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Byron Donalds states on his website: “I believe, as stated in our Declaration of Independence, that each person is endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights. The first among those is the right to life.”

(Washington, DC) — [LifeSiteNews.com] Following Jim Jordan’s failure Friday to garner enough votes keep the GOP nomination for Speaker of the House, strongly pro-life Florida Republican Byron Donalds announced his candidacy for the House gavel. (Screengrab image)

Donalds states on own website:

I believe, as stated in our Declaration of Independence, that each person is endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights. The first among those is the right to life. Every life is valuable, from conception to natural death, and I will fight to protect the life of every unborn child without exception.

I understand an abortion has countless victims. I have voted for and strongly support laws requiring parental consent for abortions, funding for pregnancy resource centers, and increased medical restrictions on abortion clinics—but these are simply not enough. In Congress, I will work with my colleagues to turn the culture in our country against the killing of innocent unborn children and I pledge to always be a strong voice and advocate for life.

Townhall reported that “according to close sources, Donalds will seek support in a closed-door GOP conference vote, which could occur as soon as Monday.”

On Capitol Hill, Friday’s third and decisive vote on the House Floor saw Jim Jordan lose even more support than he had before, netting just 194 backers. Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz as well as the seven other lawmakers he rallied to remove former speaker Kevin McCarthy offered to be censured, suspended, or removed from the House GOP conference in order to secure Jordan’s speakership but it was not enough… Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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“I must say something here to the people who are listening to me: (as) opposed to Americans, we don’t have a choice. I mean, we cannot leave Iraq by a decision, or Afghanistan or Vietnam, because Lebanon is here—12 kilometers from where we are. So we don’t have a choice. We cannot accept the option of living with the monster, neither in the north nor in the south, because you must understand that once they finish with us, they will come to you.” -Retired Lt. Col. Sarit Zehavi

(Jerusalem, Israel) — [CBN News] As Israel enters its 17th day at war with Hamas, it’s dealing with a number of fronts: on the southern border with Gaza, the northern border with Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria, and in the West Bank (Biblical Judea and Samaria). (Screengrab image: via CBN News)

In Gaza, the Israeli military continues to pound targets as a prelude to a likely ground invasion.

In the West Bank, the Israeli Defense Forces (I.D.F.) has arrested dozens of suspected Hamas terrorists, and hit a mosque used as a weapons depot, stopping an imminent terror attack.

Dozens of communities in both the north and south are being evacuated, with more than 120,000 Israelis now living away from their homes.

On the northern border, Israel and Hezbollah are trading rockets, anti-tank rounds, and artillery. The front with Hezbollah may well represent Israel’s greatest challenge.

On Sunday, Iran’s foreign minister warned that a regional war could break out if Israel continues striking Gaza, a veiled threat that Hezbollah would join the war.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu then warned Hezbollah.

“If Hezbollah decides to enter the war, it will make the mistake of its life,” Netanyahu cautioned. “We will cripple it with a force it cannot even imagine, and the meaning for Hezbollah and for the state of Lebanon will be devastating—but we are prepared for any scenario.”

In the community of Shluta, just a few yards from the Lebanese border, nearly 90 percent of the town has been evacuated since the war broke out. A Hezbollah tower stands less than 300 yards from Shluta. Hezbollah has set up approximately 50 such towers all along the border.

The towers are just one part of the Iranian-backed terror group’s plan to attack Israel, and for days, Hezbollah has been increasing its attacks.

At the scene of one of the rocket attacks fired from a nearby hill a mile away from Shluta, it landed in a street, killing one Israeli Arab and injuring three others.

CBN News talked with the I.D.F. commander of the area, Lt. Col (Reserve) Dotan Razili, who said Israel is ready.

“We called all our reservists—on most of the reservists,’ Razili said. “We had a set plan to defend the northern part of Israel. We were able to bring them here, prepare them, put them in the places that we planned ahead, which I cannot elaborate, but (we) are prepared.”

Retired Lt. Col. Sarit Zehavi, a resident of the north, has studied Hezbollah’s strategy for years. She sees Hezbollah using a carbon copy of Hamas’s plans in Gaza.

“Hezbollah published (a) similar offensive plan a decade ago with the same details, just as it happened in the South, she told us. “We understand that Hezbollah is preparing to execute the same plan in the north.”

Despite massive US deployment in the region and Israeli forces on the border, Zehavi believes Iran is moving forward with their plan.

“I cannot say that they are deterred, because what I see that is happening here on the border every day does not reflect any deterrence,” she explained. It reflects preparations for invasion.”

Zehavi added, “This means preparation for invasion of thousands of Hezbollah. The same is what you saw in in the south, except Hezbollah is bigger and the firepower of Hezbollah is ten times more than Hamas. It’s about 200,000 different kind of rockets and artillery.”

We told her that many people were asking whether Hezbollah will join the war and asked for her response.

Zehavi responded, ” I believe that everything is working—and until now—according to the Iranian plan.”

When asked how closely tied the regime in Iran is with Hezbollah and Hamas and all the chaos in the region, she answered, “I don’t accept the statements that Iran didn’t know or Hezbollah didn’t know—that Iran just provided the money. We shouldn’t say that Iran is not involved. The Iranian foreign minister is personally involved in all the plans that were executed before and after. We have seen the meetings. And this is what I understand for all these meetings: the Iranians knew exactly what is going to happen.” (Screengrab image: via CBN News)

Sivan Yechieli leads a northern border response team. He said the border towns in his region acted as soon as the news broke about the Hamas massacres more than two weeks ago.

“I think the response is immediately, to make sure that you’re protected and your communities are protected, and that the you know, at the end of the day, we’re fighting for our lives.”

Yechieli asked what people in other countries would do if they had Hezbollah as a neighbor.

“The mere fact that we have to live under those—that kind of threat is … appalling,” he stated, “This is something that should not happen. We should be in a position when someone holds a gun and he puts it in front of your head, you’re not going to ask him, ‘Do you mean to shoot me? Don’t you mean to (do) that? Your intentions. When are you going to shoot me?’ You have to take action in order to make sure that no one standing over there with a gun pointed to your head. And that’s, I think, something that the Israeli government should do.”

Zehavi concluded, “I must say something here to the people who are listening to me: (as) opposed to Americans, we don’t have a choice. I mean, we cannot leave Iraq by a decision, or Afghanistan or Vietnam, because Lebanon is here—12 kilometers from where we are. So we don’t have a choice. We cannot accept the option of living with the monster, neither in the north nor in the south, because you must understand that once they finish with us, they will come to you.”

Razili believes Israel is the western world’s tip of the spear.

“Israel has always been on the front of the Western world against Islamic and ISIS kind(s) of operations. We saw it two weeks ago (with the Hamas atrocities near Gaza) and we will defend ourselves. And by that, defend the world.”

“What can I say?” Zehavi asked. ” Pray for us.” Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

[HotAir.com] Many news outlets, blogs, and other publications (probably far too many) rely on the Associated Press Stylebook or style guide. Just for the record, this outlet is not one of them. But because it is so widely used, you may be noticing something missing from much of the coverage of the ongoing war between Hamas and Israel in the wake of the October 7 terror attacks. And that would be the word “terrorist.” As the Free Beacon discovered, the AP is discouraging anyone from using the word to describe the literal Hamas terrorists who murdered, raped, tortured, and kidnapped so many Israelis and people of other nationalities earlier this month… Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here Click Here to read.

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“Stories have been coming in from friends, from the Army about how Roey helped them … he felt that these soldiers were his sons … [he was] thinking of others, always with a smile…” -Roey’s parents

(Efrat, Israel) — [CBN News] Roey Weiser is an American-Israeli hero who lost his life at age 21 during the Hamas attack outside the Gaza Strip earlier this month. (Screengrab image: via CBN News)

His quick actions helped save the lives of several of his fellow soldiers in the Golani Brigade.

CBN News visited his parents, Yami and Naomi Weiser, as they mourned the loss of their son. In his memory, they’re setting up a foundation to help soldiers and poor Israelis who are in need. Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

Click Here to watch [the CBN] interview with the Weiser’s.

Julie Stahl is a correspondent for CBN News in the Middle East. A Hebrew speaker, she has been covering news in Israel fulltime for more than 20 years.

[TheFederalist.com] …The [US Supreme] Court agreed to look at whether a far-ranging censorship scheme directed by the Biden administration violates the US Constitution. However, the court blocked a lower court’s temporary restriction on federal agencies’ participation in that scheme until the case is decided, expected to be sometime before the end of June. That lifting of the ban means the Biden administration can resume directing Big Tech companies to censor Americans’ speech and debate … “[W]hat the Court has done, I fear, will be seen by some as giving the Government a green light to use heavy-handed tactics to skew the presentation of views on the medium that increasingly dominates the dissemination of news. That is most unfortunate,” Associate Justice Samuel Alito wrote in a blistering dissent to the court’s temporary allowance of the censorship regime… Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here Click Here to read.

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Now, with this undeniable evidence, when will the impeachment proceedings begin?

[TheGatewayPundit.com] Back in June, Biden smirked and mocked Republicans by asking them, “Where’s the money?” in response to the credible bribery allegations against him. (Screengrab image)

Now his words have come back to bite him. As the Daily Mail reported, Republicans today unveiled a $200,000 personal check from James Biden, one Biden’s younger brothers, to Old Joe…

…The House Oversight Committee obtained bankruptcy court documents showing James seized money from his healthcare business, Americore, and sent it directly to his big brother. (Screengrab image: via X)

The documents demonstrate that in 2018, James Biden acquired $600,000 in loans from Americore.

Rep. James Comer (R-KY) explained that James was able to obtain the loans based upon “representations” that the name Biden could “open doors”… Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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[Breitbart.com] …In an interview with the Berliner Zeitung newspaper, Gerhard Schröder, who served as Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005, claimed that hundreds of thousands of lives could potentially have been saved if not for pressure exerted on Kyiv by Washington to reject peace negotiations with Moscow … “The only people who could settle the war against Ukraine are the Americans,” the former chancellor said. “At the peace negotiations in March 2022 in Istanbul with [now-Ukrainian Defence Minister] Rustem Umerov, the Ukrainians did not agree to peace because they were not allowed to. They first had to ask the Americans about everything they discussed. The war could be ended if geopolitical interests were not at play,” he added… Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here Click Here to read.

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The abortion industry, past and present, is the driving force behind the amendment. Among the top donors is Martin Haskell, the abortionist who invented partial birth abortion, “He has a business plan, because he wants to continue performing partial-birth abortions” in Ohio again after Issue 1’s passage, said Cooke. The amendment’s broad terms would favor his business model, as Haskell has admitted he “routinely performs this procedure on all patients 20 through 24” and stated that 80% of late-term abortions were “purely elective.”

[WashingtonStand.com] A televised debate on Ohio’s Issue 1 about creating a constitutional “right” to abortion-on-demand until birth gave pro-life advocates ample opportunity to dispel misinformation about the controversial measure, as an abortion activist misled viewers more than a dozen times in less than an hour. (Screengrab image)

The debate, recorded on October 11 but airing this week at various times, was hosted by the Ohio Debate Commission in collaboration with Columbus Dispatch, Cincinnati Enquirer, and Spectrum News. The exchange allowed official representatives from both sides of the issue to engage in a moderated, respectful exchange of views. But the abortion advocate did not respect the truth, her opponents say.

The spokesperson for Issue 1, Desiree Tims, “lied 14 times about the ability of women to receive life-saving care under Ohio’s protective laws, which limit painful late-term abortions and abortions when a baby’s heartbeat is detected,” said SBA Pro-Life America, which criticized the activist for “falsely claiming that women cannot receive miscarriage care and must flee the state or endanger their lives should they have a pregnancy complication.”

“Unfortunately, right now we have an extreme abortion ban law on the books … with no exceptions for rape, incest, or the life of the mother,” claimed Tims, a former aide to Democratic Senators Kirsten Gillibrand(NY) and Sherrod Brown (Ohio).

“Six weeks—you cannot access abortion care after that,” asserted Tims, who leads Innovation Ohio, which dubs itself “Ohio’s Progressive Politics and Policy Hub.” She is also listed as a lecturer in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Ohio State University, where she lists her pronouns as “she/her.”

In reality, Ohio’s six-week Heartbeat Law—which contains exceptions for the life of the mother—remains suspended while under review by the Ohio Supreme Court. That reverted the state’s law to the pre-Dobbs status quo.

“We have a 22-week ban today, and there are exceptions,” corrected Mehet Cooke, an Indian-born Republican attorney, political strategist, and Newsmax commentator who served as spokeswoman for Protect Women Ohio. Both Cooke and Tims ran unsuccessful campaigns for the Ohio House of Representatives in 2020.

“The ACLU is peddling misinformation about contraception, which is available in Ohio; [about] miscarriage care, which is available,” said Cooke. “Anyone who says we don’t have access to contraception, [care for] miscarriages, or abortion at 22 weeks is flat-out lying to Ohioans.”

Tims claimed her assertions were accurate, because “pro-life politicians all across the country have introduced legislation that bans or restricts birth control,” a reference to bills that oppose drugs that work as abortifacients. She then stated that unnamed Ohio legislators expressed “a fond interest” in banning “miscarriage care.” The moderators asked for no further elaboration.

Tims’ sleight-of-hand may harm women, who falsely believe they are legally forbidden from seeking medical help after a miscarriage, pro-life advocates say. “Every pro-life law in the country allows necessary and timely medical treatment to save the life of a pregnant woman in an emergency,” said Kelsey Pritchard, a spokeswoman for Protect Women Ohio Action. “Pro-abortion activists in Ohio are spreading shameless misinformation about the 22-week and heartbeat laws, causing confusion amongst the public that puts women’s lives at risk.”

Much of the debate centered around just how wide Issue 1 would open Ohio to the increasingly conjoined abortion and transgender industries. “This amendment allows for full-term, late-term abortion, partial-birth abortion,” said Cooke, who said Issue 1 should be opposed by anyone who supports reasonable limits on abortion, whether they consider themselves “pro-life, pro-choice, or somewhere in-between.” If the amendment would bar extremely late abortions, “Why didn’t [amendment authors the ACLU] define viability?”

Instead, Issue 1 “allows the abortionist to determine” viability, said Cooke—a decision they are likely to twist for their financial benefit.

The abortion industry, past and present, is the driving force behind the amendment. Among the top donors is Martin Haskell, the abortionist who invented partial birth abortion, “He has a business plan, because he wants to continue performing partial-birth abortions” in Ohio again after Issue 1’s passage, said Cooke. The amendment’s broad terms would favor his business model, as Haskell has admitted he “routinely performs this procedure on all patients 20 through 24″ and stated that 80% of late-term abortions were “purely elective.”

The two sides clashed over the fact that the amendment does not say “adult” but instead speaks of individuals, irrespective of age. The term “reproductive decisions” goes well beyond the right to abortion.

“If this is truly about abortion, they would have used the word ‘woman’ instead of ‘individual.’ They’re taking away parental consent,” Cooke warned. Tims countered that “the law of the land” currently requires parental consent. However, the constitutional amendment would change the law for Ohioans.

Tims later seemingly admitted Issue 1 would give minors the “right” to abortion and other “reproductive decisions,” possibly including transgender surgeries. “That’s what the ‘Yes’ campaign is all about: Making sure people can decide what’s best for their health care.” (Emphasis in original.) Cooke said the ambiguity is deliberate.

“The ACLU deliberately wrote a very broad amendment,” said Cooke, who is seven-and-a-half months pregnant. “They had every opportunity to write a clear amendment, and they didn’t.”

Tims similarly refused to define the meaning of the term “health” in the amendment, refusing to rule out the possibility that it could apply to “financial health.” Cooke noted the Supreme Court had already provided an expansive definition of health in Doe v. Bolton, the 1973 companion case to Roe v. Wade.

The implications of the overly broad amendment could prove more wide-reaching than Ohio voters expect. Cooke asked Ohioans to look at Michigan, where Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) supports repealing a law requiring abortionists to ask a woman if she’s being abused. Michigan’s proposed Reproductive Health Act, which is advancing through the Michigan legislature, eliminates reporting requirements and laws requiring abortion personnel to ask if the woman is being coerced into abortion. Whitmer called the bill “commonsense legislation” authorized by the fact that “Michiganders voted overwhelmingly to put abortion rights in our state constitution back in November.” Similarly, Tims said the pro-abortion Issue 1 amendment would lead to Ohio enacting “commonsense laws.” But Cooke retorted that Issue 1 puts “women at risk if we don’t vote no, because we will get rid of all our commonsense health and safety standards.” (Image: Pixabay)

The abortion industry cannot be trusted to protect victims of rape, sexual abuse, or human trafficking, said Cooke. She raised the case of a 14-year-old Ohio girl who had an abortion after being abused by her coach, who posed as her father at Planned Parenthood. As The Washington Stand reported:

“John Haller, a 21-year-old soccer coach, began abusing a 13-year-old eighth grader in 2003, getting her pregnant shortly after she turned 14. He took her to Planned Parenthood for an abortion, posing as both her stepbrother and her father to authorize the abortion. Planned Parenthood sued all the way to the state Supreme Court to deny her parents the right to view redacted medical records, which could prove the facility never contacted authorities and possibly engaged in a pattern of concealing minors’ sexual assaults.”

“Ohio be warned: The tragic consequences of Michigan’s Prop 3 are coming to fruition less than a year after passage,” said Amy Natoce, press secretary for Protect Women Ohio. “What is happening to our neighbors will certainly happen here if Issue 1 passes.”

Religion also made an appearance in the debate, when a viewer in Cleveland asked: “As an atheist, why should I be bound by the dictates of someone else’s conscience?”

“This amendment is not about a woman’s abortion, specifically. It’s broader than that,” said Cooke. “‘Reproductive decisions’ mean cross-hormone therapy, transgender surgeries, painful surgeries we don’t want our children to go through today.”

“Everyone has a different moral compass,” Cooke continued. “We shouldn’t have a radical amendment that allows any of those decisions to happen outside parental notification.”

“I’m a person of faith,” said pro-abortion activist Tims before mentioning health disparities for pregnant black women. Cooke responded that 13% of Ohio’s population is black, yet abortionists commit 48% of abortions on black babies.

In all, pro-life advocates said the debate went well by exposing the misinformation behind Issue 1.

“I just want the other side to be honest with Ohioans,” said Cooke. “Our moral compass and our families are at stake.”

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You can watch the full debate here.

Ben Johnson is senior reporter and editor at The Washington Stand.

…There’s no constitutional violation here. MacIntyre was a guest of the student council, not the principal or the faculty. Although, had they invited drag queens I’m certain the perpetually offended secularists would have turned a blind eye.

[ToddStarnes.com] American Idol star Scott MacIntyre knows a thing or two about overcoming adversity. He was the first visually impaired finalist on the hit television series. He’s also survived two kidney transplant surgeries. (Screengrab image)

Through it all, the classically trained Christian music star has given God all the honor and glory.

And when he’s not performing on tour with some of the biggest names in Christian music, MacIntyre is sharing that message in public and private schools around the nation.

But MacIntyre’s inspirational message has caused a firestorm of controversy in Goodyear, Arizona.

He had been invited by the student council to deliver a speech to the entire student body at Millennium High School. Afterwards, students received a copy of the “Student Life Reference Manual.” The book included the New Testament, Psalms, Proverbs, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

The Secular Arizona Alliance said the program and the book were violations of the US Constitution.

“Schools absolutely cannot proselytize. They cannot,” said attorney Dianne Post. “That is a violation of the First Amendment and for 50 years the Supreme Court has said, ‘no you cannot do this’.”

The school district said they had nothing to do with the selection of the speaker but nevertheless offered an apology to anyone who might have been offended.

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“We sincerely apologize for any discomfort or concern that this incident may have caused,” Principal Nichole Bundy wrote in a letter to parents. “We take this matter seriously and will be reviewing our guest speaker selection and screening processes to prevent such incidents from happening in the future.”

I’d be curious to know what offended the secularists more—the New Testament or the Declaration of Independence?

Regardless, there’s no constitutional violation here. MacIntyre was a guest of the student council, not the principal or the faculty.

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