Australian authorities have disclosed that the Islamist father-and-son duo, responsible for the horrific antisemitic attack near Bondi Beach in Sydney on Sunday, traveled to the Philippines just weeks prior to the incident.

Nick Reiner was supposed to appear in court today to be charged in the murders of his mother and father, Rob and Michele Reiner. He has not been medically cleared to appear in court, which is very unusual. He is on suicide watch. He faces two counts of First Degree murder with a special circumstance […] The post Nick Reiner Couldn’t Make It to Court Today appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Sen. Chuck Grassley released documents showing FBI agents did not believe it had probable cause to raid Mar-a-Lago. The Biden DoJ decided to do it anyway.  It was a miscarriage of justice, as if we didn’t know. Worst of all, they issued a shoot-to-kill order for the raid. Who were they going to kill? The […] The post FBI Agents Warned Biden DOJ Over and Over: No Probable Cause for the Mar-a-Lago Raid appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

If you were around in the 1980s and drank Coca-Cola, the term “New Coke” might evoke traumatic memories. In April 1985, the Coca-Cola company decided to change the formula of its decades-old drink to compete with Pepsi-Cola. It turned out to be one of the biggest consumer disasters in modern history, and Coca-Cola Classic returned to shelves 79 days after New Coke’s debut. It’s been 40 years, and some fans still can’t talk about it. According to Allrecipes, Coca-Cola launched a new version made with cane sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup. But will fans like it? Got some of the “New” Real Sugar Cokes (USA Version) byu/Ok_Pomelo_2570 inSoda Coca-Cola Will Not Change Its Recipe Coca-Cola with cane sugar is available alongside the original formulation. This is just an additional option for folks who want to avoid high-fructose corn syrup. The new cane sugar bottles made their way to a Reddit discussion, and fans love the taste. “This version is the best. I am kind of glad it is only 8oz bottles because it forces you to be strategic when consuming. This is not a version to be drinking with a salty meal where you drink 2 or 3 of them,” someone wrote. “I think these taste better than the Mexican version. They have a nice bite,” a fan agreed. “The ‘nice bite’ is what I remembered as a kid. My grandfather owned a business where he had Coke deliveries. He got pretty friendly with the guy over the years. Leads me to the story where my grandmother used to send me to the finished basement, where they would have cases of Coca-Cola. So my grandfather made a deal with the Coca-Cola guy to deliver 8 cases (24 pack) to his house, which was two doors away from the supermarket. I still remember the guy walking up the driveway with the 8 cases (more like 12 to 15 at Christmas) and leaving them in the basement,” a fan shared. This story’s featured image is by  Kevin Carter/Getty Images.

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The Southern Poverty Law Center was deeply involved in setting federal policy during the Biden administration, as well as law enforcement and even school policies across the country, despite labeling mainstream right-of-center organizations as “hate groups,” experts told a House panel Tuesday.  The SPLC previously claimed it was not anti-Christian, citing how it did not label Focus on the Family on its “hate map.” However, earlier this year, the group did add Focus on the Family to the list–and removed the defense of being anti-Christian from the website, said Tyler O’Neil, senior editor of The Daily Signal and author of “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center.” The “hate map,” is intended to chill speech, O’Neil told the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government on Tuesday.  “This contributes to the hostile climate in which conservatives keep their mouths shut in order to avoid being accused of racism, Islamophobia, or hate,” O’Neil said. “It is no accident that activists use this hate map to deplatform conservatives, or that activist groups have tried to pressure donor advised funds to blacklist the SPLC’s targets.” The Real Reason the SPLC Excludes Antifa From Its Hate MapAt today's @JudiciaryGOP hearing on the SPLC's influence on federal civil rights policy, @RepHageman asks The Daily Signal's @Tyler2ONeil why ?they exclude "Antifa, pro-Palestinian, and pro Hamas organizations on… pic.twitter.com/dfYW3Lq2TJ— The Daily Signal (@DailySignal) December 16, 2025 The subcommittee held a hearing investigating the SPLC’s coordination with the Biden administration titled “Partisan and Profitable: The SPLC’s Influence on Federal Civil Rights Policy.”  The SPLC has frequently labeled conservative groups as comparable to the Ku Klux Klan. O’Neil noted the Biden White House hosted SPLC staff at least 18 times. During the Biden administration, the FBI cited the SPLC in its memo targeting “radical-traditional Catholics.”  He highlighted an SPLC staffer who advised the Justice Department on hate crimes and spoke at a symposium for prosecutors about the “anti-LGBTQ movement.” Further, Biden nominated SPLC attorney Nancy Abudu to a federal judgeship on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.   Daily Signal Editor Schools Democrat Rep. On How the SPLC Targets CatholicsThe Daily Signal’s @Tyler2ONeil sets the record straight with Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., on how the SPLC demonizes Catholics by labeling the Ruth Institute a “hate group” for adhering to the teachings of… pic.twitter.com/JYWBQGmEiP— The Daily Signal (@DailySignal) December 16, 2025 During the hearing, Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., asked about why the SPLC hasn’t warned about Antifa, pro-Palestinian groups that targeted Jewish students at college campuses, or pro-abortion agitators that targeted pro-life centers.  O’Neil said it was an “absolute travesty” that conservative groups such as Turning Point USA and Moms for Liberty were labeled as anti-government extremist groups, while the SPLC “did not put actual groups that are hurling Molotov cocktails at government buildings” on its list of threats. What Happens to an Organization When Labeled a ‘Hate Group’ by the SPLC?At today's @JudiciaryGOP hearing on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s influence on federal civil rights policy, Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin dismissed the SPLC’s hate map as something that can simply be… pic.twitter.com/LI9o0Muykh— The Daily Signal (@DailySignal) December 16, 2025 Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, said no one from the SPLC has ever been convicted in a violent crime. “The Southern Poverty Law Center has been a vigilant voice in civil society, against radical white nationalist violence and extremism, neo Nazism, and other forces across the political spectrum that spread organized hate,” Raskin said.  Members and witnesses noted that earlier this year, the SPLC added Turning Point USA to its “hate map.” In October, a gunman assassinated TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk in Utah. Kirk warned about the SPLC’s rhetoric, said Andrew Sypher, executive vice president of field operations for TPUSA.  “Charlie warned, just before his murder, that the SPLC’s hate map designation, equating campus kids who promote the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and pro-life, pro family values with the KKK and neo-Nazis, would put Turning Point in the crosshairs. This proved prophetic,” Sypher said.  Subcommittee Chairman Chip Roy, R-Texas, said the SPLC began as a legitimate civil rights organization, but “has reinvented itself as a political fundraising machine built on an ever-expanding ideologically defined hate mission.” Roy noted the SPLC has more than $829 million in assets with an endowment of more than $738 million. “Fear is profitable, and this organization  built a financial model around it,” Roy said.  Toward the conclusion of the hearing, Roy asked if the SPLC rhetoric created an atmosphere that led to Kirk’s assasination. Sypher, of Turning Point USA, replied, “most definitely.” “I find it ironic that a civil rights organization is marginalizing the country,” Sypher said.  In 2012, an LGBTQ+ activist opened fire at the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the Family Research Council after the gunman saw the conservative group on the SPLC’s “hate map.” The shooter was stopped and later convicted on terrorism charges.  “To the SPLC, the life threatening gunshot suffered by our African American building manager, Leo Johnson, was a little more than collateral damage, acceptable if it intimidated Christians who uphold biblical teaching on marriage and human sexuality,” FRC President Tony Perkins said of the shooting. “Local law enforcement agencies circulate SPLC lists as though they were intelligence bulletins,” Perkins later followed. “Schools have incorporated SPLC’s material into curriculum presented to children as objective facts. Major corporations from online platforms to payment processors have used SPLC’s label to deny services, restrict donations, and cut off basic financial tools to Americans. “Once a group is branded, the SPLC label functions like a digital scarlet letter deployed to restrict speech, marginalize, and financially ruin individuals in organizations.” The SPLC did not respond to inquiries from The Daily Signal for this story on Tuesday. Subcommittee ranking member, Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pa., complained the SPLC was not invited to the hearing to defend itself. The Democrats’ witness was Amanda Tyler, executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty. “Civil rights organizations, Southern Poverty Law Center included, are part of the essential infrastructure of American civil society,” she said. “Civil rights organizations have historically helped communities in many ways, including documenting and combating discrimination.” The post House Investigates SPLC’s Profiting, Partisanship in Attack on Conservative Groups appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The Pentagon is plowing ahead in its investigation of Arizona Democrat Sen. Mark Kelly, who told service members they “can refuse illegal orders.” “The Office of the Secretary of War, in conjunction with the Department of War’s Office of the General Counsel, is escalating the preliminary review of Captain Mark Kelly, USN (Ret.), to an official Command Investigation,” a Department of War official told reporters in a statement Monday. “Retired Captain Kelly is currently under investigation for serious allegations of misconduct,” it adds. Kelly retired from the Navy in 2011, having served since the 1980s. He served as a naval aviator during the Gulf War. Kelly said in a response statement Monday that it “should send a shiver down the spine of every patriotic American that the president and secretary of defense would abuse their power to come after me or anyone this way.” Kelly drew the Pentagon’s attention when he contributed to a video statement alongside other Democrat lawmakers in which they urged members of the military and the intelligence community to disobey unlawful orders. “This administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens,” the lawmakers state as they each say different parts of a sentence.  “Our laws are clear: You can refuse illegal orders,” Kelly says personally. Department of War Senior Legal Advisor Tim Parlatore said earlier in December of the investigation, “There’s a range of options here … They could give him a letter of reprimand. They could actually take one of his ranks away in retirement and lower his pension.” The Department of War has previously said that its actions in Kelly’s case “may include recall to active duty for court-martial proceedings or administrative measures.”  Kelly told reporters in the Capitol on Tuesday in response to the news, “This is just about sending a message to retired service members, active-duty service members, government employees—do not speak out against this president or there will be consequences.” The post Pentagon ‘Escalating’ Mark Kelly Investigation appeared first on The Daily Signal.