A 69-year-old concealed carry permit holder was able to defend himself from three alleged armed robbers in Chicago, officials said. One of the robbers was shot by the victim. Police in Chicago said that three suspects approached the victim on Tuesday and told him to hand over his belongings. The man then pulled out his gun, which he has a permit to carry in a concealed manner, and fired a shot at one of the suspects. …According to a report from the conservative Heritage Foundation, citing data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “Almost all national studies of defensive gun uses have found that firearms are used in self-defense between 500,000 and 3 million times every year in the United States.”
Month: March 2021
US Firms Are Profiting From Uyghur Forced Labor: Expert: Epoch Times
“Its persecution of Uyghurs is just one more example from a long and egregious history of religious persecution of many other religious groups, including Protestant and Catholic Christians, Falun Gong practitioners, and Tibetan Buddhists,” said Bauer, who was chief domestic policy adviser to President Ronald Reagan. “Quite frankly, I’d like to know how American corporations can morally justify investing in communist China at all. By doing so, they contribute to making more powerful a nation controlled by a repressive regime that has literally declared war on all people of faith.”
COVID Hypocrisy at the White House, Betsy McCaughey: Epoch Times
Biden administration health official Rochelle Walensky announced Monday that vaccinated Americans can visit with others who are vaccinated in small groups at home. But when Walensky was asked about visiting grandchildren, she said no, unless the kids are local. Even vaccinated people must avoid traveling. “Every time there’s a surge in travel, we have a surge in cases in this country.” The Biden administration is making one exception. It’s OK to wade across the Rio Grande River and enter the United States illegally. Even if you have COVID-19, you can get on a bus in a Texas border town and travel to any part of the United States, including New York, Baltimore, Miami, and Los Angeles. Never mind how far and wide COVID-infected migrants spread the virus as they fan out.
An Open Letter to Twitter, Newt Gingrich: Epoch Times
Twitter locked me [Newt Gingrich] out over a tweet that criticized the Biden administration’s approach to the Southern Border—and raised concern over immigrants crossing the border illegally who may be infected with COVID-19. I was reacting to a recent story that federal officials have no way of testing people who are picked up by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol—or forcing them to quarantine.
Epoch Reader Poll: Majority Want Biden Administration to Complete Border Wall: Epoch Times
A new survey of 24,700 readers of The Epoch Times shows completing the U.S.–Mexico border wall is overwhelmingly seen as a top priority, while Biden administration initiatives, such as ending the “Remain in Mexico” program for asylum-seekers and the pausing of deportations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, are rated poorly. Readers were surveyed on what they wanted the administration to do on border security, with more than 95 percent saying they wanted to see the wall—President Donald Trump’s signature campaign promise—finished. Eighty percent also indicated they wanted to see existing border laws enforced.
Running The Christian Race Together, Dr. Patrick Ramsey
Running the Christian race is not easy; temptation and the deceitfulness of sin are unrelenting foes; staying in the word and other means of grace can be very difficult if you do not have the support and encouragement of Christian brothers and sisters. Pastor Ramsey addresses these things and more as he explains that we must run the Christian race together, helping each other
WSJ Editorial Board Suggests Revising Section 230 Protections for Big Tech: Epoch Times
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) editorial board came out this week to express support for curtailing broad legal protections for technology companies after one of the newspaper’s opinion articles was fact-checked by Facebook. “We’ve been leery of proposals in Congress to modify Section 230 protections that shield internet platforms from liability. But social-media giants are increasingly adding phony fact checks and removing articles flagged by left-leaning users without explanation,” the board wrote in an op-ed title “Fact-Checking Facebook’s Fact-Checkers.”
Pro-Life Evangelicals for Biden ‘Feel Used and Betrayed:’ Open Letter: Epoch Times
On Sunday, Pro-Life Evangelicals for Biden wrote an open letter to President Joe Biden, calling on him to “honor his commitment,” telling him they “feel used and betrayed,” pointing at the exclusion of the Hyde Amendment in the Democrat’s $1.9 trillion CCP virus relief package…
Kansas City Archbishop Joseph Naumann said in a recent interview that Biden should acknowledge that his support for abortion contradicts his professed Catholic faith.“The president should stop defining himself as a devout Catholic, and acknowledge that his view on abortion is contrary to Catholic moral teaching,” Naumann said.
“It would be a more honest approach from him to say he disagreed with his church on this important issue and that he was acting contrary to church teaching,” the archbishop added.
Teen Mom’s Journey of Canceling Abortion to Raising 8 Kids: ‘Motherhood Is Not a Drawback’: Epoch Times
Over 20 years ago, a pregnant high-schooler, fearing that her dreams and ambitions were at stake, scheduled for aborting her unborn son after a planned parenthood counseling convinced her that she was carrying nothing more than a “clump of cells.” But a family intervention led to a change of heart, and she forged her life path toward purposeful living and inspiring others. Her son is now a 21-year-old young man. Today, Becky Martin is a happily married mom of eight and a vocal pro-life advocate from her home in the Midwest. Regaling her life story to The Epoch Times, the doting mom, and an avid Math lover, said “motherhood is not a drawback” and kids are “not detrimental” to success.
The Left’s Attack on the Nuclear Family Echoes Language of CCP: Morgan Zegers: Epoch Times
“The left’s attack on the nuclear family … all goes into that growing support for socialism, that collectivist mindset that we’re seeing in America,” Zegers told The Epoch Times’ “Crossroads” at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, last week. …Young Americans Against Socialism is a nonpartisan nonprofit dedicated to exposing socialism’s failures by creating viral educational videos for social media.