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President Reagan's Address at a United States-France Ceremony Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Normandy Invasion/D-Day - 6/6/84.

A dramatic new video has been released of a Florida man who led police on a wild high-speed chase in Indian River County right before he threw his infant baby at a deputy. Deputy Jacob Kurby caught the flying baby as other deputies rushed in to arrest 32-year-old John Henry James III. The Indian River County Sheriff’s Office shared a video of the arrest on Friday. Cops said John Henry James, 32, was driving erratically in Vero Beach, Fla., on May 26. An officer attempted to pull James over, but he sped off instead, according to an arrest report. That...

Chief among the Big Lies currently being promulgated by the American Left is that Western culture is inherently racist, a manifestation of White Supremacy. This is not only nonsense but pernicious, dangerous nonsense. Before we go on, perhaps we should define “Western culture.” It is essentially the marriage of Judeo-Christian morality with classical (that is, Greek and Roman) intellectualism. It privileges reason over emotion and the individual over the state. Its central tenet is that, through their own efforts, a person can rise above their circumstances. Western culture is not now nor has it ever been perfect. But it has...

In his late-middle age, my father cultivated more of the interests of the old neighborhood. His kitchen overflowed with pasta makers and deli slicers. His prep table was taken over by a home wine-making operation; we ate our meals beside a glass carboy as it bubbled up fermented gas. And scattered about the living room, tucked in the bookcases and stashed behind the coffee table, he positioned an array of locked cases and bags containing a growing collection of rifles, pistols and shotguns.The acquisitions that came to fill our Upper West Side apartment mainly came from the shops around Little...

SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST MARK 14:12–16, 22–26 Friends, today’s Gospel focuses on the spiritual power of the Eucharist. A central claim of the Catholic Church is that Jesus is substantially present under the forms of bread and wine. His presence is not simply evocative and symbolic, but rather real, true, and substantial. To verify this scripturally, look at the accounts of the Last Supper in Matthew, Mark, and Luke—and also in Paul. But look especially at the sixth chapter of John’s Gospel. Jesus says, "Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man...

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp was booed and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger was censured at the Georgia GOP convention Saturday, demonstrating former President Donald Trump's hold over members of the Georgia Republican Party. The reaction from members of the Georgia GOP comes months after both Kemp and Raffensperger refused to help the former President overturn the election results after his loss to President Joe Biden. Trump has endorsed one of Raffensperger's primary opponents, GOP Rep. Jody Hice, who has embraced the ex-President's falsehoods about the election. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Kemp was greeted with boos so loud as he...

Most Americans today if under age 50 probably aren’t even aware of what happened that day, thanks to the progressive failures and equal ignorance of today’s educators, historians, politicians, and journalists. But as day dawned on June 6, 1944, the eyes and ears, hearts and hopes of the world were on these brave young men . . . Is there a next Great Generation? The augurs are not good. We have a woke generation who manifestly hates America. We have organizations (BLM, Antifa) whose purpose is to destroy America. We have media that preaches only the much-exaggerated sins of America....

A dozen candidates are set to compete in August’s Republican primary to fill Ohio’s vacant 15th Congressional District seat. But one candidate in the crowded field has caught the eye of government watchdogs and principled conservative insiders for all the wrong reasons: Ohio State Representative Jeff LaRe. Some of LaRe’s largest campaign donors were indicted in a massive Buckeye State corruption scandal. Further, LaRe is allied with a shady team of “Never Trump,” pro-Biden Republicans who worked to undermine Republican values in Ohio and across the nation. Still, that didn’t prevent LaRe’s candidacy from receiving a shocking boost earlier this...

J E S U S H E A L S A T . . T H E P O O L . J O H N . . 5 New International Version, emphases added Abrdgd: the complete text is in your Bible . Resources to CLICK: To read JOHN 5 in full To hear MAX McLEAN reading it To hear a DRAMATIZATION of it To see an ANIMATION of Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John Harmony of the Gospels 2 8 A. D. Bible Timeline JOHN, Chapter 5 1 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of...

On schools, the Father of the Reformation, Martin Luther, said: I am much afraid that the universities will prove to be the great gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the Scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which men are not unceasingly occupied with the Word of God must become corruptTragically, the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in America have proven this wise adage true. In the world today, there are few things more corrupt than the...

A small handicapped man with no forearms and one leg allegedly dropped the ‘n’ word before a huge black man kicked him in the back as he turns his back to walk away. The kick was so powerful that sent him flying. But what people don’t reveal s the fact that First, they refuse to help punch him out of the turnstile and then they kick him. An armless man with no means to defend himself. WATCH (warning: graphic video) Video below: (video uploaded on the site) ** (Disclaimer: This video content is intended for educational and informational purposes only)...

“I am a simple man who would just like to eat laminated pastry and sip a cappuccino outside in the sun.”You must admit, last week was fairly crappy and to cap it off my coffee maker bit the dust yesterday somewhere around my 3rd cup. Now this was not a coffee maker that you can just run over to Kohl's or BB&B and replace, or even order on Amazon for 2nd day delivery – unless you wish to pay full price, which you do not as it is prohibitive. No, in order to replace my Saeco ground-to-order-cup-at-a-time brewer that makes...

God Bless The Heroes Who Saved The World On D-DayJune 6, 2021, is the 77th Anniversary of D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy. The invasion that saved the world from Nazi tyranny. allied invasion of Normandy.On June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. Code named Operation Overlord, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which “we will accept nothing less than full victory.”The invasion was supposed to happen on the 5th, but the weather forced...

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said he will vote against a sweeping election reform overhaul bill, dubbed the For The People Act, putting the fate of the legislation in jeopardy in the evenly split Senate. In an op-ed published early Sunday morning in the Charleston Gazette-Mail, Manchin, one of the Democratic caucus's most conservative members, zeroed in on the partisan nature of the legislation, which has not attracted any Republican support. "I believe that partisan voting legislation will destroy the already weakening blinds of our democracy, and for that reason, I will vote against the For The People Act," Manchin wrote....

June 9, 2021 10th Sunday in Ordinary Time Catholic Church of St Norbert, Hardin, Diocese of Springfield-Cape , Girardeau, USA Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingGenesis 3:9-15 ©'I was afraid because I was naked, and I hid'The Lord God called to the man after he had eaten of the tree. ‘Where are you?’ he asked. ‘I heard the sound of you in the garden;’ he replied ‘I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.’ ‘Who told you that you were naked?’ he asked ‘Have you been eating of the tree I forbade you to eat?’ The man replied,...

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden turned to his old boss, former President Barack Obama, on Saturday to help him encourage Americans to sign up for “Obamacare” health care coverage during an expanded special enrollment period in the pandemic. Biden used his weekly address for a brief Zoom chat with Obama to draw attention to the six-month expanded enrollment period that closes Aug. 15. Meanwhile the government released a report that claims that nearly 31 million Americans — a record — now have health coverage through the Affordable Care Act. “We did this together,” said Obama, whose administration established the health...

The romantic relationship between a man and a woman is one of life's greatest joys. This distinctive and valuable relationship needs a defense and a greater understanding, and Ronald Pisaturo provides it in his book Masculine Power, Feminine Beauty: The Volitional, Objective Basis for Heterosexuality in Romantic Love and Marriage.[1] He presents a positive theory of heterosexual romantic love and a cogent defense for marriage, fidelity, masculinity, femininity, and much more. From his introduction: I argue that heterosexuality in particular enables romantic love in a way that integrates with all aspects of a man and woman. I argue also that...

'Mike and I have a good relationship, but it's too early to be discussing running mates,' he said

It is the late evening of November 8, 2022. Rather than a Grover Cleveland maneuver, Donald Trump pulls a John Quincy Adams technique. Rather than just running for a second non-consecutive term in 2024, he wins the race to become a U.S. Congressman from Florida in the general election of 2022. Just as our 6th President was elected to the House of Representatives in the election following his defeat for re-election as President, now our 45th President has done likewise. But whereas Adams served 17 years in the House and became an elder statesman there, Trump’s initiative is quite different....

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s beloved wild blueberry fields are home to one of the most important fruit crops in New England, and scientists have found they are warming at a faster rate than the rest of the state. The warming of the blueberry fields could imperil the berries and the farmers who tend to them because the rising temperatures have brought loss of water, according to a group of scientists who are affiliated with the University of Maine. The scientists analyzed 40 years of data and found that the state experienced a 1.1 degrees Celsius (1.98 degrees Fahrenheit) increase...