The Meaning of Hate
Posted By: Mercedes44, 12/9/2025 2:23:24 AM
In November, the Daily Sceptic reported that a policeman had told a Christian preacher that some words painted on his van “could be seen as hate speech in the wrong context”. The words were a Biblical verse: Chapter 3, verse 16 of the Gospel according to John, “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.” Of course, the Free Speech Union observed that for such words to be prohibited or penalised would violate free speech, and that if a police officer is even suggesting they might be,
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In November, the Daily Sceptic reported that a policeman had told a Christian preacher that some words painted on his van “could be seen as hate speech in the wrong context”. The words were a Biblical verse: Chapter 3, verse 16 of the Gospel according to John, “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.”
Of course, the Free Speech Union observed that for such words to be prohibited or penalised would violate free speech, and that if a police officer is even suggesting they might be,
Here we go again: the sun rises, another federal judge kneecaps the Trump agenda. In this latest ruling, issued Monday, a Bill Clinton-appointed jurist decided that Trump hasn’t explained himself enough and “failed to justify” his decision to put a halt to the wind project madness that has swept the country. Sometimes I wish the president would just say, “I got 77 million votes, you didn’t — that’s my justification. Buzz off.” Of course, he can’t do that: On Trump’s first day in office (January 20), he issued an executive order titled “Temporary Withdrawal of All Areas on the Outer Continental Shelf from Offshore Wind Leasing -
Last week, I told you how about how Hugo “El Pollo” Carvajal Barrios, an ex-military intelligence officer for the Venezuelan regime, who was a powerful official within Nicolás Maduro's Cartel de los Soles, wrote Donald Trump a letter. As of Monday evening, another former Maduro insider has come forward with a similar letter, which was also provided to the Dallas Express.
Former Major General Cliver Antonio Alcalá Cordones was a high-ranking commander in Venezuela’s armed forces who served under Hugo Chávez, and at one point in time he was more powerful than even Maduro within the Chávez government.
The New York Times has invented a new genre of reporting — covering big stories showing Democrats in a bad light years after the events that matter.
At the tail end of 2025, the Times has broken the news that the Biden administration flooded the country with illegal immigrants, partly for ideological and partisan reasons, partly out of sheer incompetence.
Who knew?
The nearly 4,000-word story by Christopher Flavelle, with 14 colleagues contributing additional reporting and research, is certainly well-sourced, but none of its facts have just come to light.
It dissects Biden’s immigration misdeeds and missteps over each of his four years in office.
Paramount Skydance’s hostile takeover bid of Warner Bros. Discovery, announced Monday, places CNN and its sister cable networks squarely back into what is likely to be an extended period of management limbo.
There was some relief at CNN with last Friday’s announcement that Netflix was buying Warner’s studio and streaming businesses, since the cable network would not be a part of that deal. Paramount’s bid, if successful, opens the possibility of a combined CNN and CBS News. The management uncertainty adds to what is already a challenging time at CNN, where there was no doubt who was in charge before swashbuckling founder Ted Turner sold his company in 1996.
Trump demands apology after ‘60 Minutes’
interviews ‘traitor’ MTG, swipes at
new CBS leadership 12 replies
interviews ‘traitor’ MTG, swipes at
new CBS leadership 12 replies
President Trump demanded an apology from “60 Minutes” over its misleading Hunter Biden laptop coverage and fumed about outgoing GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s combative interview with CBS’ Lesley Stahl in which she hinted that Republican colleagues mock him behind his back, calling her a “traitor” in an epic Truth Social rant.
“The only reason Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Brown (Green turns Brown under stress!) went BAD is that she was JILTED by the President of the United States (Certainly not the first time she has been jilted!),” Trump wrote Monday morning after the “60 Minutes” interview aired.
T]wo leaders have reshaped the strategic map with a clarity rarely seen in this era: United States President Donald J. Trump and United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (MBZ).
MBZ's long-term project is not ideological and not transactional. It is developmental. His vision of governance is anchored in four pillars: modernity, competence, coexistence, and scientific advancement.
This is why the UAE has become a regional pioneer in space exploration, renewable energy, and peaceful nuclear development. It is why the country became the third in the world — after the United States and China — to invest at scale in artificial intelligence,
Trump regrets pardoning Rep. Henry Cuellar
after Dem announces he’s running for reelection 28 replies
after Dem announces he’s running for reelection 28 replies
President Trump expressed angry regret over his eyebrow-raising pardon of Rep. Henry Cuellar last Wednesday after the pol quickly confirmed his reelection plans as a Democrat.
Cuellar (D-Texas), 70, who sits in one of the House Democrats’ most competitive seats faced federal bribery, money laundering, and foreign-agent charges for allegedly taking $600,000 from Azerbaijan’s state-owned oil company and a Mexican bank.
“Only a short time after signing the Pardon, Congressman Henry Cuellar announced that he will be ‘running’ for Congress again, in the Great State of Texas (a State where I received the highest number of votes ever recorded!), as a Democrat,” Trump raged in a lengthy Truth Social post.
President Donald Trump just made a bold move to challenge the medical establishment.
One of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s constant warnings for years before he joined the Trump administration was that many vaccines given to infants and children were not properly tested for safety. Now, as a federal healthcare entity finds evidence that at least one vaccine given babies is potentially dangerous and/or unnecessary, Donald Trump has ordered a comprehensive reevaluation of America’s recommended infant vaccine schedule.
Last month, Florida Attorney General James Uttmeier made public a letter to the American Bar Association (“ABA”) accusing it of violating the First Amendment right to religious freedom when it said a Catholic law school did not meet one of its equal opportunity accreditation standards. The school is Florida’s St. Thomas University College of Law, and the standard is number 205, titled “Non-discrimination and Equal Opportunity.” The ABA’s finding did not specify how St. Thomas fell short.
Standard 205 is distinct from the ABA’s standard 206, which requires law schools to commit to diversity ideology to get accredited.
Mystery deepens as to why it took FBI
over 5 years to finally bust the suspected
J6 pipe bomber 21 replies
over 5 years to finally bust the suspected
J6 pipe bomber 21 replies
The arrest of the alleged J6 pipe bomber just lumps mystery on top of mystery.
What we know from court documents and media reports since his arrest Thursday is that suspect Brian Cole Jr., is a black, 30-year-old loner who lives in his mom’s basement in the middle-class suburb of Woodbridge, Va., a 20-minute drive from Washington, DC. According to his family, he is borderline autistic, and incapable of such a crime.
In interviews, Cole’s grandmother, Loretta Cole, has said he is “very naïve . . . He’s almost autistic-like because he doesn’t understand a lot of stuff.
“He’s slow. He may be 30, but he’s got the mind of a 16-year-old.”
How the USPS stole Christmas.
Hundreds of care packages sent to US military members stationed overseas during the holidays were returned to a Connecticut-based nonprofit over a “ridiculous” minor technicality cited by the United States Postal Service — and now there’s no way the boxes will make it to the service members in time.
Three weeks ago, nonprofit Boxes to Boots shipped 1,139 holiday care packages intended for overseas service members. Of those, 884 were flagged by US Customs and sent back by USPS to the nonprofit, based in Berlin, Conn., though some were also lost in transit, the charity organizers told NBC Connecticut.
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Hamas leader Khaled Mashal declared that “the resistance and its weapons are our honor and glory” and that “the battle is not over,” boasting that rights are won “at the recruitment office, not the U.N. Security Council” — a declaration that directly contradicts President Donald Trump’s 20-point Gaza peace plan and celebrates the October 7 “Al-Aqsa Flood” massacre as a turning point to push Israel off “our homeland” and the international stage. Speaking Saturday by video to the “Pledge to Jerusalem” conference in Istanbul, the head of Hamas abroad used a keynote address carried on Al Jazeera to lay out an uncompromising roadmap that flatly rejects the core elements -
Trump regrets pardoning Rep. Henry Cuellar
after Dem announces he’s running for reelection 28 replies
after Dem announces he’s running for reelection 28 replies
President Trump expressed angry regret over his eyebrow-raising pardon of Rep. Henry Cuellar last Wednesday after the pol quickly confirmed his reelection plans as a Democrat.
Cuellar (D-Texas), 70, who sits in one of the House Democrats’ most competitive seats faced federal bribery, money laundering, and foreign-agent charges for allegedly taking $600,000 from Azerbaijan’s state-owned oil company and a Mexican bank.
“Only a short time after signing the Pardon, Congressman Henry Cuellar announced that he will be ‘running’ for Congress again, in the Great State of Texas (a State where I received the highest number of votes ever recorded!), as a Democrat,” Trump raged in a lengthy Truth Social post.
Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett announces
US Senate bid in Texas, tells Trump ‘I’m
coming for you’ 25 replies
US Senate bid in Texas, tells Trump ‘I’m
coming for you’ 25 replies
Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett launched a campaign Monday for the U.S. Senate in Texas, telling President Donald Trump, “I’m coming for you,” and bringing a national profile to what could be a critical race for Democrats’ long-shot hopes of reclaiming a Senate majority in next year’s midterm elections.
Crockett, one of Congress’ most outspoken Democrats, a frequent target of GOP attacks and a Trump target, jumped into the race on the final day of qualifying in Texas. She is seeking the Senate seat held by Republican John Cornyn, who is running for reelection in the GOP-dominated state.
“As a candidate who is constantly attacked
President Joe Biden was warned by advisers that his immigration plans could lead to “chaos” at the US border — but he ignored them, a newly uncovered memo reveals.
His team doled out the advice to Biden when he was still campaigning against President Trump back in 2020, the New York Times reported.
“A potential surge could create chaos and a humanitarian crisis, overwhelm processing capacities and imperil the agenda of the new administration,” Biden’s advisers wrote.
The memo warned that a huge influx was possible given Biden’s approach, a backlog from the Trump administration, and COVID hardships.
Ex-House Democrat drops out of Texas Senate
race as Jasmine Crockett candidacy rumors swirl 23 replies
race as Jasmine Crockett candidacy rumors swirl 23 replies
Former House Rep. Colin Allred, D-Texas, is dropping out of the Lone Star State's Senate race, he announced on Monday. Allred's announcement comes as rumors swirl about progressive Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, potentially entering the fray as soon as late Monday afternoon. "l've come to believe that a bruising Senate Democratic primary and runoff would prevent the Democratic Party from going into this critical election unified against the danger posed to our communities and our Constitution by Donald Trump and one of his Republican bootlickers [Attorney General Ken Paxton, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, or Rep. Wesley Hunt
A woke Vermont school district hoisted a Somali flag on Friday, as Democrats around the country defend Somali migrants amid President Trump’s immigration crackdown and a growing fraud scandal in Minnesota’s Somali community.
“We are raising the Somali flag this week in honor of our Somali youth and families in Winooski and Vermont,” the Winooski School District posted to Facebook. “On Monday, we will be gathering to celebrate together and to learn more about our civil rights.” The Winooski School District told OutKick the Somali flag was raised on one of its three flagpoles. The American flag is on the highest mast, in accordance with the United States Flag Code,
Mystery deepens as to why it took FBI
over 5 years to finally bust the suspected
J6 pipe bomber 21 replies
over 5 years to finally bust the suspected
J6 pipe bomber 21 replies
The arrest of the alleged J6 pipe bomber just lumps mystery on top of mystery.
What we know from court documents and media reports since his arrest Thursday is that suspect Brian Cole Jr., is a black, 30-year-old loner who lives in his mom’s basement in the middle-class suburb of Woodbridge, Va., a 20-minute drive from Washington, DC. According to his family, he is borderline autistic, and incapable of such a crime.
In interviews, Cole’s grandmother, Loretta Cole, has said he is “very naïve . . . He’s almost autistic-like because he doesn’t understand a lot of stuff.
“He’s slow. He may be 30, but he’s got the mind of a 16-year-old.”
Last month, Florida Attorney General James Uttmeier made public a letter to the American Bar Association (“ABA”) accusing it of violating the First Amendment right to religious freedom when it said a Catholic law school did not meet one of its equal opportunity accreditation standards. The school is Florida’s St. Thomas University College of Law, and the standard is number 205, titled “Non-discrimination and Equal Opportunity.” The ABA’s finding did not specify how St. Thomas fell short.
Standard 205 is distinct from the ABA’s standard 206, which requires law schools to commit to diversity ideology to get accredited.
Joe Biden's FBI under Director Christopher Wray knew Brian Cole was the January 6 pipe bomber back in April, 2921, but for some reason chose not to take him into custody or charge him with crimes. Brian Cole, 30, of Woodbridge, Virginia, was taken into custody last Thursday and charged with use of an explosive device and attempted malicious destruction by means of explosive materials. Cole admitted to investigators that he planted pipe bombs at the RNC and DNC headquarters on January 5, the night before the Capitol riot.
This weekend, London officially turned on it’s Christmas tree lights… Revealing once again the most tired looking pathetic tree and decorations on the planet. The London Mayor Sadiq Khan was there, pretending to be impressed by a display into which less effort has gone than than your Dad’s half baked effort in the early 1980’s with 20 year old stuff scraped together from out of the attic. OK, we get it, it’s a “traditional” spruce from Norway. They’ve been sending one since 1947. But can they not send a better one? And get some better lights on it? Of course the replies are closed. We all know why.
How the USPS stole Christmas.
Hundreds of care packages sent to US military members stationed overseas during the holidays were returned to a Connecticut-based nonprofit over a “ridiculous” minor technicality cited by the United States Postal Service — and now there’s no way the boxes will make it to the service members in time.
Three weeks ago, nonprofit Boxes to Boots shipped 1,139 holiday care packages intended for overseas service members. Of those, 884 were flagged by US Customs and sent back by USPS to the nonprofit, based in Berlin, Conn., though some were also lost in transit, the charity organizers told NBC Connecticut.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) leads among young Democratic voters in a hypothetical 2028 presidential primary, according to a new survey.The Yale Youth Poll, released on Monday, shows Ocasio-Cortez with a double-digit lead over former Vice President Kamala Harris, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and other potential contenders when Democrats under 35 are asked which hypothetical candidate they would support if the 2028 primary were held today. Among registered Democrats ages 18-22, 30 percent would back Ocasio-Cortez, 20 percent would support Harris and 12 percent would vote for Newsom. Among Democrats ages 23-29