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Free Press: The biggest news of the week is a mass shooting at a Catholic school in Minnesota called Annunciation, and there are no jokes to be made about it. It horrifies me. It’s demonic. And, for the life of me, I cannot understand the Democratic impulse to diminish the power of praying for the victims, children who were shot while praying. It’s like a preprogrammed, knee-jerk reaction that, especially in this instance, is just bizarre and offensive.

Those who seek solace in prayer pray in these situations. We pray for the dead and wounded. We pray for the families. We pray for ourselves. Some might even pray for the soul of the shooter.

I get that you want to make this about gun control. My suggestion is that you shut up about the prayer stuff and just make it about gun control.

Ed: Will Rahn hits this nail directly on the head. The reason Democrats impudently attack prayer is that they reject faith in God at some level, some of them explicitly. That hostility oozes from every pore of their being at all times anyway, but especially so when the opportunity to manipulate events and the media arises. 

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Ed: At least Carville still believes in the power of prayer! 

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J.D. Vance: The person who wrote this garbage is @felschwartz. Aside from the failure to include on the record information directly contradicting her reporting, I wonder if she ever asked herself why these anonymous sources came to her at this moment with this particular story. They have an agenda to blow up the president’s efforts to make peace, and they saw her as a useful vessel to launder garbage into the conversation, truth be damned.  

There are two possible explanations: Felicia is just not very smart, and allowed herself to be used by deep state con men. Or she’s in on it, and used her position to willingly participate in a literal foreign influence operation. Either way, it’s disgraceful. 

To set the record straight: Steve Witkoff is an invaluable member of our team. He did not mislead anyone on what the Russians told him and what the Russians conceded. (Trust me, I’ve seen the intel.) The fruits of his negotiations are that we have narrowed the list of open issues in the Russia-Ukraine war to a set of clearly defined issues–specifically, security guarantees and territorial concessions. 

Ed: Once again, Protection Racket Media outlets do not report news or provide objective analysis, in the main. They exist to promote the progressive-elite agenda and messaging. Is Witkoff effective in his role? I’m a bit skeptical, but I’m far more skeptical that I’ll learn the truth of it from Politico or any other mainstream media outfit. I’ll wait for the results of Witkoff’s diplomacy instead. 





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Ed: I bet Vance was laughing his rear off while watching them scramble. I know I was while watching this clip. 

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Newsmax: The question posed was, given that he’s “one heartbeat away from the presidency” and one of the youngest ever to be second in line, is Vance ready to be commander in chief?

“Yes, things can always happen. Yes, terrible tragedies happen,” Vance said. “But I feel very confident the president of the United States is in good shape, is going to serve out the remainder of his term, and do great things for the American people.”

“And if, God forbid, there’s a terrible tragedy, I can’t think of better on-the-job training than what I’ve gotten over the last 200 days,” he added.

Ed: Standard Q&A for new veeps, especially when serving with older presidents. Vance handled it well, but more than that, he’s been demonstrating his readiness in public during his entire term. Trump has talked him up for the job, along with Marco Rubio. If the two men combine on a ticket, they might win the nomination in 2028 by acclamation. 





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Ed: Res ipsa loquitur. And also … quelle surprise. 

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Conservative Treehouse: Yesterday, the CIA Directorate of Analysis purposefully framed a hit against the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) by leaking a manufactured story that DNI Tulsi Gabbard had exposed an “undercover” agent when she removed the security clearances of 37 former and current intelligence embeds.

In reality, the CIA attempted to block Tulsi Gabbard from exposing how the CIA manipulated the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment claiming Russian interference in the 2016 election. Ms. Julia Gurganus was the CIA analyst who organized the ICA. …

It did not take long to figure out the identity of the asset from the curriculum vitae used in the Wall Street Journal story, and from that point it was clear Julia Gurganus was NOT previously a covert CIA operative.  Gurganus was public in her position within the CIA; public, until the CIA changed her status in June.

This is ultimately an example of the weaponized intelligence system DNI Gabbard is fighting against.

Ed: I noticed the attempt to create another Valerie Plame-style scandal this week, and how it disappeared almost immediately afterward. This explains why. It also demonstrates that the intel community needs more housecleaning — and almost certainly has motivated Gabbard and Trump to pursue that. 





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Ed: Why do media outlets play the pronoun game for mass murderers? Yes, that’s a rhetorical question. 

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Vigilant Fox: For the first time ever, a federal lawsuit challenges the CDC’s staggering 72+ dose childhood vaccine schedule on the grounds that it has never actually been safety tested.

And it turns out the government’s own outside advisers have been urging safety studies for nearly 25 years. …

What makes this worse, Jaffe added, is that the National Academy of Medicine has urged the CDC to conduct these studies for more than 20 years—yet the agency has refused.

That refusal became the cornerstone of Jaffe’s case: if the CDC has never tested the very system it enforces, how can it possibly claim America’s children are being kept safe?

Ed: I wonder how effective a lawsuit will be in challenging this. It does draw attention to the issue, but judges may either (a) defer to the scientists, or (b) consider this a political issue and kick it back to the other two branches. I’m not really a vaccine skeptic, but a court case could at least shed light on just how much consensus exists on these questions, and whether the claims of lack of study/evidence are accurate. And that matters because … 

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Ed: And THIS is why we no longer trust the “experts” in the medical and educational fields. The medical establishment allowed and even encouraged children to be maimed and sterilized for no good medical reason at all. That makes this a good time to force reconsideration of the supposed “consensus” in all areas. 

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