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The US will “unfortunately” continue to delay the public release of records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and officials say the COVID-19 pandemic is to blame. The move was announced in a memo signed by President Joe Biden and released by the White House Friday. “Temporary continued postponement is necessary to protect against identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or the conduct of foreign relations that is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in immediate disclosure,” Biden wrote. In 1992, Congress ruled that “all Government records concerning the assassination...

Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time Luke 13:1-9 Friends, today’s Gospel includes the parable of a fig tree that bears no fruit. This is a standard trope in the theological literature of Israel: the tree that bears no fruit is evocative of the moral person who bears no spiritual fruit. Every single person has a mission: to be a conduit of the divine grace into the world. Planted in God—think of Jesus’ image of the vine and the branches—they are meant to bring forth the fruits of love, peace, compassion, justice, nonviolence. And notice that this should be effortless. The closer...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), tangled with two members of the Jan.6 committee on the House floor Thursday, getting into an impromptu shouting match over Black Lives Matter and a wild conspiracy theory about Jewish space lasers starting California wildfires. Greene, a top Trump loyalist, crossed the aisle and approached Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) as voting began on a resolution holding a former adviser of former President Trump, Stephen Bannon, in contempt for defying panel subpoenas. Greene first pressed Raskin — who led the Democrats’ prosecution of Trump during his impeachment trial after the Jan. 6...

Good news for people who like eating while in motion: Amtrak may be bringing back the beloved dining car. That's right, eating your Whataburger honey butter biscuit behind the wheel is no longer the most glamorous way to eat-on-the-go. Back in the fall of 2019, Amtrak announced that it was getting rid of the classic dining car —the ones with china and flatware on a white tablecloth—in favor of pre-packaged options. This was before the pandemic, so they couldn't use health and safety as an excuse to stave off the inevitable firestorm of criticism. While Amtrak executives may have been...

According to our current Democrat government, all parents who are concerned about their children being indoctrinated by godless Marxist public schools are potential domestic terrorists and must be constantly monitored and surveilled by the FBI and DHS. All taxpayers (personal, business, corporate, etc) who itemize on their tax returns are tax cheats and must be constantly monitored, surveilled and audited by the IRS. All (non-Democrat/socialist) white people are automatically racists and potential domestic terrorists and must be constantly monitored and surveilled by the FBI and DHS and must be re-educated. All veterans and patriots who defend our American founding and...

Hannah Gutierrez has been identified as the armorer or weapons handler on the movie, “Rust.” According to reports, she laid out three guns on the Santa Fe set. One of them wound up killing Halyna Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza, fired by an unwitting Alec Baldwin. Gutierrez’s LinkedIn page includes a resume note from this past spring and summer working at Yellowstone Film Ranch in Montana from March through June. She described her job there: “Loading firearms with appropriately sized blanks. Ensuring gun safety on set along with instructing actors on how to use their guns.” She is young...

California’s cannabis market is booming nearly five years after voters legalized recreational weed. But there’s a catch: the vast majority of pot sales are still underground. Rather than make cannabis a Main Street fixture, California’s strict regulations have led most industry operators to close shop, flee the state or sell in the state’s illegal market that approaches $8 billion annually, twice the volume of legal sales. Local government opposition, high taxes and competition from unlicensed businesses are complicating California’s push to build a thriving legal market. Many of those factors are baked into California law, including rules allowing city leaders...

The Loudoun County Public Schools superintendent sent an email on May 28 alerting school board members that a sexual assault had been reported. The email came on the same day as the alleged sexual assault that captured the attention of national media earlier this month. "The purpose of this email is to provide you with information regarding an incident that occurred at Stone Bridge HS," Superintendent Scott Ziegler said in the email. "This afternoon a female student alleged that a male student sexually assaulted her in the restroom."

The woman responsible for handling weapons on the set of Alec Baldwin's "Rust" had only recently taken on a gig as a head armorer, and shared she had real doubts about doing the job. Hannah Reed -- daughter of Hollywood armorer Thell Reed -- appeared on the "Voices of the West" podcast last month to talk about her new experiences in the biz. Reed told the hosts she had just wrapped a western movie with Nic Cage called "The Old Way" ... and it was her first time as head armorer on a movie. In a now-eerie confession, Reed says...

Meadow Walker, daughter of the late actor Paul Walker, married actor Louis Thornton-Allan earlier this month. Walker's "Fast & Furious" co-star, Vin Diesel, walked his longtime friend's daughter down the aisle. The couple married in the Dominican Republic and spoke to Vogue about their ceremony. "It was a very intimate celebration. "We were all barefoot, dancing in the sand. To finish the night, there was a wonderful display of fireworks, and we lit lanterns into the picturesque night sky." Walker's father died in a car crash in Southern California in 2013 at 40. He was in the passenger seat of...

This morning I was excited to read the news that Biden was planning to build a wall (finally) until I realized that the wall was going around his 2.7 million dollar beach house in Rehobeth, Delaware. According to the Cape Gazette: Now when Biden visits for a third time, a security fence will be finished or close to it. According to the website USAspending.gov , an online database of federal government spending, the Department of Homeland Security, with the Secret Service as the subagency, recently awarded a $455,000 contract to Rehoboth’s Turnstone Builders for purchase and installation of security fencing...

Will the Hispanic Right Turn Last? Noah Rudnick is the director of research at Cygnal, a Republican polling firm, and writes a blog about historical election trends. One of the surprises on Election Night 2020 was how much Donald Trump gained among Latino voters, especially in such regions as Miami-Dade County and the Rio Grande Valley in Texas that had long been Democratic strongholds. Later Pew polling of 2020 voters would show that Hispanic voters nationwide went from voting in 2016 for Hillary Clinton by a margin of 38 percentage points to voting in 2020 for Joe Biden by a...

A Republican congressman ended a floor speech on Thursday by saying, "Let's go, Brandon!" – elevating a clean version of a popular anti-Biden chant. Rep. Bill Posey, R-Fla., took to the House floor on Thursday and blasted President Biden’s Build Back Better economic agenda as being unable to "pass a straight-face test." "Based on the false promise that he would unify America, President Biden got into the Oval Office," the congressman said. "And my friends on the other side of the aisle gained a razor-thin majority in the House and Senate." ("But you know, we know, we all know, everybody...

A federal judge has denied a restraining order on Thursday that would have blocked vaccine mandates for up to 125 city employees in South Carolina. Tom Fernandez and his firm Fernandez Law represented the plaintiffs, 100 of whom are first responders who filed a lawsuit against the cities of Charleston and North Charleston, Charleston County, and the St. Johns Fire District over the mandates. “They felt that it was nothing short of government coercion to get the vaccine,” Fernandez told The Epoch Times. “We filed a lawsuit in state court alleging their constitutional protections. They did not want the vaccine....

Alec Baldwin discharged a prop firearm on a New Mexico film set Thursday, Oct. 21, killing the director of photography and wounding the director, according to local law enforcement officials. The incident occurred on the set of the Western film Rust, though it is unclear whether the actors were rehearsing or filming a scene. The circumstances of the incident are still under investigation, and no charges have been filed against the 63-year-old actor, according to local media reports.

The National School Boards Association issued an apology Friday night for a letter sent to the Biden administration which targeted some parents who are concerned about their child's school curriculum and said certain of their actions could be domestic terrorism. "As you all know, there has been extensive media and other attention recently around our letter to President Biden regarding threats and acts of violence against school board members," the NSBA wrote in a memo. "We wanted to write to you directly to address this matter." "On behalf of NSBA, we regret and apologize for the letter," the NSBA said,...

Today is the feast day of Neoplatonic philosopher and Christian theologian Boethius (Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius), author of The Consolation of Philosophy, and according to tradition martyred in 524 or 525, or possibly 526, by the Ostrogothic king Theodoric. Well, maybe. We know roughly as much about why Boethius was killed as when or how. We do know that he came from a line of prominent Romans (including a couple of popes back there, depending on who you count as “pope”), was himself consul in 510, and his sons were rather astonishingly joint consuls in 522. At that time he...

WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Oct. 22. At the Cabinet meeting to-day, it was decided not to interfere for the present with Gen. FREMONT in his command. Judge DAVIS, of Illinois, was commissioned to take testimony in reference to contracts made in the Western Department, and all bills that he passes will be paid. The following paragraph appears in the Star of this evening: "A day or two since, Lieut. HARREL, commanding the Freeborn, was informed that the enemy were constructing more batteries on Mathias Point. Yesterday morning be sent his own vessel and the Island Belle down to watch the Point. Shortly...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge has granted a request from wildlife advocacy groups and blocked Wisconsin’s fall wolf hunt two weeks before hunters were set to take to the woods. Dane County Circuit Judge Jacob Frost issued a temporary injunction Friday halting the season, which was set to begin Nov. 6. The order comes as part of a lawsuit wildlife advocacy groups filed in August seeking to stop the hunt and invalidate a state law authorizing annual seasons. The groups sued after the Department of Natural Resources board brushed aside calls to cancel the fall season after hunters exceeded...

Priest who beat Gov. Newsom over church closures calls jab mandates for kids ‘criminal’ offense to parents’ rights'I think it’s very, very invasive and very harmful to the family’s rights and to the good of the children’s health.'LOS ANGELES, California (LifeSiteNews) – The California priest who successfully took Gov. Newsom to court over his “unconstitutional” church lockdowns has described the governor’s COVID-19 injection mandates for schoolchildren as a “criminal action against the rights of parents.” Father Trevor Burfitt of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) made the remark while speaking to LifeSiteNews’ Alejandro Rodriguez in his church, Our Lady...