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America is the light of freedom to me. What is happening now breaks my heart. The thuggery of SOME of the "protesters" against what seems to be the brutal and unnecessary murder of George Floyd has now gone way beyond the damage of the original alleged crime in lives lost and all the other harm done. In response Pat Buchanan has quoted Edmund Burke: "Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of...

Liberals tend to favour government fines and removal of government services for unpaid fines, instead of upfront enforcement of the law. What I believe will happen is that liberals will create more offenses and those offenses will be enforced with fines Unpaid fines will result in an inability to get driver licenses or criminal checks. The net effect will be to make it even harder for blacks to join society.

Why Distributing Holy Communion With Masks and Disposable Gloves Is Seen as Grave and Revealing of Crisis in the Church ROME, Italy — The anti-coronavirus rules jointly signed by Italy’s bishops and government in early May that led to the resumption of public Masses in the country were not universally well received, with at least one major protest and accusations that some measures are sacrilegious.Of particular concern was the instruction that priests distribute Holy Communion with disposable gloves and masks — a reflection, liturgists and others argue, of poor formation and the extent of the crisis of faith in today’s...

Members of the White House press corps became the latest political prop in President Donald Trump's quest to reopen the country on Friday. The White House Correspondents Association said the administration's conduct "violated the federal government's guidelines on social distancing and needlessly put reporters' health at risk." The White House set up press seats for a Friday event in the Rose Garden, which was billed as a news conference, though Trump ended up taking no questions from reporters. The folding chairs were originally placed six feet apart, just like they have been since April, in accordance with social distancing guidelines.

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The White House turned the White House press corps into stage scenery on Friday, and may have violated its own social-distancing rules in doing so. When reporters gathered in the Rose Garden for what they had been told by White House officials was a presidential news conference, they found several rows of chairs arrayed on the lawn. The seats were spaced far apart, in keeping with the public-health protocols that the White House has observed at indoor and outdoor press events since the coronavirus pandemic took hold in mid-March. Just before President Trump and top officials emerged from the West...

The truth is that the United States is defending more than just its position in the international system. We are defending the international system itself, the system of treaties, conventions, rules, and norms. Unfortunately, Xi Jinping, the Chinese ruler, does not believe in that system. He is trying to impose China's imperial‑era notions of the world. In short, Chinese rulers believed that they had the mandate of heaven over tianxia, meaning "all under heaven." Recently, his pronouncements have become unmistakable. In the last few months, Xi Jinping has seen an historic opportunity because the United States has been stricken by...

I Can't Take it Anymore! Enough is enough! Why NOW does the coronavirus suddenly not matter? Why now is the media telling us protests CAN be violent?! Donald Trump is NOT the problem. YOU - press, progressives, leftists - WANTED riots in the street! Everything Glenn Beck said would come is here, and progressivism is at the end of the road! And now you have a choice to make, America.

[Catholic Caucus] Former apostolic nuncio to Germany ‘alarmed’ at bishops’ plan to ‘reinvent’ Church I have read the drafts for the four forums of the ‘synodal path’ and am alarmed at the direction that the discussion seems to be taking,' Abp. Erwin Josef Ender wrote. WÜRZBURG, Germany, June 4, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — A former apostolic nuncio to Germany, Archbishop Erwin Josef Ender, stated that he is “alarmed” at the German bishops’ “synodal path,” which seeks to “reinvent” the Church rather than effect a genuine renewal. “Without any consideration for the genuine sources of faith and revelation, namely Scripture and Tradition,...

Formal charges have been filed against two in the shooting death of Moody police Sgt. Stephen Williams. St. Clair County District Attorney Lyle Harmon on Friday announced the arrests of Tapero Corlene Johnson, 27, and Marquisha Annissa Tyson, 28, both of the Birmingham area, in the Tuesday night shooting. They are charged with capital murder and held without bond in the St. Clair County Jail. Court records do not reflect any prior criminal arrests in Alabama. Amar Fouda just moved into the Super 8 on U.S. 411. He said it was about 9:25 when he heard a lot of noise...

Sweden now has among the highest per capita death rates from Covid-19 in the world. Why?The answer is simple. Sweden was lax in its implementation of protective measures in the face of the outbreak, refusing to implement broad stay at home orders for residents, or to enforce recommendations to wear masks or social distancing measures. Other than the government decision to shut down universities and high schools, compliance to public health recommendations was entirely voluntary. Early on, my Swedish friends seemed proud of their exceptionalism. They sent many of their children to school without many of the protections that are...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the "Western District of Pennsylvania has filed federal charges against the 20-year-old accused of inciting violence and riots in Pittsburgh on Saturday. "According to the criminal complaint, Bartels said his motive was, in part, “that he considers himself to be far ‘left’ ...” “He explained that he had previously hoped that he would be able to change things through voting, but nothing changed,” the complaint added.

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According to a new poll, only 16% of Americans support defunding the police department while an astonishing 65% of Americans completely oppose defunding the police force. The poll comes after Democrats have recently pushed to defund police departments across the country after George Floyd, a black man, was murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis

The police reform agenda includes making prior disciplinary records of law enforcement officers transparent, and banning chokeholds. New York state's attorney general will work as an independent prosecutor for deaths of unarmed civilians caused by law enforcement. NEW YORK, June 5 (Xinhua) -- Governor of the U.S. state of New York, Andrew Cuomo, announced a reform agenda to address police brutality, especially against minority communities, following the death of Minnesota man George Floyd. The "Say Their Name" agenda will make prior disciplinary records of law enforcement officers transparent, ban chokeholds and make false race-based 911 reports a hate crime, said...

To all Democrats: Do you oppose racism? Do you oppose Trump? Do you oppose America? Do you oppose religion? Do you oppose Democracy/Republican government? Do you oppose evil capitalism? Do you oppose the 2nd amendment? Do you oppose the Bill of Rights? Do you oppose law enforcement? Do you oppose liberty? Do you oppose western civilization? Do you oppose Vanilla ice cream? If so, your attendance at a Floyd protest this weekend is essential; it is required.

The FBI on Friday arrested two out-of-state men, accusing them of bringing weapons and flammable materials to Saturday’s protest in Downtown Cleveland. According to the Bureau’s Cleveland office, agents arrested Brandon Long and Devon Poland in Erie, Pennsylvania Friday morning. The pair were stopped Downtown on the night of the protests by Cleveland police officers after the curfew was put in place. Their car was searched and police found a legally owned handgun, bullets, liquid fire starter, a hammer and a bottle of alcohol that officers believed was stolen during the looting that night. The arrest warrant was partly based...

The battle continues. Will Texans have universal mail-in voting for the presidential election in November? That is the question bouncing from court to court, most recently landing in the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The court struck down a previous order from U.S. District Judge Fred Biery Thursday.Biery sided with Texas Democrats demanding that due to the coronavirus pandemic outbreak in the state, it is unreasonable to expect voters to go to polling places and risk exposure to the virus. U.S. District Judge Fred Biery, a federal judge agreed that all Texas voters can vote by mail due...

A critique of critical race theory/cultural Marxism and explanation of how it undermines civilization.

Timothy Gordon, who worked as a Catholic school teacher, was fired from his job for telling the truth about the “Black Lives Matter” supremacist movement that is laying waste to cities across the nation. Gordon was fired from the Garces Catholic High School in Bakersfield, Calif. for calling out looters and rioters and standing for the property owners who have been under attack by these coordinated forces of evil. Shortly after a petition was made against him by radical leftists, the cowardly administrators at the school caved and terminated him.