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Has “Public Order” Enthroned Diabolical Disorientation?In his September 1965 intervention read during the Second Vatican Council, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre began his criticism of the Declaration on Religious Liberty, Dignitatis Humanae, with a brief summary of the document’s principles:“Founded on the dignity of the human person, religious liberty demands equal rights in civil society for all forms of worship. Society must then be neutral and guarantee the protection of every religion, within the limits of public order.”f American readers view this as reasonable and consistent with principles we generally find in the United States, there is good reason. As Michael Davies...

Click here to read the full articleIn March 2021 Pres­i­dent Trump sent a cease-and-desist let­ter to the RNC demand­ing that they quit using his name to fundraise.The let­ters were also sent to the Nation­al Repub­li­can Con­gres­sion­al Com­mit­tee (NRCC) and Nation­al Repub­li­can Sen­a­to­r­i­al Com­mit­tee (NRSC).The Repub­li­can Par­ty aban­doned Pres­i­dent Trump fol­low­ing the elec­tion where Democ­rats were able to steal a land­slide vic­to­ry from the most pop­u­lar pres­i­dent in US history.The RNC quick­ly moved on fol­low­ing the elec­tion and start­ed to fundraise and focus on the Geor­gia runoff elec­tions. They refused to sup­port Pres­i­dent Trump.Now there is evi­dence that the RNC Chief...

JOHANNESBURG, July 11 (Reuters) - Shops were looted overnight, a section of highway was closed and stick-wielding protesters marched through Johannesburg on Sunday, as sporadic violence following the jailing of former South African President Jacob Zuma spread.The unrest had mainly been concentrated in Zuma's home province of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), where he started serving a 15-month sentence for contempt of court on Wednesday night. read more President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Sunday there was no justification for violence and that it was damaging efforts to rebuild the economy amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Zuma's sentencing and imprisonment have been seen as a...

The knee-jerk reaction to Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s first term was that she was less conservative than some had hoped and others had feared.But those judgments are likely to be premature, because the real tests for Barrett will come over the next year...The 49-year-old Barrett, for example, was lampooned by Democrats as a threat to health care during her confirmation hearings last year, but then ruled against a challenge to the Affordable Care Act in this year’s term.Barrett is likely to be a crucial and possibly a deciding vote on two huge cases on hot-button culture war issues:...

Citing Florida’s economic policies and living standards, Wall Street executives are requesting transfers from New York to Florida. Many analysts state that bankers’ desire to move out of New York is creating a headache for recruiters as investment firms attempt to reopen their offices. Job headhunters say banks such as JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs have what is being described as a waiting list of executives looking to move to the Sunshine State primarily because of its lower cost of living, but also because of other quality of life issues including a lower crime rate. Manhattan, where both firms are located,...

This 1941 M3 Stuart tank is a riveted-hull light tank that was produced in November 1941 and reportedly sent to Australia for training purposes until 1946. It remained in the country until it was acquired by the current owner in 2018 and reimported to the US. The tank is powered by a replacement gasoline-powered 668ci Continental W-670 seven-cylinder radial engine that sends power to the tracks via a four-speed manual transmission. Equipment includes a manually rotating turret, a de-milled M22 gun with a shoulder mount, a Mark 19 radio set, and canvas seatbacks. The fuel lines and filters were replaced...

Eric Adams won the Democrat primary for mayor in New York City because he campaigned on a law-and-order platform. The New York Times found his popularity mystifying and disturbing because he refused to play to the stereotype that Blacks hate the police. If that wasn’t a strong enough signal that the Defund the Police movement is hostile to people living in crime-ridden neighborhoods, Black families in Oakland stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the police against Antifa’s “defund the police” madness. Make no mistake about Eric Adams: He’s a leftist. However, he’s a leftist who understands that even socialism needs a functioning infrastructure,...

The recall election will present voters with two questions. September 14, 2021. The first will ask whether Newsom should be recalled from the office of governor. The second will ask who should succeed Newsom if he is recalled. A majority vote is required on the first question for the governor to be recalled. The candidate with the MOST votes on the second question would win the election, no majority required.

A new analysis of more than 50 previously secret, corporate-backed scientific studies is raising troubling questions about a history of regulatory reliance on such research in assessing the safety of the widely used weedkilling chemical known as glyphosate, the key ingredient in the popular Roundup herbicide. In a 187-page report released on Friday, researchers from the Institute of Cancer Research at the Medical University of Vienna in Austria said a thorough review of 53 safety studies submitted to regulators by large chemical companies showed that most do not comply with modern international standards for scientific rigor, and lack the types...

You have to give the White House credit. When they latch onto a narrative, they stick with it regardless of how obviously false it is. Case-in-point: The spin they’re putting on the Cuban protests happening right now. They demand freedom. They are sick of long bread lines and inadequate socialized medicine. They want their government to stop being Communist. But to the White House, the cries against socialized medicine are actually demands for more vaccines. No, really. According to Just The News: In a rare outbreak of mass protests in Cuba, thousands of people on Sunday marched through the streets...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q53Wxx7aLrs if you want to copy and paste it. Basically a video of all the commercial real estate for lease that no one is buying near Chelsea in Manhattan. About a quarter of the business is gone and not coming back.

Reporter Steve Hart from the New South Wales TV Station “10 News First” reported to Australian viewers that “Today is the first full day of the New World Order” as he dutifully reported the draconian lockdowns and loss of freedom of a once proud and free citizenry. Giving details about the new lockdowns, for the criminal scheme to defraud known as “COVID-19” Reporter Hart, like a good little Commie statist drone, outlined: Outdoor Gatherings are limited to: Two People Exercise: Within 10km of home Browsing in Shops: PROHIBITED One (1) Person per household, per day may engage in Essential Shopping...

The Oakland police department is investigating several weekend shootings, with one person killed and four others wounded within a seven hour span on Saturday alone.

We've heard this time and time again- its more financially beneficial to stay home and get your government "relief" than actually get a job. I am seeing it firsthand this week. We are in Cocoa Beach, Florida at our condos for a week and tonight went to one of our favorite restaurants Jazzy's Mainely Lobster. Over the past few days we've seen restaurants down here, including Jazzy's, with signs that read "closed Tuesday's." We asked the hostess why- her response? "They cannot find people who want to work. Its better for them to sit at home and collect money from...

This 1941 M3 Stuart tank is a riveted-hull light tank that was produced in November 1941 and reportedly sent to Australia for training purposes until 1946. It remained in the country until it was acquired by the current owner in 2018 and reimported to the US. The tank is powered by a replacement gasoline-powered 668ci Continental W-670 seven-cylinder radial engine that sends power to the tracks via a four-speed manual transmission. Equipment includes a manually rotating turret, a de-milled M22 gun with a shoulder mount, a Mark 19 radio set, and canvas seatbacks. The fuel lines and filters were replaced...

Cardinal Sarah: This Reform Is IRREVERSIBLE - Despite Clerical IntransigenceHistory will remember Benedict XVI as a great theologian and as the Pope of Summorum Pontificum, Cardinal Robert Sarah told IlTimone.it (July 2).He believes that with the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum began “a path of liturgical and spiritual REFORM" which in spite of difficulties, and resistances is "irreversible.”Sarah acknowledges a new generation of young people and families which emerged in the Church “despite intransigent clerical attitudes of opposition” to the Roman Mass.“This liturgy has a future because it has a past, a history of holiness and beauty that cannot be erased...

Three people have been shot outside of a barbershop following an argument between two men in their 40’s allegedly over who came first in a foot race over a month ago. The incident occurred at approximately 3 p.m. on Saturday, July 10, in northeast Houston when the Houston Police Department received a call regarding a shooting involving several victims outside the Mean Kutz barbershop, according to ABC News' Houston station KTRK.

A middle school drama teacher in Illinois has filed a lawsuit against her school district, alleging that it is violating anti-discrimination laws and the U.S. Constitution through its curriculum that pits “different racial groups against each other” in the name of “anti-racism.” Teacher Stacy Deemar, in her lawsuit (pdf) filed in federal court on June 29, alleges that since 2017, teachers in Evanston-Skokie district (District 65) have been made to under go so-called “antiracist training,” and continue to do so. Deemar is being represented by the Southeastern Legal Foundation. Among a number of objectives in the training, teachers are stereotyped...

Liberals’ Obsession with ‘Christian Nationalism’The chattering class is very preoccupied these days with “Christian nationalism.” The pundits who speak darkly about it don’t bother to define the phrase, but it is meant to conjure up a terrifying picture of extremism. That liberals consider it a devastating slur speaks to their own anti-Christian and anti-nationalist views.The existence of patriotic Christians across the land certainly wouldn’t have alarmed the Founding Fathers. They would have found the use of “Christian nationalism” as an epithet puzzling. Indeed, they assumed that the American form of government would work best in the hands of a Christian...

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