People are panning the new six-part woke ‘documentary’ series on the American Revolution by Ken Burns. According to posters who have seen it, Burns liked the Revolution and George Washington, but also managed to send a lot of bad messages. Burns can’t let history interfere with his pandering to PBS and his elite comrades. It […] The post Ken Burns’ American Revolution Is Getting Panned as Woke by Some appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

After more than a thousand interviews, the FBI says it has concluded that Thomas Crooks acted alone in his attempt to kill President Donald Trump at a rally in 2024. “It is the FBI’s conclusion that Crooks acted alone,” FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino told Fox News. “There is no foreign connection in this case,” a senior FBI official echoed. “There is no individual that is outside U.S. borders or inside U.S. borders that had any role in directing him, inspiring him or assisting him in any way — and that includes foreign governments.” Bongino, FBI Director Kash Patel, and the senior official said in an interview with Fox News that online conspiracies about Crooks are simply not true. For example, the FBI did gain access to every electronic device from Crooks, examining “35 accounts linked to Crooks, including social media, bank, and other online accounts.” “The FBI has been able to access all of the accounts,” the senior official said. “There has been reporting to inappropriately and incorrectly state that there was encryption that the FBI was not able to get into — that is not true. We have been able to get into every single account.” Crooks did have foreign-based email accounts from Germany and Belgium, which were also “fully” accessed “within days of the attack,” the official said. “Additionally, the FBI engaged with foreign partners who also provided all of the content of those email accounts,” the official continued. “We can say with confidence that there is no communication, there are no emails that Crooks had that we have not been able to access.” Patel also noted that Crooks’ home was “completely swept.” Right now, DailyWire+ annual memberships are fifty percent off during our Black Friday sale. Join now at dailywire.com/blackfriday. “Every device in the home was collected and accessed fully,” he said. “Reports say that we didn’t get into certain devices? That’s false. We got into all of the devices.” The FBI officials also addressed recent theories and questions related to an Antifa-linked individual named William Tepes. Crooks and Tepes never spoke to one another directly, though Tepes did respond to Crooks’ online public posting, the feds said. “Crooks posted on YouTube. Tepes is a Norwegian, nordic resistance member. He simply responded to content Crooks posted,” Patel said. The global investigation included more than 1,000 interviews, a review of 2,000 tips, and the execution of more than ten search warrants and 100 subpoenas. The feds “specifically analyzed 13 electronic devices that were associated with Crooks and his family members from his home in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania,” the official said. Bongino noted there was no manifesto left from Crooks. “Dan and I have been on this since we got here eight months ago,” Patel said of the investigation. “We fully briefed the president, as a victim of this case, at the White House, providing him with all of the details of our investigation, and the president was satisfied with the results and where we left it.” “We are very confident in the outcomes of this investigation,” Bongino said. “We have pulled on every threat. We are absolutely confident, and if information surfaces, please, immediately get it over to us for instant action.” The deputy director, who is personally close with Trump, stressed that there is no motivation for a coverup, as some online have suggested. “I would ask the public: What motivation would Kash Patel and Dan Bongino possibly have to hide from their personal friend — not just their boss — the president — information about a crime where he was the victim?” he asked. “I don’t understand what the motivation would be.” “No one is interested in guilt or innocence, they’re interested in someone to blame,” Bongino said, quoting “A Few Good Men.” “The public is pissed off. We get it. We sympathize with you. It couldn’t have just been this guy — it couldn’t have just been this guy — it is. There is no reason I would tell you otherwise.” Patel added that pushing conspiracy theories online makes big money. “As to why people keep coming back to this on social media, the reality is, many people make a lot of money on social media pushing conspiracy theories for clicks,” he said. “That is a fact.” Responding to accusations from Congress about the FBI not disclosing all pertinent information, Patel said this was also not true, adding that lawmakers have been “fully debriefed.” “Congress is accusing us of not turning over all of this stuff — but all of this stuff doesn’t exist. It is an empty narrative they’re firing into a vacuum,” Patel said. “The very limited information we have not turned over is respective to victims’ rights. There isn’t some trove of documents that we haven’t sent over there.”

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The bouquet arrived unexpectedly, six months after her husband passed away. Before he died, Stephen Cudmore had arranged a delivery of daffodils for his wife Marilyn’s next birthday, knowing full well he probably wouldn’t be there. “Hello beautiful! Happy birthday, Steve” The surprise gift gave Marilyn an idea. She thought back to her final day […] The post Husband’s Bouquet Arrived After His Death, Now His Wife has Lined an Entire Street with Daffodils as a Memorial appeared first on Good News Network.

Presidio Healthcare recently made history by launching the nation’s first pro-life, Christian health insurance option in Texas at a time when many families are experiencing both historic rate increases and decreasing subsidies in the Obamacare marketplace.While the heart of our mission focuses on serving families with an affordable option that protects both their values and their financial security, the vision for how we accomplish that aim rests on a lesser-known Christian principle that I believe provides a road map for reforming our broken health care system.Health care policy should focus on expanding options for families while empowering them to own their own health insurance.That principle is called "subsidiarity," which represents a system of values that puts families first — in contrast to our current system that ignores the individualized needs of Americans.The Christian principle of subsidiarity states “that matters ought to be handled by the smallest, lowest, or least centralized competent authority rather than by a higher and more distant one, whenever possible.”The latest debate over Obamacare subsidies serves as a great example of how our current system prioritizes the higher and more distant authority (i.e., Washington, D.C.) over the least centralized authority (i.e., American families).The Obamacare market was designed to provide subsidies for low-income Americans, which by itself does not inherently violate the principle of subsidiarity. Rather, the problem lies with the insistence that this one federally controlled market should serve as a one-size-fits-all solution for everyone, including middle-income Americans who do not qualify for adequate subsidies.The centralized answer that Democrats offer requires the Obamacare market to be propped up inefficiently with more subsidies. The subsidiarity answer would propose decentralizing the market by allowing alternative risk pools regulated at the state level to serve the middle-income Americans with products designed for their needs.To summarize the principle for a broader application: Health care policy should focus on expanding options for families while empowering them to own their own health insurance.In a decentralized system, Americans would become smarter consumers of health care as they bear the responsibility of owning and paying for their own health care expenses. The impact would reach beyond the economic. The key benefit to subsidiarity is its preservation of each of our relationships to God through our individual decision-making responsibility.If tomorrow’s health care shoppers were individuals and families (instead of governments and employers), private insurance markets would be forced to serve the Christian and pro-life values of families, as opposed to our current system of serving government agendas and large employer needs. Presidio is building toward that tomorrow and starting now in Texas.RELATED: Medical 'experts' want to jab a needle through your God-given rights EKIN KIZILKAYA/iStock/Getty Images PlusUnfortunately, there is a major roadblock to this future.Ironically, the employer-sponsored marketplace and the single-payor Medicare program — two markets that conservatives often support — in many ways violate the principle of subsidiarity to a greater degree than the much smaller Obamacare individual market.We need to be consistent if we want to reform our health care system. Employers control the health insurance decisions for close to 150 million Americans, and all of us are forced to pay into a federally centralized Medicare program that exhibits some of the worst elements of socialism, such as dictating prices that distort our entire system.The spiritual impact is evident through the contraceptive mandate and employer decisions that force millions of Christians to be insured on products that cover abortion, abortifacients, contraception, and other immoral services. Through Medicare, we have collectively forfeited our health care autonomy to Washington, D.C., when we turn 65, creating problematic scenarios that could prioritize our federal budget over dignified treatment for end-of-life care.We need to do more than just talk about Obamacare — and we need take action now.The good news is that health care policymakers need to look no farther than to what the private market is already doing.Presidio is part of a decades-long movement in the health care industry to launch innovative alternative services that serve families directly. This includes affordable non-Obamacare alternatives, health-sharing ministry plans, and, more recently, “ICHRA” benefit platforms that are moving employers out of the business of purchasing health insurance and into a defined contribution model where employees purchase and own their own insurance.The road map is there. Government and employers can assist families in purchasing health insurance rather than purchasing it for them. Private market innovations would follow. At Presidio, we are building toward a future where subsidiarity replaces centrally controlled markets and the pro-life values of Christian Americans drive pro-life health insurance options that help fund life-affirming care. We do not take federal subsidies, and we do not want your employer forcing you to have Presidio coverage.As in all authentic Christian movements, we rely on individual families to help build Presidio, and we look forward to serving your needs while we expand our vision of a health care system in America founded on the principle of subsidiarity.

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