LIFE SITE NEWS — Rembert G. Weakland, archbishop of Milwaukee from 1977 to 2002, icon of the liberal Church, and the most disastrous American bishop of his time, died at age 95, the Archdiocese of Milwaukee announced Monday. A theological dissident, practicing homosexual, radical liturgical revolutionary, and indefensible enabler of predatory priests, Weakland embodied the kind of failed episcopal leadership that has morally and financially bankrupted the Church in much of the Western world since the Second Vatican Council.... (more)

TOWNHALL — After days of waiting and a flurry of motions from the Department of Justice attempting to keep the affidavit used in the FBI's raid of Mar-a-Lago sealed indefinitely, a redacted affidavit was finally released on Friday afternoon just before the 12:00 p.m. ET deadline set by federal Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart. There was such a rush to view the affidavit, however, that the government's website where federal court records are posted completely crashed for nearly 30 minutes.... (more)

TRISTAN JUSTICE — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that Facebook algorithmically suppressed stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop during the 2020 election at the request of the FBI weeks before the November contest. Speaking on Joe Rogan’s podcast on Thursday, Zuckerberg said the FBI approached employees at the tech giant to warn that the laptop was a vehicle of Russian interference.... (more)

NEW YORK POST — Nearly four of five Americans who’ve been following the Hunter Biden laptop scandal believe that “truthful” coverage would have changed the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, according to a new poll. A similar percentage also said they’re convinced that information on the computer is real, with just 11% saying they thought it was “created by Russia,” according to the survey conducted by the New Jersey-based Technometrica Institute of Policy and Politics.... (more)

JERRY NEWCOMBE — Is God making a comeback in some of the public schools of Texas? A news item last week gives a glimmer of hope that it may be so. 60 years ago this summer, the Supreme Court effectively banished God from the public schools. They did this in the first anti-school prayer case.... (more)

BREITBART — Thursday, during an appearance on Hugh Hewitt’s nationally syndicated radio show, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) criticized President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness proposal. The Florida governor said not only was it a policy “disaster” in that it threatened to make economic problems worse, but he predicted it would be a political “disaster” because of the public’s reaction.... (more)

NEWSMAX — A former president's right under the Presidential Records Act trumps the statutes the FBI cited to justify the Mar-a-Lago search, David Rivkin Jr. and Lee Casey argued in an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. The two constitutional lawyers, who served at the Department of Justice and the White House Counsel's Office in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations, stressed that the warrant used to search former President Donald Trump's residence suggests that ''the FBI had no legally valid cause for the raid.''... (more)

JOSEPH FARAH — The Twitter board is, indeed, covering up its "extreme, egregious deficiencies," and executives have no idea how many bots are actually on the platform, claims a whistleblower. So, Elon Musk’s suspicions are right after all. But it's much bigger than that. Hear me out. Twitter is little more than a disinformation front posing as an honest, consumer-driven social media site.... (more)

MICHELLE MALKIN — Here's the thing about Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao. The granddaddy of Republican Beltway barnacles has inhabited the nation's capital in one form or another since 1968, when he worked as a Senate legislative aide. His wife, the daughter of a Beijing-kowtowing shipping mogul, snagged her first job in 1983 as a White House fellow under the Reagan administration. For a half-century, this Swamp duo has done out in the great wide open what Swamp things do: Grift. Rinse. Repeat.... (more)

FOX NEWS — California Highway Patrol (CHP) has released photos and videos recorded on the night of a May 28 crash involving Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who pleaded guilty to a DUI charge earlier Tuesday. The long-awaited video shows Pelosi's alleged slurred speech and what police previously described as "objective" signs of intoxication, as well as police asking him to perform field sobriety tests.... (more)

GATEWAY PUNDIT — Dr. Jill tested positive for Covid AGAIN on Wednesday in a ‘rebound’ case after taking Paxlovid earlier this month. “After testing negative on Tuesday, just now, the First Lady has tested positive for Covid-19 by antigen testing. This represents a “rebound” positivity,” a statement from Jill Biden’s Deputy Communications Director said.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson has "crucified" "Lord Fauci," Joe Biden's chief of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, but better known as the know-it-all bureaucrat who claimed he was "science" on the issue of COVID-19. That's according to a report from Revolver.... (more)

MARGOT CLEVELAND — Last week’s raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home represented the culmination of a criminal investigation pushed by a partisan bureaucrat who called January 6, 2021, the “absolute worst” day of his life. And while since last Monday, the country has focused on the FBI’s raid of Trump’s personal residence, seeing that as the crossing of the Rubicon, the die was cast this spring when the DOJ went to the grand jury about Trump’s presidential records.... (more)

JOHN SOLOMON — White House Deputy Counsel Jonathan Su was a busy man, at least when it came to carrying out President Joe Biden's wish to eliminate former President Donald Trump's claims that materials and testimony from his presidency were covered by executive privilege.... (more)

CLIFF KINCAID — Although Republican Mitt Romney lost an easily winnable election in 2012, many conservative commentators and analysts believed that Romney would win no matter what Obama threw at him. These same commentators predicted Donald J. Trump would lose in 2016.... (more)

PETER LEMISKA — Hate is a destructive emotion that can rob us of our compassion, our dignity, and even our common sense. For six years now, Democrats have been consumed with an overpowering hatred of a man who left public office nearly two years ago. It’s the same man who gave our country energy independence, secure borders, and a strong economy with low inflation.... (more)

JOHN SOLOMON — Long before it professed no prior knowledge of the raid on Donald Trump's estate, the Biden White House worked directly with the Justice Department and National Archives to instigate the criminal probe into alleged mishandling of documents, allowing the FBI to review evidence retrieved from Mar-a-Lago this spring and eliminating the 45th president's claims to executive privilege, according to contemporaneous government documents reviewed by Just the News.... (more)

YOUTUBE — When law enforcement doesn’t prioritize its primary job of targeting violent criminals and behaves as if it has no accountability to the American people, it shouldn’t be surprised when law enforcement ends up with zero credibility and no one trusts it.... (more)

RED STATE — Just in case you needed yet another reason not to take the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) seriously, this story should suffice. The agency released a study on Friday recommending that people wear face masks, among other measures, to avoid catching monkeypox. The problem? The precautions the CDC suggested do not line up with what the data shows about the spread of the illness.... (more)

ROBERT SPENCER — Former Vice President Mike Pence confirmed on Wednesday that he has about as much chance of being the Republican nominee for president in 2024 as Nancy Pelosi has of joining the Radio City Rockettes. Demonstrating a tone-deafness of Olympian proportions, Pence had harsh words for the Republicans who are appalled at how the FBI has become a tool of the partisan vendetta of Old Joe Biden and Merrick Garland against Donald Trump. In Pence’s world, the stout-hearted G-Men are still of unquestionable integrity, square-jawed, patriotic, non-partisan, and ever-vigilant for truth, justice, and the American way. It hasn’t been that way for a long time if it ever was, but Mike hasn’t noticed.... (more)

ART MOORE — Dr. Robert Malone, a leading critic of the COVID-19 vaccines and an inventor of the mRNA technology platform on which they are based, filed a $50 million defamation lawsuit against the Washington Post on Friday for accusing him of spreading "dangerous lies" and "leading his followers on a journey to illness, suffering and possible death."... (more)

ART MOORE — A federal judge has temporarily halted the discharge of hundreds of Marines who were denied religious exemptions from the military's requirement that they receive the experimental COVID-19 vaccine shots, which have not prevented infection and the spread of the virus as promised. U.S. District Judge Steve Merryday, a George H.W. Bush appointee, ruled Thursday that the Marine Corps failed to adhere to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the Epoch Times reported.... (more)

YOUTUBE — Fox News host Sean Hannity appraises the lowly state of the Biden presidency in the opening monologue of ‘Hannity.’... (more)

ART MOORE — The Justice Department may have pressured the FBI to raid Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate at the instruction of the Biden administration, a former bureau special agent said. Maureen O'Connell, an FBI specialist in forensics, gangs and cartel-level narcotics from 1991 and 2016, said the DOJ was "trying to push" the FBI "to do this warrant."... (more)

SIENA HOEFLING — [Editor's note: In view of the Supreme Court's recent ruling that Roe v. Wade never was sound constitutional law, we thought it timely to revisit an April 2017 article by Siena Hoefling that poignantly made the same point—both in writing and with a masterful video featuring the song "Prayer of the Children," sung by Three Dog Night.]... (more)