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Iranian society is getting increasingly violent. In the past few days, several women have been killed by their husbands in Iran's border cities. An increase in child murder, general murder and family crimes, suicide, and theft, and a decrease in psychological security in society, reflects the rising violence and seems to contribute to more violence.Society does not move toward violence overnight, over a month, or even over several years. Violence is the result of many shortfalls in any society, bringing it to the brink of collapse. At one point, it manifests in the form of a volcanic eruption. The traces...

We're always skeptical of polls, but this one confirms what I hear from the people I go to Mass with. This is from Catholic Vote:CatholicVote released a poll Tuesday showing a strong majority of Mass-attending Catholics believe politicians who oppose Church teaching should not present themselves for Communion.The poll found that 83% of churchgoing Catholics believe politicians who oppose Catholic teachings "create confusion and disunity."74% believe that "Catholic public officials who disagree with their Church on serious or grave matters" should "avoid creating confusion and disunity by not presenting themselves for communion...."The polling data comes just before the U.S. Bishops...

<p>Twenty-nine page memo obtained by Just the News cites double counting, insecure storage, "massive chain of custody problem" and a worker's threat to "f*ck sh*t up."</p><p>In a nationally televised interview in January, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger rattled off an impressive list of measures his state used to ensure the November election count was accurate. "We had safe, secure, honest elections," he declared to "60 Minutes."</p>

Why should you listen to someone who was psychotic as a child, in a long line of psychotic children, talk about the topic? Because chances are you will at some time be impacted by a psychotic person, and society has a large legacy of unresolved, irrational attitudes about the topic which don’t make for a good outcome, and mental illness is increasing. The investment in thinking about it, while avoiding pre-digested thought, might be worth the time. I compare it to the topic of substance abuse as "self-medication". The Twelve Step Movement used to be predicated in part on the...

Suppose some beastly right-wing caricature in Congress proposed a law permitting all white-collar criminals, including current prisoners, to vote in American elections. That would be repulsive. It would also, technically, be a “voting rights bill.” Imagine some congressperson went all-out fruitcake—worse than anyone there now, even—and wrote legislation extending American suffrage to Icelanders, porcupines, and bonsai trees. That would be daft and bizarre. And it too would be a “voting rights bill.” So, then, perhaps the doyens of the national press could quit canting in such terms about House Resolution 1, a “voting rights bill” so offensive to basic constitutional...

A lone gunman is under arrest after terrorizing drivers outside Phoenix during a one-and-a-half hour shooting rampage that killed one person and injured 12 others Thursday. Police received the first of many 911 calls about shots fired in traffic in Peoria around 11:10 a.m., officials said in a Thursday evening press conference streamed by ABC 15 Arizona. Over the next 90 minutes, the driver of a white SUV went on to open fire at eight other locations in Peoria, Surprise and Glendale, before being taken into custody safely and without incident in a parking lot, authorities said. One victim was...

WASHINGTON, Monday, June 17. The statement relative to the retention of rebels in the Treasury Department are sheer fabrications, and of course do great injustice to Secretary CHASE. The oath of allegiance was as promptly administered to the employes in that Department as in either of the other Departments, and as generally subscribed by the clerks as by any of the Government employes. Nor is it true that Secretary CHASE retains men in office who are known to entertain secession sentiments. I know that any fair evidence that a man sympathizes with the rebels would insure his dismissal before the...

There’s an old saying about insanity being the repetition of something while expecting different results, so it’s no wonder people are fed up with the sorry results they see from their various governments. It’s not just the federal government mind you, though to be sure our corrupt liberal bureaucracy in Washington has done little to endear itself to most Americans of late. But there are state, and even city governments like New York City in many cases, that have horribly let their citizens down. After years of failure from the governing class, we are starting to see pushback as the...

Biden signed legislation giving millions of federal employees Friday off to celebrate Saturday’s new federal holiday, Juneteenth. This makes 44 paid days off for the average federal employee annually, which is nearly nine full weeks of paid-time off each year. Juneteenth is celebrated on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States. The Civil War was America’s bloodiest war, with between 752,000 and 861,000 soldiers dying on the battlefield. 49 states have already recognized Juneteenth as a holiday (South Dakota is the only holdout), though only a handful give it as a paid holiday to state...

The former chair of the Colorado Republican Party is facing potential legal disciplinary sanctions over allegations that he “misappropriated” nearly $280,000 from a pro-Donald Trump super PAC between 2016 and 2019. The allegations against Ryan Call, who served two terms as state chair of the Colorado GOP between 2011 and 2015, were disclosed in a complaint filed against him this month by the Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel, a division of the Colorado Supreme Court that handles attorney disciplinary matters. The OARC’s complaint was obtained by Newsline through a public records request. The complaint’s allegations center on Call’s involvement with...

The Boss’ Broadway show will go on – but only for fans who got the right COVID-19 vaccine. Rabid rock fans looking to celebrate a return to normalcy by taking in Bruce Springsteen’s Broadway show later this month will be on the outside looking in if they’ve received the AstraZeneca vaccine, which hasn’t yet been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration.

Netanyahu has ended his tenure in a less than respectable way on many levels. I've written about that a lot as one who voted Likud/Netanyahu every election the past 20 years except for two, most notably the last one. He's got so many truly great achievements for which he deservingly can take credit. But he made it way too clear that his politics was about him, not the country. The last number of days leading up to the vote this week, he tried every trick in the book, and then made up some more, to do anything to stay in...

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez (D) said that Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) policies have “put the entire city under siege” and that “the Democratic Party on so many levels seems to be enamored with the mentality of being enablers to criminality.” Lopez said, “The only thing that is equitable about what the mayor’s policies have been is to put the entire city under siege and to spread fear and violence into every neighborhood, so much so that it’s now commonplace and doesn’t even raise an eye nationally.

hree Chinese astronauts have entered the core module of China's permanent space station to embark on their three-month mission, becoming the module's first occupants and pioneers in one of the nation's grandest space endeavors. Major General Nie Haisheng, Major General Liu Boming and Senior Colonel Tang Hongbo floated into the core module, named Tianhe, or Harmony of Heavens, at 6:48 pm on Thursday, after their Shenzhou XII spaceship linked with the module in a low-Earth orbit about 390 kilometers above the Earth at 3:54 pm. They have begun to carry out their tasks inside the craft, which is the first...

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I’m gonna be a dick today, because that’s a personal choice. It’s the middle of June and the COVID-19 vaccine is available (and free!) to anyone in the United States over the age of 12. This is a miracle. If you’re fully vaccinated like I am, you can throw parties now. You can travel. You can eat out. You don’t have to quarantine at home, counting toilet paper rolls and making hatch marks on your bedroom wall and wondering when you’ll be free of this bloody pandemic. It’s over for you. You won. You could even celebrate by going to...

On top of dropping masks, a California safety board says employers are now required to document which employees are vaccinated. In a 5-1 vote, the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board (OSHA) approved a clearer set of rules for vaccinated people in the workplace on Thursday. Still, there is confusion on whether or not an employer can ask for an employee's vaccination status. The short answer: yes. CAL/OSHA rules On top of dropping masks, a California safety board says employers are now required to document which employees are vaccinated. In a 5-1 vote, the California Occupational Safety and Health...

HYMN No.365 This is a hoot, but I suspect the minister didn't appreciate it. A minister was completing a temperance sermon. With great emphasis he said, 'If I had all the beer in the world, I'd take it and pour it into the river.' With even greater emphasis he said, 'And if I had All the wine in the world, I'd take it and pour it into the river.' And then finally, shaking his fist in the air, he said, 'And if I had all the Gin in the world, I'd take it and pour it into the river.' Sermon...

Gold shed more than 2% on Thursday, precipitating a sell-off across precious metals with palladium set for its worst day in over a year, as the dollar gained ground after the U.S. Federal Reserve struck a hawkish tone on monetary strategy. Weakening physical demand and slowing speculative flows into gold, both of which began before the Fed meeting, could also help to drive a further pullback

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