Posts on Friday, October 27, 2023
Robert Card, the suspect believed to be responsible for one of Maine’s deadliest mass shootings, has been found dead two days after allegedly killing 18 people at a bowling alley and bar on Wednesday, according to law enforcement sources.
The body of the 40-year-old trained firearms instructor with past mental health issues was located in the woods near Lisbon, where his vehicle and a gun were found after the shooting, according to federal law enforcement sources.
Card was the subject of a massive manhunt in connection to two shootings in Lewiston, Maine’s second-largest city, that erupted Wednesday night.
Dennis Ross is a diplomat who has worked for George H. W. Bush and who served as Middle East envoy for Bill Clinton. He also later worked for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Today he wrote an opinion piece for the NY Times in which he argues that now is not the time for a ceasefire with Hamas.
In the past, I might have favored a cease-fire with Hamas during a conflict with Israel. But today it is clear to me that peace is not going to be possible now or in the future as long as Hamas remains intact and in control of Gaza. Hamas’s power and ability
Houston mayoral candidate and current U.S. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee drew support from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at an event on Friday.
Clinton reassured Houston voters that she believes Jackson Lee is the right woman for the job.
"They will not regret their vote because they will have a mayor who will work 24/7 to do what she has said she will do," Clinton said. There was a bit of commotion during the endorsement when a protester disrupted her speech and had to be escorted out.
Jackson Lee is a frontrunner in the race for mayor alongside Texas state Senator John Whitmire.
CNN is set to shutter its original headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, following its final broadcast Friday. CNN host Kate Bolduan announced at the beginning of Friday’s episode of News Central CNN that the program was the last presented by control rooms at the CNN Center in Atlanta. The operation is prepared to move to the renovated 30-acre Turner Techwood campus in Midtown after more than 35 years of broadcasting, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “Before we go today, we are marking an important moment today in CNN’s history. Today’s show will be the final broadcast from the CNN Center in
Much of the planet is holding its breath waiting for the next move in the war in Israel and wondering if it will spiral out of control into a wider regional war… Evil will always exist, but the greatest danger to free people are the so-called moderates that refuse to acknowledge or choose between good and evil. While most are unsuspecting, it is among the cowardly or undecided where Satan makes his greatest gains.
Famed award-winning playwright David Mamet, who is Jewish, railed against the Democratic party, urging Jews to stop voting Democrat as there is “no more cozy mystery in the antisemitism of the Democratic Party.”
Mamet’s comments came from an essay he wrote titled, “How the Democrats betrayed the Jews: The sick thrill of antisemitism has a price.” “Today, Jews vote Democratic: electing Presidents who refused to meet with the Israeli Prime Minister (Obama and Biden) in times of ‘peace,’ who gave and give aid to the terrorist state of Iran
Republican Sen. Mitt Romney laughed at former President Donald Trump and called him a 'whack job' after the ex-president and 2024 hopeful spent Monday morning bashing him on Truth Social.
Romney is the subject of a new biography by The Atlantic's McKay Coppins entitled Romney: A Reckoning, where he gives another warning about Trumpism, after voting to convict Trump at both impeachments.
The Utah senator mouthed off to Coppins about Trump and other Republican leaders, which prompted the ex-president to take to Truth Social and call Romney 'a total loser that only a mother could love,' among other insults.
Republicans are ramping up scrutiny of a $200,000 'loan repayment' check from James Biden to his brother Joe - made out while the family was using their last name to 'cash in' on foreign deals.
Oversight Chairman James Comer - who is leading the impeachment inquiry into Joe - is pressing the White House for more information because he believes the check is the strongest evidence yet that the president was directly involved in his family's business dealings.
According to bankruptcy court documents, James Biden took the money from his health care business Americore and sent it directly to his brother Joe Biden in 2018.
Still-at-large suspected Maine mass shooter Robert Card may have been targeting a former girlfriend during the murderous rampage — and the message he left behind was a ranting suicide note to his son, according to a report.
Card’s sister told investigators she believed he may have been looking for his ex when he shot up the Sparetime Recreation bowling alley and Schemengees Bar and Grille, ABC News reported, citing sources. (Snip) The ex-girlfriend was not identified, nor was the suspect’s ex-wife, whose divorce over irreconcilable differences was granted in 2007,
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) used his first television interview as speaker on Thursday to inspire hope regarding the merit of the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
"We have the receipts on so much of this now," Johnson told Sean Hannity on Fox News, discussing whether Biden was involved in his family's foreign business dealings. "It’s a real problem." "That’s the reason that we shifted into the impeachment inquiry stage on the president himself because if, in fact, all the evidence leads to where we believe it will, that’s very likely impeachable offenses," he explained. "That’s listed as a cause for impeachment in the Constitution —
A meeting over Chicago's brewing migrant crisis in the Brighton Park neighborhood became heated as residents protested a planned camp that can house over 2,000 migrants, according to Fox 32 Chicago.
Residents of the southwest side of Chicago neighborhood were fiercely divided over the plan, with city officials confirming their plans to build a camp for migrants on a "10-acre vacant lot, located at 38th and California," per the outlet.
"The City of Chicago has been identifying viable sites across the city to construct base camps as an alternative to new arrivals sleeping outdoors, at O’Hare and on the floors of police district stations as winter fast approaches,"
The moment that Donald Trump won the 2016 election, the outlines of a conspiracy began.
Obama, Biden, their staff, Democrat lifers in the DOJ, FBI, CIA, the Pentagon, the establishment media, woke billionaires and the Democrat party, foremost among them House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, shaped a plan to wreck his presidency and cheat to defeat him in 2020.
Despite that Trump was on his way to a triumphant presidency because of prescient policies, both domestic and foreign.
Because it's an exceptionally beautiful fall day where I am and it's Friday, I thought it'd be nice to "lighten the mood" a bit by pivoting away from the more serious topics we normally write about and instead highlighting Adam Kinzinger's ongoing fruitless efforts at trying to remain (or should I say "become"?) relevant on issues of national import.When last we left you with the disgraced former Indiana Congressman and purported Republican, Kinzinger was taking cheap shots at Jenna Ellis using Jesus as a weapon of mass distraction
Israeli troops could be planning to disable Hamas tunnels and trap the terrorists underground using innovative 'sponge bombs'.
How to deal with concealed fighters hiding in the myriad of tunnels under Gaza will be one the main concerns for the Israel Defence Force (IDF) when they begin their long-promised ground offensive into the besieged city.
And according to some reports, a secret new weapon dubbed the 'sponge bomb' could see deployment for the first time.
Scarborough Hits Panic Button: Biden Getting
No Credit, Trump On a Path to Win Again
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No Credit, Trump On a Path to Win Again
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Joe Scarborough did stop short of stamping his feet . . .
Poor Joe. The guy touted the 4.9 percent economic growth rate that came out and was so upset that Biden is not getting the credit for the economy that Scarborough thinks he deserves, that the Morning Joe host banged his hands on the desk in frustration today.
It got even worse for poor Joe. Scarborough lamented that unless the Biden campaign can inspire young, black, and Latino voters to turn out in record numbers:
Has wokeism jumped the shark? In other words, have the radical Leftists who for years have exercised increasing power in our universities finally gone too far?
I dare to hope so. The recent disgraceful responses to the attacks on Israel that we have seen — from American university campuses to the streets of London and Sydney — have dramatically increased awareness that something is rotten in the state of higher education in the English-speaking world.
Some of us have been battling against the ideological takeover of academia for close to a decade. Each year, we have been getting better organised. But we have struggled to convince people
Las Vegas, Nevada — Newly-elected Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) will deliver the keynote address Saturday night at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual leadership conference, which is taking place as war unfolds in Israel.
It will be Johnson’s first major address outside Congress since taking the Speaker’s gavel. Johnson will speak alongside House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) at a conference that is already studded with presidential candidates and elected officials. Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to speak at the Saturday morning session — as is former Vice President Mike Pence, his running mate-turned-rival.
Somebody did not want the truth to come out, did they?
Crooked Hillary Clinton was hosting a campaign event Friday for the meanest and perhaps dumbest member of Congress, Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX). Lee is running for mayor of Houston. The election will be held on November 7th.
As Gateway Pundit readers know, Lee was caught on audio cruelly cursing out her staff members last week.(Snip) But things got out of hand when Hillary started singing Lee’s praises. One brave man with no regard for his safety decided to challenge the failed presidential candidate and demanded answers regarding her husband Bill’s suspicious relationship with dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Police agencies of government — from the FBI to the Department of Justice (DOJ) — support the people and party that are “helping to build the police state,” author and documentary filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza told Breitbart News Daily hours ahead of the virtual premiere of his latest film Police State.
“Now here we are on the on the eve of Halloween, and Halloween is the time when you know we have fear, but the fear is sort of make believe… Something very frightening is going on in the country. And in some ways, it’s really appropriate that this film is airing tonight,” D’Souza said ahead of the premiere of Police State,
Ivanka Trump will have to testify in the civil fraud case against her father, her brothers and the family business, a New York judge decided in a surprise ruling on Friday.
Her lawyers had argued she shouldn't have to give evidence, noting that she left her Trump Organization job in 2017 when she went to work for Donald Trump in the White House, and that she never returned to the family business.
They also argued that she had moved out of New York and now resides in Florida. Ivanka's attorneys had filed a motion to quash a subpoena for her testimony
A day after Jewish college kids found it necessary to barricade themselves inside a library in the center of Greenwich Village while a mob of repugnant terrorist lovers banged on the locked doors trying to get at them, the message is being broadcast that, on this Sabbath, Jews in Brooklyn had better remain at home. Stay inside. Lock the doors.
The massive bronze sculpture of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, has been melted down and will be transformed into a new piece of public art. The statue was at the center of a 2017 controversy in which local governments in Virginia wanted to remove Confederate monuments including Lee's. In August 2017, a white supremacist rally in connection to the proposed removal resulted in the three people dying and multiple injuries.
The cost of goods and services rose 0.4 percent for a second consecutive month in September, challenging the view that the Federal Reserve’s rate hikes are still bringing down inflation. The personal consumption expenditure price index was expected to cool slightly from the prior month. Over the past year, the index is up 3.4 percent. That is unchanged from the August reading, data from the Commerce Department showed Friday. The Federal Reserve says it wants to bring PCE inflation down to two percent, a rate not seen since President Joe Biden took office in early 2021
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer on Thursday said that his committee does not possess any bank records to show that President Joe Biden ever gave a loan to his brother James and asked that the president's legal team produce documentation of the alleged loan. Comer previously revealed the discovery of $200,000 check that James Biden made to Joe Biden in 2018 linked to the failing healthcare firm Americore. The White House has claimed that James was repaying a loan to his brother, though Comer has expressed skepticism of that story.
Ford announced Thursday that it will delay about $12 billion in planned spending to increase EV manufacturing capacity. Ford CFO John Lawler made the statements in a media briefing. The major U.S. automaker had expected electric vehicle sales to increase at a much higher pace, according to CNBC. Persistently high interest rates are slowing the pace of demand for EVs, Reuters reported this week.
The Israel Defense Forces expanded its ground operations in the Gaza Strip on Friday night, an Israeli military officer announced ahead of an expected full-scale invasion of the Hamas-run territory.
“In the last few hours, we expanded the number of airstrikes in Gaza in a very significant way,” IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari said of its latest air raids and artillery strikes on northern Gaza. “In addition to the offensive activity we have conducted in recent days, our ground forces are expanding their operations tonight. The IDF is operating in all dimensions in order to accomplish the goals of the war.”
The latest development in the Israel-Hamas war came as internet and phone
The president of Accuracy in Media — the group that deployed “doxxing trucks” to Ivy League schools mired in pro-Palestine controversies — had his home searched by a fleet of rifle-toting SWAT officers in the early hours of Friday morning, The Post has learned.
Accuracy in Media boss Adam Guillette was away from his North Florida home when he received a call from local authorities on Friday notifying him that officers had searched his home around 1:30 a.m. after receiving a call falsely claiming that Guillette was at home and pointing a gun at his wife’s head.
During an interview with Bloomberg on Thursday, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stated that the rise in Treasury yields that increases the cost of the U.S. government borrowing money isn’t largely connected to the deficit, but is largely “a reflection of the resilience that people are seeing in the U.S. economy that we’re not having a recession, that consumer spending and demand continue to be strong, the economy is continuing to show tremendous robustness.”
The Israel Defense Forces said Friday they are “expanding ground operations” in Gaza, according to spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, after a large series of explosions rocked Gaza City Friday night local time.
Multiple residents in the enclave told CNN that the evening’s airstrikes were the most intense they had experienced in weeks. And Jawwal, the Palestinian telecom company that provides mobile service to the Gaza Strip, released a statement Friday night saying “the intense bombardment” has destroyed “all remaining international routes connecting Gaza with the outside world.”
Streaming Carnage: NBCUniversal’s Peacock
Loses $565M in 3 Months, Expected to Lose
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Loses $565M in 3 Months, Expected to Lose
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NBCUniversal’s Peacock lost more than half a billion dollars during the three months of summer, the latest example of Hollywood’s streaming carnage that has seen studios struggling to carve out a profitable piece of the home video market. (snip)
For the year so far, Peacock’s losses amount to $1.92 billion. (snip) Peacock serves as the streaming home to some of the far-left MSNBC’s programming, including The Reid Out, hosted by Joy Reid.
The streamer also produces The Mehdi Hasan Show. (snip) Disney reported its streaming business — including Disney+ and Hulu — lost $512 million for the fiscal third quarter, while Paramount+ lost $424 million for the same period.
The Satanic Temple lost its lawsuit against Indiana’s abortion ban on Wednesday when a federal judge threw out the suit. (snip) The Satanic Temple sued in September 2022, alleging the abortion ban violates their members’ religious rights and is unconstitutional. (snip) The Satanic Temple has about 11,300 members in Indiana. Despite its name, members of The Satanic Temple do not actually believe in Satan — rather it is an atheist group that seeks to subvert Christianity’s role in American life. The group believes that “one’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone,” which includes a belief in abortion.
In the epic exchange, Congresswoman Talib actually yelled at Ben, accusing him of “dehumanizing Palestinians” when asked, “Why do you support terrorists?” and whether or not she would denounce Iran’s proxy army, Hamas, waging war and invading Israel.She can then be heard yelling at her staffers, “I don’t even want to be here anymore!” Bergquam reports that the pro-defunding police radicals later called Capitol Police on him for asking her questions, but he was fully within his rights. “These guys are so not used to having media that actually holds them accountable,” Ben told his viewers
Li Keqiang, the former premier of China, is reported to have died “suddenly” on Thursday less than a year after stepping down from his post as the country’s second-highest-ranking leader. He was 68.
A heart attack has been blamed for the death of the English-speaking economist who had once been considered a contender for the country’s top job, but was passed over in favour of Xi Jinping and then sidelined.
He was the only incumbent top official who didn’t belong to Xi’s loyalists group, the BBC reports.
State media said he died at 10 minutes past midnight on Friday despite “all-out” efforts to revive him.
Saudi Arabia is holding on to its ultimatum that foreign companies will need to base their regional headquarters in the kingdom or be barred from lucrative government contracts. The deadline: Jan. 1, 2024.
In a bold surprise move back in February 2021, the Saudi government announced that it would, by 2024, cease doing business with any international companies whose regional headquarters were not based within the country. The news stunned investors and expat workers, many of whom saw the move as a shot at Dubai, the United Arab Emirates commercial capital that is home to the highest concentration of Middle East regional headquarters.
Young members of the Democratic party are threatening to withhold their vote from President Joe Biden ahead of the 2024 election over his support for Israel during their war with the terrorist organization Hamas, according to The New York Times (NYT).
Since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, Biden has pledged the United States’ support to the country, even using an Oval Office address to introduce an aid package that would send funds to Israel. Biden’s unwavering support for Israel may cost him votes in the upcoming presidential election among young Americans who believe the president should have more sympathy for the Palestinian cause, according to The NYT.
Hamas have set up their main base beneath Gaza's biggest hospital, Israel claims, as it announced it expects 'a long and difficult ground offensive' will begin soon.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has said there is 'concrete evidence' to suggest Shifa hospital in Gaza City is a Hamas base of operations. Its spokesperson Daniel Hagari said that 'hundreds of terrorists flooded into the hospital to hide there after the massacre of October 7'. He said it is 'one of many' hospitals being used by the terror group and that they chose it to 'exploit innocent Gazan civilians as human shields'. He also noted that Hamas is using fuel stored in
U.S. Representative Dean Phillips, the relatively little-known Minnesota Democrat who has announced that he is challenging Joe Biden for president, has long portrayed himself as a moderate voice in Congress and a champion of bipartisanship.
The three-term congressman drives around his district in the western suburbs of Minneapolis in a 1960s-era van he’s dubbed the “Government Repair Truck.” He holds moderated “Common Ground” conversations with Democratic and Republican voters, according to the Star Tribune.
A member of the House Problem Solvers Caucus, Phillips, 54, touts his work with Chip Roy, the conservative Texas lawmaker, on relief for small-business owners
Executives with France-based Michelin announced that they will soon close a tire production plant in Ardmore, Oklahoma, laying off 1,400 American workers in the process. The decision comes as cheap foreign imported tires from low-wage countries flood the United States market.
On Thursday, Michelin executives said they would wind down production at the Ardmore plant. Supporting industries and local businesses are likely to take a hit as well.
The plant has produced passenger tires for more than five decades, dating back to 1970, and it is a vital employer for the community of about 25,000 residents — conveniently situated between Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Dallas, Texas.
The overwhelming media narrative these past three weeks has been that Republicans cannot govern because, after 18 rounds of voting in less than a year, they could not pick a speaker of the House — the chamber in which they hold majority control.
The political bed-wetting among Republicans in Washington sounded just as dire.
“We are going to lose 25 seats over our inability to pick a speaker!” they squealed. The Republican Party has just earned its place in the permanent minority — forever, they cried. But the media narrative and professional Republican caterwauling, as usual, is completely wrong. Sure, the last few weeks have been embarrassing
Maine gunman Robert Card targeted several deaf friends at a cornhole club for the hard of hearing in a possible revenge attack, it has emerged today.
The previously sectioned Army reserve firearms instructor is still at large after bursting into a bowling alley and a bar in the small city of Lewiston with an AR-15-style rifle on Wednesday night, killing at least 18 people and injuring 13 more.
In the months before the shooting, Card had been prescribed a hearing aid, which he claimed allowed him to hear people criticizing him at Schemengee's Bar where he carried out his second shooting.
The Gateway Pundit correspondent Jordan Conradson on Thursday confronted serial liar and Russiagate pusher Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) about the Russia Collusion Hoax and political persecution of President Trump for questioning the stolen 2020 election.
Real America Voice and Frontline America’s Ben Bergquam followed behind, filming the encounter. Bergquam and Conradson have previously “tag-teamed” a Maricopa County Elections official with questions surrounding the stolen 2022 election in Arizona after he appeared to perjure himself in court.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Bergquam also destroyed Rep. Ruben Gallego Wednesday with questions about his open borders policies and whether or not he is taking money from the cartels.
On Thursday, in response to the Maine shootings, President Joe Biden pushed for a repeal of protections that protect gun makers from frivolous lawsuits, universal background checks, and other gun controls.
WhiteHouse.gov published Biden’s statement, which opened with him saying, “Today, Jill and I are praying for the Americans who’ve lost their lives, for those still in critical care, and for the families, survivors, and community members enduring shock and grief.”
He then urged residents in Maine’s Lewiston area to heed all law enforcement’s warnings, including alerts to shelter-in-place.
Has EV Boom Jumped The Shark?
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Many people have climbed aboard the electric-vehicle bandwagon, lured by promises of pristine air and cheap, easy-to-use electricity that make EVs seem inevitable. But now, after years of spending billions on subsidies and shaming people into buying into our inevitable all-electric future, some are slamming on the brakes — surprisingly, including many of the biggest companies in the industry.
The global companies, recipients of massive subsidies to support fossil-fuel abolition, are backing away from their support.
General Motors, faced with a strike, just abandoned its EV strategy,
Joe Biden has blown up the world
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On day one of the Biden administration, he canceled the Keystone Pipeline, putting thousands of skilled workers out of work. (snip) Biden is an angry man, a stupid man, an arrogant man, and a little man. He was never a good senator. (snip) He constantly makes up things that he’s done or accomplished when those claims are easily checked. (snip) He has tried for years to make us believe he is good, smart, and legitimate, but he is none of those things. He has brought the United States to a historic low — the brink of another world war. He’s blown up the world.
Trump and Giuliani never fell for Sidney
Powell’s 2020 election ‘Kraken’
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Powell’s 2020 election ‘Kraken’
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Sidney Powell, the one-time Trump legal adviser — who famously failed to “release the Kraken” that would overturn the 2020 election — has flipped.
This news has been greeted with great glee in the usual circles. Ahhh, salivated the New York Times. “Sidney Powell’s Plea Deal Could Be a Threat to Trump.” Hurrah! “Sidney Powell was Trump’s biggest ‘fighter.’ Now she’s a big threat,” trumpeted the Washington Post.
But like Powell, they are always promising a Kraken that will never come.
They dream that Powell’s testimony will deliver a lethal blow to Trump and his embattled former attorney Rudy Giuliani.
However, for anyone who paid attention to Giuliani’s testimony
Gavin Newsom Pledges California Will Be
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Chinese state media continued to gush over visiting California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday, hailing the Democrat’s warm meeting with dictator Xi Jinping as a triumph of “mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win-win cooperation.”
Newsom said that under his leadership, California is ready to become “China’s long-term, stable, and strong partner.” (snip) Newsom came out firmly against decoupling from China by moving supply chains to other countries, proclaiming “divorce is not an option” for the U.S. and China
Newly-minted House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday that the entirety of his worldview could be found if one would simply “go pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it.”
Johnson, who received unanimous Republican support after three weeks of chaos — and three other nominees for the position — was elected on Wednesday to replace ousted House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and spoke with Hannity about getting back to business in the House of Representatives.
President Joe Biden’s White House has no plans to revoke the visas of those foreign students engaging in demonstrations across United States college campuses in defense of the Islamic terrorist organization Hamas and its attacks on Israel.
After a number of Republicans urged Biden’s State Department to revoke the visas of pro-Hamas foreign students who hold F-1 visas, National Security Council (NSC) spokesman John Kirby said the administration will not do so.An exchange at a White House briefing went as follows:
REPORTER: There’s been an uptick on the right among some Republicans who have called for students or foreign nationals who are demonstrating
Shadowy out-of-state groups are pouring money into the campaign to enshrine a radical new abortion law in Ohio’s constitution, but will voters fall for it? In the wake of Roe v. Wade’s defeat in the Supreme Court last year, leftist groups are clamoring to dramatically expand abortion up to the day of birth in red states. In Ohio, that means pushing Issue 1--which would establish a right to abort babies long past the point of “fetal viability,” the limit established under Roe.[Snip]This is just the start of the Left’s war on children and mothers. Ohioans, if you don’t protect your children from the cult of death, who will?