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A few years ago, my wife looked at me, after one of my rants about how bad things were getting in the Church, and asked me a simple question: “If this makes you so miserable, why are you still doing it?”I understood her question to be about my work, in particular, but also about my fight for Catholicism against seemingly overwhelming odds. It was, truthfully, incredibly frustrating. And yet I immersed myself in it again and again, day after day. Don Quixote on his trusty Rocinante, heading into battle against an army of towering foes. The truth was, I didn’t...

“Therefore we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away. For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just reward, how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation” (Hebrews 2:1-3). The Bible offers powerful warnings about guarding against falling asleep in the midnight hour. Our foremost concern should be about our personal walk with Christ. We need to ask, “How can I escape the consequences if I neglect Jesus and drift from him?” David, the author of so many psalms, grew...

7 U.S. Markets Lost Value Year-Over-Year On a ‘real’ (inflation-adjusted) basis, home prices declined Year-over-Year (YoY) in ONLY 7 of the 405 largest real estate markets nationwide. That’s the strongest overall U.S. real estate market performance since just before the last real estate crash!All the declining markets are in California or Texas.(We’ve been warning you about many of the California markets for several years now even though other nearby states and regions had been looking strong.)In the previous quarter, 17 markets had annual home price declines.(See the entire list of declining markets below.) In addition to the list of declining...

Once an obscure and highly technical term, it first entered common parlance when, in mid-March, President Trump suggested hydroxychloroquine as a possible treatment for COVID-19. Physicians and scientists said that randomized controlled trials involving the drug would be needed before we could know whether it was an effective treatment. More recently, media coverage of a possible coronavirus vaccine has often mentioned the term, noting that vaccines must go through such trials before the Food and Drug Administration will approve them. Indeed, it has become prominent in the news since the pandemic began. Typing the term into the search engine Google...

MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough went to bat for 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s mental capacity on Friday. Scarborough highlighted that polling shows President Donald Trump’s attacks on Biden being senile is “backfiring” on him, especially given that Biden is “obviously” “not senile.” According to Scarborough, it’s a “ridiculous” and “ageist” argument by Trump. “When you’re talking about seniors and coronavirus, that’s one part of it. But another part, isn’t there polling out that shows that his constant attacks on Joe Biden is senile when, obviously, Joe Biden is not senile, is actually backfiring on Donald Trump as...

Dear friend, there is an ETERNAL ETERNITY before us which is ETERNALLY established in ETERNAL RIGHTEOUSNESS (Rev. 21, 22:1-5)! That is the ETERNAL BIG PICTURE and at the heart of John 3:16-17! The events, societies, cultures, and "isms" of today are just like a vapor that is soon FOREVER gone (Eccl. 1:1-3, Rev. 20:11)! There is no Marxism, Republic Democracies, Socialism, Communism, Progressivism, Conservatism, etc. in Heaven ONLY Almighty God's ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS Kingdom and RIGHTEOUSNESS in and through Jesus Christ (Rev. 21,22:1-5)! Jesus Christ is indeed the ultimate divider of men (Matt. 10:34, Luke 12:51, John 3:16-17, 1 John 5:12,...

Any way you look at it, the numbers related to coronavirus vaccine candidates in development are impressive. In less than nine months, researchers have advanced 180 experimental coronavirus vaccines at least into preclinical testing. Thirty-five of those candidates are now in clinical studies, according to the World Health Organization. © Provided by The Motley Fool 3 Coronavirus Vaccines in Phase 3 Clinical Studies: How They Stack Up Against Each Other The field narrows considerably, though, when we look only at vaccine candidates that have made it to late-stage testing. Currently, only three experimental coronavirus vaccines are in phase 3 clinical...

A race row broke out among New York City Hall staffers last month, 11 minutes before Mayor Bill de Blasio was set to give his daily coronavirus briefing and include a nod to the 100th anniversary of woman's suffrage. City Hall emails obtained by the New York Post show that the argument exploded over the wording of talking points prepared for the mayor after they were sent to staffers ahead of his briefing on August 26. The talking points included a commemoration of the centennial of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, while also noting that 'not all women could...

Unlike pontificating career politicians pandering to the radical left, Trump doesn't talk at his supporters. He talks to them. MOSINEE, Wis. — I don’t think I’ve ever seen so much excitement in my entire life. Thousands of people cattle-chuted their way through the endless maze of rent-a-fence. Men and women, young and old, sporting all manner of Americana attire and MAGA paraphernalia, lined up in the heart of the 2020 battleground to show their love for the greatest country on Earth and catch a glimpse of their president, Donald Trump.For many of these Trump rally attendees, flyover folks from the...

“The O.C.” actress Samaire Armstrong posted a passionate video on Wednesday pledging her support for Donald Trump for the 2020 presidential election. Armstrong, 39, also criticized the “far-left mob” for silencing Americans who hold conservative beliefs. “I’m voting #Trump2020, and this is why,” the actress captioned a lengthy video on Instagram. “This is MY opinion. I am sharing it with you at the cost of everything, because it is my right. It is your right to refute it. What I hope comes from this, is that we are able to have an open dialogue.”

As the scientific race for an effective coronavirus vaccine becomes embroiled in controversy, Moderna (MRNA) CEO Stéphane Bancel dismissed suggestions about political pressure, telling Yahoo Finance in an interview that his company was not under the gun from the government. President Donald Trump has insisted the U.S. will approve a vaccine by Election Day, even as his top health officials have contradicted him. In the U.S., Moderna and Pfizer (PFE) are considered the two frontrunners, and the latter has said it can expect the first safety readout by the end of October. Yet unlike Pfizer, Moderna, has relied on government...

EXCLUSIVE: The National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund, the political action committee (PAC) associated with the gun rights organization, raised more than $1.7 million in August, beating its August 2016 total and raising more than it did in any month ahead of the presidential election that year. The $1,725,700 the organization raised in August is almost $240,000 higher than its best month of 2016, March, when it raised just under $1.5 million. The NRA's PAC pulled in $1.4 million in August 2016. "The NRA is grateful to our members and gun owners for a record-breaking August," NRA spokeswoman Amy Hunter...

I know just a little about Gou, Chinese national, billionaire in exile. It was his boat Steve Bannon was on when he was arrested. Cool video, did not see it posted already. Contains some foul language. Take down the CCP.

Joe Biden is taking heat for misstating several facts during a CNN town hall in Pennsylvania, where he misled undecided voters about a number of points, including that he’d be the first president without an Ivy League degree and that President Trump hasn’t condemned white supremacists. Biden, 77, boasted during Thursday’s town hall hosted by Anderson Cooper that he’d be first commander-in-chief to not have an Ivy League education on his résumé, seemingly unaware that President Ronald Reagan, who was elected in 1980, went to Illinois’ Eureka College while several other presidents didn’t even get a college degree. “When you...

Taiwan scrambled multiple fighter jets on Friday after China sent 18 planes over the Taiwan Strait in a show of force as a U.S. official held meetings in Taiwan. China flew demonstrations over the strait as U.S. Under Secretary of State Keith Krach held talks with Taiwan’s minister of economic affairs and the vice premier. He also met with business leaders and is set to dine with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on Friday, according to The Associated Press. Krach is the most senior State Department official to visit Taiwan in four decades, according to Reuters. The self-governing island is claimed...

Public schools and other educational institutions throughout the nation are pushing critical race theory on unsuspecting students. Critical race theory is the claim that American institutions, laws, and history are inherently racist. It argues that white people have put up social, economic, and legal barriers between the races in order to maintain their elite status, both economically and politically. In fact, the source of poverty and criminal behavior in minority communities is due exclusively to these barriers. he “Denial of White Privilege” is covert white supremacy. And “Make America Great Again” and “Calling the cops on black people” is also...

A new case study illustrates clearly that Facebook should reevaluate its partnership with PolitiFact, which does not operate as a responsible fact-checking organization. Challenged over its vague ruling on a new ad targeting the Equality Act from the American Principles Project PAC, PolitiFact refused to muster a serious defense of the decision, choosing instead to brush aside fair questions.“Our story is complete and accurate, and the ad is most certainly missing context. I could expound on those points, but it is not necessary, so I have nothing more to add,” Editor-in-Chief Angie Holan told The Federalist on Thursday.Holan sent...

SAN JUAN — Three years after Hurricane María, the government of Puerto Rico and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) agreed to allocate $13 billion to rebuild the electricity grid and repair educational structures destroyed by the historic storm. At a press conference in FEMA headquarters, Gov. Wanda Vázquez took the opportunity to thank the FEMA leadership in Puerto Rico and President Donald Trump for the funding obligation. Earlier, Vázquez tweeted that FEMA Administrator Pete Gaynor called her to give her the news that they had approved the multimillion-dollar allocation. “I just spoke with @FEMA_Pete notified me that we achieved...

California’s leaders have a knack for taking bold, headline-grabbing stances on important issues – then ignoring the mundane reasons that things aren’t going so well. They rail against soaring poverty rates, but don’t mention that their regulatory policies drive up the cost of living and make it difficult for companies to create jobs. They complain about California’s struggling education system, yet never challenge the teachers’ unions that make it nearly impossible to reform our schools. And so, as wildfires rage across the West Coast, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has placed the blame squarely on global warming, as he noted that...

Any readers of American Partisan who are interested in understanding the evolution of ABR (Antifa-BLM-RevCom) tactics and strategy should make Andy Ngo’s Twitter feed a daily stop. Ngo is literally orders of magnitude better than any other internet or MSM reporter when it comes to finding and uploading the most important ABR video links. Nobody comes close. SNIP Over the past week we have seen a shift in tactics by ABR, away from just attacking courthouses and police precincts, toward roving bands of violent vandals roaming downtown and suburban areas. This video was posted this morning by Andy Gno: “Marauding...