Have nothing to do with the [evil] things that people do, things that belong to the darkness. Instead, bring them out to the light... [For] when all things are brought out into the light, then their true nature is clearly revealed...

-Ephesians 5:11-13

NPR: Hunter Biden E-mail Scandal “Not Really a Story,” “Just Pure Distraction”

Friday, 23 October 2020 09:29
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Friday, October 23, 2020: 

When National Public Radio (NPR) listener Carolyn Abbott asked why the taxpayer funded news outlet wasn’t covering the growing scandal involving Joe Biden and his son Hunter, NPR’s public editor Kelly McBride said there were “many, many red flags” in the New York Post investigation, and thus the story did not merit coverage.

Asked Abbott:

Someone please explain why NPR has apparently not reported on the Joe Biden, Hunter Biden story in the last week or so that Joe did know about Hunter’s business connections in Europe that Joe had previously denied having knowledge?

McBride referred her and other listeners curious about NPR’s blackout of the growing scandal to comments by NPR Managing Editor Terence Samuel, who concluded, “We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions. And, quite frankly, that’s where we ended up. This was … a politically driven event and we decided to treat it that way.”

NPR noted those “many, many red flags”:

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Two Colorado Churches Win Court Reprieve From Governor’s COVID Mandates

Thursday, 22 October 2020 21:15
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Thursday, October 22, 2020: 

Two Colorado churches — the Denver Bible Church and the nearby Community Baptist Church in Brighton — gained a reprieve last week from U.S. District Judge Daniel D. Domenico. The churches sued Colorado Governor Jared Polis in August over his COVID-related restrictions that were overly vague and applied unevenly between the churches and secular establishments.

Domenico’s reason was constitutionally sound in granting the churches a temporary restraining order against Polis:

The Constitution does not allow the State to tell a congregation how large it can be when comparable secular gatherings are not so limited, or to tell a congregation that its reason for wishing to remove facial coverings is less important than a restaurant’s or spa’s….

 

The First Amendment does not allow government officials, whether in the executive or judicial branch, to treat religious worship as any less critical or essential than other human endeavors. Nor does it allow the government to determine what is a necessary part of a house of worship’s religious exercise.

Judge Domenico noted that

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Tonight’s Debate Topics Won’t Address What Voters Care About Most

Thursday, 22 October 2020 12:38
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Thursday, October 22, 2020:  

In her effort to protect Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden from addressing the hard issues that voters care about most, the moderator of tonight’s presidential debate, Kristen Welker, has instead provided a list of “off-topic topics.” They include COVID, American families, race relations, climate change, national security, and the most ephemeral topic of all: “leadership.”

While including “climate change,” which most voters aren’t interested in (according to studies by Gallup, Pew, Kaiser and Rasmussen), she neatly avoids those topics voters are interested in: the economy, law and order, and the Huntergate scandal.

Hogan Gidley, the national press secretary for the Trump 2020 campaign, said,

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Trump’s Debate Strategy: “Pummel” Biden on Corruption; Let Biden Fumble With His Response

Thursday, 22 October 2020 04:54
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Wednesday, October 21, 2020:  

Samantha Zager, deputy national press secretary for the Trump campaign, laid out the president’s debate strategy on Wednesday: directly and forcefully challenge his opponent, Democratic Party presidential nominee Joe Biden, over charges of corruption. And then wait for his response.

This fits perfectly with the rule change announced by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPB) that Trump’s mic will be muted for two minutes after the moderator has asked Biden a question. Two minutes is a painfully long period of time to answer a question which Biden will have heard for the first time. Given that opportunity several times during the 90-minute debate on Thursday night, Biden might just hand the president a gift beyond compare.

Said Zager:

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Capitol Hill Baptist Church Enjoys First Gathering Since Court Ruling Against Shutdown Order

Wednesday, 21 October 2020 09:42
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Wednesday, October 21, 2020:  

Members of the Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., held their first worship service on Sunday since District Court Judge Trevor McFadden granted the church “injunctive relief” from D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s draconian, discriminatory, and hypocritical shutdown orders over the COVID virus.

Appropriately, the sermon was about civil government and civil disobedience, preached by Associate Pastor Bobby Jamieson.

McFadden ruled that Bowser’s “current restrictions substantially burden the Church’s exercise of religion” and so granted the church’s petition for relief.

Thirty-four Senate Republicans filed an Amicus Brief supporting the church: “The Mayor’s discrimination against houses of worship rests on a mistaken, and unconstitutional, premise that one particular exercise of free speech — a church’s desire to gather together and worship their God — is subordinate to other First Amendment-protected activities.”

Those Republicans got most of it right. The mayor’s ruling rests ultimately on a mistaken premise that the government has the right to dictate a church’s behavior. Many Christians believe this as well, drawing support for this view from Romans 13. Here’s the NIV version:

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Michigan Barber Who Defied Shutdown Mandates Has Charges Dropped

Tuesday, 20 October 2020 20:49
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Tuesday, October 20, 2020:  

Karl Manke, a 78-year-old barber in Owosso, Michigan, who has been cutting hair for 59 years, can rest a little easier. Charges for violating local health orders and defying Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s COVID mandates were dropped last Friday.

Manke gained national attention and notoriety as a “folk hero” among many who saw that Whitmer’s edicts went far beyond the law. When she shut down the state initially, Manke complied. But after she unilaterally extended her mandates beyond April 30 without gaining approval from the legislature to do so, Manke reopened his barbershop, saying at the time, “I feel the governor is not my mother, never has been.”

When reminded that he was violating Whitmer’s mandates, Manke said, “I could care less. If they want to put me in jail, put me in jail.… I will be governed … but not ruled. This is a police state action.”

When he filed an appeal against a court order shutting him down, his attorney wrote,

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Trump Campaign Blasts Debate Commission Over Last-minute Changes

Tuesday, 20 October 2020 10:07
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Tuesday, October 20, 2020:  

The Trump campaign’s response to last-minute rule and topic changes made by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) show that Thursday night’s presidential debate will be all-out war.

In a call with reporters on Monday morning before the CPD announced the muted mic rule, Trump 2020 senior advisor Jason Miller called out the commission for its pro-Biden bias: “I want to make it very clear how they’re putting their foot on the scale with regard to this debate. This was supposed to be the foreign policy debate — the final debate is always the foreign policy debate.”

He added:

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Thursday Night’s Presidential Debate Topics Don’t Include Hunter Biden

Monday, 19 October 2020 14:40
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, October 19, 2020:  

When CBS News announced the topics to be covered during Thursday night’s debate between President Donald Trump and his Democratic opponent Joe Biden, there was nothing about Hunter Biden, his e-mails, his selling of influence to Ukrainian and Chinese officials, his doing mega-financial deals with communists in China, nothing about payoffs — nothing.

Instead it reiterated the location: Belmont University in Nashville; the date: Thursday, the 22nd; the time: 9 p.m. Eastern; and its length: 90 minutes.

The topics listed included are:

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Trump’s “Shy Voters” Will Reelect Him in November, Says Trafalgar Group’s Founder

Monday, 19 October 2020 09:57
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, October 19, 2020:

The “shy voter,” according to Robert Cahaly, the founder of polling company Trafalgar Group, doesn’t “want to be judged by somebody on the phone whom they don’t know.” Therefore, many are tempted to give an answer that is more acceptable than accurate.

That’s how Cahaly has built his polling company.

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Factors Other Than Polling Give Trump Significant Edge

Monday, 19 October 2020 05:37
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Sunday, October 18, 2020:

Jen O’Malley Dillon, Biden’s campaign manager who admitted that Biden’s polling numbers are inflated, has significant obstacles to overcome to get her man into the White House in January 2021.

Following revelations that Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, profited from selling access to his father while he was Vice President, the affair is beginning to show up in the polls. This is despite the former vice president’s protestations that the whole “Hunter thing” is just a “smear campaign.” The latest IBD/TIPP poll taken just after the New York Post printed the story showed the Biden campaign already losing three percentage points of its previously reported advantage over the incumbent.

O’Malley Dillon’s campaign is now, belatedly, sending volunteers door-to-door canvassing in Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Michigan, and Nevada to counteract the enormous “ground game” the Trump campaign launched there months ago.

Former President Obama has been reluctantly enticed out of silence and retirement to hit the campaign trail for Biden.

Larry O’Connor, who hosts a politics and pop-culture talk show in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, has questioned the validity of the whole “likely-voter” paradigm driving nearly all the national media’s polling strategies. He noted,

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