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U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson will announce plans to hike taxes on Tuesday to fund health care and reforms to the country’s social care system. By increasing the National Insurance rate (a tax on earnings) by an expected 1.25%, Johnson’s government aims to tackle crises in social care funding and National Health Service treatment waiting lists, the latter of which has spiraled amid escalating pressure on health care services throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. The increased rate could reportedly raise more than £10 billion ($13.8 billion) a year. Johnson is set to announce the changes in a statement to the House...

WASHINGTON, Friday, Sept. 6. The statement that the President disapproves of the proclamation issued by Gen. FREMONT, has no shadow of foundation. The President has carefully selected commanding officers, and he will in no instance interfere with their action so long as he continues them in the field. The act passed by Congress clearly gives the right to declare the property of rebels to be confiscated and the policy of summarily enforcing that act will be let to the discretion of officers, controled only by the circumstances by which they may be surrounded. If, in the prosecution of the war,...

In the matter of a new Texas law banning abortions six weeks after gestation, when a fetal heartbeat can usually be detected by vaginal ultrasound, suppose the headlines had been different? Instead of words like "most restrictive in nation" (The Wall Street Journal) and "Supreme Court refuses to block Texas law" (The Washington Post), along with four stories splashed across the front page of The New York Times that seemed to be written from the perspective of pro-choice writers, what if the headlines had instead reflected another point of view that took the side of babies and the women who...

Pray For the Peace of JerusalemPROVERBS 8Wisdom’s Call 8 Does not wisdom call out? Does not understanding raise her voice? 2 At the highest point along the way, where the paths meet, she takes her stand; 3 beside the gate leading into the city, at the entrance, she cries aloud: 4 “To you, O people, I call out; I raise my voice to all mankind. 5 You who are simple, gain prudence; you who are foolish, set your hearts on it.[a] 6 Listen, for I have trustworthy things to say; I open my lips to speak what is right. 7...

On 11 September 2015, Liberty Activist Michael Picard was protesting a Connecticut speed trap when he was accosted, his property illegally seized, and three Connecticut State Troopers conspired to violate his rights and charge him with disturbing the peace. This correspondent wrote about the situation in 2016. Here is how Picard described the situation back then. Here are the words of Michael Picard:Back on Friday, September 11th, 2015, in West Hartford, CT, I was illegally detained, frisked and searched, and my gun, permit and camera were seized, I was threatened with arrest for interfering (apparently, freedom of speech passes for...

September 7th , 2021 Sanctuary, Oklahoma University campus Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First readingColossians 2:6-15 ©The Lord has brought you to life with himYou must live your whole life according to the Christ you have received – Jesus the Lord; you must be rooted in him and built on him and held firm by the faith you have been taught, and full of thanksgiving. Make sure that no one traps you and deprives you of your freedom by some second-hand, empty, rational philosophy based on the principles of this world instead of on Christ. In his body lives the...

Like many employers across the nation, the Washington State Patrol is "on a collision course with a staffing crisis" due to a vaccine mandate that has virtually removed any exceptions. Some WSP staffers were warned in emails Thursday that Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee's mandate does not allow for religious exemptions, reported Jason Rantz, a talk-host for KTTH radio in Seattle. Rantz pointed out that for more than a year, troopers have successfully worked without a vaccine, using personal protective gear. Rantz obtained an internal poll of the State Patrol Troopers Association conducted Aug. 9-17 that found 295 troopers said they...

In the 1990s, when I was in graduate school and reading required postmodern/Marxist theory, including Critical Race Theory, I little imagined that twenty-some years later, irate parents at school board meetings would be denouncing its use in elementary school classrooms and organizing recall elections. This is for the good. CRT is dividing Americans and actually harming blacks—and whites. What I as an adult graduate student found tedious and abstractly wrong-headed is now boiled down for K-12. It tells students that what their eyes and ears tell them is wrong: all white people are privileged oppressors. To accomplish this, it reaches...

CHICAGO -- At least 65 people have been shot, six fatally, across Chicago since Friday evening, including several children. A man was shot Monday night on the Lakefront Trail in the Gold Coast. About 7:15 p.m., the 28-year-old was sitting on the bike path near the 800-block of North Lake Shore Drive when he heard shots and felt pain, according to Chicago police. He was shot in the buttocks and was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in good condition, police said. Two backyard shootings within four blocks of each other occurred a little over an hour apart early Monday on...

September 7, 2021 Tuesday of week 23 in Ordinary Time Church of St. Clodoald, St. Cloud, France Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingColossians 2:6-15 ©The Lord has brought you to life with himYou must live your whole life according to the Christ you have received – Jesus the Lord; you must be rooted in him and built on him and held firm by the faith you have been taught, and full of thanksgiving. Make sure that no one traps you and deprives you of your freedom by some second-hand, empty, rational philosophy based on the principles of this world instead...

Spirits must have been high as the Governor of Minnesota took the long drive from St. Paul to Alexandria. The weather was perfect, clear cool skies. A glorious day for a picnic on the banks of a picturesque Minnesota lake. It’s fair to assume that the staff expected a warm welcome at the Democrat gathering. What they got was a taste of just how radicalized their party has actually become. The Governor was beaming as he took the podium, prepared to rally the loyal troops. Minutes later he was driven from the stage. Mr. Walz was confronted by a squadron...

An Antifa member has been accused of shooting an antagonist, a member of the Proud Boys. Up until last weekend, Antifa thugs confined their violence to beatings, chemical “milk shakes,” and mob violence. But now, an Antifa member has been accused of shooting an antagonist, a member of the Proud Boys. Zachary Steiber reports for the Epoch Times: A member of the far-left, anarcho-communist Antifa network allegedly shot a member of an opposing group over the weekend during a clash in Washington state. Tusitala Toese, known as Tiny, was struck in the foot on Sept. 4 in Olympia, according to...

SUTTER CREEK, Calif. — Looking to oust the governor? Ed Brown has just the right merch for you. Camouflage Recall Newsom hats and Recall Newsom masks. He’s got Recall Newsom yard signs. A stack of Recall Newsom pamphlets. But just days before California voters decide whether to push Democrat Gavin Newsom from office, the trailer off Golden Chain Highway was mostly a shrine to former President Trump. “As far as I’m concerned, Trump is the president,” said Brown, 67. And as for the recall election? “They’ll probably do something to cheat,” he said of Newsom’s supporters, adding that he will...

Picture a press conference where spies in the field instead of today's sycophantic reporters were asking Joe Biden the Afghanistan questions. “Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.” – H. L. Mencken “Presser” is media slang for press conference, in theory, an opportunity for political mandarins to keep the public informed. The difference between a Trump and Biden presser is astonishing, especially if there’s bad news on the front page. President Trump was savaged daily by rude, often nasty reporters. President Biden, midst the ongoing Afghan crisis, is gifted with softballs from the same journalists. Adding...

Watching as an Ariana Afghan Airline 737 approaches the airport where Americans and Afghans have not been able to leave. This could mean there is a break in the stalemate. It's 3:24 PM in Afghanistan.

The last U.S. military aircraft to leave Afghanistan took off at 3:29 p.m. EDT on Aug. 30, 2021. According to resident Joe Biden, this flight officially ended America's longest war. Unfortunately, the Biden administration's evacuation of American citizens and allies from Afghanistan was so blatantly incompetent, callously negligent and knowingly incomplete that it is a stain on the very soul of our nation. Biden and his sycophantic minions in the White House, State Department and Pentagon transformed what should have been a long overdue "welcome home" celebration for American troops into a deadly cesspool of grief, betrayal and shame. The...

Since 2008, the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial has been a solemn, quiet escape for mourners to pay their respects to those who died at the Pentagon at 9:37 a.m., Sept. 11, 2001, when terrorists flew American Airlines Flight 77 into the west side of the building, killing 184 people onboard and employees inside the U.S. military headquarters. The physical damage to the Pentagon was rebuilt in less than a year. The memorial was closed Sept. 9, 2019, for renovations, and was scheduled to reopen in May 2020, but because of COVID-19 restrictions on the Pentagon Reservation and other factors, it...

LONDON — A coalition of environmental groups called on Tuesday for this year’s climate summit to be postponed, arguing that too little has been done to ensure the safety of participants amid the continuing threat from COVID-19. The Climate Action Network, which includes more than 1,500 organizations in 130 countries, said there is a risk that many government delegates, civil society campaigners and journalists from developing countries may be unable to attend because of travel restrictions. “Our concern is that those countries most deeply affected by the climate crisis and those countries suffering from the lack of support by rich...

Last Thursday, Aug. 26, at 6:00 p.m. in Kabul, a suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest as American troops at Abbey Gate were processing entrants to Hamid Karzai International Airport. Nearly 200 people died at that horrific moment, including 13 U.S. service members. It was a horrific massacre that didn't need to happen. There is only one person to blame, and that is President Joe Biden -- not for his decision to leave Afghanistan, but instead for his stubborn insistence on leaving the country on a specific date. It is a stubbornness rooted in negligence, not incompetence, a word often...

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