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The Church of England has come under fire after a female reverend declared on video that Mary, not Jesus, is the main character in the Nativity story. The video, posted by the Church of England [...] The post Female Reverend Declares Mary, NOT Jesus, Is the ‘Main Character’ of Christmas appeared first on The People's Voice.

Politico has declared that those who believe Christmas is a Christian holiday are dangerous white supremacists spreading “fake news.” In a bizarre article published on Christmas Eve, the far-left outlet spotlights Italian Prime Minister Giorgia [...] The post Politico: It’s ‘Racist’ to Believe Christmas Is a Christian Holiday appeared first on The People's Voice.

Bill Gates and Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla are facing life in prison in a Dutch ‘crimes against humanity’ lawsuit that’s set to commence early this year. According to the lawsuit, the pair will have to [...] The post Bill Gates & Albert Bourla Facing Life in Prison in Dutch ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ Lawsuit appeared first on The People's Voice.

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In this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler take on the “fake magnanimity” of billionaires like Mitt Romney and Warren Buffett suggesting they pay more taxes. Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of a segment from today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to VDH’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: You read that Tom Steyer, the left-wing Stanford-area activist guy who ran for president, who made his fortune funding financing coal plants in Indonesia, says, “I need to be taxed more.” He’s worth about three billion. And then Mitt [Romney] came out. Remember Mitt? Mitt said that he thinks that people should be taxed more, and he wants to pay. No, you’re not a big humanitarian, Mitt. You’re almost worth a billion dollars. So, what you’re saying at the end of your life, you think that you should pay a few hundred thousand more out of your multi-billion-dollar fortune or hundreds-of-million-dollar fortune. But young Mitt didn’t say that. And young people who are making 80, 90, 100,000 and trying to buy a house don’t say that. Getting so tired of this fake magnanimity, humanity by these very wealthy, wealthy people who say they need to be taxed more. [Like] Warren Buffett, then pay it. Pay it. All you have to do is write a check to the government and say, “I’m under taxed.” Well, Victor, that wouldn’t cover everybody. Well, don’t worry about anybody. Sit by your moral example. Open up a foundation and say, pay 60%. Join me. You can do it. Just do it. But don’t tell Joe Smith out there who’s driving a tractor all day long and then goes to a forklift night job so he can make $80,000 that he needs to pay more taxes. It’s disgusting. And in California, of the 40 million people here, 1% of the households pay 50% of the taxes. And they’re leaving. They’re leaving. Joel Kotkin has a great article out. He writes variations of it, but they’re all unique and original, and he’s just pointing out that the whole blue state model—Minnesota, Massachusetts, Illinois, and New York—is imploding, four or five million people a year are leaving. JACK FOWLER: This Joel Kotkin? That’s who you’re talking about, right? Where did he write? He writes all over. HANSON: I’m not sure, I just read it this morning at 4.30 in the morning so I can’t remember where, but it’s listed in realclearpolitics.com, so you can all go there. And it’s a very good article. It just points out what he’s tried to warn people that the blue state model allows young people not very much job opportunities, no housing opportunities, gas, electricity, all highly regulated by very wealthy people who are up in the attic looking down at you, and they pulled up the ladder. That’s what the whole psychology is. FOWLER: I don’t think they’re in the attic. I think they’re in the penthouse looking down. HANSON: Exactly. You know, it’s depressing to see this fake magnanimity by very, very blessed people who now suddenly want to pay more taxes and yet they don’t. FOWLER: Yeah, they do have that Buffett-[Bill] Gates effort with quote unquote, “It’s not charity, it’s philanthropy,” where they could be addressing real issues, poverty, whatever they want, local, but instead they’re more interested in spending money on abortion overseas. HANSON: I have a better idea. I would tell Buffett and would tell Mitt, you made enough money. Don’t make any more money. You want to pay any taxes? Don’t worry about the taxes, Mitt, just don’t keep investing all the money you have. You’re trying so desperately to get 8% here and 7%, 10%. Why not just put it in, I don’t know, Bank of America at 4% and just relax? And then you wouldn’t feel so guilty because you wouldn’t be making so much money without physical labor. And then you wouldn’t have to worry. This idea that you made all this money, and you had this elite lifestyle, and you’re still an investor, and all of a sudden you decide … don’t pay capital gains. Just take your money, Mitt, and pay it at the income tax rate. Just say, “You know what? It’s a technicality. This is income tax. This is money that came from capital gains, but I’m going to pay the income tax rate just like Joe Blow.” You can see what happened to the Republican Party. I know there’s internal divisions and rifts in the Republican Party today, but the Bob Dole, the McCain, the Bush, the Mitt model did not have a lot of empathy for the working middle class. George W. Bush had more than the others, but not a lot of empathy. This is what also I think bothers us, because I pick up the Wall Street Journal, I know people who write there, I like it, it’s a great, but their news division is not their op-ed. You look at almost every person who is writing now for the Wall Street Journal and just hit their name and go down on their bio. It’s the Atlantic, it’s Politico, it’s Washington Post, it’s New York Times. That’s where they came from. And I always say it’s Monday now. They’ve had the weekend to digest last week’s good economic news that inflation is down to 2.7 from the 3% that Trump inherited, that there is a lot of strong forecasts that the economy may grow 4% in the first quarter, could even go up to 4.5. And job growth, unemployment went a little higher, but job growth was much higher than expected. But more importantly, this is really the first jobs report where all the growth came from legal employment and not illegal immigrants. Two million people who were largely on the dole are gone. I thought, “Well, they have 48 hours now.” And sure enough, you pick it up. And it’s Trump, it’s not working. The terror’s not working. Nothing’s working. It’s bad. And then by the end of the week, they will be forced to report a good economic data point and then they’ll have the weekend to revision it. Monday, you’ll see how bad everything is. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Victor Davis Hanson: Why I’m Tired of Mitt Romney’s ‘Fake Magnanimity’ appeared first on The Daily Signal.

On the night of Christmas -- as millions of American Christians celebrated the birth of a savior to a troubled mother -- the PBS News Hour thought it was a tremendous occasion for a one-sided discussion on...abortion. The godless tone-deafness was something to behold.  PBS was sharing a piece of their new podcast Settle In, and the guest was pro-abortion activist/journalist Irin Carmon and how she reported on the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. Anchor Amna Nawaz explained her new book Unbearable "tells the stories of five women in New York and Alabama as they navigate a new post-Roe landscape." The opportunity for states to outlaw or limit the killing of babies was, to Carmon, treating women like animals and diminishing their humanity -- and obviously, with that world view, the unborn child doesn't have humanity, killing them isn't diminishing anything. Nawaz helpfully asked Carmon to explain her statement from the book about "how incomplete our story of American reproduction has been and how much has been unexpressed, hidden or taken for granted." IRIN CARMON: I think, for me, when I -- the real inspiration for writing this book, the actual moment, even though in some ways I was leading up to it in my entire career of reporting, was being pregnant. I was six months pregnant for the second time when Roe v. Wade was overturned with the Dobbs decision and I was eight months pregnant when the decision was finalized. And for me, one of the stories that I wanted to tell -- I was covering the decision as a reporter at New York magazine. I was writing about all the implications for policy and for law and the dynamics of the decision and the holding. But I was also feeling in my bones what it would mean for this profound change in American law and life, how it would actually affect people. And I did not need an abortion. I did not seek an abortion. I was really excited to be pregnant. But I also found myself thinking, why hasn't anybody talked about how what an enormous physical and grave undertaking pregnancy can be in the context of even when you want to and what it might mean to force this on someone? I don't think nobody talks about it, but for me it was something that I felt in my bones. I felt it in my blood. I could feel like in the extra heart that was beating inside of me, that there was a profound erasure from that opinion in particular and from the way Alito wrote about it of the seriousness of pregnancy, regardless of the circumstances you find yourself in. So one of the parts that I thought was incomplete and inexpressed is that you might think of yourself -- unexpressed -- is that you might think of yourself as never needing this kind of care, right? And there are women in the book who I write about who never thought they would be in this situation -- AMNA NAWAZ: Right. CARMON: -- and find themselves seeking a kind of care that is stigmatized, that is illegal, that is secret, or that they will be punished for one way or another. And so it felt like the best way to tell that story was to -- I started a little bit by weaving in my own personal story, even though in many ways it's not an extraordinary one, but I think the very fact that for me as a married, white, upper-middle-class, privileged woman who literally reports on this for a living, the feelings that I had of being made to feel smaller or less than a fully adult human in control of my own decisions during my pregnancy were so instructive for me. Because I thought, like, what chance does anybody who doesn't have all this going for them have in this system that says that the moment you become pregnant you have fewer constitutional rights, you have fewer rights of autonomy in medicine, you will be treated like, to quote one of the women in my book, a child animal? And that's not to diminish the fact that my pregnancies and many other people's pregnancies were deeply joyful and I was excited about them, but that's not a reason to diminish the individual pregnant person's humanity. On "public" broadcasting, the usual night for this kind of leftist advocacy is on January 22, the Roe v. Wade anniversary, where they would annually avoid covering tens of thousands of protesters at the "March for Life" in favor of putting all their "compassion" on the abortion advocacy. But to do this on Christmas night is a little astonishing.

It was a challenging task, but an esteemed panel of NewsBusters editors, led by MRC President David Bozell and MRC’s Vice President for Research and Publications Brent Baker, boiled down all the biased outbursts from lefty hack hosts, anchors, reporters and pundits in 2025 and on December 17 announced The Media Research Center Award for Worst Quote of the Year.   Of course, every year, there is way too much bias for just one category. So we broke down the Worst of 2025 into five additional categories (The Craziest Analysis Award; The Trashing Trump Award; The Damn Those Conservatives Award; The ICE Breakers Award for Hating Trump’s Deportation Policy; and the Celebrity Freak-Outs Award).  Today, we present the WORST OF 2025: The Damn Those Conservatives Award.    WINNER     “I think some people might say Charlie Kirk’s rhetoric was extreme. You know, I think that’s the conversation that happened. People condemned political violence, but they also felt a great deal of discomfort with his language, suggesting that these kinds of words lead to violence. I don’t know, I’m just kind of sharing my observations as I saw the conversations unfold.”— Host Katie Couric to Sen. John Fetterman on her podcast Next Question with Katie Couric, November 13.   RUNNERS-UP   “We tried to forget about him, but Ron DeSantis is still governor of Florida. He took the Comfy Couch hosts on a tour of the concentration camp that he’s building in Florida in order to round up people, brown people, and throw them in a camp because he doesn’t want them in Florida.”— Former MSNBC host Joy Reid on The Joy Reid Show podcast, June 28.   “There’s a reason that there’s so much hate going around. There’s a reason that there’s so much anti-Semitism and so much racism going around….You can place it at the feet of one person [Donald Trump] who didn’t start this but certainly exacerbates it and foments hate and bigotry…. The racism. The bigotry. The anti-Semitism. The transphobia. The homophobia. It certainly does happen on one side more than the other….That’s the thing that makes the MAGA wheel spin. That’s the motor. That’s the axle. Is hatred and bigotry.”— Former CNN anchor Don Lemon discussing the arson attack on Pennsylvania Governor’s mansion as aired on his podcast The Don Lemon Show, April 14.   “What the Trump Administration is providing Democrats right now are those cuts. They’re giving them the punchline to, ‘Oh, they’re gonna cut billionaires tax cuts, but guess what they’re gonna do?’ They’re going to take away medical research that saved your daughter or saved somebody in your family. They’re going to take away and fire people in the FAA. So, those plane crashes that you’re seeing, you’re gonna see more of them.”— Co-host Joe Scarborough on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, February 19.

“Crime in the U.S. fell in 2025. Will the trend continue?” ran on the Christmas Eve edition of National Public Radio’s Morning Edition. But after months of coverage bashing President Trump for sending troops into cities to fight crime (i.e. “Do Trump's D.C. moves echo an authoritarian playbook?”) Trump gets no credit in reporter Meg Anderson’s good-news story about an issue he ran and won on -- fighting crime. Anderson’s written story (the broadcast version was briefer and somewhat less slanted) reversed the polarity of reality, pointing to the falling crimes rates as if they somehow discredited Trump’s actions and rhetoric, as opposed to the drops showing Trump’s tough-on-crime policy bearing fruit. Crime fell across much of the U.S. in 2025 — in the Midwest, the South, the Northeast and the West, in big cities and small towns, and in red and blue states. The number of murders saw a huge drop — about 20% fewer than in 2024, according to the Real Time Crime Index, which uses local crime data from nearly 600 jurisdictions around the country. Other violent crimes, including rape, robbery and aggravated assault, also declined, as did property crimes like motor vehicle theft and burglaries. "It's the best year in crime I've seen in 27 years in this business," says John Roman, who directs the Center on Public Safety & Justice at NORC, a research group at the University of Chicago. NPR spoke to researchers who study trends in crime, policing and criminal justice about the numbers. Here are some of their main takeaways this year — and what they expect in 2026. Under the subhead “What caused the drop in murders?” there was no mention of even the possibility that Trump’s acts of sending in the National Guard to crime-ridden Democrat-run cities could have had a positive effect, or mass deportations. Instead they cited Covid. Part of the reason, researchers say, is that the nation is over the hump of the pandemic. During 2020 and 2021, homicide rates surged across the U.S. Now the nation is simply on the other side of that surge. Trump only appeared in the story to have his rhetoric and anti-crime acts discredited under the subhead “Rhetoric vs. reality.” Some researchers pointed to a disconnect between the widespread decrease in crime, and President Trump's depictions of crime this year, particularly in Democrat-led cities. Trump called Chicago the "most dangerous city in the world" and said Washington, D.C., had been "overtaken by violent gangs." The two cities, and others, eventually became the focus of federal law enforcement surges aimed at cracking down on crime and immigration. Chicago and D.C. have historically had higher crime rates compared to many U.S. cities, but they have also both seen crime falling in recent years, like much of the rest of the country. Using the threat of crime to justify crackdowns should make Americans wary, said Tahir Duckett, who directs the Center for Innovations in Community Safety at Georgetown Law. "That's a dark story that we have heard told in history," he said, "justifications for repression of civil rights, justifications for seizing additional authority." Isn't it possible that Trump's acts caused the drop in crime? NPR doesn't even consider the idea. Sending in the Guard is "repression." Anderson’s pessimism spread into the future setting the groundwork to blame Trump’s government for a crime spike in 2026 (after not crediting him for the 2025 drop) via an unlabeled liberal source: Government funding cuts worry experts like Ames Grawert, senior counsel in the justice program at the Brennan Center for Justice. While NPR treated the correlation between the fall in crime and Trump policy as a coincidence not worth noting, the Daily Caller had a different take on the same data: President Donald Trump has made combating violent crime a top priority in his second term. In August, he issued an executive order declaring a crime emergency in Washington, .D.C, and ordered the National Guard deployed to help crack down. The city experienced nearly a 28% drop in murders this year, according to the RTCI.