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The median sale price of an existing home rose to a record high of $363,300 in June as purchases broke a four-month streak of declines, according to data released Thursday by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). As home sales rose 1.4 percent last month, the median sale price of an existing home soared 23.4 percent in the year since June 2020 — just 0.2 percentage points below May’s record-setting annual increase. The median sale price of an existing home one year ago was $294,000. A small increase in the housing supply helped sales increase for the first time since...

Hatred for the Mass of all time and the question of obedienceThe hermeneutic of Cain’s envy against AbelJuly 22, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – This great and powerful article by Professor Massimo Viglione constitutes one of the most lucid and profound comments on the ominous Motu Proprio Traditionis Custodes. In sharing this important intervention, I intend to offer it to the reading and reflection of all the faithful, Catholics and also non-Catholics, so that each one can draw from it prophetic clarity and apostolic courage in the very hard war that we are all called to face, a war whose inevitable outcome...

It happened just after 10 p.m. on Bleeker Street and 10th Avenue. Video from the scene shows people trying to stop the vehicle. The 18-year-old Justin Burgos ran his car into Fire Cuervo protesters right outside of NYPD’s 6th precinct. NYPD came & ripped a protester’s bike out of the car’s way before the car went through & hit protesters as it sped off. Protesters ran after the car & then cops ran after them & the car. Video below: Twitter LinkAn 18-year-old man suffered a knee injury. The chaos unfolded outside the NYPD’s 6th Precinct, where about 25 people...

A review of “The Cunning of Freedom: Saving the Self in an Age of False Idols,” by Ryszard LegutkoFree and Captive Minds Freedom does not exist in a collectivist society, and the only way that it can exist is if we reject collectivism, and affirm the idea of community.We all have a notion of what freedom is, and even if we aren’t the sort to spend all our days and hours contemplating it, we have an inherent desire to be free. Unfortunately, there is always something that will oppress us and it’s only human to look for a way out...

Former Republican Sen. Bob Dole (Kan.) told USA Today in an interview that “I’m a Trumper,” before adding later that “I’m sort of Trumped out, though.” Dole, the former Senate majority leader and Republican candidate for president in 1996, was one of the few individuals from the GOP establishment to endorse Trump in 2016, and was the only former presidential nominee to go to the convention that nominated him. While he said he is still a “Trumper,” he did break from the former president on the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, telling USA Today “he lost the election.”

BIG hat tip to Johnny! - It's been a great blessing to be at home with the wife these last few months. We've caught up on everything I've done wrong in the last 20 years. - Day 7 of SOCIAL Distancing: Struck up a conversation with a spider today. Seems nice. He's a web designer. - When this virus thong is over with... I still want some of you to stay away from me. - If these last few weeks have taught us anything - it's that stupidity travels faster than any virus on the planet. - Just wait a...

Democrats No More Now with money, institutions in their hip pocket, and cool popular culture, the Left would not just damn American institutions, but infect them to transform them into revolutionary agencies. In the old days, Democrats had predictable agendas, supposedly focused on individual rights, the “little guy,” and distrust of the military-industrial-intelligence complex. The Left, often on spec, blasted the wealthy, whether the “lucre” was self-made or inherited. The old-money rich were lampooned as idle drones. If the rich were self-made, they were deemed sell-outs. A good example was ’70s pop icon Jackson Brown’s “The Pretender,” whose lyrics railed...

IDF: The largest explosion in the Gaza Strip - an Islamic Jihad weapons depot An IDF spokesman in Arabic reveals that the explosion that took place earlier today in the Gaza Strip and caused deaths and injuries was caused by a malfunction in the Islamic Jihad's weapons depot. IDF in Arabic Lt. Col. Avichai Adrei. News 20. Thirteenth of Av 5781 (22/07/2021) Lt. Col. Avichai Adrai, the IDF's spokesman in Arabic, reveals on his Twitter account that the explosion that took place earlier today in the Gaza Strip and caused deaths and injuries was caused by a malfunction in the...

It’s time to go. Everyone who lives at the Regent Palace condominium saw the destruction at Champlain Towers, less than six blocks away, and they don’t need to be forced out. They’re leaving or they’ve already left, voluntarily. “Honestly, you know, the building was analyzed and deemed unsafe, so we’re not gonna take any risk, you know a couple of blocks down, a building actually collapsed so we don’t want anything tragic to happen,” said Theo Magnat, a Regent Palace resident, as he was moving out Tuesday. The building was constructed 70 years ago on the beach at 93rd and...

VIDEOIt's like the Washington Post White House Bureau Chief had never heard of her own colleague Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin who has written extensively on the subject of China and specifically the Wuhan lab both in his column and in his book, "Chaos Under Heaven." By very conveniently forgetting about her colleague Rogin, Parker felt free to spout psychobabble nonsense about "cultural issues" to defend Anthony Fauci. This was in stark contrast to Josh Rogin who stuck to the FACTS. Something Parker notably AVOIDED while speaking to serial fibber Brian Williams.Watch and judge for yourself who has more credibility...

In an interview with The Big Issue, William Shatner spoke about mankind’s future, his love of danger, and his own mortality. Many fans of Star Trek drew comfort from the fact that humans made it to the future without destroying themselves, but Shatner doesn’t think this will happen. “Fifty years ago, I read Rachel Carson‘s Silent Spring,” he explained. “I remember vividly. What she said was going to happen has happened.

The Department of Homeland Security on Thursday extended its travel restrictions between the US and Canada to Aug. 21 — following the announcement by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that the borders would reopen to fully vaccinated Americans on Aug. 9. “Given the outbreak and continued transmission and spread of COVID-19 within the United States and globally, the Secretary has determined that the risk of continued transmission and spread of the virus associated with COVID-19 between the United States and Canada poses an ongoing ‘specific threat to human life or national interests,” according to the notification posted to the Federal...

Got a bird feeder? Take it down.That’s the advice of the Audubon Society, the PA Game Commission, the Wildlife Futures Program (WFP) at The University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine, and the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education (SCEE). And if you think their recommendations are for the birds, you’re right.A mysterious illness has been ravaging songbird populations in the eastern United States. Thousands of afflicted birds have been manifesting crusty discharge from swollen eyes and signs of neurologic impairment (erratic flight, trouble walking, tremors). Rehabbers are helpless; the prognosis is death.First observed in the DC area in May and...

During a conversation in May, one of the people I respect and trust most in college athletics dropped this on me, unsolicited: “Keep an eye on Texas and Oklahoma.” The person suspected that the two traditional power programs in the Big 12 were again getting the wandering eye, a decade after nearly leaving that league in ruins and radically changing the national landscape.

“I’m admitting young healthy people to the hospital with very serious COVID infections,” wrote Cobia, a hospitalist at Grandview Medical Center in Birmingham, in an emotional Facebook post Sunday. “One of the last things they do before they’re intubated is beg me for the vaccine. I hold their hand and tell them that I’m sorry, but it’s too late.” “They cry. And they tell me they didn’t know. They thought it was a hoax. They thought it was political. They thought because they had a certain blood type or a certain skin color they wouldn’t get as sick. They thought...

Cuban Catholic writes scathing open letter to Pope Francis, a.k.a. ‘Papa Che’From our Bureau of Memorable MissivesMaria Victoria Olavarrieta, a Cuban Catholic has written an open letter to Pope Francis. Read the Spanish original here. She has much to say, sin pelos en la lengua (without hairs on her tongue). In other words, she lets him know what she really thinks of his lack of support for the oppressed people of Cuba. Her closing lines are among the most daring and most moving, ever penned in the long, long history of letters written to popes. Pope Francis, forgive me if...

Hunter Biden will meet with prospective art buyers at two art shows in Los Angeles and New York City later this year, giving the novice painter an opportunity to meet with potential “anonymous” buyers of artwork priced up to $500,000. Georges Berges Gallery spokeswoman Robin Davis confirmed to CBS News that Hunter Biden will attend both events.

Workers in Las Vegas and other parts of Clark County, Nevada, will have to resume wearing masks indoors but customers will not under new rules. The Clark County Commission voted Tuesday in an emergency meeting to require face coverings for all employees working indoors and around co-workers or members of the public in an increase in Covid cases driven by a more transmissible variant and a slowing vaccination rate.

(Video) Google whistleblower, Zach Vorhies says that Google/YouTube has blacklists censoring “CURES FOR CANCER”. He also explained that they were also censoring any information that showed the Vegas shooter (Stephen Paddock) was a Democrat, when in fact he was anti-Trump.

Cultured liberals attack pope's brutish iconoclasm against Latin Mass France's leading philosopher is excoriating Pope Francis for his cultural vandalism of the "liturgical patrimony" of the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM). "I am an atheist, as is known, but the life of the Catholic Church interests me because it sets the heartbeat of our Judeo-Christian civilization, which is in bad shape," writes Michel Onfray, public intellectual and author of over 60 books, in Monday's edition of Le Figaro. Onfray... concedes that his "world is one that was made possible by the God of Christians." "Christianity has shaped a civilization that is...