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After it looked like the legislature was finally about to reclaim its authority, Governor McKee plunged the state back into unilateral rule. For all the wrong reasons earlier this summer, the Rhode Island General Assembly finally did the right thing in restoring a proper balance of powers. But just weeks later, the governor double-crossed lawmakers with an audacious, and likely illegal, power play. Now some lawmakers are speaking out against their own party’s governor and asking leadership to intervene against his latest gambit. In a state where COVID-19 case and fatality rates have persistently ranked among the worst in the...

We shall go into the house of the Lord (Psalm 121) As a priest of the Archdiocese of Oviedo in Asturias, Spain, I have been very blessed to have been offering the Traditional Roman Mass in my home diocese since 2008. When ordained on Pentecost 1996, my hope of being able to celebrate the Vetus Ordo, even once before taking leave of this vale of tears, was rather more wishful thinking at the time.But here I am, celebrating every Sunday and preceptive Holy-day for nearly thirteen years now. And will continue to do so, though having had to switch over...

Authorities cleared the wife of Texas gubernatorial candidate and former Chairman of the Texas Republican Party Lt. Col. Allen West of a DWI charge Wednesday, Fox News reported. A Dallas Police Department officer arrested Angela West, 61, in August for suspicion of driving while intoxicated (DWI), despite the toxicology results saying that she did not have any alcohol or drugs in her body, Fox News reported. George R. Milner, West’s attorney, announced Wednesday that the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office “reviewed all evidence regarding Ms. Angela West’s case and has REJECTED it for filing.” (RELATED: Allen West’s Wife Released From...

About two-thirds of registered voters favor boosting the IRS's budget to increase tax enforcement on high-income taxpayers, which President Biden has proposed as a way to help pay for Democrats' multi-trillion dollar social-spending plan, according to a recent University of Maryland poll. The survey comes as Democrats are crafting the spending bill and are aiming to pass the forthcoming legislation this month. Biden proposed earlier this year that such a package could be financed in part by providing the IRS with an additional $80 billion over a decade.

Washington — Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney of Wyoming has been selected to serve as vice chair of the House select committee investigating the January 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, its chairman, Democratic Congressman Bennie Thompson, announced Thursday. "Representative Cheney has demonstrated again and again her commitment to getting answers about January 6th, ensuring accountability, and doing whatever it takes to protect democracy for the American people," Thompson, of Mississippi, said in a statement. "Her leadership and insights have shaped the early work of the Select Committee and this appointment underscores the bipartisan nature of this effort."

A group of scientists studying climate change discover untold horrors on a disastrous expedition to the Antarctic in September 1992. Inspired by the H.P. Lovecraft short story. Director - Matthew Cooper Writers - Matthew Cooper - H.P. Lovecraft(based on a story by) Stars - Tony Coughlan - Ashe Russell - Gary Geeson

What Joe Biden should have learned from Jimmy Carter © Getty Images The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan has concluded, accompanied by a refrain that the 20-year American troop deployment represented the nation’s “longest war” — a conflict seen by President Biden as far too long and costly for results that, had the commitment continued, might have secured a stalemate at best. But as the post mortem over the president’s decision continues, it’s worth remembering that this is not the first time a newly-elected president has bucked the consensus of the national security establishment in an effort to end an extended...

VIDEOIn the wake of the shocking Project Veritas video exposing an Antifa teacher bragging about indoctrinating his students in a Sacramento area high school, a Natomas school board meeting was called. Here are some of the highlights of that very heated school board meeting in which angry parents are questioning why such a teacher was allowed to attempt indoctrinating their children. Somehow the school board was only made aware of this situation by the Project Veritas video? Notice that a "recess" (really the end of the meeting) was hurriedly called after a parent wondered why a lot of money was...

"China is our most important partner," says Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid on the prospect of Afghanistan becoming part of the New Silk Road initiative

Physicists working on a type of fusion reactor called a stellarator are getting closer to actually harnessing the power of nuclear fusion. According to a new paper, the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator in Germany is now capable of containing heat that reaches temperatures twice as high as those found in the core of the Sun. This means physicists have been able to reduce heat loss - a major step forward in stellarator technology. "It's really exciting news for fusion that this design has been successful," said physicist Novimir Pablant of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). "It clearly shows that this...

Vatican heralds ecumenical movement pushing ‘ecological conversion, well being of the Earth’ The month-long event is being described as a precursor to the United Nations’ November climate summit, which the Pope will attend. A light show illuminates St. Peter's Basilica on December 8, 2015, the final event of the opening of the Holy Year Jubilee.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) – The Vatican is celebrating an ecumenical movement designed to promote “ecological conversion” and to respond to Pope Francis’s persistent calls to heed the “cry of the Earth.” Starting September 1, the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, the “Season...

Leftist billionaire George Soros is trying to save disgraced Governor Gavin Newsom’s (D-CA) political career. Campaign finance data show that Soros has poured $1 million so far to protect the far-left Newsom from political doom by the state’s pending recall election. MSNBC anchor Ayman Mohyeldin noted in July that Newsom’s disastrous handling of COVID-19 was a “driving force behind the recall effort.” Newsom came under heavy political fire for violating his own COVID-19 rules by eating inside the highfalutin French Laundry restaurant in Napa County, California. In the face of the glaring hypocrisy, Washington Post columnist Henry Olsen wrote that...

Update (0956ET): Well, it’s the morning after one of the worst floods in possibly a century for parts of the Northeast. NJ.Com’s Noah Cohen tweeted images of floodwaters nearly cresting bridges in Philadelphia. A street in Yonkers, a city on the Hudson River, is entirely underwater. Nepperhan Ave in #Yonkers is underwater @News12WC @News12HV #floods #NYFloods pic.twitter.com/loVf4kibBH — Nadia Galindo (@NadiaGalindoTV) September 2, 2021 Floodwaters in Rye, New York. 😔 CAR ON TOP OF CAR • RYE, NY • 7AM THURSDAY 9-2-2021 As flood waters recede, we are left with images like this. 🙏 📷: @ tommckev/IG pic.twitter.com/tJGydej8Fx — Matt...

@joshgerstein JUST IN: Judge orders #CapitolRiot defendant Doug Jensen back into pretrial custody after he was caught using internet after being ordered not to.

The walkout started when three students emerged from Legend High School in Parker and meandered toward a nearby park. Two more followed shortly after, and for a moment the small group was the only sign of protest. Then came dozens, and within minutes, hundreds of students and parents had amassed across the street from the high school. They held signs calling masks child abuse, public health officials liars, and demanded masks remain optional. The Tri-County Health Department on Aug. 30 rescinded the opt-out ability of Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas counties for a previous mask order that applied to children ages...

CNN anchor Don Lemon on Wednesday during the handoff from fellow anchor Chris Cuomo said we did not yet know if we left “behind” Americans and Afghan allies stranded in Afghanistan. Lemon said, “Listen, I understand the emotion around it but let’s be a little bit unemotional here, if we can. Wars are terrible. This is our longest war. I think in any situation, whether you agree with the exit or not, you’re not going to get all of the people out that you want in the time period. I think that is asking for something that’s not — you...

This is by design. This isn’t ineptitude, this is deliberate. This is treason. We are under illegitimate hostile rule. House Republicans Press to Hold Joe Biden Accountable for Deadly Afghan Withdrawal By: bretbart, September 2, 2021: House Republicans are holding President Biden accountable for stranding up to 200 or more Americans while abandoning U.S. military equipment in Afghanistan. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) held a press conference to announce that House Democrats blocked a vote to “require” Biden to recover the military gear and Americans. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member James Comer (R-KY) stated in a...

Mikis Theodorakis, the renowned Greek composer and Marxist firebrand who waged a war of words and music against an infamous military junta that imprisoned and exiled him as a revolutionary and banned his work a half century ago, died on Thursday at his home in central Athens. He was 96. The cause was cardiopulmonary arrest, according to a statement on his website. His family said in a statement read on Greek state television that his body would lie in state, and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis declared three days of national mourning. Mr. Theodorakis was best known internationally for his scores...

My wife and I, both in our sixties, had the worst flu of our lives in January/February of 2020. Many of my friends and co-workers had the same illness. This was before COVID-1984 had a name, and afterwards I was convinced we had both had it. When I gave blood in 2021 and came up positive for COVID-1984 antibodies I was even more convinced. But there were nagging questions in my mind: 1. My wife tested negative for the antibodies in a rapid antibody test at a local pharmacy 2. All my friends and co-workers who were sick at the...

Could the murder of a Lyft driver in Garland, Texas, be the first in a new wave of terrorist attacks spawned by President Joe Biden's disastrous retreat from Afghanistan? That question was posed by the editorial board of Issues & Insights after an FBI official said Monday that Imran Ali Rasheed might have been "inspired by a foreign terrorist organization" to kill Isabella Lewis and then drive to a nearby police station and begin shooting people inside. The FBI got involved in the case after local police found a note in the Lyft driver's car. "What, we wonder, could have...