Democrats Attack Republicans … for Not Being Willing to Force Nuns to Buy Birth Control (A Deep Dive)

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by Jim Rickards, Daily Reckoning: The steady path toward World War III continues. U.S. and NATO support for Ukraine in the war with Russia has been one long failure, but that hasn’t stopped them from escalating the war with new weapons and tactics. Russia has met the escalation with its own escalation every step of […]

Carrie Sheffield is known within conservative journalism circles as a talented columnist and broadcaster. She is a graduate of Harvard University and a senior policy analyst at the Independent Women’s Forum, but many who have followed Sheffield’s work were surprised to learn of her harrowing childhood, detailed in her new memoir.  Growing up, Sheffield attended 17 public schools in addition to sometimes being homeschooled. She and her seven siblings spent much of their childhood living in a motor home with a father who believed he was a prophet, a challenging reality that inspired the title of Sheffield’s book, “Motorhome Prophecies: A Journey of Healing and Forgiveness.”  Sheffield reveals on the “Problematic Women” podcast that her family often lived in “Third World” conditions within the U.S. I describe the existence as “careening between a Third World and a First World existence” quite frequently. So, sometimes we did have houses, and we were living in a regular house. But then we would be back living in the motor home, and then sometimes we’d be living in a tent. So, my mom gave birth to my brother when the family was living in a tent. When I took my ACT exam to go to college, we were living in a shed with no running water. It would be piped in from one of those greenhouses, so it was really unstable. I would say that’s probably the strongest—or the most consistent word was inconsistency.  And the reason we lived this way is because my dad claimed that he was a prophet. He was excommunicated from the official Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints … . But his philosophy and kind of theology is part of the broader kind of Mormon diaspora. There are lots of different offshoot groups, and my dad just kind of became a self-styled homegrown Mormon prophet—self-proclaimed.   Through a series of events, including her brother attempting to rape her, Sheffield made the decision as a teen that she needed to leave home.  “I told my dad that I wanted to go away to college, and he raised his right hand … like he was making an oath,” Sheffield recalls, “and he said, ‘I prophesy in the name of Jesus that you’ll be raped and murdered if you leave.’ So, at that moment, it was a crossroads. Do I stay and face physical violence potentially from my brother again or do I leave and have the potential of this prophecy coming true? I decided to take my chances and left home and my dad.”  Sheffield’s road to becoming a successful professional was not instantaneous after she left home. In her memoir, she details many of the challenges she had to overcome and how her childhood has affected her as an adult.  Sheffield’s determination in the face of hardship and abuse, and her desire for truth, has rightly earned her the title of “Problematic Woman.”  Catch the conversation with Sheffield on this week’s edition of the “Problematic Women” podcast below: The post She Grew Up ‘Careening Between a Third World and a First World Existence.’ Carrie Sheffield Shares Her Shocking Childhood. appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The mayor of Miami has an ambitious goal—to reach a “functional zero” homeless population within his bustling city.  “We reached functional zero veteran homeless, and I realized … that we could, we should, take it a step further and get to a functional zero,” says Mayor Francis Suarez, a Republican who leads Florida’s second-biggest city. Miami is partnering with several organizations—including Hermanos de la Calle, Lotus House, and Camillus House—to meet the varied needs of the homeless and create a model that other cities could duplicate to tackle their own homelessness crises.  But Suarez says addressing homelessness extends beyond meeting the physical, mental, and emotional needs of the homeless—cities must also create an economic environment that allows all citizens to thrive.  If city leaders want to effectively address homelessness, Suarez argues, they also must consider a “broader macroeconomic reality” that plays a role in creating or alleviating the problem. To this end, the mayor says Miami’s government has followed three rules: “We’ve kept taxes low; we’ve kept people safe; and we’ve leaned into innovation.”  Miami Mayor Francis Suarez (Photo courtesy of Francis Suarez) Suarez joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain how Miami is advancing toward a “functional zero” homeless population and to share the exciting results of a recent event toward reaching that goal.  Listen to the podcast below: The post Miami Aims for ‘Functional Zero’ Homeless Population. Mayor Francis Suarez Explains How. appeared first on The Daily Signal.

T.S. Eliot wrote in "The Waste Land" that April was the cruelest month. For the WNBA's Angel Reese, however, the month of June is turning out that way, instead. It's only four days into the sixth month of the year, but Reese -- the Chicago Sky's "Hey, I was picked...

Thank goodness, after fumbling border security for almost his entire administration, President Joe Biden is finally ready to take control and protect Americans. Well, kind of. And only because he's desperately trying to improve his image before the November election. The Biden administration has had an infamously bad border, allowing...

President Joe Biden's mental acuity has slipped so precipitously that pretty much everyone in the Beltway is sitting up and paying attention -- including the White House. That's at least one of the takeaways from a Tuesday report in The Wall Street Journal that used sources in Congress to catalogue the...

The fact that we're talking about the WNBA for once is because of one person and one person only: Caitlin Clark. Usually, if someone else is in the equation, it's because of how they relate to the former University of Iowa star and Indiana Fever rookie. It's almost never in...