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

Trump Forced to Withdraw His ATF Nomination

Friday, 29 May 2020 14:43
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Friday, May 29, 2020: 

When the White House pulled the nomination of Kenneth Charles “Chuck” Canterbury, Jr. to head up the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) last week, it didn’t say why. But Canterbury’s confirmation was in jeopardy almost from the beginning.

The White House announced the nomination a year ago, but after hearing what Canterbury had to say about his commitment, or lack of, to the Second Amendment, it died in committee.

During that hearing, GOP Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana expressed his frustration at Canterbury’s lack of candor:

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Lead Singer in Christian Rock Band Declares “I No Longer Believe in God”

Friday, 29 May 2020 10:43
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Friday, May 29, 2020: 

In a long post on Instagram, Jon Steingard, the lead singer in the Canadian Christian rock band Hawk Nelson, said on Tuesday: “After growing up in a Christian home … I am now finding that I no longer believe in God.” But he added, “I want to be open. I want to be transparent with you all — and also open to having my heart changed in the future.”

He raised the issue of God and evil in the world: “There were things that just didn’t make sense to me. If God is all loving, and all powerful, why is there evil in the world? Can he not do anything about it? Does he choose not to?”

Although he claimed that he didn’t want to start a debate, he said that he is “open to the idea that God is there. I’d prefer it if he was. I suspect if he is there, he is very different than what I was taught. I know my parents pray that God reveals himself to me. If he’s there, I hope he does.”

So do a myriad of believers who have had the same questions.

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Senator Graham: Now Is a Good Time for Older Judges to Retire to Make Room for New Trump Nominees

Friday, 29 May 2020 08:38
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Friday, May 29, 2020:

South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham told Hugh Hewitt on his radio show early Thursday morning that now would be a good time for judges approaching retirement, or thinking about retiring, to do so:

This is an historic opportunity. We’ve just put over 200 federal judges on the bench. I think one in five federal judges are Trump appointees. If [we] can get four more years, I mean, it would change the judiciary for several generations.

 

So, if you’re a circuit judge in your mid-60s, late 60s, you can take senior status [part-time work which creates a vacancy], now would be a good time to do that if you want to make sure the judiciary is right of center. This is a good time to do it.

Since Trump’s inauguration the Senate has confirmed 196 federal judges including 51 on the appellate level and two Supreme Court justices. This, according to the Article III project — a judicial organization that assists in confirming Trump’s appointees — is the second-fastest rate of all U.S. presidents.

And this recommendation from Graham supports Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s motto “to leave no vacancy behind.”

It’s also frightening Democrats,

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Amazon Keeps Southern Poverty Law Center as Gatekeeper at AmazonSmile

Thursday, 28 May 2020 10:29
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Thursday, May 28, 2020: 

At the urging of Amazon’s board of directors, Amazon shareholders attending the company’s online annual meeting on Wednesday rejected a resolution to reevaluate the company’s reliance on the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to vet charities under its AmazonSmile charity portal.

The resolution, offered by Amazon shareholder Justin Danhof on behalf of the National Center for Public Policy Research (a conservative think tank that supports religious liberty), asked the board to investigate its reliance on the SPLC. When the resolution was rejected, Danhof, a director at the NCPPR, reported, “Today, Amazon’s board of directors publicly and unequivocally endorsed viewpoint discrimination against Christian and conservative organizations. The board rejected our request that it reevaluate its reliance on the discredited Southern Poverty Law Center as the de facto gatekeeper of the AmazonSmile charitable program.”

That program, initiated in 2013, allows a purchaser to designate 0.5 percent of the sale price of eligible items he might purchase to go to the charity of his choice — but only if that charity is approved by the SPLC.

An Amazon spokesman explained:

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Biden Refuses to Release his List of Potential Supreme Court Nominees

Thursday, 28 May 2020 05:33
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Wednesday, May 27, 2020: 

Trump’s decision to release his list of potential judicial nominees during his 2016 campaign was a master stroke. But if Biden were to release his list, the political outcome could be very different.

Democrat Senators Chuck Schumer, Sheldon Whitehouse, and Debbie Stabenow support Biden’s reluctance to release his list of potential Supreme Court nominees the way President Trump did in May 2016.

On a conference call on Wednesday, Whitehouse said, “I’m not advising him [Biden], but I wouldn’t recommend it.” Schumer agreed.

“So do I,” said Debbie Stabenow, a fourth term Senator from Michigan and Chair of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee.

She added:

I have great confidence and I know my colleagues feel the same, great confidence in Joe Biden’s capacity to put forward judges that are competent, that have the best interests of the American people at heart, that will care about the Constitution and an independent judiciary and basically begin to unwind what we are seeing that the Republicans have been doing.

Pressure has been building on the presumptive Democrat presidential nominee for months to release his list. It would, said CBS News, “galvanize his moderate base and bring along reluctant progressives.” It would, according to Mellissa Murray, a law professor at New York University, “excite parts of the Democratic base.”

Suggestions abound. Since Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is so popular among liberals, Biden should tie his campaign to her, promising to nominate individuals of similar ideology to the top bench. He’s reportedly considering naming a black woman as his running mate. It would support his promise to nominate the first black woman to the high court.

Back in April a Biden campaign spokesman gave a pablum response to the question:

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Flynn Trial Judge Hires High-powered Attorney to Defend His Unprecedented Actions

Wednesday, 27 May 2020 13:02
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Wednesday, May 27, 2020: 

High-profile trial attorney Beth Wilkinson officially entered the Flynn case on Tuesday, being tasked with defending Judge Emmet Sullivan’s refusal to sign off on the government’s request to dismiss its case against Michael Flynn.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals responded to Flynn’s attorney’s Writ of Mandamus demanding that Sullivan explain his decision not to dismiss, in no uncertain terms:

Ordered, on the court’s own motion, that within ten days of the date of this order [May 21] the district judge [Sullivan] file a response addressing the petitioner’s [Flynn’s] request that this court order the district judge [Sullivan] to grant the government’s motion to dismiss [which was filed] on May 7, 2020.

 

The government is invited to respond in its discretion within the same ten-day period.

In other words:

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Romanian Churches in Chicago Could Face “Summary Abatement” if They Continue to Meet

Tuesday, 26 May 2020 20:15
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Tuesday, May 26, 2020: 

The letter sent to three Romanian Churches near Chicago from the city’s health commissioner was chilling: “If you continue to operate in defiance of the Executive Order [the “Stay at Home” order issued by Governor J.B. Pritzker], the City will pursue all available legal remedies, including … Summary Abatement.”

The three churches — Elim Romanian Pentecostal Church, Metro Praise International, and Philadelphia Romanian Church — received orders on Friday, May 15, not to hold in-person worship services until public-health officials deemed that it was safe to do so. On Sunday the 17th, they held in-person services anyway.

This generated a letter on May 22 from Allison Arwady, MD, Commissioner of Chicago’s Department of Public Health (CDPH) that was hand-delivered to each pastor. In it, she reviewed some history and refreshed her threats:

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Former CBS Head Admits: Yes, Mainstream Media Is Biased

Tuesday, 26 May 2020 12:43
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Tuesday, May 26, 2020:  

Van Gordon Sauter, a former president of CBS News, was caustic in his opinion piece that appeared in the Wall Street Journal on Monday: “The media seems uninterested in … issues of bias.… The news media seems very comfortable with its product and [its] ability to sell it.”

Long gone, says Sauter, is any semblance of fairness or balance:

To many journalists, objectivity, balance and fairness — once the gold standard of reporting — are not mandatory in a divided political era and in a country they believe to be severely flawed.

 

That assumption folds neatly into their assessment of the president. To the journalists, including more than a few Republicans, he is a blatant vulgarian, an incessant prevaricator, and a dangerous leader who should be ousted next January, if not sooner.

 

Much of journalism has become the clarion voice of the “resistance,” dedicated to ousting the president, even though he was legally elected and, according to the polls, enjoys the support of about 44% of likely 2020 voters.

How can the media restore its lost credibility? Sauter says it should just admit to its blatant liberal bias instead of trying to hide behind whatever might be left of its former credibility. Remarked Sauter, “It would be delightful if a publisher, an editor, would just say: “Yes, I am left of center! I’m proud of it. I think our reporting is accurate. It best serves the public … and the credibility of the media. So there!”

Sauter admits to an obvious fact:

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Trump Tells Journalist: “I have a Chance to Break the Deep State”

Monday, 25 May 2020 20:21
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, May 25, 2020: 

During an exclusive interview with investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson on her television show Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson on Sunday night, Attkisson asked President Trump about Richard Grenell’s work as acting Director of National Intelligence (NDI) since acquiring that position three months ago.

Attkisson: Until Richard Grenell was made the Acting Director of National Intelligence by you, reporters, members of Congress, [and] members of the public had asked to see a lot of this information [wrongdoing by the FBI and other intelligence officials] really for three years, but it was kept hidden. What do you make of that?…

 

Trump: Richard Grenell is a superstar. He had guts, he had courage to do what he did. We have another superstar going in as you know, John Ratcliffe. He just got approved yesterday and he’ll be taking over as of Tuesday. Richard Grenell has done one of the best jobs I’ve ever seen. I mean, in a short period of time, he exposed them as being corrupt. Look, they were trying to do a takedown of the president of the United States illegally. It’s all illegal….

 

Attkisson: But why did it take Richard Grenell? You had other people who work [and] serve this administration.

 

Trump: … They didn’t do their job. Dan Coats [who served as Trump’s DNI from 2017 to 2019] should have never let that happen. Dan Coats sat there for two years, didn’t do his job…. Jeff Sessions [who served as Trump’s Attorney General from 2017 to 2018] was a disaster as attorney general. Should have never been attorney general, was not qualified. He’s not mentally qualified to be attorney general. He was the biggest problem. I mean, look. Jeff Sessions put people in place that were a disaster. They took over. They’ve [the Deep State] always had the Department of Justice, but they kept it under Jeff Sessions….

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Economic Green Shoots Appearing; Trump Moves to Water Them Via Regulatory Relief

Monday, 25 May 2020 12:25
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, May 25, 2020: 

Green shoots are appearing as the economy is starting to rebound from the COVID-19 shutdown.

On Saturday President Trump’s economic advisor Kevin Hassett told CNN, “It looks like the economy is picking up at a very rapid rate. In which case we could potentially move on to other things that the president has mentioned, like the payroll tax cut and potentially even a capital-gains holiday.”

That would provide additional fertilizer to an economy that hasn’t seen much light or water for the last two months. But businesses are reopening and credit-card usage is rebounding. Airline travel as measured by TSA screenings has more than tripled since their nadir on April 14.

Truckstop.com, which monitors trucking activity, says its weekly index has improved for four straight weeks and available loads were up 27 percent last week.

Property showings in the real estate market are also up 27 percent as of Saturday, and the Mortgage Bankers Association is reporting a rebound in the number of new mortgage applications. Last week Delta Airlines announced that it is restoring some flights between key cities such as New York and Atlanta. The airline is also restoring daily flights to Canada, the Caribbean, Central and South America, Mexico, and Europe.

Last week President Trump signed an executive order instructing regulatory agencies in the Executive branch “to use any and all authority to waive, suspend and eliminate unnecessary regulations that impede economic recovery.”

Added Trump:

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