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Before getting to this rather jaw-dropping moment, let me first paint the Big Club agenda within it. Everyone knows the Big Club is stressed about the inability of Ron DeSantis to launch a successful campaign. Trillions are at stake, and they have invested hundreds of millions into the effort. Things are getting serious now.You have heard me repeat it before; the Big Club it is a large network of aligned financial interests. It does not take a lot of organization and/or the creation of some massive global conspiracy, to create outcomes of mutual benefit when the interests of the parties...

The mother of a Texas school shooting victim was told by first responders that her daughter may have survived the massacre if authorities had acted quicker. The fourth-grader, who was among the 19 students killed at Robb Elementary in Uvalde on Tuesday, bled to death after being shot in her kidney. 'Her child had been shot by one bullet through the back through the kidney area,' State Sen. Ronald Gutierrez told CNN Sunday morning. 'The first responder that they eventually talked to said that their child likely bled out. In that span of 30 or 40 minutes extra, that little...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which granted American women the right to vote and catapulted them out of the shadows of dependence into the full sunlight of long-awaited civic freedoms. The right to vote was only the beginning of a long list of goals achieved by the early women’s right movement. It also gained for us the right to control our property, to defend ourselves and our children from abusive husbands, to earn advanced degrees, and join professions reserved for men. But one right the early feminists did not fight for was the right to...

Pope Francis, Indifferentism, and Islamization Two young Scandinavian women who were hiking in the Atlas Mountains in Morocco were found dead in mid-December in their tent. ISIS terrorists later posted a video of themselves decapitating one of the victims.The mother of one of the women told reporters, “Her priority was safety. The girls had taken all precautionary measures before embarking on this trip.”“Except,” as Robert Spencer commented in JihadWatch, “that it no doubt didn’t even occur to them that what they thought they knew about Morocco’s religion and culture might be inaccurate and designed to whitewash Islam, leaving them ill-informed...

Arab youth assaulted in Berlin for wearing a kippah explains why he wore it, says bystanders' indifference was 'the worst.'

NEW YORK (AP) — In a deeply personal response to outbreaks of racially motivated protests, President Barack Obama on Monday blamed a lack of opportunity in minority communities and harsher treatment of black and Hispanic men by police for fueling a sense of "unfairness and powerlessness." The country's first black president called for a nationwide mobilization to reverse inequalities and said the cause will remain a mission for the rest of his presidency and his life. "There are consequences to indifference," Obama said. Helping launch a foundation to assist young minorities, Obama said the catalysts of protests in Ferguson, Missouri,...

The Road to Hell is Paved With…Indifference. A Meditation on a Warning by Jesus By: Msgr. Charles PopeThe Gospel from today’s Mass (Tuesday of the 31st week of the year) features the familiar Lucan version of the parable of a certain man (in the Matthew version (Mat 22:2), Jesus calls him a king) who gave a banquet. But when all was prepared and the servants were sent out to fetch the invited guests, many of them made excuses, preferring not to come:The first said to him,‘I have purchased a field and must go to examine it;I ask you, consider...

In America justice is supposed to be blind not our commander-in-chief. In Obama’s topsy-turvy America justice is not blind but our President is-and willfully so-when it comes to threats facing Americans. Will he remove his blinders? Only if he is forced to and by then it may be too late.

This ongoing series on the Reformation of Pope Francis began in September of 2013 with a thesis and a prophecy. The thesis was that Pope Francis means to remake the Catholic Church in his image; a feat that no previous Pope has dared to exercise to this extent. The prophecy was that the Papacy and Reformation of Pope Francis will be exercised through three personal ideologies of his that I called ‘windows’; those three being (1) Rejectionism; (2) Indifferentism, and (3) Inclusivism. For those new to this series, should know that these are not slam pieces. While it is true...

To grasp what's really motivating Cleaver, I apply what I call the "A Time to Kill" test.

The Energy of Evil By Norma Zager “Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” Yoda, Star Wars Episode I, The Phantom Menace When Franklin Roosevelt said we have nothing to fear but fear itself, what did he mean? Did he mean simply we should fear the fearing? If so, why? The paralyzing effects of the negative? Does fear make us weak? Frightened? Unable to think clearly under pressure? Probably all of those things, but so much more. There is something far greater to fear about fear. It is anger. If fear turns to anger and...

During the campaign, President Obama called George Bush's response to Katrina "unconscionable incompetence." What can our president say about his own lackadaisical response to the BP oil spill catastrophe? As pointed out by Toby Harnden in a devastating piece in the Telegraph , Obama's only recourse is to lie: "Even judging Obama by his words, he has fallen woefully short over what has now eclipsed the 1989 Exxon Valdez wreck as biggest oil spill catastrophe in American history. He may have described it as an 'unprecedented disaster' in last Thursday's press conference but a week into the crisis he was...

Every teacher knows that it is easier to win a mind with a mistaken interest than one that has no interest at all. The greatest of the Apostles, Paul, came to the Lord through the flames of hate, and the reason of his hate remained the reason of his love - a vivid recognition of all the Person of Christ stood for in relation to humanity. The sensuous passion of Magdalen finally swept in the opposite directions and became the supreme dedication of her love. But what is extremely difficult for the blessings of heaven to work upon is indifference...

D.C. Council members yesterday complained to the head of the city's 911 communications center about operators who are rude or dismissive with callers. Council member David A. Catania, at-large independent, said he placed a 911 call at about 1:15 a.m. yesterday after he was awakened by screams from a woman being robbed outside of his home. Mr. Catania said the experience was "entirely dissatisfying" and that at one point during the call, the call-taker asked if he was drunk. He said he was "so off-put, it made it more difficult for me to gather my thoughts." Janice Quintana, director of...

SACRAMENTO — Saying that Californians have "lived in denial" about the crisis in the state's prisons, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday complained that apathy in the electorate is to blame for the lack of will in the Capitol to address the corrections system's overcrowding and rising costs. ... Schwarzenegger said the prison problem is not "sexy," because it does not affect people's lives directly, as schools or transportation issues do. --snip-- Schwarzenegger has proposed $10.9 billion in new borrowing to expand the prisons, and wants to reexamine the state's penal code to see if sentences for some crimes are too...

The smoke has yet to clear from the massacres in New York, Washington, D.C. and Somerset County, PA, workers continue to drag bodies from the rubble. Six thousand more body bags have been ordered and it's still not clear now who is responsible for this mass murder....... On September 11th did we learn our lessons? Every one of us will forever remember where we were, what we were doing and whom we were with when the notion that fortress America was invulnerable collapsed in the ashes of the World Trade Center. Suddenly our collective national indifference was shattered like the...

When Officer Manuel Gonzalez was stabbed to death Jan. 10, 2005, the inmate suspected in the killing was out of his cell – in violation of standing orders at the prison. Gonzalez, a veteran officer at the California Institution for Men in Chino, also wasn’t wearing his protective "stab-resistant" vest. That’s because it, and hundreds more like it, were in storage and had never been distributed. The killing came a year and a half after prison laundry employee Karen Gossom claims she was sexually assaulted by her supervisor while at work. An Internal Affairs investigation sustained the allegations, and Gossom...

Like so many Patriots..... I DON'T CARE!

Women working full-time are 29 per cent more likely to get divorced than those who stay at home and raise children. Research to be published this week in the European Sociological Review finds that the probability of divorce is in direct correlation to the number of hours a woman worked. Marilyn Stowe, a female divorce lawyer, suggested that working women had the economic freedom to consider life beyond marriage. She added that they had greater confidence in their ability to make new friends and find new partners. "You suggest going out to work to a woman who has been at...