If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The Media Research Center watchdog’s Free Speech Alliance has turned to the House Appropriations Committee, with the request to move to put a definitive end to funding the current White House’s censorship initiatives. A letter addressed to the Committee’s chief, Tom Cole, asked what the Free Speech Alliance said was a key congressional committee to completely strip the White House, the US Departments of Commerce, Defense, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security (DHS), Justice, State and Treasury, and the National Science Foundation of funds by introducing “blanket (pro free speech) language” across all bills. We obtained a copy of the letter for you here. At the same time, the letter praised the Committee’s work so far to defund what is referred to as unlawful censorship schemes that permeate various government sectors, by including “blanket language to prohibit any form of censorship of US citizens.” So the push to eradicate these types of policies should be complete, the Alliance said, as it believes the agencies it mentioned, under the current administration, are operating in an “anti-Americana, anti-free speech” manner. The letter makes a point of the Biden White House using the pretext of combating misinformation and its “companions” – such as “disinformation,” etc. – as defined by those in power – to implement censorship of speech targeting political opponents, adding that this amounts to “Biden’s assault on free speech.” The letter goes on to specify which sub-divisions of various departments should be affected by the proposed defunding. In the Department of Commerce, this should be the US Census Bureau; National Security Innovation Network (NewsGuard and other rating systems) and Army Cyber Institute in the Department of Defense; as for Health & Human Services, the group lists the Center for Disease Control (CDC), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and Office of the Surgeon General. Any initiatives whose goal is censorship run by DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3), Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Grant Program (TVTP), Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), Disinformation Governance Board should also not be allocated any more funds by Congress, the group said. Under the State Department, the letter mentions the Global Engagement Center, Global Disinformation Index, and US Embassies in Germany, and Hungary – but also in a number of other countries. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post End the Censorship: Watchdog Demands Congress Pull the Plug on Biden’s Speech Crackdown appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

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Jon Stewart was greatly distressed following the Thursday debate between former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden. On a special edition of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, Stewart lamented that the nation’s two choices for president are an “asshole” and someone who has “resting 25th Amendment face.” After recapping all the pregame talk from the media, Stewart started with Biden’s underwhelming performance, “We know the bar that's been set up for each to pass. Biden has to not look old and not have a senior moment. Go.”     Biden was then seen in a clip mumbling, “Making sure that we're able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I've been able to deal with. With the COVID, excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do with—look, if we finally beat Medicare—” A despondent Stewart responded, “I need to call a real estate agent in New Zealand.” Teeing up another clip, he continued, “Okay, high pressure situation. A lot of times you confuse saving Medicare with... beating it. I'm sure it's not something that repeated throughout the debate, causing Democrats across the country to either jump out of windows or vomit silently into the nearest recycling bin. Anybody can [bleep] up talking! How did Biden do not talking?” After a montage of Biden’s weird open-mouthed stare, Stewart again mourned, “Not great. But a lot of people have resting 25th Amendment face.”     As for Trump, Stewart recalled, “As we learned earlier, he just had to come in there and not be an asshole.” Following another montage of Trump, including clips of Trump claiming Biden “doesn’t like the military” and “can’t hit a [golf] ball 50 yards,” Stewart asserted that Trump did “not appear to have passed the asshole test.” Concluding his lamentations, Stewart discussed the pre-debate prediction that Biden would be on drugs, “Let me just say, after watching tonight's debate, both of these men should be using performance-enhancing drugs. I'm sorry, both. As much of it as they can get, as many times a day as their bodies will allow. If performance-enhancing drugs will improve their lucidity, their ability to solve problems, and in one of the candidate’s cases, improve their truthfulness, morality, and malignant narcissism, then suppository away!” Speaking of drugs, a frustrated Stewart ended the segment by declaring, “And by the way, if those drugs don't exist, if there aren't actually performance-enhancing drugs for these candidates, I could sure [bleep] use some recreational ones right now! Because this cannot be real life! It just can't! [Bleep]! We’re America! God!” Stewart was the only late night comedian to react to the debate. Jimmy Kimmel Live! guest host Martin Short recorded ahead of time while Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, and Jimmy Fallon have all had the week off, but no doubt they were also despondent after Thursday night’s proceedings.  Here is a transcript for the June 27 show: Comedy Central The Daily Show 6/27/2024 11:04 PM ET JON STEWART: We know the bar that's been set up for each to pass. Biden has to not look old and not have a senior moment. Go. JOE BIDEN: Making sure that we're able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I've been able to deal with. With the COVID, excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do with — look, if we finally beat Medicare — JAKE TAPPER: Thank you, President Biden. STEWART: I need to call a real estate agent in New Zealand. Okay, high pressure situation. A lot of times you confuse saving Medicare with... beating it. I'm sure it's not something that repeated throughout the debate, causing Democrats across the country to either jump out of windows or vomit silently into the nearest recycling bin. Anybody can [bleep] up talking! How did Biden do not talking? DONALD TRUMP: How close the police are to him. Almost every police group in the nation from every state… and everybody wanted to get it back to the states, everybody…and China, nothing and Russia nothing, and India nothing… I will have that reporter out. He should have had him out a long time ago… Because I didn't have legislation. I said close the border. We had the safest border in history. STEWART: Not great. But a lot of people have resting 25th Amendment face. … STEWART: Maybe I will check out this young upstart Donald Trump. Obviously the election is a binary choice, so let me see what this Trump fella is about. As we learned earlier, he just had to come in there and not be an asshole. DONALD TRUMP: He doesn't care about our veterans. He doesn't care. He doesn't like the military at all…. Probably the worst administration in the history…. The worst presidency in the history of our country. This shouldn't be a debate. He is the worst president. I really don't know what he said at the end of the sentence, I don’t think he knows what he said either... He challenged me to a golf match. He can't hit a ball 50 yards. STEWART: Does not appear to have passed the asshole test. See me after debate.  … STEWART: Let me just say, after watching tonight's debate, both of these men should be using performance-enhancing drugs. I'm sorry, both. As much of it as they can get, as many times a day as their bodies will allow. If performance-enhancing drugs will improve their lucidity, their ability to solve problems, and in one of the candidate’s cases, improve their truthfulness, morality, and malignant narcissism, then suppository away!  Guess what, everybody, they should be taking whatever magical drug can kick their brains into gear because this ain't Olympic swimming. You know what I'm saying? Oh, "He solved the Middle East, but he was doping so it doesn't count. There is going to be an asterisk next to his presidency."  And by the way, if those drugs don't exist, if there aren't actually performance-enhancing drugs for these candidates, I could sure [bleep] use some recreational ones right now! Because this cannot be real life! It just can't! [Bleep]! We’re America! God!

President Joe Biden lost the first presidential debate in less than 14 minutes. That isn’t to say that former President Donald Trump didn’t excel — he did — but no one-liner hit the incumbent harder than the incumbent hit himself. By minute 18, Biden had even flubbed the abortion question: mumbling, muttering, changing the subject to illegal immigration, and then tossing the ball back to Trump to hit it out of the park. Even when given a second chance, and doing a little better, Biden failed to wound an opponent willing to call the Democratic Party out on its own abortion policies. “He's willing to rip the baby out of the womb in the ninth month,” Trump challenged, “and kill the baby. ... We think the Democrats are the radicals. Not the Republicans.” By 9:50, the White House was telling reporters the boss had a cold, and the palace guard in the press was rushing in to explain away the evening’s disaster. Trump was his old self, confident and agile without bullying. By the time the border really was the topic, he landed his first authentic laugh-out-loud line in response to a rambling and incoherent Biden: “I really don’t know what he said at the end of this.” By contrast, the current president looked lost for the first 20 minutes especially. His eyes were closed. He mumbled. He lost his place, having a “Rick Perry moment" every single answer of the first half hour, traditionally the most important part of the debate, before Americans begin to tune out. “The voice, open-mouthed look, and visual contrast between President Biden and former President Trump all have Democrats I'm talking to nearly beside themselves watching this debate,” CNN’s own Kasie Hunt tweeted. Biden caught himself by about the end of that first crucial half-hour. His eyes began to blink to life; he seemed to gain better control of his facial expressions. BlazeTV host Steve Deace pointed out in the debate pre-show that dementia is more manageable once you're warmed up and harder when you’re cold. Maybe that was the case. Either way, it was too late for the old man in the White House. This was unexpected. People can joke all they want about Biden’s public mental decline, but he generally performs when it’s needed. Sure, there was a teleprompter at the State of the Union and in Normandy, but maybe his best moment in his last congressional address was when he went off the cuff on illegal immigrant murderers, though he ended up apologizing. Then again, we hadn’t seen Biden perform in a debate in four years. The decline is real, and it’s week to week. “Look, I debated Joe 7 times in 2020,” former Democratic nominee Andrew Yang tweeted. “He’s a different guy in 2024.” It’s important to remember that the debate took place entirely on Biden’s terms, including the stipulation that the hosts control the microphones and that there’s no studio audience for the first time since Richard Nixon debated John F. Kennedy in 1960. By 9:50, the White House was telling reporters the boss had a cold, and the palace guard in the press was rushing in to explain away the evening’s disaster. Biden needed this win. Nearly every single poll is going the wrong way for him, and he bombed it. There are still nearly two months until the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. D.C. loves imagining political parlor games like replacing the nominee. This time, it might be true, but the reality is that it would take Biden himself withdrawing. The postgame panel on MSNBC was in full panic, talking about replacing him off the top and referring to their man as "extremely feeble ... extremely weak." “He believes he’s the only one who can win,” MCNBC host Joy Reid said. “The problem is the party doesn’t believe it.” The next debate is Sept. 10 — just a few short weeks after the Dems make their choice in the Windy City. Glenn Beck: Voters crave answers, not theatrics, at Thursday’s debate Sign up for Bedford’s newsletter Sign up to get Blaze Media senior politics editor Christopher Bedford's newsletter. IN OTHER NEWS Trump rising in polls on the eve of the debate Polls going into the debate favored Trump virtually across the board, despite the former president’s convictions and a full month of Biden advertising blitz trying to make “felon” stick to Trump and hurt him. Nationally, the RealClearPolitics average put him ahead by 1.3 points while the latest Quinnipiac poll, taken between June 20 and 24, put him four points ahead. And remember all those young people who flocked to vote for President Barack Obama? Well, they're Trump voters now. The 18- to 29-year-old age group went for Obama by 33 points in 2008. Now, Echelon Insights pollster Patrick Ruffini points out that those voters are between 30 and 44 years old and are Trump +5 — a 38-point swing. Ryan Tyson, a partner at P2 Insights and the former pollster for Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign, released polling Wednesday showing that between June 11 and 20, Trump was winning in the key swing states Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, and Wisconsin. Not only that, but his lead had increased in all of the above but Michigan. When he entered office in January 2021, Biden enjoyed a 59% approval rating — 23 points higher than Trump’s. Today, Gallup puts Biden's number at 12 points below Trump’s. Meanwhile, despite constant White House messaging, a Washington Post poll of registered voters conducted between April 15 and May 30 found that while voters are concerned about "threats to our democracy," they trust Trump over Biden on the issue, 44%-33%. All three Republicans who filibustered the South Carolina heartbeat bill lost their primaries South Carolina state Sen. Katrina Shealy conceded her primary Tuesday night, making her the third of the three Republican state senators who had filibustered her party's heartbeat law to lose their seats. Shealy rose to prominence when she joined fellow Republican state Sens. Sandy Senn and Penry Gustafson, along with Democratic state Sens. Margie Bright Matthews and Mia McLeod, to hold up pro-life legislation following the 2022 repeal of Roe v. Wade. The five politicians were even awarded the JFK Profile in Courage medal by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, but while they were lauded in Massachusetts, their own constituents were less than thrilled — and all three Republicans were sent packing this June. Meanwhile, the South Carolina Freedom Caucus defended its incumbents despite an estimated $2-$3 million spent to unseat them. While it can be tempting to assume most red states have conservative governance, the reality is that it's common for state politicians to vote to the left of their constituents. Conservatives, however, have made surprising gains in primary elections around the country this cycle. State Freedom Caucus members held their seats against teachers’ union attacks in Illinois, where teachers’ unions spent a whopping $700,000 to take two Illinois Freedom Caucus members out, as well as in Pennsylvania. Blaze News: Grassroots conservatives score an upset win in Indiana

Cancer was once a disease that was mostly reserved for older populations, but that’s no longer the case. Diagnoses of the disease have skyrocketed among young people in the United States in the past 10 to 20 years. Functional integrative physician and medical director of Cancer Center for Healing and Center for New Medicine Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy has the answer as to why that is. “There’s a study that shows the increase in specifically colorectal cancer for young people,” Allie Beth Stuckey tells Connealy. “It used to be that was a type of cancer reserved for very old people, really, all types of cancer used to be more just an old-person problem. But that’s becoming less and less true.” Connealy knows that much of the answer lies in what we consume. “They’re not eating the right foods. They’re eating foods with lots of chemicals and toxins and seed oils, and you know, most of them are probably deficient in vitamins and minerals,” she explains. But it’s not just seed oils and toxins. “Parasites, all bugs, can contribute to the scenario of cancer,” Connealy explains. “And so, American doctors don’t think you can have parasites, because we have this clean, sterile, society, right?” “But of course not,” she continues, explaining that commonly consumed food, like sushi, contains parasites. “It’s something that, you know again, is one of the contributing causes to cancer. So, you know, cancer isn’t just one disturbance. It’s the perfect storm that’s creating this chaotic environment,” she says. Unfortunately, doctors in the American medical system aren’t trained to address problems at the source. “Doctors are taught a very indoctrinated version of medicine,” Connealy says. “In medical medical you’re taught how the body works, then the pharmacology that you use on the diagnosis you’re making, and then you may need surgery in some cases if it’s a diseased organ.” While doctors aren’t taught to address the food patients are eating or the toxins they surround themselves with, they also aren’t taught to address stress levels. “I’ve never met a patient where the doctor told the patient they need to change their eating and they need to address their stress,” she adds. Want more from Allie Beth Stuckey?To enjoy more of Allie’s upbeat and in-depth coverage of culture, news, and theology from a Christian, conservative perspective, 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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