President-elect Donald Trump just nominated Harmeet Dhillon to become the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Department of Justice. The media keeps accusing him of being anti-woman and anti-minorities, yet he hires so many. The announcement: I am pleased to nominate Harmeet K. Dhillon as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the […] The post Harmeet Dhillon Nominated for Top Position at DoJ appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Last Saturday, Pope Francis attended a nativity exhibit in the Vatican that depicted the baby Jesus as a Palestinian. Pope Francis inaugurates the new nativity scene called ”Betlehem 2024” in the Vatican Looks like the Pope has also fallen for the absurd claim that Jesus was a Palestinian. pic.twitter.com/nVhsOW8vuL — Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) December 7, 2024 The exhibit in Paul VI Hall was created by Palestinian artists. The baby Jesus was swathed in a Palestinian Keffiyeh. Palestine Liberation Organization spokesperson Ramzi Khouri brought “warm greetings” from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and lauded Francis, telling of his “deep gratitude for the pope’s unwavering support for the Palestinian cause and his tireless efforts to end the war on Gaza and promote justice.” CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE Francis has expressed anti-Israel beliefs before, apparently labeling Israel’s response to the October 7 Hamas massacre of more than 1200 people in Israel as immoral, saying, “A country that does these things — and I’m talking about any country — in a superlative way, these are immoral actions.” Francis has called for an investigation into Israel’s actions in Gaza to see if they should be labeled “genocide.” On the first anniversary of the October 7 massacre, Francis issued a Letter to Catholics of the Middle East. In the letter, he cited John 8:44. “The verse chosen by the pontiff, a vitriolic accusation that the Jews ‘are from [their] father, the devil,’ has for centuries provoked and been used to justify Church hostility to Jews,” Tablet Magazine noted. The consistent attempts by Palestinians and their supporters to rewrite the history of the land of Israel have included trying to claim Jesus was a Palestinian, a claim easily refuted since there was never a state of Palestine. Yet in 2013, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called Jesus “a Palestinian messenger,” and in 2019, U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) shared a tweet that stated, “I was once asked by a relative who is a Palestinian Christian why the Christian right in America largely supports their oppression. ‘Don’t they know we’re Christian too? Do they even consider us human? Don’t they know Jesus was a Palestinian?’” As Peter Wehner has written, “In fact, although many Palestinians today are Christians, Jesus himself was not one. He was born to Jewish parents in Judea, he lived as a Jew, and he died as a Jew. In the time of Jesus, Palestine didn’t exist—as a place, an entity, a word, or a concept. In the second century, Judea, which was the epicenter of large-scale Jewish rebellions against Roman rule, was renamed Syria Palaestina—later simply Palaestina—by the Romans.”

President-elect Donald Trump referred to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as the “Governor” of “the Great State of Canada” in a Truth Social post on Monday night. Trump’s post was in reference to a meeting the president-elect had with Trudeau at Mar-a-Lago last week. During the meeting, Trump reportedly told the Canadian leader that if his country couldn’t afford to pay a potential tariff, it should consider becoming the 51st state. Fox News reported that two sources who were at the table with Trump and Trudeau said that Trump’s comment caused the prime minister to “laugh nervously.” “It was a pleasure to have dinner the other night with Governor Justin Trudeau of the Great State of Canada. I look forward to seeing the Governor again soon so that we may continue our in depth talks on Tariffs and Trade, the results of which will be truly spectacular for all! DJT,” Trump wrote on Monday night. Trump’s post came just hours after Trudeau said that Americans “are beginning to wake up to the real reality that tariffs on everything from Canada would make life a lot more expensive.” Trudeau added that he would retaliate if Trump implements the tariffs upon taking office, the Associated Press reported. “It would also, however, mean real hardship for Americans as well,” Trudeau said. “Americans import 65% of their crude oil from Canada, significant amounts of electricity. Just about all the natural gas exported from Canada goes to the United States. They rely on us for steel and aluminum. They rely on us for a range of agriculture imports. All of those things would get more expensive.” Trudeau met with Trump a few days after the incoming president threatened to levy a 25% tariff on all products from Canada and Mexico unless the countries worked on securing their borders with the U.S. and cracking down on drug trafficking and illegal immigration in America. “This Tariff will remain in effect until such time as Drugs, in particular Fentanyl, and all Illegal Aliens stop this Invasion of our Country!” Trump said last month. “Both Mexico and Canada have the absolute right and power to easily solve this long simmering problem. We hereby demand that they use this power, and until such time that they do, it is time for them to pay a very big price!” CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE After the meeting, Trump said Trudeau “made a commitment to work” with his administration on putting an end to drugs being trafficked across America’s borders. On November 30, Trudeau posted a photo of him and Trump, writing, “Thanks for dinner last night, President Trump. I look forward to the work we can do together, again.” Thanks for dinner last night, President Trump. I look forward to the work we can do together, again. pic.twitter.com/lAWFMTtQt7 — Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) November 30, 2024

On February 9, 2010, Michelle Obama unveiled her ambitious initiative to combat childhood obesity through her “Let’s Move!” campaign, aiming to empower children and reduce obesity rates. The CDC reports that 1 in 5 children in the U.S. suffer from obesity which prompted President Obama to pass the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. This law aimed to promote healthier diets with mandated minimum servings of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains while limiting sugar, fat, and sodium. However, the program fell short of its goals and inadvertently exacerbated the problems it sought to address. The focus of her campaign was not only to ensure that our nation’s children are being fed but also fed healthy food through the aid of the government. This could have only been a good thing until reality proved otherwise. Within the first few years of this initiative, participation in school lunch programs across the nation fell dramatically. The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports that nationwide participation in the National School Lunch Program declined by 1.4 million. Children’s decrease in participation coincided with rising lunch prices aiming to comply with new “health” standards set by the First Lady, which mandated minimum fruit, vegetable, and whole grain servings, as well as set a maximum for sodium, sugar, and fat contents. This centralization of our children’s diets drastically harmed low-income communities. Many low-income schools faced budget shortfalls, with some completely dropping out of the federal program. Ironically, this initiative reduced access to meals for the very same children the initiative sought to help. Michelle Obama’s “one-size-fits-all” approach to children’s diets, also did not account for dietary preferences or individual school needs. Thus, children were actively choosing not to eat the meals provided for them, calling them “gross” and posting pictures of their so-called nutritious and balanced meals with the hashtag #thanksmichelleobama. However, Michelle Obama was right: the quality and nutritional value of lunches can change and affect the current rates of childhood obesity. Unfortunately, her approach completely failed to address the real problem at hand: public health giants and their monopoly on the United States agrifood system. The National Institute of Health (NIH) recently conducted a study on the correlation between childhood obesity and low-income areas. Scientists found that adolescents residing in areas of low income had a greater than 50% higher risk of obesity. This statistic is the complete opposite when it comes to a majority of marginalized countries. So why does one of the wealthiest nations on the planet have the most significant rates of obesity? Low-income communities in the United States are consuming more ultra-processed foods now than ever before. Why? Because processed foods are often cheaper than fresh produce and they are made and marketed for convenience. Mass consumption of ultra-processed foods leads to a higher risk of health dangers and diseases due to high calorific content and low nutritional value. Students weren’t getting enough nutrition as it was and Michelle Obama’s school lunch program inadvertently replaced the traditional high-calorie, low-nutritional meals with a different form of processed foods. This change posed a significant issue for low-income students who depended on these meals, as the new options were often unappealing and failed to meet their dietary needs from the start. This systemic problem is at the heart of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” movement. RFK’s bid is to fix the American agricultural system and that begins with cleaning up public health agencies like the FDA and USDA claiming, “[t]hose agencies have become sock puppets for the industries they’re supposed to regulate” in a recent video. It has become abundantly clear that these agencies are solely operating for monetary gain, not for the people of America. CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE In a Fox & Friends interview, RFK was asked what he would do to improve school lunches, and to that, he responded immediately: “I’ll get processed food out of lunches immediately. About half the school lunch program goes to processed food….We’re creating a diabetes problem in our kids, by giving them food that is poison and I’m going to stop that.” The “Make America Healthy Again” pledge to get toxic chemicals out of the food supply addresses the real problem the way Michelle Obama never could. Rather than just treating symptoms of obesity, RFK’s plans to reform America’s agricultural policies, agencies, thereby addressing the systemic failures in our food system. To truly combat obesity in America, we must prioritize the quality of our food. By addressing systemic failures and reforming the food supply chain, initiatives like RFK Jr.’s offer a more sustainable and realistic path to a healthier nation. * * * Dr. Naydeen González-De Jesús is a former college president and former U.S. public diplomacy officer who has championed student success and international collaboration. Her initiatives and contributions to the U.S.-Argentina Education Memorandum during the 2018 G20 Summit, have driven economic mobility, educational advancement, and strengthened bilateral relations. The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Daily Wire.

On Monday, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA), an erudite historian, praised President-elect Donald Trump as unique and called him “a mythic figure.” Gingrich, who has a PhD in European history and has written numerous books, including many historical novels, made his comments on Fox News. “If you’re a relatively sophisticated leader around the world, and you watch nine years of the rise of Donald Trump, and you watch two impeachments, and you watch all of these efforts to catch him in the law, and you watch two assassination attempts and the guy just keeps coming,’ Gingrich enthused. “As I said the other day, this is a mythic figure, almost like the various Scandinavian Beowulfs and other kinds of sagas. There’s no practical way that you can explain Trump within a normal political structure.” “He now represents, clearly, something like, according to the latest Rasmussen poll — 55% of the American people believe that he, in fact, got a clear mandate,” he continued. “Only 32% don’t agree, so he’s beginning to build almost a 2 to 1 margin that this is the leader of the American nation.” CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE “And if you’re the rest of the world – people forget, we are an enormous country, 345 million people,” he pointed out. “We are the third largest country geographically in the world. We have enormous power, clearly still, despite every screw-up at the Pentagon. We’re the most powerful nation in the world.” “And this is the guy who’s now coming back and they all respect it and they are, frankly, I think, stunned by it,” he concluded. .@newtgingrich on President Trump: “The guy just keeps coming… this is a mythic figure, almost like the various Scandinavian Beowulfs and other kinds of sagas. There’s no practical way you can explain Trump within a normal political structure.” pic.twitter.com/5jbcXMGIXU — Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) December 10, 2024   In September 2023, Gingrich stated that he believed former President Barack Obama was running the Biden administration. Gingrich made the remarks during a Fox News interview on “Hannity” with guest host Pete Hegseth. “He has a pretty decent life and it doesn’t occur to him that all these other things that are piling up in a way that will be an absolute disaster for the Democratic Party,” Gingrich predicted accurately. “My personal guess is the driving force behind the Biden administration is Barack Obama. Obama is the only president since Woodrow Wilson to stay in Washington, and in Wilson’s case, he stayed because he had a severe stroke and he could not be moved.” “So the fact that Obama is here all the time, the fact that his staff permeates, literally permeates the Biden administration and Obama is really, really smart,” he continued. “Whatever Biden’s problems are at being kind of slow and cognitively decaying, Obama doesn’t have any of those problems. If you watched the administration, it is much more an Obama administration than say the Joe Biden of 10 or 15 years ago.”