San Diego Community Colleges Fire Dozens of Employees over Vaccine Refusal

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San Diego Community Colleges Fire Dozens of Employees over Vaccine Refusal

(Dominick Sansone, Headline USA) The San Diego Community College District has recently fired more than two dozen Christian employees over their refusal to get the COVID vaccine, according to a report by Lifesite News.

“I am one of at least 30 Christian employees at SDCCD that have been purposely targeted for termination, even now, for not accepting to take a fetus cell-tainted injection,” mathematics professor Carlos de la Lama told the website.

The move comes after three other employees were fired in January for not receiving the experimental shots.

The SDCCD remains the only system of colleges in California that continues to terminate employees for noncompliance with a vaccine mandate.

In 2021, the SDCCD ensured employees that they would not be fired over the mandates and agreed to grant both medical and religious exemptions.

However, the school system abruptly changed course after receiving pressure from the local chapter of the American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest teachers union in the United States.

The AFT affiliate advocated for more forceful coercion tactics in order to push employees to take the vaccine. Religious exemption applications began to be denied while medical exemptions were allowed to persist, suggesting an illegal act of discrimination.

Subsequent action by a constitutional lawyer representing those employees disenfranchised by the possible discrimination caused the system to suddenly grant the religious exemptions.

However, the system continued to fail in providing adequate accommodation for those with religious exemptions, despite meeting the requirements for those with medical exemptions.

Amy Reichert, cofounder of the group ReOpen San Diego, stated in an interview with a local news program that she believed the actions of the SDCCD to be representative of an “attack on Christians.”

ReOpen San Diego previously issued legislation that helped pressure the city council to end its COVID emergency declaration, as well as its employee vaccine mandate.

The school district’s Board of Trustees is ultimately responsible for passing judgment on whether or not employees will be terminated for non-compliance. According to the article, many of these individuals include “woke” buzzwords in their bios.

A March 2 BOT meeting is expected to result in the termination of six more Christian employees.

Va. Dem. McClellan Declared Winner in Congressional Special Election

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Va. Dem. McClellan Declared Winner in Congressional Special Election

(Madison Hirneisen, The Center Square) Virginia state Sen. Jennifer McClellan has been elected to fill the seat in the U.S. House of Representatives left vacant after the death of Rep. Donald McEachin, making history as the first black woman to be elected to Congress to represent the state.

The Associated Press called the special election race in the 4th Congressional District for McClellan at 7:22 p.m. Tuesday evening, shortly after polls closed. McClellan defeated Republican challenger Leon Benjamin, who ran against McEachin in the last two election cycles and was defeated both times.

McClellan, who served in the Virginia General Assembly since 2006, will succeed the late McEachin in Congress. McEachin died after a battle with colorectal cancer just weeks after winning re-election for a fourth term in 2022.

Throughout her campaign, McClellan expressed a dedication to carrying on McEachin’s legacy in Congress. In a victory speech Tuesday night, McClellan noted the three other black members of Congress who were elected before her. With McClellan’s win, she will be the fourth black member of Congress elected to represent Virginia.

“That is my legacy,” McClellan said Tuesday. “I look forward to building on that legacy.”

McClellan, a corporate attorney, was first elected to the House of Delegates and served there from 2006 to 2017. She was then elected to the State Senate in 2017, filling a seat previously held by McEachin when he was elected to Congress.

During her time in the General Assembly, McClellan carried bills to set clean energy goals, expand voting access, expand domestic worker’s rights and preserve abortion protections in the commonwealth. As voters headed to the polls Tuesday, McClellan was in the Senate awaiting passage of a bipartisan bill she co-patroned that would restore the State Corporation Commission’s authority to lower utility base rates when utility companies earn more than their authorized rate of return.

McClellan highlighted several legislative accomplishments during remarks, noting that intends to champion those issues in Congress.

“I look forward to taking my 18 years of servant leadership to Washington. We’ve done a lot of good here in Richmond in the state house – whether it was passing the Voting Rights Act, passing the Virginia Clean Economy Act, passing the Domestic Worker Bill of Rights. All of that work needs to be done in Washington.”

McClellan’s history-making win was celebrated by Democrats across the state. U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., who endorsed McClellan ahead of the December firehouse primary, tweeted Tuesday that McClellan will be a “fantastic representative for VA-04.”

Susan Swecker, chairwoman of the Democratic Party of Virginia, released a statement Tuesday night saying McClellan’s “leadership will expand upon the outstanding progress and advocacy for which we remember Congressman A. Donald McEachin.”

“Jennifer McClellan’s history-making victory as the first black woman to be elected to Congress from Virginia will have ripple effects across the Commonwealth,” Swecker said.

It’s unclear at this time when McClellan will officially be sworn into Congress. She indicated Tuesday she intends to finish out the rest of the legislative session, which wraps up this week.

Watchdog Reports U.S. on ‘Unsustainable’ Financial Path

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Watchdog Reports U.S. on ‘Unsustainable’ Financial Path

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) A federal watchdog reported that Congress continues to spend more money than it collects in taxes.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office’s audit of the federal government’s financial statements found it “continues to face an unsustainable long-term fiscal path.”

In fiscal year 2022, the federal government spent $6.27 trillion and collected $4.9 trillion in revenue, resulting in $1.38 trillion deficit, according to the U.S. Treasury. The federal government budget most recently had a surplus in 2001, one of five times it had a surplus in the last 50 years.

Daniel Smith, an economics professor at Middle Tennessee State University, said overspending at the federal level is no surprise.

“It has been known by economists and politicians for a while that our current level of spending is unsustainable,” he said in an email to The Center Square.

“Our current debt to GDP ratio ranks the United States as one of the highest in the world. Most of the other countries in that category are not doing well economically,” Smith continued. “And, the United States’ debt is under-reported because it doesn’t include unfunded liabilities, which raises our debt to over $200 trillion.”

While the federal budget may have many decimal places, Smith said most Americans understand that “you can’t sustainably spend more than you earn.”

“Debt can be undertaken if it is used for productive investments, but is a bad idea for funding current consumption,” he said. “Most of what the U.S. is spending money on, of course, is current consumption (transfers), not productive investments.”

He also said the federal government is moving toward “a situation where debt service cost can potentially become the biggest budget item of the U.S. government.”

Michael Hicks, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University, said while most Americans understand the problem, “few appreciate the size or source of the issue.”

“For example, we could eliminate all foreign aid and the entirety of the military, and all military retirement pay and all Veterans Affairs benefits, and still not have balanced the budget last year,” he told The Center Square.

“Alternatively, we could eliminate the growth in Medicaid spending from the Affordable Care Act, and all [Temporary Assistance for Needy Families], [Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program] and other cash assistance programs, and still not balance the budget,” he said.

Hicks said balancing the federal budget would require some combination of deep cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid spending along with “much higher taxes.”

Donald Grimes, a regional economic specialist at the University of Michigan, put it down to the growth of spending on Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.

“I don’t think people understand this, which is why claiming we don’t need to do anything about these programs’ cost is so politically popular. Since I don’t think we are going to cut spending on these programs by any significant amount I don’t see any other realistic alternative to solving this future crisis other than implementing a national value added tax,” he told The Center Square.

“The idea that you can raise the necessary amount of money by just taxing the rich is a Santa Claus fantasy. Other countries realized that the only way they can raise the money to pay for these programs is a value added tax, eventually so will we.”

A value added tax, or VAT, is a consumption tax paid at every stage of a product’s production from the sale of the raw materials to final purchase. U.S. states have sales taxes, which are paid by consumers at a product’s final point of sale.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office’s 270-page financial audit also said it can’t opine on the accuracy of the government’s bookkeeping because of ongoing problems. Among the problems: Long-standing financial management issues at the Department of Defense and inadequate accounting for transactions between government agencies.

It further outlined problems with the Small Business Administration’s pandemic relief programs, the Department of Education’s loan programs and $247 billion in improper payments.

An improper payment is one that should not have been made or that was made in the wrong amount. Improper payments include overpayments, underpayments, along with payments made to the right recipient in the correct amount but not in line with regulations.

Congress Tops $100B in Ukraine Aid in First Year of Invasion

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Congress Tops $100B in Ukraine Aid in First Year of Invasion

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) Friday marks the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which resulted in well over $100 billion in American taxpayer dollars being set aside to help the Eastern European country fend off its aggressor.

The U.S. Congress committed more than $113 billion dollars in support for Ukraine across four major spending packages in 2022 alone, with the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget saying more is likely to come.

“Of the $113 billion approved in 2022, about three-fifths ($67 billion) has been allocated toward defense needs and the remaining two-fifths ($46 billion) to nondefense concerns such as general Ukrainian government aid, economic support, and aid for refugee resettlement,” the CRFB said in a statement.

While these funds have already been set aside, the Congressional Budget Office estimates the money won’t be fully spent for years.

CBO estimates that three-quarters of the funding will be spent by the end of fiscal year 2026.

The Biden administration has handed weapons, not just cash, directly to Ukraine. For example, the Department of Defense in January announced about $3 billion worth of “security assistance” with $225 million from the State Department for “Foreign Military Financing to contribute to the long-term capacity and modernization of Ukraine’s military.”

To accomplish this, DOD emptied out part of its weapons reserves for Ukraine.

“The Presidential Drawdown is the twenty-ninth such drawdown of equipment from DoD inventories for Ukraine that the Biden Administration has authorized since August 2021,” the DOD said.

Here are some of the military assets handed over in the January package, according to the DOD:

  • 50 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles with 500 TOW anti-tank missiles and 250,000 rounds of 25mm ammunition;
  • 100 M113 Armored Personnel Carriers;
  • 55 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles (MRAPs);
  • 138 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWVs);
  • 18 155mm self-propelled Howitzers and 18 ammunition support vehicles;
  • 70,000 155mm artillery rounds;
  • 500 precision-guided 155mm artillery rounds;
  • 1,200 155mm rounds of Remote Anti-Armor Mine (RAAM) Systems;
  • 36 105mm towed Howitzers and 95,000 105mm artillery rounds;
  • 10,000 120mm mortar rounds;
  • Additional ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS);
  • RIM-7 missiles for air defense;
  • 4,000 Zuni aircraft rockets;
  • Approximately 2,000 anti-armor rockets;
  • Sniper rifles, machine guns, and ammunition for grenade launchers and small arms;
  • Claymore anti-personnel munitions;
  • Night vision devices and optics;
  • Spare parts and other field equipment

But the U.S. isn’t alone in this support. According to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a German group tracking aid to Ukraine, European Union nations and groups have allocated nearly $60 billion dollars to Ukraine.

“Overall, pledges of humanitarian assistance remained relatively constant over the course of the year, while the share of financial and military support pledges grew,” the group said.

If You Seek a Balanced Budget, You’re Missing the Point

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If You Seek a Balanced Budget, You’re Missing the Point

(John Tamny, RealClear Wire) If you’re ever searching for the personification of sanctimonious, find yourself a “balanced budget” proponent. These individuals will tell you in haughty, eyes-periodically-closed fashion about the crisis that awaits us unless we allegedly “get deficits under control.” Balanced budget proponents are morally superior to all of us.

They also completely miss the point. Their self-regarding countenance obscures how little they understand markets, and worse, how little they understand the true horrors of the horrid, economy-and-freedom sapping tax that is too much government revenue.

Totally lost on those who clamor for “budgetary balance” is why they’re able to yearn for that which is pointless in the first place. Balanced budget advocacy is plainly a consequence of government debt, but missed by those who loathe government debt is why there’s a market for it in the first place.

This ignorance speaks to folly of deficit “hawkery.” You see, not all countries can run up debt. Realistically most can’t. Which is the point, or should be the point for those interested in understanding the real problem of deficits. It’s not the deficits. What country debt signals is too much government revenue now, and worse, the expectation of much more government revenue in the future. Get it?

If not, readers have to remember that government debt is a claim on future government revenues. Applied to the U.S., that Treasury can borrow so much is a market signal yet again of Congress having WAY too big of a claim on the taxable fruits of our current work, and a similar claim on our much more fruitful work that lies ahead. In other words, if you’re a deficit hawk you’re the budgetary policy equivalent of the person in the football stadium yelling at the scoreboard for signaling what’s happening on the field. You’re yelling at symptoms, not causes. Yes, deficit scolds miss the point.

All of which explains why “deficit hawks” rate so much of our bemusement, and perhaps scorn. Rather than yelling at scoreboards, they’re wailing endlessly about the nature of America’s second oldest profession. Really, what are they going to do with gushers of revenue? And if you think they’re going to give it back, go back to school. Not for economics classes, but for liberal arts crash courses on why people do things. Translated, as long as revenues flow to government Treasuries, there will be rather deep markets for the debt of those countries.

Of course, the deficit self-serious don’t stop there. Having failed to grasp the why behind government debt, they declare in even more sanctimonious fashion (eyes fully closed, surely) that “we’re burdening the grandchildren” with the debt. Supposedly this is “immoral.” Such a view firstly implies that we somehow gain in the present from the waste of individuals with names like Schumer, McConnell, McCarthy and Pelosi. Which firstly means the viewpoint is much less than serious.

Second, the balanced budget religion that informs what firstly vandalizes common sense yet again ignores why we have budget deficits to begin with: enormous tax revenue that makes obnoxious, extra-constitutional spending and borrowing possible to begin with. Translated for those who need it, the burden on the grandchildren isn’t the deficits, rather it’s too much government revenue that makes horrid spending possible in concert with endless moaning about debt. The debt isn’t the problem, rather it’s a consequence. The only way to reduce debt is to greatly reduce the inflow of dollars to the U.S. Treasury. Lots of luck there.

In other words, the fact that the self-serious can talk rather mindlessly about balanced budgets speaks to the real problem that truly burdens the grandchildren: too much government revenue that doesn’t fund real, private sector progress now, and which thus burdens the grandkids with more problems to solve in the future. Yes, if you’re talking about balanced budgets you’re completely missing the point.

Ga. Grand Jury Chief May Sink Trump Indictment by Blabbing to Media

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Ga. Grand Jury Chief May Sink Trump Indictment by Blabbing to Media

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) After teasing inside knowledge that a Georgia grand jury investigating former President Donald Tump’s challenge of the 2020 election had recommended indictments of multiple people on a range of charges, the jury foreperson wasted no time pimping out her insights for a leftist mainstream media to promote.

Foreperson Emily Kohrs originally leaked her information to the New York Times, claiming that the jury’s report, which remains largely sealed, “is not going to be some giant plot twist.”

While declining to name who had been recommended for indictment, she said that “It is not a short list.” Asked specifically if the jury recommended indicting Trump, Kohrs played coy.

“You’re not going to be shocked. It’s not rocket science,” she said, adding “you won’t be too surprised.”

The grand jury was investigating whether Trump and associates illegally meddled in Georgia’s 2020 presidential election. The thrust of the accusations rests on a phone call between the then-president and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, when Trump urged Raffensperger to pursue the myriad claims of vote fraud that Trump said would overturn the state’s flawed results.

The grand jury had heard from several high-profile Trump associates, including Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, Lindsey Graham and Mike Pence. When the judge eventually releases the jury’s recommendations for indictments, Kohrs said it won’t come as any surprise.

“You probably have a fair idea of what may be in there,” she told the Times. “I’m trying very hard to say that delicately.”

Kohrs then “delicately” made the rounds of all the major fake news promulgators, spilling insider info of the jury’s workings and strongly implying that a Trump indictment was in the works.

Her prolific media presence backfired, if early reactions are any indication.

“There’s something ‘off’ about these interviews with #Georgia Grand Jury foreperson #EmilyKohrs. Flighty. Immature. Starstruck. Detached,” wrote Western Star journalist Don Bradshaw. “It almost seems like she believes she was a reality-show contestant, and not part of one of the most significant legal cases in U.S. history.”

Kohrs’s gushing pronouncements goaded even reliably leftist allies of the Never-Trump movement to criticize the media blitz, but didn’t prevent them from pushing her vapid insinuations that a Trump indictment was already in the pipeline.

“I am deeply troubled by the fact that this much disclosure is going on in this process and I think it has legal ramifications,” former FBI cog Frank Figliuzza told MSNNBC. “I would not be surprised if we see a judge come in and admonish the remainder of the special grand jury.”

Figliuzza also noted that the special grand jury can only make recommendations for charges and indictments. The actual decision rests with Fulton County DA Fani Willis, who has built a career championing leftist causes and vigorously pursued the case against Trump.

That didn’t stop Kohrs from spewing forth her insinuations and leaks. She told the Associated Press that she had been “fascinated by an explainer on Georgia’s voting machines offered by a former Dominion Voting Systems executive.”

She also gushed praise for former White House aide and disgraced J6 Inquisition witness Cassidy Hutchinson, who had explained the inner workings of Trump’s White House.

Trump, ironically, praised the portions of the grand jury report that were released last week.

”Thank you to the Special Grand Jury in the Great State of Georgia for your Patriotism & Courage,” Trump posted. “Total exoneration.”

When reporters from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution asked Kohrs “about that reaction she rolled her eyes and then burst out laughing,” the paper reported.

”Did he really say that?” she asked. “Oh, that’s fantastic. That’s phenomenal. I love it.”

When asked if she had any response, she said, “I invoke my Fifth Amendment right. That’s what I have to say to that.”

“Weird,” bleated Democrat bagman David Axelrod. “Does anyone one recall the foreman of a grand jury, particularly in a consequential case, doing a media tour BEFORE any indictments are made?!? Like, who IS this woman??”

Another, Possibly Deadlier, Ohio Eco-Disaster Still Festers Near Train Derailment Site

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Another, Possibly Deadlier, Ohio Eco-Disaster Still Festers Near Train Derailment Site

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Some 200 miles from the toxic train derailment site in East Palestine, Ohio, another environmental disaster still festers due to years of neglect by the U.S. government.

This other environmental disaster in Piketon, Ohio, the home of the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, also known as PORTS.

In the Cold War era, the U.S. government used PORTS to enrich uranium for nuclear bombs. Then, in the 1990s, the site was likely the recipient of polluted uranium from Russia in the 1990s due to a Bill Clinton-era program called “Swords to Ploughshares,” which entailed the United States converting Soviet Union nuclear warheads to uranium that could be used to power U.S. nuclear reactors.

Now, Piketon has a cancer problem—more than 500 cases per 100,000, or about 10% above state average, according to the Ohio Cancer Atlas.

Former PORTS worker Jeff Walburn told Headline USA that the disaster in Piketon could be worse than even what the people in East Palestine are dealing with.

“Here’s the difference: You saw wreckage of a train, you saw an explosion, you saw fire, and you see dead fish. Nuclear material is silent, invisible, and it’s a deadly killer. And the chemicals being transported outside of the plant to the community are just as deadly, but you’re not seeing the explosion or fire,” he said.

As someone who’s tried to hold the companies and federal agencies responsible for poisoning his community accountable for decades, Walburn also has advice for the residents of East Palestine.

“They can learn a lot from Piketon: Don’t take information on face value. Get independent investigators and chemists instead of relying on the government or [Norfolk Southern] … They need counseling, they need investigations by independent doctors,” he said.

“They need to stay away from rapid statements, and they need to form investigative committees—not with politicians; they need to have scientists, universities, hospitals—because this is going to be a long-lasting thing.”

Walburn said he doesn’t have much hope that the Environmental Protection Agency or other agencies will be much help for East Palestine. After all, they’ve continued to ignore Piketon through numerous presidential administrations.

Indeed, the U.S. government largely treated environmental issues at PORTS as a dispute between labor and the various contractors who operated the Department of Energy-owned site.

Finally, in 2019, a good-citizen scientist conducted an independent study of the surrounding area. Dr. Michael Ketterer of Northern Arizona University reported discovery of the presence of enriched uranium and other radioactive material at a middle school is about four miles northeast of PORTS.

This led to the DOE admitting to having detected radioactive americium in the air monitor near the middle school in 2017, sparking outrage in the community that the federal government had kept information about nuclear contamination hidden from them.

The DOE promised change, starting with the funding of a comprehensive test to discover the full scope of contamination.

But more than three years later, the results of that study still aren’t public, Walburn told Headline USA.

Walburn added that at a recent meeting with the EPA on Feb. 15, his friend and fellow former PORTS worker Charles Lawson presented the agency with more evidence that the DOE is covering up how widespread the nuclear contamination is.

Walburn said he’s still waiting for when all the evidence of wrongdoing they’ve uncovered to make a difference.

“We have a plethora of evidence,” he said. “When do we get to come to the table, and present our documents at a state or federal hearing? When do we get that?”

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

Trump Blasts Obama Admin., ‘Warmongering Globalists’ for Supporting Coup in Ukraine

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Trump Blasts Obama Admin., ‘Warmongering Globalists’ for Supporting Coup in Ukraine

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Former President Donald Trump released an anti-war message on Tuesday that blasted the Obama administration for supporting the 2014 coup in Ukraine, which ousted the country’s pro-Russia government and set the stage for the war raging today.

“For decades, we’ve had the very same people such as [State Department official] Victoria Nuland and many others just like her, obsessed with pushing Ukraine toward NATO—not to mention the State Department’s support for uprisings in Ukraine,” Trump said in a video statement.

The U.S. government’s involvement in the 2014 is well documented, most notably in a leaked phone call between Nuland and then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt—in which the two officials discussed who Ukraine’s next government should be in the wake of the pro-Russian government’s ouster.

However, the subject has been a political third rail for both sides of the aisle.

For instance, when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., made similar statements last March, she was met with a barrage of “fact-checkers” accusing her of spreading Russian disinformation.

This didn’t stop Trump from speaking the truth on Tuesday, calling out in particular Nuland, who now occupies a higher position in the State Department than she did in 2014.

Trump called for Nuland and other anti-Russia war hawks to be removed from government before they spark another world war.

“World War 3 has never been closer than it is now. We need to clear house,” he said.

“One of the reasons I was the only presidents in generations who didn’t start a war is that I was the only president who rejected the catastrophic advice of many of the country’s generals, bureaucrats and the so-called diplomats who only know how to get us into conflict, but they don’t know how to get us out.”

Trump’s statement comes on the same day as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s announcement that Moscow suspended Moscow’s participation in the last remaining nuclear arms control pact with the United States.

Trump stressed that the U.S.’s actions don’t excuse Putin’s invasion, but he also reiterated the need to end the conflict and avoid World War 3—issuing his warning in classic Trump fashion.

“We’re now teetering on the brink of World War 3. A lot of people don’t see it, but I see it. And I’ve been right about a lot of things,” he said.

“They all say, ‘Trump’s been right about everything.’”

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

41,000 Catholic Clergy Members Instructed to Deny Communion to Pro-Abortion Dems

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41,000 Catholic Clergy Members Instructed to Deny Communion to Pro-Abortion Dems

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Tens of thousands of clergy members will soon receive a copy of Cardinal Raymond Burke’s book that instructs Catholic priests and bishops to deny Holy Communion to leftist pro-abortion politicians who pretend to be Catholics.

“The Church cannot remain silent and indifferent to a public offense against the Body and Blood of Christ,” the book states.

Catholic Action for Faith and Family, a group devoted to defending the Catholic faith, published Burke’s instructions in book form in Deny Holy Communion?, and Thomas McKenna, the organization’s founder and president, said that he will mail a copy to every Catholic clergy member as part of a campaign to inform American bishops, priests and deacons that “Catholics” who don’t follow the Bible and the Catechism of the Catholic Church should not receive a Holy Communion, according to the Daily Signal.

“There is a great misunderstanding and many misconceptions about the issue. It is presented by some clergy, including members of the hierarchy, that there really is never a situation where Holy Communion should be denied to a public and unrepentant sinner who professes to be Catholic,” he said.

“Most clergies have not studied the issue in a formal canonical way and only know what is presented in discussions and the media. Cardinal Burke wrote this study to better explain the church’s history and wisdom in having canon law that addresses the issue.”

McKenna noted that the positions taken by Burke’s instructions, originally published in 2007, were not radical, but ones that the Church has upheld for 2,000 years.

“Cardinal Burke bases the book on formal teachings and doctrine, not on an opinion,” he said.

“No matter how often a Bishop or priest repeats the teaching of the Church regarding procured abortion, if he stands by and does nothing to discipline a Catholic who publicly supports legislation permitting the gravest of injustices and, at the same time, presents himself to receive Holy Communion, then his teaching rings hollow,” the cardinal wrote.

The reason why the Catholic Action for Faith and Family decided to start this campaign is because of American politicians, like Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi, who present themselves as Catholics and, at the same time, support abortion, even though the Catholic Church specifically states in its Catechism that abortion is a murder of an innocent human being, which makes it a crime against humanity.

Aside from distributing the book, McKenna encouraged Catholics to privately confront sinners, publicly cause scandal and ask them to not present themselves for Holy Communion.

NYC Mayor Humiliates Himself Trying to Lecture DeSantis

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NYC Mayor Humiliates Himself Trying to Lecture DeSantis

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Failed leftist affirmative action hire, New York City Mayor Eric Adams, was not very happy about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaking at a law enforcement event and decided to lecture him on Twitter about values, for which he was promptly humiliated.

“Welcome to NYC, @GovRonDeSantis, a place where we don’t ban books, discriminate against our LGBTQ+ neighbors, use asylum seekers as props or let the government stand between a woman and healthcare,” he wrote.

“We’re happy to teach you something about values while you’re here.”

Immediately after that, people put Adams in his place by pointing out that he is the one who is doing a terrible job, according to the Gateway Pundit.

“Maybe you should take some notes while he’s in town. Florida’s increased in population while your town is losing population,” Jeremy Redfern, Deputy Press Secretary of DeSantis, said. “Florida’s at a 50-year low in crime while major crime is up 22% in NYC.”

Other people pointed out that the living conditions in New York City became so horrible that they decided to leave their state and move to Florida.

“I left NY after 51yrs because libs ruined it. I moved to FL because Ron is GREAT. Eric, feeding raunchy sex & CRT books to kids is sick,” tweeted Newsmax host Dennis Michael Lynch. “Allowing illegals to live in posh hotels, and giving criminals a pass to run wild is sick. Killing the unborn isn’t healthcare, it’s murder.”

Another native New Yorker, Ryan James Girdusky, agreed with Lynch.

“Welcome to NYC… where residents eventually flee to Florida,” he said.

Even New York Libertarians who don’t support DeSantis as a politician because he is too conservative for them acknowledged that he is doing a much better job than Adams, who decided to continue the degenerate legacy of de Blasio by destroying New York City even more.

“Don’t make us defend DeSantis, Eric. But you may wanna check how many New Yorkers bailed after Deblasio [sic], Cuomo, Hochul, & your awful handling of COVID,” the person responsible for the party’s Twitter account wrote.

“A very large number of them moved to Florida.”

Comedian Tim Young also made fun of the city that so many people left specifically because of the imbecilic leftist policies.

“Ahh yes, New York City, the sh*t hole where crime is worse than ever, they fire public servants for not getting the jab and they groom children.”

Among all of those responses to Adams’s tweet, the most simplistic one belongs to Addison Smith of One America News.

“Sounds awful. I’ll take Florida.”

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