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A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter aircrew helped deputies in South Texas round up a group of Central American migrants being smuggled into the U.S. The apprehensions took place near Robstown, Texas, approximately 130 miles north of the Texas-Mexico border.It’s not unusual to see the United States Coast Guard patrolling coastal waters along the Texas Gulf Coast. On Friday however, the Coast Guard deployed an aircrew to help local law enforcement agents to thwart an ongoing human smuggling event near Robstown in Nueces County.Robstown police officers, Nueces County Sheriff’s Office deputies, and local county constables quickly apprehended eight Central American migrants...

"Meet Grace. She's a 16 year old girl who's showing more courage than most men right now. She's refusing to comply with the mask mandate her Wyoming school board is trying to force. She was fined and arrested. Here's her arrest. She's a hero." Robby Starbuck Twitter (6 min video)

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The U.S. is asking Mexico to let the Drug Enforcement Administration and other agents into the country. On Saturday, the new U.S. ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar, said the surge in migrants is a very significant issue for both countries and the Western Hemisphere. Salazar also encouraged cooperation to tackle the growing fentanyl crisis and to allow DEA agents to operate in Mexico. His remarks come shortly after Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Mexican officials to build a new security framework.

CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline jumped 6 cents over the past two weeks, to $3.31 per gallon. That’s $1.07 more than a year ago. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg said Sunday the rise comes as the cost of crude oil increases and demand goes up in Europe, where refineries are switching from burning gas to oil-based fuels. Nationwide, the highest average price for regular-grade gas is in the San Francisco Bay Area, at $4.55 per gallon. The lowest average is in Houston, at $2.77 per gallon. According to the survey, the average price of diesel...

Medical science has been performing intellectual backflips for the last year and a half at the behest of governments and the powers-that-be. They’ve redefined what a “vaccine” is, changing their accepted goal of “immunity” to “protection.” They’ve manipulated what can be considered to be adequate and acceptable testing, rolling out billions of doses of drugs that are still in the experimental phase. All the while, they’ve done so knowing exactly what they’re doing and why. The reason, of course, is a combination of two very unscientific goals: Printing money and ushering in the global economic monstrosity known as “The Great...

VIDEOOn the scale of things to be concerned about, worrying about correct pronouns to use on people ranked about ZERO until the last few years. Nowadays the obsession with pronouns has become downright OBNOXIOUS as you can see in these two videos. Oh, and a lot of this obsession with pronouns has to do with bored wealthy liberals asserting their incredibly annoying class privilege against working class people as you can see in the first video. The poor guy just wants to go on about his job but the pronoun obsessed liberal just wouldn't stop hectoring him.What's next? Crimes Against...

The Fourth Court of Appeals has rejected Texas’ appeal of last week’s ruling by a judge in Bexar County who refused to stop the coronavirus vaccination mandate for employees of the San Antonio Independent School District. The decision was issued late Tuesday and the state is expected to appeal it to the Texas Supreme Court. The deadline for the district’s 7,000 employees to be vaccinated is Oct. 15.

The reluctance of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WVA) to support the Biden Administration's $3.5 trillion spending bill has led to sustained attacks on them. Sen, Bernie Sanders (S-Vt) declared that "two senators have no right to sabotage what we want. We are, in the Russian vernacular, the Bolsheviks—the majority. You know, Lenin had the same sort of problem with the Menshiviks—the minority—when he was establishing the dictatorship of the proletariat back in 1917." Thus far, Sinema has faced the worse harassment as a gang of leftists chased her from a class she was teaching at Arizona...

According to a new CBS poll released Sunday, 37% of parents say they will vaccinate their 5-to-11-year-olds right away, and a quarter of parents say they will wait and see. Another 35% said they would not get their kids vaccinated.Gottlieb said he is encouraged by the poll numbers, citing the benefits of getting young children vaccinated while also acknowledging that many parents still have questions about vaccination."There's a lot of parents that still have a lot of questions around vaccination. I think for them, they should have a conversation with their pediatrician to try to get comfortable with the idea...

We have finally gotten a glimpse of the new YouTube series starring Kamala Harris, and it’s just as cringeworthy as you could imagine. In fact, it might be the most cringeworthy thing she’s ever done (and that’s saying a lot). Harris is famously disingenuous , and this video does nothing to help that reputation. In the clip below, you see Kamala awkwardly using some sort of “Narrators voice” as she’s talking to the kids about space exploration. “I just love the idea of exploring the unknown,” Harris says in an awkward tone of voice. “And then, there’s other things that...

Pelosi and Pope Francis meet amid push for action on climate changeSpeaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiPelosi and Pope Francis meet amid push for action on climate change Growing number of Democrats endorse abolishing debt limit altogether Ilhan Omar to Biden: 'Deliver on your promise to cancel student debt' MORE (D-Calif.) and Pope Francis met Saturday, the same day the pontiff gave a speech calling on lawmakers in countries around the world to act on climate change. “His Holiness’s encyclical Laudato Si’ is a powerful challenge to the global community to act decisively on the climate crisis with special attention to the...

NEW YORK -- More than 1,000 Southwest Airlines flights were canceled and hundreds more were delayed amid an increase in travel over the fall holiday weekend. The flight-tracking website FlightAware.com shows that Southwest canceled 28% of its flights as of Sunday morning while hundreds more face delays. More than 800 Southwest flights were canceled Saturday and upwards of 1,100 flights were delayed, according to FlightAware. (snip) "Some airlines continue to experience scheduling challenges due to aircraft and crews being out of place," an FAA spokesperson said in a statement.

“The Story of the Rich Young Ruler” (Mark 10:17-22) Today we have “The Story of the Rich Young Ruler.” It’s a story of idolatry, of the false gods that people have. But it’s also a story of love, the love that Jesus has for sinners, that he calls us to give up on our idols and to follow him in faith. Because that’s the only way that you and I will ever gain eternal life. “Come, follow me,” Jesus says, “and you will have treasure in heaven.” The story of the rich young ruler. We find this story recorded in...

The New York Times issued a correction on Friday after a reporter said 900,000 children have been hospitalized in the US with Covid-19 when the true figure is a tiny fraction of that: 63,000. ... 'The article misstated the number of Covid hospitalizations in US children. It is more than 63,000 from August 2020 to October 2021, not 900,000 since the beginning of the pandemic,' the correction read. ... Mandavilli describes herself on the app as a Times reporter who mainly covers the Covid-19 pandemic. She sparked widespread outrage earlier this year when she tweeted: 'Someday we will stop talking...

Argentinian Doctor Shares His Ivermectin ExperienceSTORY AT-A-GLANCEArgentina has extensive medical experience with ivermectin. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, it was used to treat dengue fever, which is endemic in ArgentinaEarly in the pandemic, Dr. Hector Carvallo, a retired medical professor in Argentina, devised two ivermectin trials to assess the drug’s usefulness against SARS-CoV-2. His treatment protocols are used in five Argentinian provinces. In one province, the death rate was reduced to one-third in less than a month, in the middle of the outbreakWhen used preventatively, ivermectin is administered in conjunction with carrageenan, which also has antiviral propertiesWhen treating mild cases, ivermectin...

Saturday Night Live took aim at the Congressional hearings against social media giant Facebook in its latest episode Cast member Heidi Gardner played Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower who testified before Congress on Tuesday In the sketch, she has to field questions from Congressmembers about how social media works Sen. Diane Feinstein, played by Cecily Strong, asks her if 2,000 friends on Facebook is a high number Sen. Neely Kennedy also asks her where the algorithm is located and how big it is, while Sen. Ted Cruz asks how he could stop being cyberbullied Lindsey Graham also says he is...

Cruise Ships Continue to Visit Destinations Despite CDC Level 4 Travel Notices Why are cruise lines ignoring the travel notices issued by the CDC to avoid all travel to a specific country? Over the last weeks and months, we’ve seen numerous reports from the CDC stating that several destinations are not safe for travel. In the past, we’ve always looked to the Department of State for travel advice and whether or not traveling abroad to certain countries would be safe or not, although the CDC has always had its travel advice as well. With the CDC now more in the...

Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time Mark 10:17-30 Friends, in today’s Gospel, a rich young man asks Jesus what he must do to inherit eternal life. There is something absolutely right about the young man, something spiritually alive, and that is his deep desire to share in everlasting life. He knows what he wants, and he knows where to find it. Jesus responds to his wonderful and spiritually alive question by enumerating many of the Commandments. The young man takes this in, and replies, "Teacher, all of these I have observed from my youth." So Jesus looks at him with love...

Britain and other Western nations should welcome declining populations and ageing demographics as it will help them meet climate change goals, the former chairman of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) has argued. In a report from Population Matters entitled Smaller Families and Ageing Populations, Lord Adair Turner, the chairman of the UK Energy Transitions Commission and former head of the FSA, argued that declining native populations will enhance prosperity. “The biggest reason to welcome this demographic shift is that it results from the free choice of empowered people, and in particular women,” Lord Adair wrote. “But ceasing endless population growth...