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Daily Bible Verse
8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Micah 6:8
“Huckabee”
In case you missed this weekend’s “Huckabee” on TBN (and if you did, I’m going to need an excuse note from your mother), here are a few highlights you must see…
I talked to novelist and conservative commentator Andrew Klavan about the significance of the 2024 election.
My chat with Stefanie Laenker about the LIBRE Initiative’s outreach to conservative Latino voters:
https://www.mikehuckabee.com/latest-news?id=48F2A4F7-59C3-4010-9B27-4DD82CF8072D
My interview with Christian music star Ryan Stephenson, including his amazing story of what inspired his massive hit “Eye of the Storm,” and his performance of that song with our band and me on bass:
https://www.mikehuckabee.com/latest-news?id=6E6057D5-018B-4577-A223-7918B425B0AB?=0
And a special extra treat: A digital exclusive performance of his song “Preach” that you can only see online:
Update from Israel
Over the weekend, Hezbollah attempted a drone attack on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s home. Fortunately, nobody was injured. Netanyahu called the assassination attempt a "grave mistake" and vowed that "This will not deter me or the State of Israel from continuing our just war against our enemies in order to secure our future." I would take him at his word if I were them.
Here’s how stupid that attack by Hezbollah was: Even a top Al Qaeda advisor is calling on Hamas to release its hostages, give up, and “end this chapter.” And Hezbollah wants to pick a new fight with Israel? That is dumber than dirt.
RELATED: For anyone dumb enough to think that Hamas cares about the Palestinian people or that Israel is keeping humanitarian aid from them, it was reported that the secret bunker where Oct. 7th mastermind and Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was found and killed was loaded with millions of Israeli shekels (that’s cash), stolen UN food rations and various luxury goods. That’s how these terrorists live while they let the Palestinian people they’re allegedly fighting for starve.
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Andrew Sullivan’s must-read column
I mentioned elsewhere that there would be a couple of stories about Democrats who deserve to face a REAL criminal investigation. Well, here they are…
Today’s MUST-READ: From Andrew Sullivan, not a conservative writer but a gay liberal journalist who can spot outrageous corruption when he sees it. And he sees it in shocking detail in the actions of Biden-Harris’ transgender Assistant Secretary for Health at HHS, Rachel Levine, and the pro-trans quacks at WPATH.
I already reported some of the details of this story. In short, we learned that the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), the biggest pushers of “transing” minors with or without parental consent, knew that there was “little to no evidence” that this barbaric butchery actually helped gender-confused children, but both they and Levine allegedly covered that up and continued to push it.
As Sullivan reports, the discovery phase of a lawsuit against Alabama’s ban on “transing” children has revealed that WPATH was concerned that phrases like “insufficient evidence” and “limited data” might “empower” groups “trying to claim that gender-affirming interventions are experimental.” In other words, the truth might undermine their narrative.
They shared this information with Levine at HHS, who was very concerned that listing “specific minimum ages for treatment…under 18, will result in devastating legislation for trans care.” In other words, the truth might have kept doctors from mutilating minors and set back the radical trans agenda. So Levine REMOVED the recommended minimum age limits!
Result: Because WPATH and Rachel Levine allegedly prioritized their radical sexual/political views over medical science, at least 14,000 American kids have received highly questionable chemical or surgical treatments that have left them permanently disfigured.
Sullivan calls the actions of Levine and WPATH “despicable.” He demands the resignations of Levine and “the heads of every so-called gay group that have pushed and lied about ‘gender-affirming care,’" along with possible legal consequences for doctors like those at WPATH who continued pushing this quackery while secretly knowing there was no evidence that it helped. As Sullivan notes, that’s not only a violation of the Hippocratic Oath, it’s the equivalent of female genital mutilation, which is illegal under federal law and in 41 states.
Sullivan sees this as medical quackery particularly aimed at gay teenagers who would have been fine if they’d been allowed to mature past puberty. He urges any gay man or lesbian who was misled into this malpractice to “start the lawsuits. It’s the only way. No gay men or lesbians will come to your aid. Kamala Harris and the gay groups sure won’t. ‘LGBTQIA+’ billionaires will sacrifice any number of gay kids if it means not being called ‘transphobic’ at a dinner party…A movement that began with defending gay men and lesbians is now sacrificing a generation of gay kids at the behest of trans extremists and critical gender theory.”
Rachel Levine should be immediately removed from office and face a criminal investigation, along with any other doctor who knowingly pushed this unconscionable butchery onto confused children. Maybe then, Democrats who have been calling their political opponents “Hitler” will finally notice that they’ve been harboring a Joseph Mengele of their own.
The Biggest Liar: Adam Schiff
It’s horrible to contemplate, but California voters might be on the brink of sending Adam Schiff, Congress’s biggest liar (an astonishing accomplishment), to the Senate. But maybe America will be spared from that fate by having him sent to prison instead.
At the request of Just The News, retired FBI supervisory special agent Jeff Danik investigated allegations that for the past 20 or so years, Schiff has claimed on both election and mortgage documents that his two homes in California and Maryland are BOTH his “primary residence,” depending on which was convenient at the time. Danik dug up election and real estate documents from 2009, 2011 and 2013 that suggest Schiff was doing this, so he could run for office in California while getting better mortgage terms in Maryland. Legally, Americans are allowed to declare only one home as their primary residence.
There are growing calls for investigations, and if these allegations are confirmed, Schiff could be facing major ethics violations and even criminal prosecution. It would be divinely ironic if the man who’s made so many false charges against Donald Trump was brought down by his own contempt for electoral rules and genuine real estate fraud. Of course, that would require Congress to investigate him and the DOJ to prosecute him, so…maybe after January.
I hope it would also mean that we’d never again see another self-righteous movie from Hollywood (Shiff’s home district) about how terrible it is for a Congress member to wave around a blank piece of paper and claim it’s evidence of Russian agents in the White House.
UPDATE:
Sunday, “60 Minutes” finally addressed the uproar over their apparent editing of Kamala Harris’ interview to show her giving two different answers to the same question. Of course, they denied any wrongdoing. Their statement read, in part:
"Former President Donald Trump is accusing ‘60 Minutes’ of deceitful editing of our Oct. 7 interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. That is false…’60 Minutes’ gave an excerpt of our interview to ‘Face the Nation’ that used a longer section of her answer than that on ‘60 Minutes.’ Same question. Same answer. But a different portion of the response. When we edit any interview, whether a politician, an athlete, or movie star, we strive to be clear, accurate and on point. The portion of her answer on ‘60 Minutes’ was more succinct, which allows time for other subjects in a wide-ranging 21-minute-long segment."
The Trump campaign responded, “They edited in a different response - from another part of her answer - to make Kamala Harris sound less incoherent than she really was. Their statement is not a denial, it is an admission that they did exactly what they were accused of.”
The Campaign for President
In dueling campaign events over the weekend, Donald Trump attended a Steelers-Jets football game in Pittsburgh, where the crowd erupted in cheers and chanted, “USA! USA!” when he appeared.
Trump also tweaked Harris’ unsubstantiated claim about once working at McDonald’s (apparently her only private sector job) by making fries and burgers and working the drive-through window at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s. Trump told one customer, “I’ve now worked for 15 minutes more than Kamala.”
The event was hailed as a huge success, yielding funny and relatable photos, videos and viral memes. There was also a moving moment when a female customer at the drive-through window implored Trump not to let America become like her native Brazil.
https://twitchy.com/justmindy/2024/10/20/trump-brazil-customer-woman-mcdonalds-drive-thru-n2402489
You can tell how successful it was by how Democrats are melting down over it…
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/10/20/reactions-to-trump-at-mcdonalds-n2180834
Probably the worst response came when a pro-Harris X account unaffiliated with the campaign sniped that the McDonald’s had a health code violation last spring. They were ripped for attacking a small business over an extremely minor, months-old violation, just because they hate Trump. But hey, what else have they got?
Well, they have this…
Kamala Harris continued her well-known trajectory: The more people see and hear from her, the more they're reminded of why she should never be President. At a rally in Detroit, she appeared with hip-hop star Lizzo, who is so proud of her hometown that she declared, “They say if Kamala wins, then the whole country will be like Detroit. Proud like Detroit, resilient like Detroit. The same Detroit that innovated the auto industry and the music industry. Put some respect on Detroit's name.”
FYI: It’s Trump who’s promising to bring Detroit back to its former glory. What’s likely to be remembered from that rally is Lizzo saying, “If Kamala wins, then the whole country will be like Detroit.” I know that’s not what she meant, but it makes a lot more sense and will resonate with a lot of voters.
On Sunday, Kamala appeared at a black church in Stonecrest, Georgia, at an event ironically dubbed “Souls to the Polls.” She told the congregation, “Our country is at a crossroads, and where we go from here is up to us as Americans and we people of faith.”
As a person of faith, for once, I actually agree completely with Kamala Harris. However, I disagree completely about the direction she wants to take America from that crossroad.
As if it weren’t clear enough already, she’d made it crystal clear just one day before at a rally in Wisconsin. Two LaCrosse University students in the crowd shouted, “Jesus is Lord!” She gave them a nasty look and snarked, "Oh, you guys are at the wrong rally. No, I think you meant to go to the smaller one down the street." Her crowd roared its approval at her public rejection of Christianity. This after she’d just become the first Democrat since Mondale to skip the Al Smith Dinner for Catholic children’s charities.
To make it even worse, earlier that day in Wisconsin, a pro-Palestinian protester demanded of her, “What about the genocide?” and she replied that what he had to say was “real” and she “respects his voice.”
Studies have found that over 40 million Evangelical Christians don’t vote, even in presidential elections. I’ve tried hard this year to convince Christians to vote, and I hope that elevated early voting for Republicans is an indicator that they are. But these shocking statements by Kamala Harris show why it needs to be even higher. If all Christians voted their principles, they could determine every election in America and end the left’s weaponization of government against religious freedom for good.
Here's a monologue I did about that on “Huckabee” on TBN. If you’re seen it before, I hope you’ll share it with any fellow Christians who aren’t planning to vote.
And you should send this along, too. Tyler O’Neill of The Daily Signal is an Evangelical Christian, as well, and he offers three citations from the Bible about why it’s important for Christians to vote.
Rare agreement
I don’t know how you quantify such a thing, but the Washington Examiner’s dueling commentators Jed Babbin and John Zogby reached rare agreement that last week was the worst week (so far) of the Biden-Harris Administration.
They both rated it an F, with the failures including Israel killing Hamas' top leader because they ignored both Biden and Harris, Kamala’s disastrous Fox News interview and Al Smith Dinner video, a report that she didn’t actually prosecute any of the cases she claimed to prosecute, her book plagiarism scandal, insultingly trying to buy black voters with free money and legal weed, and making a deal with Mexico to keep 400,000 would-be illegal immigrants there – but only until Election Day.
Here’s the really terrifying news: No matter what happens in November, these two are still in office for about 12 more weeks.
This Just In:
The Biden-Harris Administration’s soft bigotry of low expectations can now get you killed in a fire.
Democrat zealots are abusing power
We hear a lot of scary stories from the Democrats about Trump wanting to jail his political opponents, even though he’s condemned the type of lawfare they’ve been using to try to jail him. But Trump is hardly the only victim of Democrat zealots abusing their power to jail their opponents. Just ask the people jailed for stepping inside an open door at the Capitol on January 6th and looking around for a minute before leaving. Or the peaceful pro-life protesters, some elderly and frail and one who survived concentration camps before coming to America, only to be imprisoned under the unconstitutional FACE Act for praying at an abortion clinic.
And here’s the latest injustice: Former Stockton, California, fire chief Ron Hittle was fired for attending a leadership conference in a church building. City officials claimed he attended a “religious event” while on duty as justification for firing him. But not only have speakers such as Bill Clinton appeared at that conference, his attorneys say the firing was a clear violation of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act barring religious discrimination. A lower court judge sided with the city, but the Liberty Institute is asking the Supreme Court to intervene and restore him to his job.
And of course, this isn’t limited to the US. Just ask the British Army veteran who was fined $12,000 and given a two-year conditional discharge for bowing his head and saying a silent prayer for his dead son in a “safe zone” around an abortion clinic where any activity supporting or denouncing abortion is prohibited. Yes, the police actually demanded to know the “nature of his prayer,” and the judge called his actions “deliberate.”
The sentence is being denounced as “outrageous,” like something out of Orwell’s “1984,” and one attorney said the country can "hardly sink any lower" in the abuse of basic human rights. The defendant said, “Today, the court has decided that certain thoughts – silent thoughts – can be illegal in the United Kingdom. That can’t be right.”
It isn’t right, but it’s up to the British people to remove from power those who abuse it, just as we did in 1776 and I hope we're about to do in November, 2024. As for that judge who sentenced him, I wouldn’t want to be her when she has to stand in front of the ultimate judge and explain why she thinks silent prayer is a criminal offense.
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Liberalism Is A Mental Disorder:
A pro-Palestinian nut videoed herself ripping down Israeli flags from a restaurant while screaming at the owner that he was supporting genocide in Gaza. The owner told her it was a Greek restaurant and those were Greek flags. She apparently wasn’t aware of that, since they’re both blue and white, except the Greek flag as a cross on it, and the Israeli flag is the only one in the world with a Star of David on it.
Amazingly, the idiot actually went ahead and posted the video on TikTok, where it went viral. It was so stupid that many people didn’t believe it was real and assumed it was a parody. But the restaurant owner, at least, denies that, saying it came as a surprise to him when this young woman started destroying his property.
But did the person who did it mean it for real or as a parody? It could still be the latter, but when you do a parody, it’s only funny if it’s more exaggerated than the real thing. And if the question is, “Could an actual pro-Hamas protester really be that stupid,” I think we all know the answer.
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