Biden as President of the United States, and Harris as Vice President. They are not.
Courts Don't Offer Booster to Biden Mandate
- By Tony Perkins - Family Research Council
While Ronald Reagan is remembered as the "Great Communicator," Joe Biden will not be remembered as the "Great Persuader." Although he's spent months trying to talk Americans into getting vaccinated against COVID-19, roughly 30 percent of our adult population is resisting his forceful overtures. Obviously, there are a number of reasons why so many people are opposed, but one thing is clear: Americans don't want the federal government to demand they get the vaccine.
According to a recent poll, 50 percent of those surveyed oppose a vaccination mandate. Even NBC News is reporting that Mr. Biden has "lost the vaccine mandate messaging fight." And not only has he lost in the court of public opinion, he's lost in the courts themselves. A federal district court in Missouri "has blocked the Biden administration from enforcing a coronavirus vaccine mandate for health care workers at federally funded facilities in 10 states." U.S. District Judge Matthew Schelp ruled that not only has Biden failed to receive authorization for his mandate from Congress, but that the sheer cost of the mandate to the states amounts to the "heavy hand of the federal government" coercing the states into massive spending.
There Is No Vetting
- By Michelle Malkin
Back in August, as the Biden administration prepared to dump 82,000-plus Afghan refugees onto U.S. soil, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security assured Americans that it was "working around the clock to conduct the security screening and vetting of vulnerable Afghans before they are permitted entry into the United States" and taking "multiple steps to ensure that those seeking entry do not pose a national security or public safety risk."
We were told that "the rigorous screening and vetting process, which is multi-layered and ongoing, involves biometric and biographic screenings conducted by intelligence, law enforcement, and counterterrorism professionals from DHS and DOD, as well as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), and additional intelligence community partners."
URGENT: COVID tyranny is rapidly accelerating!
- By The John Birch Society
Austria has re-imposed a strict lockdown while ordering every resident to be vaccinated and get a booster shot every six months. Meanwhile, Australia is sending COVID-infected and -exposed individuals to quarantine camps. These trends are seeping into the U.S., with Biden’s unconstitutional “vaccine mandate” decrees, along with his order making it nearly impossible for unvaccinated American citizens to reenter the U.S. from abroad. State legislatures must use their Constitutional authority under Article VI and the 10th Amendment to nullify these tyrannical edicts.
We have reached a critical juncture in our nation’s history, one that will determine the future of our country — and the God-given freedoms that the Constitution guarantees.
Abortion Is About Our Core National Values
- By Star Parker
The Supreme Court will hear this week Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.
At issue is the law in Mississippi that bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
A decision finding the Mississippi law constitutional will fundamentally change the abortion regime in our country, defined by Roe v. Wade since 1973.
Roe said the mother has a right to abort her child as long as that unborn child cannot survive -- is viable -- outside the womb. Generally accepted is 22-24 weeks as the time when viability occurs.
SCOTUS Has Chance to Overturn Roe
- By Eagle Forum
Today, December 1, 2021, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments for the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. What the Justices will have to decide is whether a ban on abortion after the fifteenth week of pregnancy is Constitutional and consequently whether abortion bans prior to viability are permissible.
The Mississippi law in question was signed in 2018 by former Governor Phil Bryant. The law provides some exemptions for women seeking an abortion, including for medical emergencies or in the event there is a severe fetal abnormality. Unlike many laws restricting abortion, this one does not contain an exemption for rape or incest.
Christian Medical & Dental Associations to Join in Pro-Life Rally at the U.S. Supreme Court on December 1
- By Christian Newswire
BRISTOL, Tenn. -- The 19,000-member Christian Medical & Dental Associations (CMDA), which is the nation's largest faith-based healthcare organization, will join a group of other pro-life healthcare advocates on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court tomorrow on Wednesday, December 1, 2021 to stand up for life as oral arguments are heard in the landmark Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health case.
"Every OB/Gyn—in fact, every healthcare professional for that matter—should want their patients treated according to empirically-sound medical research," said CMDA CEO Mike Chupp, MD, FACS. "We represent thousands of healthcare professionals across the United States who believe all women deserve access to the highest level of medical care. Pro-abortion doctors often rely on empirically-flawed medical research to promote their views on abortion. Using biased medical information is not only unethical; it's a disservice to women and their babies."
Omicron: Country Pauses for a Moment of Science
- By Tony Perkins - Family Research Council
Stand by for Act III. While the rest of the world reeled with the discovery of a new COVID variant, Omicron, at least one person appears to be basking in the spotlight once again: Dr. Anthony Fauci. Reveling in his celebrity-like status on the Sunday shows, the president's pandemic mouthpiece didn't let the absence of scientific information hinder his discussion about the latest COVID variant.
In Fauci's latest media tour, the infectious diseases director dodged any substantive questions about Omicron and instead focused on stoking fear and painting himself as a political martyr. "I've stayed away from politics my entire life," he told CBS's Margaret Brennan, and it's "painful and disturbing," Fauci claimed, to be attacked by Republicans when he "only cares about science and health." It's "outlandish politicization" of a public health crisis, he argued. "I'm just going to do my job, and I'm going to be saving lives -- and they're going to be lying."
Joe Biden's Dirty Little Secret: He Wants Higher Gasoline Prices
- By Stephen Moore
When he announced last week that he would release more oil from the American Strategic Petroleum Reserve, President Joe Biden told the American people he is doing everything possible to bring down gas prices at the pump.
That's a lie. This administration and the climate change crazies have declared war on American energy.
They (SET ITAL)want(END ITAL) high oil and gas prices. The Biden master plan is for American oil and gas production and consumption to go to zero over the next 15 to 20 years. How do you achieve that goal? By making oil and gas so expensive and so unavailable that Americans are forced to use alternatives.
The Epidemic of Childhood Trauma in the U.S. Foster Care System and How Christians Can Help
- By Paul Martin - Focus on the Family
America’s foster care system is experiencing an ‘epidemic within the pandemic.’ Christians can help turn the tide.
Last August, a staff member sent a message asking me to pray for a seven-year-old child in foster care. The child, named Anna, had just been admitted to a mental health hospital for trying to harm herself.
Anna lived in a housing project in South Chicago. She was recently removed from her biological mother due to neglect and placed with a foster mother. With school closings and an overburdened family court system, the young girl now lived with her new foster family seven-days-a-week, 24-hours-a-day. Her school, which had been a refuge for Anna (and hundreds of thousands of other kids in foster care like her), had been closed for months.
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Pro-life Organizations and Leaders to Hold Major News Conference and Candlelight Vigil at the Supreme Court Today, Tuesday, November 30 for the Dobbs v. Jackson Case
- By Christian Newswire
WASHINGTON - Dobbs v. Jackson could be the case to dismantle and overturn Roe v. Wade after 48 years of abortion violence.
The events are being organized by Stanton Public Policy Center/Purple Sash Revolution. Stanton Public Policy Center/Purple Sash Revolution is a women's advocacy and educational group that works on issues of human rights and justice which empower and inspire women. It is affiliated with Stanton Healthcare which has life-affirming women's health clinics in America and internationally.
On Tuesday, November 30 at 3:00 PM, there will be a major news conference in front of the Supreme Court featuring national pro-life organizations and leaders. They will be discussing the Dobbs case and "How the pro-life movement will respond in a 'Post-Roe' America."
Nite Line Guest Line-up for December 6-10, 2021
- By Nite Line Press Release
Nite Line broadcasts live Monday through Friday on WGGS-TV from 8 p.m. until 9:30 p.m. The program features local and/or nationally known guests who share their testimonies and talent. Our goal is to be an inspiration to our viewers as well as inform them of Christian and community events in the upstate.
Monday, December 6, 2021: Nathan Bland welcomes Chad Burmeister of Littleton, Colorado to share how his relationship with Christ has changed after recovering from Covid-19. Rush Little plays the saxophone tonight on Nite Line.
Return of the 'Law and Order' Issue
- By Pat Buchanan
According to Gallup, on the issue of crime, President Joe Biden is 18 points underwater. While 57% of Americans disapprove of how he is handling crime, only 39% approve.
Biden's dismal rating was recorded before the verdict came in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial -- not guilty on all five counts -- a verdict Biden declared had made him "angry."
Biden's rating also came before career criminal Darrell Brooks, free on $1,000 bail after running over his girlfriend, drove his Ford Escape into the Waukesha Christmas parade, killing six and injuring 60.
Biden's low rating on crime came before "flash mobs" of thieves in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York looted Louis Vuitton, Burberry, Bloomingdale's, Nordstrom and Apple, cleaning them out in minutes.
Abraham Lincoln and the Morrill Tariff
- By Mike Scruggs
Forty-year Background of Sectional Tariff Conflicts
Part 3 of 8 of a Series on the Morrill Tariff
Abraham Lincoln strongly endorsed the newly passed Morrill Tariff during his inaugural speech, and though most of his speech was conciliatory on slavery, he promised to enforce collection of the tariff whether or not the Southern States remained in the Union. After promising that his objective was only to defend and maintain the Union, he added:
“In doing this there needs to be no bloodshed or violence, and there shall be none unless it is forced upon the national authority. The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no use of force against or among the people anywhere…” (Italic emphasis added.).20
In other words, there would be no Federal violence against Southern states except to collect the tariff and to secure control of the places where it might be collected, for example, Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. It is obvious from his inaugural speech that Lincoln’s conciliatory words on slavery contrasted with his hard line on tariffs. Raising the tariff was by far his most important objective.
While Americans Slept, Our Country Was Being Hijacked by Communist Devils! Will We Awaken In Time To Save Ourselves?
- By W.H. Lamb
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.”
ISAIAH 5:20 New International Version Bible
That’s perhaps the most pertinent question facing us today, isn’t it? A recent article in The New American Magazine, published on March 8, 2021 featuring the insights of C. Mitchel Shaw, titled The Great Awakening, prompted me to reflect on whether or not Americans are truly “awakening” to the dangers posed to their freedom under our increasingly disregarded 1787 Constitution, or are so “woke” by the lies of the main stream media and their almost cult-like and slavish adherence to the babblings of the “gods” of the despicable social media—the collectivist churls who are determined to tell Americans, especially our younger citizens, WHAT to think, WHAT to dislike, and WHO to permit to exercise the increasingly nebulous concept of “free speech”, that they are essentially almost useless in the fight for freedom’s preservation.
BJU Invites Community to Annual Christmas Celebration
- By Randy Page - BJU
Bob Jones University invites the Greenville community to the annual Christmas Celebration Friday, Dec. 3, from 4-8 p.m. on the BJU campus.
“We are thankful for the return of our annual carol sing and campus lighting. It is important to remind ourselves of the true meaning of Christmas as we usher in the holiday season,” said BJU President Steve Pettit. “The community is invited to join us for a memorable evening full of activities for everyone.”
Major Sarah Whitten, director of Paladin Battalion (U.S. Army ROTC), will join President Pettit at the Christmas Lighting and Carol Sing Ceremony at 6:30 p.m. in front of Rodeheaver Auditorium. Pettit will read the Christmas story and the event will culminate with the official lighting of over 100,000 Christmas lights. The full schedule of activities and musical events with beginning times is listed below. Most activities will be open until 8 p.m.
New Study Reveals Wide Range of Evangelical Opinion About Israel
- By Christian Newswire
XPORT, Penn. -- It is often presumed that evangelical Christians prioritize support for Israel as part of their religious and political beliefs. However, new research reveals evangelicals are not of one mind on what they believe about Israel and the Jewish people.
The Jewish Connection: Evangelicals and Israel is a study of 1,000 American evangelical Protestants, from Infinity Concepts and Grey Matter Research. It reveals that 51% of evangelicals believe the Jews are God’s chosen people. However, the other half believe differently:
• 19% are not sure what to believe• 17% believe Christians replaced Jews as God’s chosen people• 10% feel the Jews never were God’s chosen people• 2% had another view
“Older evangelicals and those who are Charismatic or Pentecostal are the most likely to believe the Jews are God’s chosen people,” says Mark Dreistadt, Infinity Concepts President. “Also, evangelicals who read the Bible at least weekly are significantly more likely to believe this than are infrequent Bible readers.”
We Can Stop Them – We Just Need the Right Plan Freedom Pods
- By Tom DeWeese - American Policy Center
Across the nation, Americans are growing anxious and frustrated by the barrage of government overreach through rules, regulations and taxes. What do we do? How do we fight back and restore our rights and economic freedom?
One of the main reasons the progressives have been so successful in locking in their agenda on us is because they understand that the local level is the place to enforce them. Our side has ignored it for too long. We simply are not there, in city councils, county commissions, and school boards. The result is that now we have much more government. We can fix that.
'No Room for Jesus' at the U.S. Capitol Building, as Permit is Denied to Hold a Christmas Celebration on the Capitol Grounds
- By Christian Newswire
WASHINGTON -- The Christian Defense Coalition was told their permit application could not be processed, as the Capitol grounds were restricted.
The areas which are restricted would include all the grounds immediately surrounding the U.S. Capitol building.
Simply stated, "Speaker Pelosi and the Capitol Police Board are saying 'Bah Humbug' to free speech, the First Amendment and Christmas at the U.S. Capitol."
Yet, business is going on as usual in those areas. Members of Congress and their staff are entering and using the Capitol. Vendors, the media and their crews, invited guests, lobbyists and thousands of weekly visitors are allowed to enter and use the Capitol grounds.
House Republicans Support Equality Act in Disguise
- By Eagle Forum
Eagle Forum has long been opposed to efforts by Congress to enact the Equality Act. If enacted and signed into law the Equality Act will amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI).
The Equality Act is harmful to women. If signed into law, the legislation will grant men the right to sue if they are denied equal access to women’s private spaces such as showers, bathrooms, and nursing rooms. These men will also have access to women’s prisons and shelters. Women’s athletics will be dominated by men. In addition, SOGI ideology would impose on businesses and strip individuals of their religious freedoms. Religious adoption and foster agencies are some of the institutions that are currently being targeted. In the case of Sharon Fulton, et al. v. City of Philadelphia, the city government stopped placing foster children in homes that partnered with Catholic Social Services based on their policy of placing children in homes where the marital unit is one man and one woman. This not only undercuts the services of the organization but disadvantages the children in need of loving homes.
Legislatively Controlled Panel OKs Big Raises for State Agency Heads
- By Rick Brundrett - The Nerve
Over a week ago, a legislatively controlled committee quietly approved five-figure salary hikes for six state agency heads, including increases for two university presidents whose total annual compensation is much more than their state pay.
Medical University of South Carolina president David Cole received a $42,308, or 13.5%, raise from the state Agency Head Salary Commission (AHSC), bringing his state salary to $354,941, according to information from MUSC and the State Fiscal Accountability Authority (SFAA), an agency that provides administrative support to the AHSC.
The AHSC also approved a $23,009, or 10.6%, raise for Lander University president Richard Cosentino, bringing his state salary to $238,520, records show. His total compensation last year was at least $377,830, which besides his state salary included $122,319 from the university’s private fundraising arm and a $40,000 “housing supplement” from the university, according to his annual income-disclosure statement filed with the State Ethics Commission.
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