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A federal appeals court on Wednesday explained its decision to stop Vermont from excluding tuition funding for students who attend a religious school, saying a lower court ruling from earlier this year did not go far enough to accomplish that. The opinion followed an injunction granted by the 2nd Circuit in February against the state, and in light of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year that said states can’t cut religious schools from programs that send public money to private education. The appeals court had issued its injunction on behalf of four Catholic high school students, their parents, and...

“And the king appointed for them a daily ration from the king’s choice food and from the wine which he drank, and appointed that they should be educated three years, at the end of which they were to enter the king’s personal service. . . . But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king’s choice food or with the wine which he drank; so he sought permission from the commander of the officials that he might not defile himself” (Daniel 1:5,8). Godly integrity is built upon the foundation of biblical authority. From the...

VENTURA, Calif. — A woman from Ventura was reunited with a wallet she lost 46 years ago after an employee working on remodeling Southern California's historic Majestic Ventura Theater discovered it inside a crawl space. “I would have never imagined,” said Tom Stevens after locating the wallet among old candy bar wrappers, ticket stubs and soda cans. Stevens told the Ventura County Star he then went on social media to try to locate the owner based on clues in the wallet, including old photos, a 1973 Grateful Dead concert ticket and a California driver’s license for Colleen Distin that expired...

The American bit features a California recruit and her two moms.

Montana Fouts celebrated her 21st birthday to perfection Friday night. The Alabama pitcher threw just the fifth perfect game in Women’s College World Series history, blanking UCLA 6-0. It was also the first perfecto in the Series in . . . 21 years. The 21st out was tense for a second — UCLA’s Aaliyah Jordan hit a line drive to the warning track in left field that Alabama’s Alexis Mack hauled in. This was Fouts’ second win in as many nights in the Series. She tossed a two-hitter Thursday in beating Arizona 5-1. The Crimson Tide (52-7) are now a...

JESUS HEALS THE MAN LOWERED THRU A ROOF . 2 8 A. D. Bible Timeline Resources to CLICK: To read MARK 2 in full To hear MAX McLEAN reading it To hear a DRAMATIZATION of it To see an ANIMATION of Matthew, Mark, Luke, or JohnHarmony of the Gospels Mt9 + Mk2 + Lk5 New International Version, emphases added Abrdgd: the complete text is in your Bible .MATTHEW9:1-8 Jesus stepped into a boat, crossed over and came to his own town. Some men brought to him a paralyzed man, lying on a mat. When Jesus saw their faith, he...

Top doc urged reporters to cover flu, not COVID, in early days of pandemic.. Dr. Anthony Fauci displayed a flippant attitude about travel and failed to understand the severity of COVID-19 during the early stages even as clear warning signs emerged, according to emails reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. On Feb. 25, 2020, CBS News asked Fauci for advice in its coverage of COVID-19. Fauci told the network to emphasize the "real and present danger" of the seasonal flu even as the Centers for Disease Control prepared to classify COVID-19’s spread as a pandemic that very day. The emails...

“Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.” - Christopher HitchensAnd that is precisely why, as Gary Hopkins tells us…It’s been an interesting week - in the Chinese sense of the term.Drip, drip, drip; certain facts began to ooze out from under the Colossal Covid Contravention. First, St. Fauci was revealed for the poison weasel sucking liar he is. Then certain people began to expose the Covid Cabal as nothing more than an elaborate plot designed to take Trump out. But remember: we’re the kooks here.If you...

Walmart will give 740,000 employees free Samsung smartphones by the end of the year so they can use a new app to manage schedules, the company announced Thursday. Employees will only be able to use work features on the new Me@Walmart while on the clock, the company said. "The idea of this app started as a way to manage associates' schedules and has grown into our single in-store app for U.S. associates, saving them time and helping them be more efficient," the company said. Earlier this year, Walmart announced pay increases for nearly a third of its U.S. workforce of...

The Washington Post reports that the current U.S. Senate is the oldest in American history. Dianne Feinstein turns 88 this month. Charles Grassley turns 88 in September. Richard Shelby is 87. James Inhofe is 86. Patrick Leahy is 81. Twenty-three senators are in their 70s. The average age of senators at the beginning of this year was 64.3 years. It may be that being 88 now is like being, say, 78 a few decades ago. So despite being the oldest, this might not be the most age-impaired Senate in our history. Robert Caro’s book about the Lyndon Johnson-dominated Senate makes...

Former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan was in the news recently. He gave a speech that was very critical of former President Trump. I would offer a counterpoint, but I already have. It happened in October of 2018, when I spent 10 minutes hollering at Speaker Ryan in a Maryland parking lot. It was right after I had become famous in the war over the nomination of Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. My point in engaging Speaker Ryan was to try and convince him that we are living in a time of danger in America. A danger...

Have you ever seen fame and fortune turn so quickly against someone as it is right now against Il Fauci? The scandal of his emails ranks right up alongside the massive leak of the “climategate” emails back in 2009; they are the “Pentagon Papers” of the COVID fiasco. And does every media headline have to include “racism” in it right now? It seems like it from the ones we’ve assembled this week.

The world's richest countries signed a landmark global agreement Saturday to confront tax avoidance and make sure that giant tech companies pay their fair share, Britain's treasury chief said. "I'm delighted to announce that G-7 finance ministers today, after years of discussions, have reached a historic agreement to reform the global tax system to make it fit for the global digital age and crucially to make sure that it's fair, so that the right companies pay the right tax in the right places," Sunak said in a video message posted on Twitter. The meeting of finance ministers came ahead of...

GARDENA, Calif. — A man suspected of viciously attacking a woman at a gas station in Gardena was arrested in Long Beach Friday evening. Authorities were looking for a 300-to-350-pound shirtless man seen in a video attacking the woman at the gas station. The attack appears to be random and without provocation, and left the woman, a 25-year-old single mother, hospitalized with serious injuries. The suspect, who has not been immediately identified, was taken into custody around 7:30 p.m. after a family member turned him in. The family member expressed concern he would hurt someone else or himself. Investigators say...

Former President Barrack Obama suggested Friday that efforts by Republican legislatures to change voting laws amount to "rigging" the system. During a virtual discussion at the Economic Club of Chicago, Obama said Republicans have embraced "patently false" claims that the 2020 election was stolen, and excoriated them for instituting "voter suppression methods" through state legislatures. "That's the kind of dangerous behavior we are going to have to push back on," Obama said. “This really has to do with the basic rules well all have agreed to, to keep this diverse, multiracial democracy functioning. Are we going to stick to those...

LEE COUNTY, Fla – A robbery suspect picked the wrong delivery driver to target Wednesday night. Lee County deputies say 16-year old Hayden Celin tried robbing the Domino’s driver in a failed setup. The driver tried delivering a pizza to a home in Pine Manor, but the family inside said they never placed an order. When the driver returned to his car, he noticed his cell phone was missing. As the driver went to leave, Celin allegedly punched him in the face, and shot a water gun loaded with pepper spray into the man’s face. That’s when the driver pulled...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Psalm 86Psalm 86 A prayer of David.. 1 Hear me, Lord, and answer me, for I am poor and needy. 2 Guard my life, for I am faithful to you; save your servant who trusts in you. You are my God; 3 have mercy on me, Lord, for I call to you all day long. 4 Bring joy to your servant, Lord, for I put my trust in you. 5 You, Lord, are forgiving and good, abounding in love to all who call to you. 6 Hear my prayer, Lord; listen to my cry...

NASA is now on the perplexing UFO case. NASA chief Bill Nelson, who assumed his post just last month, has asked agency researchers to look into the spate of UFO sightings that U.S. Navy pilots have reported over the past two decades, CNN reported. "Now that I'm here at NASA, I've turned to our scientists and I've said, 'Would you, looking at it from a scientific standpoint, see if you can determine [what these objects are], so that we can have a better idea?'" Nelson told CNN's Rachel Crane in an interview that the network posted online Friday (June 4)....

After months of calling for cuts in police budgets, activists in Albuquerque, New Mexico, were dismayed to hear about Mayor Tim Keller’s plan for the $56 million in Covid-19 relief on its way from Washington. In April, Keller proposed earmarking more than 15 percent of the funds for the Albuquerque Police Department: $3 million to expand a gunshot detection system, $5 million to refurbish station houses, $1 million for new cars and $450,000 to recruit more officers. A Keller spokesman said this week that the money was part of a plan “to make our community safer and healthier for everyone.”...