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On this date in 1936, a German immigrant went to New Jersey’s electric chair for kidnapping and murdering the infant son of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh. The kidnapping of the Lindbergh boy in 1932 had touched off an outpouring of public compassion matched only by the clumsiness of the investigation. The circus that formed around a father desperate to retrieve his boy — and prone to rash decision-making thereto — pulled in underworld figures, military intelligence officers (including the founder of the CIA’s forerunner and the father of Gulf War General Norman Schwartzkopf), a meddlesome schoolteacher, and queer characters like...

A new study showed Democrat Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) as one of the least effective Democrat lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

The United States pledged its 'unwavering' support to Ukraine on Thursday as defense officials said they were aware of thousands of troops newly-deployed to the separatist Donbass territory, which is controlled by pro-Moscow factions. Asked why Russia may be pushing for a conflict now, Felgenhauer replied: 'Address this question to a psychoanalyst. Do I need to explain?

The Body of ChristThe Holy Eucharist denied and misunderstoodThe doctrine of the Holy Eucharist — central to Catholic Church teaching — is either not known or outright denied by most Catholics today.According to a 2019 Pew Research poll, seven out of 10 U.S. Catholics don't believe that the Holy Eucharist is the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ. This is despite the constant teaching of the Church going back to the times of the Apostles.And the Apostles heard it directly from the mouth of Our Lord Himself, Who in John 6:54–57 told His followers:Amen, amen I...

"A new Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll shows only 11% of registered voters in the state don’t support any gun control measures. Interestingly, the poll shows a higher percentage of Democrats than Republicans don’t favor any gun control measures, 15% to 9%. The survey found 65% of Utah voters favor universal background checks, which would require almost all firearms transactions to go through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System..."

South Korea’s prime minister said that only people with vaccine passports will be allowed to resume normal life. The south-east Asian country is the latest to launch a vaccine certification system. “The introduction of a vaccine passport or ‘Green Pass’ will only allow those who have been vaccinated to experience the recovery to their daily lives,” South Korea’s PM Chung Sye-Kyun said while unveiling the new COVID-19 vaccination certification system. Before the end of this month, South Koreans will have an app that will show a person’s vaccination status. South Korea’s vaccination program started in February. So far, more than...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Psalm 24Psalm 24 Of David. A psalm. 1 The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; 2 for he founded it on the seas and established it on the waters. 3 Who may ascend the mountain of the Lord? Who may stand in his holy place? 4 The one who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not trust in an idol or swear by a false god.[a] 5 They will receive blessing from the Lord and vindication from God their Savior. 6...

“Who Will Roll Away the Stone for Us?” (Mark 16:1-8) Alleluia! Christ is risen! (He is risen indeed! Alleluia!) That is our joyful shout on this glorious Easter morning. But that was certainly not the thought of the women on the first Easter morning, as they were heading out to the tomb. No, what they were thinking was this: “Who Will Roll Away the Stone for Us?” Our text is the Holy Gospel from Mark 16. It begins not on Sunday morning, but the night before, on Saturday evening: “When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother...

London Cops Raid Polish Good Friday ServiceUnlawful order to stop service threatens to flare up into diplomatic row BALHAM, London (ChurchMilitant.com) - Metropolitan police officers unlawfully disrupted the Good Friday service at a Polish church in South London, ordering clergy to stop the Liturgy and threatening to fine or arrest faithful Catholics if they did not disperse immediately. Parish priest Fr. Władysław Wyszowadzki Police entered the sanctuary of Christ the King Church in Balham at around 6 p.m., during the Liturgy of the Lord's Passion at the time of the rite of the Veneration of the Cross, the parish said...

John 20:1-10 (KJV) 1The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre. 2Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the LORD out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him. 3Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulchre. 4So they ran both together: and the other disciple did out run Peter, and came first to...

Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:(Hebrews 12:25-28)We are living in the time of shaking. Shaking, like all of God’s methods of trial and testing, does not add anything to...

It's Easter and Passover at SteynOnline. We started on Good Friday with a little muscular Christianity and the sublime heights of western art on the Easter edition of The Mark Steyn Show... But, as has become traditional for our motion-picture department at this time of year, we present Mel Gibson's big blockbuster from seventeen Easters ago. Mel has spent the last decade getting a little crazier with every year that passes - and I note, sympathetically, that he and I have had the same third-rate shyster tormentor for much of that period. Surprisingly, there have been no attempts to follow...

Luke Ball is exiting his position as communications director for Rep. Matt Gaetz as the Justice Department inquiry into Gaetz’s possible connections to sex trafficking continues. Ball started out in Gaetz’s office as an intern in 2017, and in addition to serving as his press secretary, was deputy campaign manager in the representative’s 2018 re-election campaign and deputy digital director for Ron DeSantis for Governor, according to Ball’s LinkedIn profile. He is also the founder of Rightlife Media, a video production and website design company. The New York Post said that Ball had scrubbed any mentions of Gaetz, from his...

The Ten Commandments are on TV right now, and it showed Black People kissing Pharaoh's ring and honoring him. WHEN IS IT GOING TO GET CANCELLED?

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said that he and other Democrats are ready to advance the controversial marijuana legalization cause. “He [Biden] said he’s studying the issue, so [I] obviously want to give him a little time to study it. I want to make my arguments to him, as many other advocates will,” Schumer said in an interview with Politico. “But at some point we’re going to move forward, period.” During Biden’s presidential campaign, he didn’t endorse legalizing marijuana, and after taking office, reportedly disqualified staffers because they consumed the drug. Schumer introduced a bill in 2018 to legalize the...

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox News @ Night,” Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) said that Georgia’s election law requires identification the same way Major League Baseball, Delta Air Lines, and American Airlines require people to show ID. Roy said, “It requires voter identification to be able to be used in voting. The same kind of [photo] identification, by the way, that Major League Baseball requires when you pick up tickets, whether it’s in Atlanta or, by the way, in Fenway Park in Boston or Yankee Stadium in New York. They have no problem with [photo] ID. Of...

Hunter Biden said in his new “memoir” titled “Beautiful Things” that he was so strung out on drugs and alcohol that he doesn’t remember his “encounter” with the Washington DC stripper with whom he fathered a child. Hunter had a child with 28-year-old Lunden Roberts in 2018 after meeting her at a DC strip joint where she worked as an exotic dancer. Deadbeat dad Hunter initially denied he was the father and refused to pay child support after a DNA test determined the baby was indeed his. Ms. Roberts took Hunter Biden to paternity court and he finally agreed to...

A South Korean couple mistakenly tarnished a half-million dollar American artwork when they painted over it, as seen in a cringeworthy clip. “They thought they were allowed to do that as participatory art and made a mistake,” said Kang Wook, head of the exhibition at Seoul’s Lotte World Mall, where the accidental vandalism took place,

Ukraine’s military announced Saturday that it will hold joint military drills with NATO troops later this year amid escalating violence with pro-Russian separatists in the eastern part of the country.The armed forces said in a statement on Facebook that the drills will be held with more than 1,000 military personnel from at least five NATO member states in a few months.“In particular, defensive actions will be worked out, followed by an offensive in order to restore the state border and territorial integrity of a state that has been subjected to aggression by one of the hostile neighboring countries,” the statement...

We have all been listening to Mike Lindell for the past few months about how he had irrefutable evidence of election fraud. Another BOOM is what I figured. We are all getting pretty tired of the hype. I wasn't going to bother watching it but my wife did and then we watched it together. Maybe there is nothing we can do about it, maybe there is, but the fact is that he really does have irrefutable evidence of the election fraud. That's why not even George Soros' factcheck.org will touch it. They "debunked" the first one, but they are hoping...