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Accused Texas megachurch pastor to surrender on child sexual abuse charges– www.bostonherald.com

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Accused Texas megachurch pastor to surrender on child sexual abuse charges– www.bostonherald.com
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A former pastor of a Texas megachurch is expected to turn himself into Oklahoma authorities Monday on child sexual abuse charges.

Robert Preston Morris, 63, is expected to surrender to officials in Osage County, where he was charged last week with five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child, his attorney, Mack Martin, told The Associated Press.

Martin declined to comment on the charges against Morris, but said he anticipated entering a not guilty plea on Morris’ behalf.

Court records show an Osage County judge set a $50,000 bond and ordered Morris to surrender his passport to the local sheriff.

Morris resigned last year as pastor of Gateway Church in the Dallas suburb of Southlake after a woman accused him of sexually abusing her in the 1980s.

Trump’s Assault Demands a United Front– www.vanityfair.com

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Trump’s Assault Demands a United Front– www.vanityfair.com
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Donald Trump has been in office for only about two months, but his administration is on a supercharged march to exert complete control over both the media and academia. So much of this is right out of Project 2025, which involves concentrating executive power while castrating the judicial and legislative branches. I predicted last month that the latter two might be something of a bulwark, as they were last time, against Trump’s worst instincts. This time, however, that doesn’t seem to be the case: Congressional Republicans will seemingly rubber-stamp just about anything Trump wishes, while Democrats appear increasingly powerless against the GOP’s groupthink. Only the courts and the cratering financial markets have provided some checks on Trump—and he has unsurprisingly decided to ignore both.

That’s why I’ve spent so much time lately thinking about how we can protect the norms and institutions we still have. Democratic senator Sheldon Whitehouse appeared on my podcast last month to argue that Democrats should fight the “corruption” and “chaos” of “Trump and his creepy billionaires” by “hang[ing] together with persistent and relentless focus on the real danger we are facing.” That call for solidarity isn’t just applicable to Democrats; it also applies to the media and the university system, which Trump is targeting through a process of divide and conquer.

Trump says Xi to visit in ‘not too distant future’– www.channelnewsasia.com

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Trump says Xi to visit in ‘not too distant future’– www.channelnewsasia.com
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WASHINGTON: United States President Donald Trump said on Monday (Mar 17) that his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping would visit the US soon, as trade tensions soar between the world’s two largest economies over Trump’s tariffs.

“He’ll be coming in the not too distant future,” Trump told reporters as he visited the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington while talking about the Chinese leader.

Trump did not give any further details.

The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Washington and Beijing had begun discussions about a possible summit in June in the US. Both leaders celebrate birthdays in the month of June.

Trump’s tariffs hit China where it hurts — more must follow– www.theblaze.com

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Trump’s tariffs hit China where it hurts — more must follow– www.theblaze.com
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Donald Trump’s first term reshaped American politics. Against all odds, he upended the establishment’s consensus on trade, immigration, and foreign policy. He redefined the Republican Party’s platform with an “America First” agenda and proved that conservative populism is not only viable but dominant.

But resistance to his presidency was fierce. From day one, entrenched Washington elites and career bureaucrats worked to undermine him. Even within the Republican Party, many clung to outdated, donor-driven priorities instead of embracing the agenda voters demanded.

The United States must fully decouple from China, starting with a ban on Chinese ownership of American land and critical industries.

As a result, key elements of the MAGA movement — securing the border, dismantling the administrative state, and reducing dependence on China — faced obstruction from politicians more concerned with preserving their own power than delivering on their promises.

Gender Ideology Still Infects FBI– www.dailysignal.com

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Gender Ideology Still Infects FBI– www.dailysignal.com
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I don’t envy FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino in their new jobs running the agency.

Getting control of an agency with over 37,000 employees and rooting out the worst excesses of political bias and warped gender ideology that has corrupted it is a monumental job.

One of the things they should know is that some of their agents or their supervisors still haven’t gotten the message that there is a new sheriff in town, and they need to change their behavior accordingly. That includes not asking woke questions about “gender identity.”

This was demonstrated just recently by some information I received from a very reliable source, a former government employee. My source was contacted by an FBI agent doing an employment background investigation on someone the source knows.

That Little Judge in the Venezuelan Deportation Dispute Is Making a Ridiculous Demand– townhall.com

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That Little Judge in the Venezuelan Deportation Dispute Is Making a Ridiculous Demand– townhall.com
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Power-drunk Judge James Boasberg is demanding the Trump administration hand over classified information during a hearing about his insane ruling that sought to disrupt the separation of powers regarding the deportation of foreign terrorists, Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua, whom he ordered halted. He thinks the president cannot use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to accelerate deportations, even ordering flights over international waters to return stateside. He doesn’t have that authority. He’s either deranged, power-hungry, stupid, or maybe a mix of all three.