Fire Chief Gets Fired for Attending Christian Event

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The U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to reverse the firing of a fire chief who lost his job in Stockton, California, because he attended an assigned leadership conference.

City officials apparently were enraged because the conference was in a church building.

First Liberty Institute has announced it, and others, have joined to ask the Supreme Court for a review of the case involving fire chief Ron Hittle.

“It is a tragic day for religious liberty in America when someone can be fired because they attend an event that includes religious perspectives,” said Stephanie Taub, a lawyer for First Liberty Institute.

“The city showed extreme anti-religious bias and broke the law when it fired Chief Hittle. We are asking the Supreme Court to reverse the lower court’s decision and uphold the clear meaning of Title VII to protect all Americans in the workplace.” (Read more from “Fire Chief Gets Fired for Attending Christian Event” HERE)

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Veteran Allegedly Forced To Change Out of ‘Offensive’ Shirt on Flight

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On the 16th of this month, Catherine Banks, a Marine Corps veteran, boarded a Delta Airlines flight at San Francisco International Airport. She was on her way to visit her sister, an active-duty member of the Corps. According to SFGATE and KNTV, a flight attendant told Banks that she could not board the plane because of her “offensive” t-shirt. She was made to change into a sweatshirt on the ramp and had to turn away from everyone because she was not wearing a bra. Banks commented:

“I said, ‘Are you kidding me? I’m a Marine Corps vet. I’m going to see my Marine sister. I’ve been in the Marine Corps for 22 years and worked for the Air Force for 15 years. I’m going to visit her,’” Banks said. “He said, ‘I don’t care about your service, and I don’t care about her service. The only way you’re going to get back on the plane is if you take it off right now.’”

Not only was the flight delayed, causing Banks to miss her connection, but she also said the crew forced her to sit in the back of the plane instead of in the seat she paid for.

What did the shirt say that was apparently so triggering to this flight attendant? It read, “Do not give in to the war within. End veteran suicide.” The shirt is a product of the Til Valhalla Project. You can see the shirt in question and even purchase one here if you are so inclined. The focus of the project is twofold: it creates memorial plaques for the families of vets who have died and raises money to help pay for therapy for veterans:

Today, T.V.P. pays tribute to dozens more Fallen Heroes each month while funding therapy for struggling Veterans. This impact is only possible thanks to millions of supporters dedicated to making a difference.

(Read more from “Veteran Allegedly Forced To Change Out of ‘Offensive’ Shirt on Flight” HERE)

Trump Teases a Lawsuit Over That ‘60 Minutes’ Transcript

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CBS News continues to find themselves embroiled in scandal after refusing to release the transcript of their edited “60 Minutes” interview with Vice President Kamala Harris from earlier this month. While the network put out a statement on Sunday, that’s hardly the end of the story. As Fox News reported on Monday night, the Trump-Vance campaign is still looking for answers, and may even turn to a lawsuit as a result.

The Fox News report mentioned key sections of the letter from Edward Andrew Paltzik, legal counsel for Donald Trump:

In a copy of the letter obtained by Fox News Digital, Trump’s legal counsel Edward Andrew Paltzik, writing on behalf of Trump, said that CBS News “intentionally misled the public by broadcasting a skillfully edited interview transcript… aimed at causing confusion among the electorate regarding Vice President Kamala Harris’s abilities, intelligence, and appeal.”

“News organizations such as CBS have a responsibility to accurately represent the truth of events, not distort an interview to try and make their preferred candidate appear coherent and decisive, which Harris most certainly is not,” the attorney wrote. “Due to CBS’ actions, the public cannot distinguish which Kamala Harris they are seeing: the candidate or the puppet of a behind-the-scenes editor.”

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“President Trump is rightly alleging that CBS’s ‘doctoring’ of Harris’s answers on 60 Minutes was deceptive. The allegation is not simply that CBS was dishonest; it is that CBS deceived viewers into thinking Harris’ answer was, at the very least—as CBS put it—more ‘succinct’ than the word salad it actually was,” Paltzik wrote. “The executives and producers at CBS, and 60 Minutes in particular, are unquestionably aware that the purpose behind editing the Interview was to confuse the electorate and portray the Vice President in a better light than a full, unedited transcript would reveal. Responsible news sources must be held accountable to the highest standards.”

(Read more from “Trump Teases a Lawsuit Over That ‘60 Minutes’ Transcript” HERE)

Triggered: Kamala’s Running Mate Tim Walz Fires off Psychotic Social Media Response to Trump’s McDonald’s Work

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) issued a seemingly triggered response to former President Donald Trump working at a Philadelphia McDonald’s on Sunday.

Walz, the vice presidential running mate of Vice President Kamala Harris, responded to a video of Trump wearing an apron at McDonald’s and learning how to make french fries. In his post on X, Walz referenced Harris’s unproven claim that she had previously worked at a McDonald’s.

“This guy spent decades stiffing workers pay, cut overtime benefits for millions of people, and opposed any effort to raise the minimum wage,” Walz wrote in his post.

“You know who has actually worked at McDonald’s, joined workers on picket lines, and fights for working people?” Walz added, “@KamalaHarris.”

Walz’s social media post criticizing Trump’s visit to McDonald’s where he learned to make french fries, served customers their orders, and spoke with several customers in the drive-through.

(Read more from “Triggered: Kamala’s Running Mate Tim Walz Fires off Psychotic Social Media Response to Trump’s McDonald’s Work” HERE)

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‘Break up Family Relationships’: Biden-Harris Admin Pushes Judges To Bring Gender Ideology Into the Courtroom

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Parents increasingly find family court judges, who make life-changing decisions involving children, have fully bought into the agenda pushed by Biden-Harris administration-backed transgender activists.

State courts have for years independently hosted transgender activist groups to lecture judges on appropriate pronoun usage and the importance of “affirming” a child’s perceived identity. But now the federal government is on board: In 2023, the Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a $1 million grant to integrate gender ideology into juvenile justice and child welfare systems nationwide.

The grant, awarded to the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ), established a resource center to train judges, child welfare workers and other professionals involved with the juvenile justice system on sexuality and gender identity. The materials encourage judges to adopt an ideological framework that pits children against parents who do not support their self-selected identities.

“Gender identity is now being used as a cudgel to essentially break up family relationships,” Sarah Parshall Perry, senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, told the DCNF. “This is especially so in cases where parents are not affirming the gender identity of their minor children, and among other things, this particular grant is fueling the fire because we’re seeing sort of a partnership between the federal government, which is all in on the gender identity madness, and these state judges.”

Elected state judges are able to initiate child protective services investigations or even send children to foster care, Perry told the DCNF. Multiple parents across the country who declined to affirm their child’s gender confusion have already reported losing custody. (Read more from “‘Break up Family Relationships’: Biden-Harris Admin Pushes Judges To Bring Gender Ideology Into the Courtroom” HERE)

‘We Will Never Forget About You,’ Trump Assures Storm-Weary Western North Carolina

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Former President Donald J. Trump told a suffering Western North Carolina, “We will never forget about you,” as he pledged that the devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene would be met by efforts to make the region “greater and more beautiful than it was before.”

Standing with a huge pile of storm debris in the distance behind him, Trump sought to buoy the spirits of suffering residents, community leaders, and first responders — whose task has turned from search and rescue to recovery of the dead.

“We’re praying for you, and we will not forget about you,” Trump said at a press conference in Swannanoa, North Carolina. “We will never forget about you. We’re going to be working with you for a long time to come to get it back together.”

In his first of three scheduled North Carolina stops on Oct. 21, Trump said he was amazed by the storm devastation as his motorcade made its way from the Asheville Regional Airport in Fletcher, North Carolina.

“That’s quite a scene driving up. You see that kind of destruction, actually incredible to see,” Trump said. “That is incredible. It’s the power of nature. Nothing you can do about it, but you’ve got to get a little bit better crew in to do a better job than has been done by the White House.” (Read more from “‘We Will Never Forget About You,’ Trump Assures Storm-Weary Western North Carolina” HERE)

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CBS News, Release the Full Kamala Harris Interview Transcript Now

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CBS News was once one of the defining news outlets in the world. Whether it was Edward R. Murrow reporting live from London during the Blitz in World War II or Walter Cronkite’s coverage of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, generations of Americans turned to CBS for fair, accurate reporting on the most important issues of the day.

No longer.

CBS News now stands accused of deliberately distorting its news coverage for nakedly political purposes, to prop up Kamala Harris’ flailing presidential campaign by attempting to hide her inability to answer even simple questions about her policy positions and how she would act if elected president.

How badly skewed was CBS’s coverage of its interview with Harris, broadcast to the world on “Face the Nation” and “60 Minutes?” Well, last week, the nonprofit group Center for American Rights (CAR) filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission alleging deliberate news distortion, a violation of FCC regulations and a half-century of precedent.

In this complaint, CAR lawyer Daniel Suhr contends that the evidence of illegal news distortion by CBS could not be clearer: In two different news programs, CBS broadcast the same question, followed by two very different answers from Harris, resulting in a situation where “the general public no longer has any confidence as to what the Vice President actually said in response to the query.” This goes well beyond mere editorial oversight of an interview — picking what to include and what not to include — and instead constitutes a violation of the public trust that the news material CBS presented was in any way factual. (Read more from “CBS News, Release the Full Kamala Harris Interview Transcript Now” HERE)

Missing Student Was Likely Crushed, Then Incinerated After Passing out in Garbage While Partying in Tourist Spot: Cops

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A 24-year-old student partying in picturesque Majorca, Spain, was likely crushed to death in a garbage truck and then incinerated after falling into a trash bin, police said.

Agostina Rubini Medina had been missing for more than two weeks after she vanished during a night out with her friends in Palma, the capital city of the famous vacation hotspot island.

Now the National Police of Spain have a theory: The sloshed student probably passed out while digging around in a trash bin — possibly for her phone — and was scooped into a garbage truck, crushed in the truck’s garbage smasher and finally dumped into an incinerator.

Shortly afterward, a witness who had been at the bus stop told cops they saw Medina’s handbag and blouse neatly arranged by a large trash bin.

Tracking data showed Medina’s phone fixed to that spot for around a half hour before moving to the incineration plant, where it went dead. That timeline matches travel records from the garbage truck. (Read more from “Missing Student Was Likely Crushed, Then Incinerated After Passing out in Garbage While Partying in Tourist Spot: Cops” HERE)

Mother Served by Trump at McDonald’s Drive-Thru Shares Details About Her Exchange With Former President

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A Pennsylvania mother who was served by former President Donald Trump during his stint at a McDonald’s drive-thru after his rally on Sunday shared the request she asked the former president.

Trump stopped by the Feasterville-Trevose fast food staple to serve up helpings of french fries to unsuspecting drive-thru customers. Nayara Andrejczyk, a mother whose encounter with the former president went viral online, seized the opportunity to ask Trump for just one favor.

“Mr. President, please don’t let the U.S. become Brazil, my native Brazil, please,” Andrejczyk said as Trump served her.

“We’re gonna make it better than ever, ok?” Trump replied as he shook her hand while continuing to greet the rest of the crowd around the drive-thru window. . .

“My parents were victims of Brazilian corruption, government corruption. My mom lost a pretty successful business…almost 30 years ago, and that’s the reason why we moved to the United States,” she said on the talk show. (Read more from “Mother Served by Trump at McDonald’s Drive-Thru Shares Details About Her Exchange With Former President” HERE)

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Pentagon’s Trillion Dollar Fighter Jet Program Hasn’t Had Mission-Ready Plane in Six Years, Watchdog Says

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The Pentagon’s premier F-35 fighter jet program has fallen below mission-ready standards for six years, a government watchdog said on Monday.

The F-35 often costs close to $100 million per unit, and the Pentagon expects to spend roughly $2 trillion on the program over the coming decades. But even as one of the Pentagon’s most expensive weapons, all variations of the fighter jet have missed their mission-capable rate goal since fiscal year 2018, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released Monday.

Mission capable rate goals are defined as “the percentage of total time when the aircraft can fly and perform at least one mission,” and are used to gauge the readiness of various military assets, according to the GAO report. There’s a variety of factors contributing to the F-35’s lackluster performance, many of which have been publicly reported, but the Pentagon still hasn’t taken some of the proper steps needed to address the problems.

“In September 2023, we reported that several maintenance challenges negatively affected F-35 readiness and the ability of the aircraft to achieve mission-capable goals,” the report reads.

Part of the problem stems from a lack of needed parts, lengthy maintenance backlogs and “challenges with depot and organizational maintenance,” according to the report. The Pentagon also heavily relies on defense contractors for the F-35 program — even though it doesn’t want to — but hasn’t taken any steps to try and take back control of the program. (Read more from “Pentagon’s Trillion Dollar Fighter Jet Program Hasn’t Had Mission-Ready Plane in Six Years, Watchdog Says” HERE)