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Orthodox Christian. Constitutionalist. Sr. Ed. @wshstand / @frcdc . Then: The Daily Wire/“Morning Wire,” Acton Inst., LifeSite, FrontPage. CPAC. Radio. Views mine.

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8 years
You believe independent oversight is good. How do you feel about more regular health inspections of abortion facilities? @ilyseh #prolife
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@TheRightsWriter In fairness, I wasn't applying 2 b ON Ethics Committee just suggesting independent oversight is a good thing. You disagree?
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If you ever doubted Speaker Mike Johnson is a Christian man, imagine the Spirit-controlled temperament it takes to sit through this #SOTU and react with nothing more caustic than this.
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@theblaze Nikki Haley pulled off a Hillary Clinton-like gaffe: She assumed a second-place finish, and her speechwriters didn’t update her message based on the results.
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@theblaze Show your work.
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@BuzzPatterson @RNCResearch @maziehirono If only the Founding Fathers had left us some written record of what they thought the Constitution meant: perhaps proceedings from the convention, a series of papers arguing the Federalist and Anti-Federalist positions, the congressional Annals and Globes after ratification, etc.
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@XVanFleet CNN was there to sandbag you — to get you to say something they could take out of context to discredit you and your cause. You didn’t take the bait, so they failed. A reporter from The Guardian did the same to me in Sept. at the Pray Vote Stand Summit. Long interview, no quote.
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@greg_price11 Mr. President, could you kindly point out where these Americans are being thrown out of restaurants for being gay? (Doesn’t have to be in the afternoon; we’ll accept evening answers, as well.)
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@tomselliott @mikebarnicle Fall asleep at meetings, slur my words, and wander around like an asylum patient? I could try.
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A summer-long drought, followed by flooding. Prayers for our brothers and sisters in Appalachia.
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@BuzzPatterson I'm so sorry, Buzz. As we say in the Eastern Orthodox Church, May her memory be eternal. And may God bless and comfort you every day going forward.
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@NBCNews Throw in the EPA and public broadcasting, and we’ll talk.
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@pnjaban I guess now we know who Joe Biden means when he tells reporters, “I’d better stop, or I’ll get in trouble.”
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@ATRightMovies The last 30 seconds of “The Long Good Friday,” and it’s not even close. Bob Hoskins’ face puts on a Shakespearean acting clinic.
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@RNCResearch The Francis Scott King Bridge is responsible for the transport of 90% of America's Oyster Bunnies.
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On abortion, Marco Rubio tells Dana Bash, “I think our platform has to reflect our nominee.” On the contrary, the Republican Party platform should reflect the values of its voters and their enduring political positions. That’s what grassroots means.
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“It has been a great adventure for me to be so loathed by people I hold in contempt” - Sir Roger Scruton at the @EncounterBooks 20th anniversary gala. @Scruton_Quotes
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Shorter Version: Disney couldn’t buy Ron DeSantis. Rick Wilson outraged by integrity.
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@BasedMikeLee Our government has the authority to “close the border” to illegal aliens if daily crossings exceed zero.
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@Mediaite Alternate quotation: I made a movie that doesn’t appeal to the largest percentage of moviegoers and whole regions of the country.
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Anti-Trump protester in London tells @SkyNews , “Trans women of color are being openly lynched in the streets” of the U.S. That’s quite a scoop. #TrumpProtest
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@TimJGraham Its not bad enough they’re promoting propaganda; they also spend more than the first two minutes chewing the scenery.
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@greg_price11 ... or after showering with their fathers.
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@greg_price11 Too bad Appalachian flood victims don’t live in Ukraine. There’s no limit to their aid.
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@CaliforniaFrizz “Remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how He said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive’” (Acts 20:35).
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@JamesMartinSJ Calling murderers “animals” goes back to Jesus, Who called His opponents “serpents” & “vipers.” Philo of Alexandria wrote: “the unjust is no man, or more properly speaking a beast in human form…the follower after righteousness alone is man.” St. John Chrysostom said the
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Nikki Haley says, "Tonight, Iowa made this Republican primary a two person race!" Who, Trump and DeSantis? They both best her in the #IowaCaucus this time out. Note to Haley: Have your speechwriters update your speeches before delivery.
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@BillMelugin_ We’re broke and overrun by foreigners. Where should we start budget cuts? The police!
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@KevinTober94 Did the media “pounce” when Trump walked slowly but did not fall on a ramp at West Point?
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RT if you believe the picture of Abp. Elpidophoros performing “the first openly gay baptism in the Greek Orthodox Church” is a bigger scandal than the picture of a monk holding a gun replica. #Orthodox
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@spectatorindex How much did the Lincoln Project pay them?
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Chris Christie tells Donald Trump: “I know you’re watching” the second #GOPDebate . Donald Trump is actually shaking the hands of UAW workers in Michigan, engaging in a general election campaign in a swing state.
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@RNCResearch Any veteran drinking coffee in any McDonald’s in America this morning could give a clearer, sharper, more focused answer than this. And unlike Biden, they would put the interests of American citizens first.
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@bennyjohnson Psst, Google “Winnie Mandela” and “necklacing”
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Ron DeSantis just landed a jolting blow against Gavin Newsom: “You were a lockdown governor. You did a lot of damage to your people … the working-class kids … the middle – income kids. … “He is owned by the teachers unions … lock, stock, and barrel.” #debate
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@carolmswain @SmallGov4All @realchrisrufo Modest proposal: If Dr. Gay could be president of Harvard by plagiarizing your words, wouldn’t you be qualified for writing them in the first place?
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@RNCResearch The important thing isn’t the death of Laken Riley, or children being molested, or fentanyl flooding America and MS-13 taking over minority neighborhoods: The “important thing” is that nothing hinder Democrats’ immigration/amnesty policy.
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@walterkirn Soupy Sales, Nipsey Russell, Charles Nelson Reilly, and Kitty Carlisle were on every game show panel due to a Great Society law signed by LBJ.
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@nytimes Sanctuary city refuses to guarantee sanctuary.
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Defending life and the reality of gender expressed in Genesis 1:1 is not engaging in culture wars; it’s defending Christianity. “Be a threat to evil … simply being a Christian” - @conservmillen at #PVSS2022
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@theblaze They told me if I voted for anyone but Joe Biden in 2020, a dictator would take office. I did, and they were right.
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@RNCResearch The Biden administration gaslights more than every refinery in the country.
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@TomFitton @slowdownandread How do the liberal justices feel about botched abortions, like 16-year-old black girl who says she was left “sick, sore, lame and disabled” and gave birth to a baby with “profound birth defects” after taking the abortion pill, mifepristone?
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Dear @CBSNews , could you please ask Bernie Sanders, if he cannot see through Cuban propaganda 50 years after the fact, how can we trust him with foreign policy today? #DemDebate
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The World Economic Forum, whose members warn you about Christian Nationalism, paused for a pagan blessing.
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Lebanon was once a Christian-majority nation with a European culture that acted as an oasis of productivity, stability, and peace in the Middle East. Its downfall came about a little at a time for many causes, but its existence today is as unfathomable as the pain of its loss.
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Lebanon in the 1960s, when it was still a Christian-majority country. Then the Palestinians started a war, massacred the Christians, and ruined everything.
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@RepThomasMassie @SSS_gov Thank you, Congressman. A president should not be able to draft American civilians into a war unless the U.S. homeland has been invaded. If Americans will not voluntarily sign up to wage a war of choice under your command, then the people have spoken.
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@megbasham And saying King David raped Bathsheba because of their relevant power differential robs Bathsheba of the same volition that Joseph showed when he fled Potiphar’s wife.
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“At the federal level, I want the government to do nothing but the things enumerated in the #Constitution ” - @JonahNRO at #ActonU2019 . Just so.
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@realJeremyCarl “Thou shall not bear false witness,” Russell Moore
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Me shaking my head at people surprised a Hollywood star endorsed Kamala Harris. Sam Elliot fits his cultural/demographic/socioeconomic niche. Take solace in the fact that the Lincoln Project ad is so over-the-top it won’t sway a single voter.
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@breeadail My family has taken me to St. Joseph’s Cathedral to pray with them my entire life. It is a peaceful haven of prayer invaded by new-barbarians.
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@RNCResearch Taiwan is already independent.
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“I can attest to the extreme discomfort in the locker room when you turn around and there is a male watching you undress while exposing himself” – Riley Gaines on the NCAA forcing her teammates to share a locker room with “fully intact” Lia Thomas.
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“Easter worshippers” are people who worship Easter. People who worship in churches on Easter worship Jesus and are called “Christians.” #EasterWorshippers
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@breeadail Just a theory, but hear me out:
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Ron DeSantis pulled out a map of San Francisco covered in feces. #debate
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Andy Stanley asks straight Christians, “Where do you go that you’re not sure you’re going to be accepted, and you go over and over and over?” - College - The HR Dept - Twitter - Literally everywhere flying the rainbow flag We’re still the majority of Americans; gays are 4%.
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"Clobber passages" Andy has already completed the shift into queer affirmation. He just knows the people who still pay his salary need to be eased into it
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Joe Biden made the sign of the Cross at his abortion rally in Florida, apparently trying to ward off Gov. Ron DeSantis’ signing a heartbeat protection into law. It turns out Jesus is pro-life, DeSantis is a leader, and the act is state law.
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@BoSnerdley Rush Limbaugh is missed every single day. Thanks for all you’ve done for talk radio, Bo.
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It is impossible to divorce U.S. institutions from the faith that brought them about. Only a virtuous people can maintain a law formed by Christian values.
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“Christianity is a part of the common law.” The observation of James Wilson (Lectures on Law, College of Philadelphia), signer of the Declaration of Independence & U.S. Constitution and Associate Justice of the #SCOTUS , who died in ignominy on August 21, 1798. | @JamesWilsonInst
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This isn’t hard: If someone writes a “manifesto” and has a political goal, he’s a terrorist. Patrick Crusius is an Alt-Right terrorist. #ElPasoShooting #AltRight
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I think we need to start calling these people terrorists.
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@btcave1 Paul’s the giant in the middle. RIP.
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@greg_price11 You can’t spell “Biden” without “me.”
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“Your minor can go to California and get … life-altering surgeries” without “your knowledge, without your consent,” said Ron DeSantis Gavin Newsom tried to say they’re “just trying to live” their lives. “That’s not for you to decide!” said DeSantis at the Hannity #debate
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@megbasham In 1878, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, warned that ministers had become apostles of Marxist doctrine. “German rationalism, which has ripened into socialism, may yet pollute the mass of mankind,” he said. “Deadly principles are abroad, and certain ministers are spreading them.” “I
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@megynkelly Vivek missed an opportunity to discuss Nikki Haley’s foreign policy views on Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.
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Rep. @chiproytx quotes the Book of Acts on the value and privileges of citizenship. Joe Biden and the open borders lobby in both parties are leading America down the Roman Road to extinction.
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@JDVance1 Our tax dollars at work.
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@TimJGraham The highly emotional, interracial lesbian couple was a wonder of intersectionality.
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@ChristinaPushaw @GovRonDeSantis Ron DeSantis has concentrated on finding the survivors, clearing the rubble, and comforting the survivors … and he left calculations about political advantage out of the conversation. That’s the heart of someone who seeks to serve his constituents.
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@MZHemingway Someone needs to make a Venn diagram of this for Kamala Harris.
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@MNPDNashville That’s … not a denial these documents are authentic. Please clarify the issue directly. Thanks.
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@bennyjohnson Andy Sabin keeps saying “you wouldn’t believe” how many Democrats are funding Nikki Haley’s presidential campaign. I believe it.
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@KevinGutzman It was quite a self-own.
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@BenZeisloft “There are currently more Pagans than Presbyterians in the United States.” I assume there’s some overlap in the PCUSA.
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I rarely do this, but I need your prayers. Thanks. #Orthodox #Christian
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Biden ended his press conference by screaming, then complaining, “I’m not supposed to be having this press conference.“ #ThisIsNormal
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Would appreciate your prayers; am feeling terrible.
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“We must reject the perennial prophets of doom and their predictions of the apocalypse” - @realDonaldTrump at #Davos2020 . I addressed the antidotal to environmental alarmism in the most recent issue of “Religion & Liberty” for the @ActonInstitute
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@XVanFleet Why do you suppose the Biden administration would want to confine illegal immigrants to solid Republican Texas?
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The arc of history is long, but it bends towards justice. #Dobbs #SCOTUS
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@swinshi “Why should I care about future generations — what have they ever done for me?” - Groucho. So, you are a Marxist!
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@herandrews The Seinfeld episode titled “The Conversion,” about George Constanza joining the “Latvian Orthodox Church.” The church plays organ music (we’re acapella), has George commune himself by drinking from the chalice (priest administers communion via spoon), and asks a nun to give the
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@Rehman_Chishti @SuzanneEvans1 @theresa_may @Conservatives Thank you for raising the issue of Asia Bibi.
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@seacdm2003 Telling the world someone seems filled with the Holy Spirit based on his behavior is discernment.
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@DailyCaller They are seizing fentanyl at record levels, because cartels are shipping record levels of fentanyl.
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@TheCalvinCooli1 1 down, 49 to go.
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@TheFirstonTV Joe told this story to get back at Jill for kissing Doug Emhoff.
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“Wildly unpredictable events, like August being hot, never occurred to Newsom last October when he signed six more bills to kill off his state’s fossil fuel industry. Shutting down one of California’s two nuclear plants certainly didn’t help.” - @exjon in USA Today
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My latest for USA Today explains why so many Californians are yelling at me this morning.
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@DavidLimbaugh Nothing to forgive. Deep love keeps our loved ones’ absence near our minds and our hearts longing for them. I still miss hearing his voice every day from 12-3. I can’t imagine the pain of a brother. God bless.
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@BoSnerdley Karl Rove - yawn.
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Of your charity, please remember the soul of the departed servant of God Micah, the severely autistic son of an #Orthodox priest, who passed away Friday night at the age of 28. His cause of death is presently undetermined. May his memory be eternal!
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“Real knowledge and real culture can be transmitted outside the universities, and must be transmitted outside the universities when the universities are in the control of the indoctrinating Left.” - Sir Roger Scruton. @Scruton_Quotes
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@BillMelugin_ Biden is leveraging sympathy for Israel to extract orders greater funding for Ukraine. His $100 billion package gives $60 billion to Ukraine and $10 billion to Israel. This is a Burisma aid package. #BurismaAidPackage
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@LiveActionNews … Unlike Hollywood, which is totally healthy.
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The voting age dropped to 18 b/c of the Vietnam draft. Proposal: Swap a permanent abolition of the draft (except in case of land invasion) for raising the voting age back to 21. #VotingAges
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@RNCResearch Given all the time Joe Biden says he spent in Roman Catholic, black, Puerto Rican, and Greek Orthodox churches, you’d think he’d have heard the Ten Commandments and prohibitions against bribery.
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