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Catholic Texas Prof Busts Talarico After Absurd Abortion/Bible Claim in Campaign-Ending Moment

https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2026/10/14/catholic-texas-voter-shreds-talarico-after-absurd-abortionbible-claim-during-cnn-town-hall-n2208150

We've written before about how two Democrat Senate nominees are testing the waters to see how far their "progressive Christianity" can take them in red states where traditional Christian values on matters of family and faith can be the difference between a winning and losing campaign.
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The other one is Texas Democrat nominee James Talarico, who, as RedState has extensively documented, has been making wacky, supposedly "biblically based" assertions about political matters for years as a state representative. "When I take on the politicians who are serving themselves and not the people, I’m doing it on biblical grounds," Talarico recently (and falsely) proclaimed.

Abortion, though, is one issue that Talarico has previously (and wrongly) asserted the Bible is "silent" on. The absurd statement has been resoundingly debunked, which we reported here, but Talarico continues to make the claim, as we saw during a CNN town hall Wednesday night, which was held in the Lone Star State.

Watch this clip, where not only does the purported Presbyterian seminarian repeat the lie, but he also tries to convince an orthodox Catholic Texas voter to find common ground with him on contraception. The absolute nerve of this guy:
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Survey says... NOPE. And Ms. Hunt, who is also a distinguished theology professor, busted him over it in what, in a fair and just world, should be the beginning of the end of his campaign:

Pro-abortion advocates have been perroting this 1/4-truth for decades, and it has been refuted just as long. In the narrow literal sense, one will not find in Cruden's, Young's, or Strong's Concordances the word "abortion" (I could check, ). Woo-hoo! As this Catholic theology prof pointed out - a prof, or student, from the "Fundamentalist" Dallas Theological Seminary could answer just as astutely - the Bible speaks clearly about murder and about the nature of unborn children. I'm sure Talarico knows this, but hoped no one present would dare contradict his silly lie.

True time ...

The tech company for which I work has multiple buildings in northeast San Jose. In the past decade, I have worked in two, and the majority first languages, in order of prevalence, are:

* Mandarin;

* Vietnamese;

* English.

The Taiwanese, Chinese, and Vietnamese speakers are a mix of LEGAL immigrants, naturalized US citizens, and first-generation citizens. I have heard and seen exactly zero persons expressing concern ("Trump" and "ICE" would sound the same in any language) or showing nervousness about Trump being President, the four years of 1.0 and 2.0 to date. gopiscrap is a Prog moronic enough to believe his/her own propaganda absurdities. Or is lyingly claims to believe it.

 

I have been a thorn in republican administration's for 40 years, so I do feel some trepidation.

I fixed your spelling, now you better go hide under the bed till the next democrat gets elected president

5 dead in Bend elementary school shooting

https://www.kptv.com/2026/10/15/bend-police-respond-report-active-shooter-silver-rail-elementary-school/

BEND, Ore. (KPTV) — Five people are dead, including the shooter, after a shooting Thursday at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, police said.

Bend Police Chief said during an afternoon briefing that the first call came from a driver at 12:59 p.m. who said someone with a long rifle had shot at him while he was in his car.
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Three children, ages 5, 8 and 11, and one teacher were killed, police said. The fifth person dead is the shooter, bringing the total to five. Police said the families of all of those who died have been notified.

The suspected shooter was shot and killed by a community member who pursued him into the school, the chief said. Police identified the suspect as a 16-year-old boy from Bend. His name has not yet been released.

A "community member" took the murderer out, so no SRO. Does OR ban SROs?

Once again, anti-gun laws - schools are "gun-free zones" - did not hinder a person bent on committing murder. How unsurprising.

Had this happened in Portland or Eugene, the local prosecutor would be seriously considering prosecuting the "community member" for violating the "gun-free zone". Or if (s)he has a concealed-carry permit, revoking it. I wish I were joking.

From a French warning America not to vote for leftists/socialists.

Brivael Le Pogam
Argil
@brivael
I’m French. I want to talk to Americans who are about to vote Democrat. Not to insult you. To warn you.

I come from your future.

In France we did everything your progressive politicians promise. Free healthcare, free college, generous welfare, strong unions, heavy regulation, high taxes on the rich, a state that takes care of everything. Public spending close to 57% of GDP, one of the highest on the planet. On paper, it’s the dream.

Here’s what it looks like from the inside. France hasn’t passed a balanced budget since 1974. Our debt is above 3,300 billion euros. Interest on that debt is becoming one of the biggest items in the national budget. Our hospitals are collapsing despite record funding. Our schools rank lower every year. Young people with degrees can’t afford an apartment in the city they were born in. Our best engineers leave for London, Zurich and San Francisco. And the rich you wanted to tax? They left too, and took the jobs with them.

The promise was protection. The result is stagnation.

The worst part is that nobody in France voted for decline. Every single step sounded generous, compassionate, reasonable. One more program. One more regulation. One more tax to fund it. Each step alone makes sense. Fifty years of them, and you wake up in a country that can no longer build a nuclear plant on time or keep its streets safe.

I love America because it’s the one place on earth where people still believe they can build something from nothing. I came to Silicon Valley as a self-taught kid and it changed my life. That spirit is the most precious thing your country has.

Before you vote, ask yourself one question: is the program you’re voting for making America more like America, or more like France?

Trust me. You don’t want to be France.

https://x.com/brivael/status/2110023149064507674

Brivael Le Pogam
Argil
@brivael
My post about France went viral. Thousands of likes. Many Americans told me: "Democrats aren't socialists. America will never be France." I want to answer that seriously, step by step.

Start with a simple observation. Look at what has gotten cheaper in America over the last 25 years: TVs, phones, software, clothes, toys. Now look at what has exploded: college tuition, healthcare, childcare, housing.

What separates the two lists? The first lives in competitive markets. The second is exactly where government is most involved: subsidies, mandates, licensing, zoning, regulation.

College. Washington lends students almost unlimited money. Universities know the money will always come, so they raise tuition and hire more administrators. The student pays the bill for twenty years. More government money, higher prices.

Housing. Why can't a nurse buy a home in the city where she works? Not because of capitalism. Because of zoning laws, permits, environmental reviews, years of procedure to build a single building. The most expensive places to live in America are the places where it's hardest to build. When building is nearly illegal, prices explode.

Healthcare. The patient almost never sees the price. A third party pays, regulations limit who can compete, and costs climb year after year with no one able to say no.

So here is the trap. The problems you suffer from are not the failure of free markets. They are the places where the market has already been replaced by the state. And the solution you're being offered is more of the same.

That's the Trojan horse. It always works the same way. A real problem. A generous-sounding promise. A program that makes things worse. Then the failure of that program becomes the argument for the next one. People who lived under communism in Poland learned to recognize the lie and the mask the lie wears. The lie never presents itself as a lie. It presents itself as compassion.

In France we are at the end of that road. Debt we can never repay. Young people who can't afford a home. Our best people leaving. And every few years our cities burn. Nobody voted for this. They voted for one more generous promise, fifty years in a row.

If you're a Republican, share this with the Democrat in your life. Not to win an argument. To start a conversation.

If you're a Democrat, I'm not asking you to switch teams. I'm asking you to look at the pattern. Wherever the state took over, life became unaffordable. Don't fix the failures of government with more government.

Stay American. Ask for less state, not more.

https://x.com/brivael/status/2110072284740288767