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Musk Says ‘Make More Italians’
World

Musk Says ‘Make More Italians’

William McGurn is a member of The Wall Street Journal editorial board and writes the weekly "Main Street" column for the Journal each Tuesday. Previously he served as Chief Speechwriter for President George W. Bush.Mr. McGurn has served as chief editorial writer for The Wall Street Journal in New York. He spent more than a decade overseas -- in Brussels for The Wall Street Journal/Europe and in Hong Kong with both the Asian Wall Street Journal and the Far Eastern Economic Review. And in the mid-1990s, he was Washington Bureau Chief for National Review.Bill is author of a book on Hong Kong ("Perfidious Albion") and a monograph on terrorism ("Terrorist or Freedom Fighter"). He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, holds a BA in philosophy from Notre Dame and an MS in Communicatio...
Mike Johnson Helped Put Creationism In Louisiana Schools
Politics

Mike Johnson Helped Put Creationism In Louisiana Schools

Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) elevation to the heights of the U.S. House of Representatives marked one of the most significant achievements of the religious right since its splash onto the political scene in the late 20th century. It had successfully placed a true believer who worked inside its movement into one of the most important political offices in the country.And with him, he brought the bona fides of a record of advancing one of the movement’s most important goals: putting Christianity back into every facet of public life. Johnson has a long history of supporting and promoting creationist causes, acting as a lawyer for the Creation Museum and Ark Encounter in Kentucky where dinosaurs are seen as passengers on a re-creation of Noah’s Ark, as previously reported by HuffPost. But pe...
Mike Johnson Spent Years Defending Christian Speech In Schools
Politics

Mike Johnson Spent Years Defending Christian Speech In Schools

Before coming to Congress, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) spent years taking up lawsuits in defense of Christian speech and activities in public elementary schools and universities.Johnson, who was a relatively unknown Louisiana congressman before being elected House speaker last month, previously spent eight years as senior attorney for Alliance Defending Freedom, an evangelical legal group focused on dismantling LGBTQ+ rights and outlawing abortion. It was in his role there that Johnson, a constitutional lawyer, took up case after case aimed at chipping away at the separation of church and state.What’s alarming about this pattern in his background is that it raises questions about whether the House speaker ― the person second in line to the U.S. presidency ― disputes the first freedom gua...
Kat Von D Gets Baptized After Renouncing The Occult
Entertainment

Kat Von D Gets Baptized After Renouncing The Occult

Kat Von D is returning to religion.The tattoo artist-turned-makeup mogul shared video from her own baptism ceremony to Instagram on Tuesday, posting a montage of friends and family gathering in church for the occasion.“Katherine von Drachenberg, upon your profession of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in obedience to His Divine command, I baptize you, my sister, in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,” a priest proclaimed before dunking the “LA Ink” alum into a bath of holy water in the video.Von D’s husband, singer Rafael Reyes, celebrated his wife of five years in a comment, telling her, “I love you so much my beautiful wife, you continue to inspire me every day. I want to marry you over and over again!”Kat Von D has gone public with her conversion to Christianity in a vide...