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The activities of the Biden administration this past Friday featured two remarkable and profoundly contradictory events. In Rome, resident Joe Biden met with Pope Francis. In Washington, his Justice Department filed a brief with the Supreme Court arguing there is a "right" to kill an unborn baby with a beating heart. What transpired in Washington that day was in reaction to what happened in Texas this spring. On May 19, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 8, the "Texas Heartbeat Act." This law declared that "a physician may not knowingly perform or induce an abortion on a pregnant woman...

WASHINGTON, Saturday, Nov. 2. There seems to be little doubt that, nearly a week ago, a special messenger left Washington with a letter to Gen. FREMONT, ordering him to transfer his command to Gen. HUNTER until a successor shall be specially designated. [We have good reason to believe that such a letter as the one spoken of by our correspondent has been prepared, but that it has or will be forwarded is not so certain. -- ED. TIMES.] Gen. MCCLELLAN will continue in actual command of the Army of the Potomac. A Committee of the City Councils of Philadelphia waited...

Jake Tapper (finally) had to announce in the early morning hours that McAuliffe lost to a white supremacist: “Youngkin pulling off a critical victory for his party in the highest-stakes election of the night. This is the first time Republicans have won an election for Virginia's top office in 12 years.” He went on, because he couldn’t believe it himself: “Again, CNN projecting Glenn Youngkin has been elected governor of Virginia. And Dana bash, this is the announcement that Joe Biden will not be happy to hear, and it also shows how incredibly divided this country is.” If the new...

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — The 33-year-old Texas woman drove alone four hours through the night to get to the Louisiana abortion clinic for a consultation. She initially planned to sleep in her car, but an advocacy group helped arrange a hotel room. Single and with three children ranging from 5 to 13, she worried that adding a baby now would take time, food, money and space away from her three children. She doesn’t have a job, and without help from groups offering a safe abortion, she said, she probably would have sought another way to end her pregnancy. “If you...

Attorney Dionne Webster-Cox asked the following question at a Tuesday protest in Pittsfield Township: How could an unarmed boy necessitate a police officer handcuffing and pointing a gun at him? Webster-Cox represents Markia Dixson, the mother of an 11-year-old Black boy who experienced this interaction with a Pittsfield Township police officer in April. Webster-Cox filed a lawsuit on Oct. 5 in U.S. District Court against the officer, requesting $400,000 for causing “emotional injury” to the boy.

Republicans do not need to adjust Trump administration policies. The policies worked. They do not need to rely on focus groups to inform them on what message to send. Freedom, opportunity, and a meritocracy work just fine. Nothing here to "completely transform." Just keep the trains running, secure the borders, and maintain a solvent currency. In other words, maintain an infrastructure that provides for efficient commerce, defend this nation against external threats, and be fiscally responsible. Other than that, stay out of the way. The current administration works feverishly with the opposite intentions: close the ports, open the borders, increase...

ransomnote: The FDA/NIH/CDC and pharma companies chose calculations of Covid 'vaccine' efficacy that falsely portray the 'vaccines' as being more effective than they actually are. This calculation is known as Relative Risk (RR) and it's similar to grading on a curve (e.g., 'Doug's test score is twice that of Jimmy's test score!').The Expose performs vaccine efficacy (i.e., real-world performance) calculuations by utilizing the manufacturer's chosen Relative Risk formula in order to make direct comparisons between what they claimed versus what actually happened. Some FReepers bitterly complain TheExpose is being deceptive or that its calcuations don't make any sense when...

Rep. Cori Bush, a Democrat left-wing "squad" member in the House, attacked Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin for his opposition to the multitrillion-dollar Build Back Better Act. Manchin is "anti-Black, anti-child, anti-woman and anti-immigrant," according to Bush because of his opposition to this megaspending welfare bill. If Bush wants to identify politicians hurting Blacks, children, women and immigrants, she needn't go further than to look in the mirror. Bush represents Missouri's 1st Congressional district, which includes a big chunk of St. Louis. The district is 49% Black. According to Census Reporter, median household income in the district is $50,163, compared with...

She is a reminder that the paranoia about COVID is grossly disproportionate to the risks associated with COVID. When the Black Death arrived in Avignon, France, a courageous doctor named Guy de Chauliac stayed to care for the sick even as many of his fellow physicians fled the city. He wrote that the plague “was so contagious...that one man caught it from another not just when living nearby but simply by looking at him.... Father would not visit son, nor son, father; charity was dead, and hope prostrate.” The death rate for bubonic plague rose to 50%. The mortality rate...

Abortion activists are attacking pro-life efforts in every way possible, including by twisting Christian teachings to claim that it’s acceptable to kill a unique, living unborn baby who is created in the image of God. The Rev. Dr. Serene Jones, president of Union Theological Seminary in New York City, is one of them. In a column at Salon, she slammed the Texas heartbeat law as “un-Christian” and claimed it’s pro-lifers who are distorting the Bible for “their political goals.” “There is nothing godly about outlawing abortion — and Texas’ law is particularly un-Christian,” Jones began. “As a Christian biblical scholar,...

Somehow it is supposedly a great achievement that 136 countries got together to agree to a 15% minimum corporate tax. Somehow it is supposedly a great achievement that 136 countries got together to agree to a 15% minimum corporate tax. Nearly 140 countries agree to minimum global corporate tax rate of 15 percent US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen hailed the deal as “a once-in-a-generation accomplishment for economic diplomacy.” Yellen congratulated countries that “decided to end the race to the bottom on corporate taxation” and expressed hope that Congress will quickly implement the deal in the US. “International tax policymaking is...

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The little dictators are all around us these days. The little dictators are all around us these days. I watched a short video of “protestors” in Bisbee, Arizona imposing their political ugliness upon the wedding of a young woman because Senator Kristen Sinema was officiating at the ceremony. It was brutal. The mother of the bride, in tears, begs the crowd to be quiet for just an hour. In response a woman says, “Will you tell her (Sinema) that she is a sellout, tell her that we don’t like what she’s doing to our country!” As this ogre reaches the...

Wokeness was the biggest loser. Both New Jersey and Virginia have been strong Democrat bastions for quite some time. Republican presidential candidates usually do not even bother to waste their time and money campaigning in these states. Republican candidates enter any electoral race in these states with the knowledge that defeat is almost inevitable. Last year, Joe Biden won both these states in a landslide. However, the tables have turned and rather drastically now. Republican Glenn Youngkin has triumphed over former Governor Terry McAuliffe in Virginia while Republican Jack Ciatterelli is in a very close contest with New Jersey Gov....

Hours after several election experts projected Republican Glenn Youngkin the winner in Virginia’s governor race, Fox News came in dead last, as the establishment media complex (ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, NYT, and Politico) called the race in Youngkin’s favor.

November 3rd, 2021St Martin de Porres St. Anne Catholic Church, Salt Lake city, Utah Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet / Black First readingRomans 13:8-10 ©Your only debt should be the debt of mutual loveAvoid getting into debt, except the debt of mutual love. If you love your fellow men you have carried out your obligations. All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbour as yourself. Love is the one thing that cannot hurt...

Winsome Sears will become Virginia lieutenant governor, CNN projects, becoming first female and woman of color in the office Winsome Sears, a conservative Republican, will be Virginia's next lieutenant governor, breaking barriers as the first female and the first woman of color in the office in the commonwealth's 400-year legislative history. CNN projected Sears' win over Democrat Del. Hala Ayala, also a woman of color, on Wednesday. Sears will serve alongside Republican Glenn Youngkin, whom CNN projected would win the Virginia gubernatorial race. Sears, who was born in Jamaica, is the first Black Republican woman to be elected to the...

Republicans appeared to be on the verge of ending Democratic control of Virginia’s House of Delegates in Tuesday’s elections. With a few races still too close to call early Wednesday morning, the party appeared headed for at least a 50-50 tie with Democrats in the chamber, if not a narrow majority.