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The clock shows one minute before midnight. This is it. No exaggeration. But that clock isn’t illustrating the time Earth has left until it is consumed by man-caused climate change. Instead, it is telling us how little time remains before the United States, erstwhile land of the free and home of the brave, becomes just another sterile authoritarian state. Before it is too late to reign in a tyrannical government that has made a mockery of the Founders’ vision of limited government of, by, and for the people. A government that is now openly of, by, and for itself. A...

Former Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs III was driving 156 mph seconds before he slammed his Corvette into the back of a Toyota SUV in Las Vegas early Tuesday morning, killing the driver...Prosecutors also said they found a loaded handgun on the floor of Ruggs' Corvette...The former first-round pick, considered a rising star in the league, was leading the team in receiving yards and tied for the lead in receiving touchdowns.

Democrats haven’t grasped this yet, but it’s too late for them. The die is cast. An electoral bloodbath awaits next year, akin to or surpassing what happened to their party in 2010. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s and the Squad’s anti-American leftist politics drive their party, and that’s beginning to register at a gut-level with voters. What voters – critically, that big, pivotal segment known as independents – now feel is revulsion for Democrats in not just one way but many. The intensity of that revulsion is bound to grow in the coming months. How do we know that? In the first 10...

Republican New Jersey state Senate candidate and truck driver Ed Durr is on the verge of defeating longtime Senate President Steve Sweeney in a sweeping victory that would upend Democratic Party leadership in the Garden State. The 62-year-old Raymour & Flanagan truck driver holds a lead of more than 2,000 votes in a tight race for the state's Third District Senate seat. "I didn’t beat him. We beat him," Durr said on "Fox News Primetime" late Wednesday. "The state of New Jersey, the people of New Jersey beat him. They listened to what I had to say and I listened...

November 4th, 2021St. Charles Borromeo High Altar, Apotheosis of Saint Charles Borromeo, by Alberto Camesina, Rektoratskirche St. Karl Borromäus,Church of St. Charles Borromeo, Vienna, AustriaBy Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=93742567 By Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=93742649Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White Readings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingRomans 14:7-12 ©Each of us must give an account of himself to GodThe life and death of each of us has its influence on others; if we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord, so that alive or dead we...

JAKARTA, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Indonesia's environment minister has dismissed as "inappropriate and unfair" a global plan to end deforestation by 2030, days after her country, home to a third of the world's rainforests, was among more than 100 that made the zero-deforestation pledge. The agreement late on Monday at the COP26 climate talks is at odds with Indonesia's development plans and the global goals should be fine-tuned, said minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar... ...Siti said definitions of deforestation differ widely, so imposing European standards onto Indonesia was unfair...

In a year that has been filled with so many mysteries already, I have another very odd one to share with you. Emergency rooms are filled to overflowing all over America, and nobody can seem to explain why this is happening. Right now, the number of new COVID cases in the United States each day is less than half of what it was just a couple of months ago. That is really good news, and many believe that this is a sign that the pandemic is fading. Let us hope that is true. With less people catching the virus, you...

As Montana struggles to attract and retain health care workers, Gov. Greg Gianforte announced Tuesday a health care workforce recruitment program that would cover relocation costs for providers who commit to moving to the state. The incentive would pay up to $12,500 in relocation expenses plus 35% to cover taxes. To qualify, health care workers must commit to permanently relocating to Montana and be employed at a health care facility for at least 12 consecutive months. The program is expected to launch by the end of November, Gianforte said. Prior to the press conference at Billings Clinic, Gianforte toured the...

“I don’t believe that the Iranians only have peaceful intentions with their nuclear program,” said David Lega, a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament. Lega was responding to recent protestations of the Iranian regime that it has only “civilian purposes” in mind with its progress toward nuclear capability. Speaking exclusively to Israel Hayom from his residence in Sweden, Lega said that, “We haven’t yet come to a decision regarding Iran; we are monitoring the situation closely, using great caution. I don’t want to speak on behalf of the Committee as we haven’t debated this issue...

<p>Penn Jillette, the tall half of the hugely successful magician duo Penn & Teller, is one of the entertainment industry’s most outspoken atheists. For decades, Jillette has smugly condemned all manner of religious, psychic, and pseudoscientific irrationality. He also has a fan base on the right, because as a self-described libertarian, Jillette’s often mused about how “taxation is theft” and government compulsion is bad.</p>

The U.S. Navy recently announced it had stood up a 150 bed field hospital in one of the most unusual places—a cave in an undisclosed location in Norway. The hospital is just the latest of Pentagon deployments to cave systems in Norway, including U.S. Marine Corps combat equipment and even nuclear-powered attack submarines. While the cave deployments are important to help defend Norway from its bigger Russian neighbor, it also provides a secure base for operating in the increasingly open Arctic region... ..While many of these bases were explicitly built to help defend Norway, the changing climate is giving them...

Students and alumni are protesting Loyola Marymount University’s decision to allow an on-campus fundraiser for abortion provider Planned Parenthood. The Nov. 5 ticketed event is organized by the Catholic university’s Women in Politics student group. “The Planned Parenthood Fundraiser is an opportunity for us to raise money for a cause we really care about and have fun at the same time!” reads a description posted on the university website’s event calendar. Planned Parenthood is the country’s largest provider of abortion. During the 2019-20 fiscal year, the organization reported performing 354, 871 abortions in the U.S. As news of the fundraiser...

According to LifeNews, three acts of vandalism against pro-lifers have been reported in just the past two weeks on college campuses in the United States. About two weeks ago, pro-life posters at Wellesley College advertising an event with Students for Life of America president Kristan Hawkins were vandalized. On one of the posters, pro-abortion individuals drew devil horns and fangs on Hawkins’s photo and wrote: “transphobic, anti-woman pig.” “[A]head of my visit, Wellesley students provided ample evidence that they hate not what we actually believe, but what they think we believe,” Hawkins wrote for Townhall. “Students prepared for my visit...

Mayra Rodríguez worked for Planned Parenthood for 17 years and was in charge of three clinics. In 2016, the abortion provider recognized her as employee of the year. Shortly thereafter she would become one of the most outspoken pro-life advocates in the Hispanic community. During her tenure with Planned Parenthood, Rodríguez said she witnessed falsified abortion records, serious complications from abortions, and experienced intimidation based upon false accusations threatening her immigration status after Rodríguez indicated she would report a doctor at the clinic she directed who botched an abortion on a 19-year-old girl and then falsified the report. In an...

NJ Election Worker, Essex County: “Remember, we were allowing anyone to come in.” NJ Election Worker, Essex County: “I’ll let you fill out completely a ballot now. Whether or not it’s going to count, I don’t know.” NJ Election Worker, Essex County: “Listen, we’ll let you do it [fill out a ballot].” Project Veritas has reached out to Essex County Board of Elections Chairwoman Bethany O'Toole for comment. No comment has been received at the time of publication. [East Orange, N.J. – Nov. 3, 2021] Project Veritas released a new video today exposing malfeasance that took place in the state’s...

In February of 2010, what started out as a routine police raid on a suspected “pill mill” turned into a murder case that shocked the world. Police had suspected that a doctor named Kermit Gosnell was dumping illegal prescriptions for Oxycontin on the streets of Philadelphia. But what they discovered instead was an illegal late-term abortion business where viable babies were gruesomely murdered after having been born alive during appallingly shoddy abortions amid the most squalid conditions imaginable. The following year, a Grand Jury released a bombshell 282-page report that laid part of the blame for the deterioration of conditions...

A dismal performance by Democratic candidates in New Jersey and Virginia is sparking a sense of panic among Democrats who now view their Senate and House majorities as in serious peril in the 2022 midterm elections. In Virginia, a state President Biden won by 10 points a year ago, Democrats saw former Gov. Terry McAuliffe fall to defeat in a state the polls suggested he had been leading months ago. In New Jersey, a strong performance by little-known former GOP Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli against Gov. Phil Murphy (D) was too close to call. Democrats had expected Murphy to win easily....

“Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her" (Proverbs 4:8).

Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville blamed "stupid wokeness" for the resounding losses the Democratic Party sustained in Tuesday's elections across the country. Carville made the comments while being interviewed by Judy Woodruff on "PBS Newshour" Wednesday. "What went wrong is just stupid wokeness. Alright, don't just look at Virginia and New Jersey. Look at Long Island, look at Buffalo, look at Minneapolis, even look at Seattle, Washington. I mean, this 'defund the police' lunacy, this take Abraham Lincoln's name off of schools. I mean that — people see that," Carville said emphatically. "It's just really — has a suppressive effect...

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