Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy has restored to prominence a painting of Jesus Christ at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York, after it was demoted following a complaint about its Christian message. “Jesus is out of the basement! I promised you I would restore faith at @UsmmaO by returning ‘Christ on the Water’ to its place of prominence, where it belongs after being taken down under Biden and my predecessor. God is good for these Mariners – true FAITHFUL American patriots!” Duffy wrote in a post on the social media platform X.  Jesus is out of the basement!I promised you I would restore faith at @UsmmaO by returning “Christ on the Water” to its place of prominence, where it belongs after being taken down under Biden and my predecessor. God is good for these Mariners – true FAITHFUL American… pic.twitter.com/99ddlMnyDr— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) September 30, 2025 The complaint against the painting had contended that it was sending “an improper message of preferred faith in violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the Constitution.” The Biden administration subsequently removed the work of art to a lower rear hallway in the Mariners’ Memorial Chapel. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy (Steven Ferdman/Getty Images) The painting itself, which depicts Jesus appearing before a group of sailors in a lifeboat, had hung in the Elliot M. See Conference Room of Wiley Hall for 76 years prior to its removal. According to the academy, Hunter Wood, the artwork’s painter, meant for it to be “a tribute to all merchant seamen, especially to cadet-midshipmen (as they were then known) who had been torpedoed during World War II.” Wood served in both the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Maritime Service during the 1940s. He was involved in military combat during the invasion of North Africa in 1942. His artwork can also be found in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, the Mariners’ Museum and Park, and the U.S. Coast Guard Historian’s Office.  Duffy’s restoration of the artwork to its place of prominence comes at a time when the Trump administration has sought to reform the federal bureaucracy and bring back names removed during previous presidencies. In January, for example, President Donald Trump reversed the decision initially made by the Obama administration to change the federal designation of Mount McKinley in Alaska.  The president also created a Religious Liberty Commission to protect the free exercise of faith in the nation and established a task force in the Justice Department to eradicate anti-Christian bias in the government.  On the armed services front, the Trump administration has brought back the name of Fort Bragg in North Carolina and redesignated the Defense Department as the Department of War, which harkens back to Wood’s time when the Allies were triumphant in Europe and the Pacific in World War II. The Trump administration has also sought settlements with major American universities to bring them in compliance with federal law. Duffy’s recent effort touches on one such distinguished institution of higher education. The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy is one of five highly regarded four-year service academies in the United States. It grants attendees college degrees, as well as a commission in a reserve component of the U.S. military. Famous alumni include Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz.; Olympic medalist Morgan Reeser; several admirals; and Robert Kiyosaki, the author of the well-known personal finance book “Rich Dad, Poor Dad.” The post Painting of Jesus, Removed by Biden Admin, Resurrected at US Merchant Marine Academy appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Last night, NBC's Law & Order brought up former president Joe Biden's dementia, claiming no one thought Biden's staff should keep it secret. In Thursday's episode, "White Lies," an investment fund manager named Tom Hardiman is pushed into an incoming car at night. Hardiman had recently taken over a pharmaceutical research company devoted to "small-market research into rare-diseases."  He planned to change the company's focus to larger market products like weight loss and cholesterol. Standing in his way was the business' founder, Norman Munson, whom the company's board refused to remove.  Prosecutors discover that Munson secretly suffers from dementia. Munson's close friend and researcher, Kevin Goodall, killed Hardiman to prevent him from revealing the dementia to the board. Goodall knew that if the board discovered Munson's cognitive decline, the company would cease researching a rare illness called Batten disease which Goodall's daughter suffers from. Assistant District Attorneys Nolan Price (Hugh Dancy) and Samantha Maroun (Odelya Halevi) debate the ethics of revealing Munson's dementia in court. Their conversation turns to the case of former president Joe Biden. Maroun: He [Goodall] was acting under extreme emotional disturbance. He was panicked at the idea a new CEO would abandon Batten disease research, that his daughter's life was in jeopardy. Price: Who gave Goodall the right to decide what company shareholders can and can't know? Look what happened to Biden's inner circle when the world was questioning his fitness to serve. No one thought they had the right to keep that secret. Maroun: Norman Munson is not a commander in chief. And by all accounts, in the small portion of the world he does control, he did nothing but good. You want to humiliate him on the stand to--to help some Wall Street guys get richer?  Nolan claims no one thought Biden's staff had the right to keep it secret when in reality regime media attacked anyone who questioned Biden's fitness to serve. Powerful journalists gaslighted the public for years about Biden's obvious cognitive decline. Not only did Biden's inner circle not face consequences, they went onto cushy media jobs or sinecures. Throughout most of Biden's presidency, conservatives were the only ones calling for transparency on Biden's health. Even CNN's Jake Tapper admitted in 2025 that “conservative media was right and conservative media was correct." Pretending that "no one thought they had the right to keep that secret" is historical revisionism that lets the Democratic party and establishment journalists off the hook. Price and Maroun take it for granted that the former commander-in-chief had dementia. It is now accepted fact and Hollywood can mention it in toss away lines on a major network show. Yet as recently as June of 2024, the previous White House and its lapdog media were in lockstep denial about it.  It is little comfort that Hollywood, as a cultural extension of the Democratic party, can only admit such a frightening truth about a Democratic president when that president is no longer in power. 

New studies from NewsBusters demonstrate once again that "public" broadcasting inevitably tilts toward the leftist party, and the latest violent protest in Chicago and Portland prove once again that the press is pro-antifa, pushing their bizarre line that it's not an organized movement, it's just "an idea." CNS News managing editor Craig Bannister and NewsBusters analyst and PBS specialist Clay Waters joined the show. Clay just finished two studies on the guests interviewed on the just-defunded "public" networks. PBS News Hour co-anchor Amna Nawaz boasted in April that on her program, “we regularly invite and host conservative and Republican voices.” An MRC study of two months of the “News Hour” after they were defunded by the Republicans found they hosted 98 liberal-leaning guests and 21 conservative-leaning guests, a disparity of 4.6 to 1. NPR CEO Katherine Maher laughably claimed to The Washington Post on August 6 that NPR had no “affinity for one party or one perspective over the other.” Wrong. In that same two-month period, liberal/Democrat-leaning guests outnumbered conservative-Republican-leaning guests by an astounding disparity of 53 to 3. Then we discussed Craig's CNS News work. MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace and “Prosecuting Donald Trump” podcast co-host Mary McCord tried to blame President Donald Trump on Monday's Deadline: White House for a fire at the house of a South Carolina judge who once ruled against the president – but oops, authorities ruled there’s no reason to suspect arson. Also on Monday,  Virginia’s Fraternal Order of Police issued an open letter calling on Democrat nominee Jay Jones to withdraw from the race to be the state’s next attorney general, in light of newly-surfaced 2022 text messages revealing Jones’s desire to kill Republican House Speaker Todd Gilbert -- and suggesting a few cops should die to curb their supposed violent excesses. In Portland, Oregon, disorderly conduct charges have been dropped against  conservative journalist Nick Sortor, who was somehow arrested for defending himself from an attack by members of an Antifa mob protesting at an ICE facility. Leftist lobbies who presume to speak for the free speech of reporters did not get involved.  Watch the latest podcast below. The audio product is here. Like, share and subscribe!     

POLL: What was the worst media take of the week? (Vote below)     NOMINEES:    1. Sunny Hostin Lectures “Pro-Life” Christians On Their “Hypocrisy” “I find there is a hypocrisy with certain Christians who are pro-life, but they will pull that electric chair switch. They are ‘pro-life,’ but they have their AR-15s in their cabinet. They are pro-life, but they – they don’t mind immigrant families being torn from each other. They are pro-life, but they don’t care about little children’s subsidies being taken away from them. That is not pro-life!”— Co-host Sunny Hostin on ABC’s The View, October 2.    2. Jimmy Kimmel: When I Travel Abroad, I Don’t Want to Be Blamed for Trump   “We travel abroad. Many of us don’t want to be held accountable for what our president does and says. As an American – you know – going someplace, I’m fortunate enough to be well known, and people know where I’m coming from. But I think it would be a different situation if people didn’t know who I was, and I think I’d probably be – the first thing I’d say as I got into every cab is, ‘I didn’t vote for him, just FYI.’”— ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel at the Bloomberg Screentime conference, October 8.    3. Joy Behar: Trump Using National Guard as “Pretext to Stop the Next Election!” “This [Trump sending in National Guard to protect ICE in cities] is a pretext to stop the next election! That’s what I think it is.”— Co-host Joy Behar on ABC’s The View, October 7.     Funded by James P. Jimirro

As fear spreads that those with “dark skin” will be targeted at the 2026 Super Bowl after halftime show headliner Bad Bunny was announced, “The View” co-hosts Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg had some suggestions for illegal immigrants thinking of attending.“One thing I thought of, though — you know, Kristi Noem, the one who killed the dog. She killed Cricket, yeah. Who does that? Who shoots a puppy? Only her. Anyway, she’s threatening to go to the Super Bowl when Bad Bunny is there and round up all these people that are illegal immigrants,” Behar said.“Do you think that she would go if it was Garth Brooks or Eminem or Taylor Swift or any other white person?” she asked.“How’s she going to know who’s who?” Whoopi Goldberg asked.“Because the Supreme Court has given permission to question anyone who has a Spanish accent, who has a dark skin,” Behar answered.That’s when Whoopi handed out some unsolicited advice to those illegal immigrants who may plan on attending the Super Bowl.“Everybody, get a little cocoa butter. Sit in the sun. That’s the first thing. And then — and this is the only time you can probably ever do this — give yourself a Latin accent,” Goldberg explained.“During the Nazi occupation, there was one country — I believe it was Denmark or Norway, one of those — where everybody put the Jewish star on, and they didn’t know who was Jewish and who was not,” Behar added.“I mean, this is why they’re on our unfunniest wanted list,” BlazeTV co-host Jeff Fisher says on “Pat Gray Unleashed.”“It’s unthinkable that they’re on the air still,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray agrees.“It started out sucking,” he continues, “and it’s gone downhill since.”“It’s gotten worse,” executive producer Keith Malinak laughs.Want more from Pat Gray?To enjoy more of Pat's biting analysis and signature wit as he restores common sense to a senseless world, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

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