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(The Hill) — The fight for the 2028 Republican primary is beginning to take shape on the heels of the GOP’s devastating midterm losses, with Vice President JD Vance facing criticism for blaming the losses on the Iran war and other big-name Republicans appearing to stake out their own positions.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report for October shows remarkable job gains of +165,000 with revisions to August and September +84,000 higher than previously reported. [BLS Data Here] Employment in professional and business services increased by 70,000 in October along with an upward trend in professional, scientific, and technical services (+33,000), in administrative and support and waste management and remediation services (+28,000), and in management of companies and enterprises (+9,000). Health care added 42,000 jobs in October; transportation and warehousing added 25,000 jobs. Manufacturing employment continued to trend up in October (+19,000) and has increased by 101,000 since December...

[Catholic Caucus] The Fifth Mark of the Church: Why Traditional Catholics Are Being Persecuted The Catholic Church is known by four marks: One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. But there is a fifth mark that Catholics have long recognized: Persecution. As traditional Catholics face mounting restrictions from Rome, could the persecution of those who remain faithful to Tradition be helping preserve the visible identity of the true Church?One of the most intriguing aspects of the current crisis in the Catholic Church comes to light when we consider the following truths of our religion:The Catholic Church is a perpetually visible society.The Catholic...

We just got back from the theater where we saw "Drummer Boy," a Revolutionary War musical, believe it or not. It reminded me a lot of "La La Land," which I quit watching halfway through, but I actually enjoyed this one. It is NOT an historically correct movie. It's a musical, and like all musicals it is a bit corny and improbable, but its heart is in the right place and I found the singing to be fun. I recommend it. As America’s fight for independence begins, a young drummer boy, an enslaved woman, and a divided family search for...

ransomnote: Transcript below. I hope all will watch the video; it's memorable!il Donaldo Trumpo@PapiTrumpo·9hParody accountBUCKLE UP, BUTTERCUPS!!!😎🇺🇸🍿🍿🍿 TRANSCRIPT BEGINS~~~[CPAC Circle Retreat and Gala at Mar-a-Lago on the evening of Friday, November 6, 2026]Stephen Miller: I am reminded of a famous expression. The storm whispers to the warrior that, “You cannot withstand my strength.” And the warrior whispers back, “I am the storm.”We are the storm, and our enemies cannot comprehend our strength, our determination, our resolve, our passion. Our lineage and our legacy hails back to Athens, to Rome, to Philadelphia, to Monticello.Our ancestors built the cities. They produced the...

Pope Leo gives top post to feminist who supports gay blessings Claudia Leal Luna criticized the Vatican's 2021 ruling against blessings for gay unions, arguing that Catholic sexual morality needs to take 'some steps.' Pope Leo XIV named Chilean theologian Claudia Leal Luna as undersecretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, placing a vocal critic of the Church’s 2021 rejection of blessings for homosexual unions in a senior Vatican post.The appointment, announced Thursday, pairs Leal with Jesuit Father Avelino Chicoma Bundo Chico. Vatican News and the dicastery’s own announcement confirm that Leal, born December 12, 1977, holds a...

This video describes the military situation in Ukraine on the 7th of November2026 0:00 👋 Intro — key events of the past 12 hours 0:13 🚨 US warning & Zelensky's statement: strike expected within 36 hours 1:06 📊 Overnight stats: 172 drones, 153 targets intercepted 2:06 🗺️ Strike map: up to 12 Iskanders and 12 Tsirkons target Kyiv's energy grid 2:53 🚀 Wave one: 8 Iskanders hit eastern Kyiv — air defense suppression 4:57 ⚡️ Wave two: 750kV "Kyivska" substation and Trypillia TPP hit, NASA confirms fire 7:09 💥 Wave three: 4 AM strikes on logistics and warehouses 8:00 🇷🇺...

Fans of Peter Weir's 2003 adventure movie Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World are often heard to ask, "Why didn't they make a sequel?" as a halfway stop to the question "Why don't they make more films like this?" The answer to the first question, like any Hollywood mystery, has to do with money and studio expectations. The answer to the second requires you to think about men, what they like, what they want, and if any of those things have been a priority at any movie studio in the near quarter century since Master and Commander...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) called out Republicans who push crony capitalist policies, explaining that it is part of the reason young people see socialism favorably. During an interview on the Sage Steele Show with host Sage Steele, DeSantis explained that one reason “screaming socialism” didn’t work in the midterm elections was because “young people have a very positive view of socialism compared to capitalism.” DeSantis noted that while part of the reason is “the education in our universities,” the other part is that young people are comparing socialism to “how government gets involved in business and you have crony...

SEATTLE — Voters passed IL-638 this week which, come December 3, will require all girls to prove their sex assigned at birth in order to play on a girls’ sports team at public schools, but the fight is likely far from over. "Every girl in Washington State deserves a safe place to play sports,” co-chair of No Hate in WA State Diane Bedwell said. “I think there can empathy and sympathy for boys that think they're girls,” founder of Let’s Go Washington Brian Heywood said. "There can be a solution in the trans sports arena, but it shouldn't come at...

Cardinal Bernardin’s Victim Speaks Out Last week I (Fr. David Nix) had a four hour dinner with Bernardin’s victim and her husband. She is now 80 years old. The Satanic Ritual Abuse happened to her about 70 years ago by Fr. Joseph Bernardin (later Cardinal Archbishop of Chicago, top-left.) The abuse happened at St. Mary’s Church in Greenville, SC (top-right.)My mother is from Chicago (and my father is from West of Chicago) so I grew up hearing from extended family that one day Cardinal Bernardin would be canonized. Much in my life has changed since then. Another thing that has...

I am not sure conservatives - including many readers of this website - quite grasp the scale of what happened on Tuesday. Outgoing Florida governor Ron DeSantis called it "an extinction-level event", and pointed out that of America's ten most populous states his was now the only one with a Republican government. At the federal level, as JD Vance observed en passant, the GOP has no realistic expectation of recovering the Senate until the mid-2030s.Intraparty disputes between soi-disant rock-ribbed conservatives and jelly-spined RINO squishes are irrelevant: whether you're Susan Collins or Vivek Ramaswamy, Greg Abbott or Darline Graham - and...

Authorities intercepted what they believe is the first small-boat smuggling attempt to launch from the Netherlands. A rubber dinghy packed with 38 migrants was discovered drifting without an engine off the southern Dutch coast last Saturday. Emergency crews towed it to the nearby port of Cadzand, in the Zeeland province, and two Sudanese men were arrested on suspicion of being involved in human smuggling, Dutch prosecutors said. A magistrate ordered their detention for 14 days on Tuesday, and both suspects are being held in restricted conditions, meaning they can only communicate with their lawyers, they added. Mike Tapp, the Labour...

A pilot with the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels has been removed from the elite flight demonstration team for failing to meet its standards, military officials confirmed. Maj. Scott Laux, a U.S. Marine Corps aviator, was dismissed from the squadron, the Chief of Naval Air Training (CNATRA) confirmed to the Pensacola News Journal on Friday, Nov. 6. In a statement provided to the News Journal, CNATRA confirmed that Laux, who flew the No. 6 jet for the team, would not participate in the team’s remaining performances this season. “Blue Angel #6 was removed from the team for failing to uphold the...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dMBBOawFy_4&pp=ygUWam9lIHJvZ2FuIGNhbGxleSBtZWFucw%3D%3D This is an interesting episode to watch or listen to. I have listened to Calley Means and his sister, both MDs as they talk about food in the States. He has been working with the Administration and recently quit.

If election night results are any barometer, it might be time for everyone to get more woke. The country saw a blue tsunami Tuesday night, with traditional Republican strongholds chipped away at — or even flipped — by Democrats. Jon Ossoff won reelection in Georgia handily; South Carolina's Senate seat flipped to blue; and Democrat James Talarico is Texas' next senator. The Associated Press called the race, saying the House and the Senate had flipped to Democratic control. The internet has come to its own (somewhat joking) conclusion: DEI is so back. Delighted X users spent the evening joking that...

7 November 2026 Saturday of week 31 in Ordinary Time St. Vincent Liem Parish, Calgary, CanadaReadings at MassThis is a preview of Universalis. The Universalis app gives you every day of every year, not just the single week you’re seeing now, and it doesn’t need the Internet. It gives you the official New American Bible version for the readings at Mass. As well as the Mass, it gives you the Liturgy of the Hours. It costs $9.99-12.99 on your phone, or £19.99 (about $26.50) on your computer. Get it now.Liturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(II).First readingPhilippians 4:10-19With the help of...

Days after Toronto Blue Jays power hitter Anthony Santander reposted and then deleted Islamophobic comments to his Instagram account, the Muslim community in Canada — including fans of the team — are unhappy with the response from the team and player to date. Following the results of Tuesday’s U.S. midterm elections, the 32-year-old Santander reposted a pair of stories to his personal Instagram account. One post, shared from the account @theamericantruthproject, included a video that was critical of Michigan Senator-elect Dr. Abdul El-Sayed. The first video claimed that all Muslims elected to office on Tuesday are radicals, and want to...

When President Donald Trump promoted Stephen Miller to White House chief of staff, Democrats started fuming almost instantly. That reaction alone tells you it was a good move. I suspect Democrats thought the fallout from the midterms would scare Trump into submission. They wanted a chastened president who would spend his final two years tiptoeing around them. Instead, Trump handed the most powerful staff job in Washington to a man they deeply despise, and they read the move as defiance. They read it correctly. "Donald Trump learned nothing from his historic defeat. Stephen Miller is the architect of the most...

Explanation: De Gerlache-Kocher massif looms on the visible horizon in this close-up of the edge of the Moon. The mountainous formation rises about 4 kilometers above its surroundings and is located very close to the lunar south pole. Boasting permanently shadowed crater floors that likely contain deposits of water ice and peaks that receive almost continuous sunlight for solar power generation, the south polar region is considered a prime location for the first human settlement on the Moon. In fact, De Gerlache-Kocher massif itself has been considered as a potential landing site for future crewed Artemis missions to the Moon....