Stephen Newell

"Take it to them, kick their f**king a**. This is your house, we step on that field its not your house. You own this sh**, you're up now." Inject this into my soul.

The guy who compared a Trump rally to Jonestown on live Fox News was invited by the Trump campaign. They called his work phone on Monday and asked him to come. His name is Tom Hoyle. He's 57 and runs a small custom printing shop in Charlotte called MadPark Designs with his business partner. He's hated Trump since 1989, back when he was a sophomore in college. And he really, really doesn't like getting sales calls on the shop line, from anybody. So when the rally people called, he said yes. He even signed up with his real name and contact info, because he wanted it on the record that they invited him. Then he had to get through the door. A private security guy asked him straight up if he was a Trump supporter. Tom told him he supports the Constitution, then started talking about his shirt, which was for an old death metal band called Death. He kept going about the history of Florida death metal until the guard gave up and let him in. His plan going in was honestly pretty juvenile. He and a buddy he grew up with figured he'd wait a few minutes into the speech and yell something filthy. Then a Fox News reporter, Lucas Tomlinson, found him standing off by himself and asked if he could interview him live. Tom thinks a white guy with a big beard and a ball cap was pretty much exactly what they were looking for. He told himself he wasn't going to cuss on national TV, so he made it up on the spot. He says the first line and then just waits. The reporter goes "Wait, the Jonestown Massacre?" and that's when he finishes it. He told The Handbasket he picked that up from Billy Crystal, who said on Letterman back in the '80s that you always let the other guy set up your punchline. Tomlinson set it up for him perfectly. A few minutes later some men who said they were Secret Service pulled him aside. He asked if this was about the concession stand, because it closed early and he was starving. They didn't love that and walked him out. On his way out he passed the guard from the front door and told him, hey man, you didn't vet me too well. Think about how many people had a shot at stopping this. The campaign's call list found him. The signup form had his name. A guard questioned him to his face. A Fox crew put him on live TV. Every one of them took one look at the beard and the hat and filled in the rest. That's how almost all of this screening works. Asking somebody what they actually believe takes time, and looking at them takes a second, so everybody just looks. The one check that actually caught him came after he'd already said it on national TV.

Fox: Why are you here this morning? Trump rally attendee: Well, in the late 70s, I was a little too young to go to South America for the Jonestown Massacre. But this is as close as I'll ever get, so that's why I'm here. There's nothing like seeing a cult right up front.

I'm a Baptist for whom religious liberty matters greatly. But does supporting religious liberty mean voters cannot take a candidate's religious worldview into account when deciding whether to vote for them? No. With Islam's growing influence, I have a new column at @realDailyWire that helps clarify how religion factors into whether a candidate is fit to serve. dailywire.com/news/the-polit…

When Wes Rucker died, @Gentry_Estes was the head of the phone tree for many of us, even though he was in Italy covering the Olympics. That's another story for another day. Grief hit him at Neyland Stadium Saturday. So he wrote about his friend of 20 years knoxnews.com/story/sports/co…

Why does homosexuality seem to be the only "sin" Christians are concerned with? The Bible has plenty to say about adultery, greed, hatred, lying, stealing, hypocrisy, judgment, and how we treat others.

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I don’t understand how anyone can read the Bible and think polygamy sounds great. This is a serious reading comprehension problem is all I’m saying. Every story in the Bible it just about destroys the family with all the jealousy and competitiveness between the kids and wives.

A Glaring Flaw With the Premillennial Conception of a Millennial Age Just who are these people, and how do they get through the resurrection and the judgment that occur at Christ’s return without being raised bodily from the dead? kimriddlebarger.com/the-ridd…

1. Megan is a career woman. 2. The Proverbs 31 woman buys real estate, runs a vineyard, produces merchandise, and sells it for profit. 3. “Career woman” is a modern category that Proverbs 31 neither commands nor condemns. But if your theology requires you to explain why all of her work somehow doesn’t count as work, I’m not sure biblical illiteracy is the actual problem.

A robot inside a tech store appeared to attack a person after being shoved, before two store employees stepped in and held it back.

If you want evidence that capitalism is a force for good, just visit a grocery store. My ode to the humble American supermarket, for @WSJFreeEx

Before the Milan Conference of 1880, deaf people had already built thriving communities around their own languages, education, and culture all around the world. Deaf people were teachers, leaders, writers, advocates, organizers, and respected members of their communities. People such as Laurent Clerc, Jean Massieu, and Ferdinand Berthier proved that deaf people were capable of educating others, leading organizations, influencing governments, and advocating for themselves. They could read and write very well. Then came the Milan Conference. The overwhelming majority of people making decisions about deaf education were hearing, while deaf people themselves had very little representation. All of the deaf teachers, except 2, were not allowed in the conference. The conference strongly favored oral (speaking not signing) education over sign language. Milan's influence helped push the oralism movement ...and that still exists today. After Milan, many deaf teachers lost their positions, and sign language was discouraged, suppressed, or even punished in many educational settings. Deaf children were increasingly taught to speak and lip-read, sometimes spending enormous amounts of their education on speech training rather than academics. In many places, deaf children were being taught according to what hearing educators believed deaf people needed, rather than having deaf people meaningfully involved in determining their own education. As time went on, less and less deaf people were able to read and write. In the United States, less than 30% of deaf children will grow up to be able to read and write above the 2nd grade level. This is not due to deafness. It's due to language deprivation. Deaf people in deaf communities did not simply accept this. They continued signing, building communities, creating organizations, publishing, advocating, and passing their language and culture from one generation to the next. Deaf communities kept their language alive even when educational institutions tried to push it aside. The effects of that history can still be seen today. While some schools no longer formally ban sign language, oralism continues in some educational systems where deaf children may have limited access, if at all, to sign language or may not be exposed to a fully accessible language early enough. This matters because a child needs meaningful access to language in order to develop, learn, communicate, and participate fully in society. In the United States, it's estimated that about 70% of deaf children will develop Language Deprivation Syndrome... and this will adversely impact not only their ability to read and write, but to ever acquire language, have working memory skills, and fully develop their cognitive skills. It's preventable - they just need access to language during the optimal developmental stage of language acquisition, usually from birth to age 5. What language is best? American Sign Language. Why not spoken language, with the advances of technology? You can refer to my other posts on this topic. The lesson of Milan is therefore much bigger than simply sign language versus speech. It is about who gets to make decisions for a community. Deaf people had already demonstrated that they could teach, lead, organize, create, and thrive. Yet when major decisions were made about their language and education, they were largely left out of the room. Deaf people have never lacked the ability to thrive. History shows what happens when they are given the opportunity, and what can happen when decisions affecting them are made without them.

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