Once upon a time, Judeo-Christian values were instilled across all parts of America’s institutions. Over the years, an erosion of those values has taken place under the guise of church vs state. Now, putting the Ten Commandments in classrooms feels controversial. Should it be? In this special, Mike Slater dives into the meaning of church vs state, as declared by America’s founders, to decide what role Judeo-Christian values should play in modern society. Featuring special guests Michael Knowles, William Wolfe and Latham Watts.

Dana Loesch reacts to the media trying to cover their own butt by doing a complete about-face from defending Biden to asking questions about his fitness for office.

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No Democratic lawmakers or allies of Joe Biden wanted to defend the president’s decision to stay in the presidential race, according to Fox News host Shannon Bream. Bream announced during her show Fox News Sunday that her team spent “days” reaching out to Democrats who were all “unable or unwilling” to defend Biden’s decision. The Fox host said dozens of lawmakers and Biden campaign allies turned down the opportunity to appear on her show. “Now, before we get to our guests, I want you, the viewers at home, to know something. Our team has spent days reaching out to dozens of lawmakers and Biden advocates and allies,” Bream said. “We’ve had numerous interactions with the Biden/Harris campaign, but not a single potential guest was either able or willing to join us on today’s show to defend the president and his decision to stay on the ticket.” “We will be having a conversation without that voice, which we have been working around the clock to avoid,” she added. SHANNON BREAM: Our team spent days reaching out to dozens of lawmakers, Biden advocates, and allies, but not a single guest was willing or able to come on to defend Joe Biden. pic.twitter.com/qKxBpV0NsL — Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) July 7, 2024 Biden has suffered a widespread exodus of support among elected officials, donors, and others in his own party after a June 27 presidential debate with former president Donald Trump. During the debate, Biden appeared feeble and, at times, confused and incomprehensible in a performance that has raised questions over the president’s mental acuity and the effects of age on the 81-year-old president. A growing number of Democratic lawmakers have called on Biden to exit the presidential race to make room for a new nominee, likely Vice President Kamala Harris. Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Texas was the first to publicly call for Biden to step aside last week. “Recognizing that, unlike Trump, President Biden’s first commitment has always been to our country, not himself, I am hopeful that he will make the painful and difficult decision to withdraw,” Doggett said in a statement. Reps. Raúl Grijalva of Arizona, Seth Moulton of Massachusetts, Mike Quigley of Illinois, and Angie Craig of Minnesota have since joined Doggett against Biden’s reelection bid, according to Axios. The backlash to Biden’s debate performance has been fueled by the president’s struggling poll numbers against Trump in battleground states for the 2024 election. Trump is leading Biden in all seven battlegrounds from 0.6 points in Michigan to 5.8 points in North Carolina, according to Real Clear Politics polling averages.

The following is an edited transcript of an interview with Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley and Jerry Leeman, CEO of the New England Fishermen’s Stewardship Association, on an Extra edition of Morning Wire. In a landmark ruling last week, the Supreme Court overturned Chevron deference, stripping federal agencies of what had become increasingly unilateral power to interpret and enforce policies without checks and balances. The ruling was a result of a lawsuit, Relentless Incorporated vs. Commerce Department, involving government overreach in the fishing industry. We talked with the founder of an influential fishermen’s association, who filed an amicus brief in that case, about what he says is a long pattern of government intrusion that’s destroying whole industries. * * * JOHN: Joining us now is Jerry Leeman, New England Fishermen’s Stewardship Association Founder & CEO, who filed an amicus brief in the case that ended up overturning Chevron deference. Welcome, Jerry. First, tell us about your background. How long have you been in the fishing industry? JERRY: I was raised in Harpswell, Maine by a commercial fishing family – lobstering and ground fishing, seining, urchining, scalloping, shrimping, back when the state of Maine had it. I’ve been in all the fisheries. Since 2000, I have spent 23 years at sea. Fishing 220-240 days a year, multi-species trawling. I’ve been networked in all the major fishing ports here: Portland, Maine, Gloucester, Boston, Mass, New Bedford, Mass. And I’ve covered a lot of the region’s territory. JOHN: In terms of progress and decline, what have you seen in this industry as a whole over the decades you’ve worked in it? JERRY: I’ve been seeing decline steadily since 2000. We don’t even see new participants really getting into the fisheries. We’ve moved the goalposts too far. And now with these restrictions and quotas, now you’re forcing people to buy fish in order to catch fish. And the problem is the price that you pay to catch a fish is less than the market value once you’ve retrieved it. So most times when you go to buy a lease quota, you’re only buying it just for the sake of keeping the vessel active. You’re not actually making any financial gain. If anything, it’s a financial burden. JOHN: Now this brings us to the case in which you filed, an amicus brief: Relentless Incorporated vs. Commerce Department. It’s now the case that overturned Chevron deference. It came in response to a new federal law requiring government observers on fishing vessels. What sparked your involvement in the case?  JERRY: Well, we’ve just been watching what’s been taking place over the years and now that they’re pushing for fishing vessels to pay for observers aboard our vessels, which if you do the breakdown, now they’re going to account for the fisheries to pay more towards observers than we’re actually paying our crews, which does not make for a viable business. JOHN: So this really was a question of whether or not you can actually keep business open if this policy were to be enacted. JERRY: This was a fisheries killer. LISTEN: Catch the full interview with Jerry Leeman on an Extra edition of Morning Wire JOHN: So, what was the thinking from the government here, that this would actually be viable? JERRY: It’s just more overreach and overwatch. I mean, we have less fishermen every year and yet now they want 100% coverage? We haven’t even broken any rules or laws. So why are we having to pay to have somebody watch us around the clock? I mean, our arguments were pretty easy. I mean, look at how many truck drivers are in America. How would we feel if we put an observer in each truck and then made those truck drivers pay to feed those observers, maintain them, babysit, and pay them more than what they’re paying their crews? It’s preposterous. Daniel Grill/Tetra Images JOHN: Is this part of a pattern that you’ve seen from the Commerce Department related to the fishing industry? JERRY: Oh, this is something that’s been taking place for quite a while now, and this is a good first step in the right direction. JOHN: You said “first step.” Are there some other things you believe need to be overruled or overturned in terms of policies? JERRY: I think some of these policies that have been dictated to the fisheries didn’t have a logical excuse, as far as the economics of the fisheries viability, which has been detrimental. If you talk to fishermen and recreational fishermen up and down the coast, nobody seems to see a problem in our biomass, but yet our surveys that keep coming back are depleting our allowable catches. And then on top of that they’re requesting us to pay for observers. These are people that come straight from college with little to no experience at sea. And here in New England, we have variable weather. I mean, it’s not very nice out there in the winter months. So now you have somebody that doesn’t even know if they get seasick trapped on a vessel with us for 10 days and then it’s our responsibility to monitor them and to keep them safe. It was a lot of overreach. JOHN: What do you think the role of the federal government should be with the fishing industry? JERRY: Well, we’re a big part of our food securities. Up here in New England, this has been a major part of this country’s food banks. And now we’re removing it from the populace. 94% of the product that is now consumed is foreign product. So why are we restricting U.S. harvesters from providing wild, local, heart-healthy product that’s environmentally friendly and sustainable? Meanwhile, we’re purchasing product from other nations that do not abide by our rules and regulations. This has been something that’s been going on for a while. Now we have less fishermen than we had in colonial days. And this was just one more further step in pretty much cutting the throats of the entire fishing fleet. JOHN: What do you hope to see in the coming years from both the federal government and state governments? How can they help the industry thrive again? JERRY: Well, a lot of it has to do with the data that we receive. I mean, it’ll be good to have knowledgeable fishermen who have spent their entire lives, decades at sea, using these equipment to garner the best data available using the science teams. So, this guess on modeling based on multiple surveys would be more accurate, which would allow us to develop better marketing strategies, put together working fisheries and education to be applied to the future. I mean, right now, we teach fisheries management in college. We don’t teach fisheries. JOHN: What do you mean by that – that we don’t teach fisheries? JERRY: Well, we teach how fishing management works based on surveys, allocations, and statistical committees. But as far as using trawl gear, migrational patterns of our stocks, and how to harvest these things responsibly and sustainably, mending is a big part of trawling, we don’t really teach that as well. We have no educational classes on getting fundamentally educated employees to get the job done safely in a manageable, environmentally friendly way. JOHN: What’s the solution for that? Who should provide that education? JERRY: It’s going to have to be from the fisheries that are pre-existing, and right now we have an aging fleet, so we’re on a ticking time bomb as far as passing that knowledge on to the next generation. That has been the forefront of my arguments — you only know what you know and how do you know it? The fishermen that came before us learned from the fishermen in their region based on time and effort. And that’s something that has been passed down through families and multiple vessels and skippers to their mates who passed that knowledge over time and effort to their mates. And that’s how, collectively, we’ve moved along and advanced ourselves. But now we have so very few people left. And we don’t teach these things. I mean, back in the 80s and 90s, a lot of schools used to offer programs with marine trades. And that’s something that went away about 25 years ago. And now what we’re left with is a crippled fleet. JOHN: Do you have hope that the industry will bounce back? JERRY: I think there is time to still salvage that knowledge and pass it onto the next generation, which will go back to the food securities of this nation. I mean, it’s one thing to say we have it, but we have to be able to harvest it to provide it to the U.S consumer, and to do so in a responsible, sustainable way, so this way our food securities of the nations are here for longevity. JOHN: Well, Jerry, thank you for talking with us – and for taking the steps you did to protect your industry. JERRY: Thank you very much.  *** LISTEN: Catch the full interview with Jerry Leeman on an Extra edition of Morning Wire

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Unfulfilled by his successful career in business, a 47-year-old Nashville man seized an opportunity to finally pursue a lifelong passion, after passing it up during his college days, in favor of something more ‘practical’. Now 47, Wilt is on track to graduate in May 2025 at age 48 with a Bachelor of Architecture, Nashville native […] The post 47-Year-old Finally Pursues Lifelong Passion for Architecture in Adult Degree Program, Graduating Next Year appeared first on Good News Network.

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A Texas father is fighting in court to prevent his ex-wife from subjecting their son to experimental transgender medical interventions after she moved to California, seemingly taking advantage of the Golden State’s “transgender sanctuary” law. A California judge has taken the extraordinary step of hiding the entire case from the public in the lead-up to trial, and even preventing lawyers from accessing case documents. “My ex-wife, Anne Georgulas, wants to castrate my son, James,” Jeff Younger, the father, told The Daily Signal in a statement Wednesday. “Judge Michelle Kazadi denied me access to my own case records. She illegally sealed my case with no public access.” He also blamed Presiding Judge Shelley Kaufman and Judge Mark Juhas of abusing the system against his claims. “Judge Shelley Kaufman’s court has misrouted orders to the wrong address,” he added. “Judge Mark Juhas denied me access to crucial evidence by setting a too-early trial date. I can’t even get an independent medical exam of my son.” “The corrupt Los Angeles courts sealed my case to hide their corruption as they castrate my son,” Younger concluded. Jeff Younger has been fighting to preserve the bodily integrity of his son, James, since 2018. That year, Georgulas filed a restraining order seeking to prevent Younger from entering James’ school and referring to James as male. A jury declined to give Younger or Georgulas full custody and required Younger’s consent for any medical procedures. Younger’s legal case drew wide attention, and the father ran for a seat in the Texas House of Representatives, advancing to a primary runoff, which he lost in 2022. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued an official opinion on Feb. 18, 2022, stating that performing any sterilizing medical procedure on a child constitutes felony child abuse. Georgulas later described Texas as having a “dangerous political climate,” and she moved to California in November 2022. Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., had signed state Senate Bill 107, turning California into a “sanctuary state” for “gender-affirming care.” Younger appealed to the Texas Supreme Court, warning that Georgulas intended to subject his son to irreversible transgender interventions. The court rejected Younger’s case after Georgulas told the court she did not intend to subject her son to those “treatments.” However, in February, she filed a motion in Los Angeles County Superior Court, aiming to dissolve the protective order preventing her from subjecting James to “gender-affirming care.” Georgulas’ motion cites the opinions of psychologist Brigid Mariko Conn, who stated that James “is interested” in “puberty blockers,” estrogen, and “bottom surgery,” i.e. the removal of his penis and testicles. In April, Younger filed a conflicting expert report from Dr. Miriam Grossman, who stated her opinion that James is not suffering from “gender dysphoria” and that “gender-affirming care” is not effective to treat such a psychological condition, even if he had it. According to court documents obtained by The Daily Signal, Kazadi filed a motion on May 30 to “deem the case confidential and seal all court records” and to “close all hearings in this matter to the public.” Juhas subsequently filed a motion on June 5 to modify the case to “confidential,” rather than sealed, but Younger’s attorney, Tracy Henderson, told The Daily Signal that Juhas’ order has not been carried out. Henderson formally urged the court to reverse the order in a June 28 filing. “Judge Michelle Kazadi violated the constitutional rights of Respondent Jeffrey Younger, and of the public at large, by issuing the Star Chamber Order — a blatantly illegal decree ‘sealing’ the entire case (both retroactively and going forward), while deeming the entire case “confidential” (closing the courtroom to the public and the news media),” Henderson wrote in a memorandum. “Within hours, an unknown person or persons in this court’s administration caused the entire public-facing record of the case (‘Case Access’) to be deleted, disappeared, and blocked the ability of the public to download any documents from ‘Case Document Images.'” Younger “has not been able to access the docket to even learn when the civil clerks are setting motion hearings or obtain copies of court orders” and the court sent documents to an address Henderson “has not used in years.” Henderson’s court filing claims that the sealing of Younger’s case resembles the “top-secret, closed-to-the-public tribunal” in medieval England that became known as the “Star Chamber.” This “Star Chamber helped to maintain tyranny by dispensing with established court procedure,” and this abuse of justice inspired the Anglo-American distrust for secret trials. “Any argument supporting sealing the entire matter and closing the courtroom fails, as the entire history of American jurisprudence teaches us that a courtroom open to the public is a fundamental component of the justice system itself,” Henderson wrote. She also cited the California Supreme Court’s stringent rules for closed proceedings, adding that “none of these standards were articulated by petitioner, nor found by the ruling court.” Furthermore, Henderson notes the public interest in the controversy around “gender-affirming care,” noting that Younger’s 8-year-old legal case has received broad attention and media coverage, including on Tucker Carlson’s former Fox News show. “A more clear-cut violation of the First Amendment freedom of the press is difficult to imagine.” Henderson admitted that Kazadi “may have deemed the case confidential and sealed the records based on a finding that this [is] a parentage case involving in vitro fertilization. If that were true, then under [California Family Code], the case may be deemed confidential. However, since neither party ever challenged parentage, and neither party even alleges to have done so at any time, the court lacked any basis to conclude that this is a parentage case.” Alexander Baker, a lawyer on Henderson’s team, told The Daily Signal that his team has filed five pending pretrial motions, all of which are “necessary” to resolve before the trial, which has been set for Aug. 2. The legal team has filed motions to set aside the “Star Chamber Order,” to request an independent medical exam of the child in order to determine his stage of puberty, to obtain attorney’s fees to balance out the “great disparity” between Younger’s ability to pay and Georgulas’ ability to pay, to compel discovery (to obtain relevant documents from Georgulas, based on an initial court order tracing back to April), and a motion for a jury trial. “The trial cannot go forward unless all of those are ruled upon,” Baker said in a phone call Tuesday. “Today, we filed this emergency motion to shorten time because they set the hearing dates for all of our motions out after trial. The judge denied our motion.” “There is no question Jeff is being railroaded into an illegal trial,” Baker added in a follow-up email. Judges Kazadi, Juhas, and Kaufman declined to comment. Georgulas’ attorney, Alana Chazan, did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment. Kazadi’s “Star Chamber Order” appears reminiscent of Presiding Judge Benjamin T. Reyes II’s orders in a similar custody case involving transgender medical interventions of a child in a custody battle, the case of Ted Hudacko. As The Christian Post’s Brandon Showalter reported, Reyes has stricken Hudacko’s filings from the record as Hudacko urged the court to hold people in contempt for violating a court order prohibiting any transgender surgery on his son. Younger’s “Save James” crowdfunding campaign on the site GiveSendGo has raised $20,000 for his legal fees, as of Wednesday. The post California Courts ‘Sealed My Case to Hide Their Corruption’ as Ex-Wife Seeks ‘to Castrate My Son,’ Father Warns appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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