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(CNN)President Joe Biden's approval rating is at its lowest point since he took office. His approval rating has slid into the low 40s this month. And while the President has plenty of time to recover before his potential reelection in 2024, history suggests that his chances of becoming popular and Democrats gaining ground by the midterms in 2022 are small. Take a look at every president's net approval rating (approval - disapproval) since the end of World War II. Biden's at about -9 points net approval rating right now. Specifically, we'll examine all elected presidents at this point into their...

A police investigation has been launched into allegations that a school board president kept a secret online dossier with the personal information of parents who oppose Critical Race theory and mask mandates. The Scottsdale Police Department said in a statement Saturday that it was 'aware of the allegations against Scottsdale Unified School District President Jann-Michael Greenburg.' 'We are conducting an investigation into the matter and will report our findings once it is complete,' the department said.

The logjam at California's ports for ships to wait is now as long as 17 days - a new record amid the continuing supply chain crisis just weeks before Black Friday and the holidays usually turn spending into overdrive.. There were as many as 83 ships at anchor and in a holding pattern outside ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach as of Friday night, officials said. The nearly 17-day wait is double the wait time from just two months ago.

Ghislaine Maxwell has spoken for the first time about her 'living hell' behind bars – claiming that she has been assaulted and abused by prison guards, purposely deprived of sleep and given rotting food to eat. In a world exclusive, Ms Maxwell, who had her £21 million bail application denied for the fourth time last week, also claims negative media coverage while she has been in custody and the deliberate withholding of evidence have made it 'impossible' for her to receive a fair trial. Speaking from her 10ft by 12ft prison cell inside New York's notorious Metropolitan Detention Center, where...

As winter approaches and the end of the liturgical year draws near, we ponder the passing quality of this world and the fading of its glories. Jesus’ words in today’s Gospel reading must surely have shocked, even horrified, His apostles. Let’s look at His stunning words and seek to apply them in our own life.In today’s Gospel, Jesus is at the top of the Mount of Olives with His apostles. From this vantage point, they look across the Kidron Valley to the magnificent Temple and all of Jerusalem spread out before them. The apostles marvel at the glorious beauty of...

November 14th, 202133rd Sunday in Ordinary time St. Stephen Deacon and Martyr Church, El Paso, Texas Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First readingDaniel 12:1-3 ©Some will wake to everlasting life, some to shame and disgrace‘At that time Michael will stand up, the great prince who mounts guard over your people. There is going to be a time of great distress, unparalleled since nations first came into existence. When that time comes, your own people will be spared, all those whose names are found written in the Book. Of those who lie sleeping in the dust of the earth many will...

“He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor” (Proverbs 14:31).

When we think about American GIs in the European theater of World War II, much of our image comes from the Battle of the Bulge. Named so because of the distinctive "bulge" shape of the front lines, this is where so many American men laid down their lives on fields of frozen mud in France. What Was the Battle of the Bulge? The Battle of the Bulge was the result of Hitler's last dying gasp lashing out against the increasing pressure of the Allied forces in France. Hitler's goal was to drive a literal and metaphorical wedge between the United...

Click here to view the full articlePresident Joe Biden took another hit as an appeals court has reaffirmed its stay on his vaccine mandate in the workplace.The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the U.S. Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to “take no steps to implement or enforce the Mandate until further court order,” Fox News reported.This is the most recent development in what is likely to be a long, legal fight to determine the Constitutionality of the workplace mandate.Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, one of the critics of the mandate, celebrated the court victory on Twitter....

<p>The judge in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial on Friday said he'll instruct the jury that unless the state proved the teen's AR-15-style rifle had an unlawfully short barrel, he can't be convicted of being a minor in possession of a firearm.</p>

Politics in France this week President Macron's Monday night speech one where he proposed six new nuclear power plants as a means of putting France into compliance with its "climate" goals of reducing carbon emissions. Macron also putting on hold the notion of "pension reform" in France while the COVID situation is still impacting France. The "reform" expected to cut pension benefits for millions of French citizens was a contentious issue that drove the early days of Yellow Vests protests in the country. The political opposition in France including Mr. Macron's leading opponent in next April's presidential election Marine Le...

For a year and a half, New York City's communist mayor and the state's dumber-than-Fredo governor used covid to shove people around. They closed restaurants and forced people to wear masks. Crime rose as the Red Mayor promoted BLM lawlessness. And the Dumb Guv spread covid into nursing homes and killed 15,000 grannies.That's right. 1 in 20 (5%) of the covid deaths last year were due to Andrew Cuomo's order that nursing homes take in covid patients.The press hailed him as a hero.But there's a new governor and in a couple of months Gotham will have a new mayor. But...

A “non-binary” associate professor at Old Dominion University has called for the “stigma” of pedophilia to be ‘delegitimized’.Yes, really.The Prostasia Foundation, a registered 503c which has called for child-like sex dolls to be legalized, posted an interview with Allyn Walker, a female-to-male transgender, who outlined her views on “minor attraction.”Walker, an assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, is the author of a book called ‘A Long, Dark Shadow: Minor Attracted People and Their Pursuit of Dignity’.In the interview, Walker insists that the term “minor attracted people” should be used in preference to...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) confirmed Thursday it is recalling some 2 million Ellume at-home COVID-19 testing because they can produce “false positives” due to a manufacturing defect.The firm first informed the federal regulatory agency about the defect in some lots in October. But on Wednesday, the FDA said it identified additional lots that were affected by the manufacturing defect, made between Feb. 24, 2021, and Aug. 11, 2021.To date, about 35 false positives from the COVID-19 tests were reported to the FDA. No deaths have been reported related to the test, according to the agency.A “false positive”...

New data is out about traffic fatalities in 2020 and, despite the lockdowns from Covid, the numbers are shocking. Deaths on the road were higher during 2020 than any other year dating back to 2007 - during a year where less people were driving, Bloomberg reported this week. Even more alarming is the fact that 2021 could wind up being worse, as the government estimates that 20,160 have died from crashes in the first half of 2021 - a stunning 18.4% increase from 2020. Transportation Secretary "Mayor Pete" said in October, when the numbers were released: “This is a crisis....

CommentaryHow worried should we be about China’s economy? According to China expert Daniel H. Rosen, the answer is very.Rosen, an author and academic, warns readers that the end times for the world’s second-largest economy are fast approaching. Is Rosen right? And if so, what would a collapsing China mean for the rest of the world, especially the United States?When it comes to discussing China, there appears to be two schools of thought. Let’s call them System 1 and System 2.Disciples of System 1 view China as an unstoppable juggernaut, a geopolitical great white shark that will eventually devour everything in...

In this episode of “Here’s All You Need to Know About the So-Called ‘Mainstream’ Media”…Liberal-“leaning” billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, said on Thursday he was contacted by the media and asked if his Twitter account had been hacked after he posted a series of tweets in defense of Kyle Rittenhouse, the now 18-year-old on trial for murder in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Rittenhouse was 17 at the time of the two alleged murders.Before we continue, here’s the thing. The “why” I chose to write this article.First, it’s not about Bill Ackman. Who’s Bill...

Earlier on Saturday, the nations gathered for the COP26 climate summit reached a deal. This comes after live updated reporting from The New York Times included a headline that noted "Negotiations Stretch Into the Night," and went on to point out that there had been "[a]nxious energy." A separate piece, "Here’s What Happened on the Final Day of the COP26 Climate Talks," noted that while "a major agreement" was reached," it "also left crucial questions unresolved."The deal, as the later piece from the New York Times explained:GLASGOW — With the bang of a gavel, diplomats from nearly 200 countries on...

Multiple Jan. 6 defendants were taken out of their cells on stretchers on Thursday, according to a court filing. The situation started when one of the defendants refused to wear a mask, family members of Kelly Meggs, who is being held in the D.C. Jail, told Meggs lawyer. Prison guards began spraying a chemical substance described as “some kind of mace or pepper spray, according to a filing in federal court. “They sprayed mace or some type of gas at an inmate and kept missing so it went into an intake that fed into other cells and the lady with...

Twitter has a dirty little secret, something CEO Jack Dorsey and his hundreds of millions of users — some of whom might even be real — don’t want you to know. Nobody cares what happens on Twitter. When I say “nobody,” I don’t mean people like you, gentle reader, who were probably too smart to ever get involved on the pond-scum platform. I don’t even mean people like myself, who fell in love with Twitter in its early days, but who finally quit when the oppressive Woke nonsense got to be too much. When I say “nobody cares what happens...