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A shocking video released by a local assemblywoman shows the moment when an Asian woman was brutally attacked as she walked down a Chinatown street. The 55-year-old victim can be seen walking by the Kong Sihk Tong café at around 6:15 p.m. — when a man in an orange hoodie and denim jacket whacks her unprovoked. In the video, the woman staggers backward and collapses to the ground, clutching her face. A man then rushes over to check on the victim, whose back was leaning up against a column of the eatery’s outdoor dining setup. “Are you OK?” he asks...

Flanders Fields, Belgium, 1915: Poppies, the hue of human blood, blow in the gentle breeze. The scarlet blooms decorate thousands of Allied soldier graves. Graves of mud transfused with the blood of fallen brothers. 1,043 American soldiers perished in Belgium during World War I, 368 of whom are interred at Flanders Field American Cemetery. Today, Memorial Day, we remember their courage—and the courage of all American veterans—by revisiting the story of the vermilion poppies of Flanders Fields.Flanders Fields is the name for WWI battlefields on the border of northern Belgium and France. The Battle of Passchendaele and the Second Battle...

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The tyrants are in charge, and they want your guns. While the left has denied it for decades, anyone who pays attention knows that the ill named "progressives" want to totally eliminate the Second Amendment. Period. The so-called "red flag" laws popping up around the country, as well as the gun-hating zealot nominated by Biden to head the ATF, are just two examples of Marxism's accelerated drive to disarm law-abiding citizens. It won't be long before the Democrats attempt to push through a gun registration law, always the final step before total confiscation. We can't allow this to happen. We...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Psalm 82Psalm 82 A psalm of Asaph. 1 God presides in the great assembly; he renders judgment among the “gods”: 2 “How long will you[a] defend the unjust and show partiality to the wicked?[b] 3 Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. 4 Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked. 5 “The ‘gods’ know nothing, they understand nothing. They walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken. 6 “I said, ‘You are “gods”; you are...

I have been so lucky to explore some extraordinary places in my lifetime, but few even come close to this one. This is the 153 Mile Store, and it has sat perfectly preserved - full of unsold merchandise - since the day it closed in 1963. I grew up just down the road from this location, so I was always aware of it, but it was so much more than I ever expected. Its rare that you get to see old artifacts in good condition, but this store is FULL of artifacts in literally brand new condition. This store opened...

Shocking security footage shows the moment a man punches an Asian woman so hard in the face that she is knocked to the ground in a random attack in New York City's Chinatown on Monday afternoon. The daytime assault took place around 6.15pm in front of a restaurant, and was entirely unprovoked, police say. Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou, whose district encompasses Chinatown, shared surveillance video of the attack on Twitter.

WASHINGTON, Friday, May 31. It was stated in this correspondence yesterday that a number of vessels were then fitting out here for some destination not publicly disclosed. The following dispatch, received at the Navy-yard between four and five o'clock this afternoon, affords an explanation: "The Keystone State reports that in passing Acquia, at noon, the Freeborn and Anacosta were engaging the battery at Acquia Creek, with success. Shall I send the Pocahontas with her ten-inch gun to assist?" This is signed by Capt. DAHLGREEN, the commander at the Navy-yard. Immediately on receipt of this dispatch the Navy Department ordered two...

Modern Presidential speeches often ring a bell of truth and stir feelings of patriotism, often via the words of speechwriters whose job it is to write inspirational phrases. From Reagan’s “shining city on the hill,” Bush the First’s “thousand point’s of light” and Clinton’s “There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America” we heard phrases that few would take exception with. Even 43, who the keepers of culture loved to ridicule for his “Bushisms” was presidential when he gave formal speeches: “We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not...

The Chicago Police Department's anti-looting task force ended Monday night and the department have released new numbers pointing to fewer murders and shootings last month compared to the previous year. The traditional summer kickoff has historically been a problematic one in Chicago and this one was no exception. At least 32 people were shot, three of them fatally since Friday night. And yet, according to CPD, this has been Chicago's least violent Memorial Day weekend in years. Despite an increase in the overall number of shootings, in new numbers just released for the entire month of May, CPD reports decreases...

Twenty years after the attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001, Americans can reflect on the conflict in Afghanistan that followed. Enough time is passed to allow the fervor to settle, the gains and losses to be digested, and the rhetoric to subside. The public and policy makers can make a rational judgement on whether this war should continue. President Biden appears to be following his predecessor’s steps and pushing for an end. Three days after the terrorist attacks on 9/11, congress passed the Authorization for Use of Military Force of 2001. The bill permitted the President of...

Abortion activists frequently argue that abortion should be a private “choice” between a woman and her doctor. But when millions of taxpayers are forced to pay for that choice – one that results in the destruction of a human life – abortion becomes a public issue in an unmistakable way. On May 28, President Joe Biden released his proposed budget for fiscal year 2022. His $6 trillion plan made headlines for what it included as much as for what it omitted – namely, the Hyde Amendment. The amendment, a budget rider that prohibits federal funding for abortion and is responsible...

BEIJING - A man in eastern China has contracted what might be the world’s first human case of the H10N3 strain of bird flu, but the risk of large-scale spread is low, the government said Tuesday. The 41-year-old man in Jiangsu province, northwest of Shanghai, was hospitalized April 28 and is in stable condition, the National Health Commission said. No human case of H10N3 has been reported elsewhere, the commission said. “This infection is an accidental cross-species transmission,” its statement said. “The risk of large-scale transmission is low.”

Memorial of Saint Justin, Martyr Mark 12:13–17 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus escapes from a trap with one of his most famous one-liners: "Repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God." We should not read this as though there is a clearly demarcated political realm that belongs to the Caesars of the world and a clearly demarcated spiritual realm that belongs to God. And we certainly shouldn’t read it in the modern mode—that the public arena belongs to politics, while religion is relegated to the private dimension. No, this won’t do, precisely because God...

VIENNA - The United Nations’ atomic watchdog hasn’t been able to access data important to monitoring Iran’s nuclear program since late February when the Islamic Republic started restricting international inspections of its facilities, the agency said Monday. The International Atomic Energy Agency reported in a confidential document distributed to member countries and seen by The Associated Press that it has “not had access to the data from its online enrichment monitors and electronic seals, or had access to the measurement recordings registered by its installed measurement devices” since Feb. 23. While the IAEA and Iran earlier acknowledged the restrictions limited...

Of the 31 states that had unemployment rates lower than the U.S. national average of 6.1%, the overwhelming majority, 26, are Republican-led states. Republican-led states and Vermont reported the lowest unemployment rates in April, according to a new report by the U.S. Commerce Department. States led by Democratic governors recorded the highest jobless rates, according to the report. Unemployment rates were lower in April in 12 states and the District of Columbia and stable in 38 states, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. States with the highest unemployment rates in April were Hawaii (8.5%), California (8.3%), New Mexico...

@RepJamesComer joined #FoxFriendsFirst calling on Democrats to hold China accountable and investigate the origin of COVID-19, as the UK now joins the call to take a second look at the Wuhan lab. Video...

Tulsa (AFP) - In Tulsa, the city that still bears the scars of a 1921 racial massacre, African-American residents are eagerly awaiting the arrival of President Joe Biden on Tuesday, hoping he will hear their call for financial reparations. "I just want him to feel our pain," said local activist Kristi Williams. The Democratic leader, who has benefited from a strong support base among Black voters, will attend Tuesday's commemorations of the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre, one of the worst episodes of racial violence in US history. Williams, who is descended from some of the massacre victims,...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he wants the G7 group of nations to agree on a plan that would see everyone around the world vaccinated against Covid-19 by the end of 2022.In an interview with CBC News in Canada, Johnson also called for a “global treaty on pandemic preparedness” at next month’s meeting, which will be hosted in the UK.The British leader said the G7 nations should consider so-called vaccine passports and COVID-status certification at their meeting, which Johnson sees as playing a great role in reopening international travel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tls5WXcGE0U

First, though, we need to cut through the Orwellian language that the Democrats deploy regarding guns. The compliant legacy media and woke academia have made it almost impossible to discuss the Second Amendment and most other subjects, for they’ve corrupted sensible, rational thinking, education, revised history, ignored reality and law, and inverted the meaning of words. Until we clear away this plethora of falsehoods and return words to their legitimate meanings, we cannot have an intelligent conversation about guns. SNIP GOVERNMENT “BUYBACK”This term refers to the government “buying back” firearms it never owned. In a world where words have no...