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After receiving numerous complaints from school officials around the nation, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland has instructed the FBI to initiate an investigation of "parents who too vigorously voice objections to the things their children are being taught or how the schools are run." "Public schools are a free service provided to parents by the government," Garland asserted. "Instead of showing gratitude, some parents are showing up at school board meetings and questioning how these free schools are handling things. The education professionals running these public schools are alarmed and insulted by these lay critics. School Board public meetings are...

Nancy Pelosi Leaves Mass in Rome Due to Security ConcernsROME — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her husband left Mass at a church in Rome Saturday due to a “security incident,” the church's rector said.“You probably heard or saw the commotion. Unfortunately, I guess, there was a security incident and sadly Speaker Pelosi and her husband had to leave,” Father Steven Petroff, rector of St. Patrick's Church in Rome, said in a video posted on social media.“She was going to do our second reading today, but of course her safety is most important,” he said.Veteran Rome journalist Joan Lewis...

TAPACHULA, MEXICO – As the border crisis with Mexico heats up, an (New Haitian caravan heading for U.S. border in 20 days, activist says)...[snip]"And this time, with papers or without papers, we are ready for war..."

The Facebook account appearing to belong to the woman who was charged alongside her Navy nuclear engineer husband with selling secret information about nuclear submarines to an undercover FBI agent is filled with liberal talking points on the Black Lives Matter movement and feminism. Fox News examined what appears to be Diana Toebbe’s Facebook page, Twitter account and Instagram page, and found repeated posts supporting the Black Lives Matter movement, including a profile picture reading, "Black Lives Matter," and a post last year celebrating the social media protest against racism called "#blackouttuesday." Jonathan and Diana Toebbe were arrested Saturday in...

Over the course of my military career, I’ve been around A LOT of health/fitness-conscious people. Many of them have become true believers in things like cross-fit, yoga, and other forms of exercise and it becomes a way of life for them. Similarly, I’ve seen all the passing diet and nutrition trends that seem to come on strong, make a big splash, then fade off into the twilight as quickly as they arrived. My observation is that younger people generally want to look good by putting in the work (sweat equity), while older people generally want to look good by changing...

House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Monday on ABC’s “Good Morning America” that Republican lawmakers that back former President Donald Trump’s claims he won the 2020 presidential election are “insurrectionists in suits and ties.” Co-host George Stephanopoulos said, “Let’s fast forward to January 6. You start out the book in pretty dramatic fashion, having to put on a gas mask you thought you would never have to use as a member of Congress.”

When my daughter was 12 she'd walk down the streets of Shanghai to get donuts," says the mom, Megan McMurry.. A federal judge has ruled that two cops who work at a public school in Midland, Texas, can be sued for seizing a 14-year-old from her family's apartment because she was there alone. Despite her pleas, the officers did not let the girl call her parents for hours, nor would they let her pick up the phone when her father called. They also searched the family's home without a warrant. School Resource Officers Kevin Brunner and Alexandra Weaver do not...

US police are investigating video showing a black man being dragged from his car by officers as he repeatedly screams "I'm paraplegic". Bodycam footage shows officers stopping Clifford Owensby in Dayton, Ohio, last month and asking him to step out of his car so they can search it for drugs. Mr Owensby, 39, refuses, saying he does not have use of his legs. The officers insist he must get out and then pull him from the vehicle by his hair and arms as he calls for help. The Dayton Police Department says it is now investigating the incident that took...

[Catholic Caucus] Options sought for Mass in LatinCatholic group seeks greater access to traditional worship formsLatin Mass societies are looking at options to bring the “traditional” style back to Blair and surrounding counties after the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown in July limited “old rite” Masses to Sundays. Two meetings will be held in the area this week with a representative of The Society of St. Pius X, also known as SSPX, founded by priests in 1970 after changes to the Mass were made in 1969.The new outcry over the loss of Latin services comes after Bishop Mark L. Bartchak limited “old...

President Biden and first lady Jill Biden on Monday traveled to Pennsylvania to attend the wedding of their nephew, Cuffe Owens, and Meghan King, a former cast member on the “Real Housewives of Orange County.” The White House said the “small, family wedding” was taking place at the Pennsylvania home of Cuffe Owens’ parents, Valerie and Jack Owens. Valerie is President Biden’s younger sister. King, 37, revealed in an Instagram post last month that she was dating Owens, who is 42. She posted a photo of the two of them hugging with a caption that read: “Trying my best to...

"In 2005...UNESCO...adopted the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights...Article 6...provides that: 'Any preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic medical intervention is only to be carried out with the prior, free and informed consent of the person concerned, based on adequate information. The consent should, where appropriate, be express and may be withdrawn by the person concerned at any time and for any reason without disadvantage or prejudice." "Oviedo Convention....enforceable for European countries which have signed it...article 5....: 'An intervention in the health field may only be carried out after the person concerned has given free and informed consent to it...." "Article...

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But Felix made a mistake. He sent crooked police officials to kidnap and murder an American DEA agent who was snooping around in his business. Gallardo’s men injected their victim with adrenaline to keep him awake throughout his torture and interrogation, before drilling a hole into his brain. It was a brutal, horribly graphic crime. One which triggered the largest DEA homicide investigation ever. It took years, but Felix was eventually arrested in 1989 and today, is still rotting in an 8×14 foot cell.Felix Gallardo is a college graduate, turned federal police agent, turned drug-trafficking Lord of the infamous Guadalajara...

Legislation (S.343-A/A.3412-A) Applies the Legal Standard of Extortion or Coercion to a Person Threatening to Report Another Person's Immigration Status Governor Kathy Hochul today signed legislation (S.343-A/A.3412-A) classifying certain threats to report a person's immigration status as extortion or coercion under New York law. Threats to report a person's immigration status can currently be treated as a crime in cases of labor trafficking and sex trafficking, but were not previously treated as potential extortion or coercion offenses. "New York is built on the hard work and determination of generations of immigrants, and we need to support people who are trying...

What was once the land of “keep calm and carry on” could now be the “most frightened nation in the world.” So says Laura Dodsworth, author of A State of Fear: How the UK Government Weaponised Fear During the Covid-19 Pandemic. Data seem to bear her impression out. According to an Ipsos MORI poll conducted in July, an impressive 27 percent of Britons want to impose a government-mandated nationwide curfew of 10 PM—not then in force—“until the pandemic was under control worldwide,” which might be years from now. A not-inconsiderable 19 percent would impose such a curfew “permanently, regardless of...

The Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank promoted leftist materials by a Soros-funded group. Some of those materials targeted Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Christopher Rufo for exposing critical race theory. The Philadelphia Fed’s website has a page for its 2021 "Reinventing Our Communities (ROC) Cohort Program,” which was allegedly engineered to help businesses “explore structural racism impacting small businesses owned by people of color in their community and plan for a more equitable recovery.” The page links out to a leftist group called Race Forward to highlight its resources on “Racial Equity Tools.” One of the “tools” provided by Race Forward included...

The Left Got What It Wanted—So Now What? There is no schadenfreude in seeing the Left destroy everything it touches—because its claws tear all of us as well. What was the purpose for the insane opposition of the Left between 2017 and 2021? To usher in a planned nihilism, an incompetent chaos, a honed anarchy to wreck the country in less than a year?ThenNo sooner had Donald Trump entered office than scores of House Democrats filed motions for impeachment, apparently for thought crimes that he might, some day, in theory, could possibly commit.Foreign Policy published an article by a liberal...

There are 58 million Americans who cannot afford the drugs they need, and 34 million adults know someone who died because they could not afford medications. Earlier this month, the House Ways & Means Committee endorsed H.R. 3, a proposal that would set prescription drug price controls as one way to pay for the massive $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill. While price controls may seem like an effective policy solution, they will result in drug shortages, a loss of future innovative treatments, and deny patients access to critical medicines for severe diseases. Data from the RAND Corporation shows the price of...

In July 2021, the Indonesian Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM) finally granted the Emergency Use Authorization for Ivermectin as the therapeutic drug to cure the Covid-19.This was due to the country’s “worst-case scenario” epidemic at the time according to officials.Indonesia experienced a spike in COVID-19 infection and deaths in July and was struggling to slow the virus transmission due to its high population. Indonesia is ranked as the world’s fourth most populous country.The government imposed an emergency measure to slow the spread of the virus. One of its measures was to authorize the use of Ivermectin as a COVID-19...

[Catholic Caucus] Finding Catholic Courage to Fight the Good Fight Since Francis introduced the world to his Pachamama, God has allowed us to suffer the scourge of the Great Reset, which has been principally manifested through the Covid medical tyranny. As Fr. John Echert described during the Catholic Identity Conference, it appears that the Covid virus was released in China at the 2019 World Military Games just days after Francis defiled the Church with the blasphemous idol. It is almost as though Francis participated in this blasphemy to show the globalists that he had disabled the Church’s ability to resist...