The Manhattan trial of Donald Trump is another distraction, with a bevy of shallow, unreliable witnesses and conflicted prosecutors, judges, and DA. The former president could be found guilty because the jury pool is nearly 90% Biden voters, and many of his jurors get their news from the NY Times, WaPo, and one also gets […] The post Short Take on Stormy’s Thursday Testimony appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Asheville’s 25-member Community Reparations Commission that’s been meeting more than two years is recommending city and county leaders launch a guaranteed direct cash payment program to help support individuals with extreme low income levels. People with low income and prison records would get paid for doing nothing and could spend the money any way they want. The […] The post Asheville Reparations: Free Money for Low-Income & Ex-Cons appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

The Daily Wire’s launch of Responsible Man earlier this month outraged the leftists over at Media Matters — so much so that they wrote an entire article claiming that The Daily Wire’s marketing for the new vitamin company “tries to cash in on fear of trans people and drag queens.” On May 1, The Daily Wire proudly announced the launch of Responsible Man, a new company from Daily Wire Ventures, because men’s health products kind of suck. Instead of focusing on promoting the alphabet soup of trans, queer, and “non-binary” inclusion, Responsible Man exists to give you the best, high-quality men’s health products without any woke garbage piled on top of it.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Responsible Man (@responsiblemanco) But Media Matters is upset because it says The Daily Wire is “fearmongering about some of the outlet’s frequent targets, namely gender-affirming care and drag queens.” Media Matters calls it “fearmongering” when we point out that you’re sick and tired of companies shoving leftist talking points down your throat. We didn’t make that up. You’ve told us that with your words and your wallet. We shouldn’t pile on Media Matters too much. It actually did us a big favor by including in its article that we want men to be healthy because the human race depends on it. Men worldwide face decreasing sperm counts, according to recent studies, with some scientists pointing to poor health caused by obesity, a bad diet, drinking, and smoking as possible factors. Responsible Man wants to help keep men healthy without trying to convince them that drag queens and puberty blockers are cool. That’s why Responsible Man introduced the Emerson Multivitamin, a physician-formulated, robust supplement made up of 33 key premium ingredients that helps fill nutrient gaps to support your immune system, maintain energy production, sharpen brain cognition, and support the health of your heart and muscles.​​ The Emerson Multivitamin is delivered to you in an exceptional matte black aluminum tin, containing manly green vitamin capsules that are smooth, easy to take, and the best part: they are mint-essenced for a great smell and taste. Media Matters is upset that we “single[d] out” Men’s Health magazine for running an article titled “Welcome to the LGBTQ+ Language and Media Literacy Program.” The article pushes you to “Explore the origin, evolution, and current usage of words and phrases used to talk about queer and trans people.” “So many people assume that Men’s Health is only for cisgender, heterosexual, masculine presenting men. I’m here to tell you, as a queer trans nonbinary human, that’s false,” the Men’s Health article states. In other words, “Men’s Health” isn’t for men at all because what is a man anyway? At Responsible Man, we know what a man is and we’ll never be ashamed to celebrate manhood no matter how many articles Media Matters writes. Emerson Multivitamin is currently in stock and will ship immediately. But you need to act fast. There’s a limited number available, so take advantage today and save 30%.

There’s a very famous story about Joe Biden when he was a senator in the 1980’s. In June 1982, Biden was on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and he got into a clash with Menachem Begin, the prime minister of Israel. Biden lectured Begin over Israeli settlements and threatened cutting off military aid for Israel’s offensive campaign in Lebanon, where Israel was fighting against arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat and his Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Begin, whose father, mother, and brother were murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust, had moved to Israel, where he became an underground fighter against the British in an attempt to establish the State of Israel. He turned to Biden and said: Don’t threaten us with cutting off aid to give up our principles. I’m not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid. Now, this story is not about Menachem Begin. This story is about Joe Biden. Biden is a coward. He is an atrocious voice when it comes to foreign policy, and he always has been. There’s a reason that former Obama Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Biden had never been correct on foreign policy in his entire life. That is true. Biden has a unique capacity to screw up when it comes to foreign policy. He is weak-kneed. In fact, he is so weak that he brags about being the only member of the Obama administration to oppose the Osama bin Laden raid. That’s how weak Joe Biden is. Now, Joe Biden is showing his neck to Hamas. WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show On Wednesday, Biden told CNN’s Erin Burnett that the United States would deny Israel offensive weaponry if Israel went into the “populated areas” of Rafah. He decided unilaterally that in violation of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, he is simply going to hold up the shipments of weaponry to Israel over disagreements with how Israel is prosecuting the war. Israel has been attempting to move civilians out of Rafah so they can move in and kill terrorists in Rafah. And Biden has opposed that. Biden’s new math is that the United States will undercut our own democratic allies if terrorists take the most terroristic action, which is to hide behind civilians. He is now creating a full-scale incentive structure for terrorists to hide among civilians because now they are safe from any sort of retaliation. The weapons he wants to deny to Israel are targeted weapons, the kinds of weapons that minimize civilian casualties, which will force Israel to use non-targeted weapons, meaning more civilian casualties. That’s an unjustifiable act on every possible level: moral, political, and pragmatic. And none of it makes any sense on the moral level. Hamas is a terrorist group that is currently holding five Americans. Five Americans are being held in terror tunnels by Yahya Sinwar and his group of barbaric thugs. Biden doesn’t mention their names very often. He will talk about Brittney Griner until the cows come home, but when it comes to five Americans who happen to be Jewish who are being held by Hamas in terror tunnels, he won’t mention their names: Edan Alexander, 19; Omer Neutra, 22; Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23; Sagui Dekel-Chen, 35; and Keith Siegel, 64. Biden will take the occasional photo op with their relatives and pretend he’s going to stand by them. But he’s not standing by anybody. He does not give two good damns about any one of those people. Biden attempting to preserve Hamas in Rafah is also political malpractice. The American people do not like Hamas. They would like to see Israel finish this. The American people are tired of watching this war go on. What America likes are wars that are short, wars that are victorious. And those are things Joe Biden has never been involved in. What Biden is doing right now is the least pragmatic move I’ve ever seen a politician make with foreign policy. He has created an entire incentive structure for Hamas to walk away from the table. He has created an incentive structure for Hezbollah to get into a war with Israel. He has created an incentive structure where if Israel goes into Rafah, more civilians will die. Biden is showing daylight between Israel and the United States. The terrorist group Hezbollah might well think, “If we open up on the northern front, the United States won’t resupply Israel.” Iran will get more aggressive. And of course, Hamas will walk away from the negotiating table. Biden is now playing defense for Hamas. Make no mistake, he has sided with Hamas in this conflict. There’s only one predictable result of this, and that is the maintenance of Hamas as a political power and military force in Gaza. There are four brigades of commands, about 8,000 Hamas combat soldiers who are still in Rafah, and Biden is keeping them alive.  Joe Biden is ensuring they will walk out of the tunnels, heads held high at some point, release no hostages, and declare victory. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP It’s an insane decision for the United States. It is in the interest of the United States for our allies to wreck terror groups, particularly terror groups who are currently holding Americans hostage. It is in the interest of the United States for Israel to demonstrate strength in a region that only respects strength.  But the most morally disgusting thing Biden did is this: The real reason Biden said nothing until Wednesday night, even though rumors for days had warned he would cut off aid, is that he didn’t want to announce he was cutting off the State of Israel at the knees until after he paid lip service and shed some crocodile tears about the Holocaust at a speech marking Holocaust Remembrance Day. On Tuesday night, Biden spoke about how the Holocaust was incredibly important, how it should never happen again, and how he would stand by the State of Israel. He wanted to get past that speech and then deprive Israel of the capacity to destroy a genocidal, Nazi-like terror group that wants all Jews dead. Joe Biden is a vile moral coward.

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A Catholic school won in court after it was sued by a gay drama teacher who was fired when he posted about his marriage on social media. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, reversed a previous ruling in 2021 that said the Charlotte Catholic High School in North Carolina had discriminated against Lonnie Billard. Billard had worked full-time as a drama teacher and went on to teach as a substitute teacher in English when he announced on Facebook that he was going to get married after North Carolina legalized gay marriage in 2014. "Apparently, there were a couple of teachers that were unhappy with that," said Billard in an interview with WCNC-TV from 2015. "If I were in the closet, that would be OK." Billard claimed that most people at the school knew he was gay and that his male partner would often attend school events with him. "Well the Catholic Church opposes same-sex unions," explained David Hains, a spokesperson for the Charlotte Roman Catholic Diocese, in 2015. "Marriage can only be between one man and one woman. He's not being picked on because he's gay. He lost his job as a substitute teacher because he broke a promise. Because he chose to oppose church teaching, something he promised he would not do." Billard had worked at the school for 15 years and had been awarded teacher of the year one year. "The fact that I am in a long-term committed relationship with a wonderful man is apparently abhorrent, but if I were in the closet, that would be OK. That's my understanding of the church's position," said Billard. The church argued that Billard had not been technically fired because he was working as a substitute teacher. Circuit Judge Pamela Harris agreed with the church and ruled that the decision fell under a "ministerial exception" to the Civil Rights Act. “Our court has recognized before that seemingly secular tasks like the teaching of English and drama may be so imbued with religious significance that they implicate the ministerial exception," Harris wrote. The American Civil Liberties Union decried the ruling and said that the court had widened a loophole to allow organizations to discriminate against gay people. Supporters of the church and the school said the ruling was a victory for religious rights. Here's more about the decision: Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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