The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Josh Duggar, a former reality television star who was convicted of downloading child sexual abuse material online.

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld mocked a pro-Palestinian protester over the weekend who disrupted another one of his comedy shows in Australia, saying that they just gave more money to a Jew in order to insult him. The incident happened as Seinfeld was performing in Melbourne at the Rod Laver Arena on Saturday night when the group interrupted and claimed that he supported “genocide.” “Oh, you’re back. They’re back! The protesters are back! I’ve missed you!” Seinfeld responded as the crowd began to boo the protesters. “Oh, you’re not doing well. It’s so hard for you. Yes, listen, dude, listen, let me explain something, you and I are in the same business.” “We’re in the same business. Our business is to get people to see things the way we see,” he continued. “The problem is you’re in the wrong place. … You hear how well I’m doing? This is what you want. You want to do well, like I am, looking at the people here to hear me, look at what happened to you.” He said that if he went to a sporting event and tried to do his comedy routine that he would be booed just like the protesters were getting booed at the comedy event. “I think you need to go back and tell who’s ever running your organization, “We just gave more money to a Jew,'” Seinfeld later added. “That cannot be a good plan for you. That’s not what you want! That’s the whole problem! You got to come up with a better plan.” WATCH: We’ve had enough and so has Jerry Seinfeld. Jewish comedic king ?pic.twitter.com/VMY1lEcatq — Tamar Schwarzbard ?? (@TSchwarzbard) June 23, 2024 Seinfeld had a similar run in with anti-Semitic protesters earlier this month when he was performing at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney. “We have a genius ladies and gentlemen. He’s solved the Middle East. He’s solved it!” Seinfeld mocked. “It’s the Jewish comedians, that’s who we have to get.” The crowd cheered as Seinfeld mocked the heckler, who chanted the genocidal anti-Semitic slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” as they were escorted out of the venue. “Go ahead, keep going,” he taunted the heckler. “They’re going to start punching you in about three seconds, so I would try and get all of your genius out so we can all learn from you.” “It’s a comedy show, you moron!” Seinfeld added. “Get out of here.” Related: Jerry Seinfeld Blasts Pro-Palestinian Heckler: ‘It’s A Comedy Show, You Moron. Get Out Of Here.’

Here’s a side of the Clinton administration you probably don’t remember. Just a few months into Bill Clinton’s second term, the federal government announced a major initiative to fund abstinence-only sex education. As the L.A. Times reported back in March of 1997, Clinton’s administration allocated hundreds of millions of dollars to programs teaching that sex before marriage is, “likely to have harmful psychological and physical effects.” The Clinton-funded programs also taught that abstinence from premarital sex is, “the expected standard” of human behavior. That’s worth repeating: The Clinton administration said that abstaining from sex before marriage is the “expected standard” of human behavior. That may sound surprising now, for obvious reasons. This was not exactly an administration that led by example on this front, or any other front. But at the time, especially in that pre-Lewinsky period, it wasn’t a particularly shocking move. From Reagan’s administration onward, there had been significant bipartisan support in Washington for teaching young people to wait until marriage before having sex. Democrats and Republicans agreed on this point: Hookup culture spreads disease and ultimately makes people unhappy. It wasn’t especially controversial, really. As recently as 2010, CNN was running segments about how abstinence-education was effective. Watch: You won’t find many reports like that on CNN anymore. Do a quick search of their website, and you’ll learn that abstinence-only education is “not evidence-based.” The science shifted, apparently, as we’ve seen so often.  Indeed, around the year that report aired — 2010 — federal funding for abstinence-only education began to wane under the Obama administration. Donald Trump brought it back to an extent. Then the Biden administration limited this funding again, though not as much as many Leftists were hoping. Throughout all of this back-and-forth, pretty much the only group that’s remained consistent have been Christian conservatives. We’ve warned, for decades, that hookup culture will create many catastrophic problems in society. We promoted chastity and abstinence before marriage as the only workable alternative. That’s a position we took based on Scripture, based on thousands of years of human history, and based on plain old common sense. And for that, we were dismissed and mocked as out of touch and prudish and archaic and old fashioned, again and again, over the past several decades.  What’s interesting about all of this mockery is that now — at long last — many of the same people who dismissed Christian conservatives are now coming around to basically agreeing with us. They’re conceding that abstinence until marriage makes sense, actually. The catch is that they’re doing it for all the wrong reasons. New York Magazine’s “The Cut” just published an article outlining the new pro-abstinence trend that’s now so popular among young people. It’s entitled, “A Summer Without Sex: Celibacy is all the rage right now.”  The Cut reports: Today, celebrities including Khloé Kardashian, Lenny Kravitz, Julia Fox, Kate Hudson, and Tiffany Haddish have touted the benefits of celibacy. Melissa Febos … is coming out with another memoir next year called ‘The Dry Season,’ about a year of conscious celibacy. Other women are celebrating their dry seasons too, even to the point of competitiveness. The report continues: This Great Abstaining comes amid any number of moral panics about sex, mainly related to young people: They’re texting instead of hooking up, they’re getting off the apps, they’re forgoing marriage and children, they’re deemphasizing traditional romance and instead prioritizing platonic friendships like codependent but chaste Victorian pen pals. Among the reasons for this “Great Abstaining,” according to the Cut, is that many women all over the world are drawing inspiration from the “radical-feminist South Korean 4B movement.” Women who participate in this “4B movement” promise not to do four things: date men, have sex with men, give birth, or get married. Of course, attitudes like this are only making South Korea’s population crisis even worse. The country’s birth rate is well below replacement level, and dropping fast. That’s not going to improve if no one marries or has children. But the media is presenting this as some kind of feminist victory for South Korea, even though South Korea may not exist for very long if it keeps up. South Korea’s great achievement is embracing its own extinction, we’re told. WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show Take this article from Vogue, for example. They just came out with a similar piece praising women for their newfound love of celibacy. They wrote: Is sex-free living going to be a thing? Could it actually be liberating to take the sex out of every equation? Are we entering a second wave of sexual emancipation in which one can simply opt out altogether? Maybe this summer can be a mini-break from the near-constant awareness of our own sexuality, of how (or whether) we attract. A vacation from transmitting and receiving sexual triggers. Will more of us be looking back on 2024 as the summer I turned sexless? No more afternoon delights, no more holiday romances—a veritable Celibacy and the City. It’s kind of amazing to see Vogue discover that, in fact, women can “opt out” of having random sex with strangers. This is a whole new level of “sexual emancipation,” they say. No one has ever raised this possibility before. You can actually just not give yourself away to any random dude who vaguely shows interest. This is breaking news, courtesy of Vogue magazine: Women have free will. Can you believe it? Several other outlets have been reporting on the same trend for more than a year now, in an equally shocked tone. The Independent, for example, wrote last year that, “Celibacy has become all the rage among young people.” According to the Independent: In recent years, ‘self-love’ has been parodied as much as embraced. But the shift towards celibacy seems to have come from it. … The benefits from a period of celibacy are endless because, ultimately, it’s about self-development. And that’s a practice that will always provide some sort of enlightenment – regardless of your relationship status. Imagine that. “The benefits from a period of celibacy are endless.” Again, across virtually all of the corporate press this is presented as something that’s just being discovered now. The Guardian, to give another example, reports that “Sex-positive feminism had its moment – and now it has been replaced by voluntary celibacy.” That’s quite a headline from The Guardian, considering it was just a decade ago that The Guardian was running articles with titles like, “The moral case for sex before marriage.” Reversals like this are everywhere all of a sudden. In recent years, outlets like The New York Times and The Sunday Times have published lengthy first-hand op-eds written by authors who have committed to celibacy. In particular, the Sunday Times declared that “Celibacy has had a reboot, with more people abstaining from sex than ever.” And it’s important to note, if it wasn’t clear already, that in virtually all of these cases we’re talking about unmarried people abstaining from sex — abstaining from hookup culture, in other words. This is the “reboot,” the “trend,” the bright new idea that the media is suddenly celebrating. And the trend is not just a media creation. Researchers at the University of Michigan have been tracking the sexual behavior of high school graduates for the past two decades, going back to 2004. They’ve found: Among 21-to-30-year-old males, abstinence rose significantly between 2008 and 2020, from 14.4% to 23.5% — an increase of nearly two-thirds. Among females of the same age, abstinence also rose, though by less, rising from 12.8% in 2008 to 16.5% in 2020 — an increase of just over a quarter. … Young adult males now have a considerably higher rate of abstinence than young adult females. There are obviously many factors that might explain this change. A lot of it is likely attributable to so-called involuntary celibacy. We know that, even as celibacy is becoming more common, chastity is becoming less common. The proliferation of internet porn makes that very clear. So what’s happening here in many cases, it seems reasonable to conclude, is that many young single people have given up on finding love and commitment. They’ve despaired of ever forming a real romantic connection with anyone. So now they’re retreating into celibacy like a form of surrender. The point is that it’s not an embrace of traditional values in most cases. They’ve ended up at the same place — abstinence — but have gotten there from a place of despair and defeat.  In other cases, as in South Korea, people are apparently resorting to celibacy as some kind of strained, misguided political statement. Here’s someone by the name of Julia Fox, for instance:   As twisted as that logic is, it actually makes sense on some level. These people understand that abstinence until marriage is an expression of self-control. And they understand that there’s a lot of benefits to a society where people practice self-control. But because they’ve rejected the old code of sexual morality, they have to come up with these bizarre, incoherent rationalizations for returning to it. They have to pretend that “Roe v. Wade” is somehow relevant to whether they want to be sexually promiscuous or not. Or they have to pretend that celibacy is part of some newfound “sexual liberation” movement — that another wave of feminism is in progress, where women have discovered for the first time that they have free will. Here’s the point in all of this. The old code of sexual morality that they rejected — the one that those Christian conservatives were promoting, while being mocked and dismissed for it — that code was grounded, all along, in the true and the beautiful: in human dignity, love, commitment, chastity. The great virtues. Those who repudiated that message for the sake of lust and instant gratification now find themselves living sexless lives anyway. They chose the opposite lifestyle and found it unfulfilling, harmful, destructive, and severely depressing. This is precisely what Christian conservatives warned would happen. This is why we said that hook up culture is bad; that the correct order of events is to find someone, pledge your love and loyalty to them, marry them, and then be physically intimate with them. In other words, we were right all along. But in all of the coverage of the “celibacy trend,” there is of course no acknowledgment of that fact. There’s no recognition that we had this whole thing figured out many generations ago — thousands of years ago, in fact. Unless all of these newly “celibate” people realize that celibacy is more than a trend or a political statement — then the satisfaction that they all say they’re feeling right now will be short-lived. “The Great Abstaining,” as The Cut put it, will give way to more unhappiness and inevitably more hedonism in short order. The only way out of this cycle is to recognize why Christian conservatives have been calling for abstinence until marriage for so long, and give them some credit for it. The Religious Right has been repeatedly and consistently mocked for predicting the future for the past several decades now. We’ve always been right. About everything. It’s time for everyone else to start listening.

The White House’s controversial new cross-dressing spokesman was brought over after three years at the Department of the Interior, an agency that has embraced far-left ideology perhaps more than any other in the Biden administration, a series of investigations from The Daily Wire reveals.  Tyler Cherry, the former communications director at Interior, was just named an associate communications director for the White House. His promotion from his post sparked inquiry into his social media history, which turned up numerous posts expressing a far-left ideology.  “Time to recall that the modern day police system is a direct evolution of slave patrols and lynch mobs,” Cherry posted to X, formerly Twitter, in 2015. “Praying for #Baltimore, but praying even harder for an end to a capitalistic police state motivated by explicit and implicit racial biases,” another post reads. One post simply stated “Abolish ICE,” referencing the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, a law enforcement body within the Department of Homeland Security that enforces immigration law.  Cherry also made several posts complaining about white people. “Iowa is 92% white – why is it still first in the nation?” he stated in reference to timing of the state’s presidential primary elections. “Ah yes, Dems MUST cater to uneducated white men or be damned! Jeez Lousie,” Cherry said in another post.   “Why is my whole family RACIST?” Cherry, who minored in gender studies, also wrote on the social media platform. “Cheersing in bars to ending the occupation of Palestine – no shame and f— your glares #ISupportGaza #FreePalestine,” one 2014 tweet read.  The fact that Cherry was in leadership position at Interior could explain it’s hard-left turn under Biden. The agency celebrated “transgender day of visibility” earlier this year by screening a documentary about LGBT inclusion in the field of marine biology, The Daily Wire previously discovered. “After realizing the lack of LGBTQ+ visibility in marine science led her to abandon her childhood dream, Nicole Morris decided to re-route her life path to try and become a marine biologist, to conserve endangered rays,” a description of the film reads.  “I had to ask myself ‘was marine science something that a queer woman could do?’” the subject of the documentary inquired.  Interior also hosted an “ally awards” ceremony where bureaucrats performed a “diversity poem reading,” Daily Wire host Matt Walsh revealed. “Don’t exclude me due to a lack of knowledge. Welcome me like the recruit fresh out of college,” one line of the poem says. “Let me take a seat at the table, even though I may be differently able.” I’ve just obtained footage of a “diversity poem reading” from a recent DEI “Ally Awards” show at the Department of Interior. However bad you assume this will be, I assure you that it’s much worse. pic.twitter.com/NKwNmayAXx — Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) April 9, 2024 “I’m diversity, embrace me and we’ll journey far. I’m diversity, include me and we’ll reach the shining star,” the poem went on to say.  Interior has a number of different identity-based employee resource groups, organizations within federal agencies that commonly push for diversity, equity, and inclusion policies or celebrations within the federal government.  Cherry deleted his posts after they were reported online and in the media, with the White House official issuing a statement backpedaling from his statements. “Past social media posts from when I was younger do not reflect my current views. Period,” Cherry said.

Russian operatives were allegedly behind an arson attack on a German factory last month, according to western intelligence officials who say that the attack is part of Russia’s campaign to sabotage Ukraine’s war effort. The Wall Street Journal reported that officials initially believed that that the fire at a Diehl Metal Applications factory was an accident. They now believe that the fire was intentionally set by “Russian saboteurs trying disrupt shipments of critical arms and ammunition to Ukraine,” the report said. The fire happened in an area of the factory where “only a few people had access,” the report said. All CCTV footage was allegedly destroyed in the fire. An intelligence agency of a member state of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) intercepted electronic-communications that “provided evidence of Russia’s involvement,” but the evidence was not allowed in Germany’s court system thus preventing criminal charges from being filed and blame being placed on Russia. European countries have tried to avoid escalating tensions with Russia amid its war in Ukraine but not placing blame on it for various mysterious incidents that have occurred on civilian and military infrastructure on the continent, the report said. Privately, however, they believe that Russia is responsible for at least some of the incidents. The goal of Russia’s sabotage campaign is to cause division in country’s that support Ukraine. Russian nationals have been arrested for trying to attack U.S. military facilities in Germany and for carrying out attacks in the U.K. Suspected cases of Russian sabotage include destroying an undersea gas pipelines and data cables in the Arctic and the Baltic Sea regions by civilian ships tied to Russia, the report said. The report said that Russia is recruiting criminals on social media to carry out the attacks, some of whom may not be aware that they are being recruited by Russia and may believe that they are working for someone else. They are often paid in cryptocurrency.

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