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One of the things that is perplexing and often a topic of conversation is this new American-Western European alliance or absorption of Islam and Marxism-socialism-communism. In other words, people who identify as radical Muslims, often in their alliance, include people who are traditional Western Marxists, and it doesn’t seem possible for a variety of ways.

Anthony Fauci, the public health bureaucrat who became the face of America’s botched COVID-19 response, testified this week on Capitol Hill. Except Fauci actually didn’t testify: In an astonishing act of hubris and disdain for the countless Americans who bore the brunt of tyrannical COVID-era “Faucism,” the mad doctor invoked the Fifth Amendment well over 100 times.

Religious liberty attorneys secured a legal victory for therapists who treat children struggling with gender confusion.

The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty secured a permanent order on Thursday from U.S. District Judge Jane Beckering requiring Michigan to stop enforcing its 2023 law that barred counselors from engaging in talk therapy aimed at helping children struggling with gender dysphoria, according to a press release by the legal organization. This comes after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in March that similar treatments are protected by the First Amendment.

This article was originally published at The Empowerment Alliance and is re-published here with permission. 

The political left is worried that the rapid expansion of data centers across the U.S. – a controversial but necessary development considering our competition with China – is increasingly accompanied by the corresponding construction of stand-alone natural gas plants to provide the power demands of the centers.

The National Institutes of Health awarded a doctoral student who goes by “they/them” pronouns a five-figure grant to study “gender minority birthing people.”

Pond Ezra, a University of Maryland School of Public Health doctoral student studying Family Science, received $35,832 from the taxpayer-funded NIH in February. Ezra’s project, which the grant will fund is titled “Longitudinal Mixed Methods Analysis of Risk and Protective Factors Influencing Psychological Distress in Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) Birthing People.”

They’re baaack. “They” being communists, or for the academics, Marxists.

Hairsplitting.

Communism is the implementation of the ideology Karl Marx advanced in his 1848 thesis, “The Communist Manifesto.”

(The Center Square) – During the 13th cabinet meeting of President Donald Trump’s second term, the president indicated he expects more back-and-forth strikes with Iran as he tells reporters he is “losing faith” in the Islamic Republic.

The president expressed frustration with the Iranian regime, adding that “they do lie” and “misrepresent,” noting Iran’s surprise missile attack on U.S. forces in Jordan. All five missiles were intercepted, prompting the U.S. to launch retaliatory strikes.

Not sure if even the classic horror movies went this far, but three doctors are pushing a plan that would kill people by taking their organs for transplant.

Of course it would be all right because the victims would have requested euthanasia anyway.

After thousands of migrants flooded Spanish shores from Morocco this week, top American and international policymakers sounded the alarm on the Left’s open-border and amnesty policies.

Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., has attributed the migrant influx to the previous amnesty policy Spain Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez implemented in February, when he naturalized almost a million undocumented migrants.

The U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to consider whether a state can punish children, specifically children who need special education services, if their parents exercise their own constitutional rights.

According to the Institute for Justice, the dispute involves two Massachusetts families.

Support for WNBA sharpshooter Sophie Cunningham is surging around the nation in the wake of her belief that only women should compete in women’s sports.

Cunningham’s initial remarks stirred controversy among supporters of biological men and boys competing as pretend females.