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...When I was growing up, what Catholics did, Lutherans didn’t. That seemed to be the extent of what Lutherans knew about Catholics. They did these things, and because we weren’t Catholic we didn’t. Simple. The list was evident if never specific. We did not cross ourselves at the invocation or upon receiving communion. Our pastors did not wear funny suits, they did not dress in clericals, make hand signs over the communion elements, bow, or do any of those things that might be mistaken as Catholic and not Lutheran. Most of all, we didn’t have to stand in line at...

Donald Trump is stepping up his push to cut off Iran from using the Strait of Hormuz by demanding the US Navy 'shoot and kill' any Iranian boat laying mines in the Persian Gulf. Trump wrote on Truth Social on Thursday morning: 'I have ordered the United States Navy to shoot and kill any boat, small boats though they may be (Their naval ships are ALL, 159 of them, at the bottom of the sea!), that is putting mines in the waters of the Strait of Hormuz.' 'There is to be no hesitation. Additionally, our mine “sweepers” are clearing the...

"You know, that's wrong! That's wrong! ... Now I'm being told what I can buy and can't buy, and I don't think that's right." "I love my fruit, I love my sweets too!: Is someone going to tell her that fruit is loaded with sugar?? On Monday, Florida changed its state welfare policy to exclude junk food from being purchased with SNAP funds. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is meant to help needy people buy food by using tax money to give them supplemental nutrition. The state of Florida is not telling residents that they can't buy soda and ice...

Navy Under Secretary Hung Cao has been named acting secretary following the departure of John Phelan. Cao and Phelan are both 2026 Wash100 awardees. Who Is Hung Cao? Cao is a retired U.S. Navy captain who took on the role of under secretary of the Navy in October. The Navy diver previously worked as a vice president and client executive at CACI International, where he supported efforts in areas such as electronic warfare, counter-drone technology and enterprise IT. Cao served in the Navy for 25 years, holding a wide range of leadership positions, including division chief of the Defense Threat...

Iran’s decades-long bluff—built on terror proxies, nuclear brinkmanship, and Western appeasement—collapsed the moment it faced direct force and a changed geopolitical landscape. How does the supposedly most fearsome regime in the violent Middle East now find itself on the verge of an utter economic and military collapse? Iran’s half-century-long deadly terrorist reputation peaked with the October 7, 2023, massacre in Israel that it helped fund and coordinate. Iran’s terrorist ambitions of running the Middle East had accelerated after witnessing Joe Biden’s cognitive decline and his administration’s distancing itself from Israel. Biden’s humiliation by a series of Chinese slights and the...

the B’nei Menashe can be found in a far corner of India,.. For generations, they have been teaching their children how their ancestors wandered to find refuge in the jungle. “We have faith in the Torah,” said Mr. Ngamthenlal, his face framed by the sidelocks worn by some Orthodox Jewish men. An aliyah, or homecoming, is finally in their sights. “We have good faith in the Israeli government. They promised that all the B'nei Menashe will go to Israel by 2030,” he said. “We all have our passports ready.” Nearly half the community has already moved to Israel, piecemeal, since...

Andrew Hugg, a U.S. Chief of Chemical Nuclear Surety, was caught on hidden camera casually revealing sensitive information to a stranger in a public restaurant... "They stole our money. They bought houses, $100,000 cars. They can get themselves rich and go live in Dubai. Like I said, I lived in Ukraine. I worked there with the government. That government is so corrupt. They just stole it and they they bought houses, cars, like $100,000 cars. They're officials in the government. And then now that it's like 100 billion, 200 billion, they're like stealing it all. But if they can get...

The ironies abound with the Southern Poverty Law Center's paid racists, and with the Democrats' Russian-collusion hoax. As is illustrated by recent “accusations” against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Democrats fund various organizations, groups, and “centers” that pay people to be racist. And then Democrats, utilizing their media lapdogs, point out these acts, pretending to be aghast at the heinous, Republican-inspired atrocities, all the while screaming that we must fund these various organizations, groups, and centers in the fight against racism! This manages to be even more despicable than it is darkly brilliant -- and should clearly be as...

Tim Cook is ending his illustrious stint as chief executive of Apple. The soft-spoken operator accomplished the near impossible, filling the shoes of the visionary co-founder Steve Jobs, turning the iPhone from a cultural phenomenon into a financial juggernaut and transforming his company into a $4 trillion goliath — growing its market value by $682 million per day, on average, for 15 years. By the metrics investors care about, Mr. Cook is nothing short of a rock star. But when one considers his role in the sweep of American history, his legacy grows more complicated, for much of Apple’s success...

23 April 2026 Thursday of the 3rd week of Eastertide Roman Catholic Parish of St. Adalbert in Wąwolnica, Chechia Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(II).First readingActs 8:26-40Philip baptizes a eunuchThe angel of the Lord spoke to Philip saying, ‘Be ready to set out at noon along the road that goes from Jerusalem down to Gaza, the desert road.’ So he set off on his journey. Now it happened that an Ethiopian had been on pilgrimage to Jerusalem; he was a eunuch and an officer at the court of the kandake, or queen, of Ethiopia, and was in fact...

California's goal of having 100% of new cars sold be electric vehicles by 2035 may be hitting a roadblock. A new report shows a steady decline in sales over the past six months, but experts say that while electric vehicle sales have dropped, they will likely bounce back sooner than we think. The latest report from the California New Car Dealers Association shows zero-emission vehicles made up just 13.7% of the market in the first quarter, down sharply from 21% for all of 2025 and marking the lowest share since late 2021. Total EV registrations dropped more than 40% year-over-year.

It’s a genuinely worrisome theory and, as always, DataRepublican brings the receipts. On April 15, thirteen radical House Democrats introduced six articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth, accusing him of “high crimes and misdemeanors.” The charges are spurious, alleging that he violated the War Powers Act (which didn’t apply), that he committed war crimes because Iran claimed that girls were in a building on an IRGC base that the U.S. struck, and managing the military in ways they disliked. Those articles may have been the acts of radicals, but the fact is that the Democrats have relentlessly sought to undermine...

Wyoming lawmakers introduced a bill this year that would have given real protection to people dragged through the criminal justice system after using lawful self-defense. House Bill 14, titled Protecting self-defense-reimbursement and amendments, would have required counties to reimburse defendants who were found not guilty, had charges dismissed, or were otherwise released from prosecution because they reasonably used defensive force under Wyoming law.But the bill did not make it out of the House. HB0014 failed introduction on February 10, 2026, by a 29-32-1 vote.HB0014 was aimed at one of the most abusive realities of modern self-defense law: even when a...

Republicans are cheering a circuit court victory in Virginia that showed Democrats' redistricting efforts in Virginia are not quite ...

The illegal immigrant who brazenly swiped then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s $4,000 Gucci bag at a Washington, DC, restaurant last year was sentenced to three years in prison on Wednesday for his role in a string of thefts. Mario Bustamante Leiva, 50, had pleaded guilty to three counts of wire fraud and one count of first-degree theft last November related to purse snatching. The Chilean national will be deported after serving his sentence, according to the Justice Department. “Bustamante Leiva came to Washington illegally to prey on citizens of the District,” DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro said in a statement....

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🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(4/23/26)[Prayer]A New Study For A New Year: PersonalitiesExodus 34:1-9 34 And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest. 2 And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount. 3 And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the...

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A destructive, fast-moving invader is wriggling its way into yards across the US, and officials say Californians should be on alert. Agriculture authorities are sounding the alarm over the Asian jumping worm, a highly invasive species that’s already been spotted in multiple states, including the Golden State. “The jumping worms’ hyper-activity degrades the soil structure, can harm plant roots and accelerate soil drying. This creates a ‘nutrient-poor paradox’ where nutrients are present but unavailable to plants. This can further exacerbate drought conditions, which the state is already in,” the Colorado Department of Agriculture said in a press release. The worms...

Iran has released a video purportedly showing armed, masked commandos seizing two cargo vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. The propaganda clip was pumped out by state media Wednesday after the regime boasted it had seized the Panama-flagged MSC Francesca and Liberia-flagged Epaminondas vessels, just hours after the cease-fire was extended. The armed soldiers then climbed up the stairs to the ship’s top decks. The IRGC has accused the two vessels of operating without the required permit and tampering with their navigation systems. Personnel on the Epaminondas reported damage to its bridge after Iranian soldiers opened fire and hurled grenades...