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I want to make a suggestion. It is past time for some type of "coalition of free American states." States have a long history of creating partnerships with each other. Law enforcement task forces, farming cooperatives, river management boards, and collegiate sports conferences all benefit individual states through regional collaborations and are common throughout the United States. It is also common for state attorneys general to coordinate lawsuits against the federal government. Republican governors and Democrat governors meet at party retreats to strategize how best to advance their respective parties' interests. And innumerable lobbying and legal groups work every year...

Monday will mark 100 years since the Tulsa race massacre destroyed "Black Wall Street." Several events will take place over the weekend, including a visit by President Joe Biden. White supremacists could target the commemorative events in racially charged attacks, the DHS warned. Monday will mark 100 years since the Tulsa race massacre destroyed "Black Wall Street," and the US Department of Homeland Security has warned that white supremacist groups might target events commemorating it...... The Tulsa race massacre saw mobs of white residents attack Black residents and businesses in the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1921. Somewhere between...

All around the world, people are embracing the view that the free-market system is failing in the face of the challenges associated with climate change and other environmental problems. But are the “excesses of capitalism” really to blame? One argument against this is the fact that nowhere has environmental destruction been as severe as in the former socialist states. In 1990, Zhores A. Medvedev took stock of the Soviet Union: “The Soviet Union has lost more pasture and agricultural land to radioactive contamination than the total acreage of cultivated land in Switzerland. More land has been flooded by hydroelectric dams...

If there’s a topic the woke like talking about most, it’s themselves. This is not unusual for people obsessed with their own well-being, status, and influence over others. Which pretty much sums up the mindset of most of the woke. A culture based on such values easily tips over into narcissistic exhibitionism -- the obsessive desire to parade one’s self before others: nothing could be more important than satisfying the craving for attention, approval, and adulation. This activity has now been elevated into entertainment masquerading as documentary. I don’t wish to denigrate the suffering of those who experience mental health...

May 29 , 2021 Saturday of the 8th week of Ordinary time; Memorial of the blessed virgin Mary Good Samaritan Catholic Church, Ellijay, Georgia Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First readingEcclesiasticus 51:17-27 ©Glory be to him who has given me wisdomI will thank you and praise you, and bless the name of the Lord.When I was still a youth, before I went travelling, in my prayers I asked outright for wisdom.Outside the sanctuary I would pray for her, and to the last I will continue to seek her.From her blossoming to the ripening of her grape my heart has taken...

“2 Dead, 10 Missing after boat carrying Cuban migrants overturns near key West.” (CBS Miami, 5/27) “Three Cubans survived for 33 days on deserted island eating coconuts and rats. ... US Coast Guard officials said the trio from Cuba told them their boat had capsized in rough waters and they were able to swim to Anguilla Cay, where they spent 33 days before they were spotted and rescued.” (Daily Telegraph 2/21.) “Cuban baseball star César Prieto defects to U.S.-- Cuban baseball player César Prieto, a highly touted 22-year-old infielder, ditched the Cuban national team Wednesday and defected to the United...

The simmering division among Republicans over a bill crucial to funding Missouri’s Medicaid program boiled over this week, with the state senator at the center of the debate calling for a change in the chamber’s leadership. Sen. Paul Wieland, R-Imperial, led the charge to include language banning the use of taxpayer money for certain contraceptives on a bill extending a Medicaid provider tax that generates nearly $2 billion every year. Wieland’s amendment eventually sank the tax extension’s chances of passing before the session ended — and will force lawmakers to return to Jefferson City to approve it before the tax...

The Niagara Catholic School Board has issued a statement after a prayer asking God to protect the people of Israel was read last week. The prayer was read out during virtual school on Thursday at Saint Michael Catholic High School asking God to protect Israel from threats from those who seek to harm. The board says it understands a petition has been launched, and it wants residents to know the prayer was a mistake and had no malicious intent. They have issued a statement from school officials along with an apology. "On Thursday, May 20, a prayer was shared with...

The Roman Catholic Church in Germany ranked high on the list and the Catholic Church in Poland ranked last.May 26, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) —The first “Rainbow Index of Churches in Europe in 2020” (RICE 2020) that ranks Christian church groups in Europe by their “LGBTI inclusivity” was released in April. “As theologians researching inclusivity, we started with the argument that Jesus’ practice of radical hospitality and commensality sets the rule for churches on diversity, equality, and the affirmation of people of all sexual orientations and gender identities,” states the RICE research report, which was researched by the European Forum of LGBT...

Greek authorities have significantly reduced the 2019 sentences handed down against monks of the Athonite Esphigmenou Monastery who were involved in a violent altercation while resisting eviction from the monastery’s representative office in Karyes, the capital of Mt. Athos, in 2013. The monks, including Abbot Methodios, were found guilty of instigating violence and throwing Molotov cocktails at police officers in the incident. Fr. Methodios and another monk, Fr. Antipas, initially received 20-year sentences in 2017, with 6 others receiving sentences of 10 years and 4 months, though those sentences were reduced to 17 years and 9 years and 5...

Please pray for my Wife, the Drs found a dark "Mass" on her lung earlier this week during a CT Scan and Tuesday she is going in the hospital for a lung biopsy(sp?) pray for a good result please.

Americans increasingly view President Joe Biden as more far-left on policy now he is actually in office, with polling demonstrating a 10 percent surge since late 2019. Forty-six percent of Americans now view Biden as “too liberal” as of May. In December 2019, before Biden took office, only 36 percent said Biden was too liberal. LinkForty percent said Biden’s radical policies are “about right.” That is also down two percent from 2019. Only ten percent said Biden is “too conservative.”

The Arizona Senate may sign a deal for another 2020 election review in Maricopa County following reports that some overseers of the audit are dissatisfied with the process. The present audit, which includes a review of 2.1 million ballots cast in the state's November election in the county, has been underway since April 23 at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, led by the hired firm Cyber Ninjas. Audit liaison, former Secretary of State Ken Bennett, told a reporter with CBS5 News on Thursday that hand counters had gone through more than 800,000 ballots so far. Organizers have said they...

When Neera Tanden assumed a role as senior adviser at the White House last week, after her bid for a Cabinet post went off the rails, it was viewed as a consolation prize. In reality, Tanden may have just stepped into a more quietly powerful position: entering President Joe Biden’s inner sanctum and avoiding the scrutiny from her detractors that would have come with a more public-facing role. As senior adviser, Tanden is now among a small, select circle of advisers in the White House. She’s included in daily briefings. She’s one of a half dozen senior advisers and one...

Maeystown’s oldest resident Harry Steingrubey, 95, and his wife Maxine celebrated 75 years of marriage May 14. The couple met June 15, 1944, under what Harry has described as fateful circumstances in a recent edition of the Maeystown Volksblatt. While stationed in Fort Bragg, N.C., as a Army infantry sergeant, Harry and some fellow members of the 100th Division were given were given passes for “R&R” in nearby Fayetteville while the rest were sent to march in a commemorative parade in New York to 1/2 celebrate Infantry Day. It was the only time Harry had even been given such a...

One night when he was 18, Steven Webb dived into an open air swimming pool and his life changed forever. He hit his head on the bottom of the pool and was paralysed from the neck down. Now aged 48, he has been elected mayor of his home city. This is his journey from rock bottom to a place where he hopes to help others, as told to Miles Davis.It was a Sunday night, 1 September 1991. I know it was 10:31 because I looked at my watch just before I dived into the pool. It was an open air...

Does it? If not can we get one?

“He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy” (Proverbs 29:1 KJV).

All things old are new again.

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