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The Denver Westword reports: Earlier this year, Congresswoman Lauren Boebert was caught on Vail Pass going 84 miles per hour in a 65 mile-per-hour zone by the Colorado State Patrol, leading to a $174.50 speeding ticket and a scheduled court appearance for July 26 after she failed to pay the fine on time. The House representative didn’t contact Eagle County …

Via email from hate group leader Monica Cole: Smoothie King’s newest commercial, “Don’t Be Fooled by Fake Fast Food! Be Sucking Awesome,” includes a double entendre and insinuates profanity, both of which are completely unnecessary. Foul language (or the implication of it) is not needed in this or any commercial, but that is obviously what Smoothie King intended with their …

Courthouse News reports: Seven GOP-dominated states filed a federal lawsuit in St. Louis against multiple Biden administration agencies Wednesday, in opposition to recent changes to the Affordable Care Act meant to protect transgender people from medical discrimination. Missouri, Utah, both Dakotas, Iowa, Idaho and Arkansas, joined by a conservative medical professional organization known as the American College of Pediatricians, filed …

Mediaite reports: Candace Owens sparked fresh controversy with a now widely condemned episode of her online show, in which she discussed Adolf Hitler and dabbled in some wild Holocaust revisionism. Clips from the episode titled “Literally Hitler. Why Can’t We Talk About Him?” began circulating online this week, including of Owens claiming that accounts of Nazi doctor Josef Mengele’s horrific …

Posted to the Family Research Council’s website: Unlike past years, when the media was welcome in the proceedings, “there’s kind of this cone of silence,” Perkins warned. Not only were the 112 delegates ordered to leave their cell phones outside the room, but none of the participants had access to the proposed platform language in advance. “That’s not the way …

Law & Crime reports: The families of Louisiana schoolchildren who sued to challenge a new law requiring that the Ten Commandments are displayed in every classroom are now asking a federal court to block the law before children return to school in August. When Louisiana’s Republican governor, Jeff Landry, signed the law, he said it was a way of respecting …

The Christian Post reports: Pastor John MacArthur of Grace Community Church articulated a stern view of Biden’s leadership during a recent interview, framing it as a divine judgment and a reflection of societal moral decline. America is a nation reaping the consequences of its moral choices, he declared. When a society “turns to sexual immorality, homosexual immorality, and a reprobate …

The Raleigh News & Observer reports: As Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson runs for governor, questions are being raised about his past bankruptcies and his failures to pay taxes. But there’s another problematic part of Robinson’s history that hasn’t received attention – how he and his wife were cited for numerous violations at the child care center they operated from …

Religion News reports: Robert Morris, former senior pastor of the prominent nondenominational Gateway Church headquartered in Southlake, Texas, resigned two weeks ago after Cindy Clemishire accused him of molesting her for four years, beginning when she was 12. The case has prompted calls for reforms not only in the church but at the state Capitol. “These actions demand public exposure, …

The New Republic reports: Mark Robinson, the extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence in a bizarre and extended rant he delivered on June 30 in a small-town church. “Some folks need killing!” Robinson, the state’s lieutenant governor, shouted during a roughly half-hour-long speech in Lake Church. “It’s time for somebody to say it. …

The Christian Post reports: Nearly five years after he claimed to renounce the prosperity gospel, declaring that the “Holy Ghost is just fed up with it,” controversial televangelist Benny Hinn said the world is on a collision course with its darkest days ever, and only those who give money to the Lord’s work will be protected financially. “Well, listen, I …

“On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, announcing ‘that all political connection between [the American colonies] and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved.’ And the rest, as they say, is history. “The Declaration mentions God three times: first as the Creator, then as Supreme Judge of the world, and …

NOTUS reports: Led by conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation, Republicans are currently looking to guarantee that Biden will be the Democratic nominee — and to make it so that, if Biden withdraws, it won’t be easy to replace him on ballots. “If the Biden family decides that President Biden will not run for re-election, the mechanisms for replacing him …

Via email from hate group leader Monica Cole: Alerting all parents! Currently available to stream on Disney+, Disney’s latest series, Star Wars: The Acolyte, pushes the LGBTQ agenda and witchcraft. Recently released in June 2024, The Acolyte will use the imaginary “force” to create children from lesbians. This exclusively gay moment makes it apparent where Disney+ stands in the culture …

CNN HOST PAMELA BROWN: “You’re saying that the teaching of the Bible in the classroom is a must, that every teacher must accept that. The bible includes beheading, rape, and incest. Do you support teaching children about those topics?” RYAN WALTERS: “I support teaching children our history accurately and what we’ve seen is the radical left and the teachers’ union …

Via press release from Christian Newswire: Family Research Council Action Chairman Tony Perkins, who is an elected member of the Republican National Committee (RNC) Platform Committee from Louisiana, is announcing, in conjunction with scores of other conservative groups, the launch of the Platform Integrity Project. This coalition seeks to work with the RNC and the Trump campaign for an open …

“I am an early American historian and love the Constitution. That Supreme Court ruling yesterday on immunity is vital, and it’s vital for a lot of reasons. “If people in the audience are looking for something to read over Independence Day weekend, in addition to rereading the Declaration of Independence, read Hamilton’s number 70 because there, along with some other …

Media Matters has the transcript: Can you guys imagine being married to me? My poor husband, he rolls over, he’s like, what are you reading? And I feel like a regular wife says something, I don’t know, maybe a love series. Nora Roberts sweeping her away. Me, on the other hand — he rolled over, he asked me and I …

Posted to the Family Research Council’s website: In a major departure from past years, news broke over the weekend that the Trump team is trying to “streamline” the GOP platform, telling delegates that it should be short, clear, and concise — code, some worry, for leaving core principles behind. Adding to the alarm, this year’s platform committee meetings will be …

NBC News reports: Oklahoma educators who refuse to teach students about the Bible could lose their teaching license, Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters said in an interview with NBC News on Friday. Walters issued a memo Thursday instructing all Oklahoma schools to teach students in grades five through 12 about the Bible’s influence on the nation’s founding and historical …