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Abertay University in Dundee, Scotland, has opened a formal investigation into 29-year-old student Lisa Keogh, a mother of two, after she dared to utter biological facts in a debate about transgender identity. The university is investigating her “offensive” and “discriminatory” comments. Keogh’s crime? She said, “women have vaginas,” and argued that a biological male who had testosterone in his body for 32 years would be stronger than the average woman, even if he identified as female. Another student accused her of calling women the “weaker sex.” In 2019, a biological man who identifies as a woman set new world records...

Maryland GOP Gov. Larry Hogan on Sunday said former President Trump is “toxic for the Republican Party and for the country.” In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” host Dana Bash asked Hogan if he agrees with Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), who said that Trump poses an ongoing threat to democracy. Hogan responded by saying Trump is “toxic” for the GOP and the country, adding that the Republican Party will not win back control of the White House or Congress if it does not expand into a “big-tent party” and “appeal to a majority of people.” “We've got...

The Vatican Defends Biden on CommunionEt tu, Brute? This pontificate is rightly seen as a repudiation of the restorationist priorities of Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. Perhaps nowhere is this clearer than on the matter of long-neglected canon law. Discussions about it had intensified under those two previous pontificates. It appeared, for example, that the Church, after many years of laxity, was on the cusp of finally applying canon law to pro-abortion Catholic politicians. Pope Benedict XVI, who was on record favoring a denial of Communion to them, spoke of the “pseudo-pastoral” claims made by progressive churchmen...

A recent article published in the scientific journal Microbiology and Infectious Diseases makes the claim that the mRNA Pfizer Covid vaccine may contain prions which cause deadly neurodegenerative disease, sometimes called “Creutzfeldt-Jakob” or “Mad Cow” disease. The article, titled “COVID-19 RNA Based Vaccines and the Risk of Prion Disease,” was published in January of 2021 and has been studiously ignored by major media, which has focused its efforts on encouraging individuals to take the jab. The paper was authored by J. Bart Classen, MD and analyzed the Pfizer mRNA vaccine,..... The paper goes on to state that “The folding of...

Since 5:00 p.m. on Friday, at least 18 Chicagoans have been shot in street violence, with three dead.A two-year-old got shot while sitting in the backseat of a car. Less than two hours later, three more people got shot in a drive-by shooting.Five teenagers between 15 and 18 were shot during several incidents on the city’s south side. An 8-year-old boy got shot in the knee.Police called in a SWAT unit after suspects shot and wounded 3 people near the Grand Street L station. And all this happened before noon on Saturday.ABC News:So far this year, 997 people have been...

As the woke mob continues to rifle through the history books looking for icons to topple, it’s almost certain they will eventually get to firearms inventor John Browning. Thanks to a well-researched and very readable new biography, “The Guns of John Moses Browning: The Remarkable Story of the Inventor Whose Firearms Changed the World,” he’ll likely come into their crosshairs sooner rather than later. In what is considered the only existing firsthand account of Browning at work in his workshop, an Ogden, Utah, newspaper described the scene in December 1889: “John M., the genius of the firm, lightly touched the...

Military.com reports that Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier has been relieved of his duties pending an investigation after he appeared on a podcast and criticized the rise of Marxism in the United States military.Lohmeier served for 14 years in the U.S. Air Force before joining Space Force among its first officers and recruits. He has written and self-published a book, Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest and the Unmaking of the American Military. He appeared on a podcast, called Information Operation, to discuss the book on May 7. He was relieved of his duties as commander of the 11th Space Warning...

The Israel Defense Forces took down a building in Gaza yesterday that housed media outlets, including the Associated Press and Al Jazeera. Breathless journalists across the globe decried the move as an attempt to suppress coverage of their “atrocities.” But Israel claimed the building held an important Hamas command and control center, about which media pretended to know nothing.According to Red State:Prior to hitting the building, the IDF warned the media outlets and others in the building to get out before they took down the building.Some in media were upset that Israel took out the building. But as we noted,...

President Joe Biden revoked an executive order Friday to create a National Garden of American Heroes, initially planned by former President Donald Trump. Biden also revoked Trump’s order to prevent online censorship, and his order to protect American monuments. Biden could have modified Trump’s initial order but instead revoked it entirely. The White House did not say why Biden revoked his predecessor’s executive orders but sent the text of his order to revoke Trump’s priorities to reporters on Friday afternoon. Trump announced his plan to build a monument to the greatest Americans in history in July 2020, when leftist radicals...

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), who was recently elected as the House Republican Conference chair, said that the Department of Justice’s questions about the audit of the 2020 election in Maricopa County, Arizona, may be unconstitutional. The Justice Department on May 5 sent a letter to Arizona Senate Leader Karen Fann, a Republican, inquiring about the custody of the ballots under review by a group of private contractors, alleging that it other processes—including the canvassing of addresses—could be “voter intimidation.”

It’s happening. While we shouldn’t get too excited with all that patriots have been through since November 3, 2020, it seems that there is a glimmer of hope that the truth can finally come to light, officially. Those of us who have been watching closely, reading affidavits and looking at the massive statistical anomalies associated with the 2020 election already know that the election was stolen.Newsmax White House Correspondent Emerald Robinson reported on Twitter that Wisconsin has authorized an audit of the 2020 election. We have not been able to independently corroborate this report. We’ve reached out to Robinson to...

House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) urged President Joe Biden on May 16 to order a whole-of-government investigation into the origins of the CCP virus. According to a letter from Nunes to the commander-in-chief (pdf), Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee are concerned by circumstantial evidence that the virus could have leaked from a research lab in Wuhan, China, which had received millions in funding from the U.S. government.

Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer appear to be at odds with a vocal segment of the Democratic Party that has criticized Israel's actions toward the Palestinians amid the region's escalating conflict. According to the Associated Press, more than 120 Palestinians have been killed—including 31 children and 20 women. An additional 900 have been injured. "My expectation and hope is this will be closing down sooner than later," Biden said . "Israel has a right to defend itself when you have thousands of rockets flying into your territory." Pelosi issued a similar statement on Tuesday. "I condemn the escalating...

Hamas is firing rockets from among civilians, targeting civilians Published on May 11, 2021 Hamas is firing rockets from civilian areas in #Gaza, deliberately targeting Israeli civilians. Israel is defending itself from Hamas' double war crime. The international community must condemn Hamas for its actions.

May 16, 2021 7th Sunday of Easter Saint Brendan’s Cathedral, Clonfert Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White.In some dioceses the Ascension of the Lord is celebrated today. If this applies to you, please reconfigure Universalis to use the appropriate local calendar.First readingActs 1:15-17,20-26 ©'Let someone else take his office'One day Peter stood up to speak to the brothers – there were about a hundred and twenty persons in the congregation: ‘Brothers, the passage of scripture had to be fulfilled in which the Holy Spirit, speaking through David, foretells the fate of Judas, who offered himself as a guide to the men...

At its simplest, entanglement describes the idea that two particles can have an intrinsic connection that persists no matter how far apart they are. The particles are ethereally coupled: measure something about one particle, such as its position, and you’ll also glean information about the position of its entangled partner; make a change to one particle and your actions will teleport a corresponding change to the other, all at speeds faster than the speed of light. The scientists in the first experiment... placed tiny drums, each around 10 micrometers long, on a crystal chip, before supercooling them to near absolute...

The Fed has created trillions out of thin air to boost the speculative wealth of Wall Street, but it can't print experienced workers willing to work for low wages. The Federal Reserve is reassuring us daily that inflation is temporary, but allow me to assure you that wage inflation is just getting started and will accelerate rapidly. As I noted yesterday, the Fed can create currency out of thin and funnel it to financiers, but the Fed can't create experienced, motivated workers out of thin air or entrepreneurs with the chops to launch and sustain real-world enterprises. Let's start with...

A commander of a US Space Force unit has been fired and put under investigation for making anti-Marxist comments during a podcast, according to reports. Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier was relieved from his post after appearing on a podcast to promote his book, which warns that a neo-Marxist agenda is infiltrating military culture and policy.

Presidents aren't supreme beings imbued with the power to dictate economic conditions, pandemics or international events. We give them far too much credit and blame for the vagaries of the world. That said, there are some things that presidents do have the power to influence. The location of MLB's All-Star Game, for instance, is not Joe Biden's bailiwick. The economic recovery is. The COVID-19 downturn wasn't an organic event precipitated by unforeseeable underlying economic factors. It was an event created by state lockdowns, coupled with widespread consumer fear. So, with lockdowns easing and vaccines entering arms, a vibrant bounce-back should...

Holy Unity, That they may be One, Sin from division. Examination of Conscience- Saintly Critique. Sharing in the Divine Life.(15 mins.)The Way. The Truth. The Life