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Catholic Parents: ‘Bishop Long is Wrong’Prelate rejects secular politician's bill guarding kids from LGBT ideologyPARRAMATTA, Australia (ChurchMilitant.com) - Catholic parents protested outside St. Patrick's Cathedral Sunday after Parramatta prelate Vincent Long Van Nguyen opposed a bill protecting children from LGBT indoctrination.Banner outside Parramatta cathedral on Sunday Dozens of faithful Catholics held banners with the slogans "Bishop Long is Wrong," "Bishop Vincent be a good shepherd," and "Hands off our children" as they prayerfully stood at the cathedral entrance before the 11 a.m. Holy Eucharist celebrated by Long.In his homily, Long rebuked Catholics flying the "banner of Christendom," asserting that the...

Hunter Biden is helping teach a class on fake news at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana this fall. The course titled 'Media Polarization and Public Policy Impacts' will include several guest speakers throughout its 10 weeks, including the president's son. The course description, according to a copy of the syllabus obtained by DailyMail.com, says: 'America's rapidly advancing partisan divide is fueled substantially by the growing political polarization increasingly evident in our news media.'

Public health officials are struggling to contain an outbreak of HIV among homeless drug users in Boston that has persisted since early 2019 and likely worsened as the pandemic limited access to services such as testing. So far the outbreak has affected 113 people, with 13 new cases identified between Jan. 1 and Feb. 28. And the virus, which is deadly when untreated, is thought to be spreading undetected among people who inject drugs and lack stable housing.

An overwhelming percentage of black people believe local police departments are doing a good job, polling shows. Seventy percent of African Americans said law enforcement officers are doing a “very good” or “somewhat good” job, according to a CBS News/YouGov poll released Sunday. Thirty percent of black adults polled responded that local police are doing a “somewhat/very bad” job. Among white respondents, 82% reacted positively toward police departments’ work, while 18% said they were “somewhat/very bad” at the job they are doing. Approval of the police was also high among Hispanic respondents, at 77%, with 22% disapproving of the job...

(Singapore) Looks like last week's public stunt in the train wasn't the 'Hwa Chong' woman's first rodeo. Following her rise to infamy — thanks to a viral clip showing her filing passengers with her mobile phone and accusing them of harassing her while prattling on about being a graduate from then Hwa Chong Junior College — the middle-aged woman's social media accounts were dug up as netizens sought to uncover her identity. Instead, they discovered her collection of self-recorded videos, all titled along the lines of "Malay/Indian harassing Chinese", on her YouTube channel on Monday (April 26). Her first video...

(...) "Many universities are moving to require students and faculty to receive COVID-19 vaccines before returning to campus in the fall. But one private pre-K to eighth grade school in Florida has turned that on its head, The New York Times reports today. The school last week told its teachers and other staff they should avoid the “COVID-19 injection” because of the purported dangers that vaccinated people posed to students. A co-founder of the Centner Academy in Miami, Leila Centner, informed its 50 teachers and 25 support staff that if they choose to be vaccinated against COVID-19, they will not...

Air Force standards for flight training and promotions have been on a downward spiral since the Cold War ended in 1991. Incredibly, the service’s senior leaders are about to accelerate that dive. During the 1980s, the U.S. faced a potential conflict with the Soviet Union. Soviet air-to-air capabilities and surface-to-air missile systems presented a formidable threat. The U.S. Air Force, therefore, designed standards and a training pipeline that prepared pilots to excel in that environment. That pipeline incrementally stepped their skill levels by presenting an ever-growing number of tasks and increasingly complex systems and missions they were expected to master....

THIS is the horrifying moment a cop fatally shoots a man who charged him with two butcher knives. Shocking footage shows officer Christopher Royer asking him to "stop," as the man can be seen charging towards him, during a traffic stop in Nashville, Tennessee.The passenger got out of the car charging towards the cop with two knivesThe man was later identified as Marvin Vega, 33 Credit: Police HandoutOfficer Royer was on routine patrol in the city's Bordeaux neighborhood on Saturday when he stopped the white Mercedes.According to Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, the driver remained cooperative but the passenger got out...

New York Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo’s brother is carrying on the family stupidocrisy. Chris Cuomo, host of CNN’s Cuomo Prime Time, said April 16 that gun law and police reform will only happen when “white people’s kids start getting killed.” Cuomo said, “Shootings, gun laws, access to weapons. Oh, I know when they’ll change. Your kids start getting killed, white people’s kids start getting killed.” In today’s environment, a statement like that is both irresponsible and reprehensible. It implies that social change will not happen unless white kids die. Nobody wants their child to die, no matter the color of...

“The people have spoken,” said former New York City Mayor Ed Koch after the Democratic mayoral primary of 1989, “and they must be punished.” The understandably bitter Koch had just been defeated by David Dinkins and was bidding his farewell to politics. And in fact, the people were punished: The one-term Dinkins, who defeated Rudy Giuliani in the general election that year to become the city’s first black mayor, saw crime soar on his impeccably tailored watch, with murders hitting a high of 2,605 the following year. Four years later, even the Upper West Side had had enough and called...

-snip- Today, many Americans are once again willing, even eager, to suffer a little for the reward of immunity from a virus that has turned the world upside down. Roughly half of those vaccinated with the Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, and in particular women, experience unpleasantness — from hot, sore arms to chills, headache, fever and exhaustion. Some boast about the symptoms. They often welcome them. Suspicion about what was in the shots grew in the mind of Patricia Mandatori, an Argentine immigrant in Los Angeles, when she hardly felt the needle going in after her first dose of the...

Exactly four weeks ago, CDC director Rochelle Walensky and President Joe Biden said they felt a sense of “impending doom” about a forthcoming wave of COVID-19 cases.When Walensky made that statement on March 29, the national 7-day average in new COVID-19 cases was 62,515 and modestly rising. Today, it’s 54,405 and falling. Biden and his CDC director feared the worst and appear to be incorrect about a second wave.Case numbers trended upward in late March and early April, but the 7-day average has now declined for 12 of the last 13 days and is back to mid-March levels. Deaths have...

I just received news, that NPR/NYtimes reported that bigoted BDS promoter Omar Shakir who somehow sits on HRW used the "apartheid" slur on worried Israel of racist Arab attacks... The guy is vengeful too, after being deported from Israel in 2019. Overview Omar Shakir [Omar S. Shakir] was deported from Israel in November 2019 for promoting anti-Israel boycotts while serving as the Israel and Palestine Country Director for Human Rights Watch (HRW). Shakir has defended terrorists, whitewashed violent protests and demonized Israel. Shakir was the 2011-2012 co-president of Students for Palestinian Equal Rights (SPER), a forerunner to Students for Justice...

Merriam-Webster, the dictionary company that has built a reputation for pandering to the “woke” crowd and embracing leftist government mandates, has quietly played their own role in pushing the Covid-19 “vaccines” out to the general public. They added a new definition to their listing for the word “vaccines” to match what’s currently being offered to the American people to fight the coronavirus.NOQ Report first discovered this by accident. It started with an innocuous Tweet I posted and a comment that followed.Isn't whether or not these are vaccines a matter of definition? It is to Merriam-Webster, at least. pic.twitter.com/oSA0FVIFLy— Pete Finnegan...

Adrian Gonzalez was given a maximum sentence in jail after admitting to all charges in connection to the kidnapping, rape, and murder of 8-year-old Maddie Middleton more than five years ago. Gonzalez, who is now 21, could be released from the juvenile justice system when he turns 25. Gonzalez entered his guilty plea in mid-April after his case was handed down to juvenile court after a state supreme court decision earlier this year upheld a state law preventing anyone under 16 from being tried as an adult. Gonzalez was 15 when he murdered his young neighbor, just three months shy...

On Monday, Idaho’s State Senate passed a bill already passed by the state House that would ban the teaching of critical race theory in schools. HB 377, which will now be sent to GOP Governor Brad Little for his signature, states: No public institution of higher education, school district, or public school, including a public charter school, shall direct or otherwise compel students to personally affirm, adopt, or adhere to any of the following tenets: That any sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin is inherently superior or inferior; That individuals should be adversely treated on the basis of...

A law enforcement trainer who tells cops 'the best sex happens after you've killed someone' has been canceled from speaking at session for Michigan police suffering from PTSD. Dave Grossman, a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel who claims to have trained law enforcement officers in all 50 states, faced a stinging backlash after a video clip of his controversial training sessions - dubbed killology seminars - went viral recently. In the clip, taken at a police training session, Grossman says: 'Killing is just not that big a deal.' He goes on to say that cops can experience 'the best sex' after...

Wang reportedly admitted having thrown six coins wrapped in red paper inside the plane's engine. A picture of the coins has now been shared online. The incident reportedly took place at an airport in Weifang. A male passenger, identified with the last name Wang, was scheduled to fly from Weifang to Haiku on a Beibu Gulf Airlines flight GX8814 when he threw a handful of coins into the engine. Fortunately, the staff was soon alerted about the coins in the engine after workers found coins on the ground during the pre-takeoff inspection. The staff managed to recover all the coins...

Federal officials in Washington already have confirmed that a police officer at the U.S. Capitol – whose name still is being withheld – will not face any criminal charges for shooting and killing unarmed veteran Ashli Babbitt at the Jan. 6 riot. But that person may be facing civil counts, according to a report in BizPacReview. The publication said the confirmation came from a lawyer for the family of Babbitt in an interview with NewsMax who revealed the family will file civil charges "over the violation of her constitutional rights." The lawyer, Terry Roberts, was being interviewed about the decision...

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