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The Talk Shows April 24th, 2022 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Guest host Sandra Smith: Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas); Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas). Panel: Karl Rove, Juan Williams and Jeff Mason.. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Chuck U. Toad, guest-moderated by Kristen Welker: Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.S. Oksana Markarova; Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.); Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.); Erin McLaughlin reporting from Ukraine. Panel: Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times and MSNBC anal-cyst Peter Baker, Sara Fagen, GOP strategist, MSNBC Contributor Errin Haines and Carol Lee, national...

The media and others are in full campaign mode for 2022, and it seems the only story they focus on is January 6, where there was a protest. The FBI said it wasn't an insurrection. Why do the media and other Democrats repeat that lie? This week, the story is that Mark Meadows was warned by intelligence that there might be violence. That clearly means that Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff, and others were warned yet did nothing. Yet no stories about them, and no subpoenas asking about what they knew. Trump's chief of staff was warned of possible violence on 6...

One looming question is how DeWine will do in his gubernatorial primary contest with former U.S. Rep. Jim Renacci, of Wadsworth, former state Rep. Ron Hood, of Pickaway County’s Ashville, and Joe Blystone, a Canal Winchester farmer. It’s hard to imagine Republicans would deny Mike DeWine re-nomination. The last time primary voters denied an Ohio governor re-nomination was in 1938, when Democrats refused to nominate Gov. Martin L. Davey, of Kent, for a third term. And Davey – politically speaking – was a wild man. Still, a significant anti-DeWine vote from among Republicans could boost whichever Democratic candidate for governor...

Mystery over FOUR 'suspicious suicides' of Russian gas execs: Two more top industry figures 'linked to Putin's circle' are revealed to have killed themselves amid probes into 'murder-suicides' of two businessmen and their families Sergey Protosenya was found hanged in Spain with his wife and daughter killed Spanish police said no suicide note was left and no fingerprints were on weapon Earlier, Vladislav Avayev, his wife and daughter died in another 'murder-suicide' In February, two further gas executives died in suspicious circumstances Four recent 'suicides' of high profile Russian gas industry executives 'with links to Vladimir Putin' are all suspicious,...

Thousands of Michigan GOP leaders gathered in Grand Rapids on Saturday to decide which candidates will make it onto November's ballot, delivering two victories for former President Donald Trump in a major test for his hold over the state party. Both Trump-endorsed candidates, Kristina Karamo for secretary of state and Matt DePerno for attorney general were endorsed by Michigan Republicans in two of the most closely watched races of the weekend. Trump made his presence known in the state, endorsing candidates up and down the ballot, mainly focusing on whether or not they believe his baseless claim that the 2020...

I believe that Dr. Anthony Fauci is a medical dictator, and I have reached this conclusion through personal experience. Under his ‘guidance’ at the NIH, every level of government as well as the private sector have been affected by his medical advice. Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle ruled that requiring masks on airplanes is unconstitutional as the CDC had overstepped its authority when demanding the practice. It was a great decision and many airline companies immediately removed their mask requirements. Both airline passengers and employees noted what a relief this was. Some airline officials commented that many of the passenger conflicts...

It’s possible that Disney’s decision to attack Florida’s pro-parent legislation may stand as the highwater mark of corporate woke madness. Last week, with Florida’s governor Ron DeSantis leading the charge, the state of Florida took direct aim at the Disney Corporation because of the company’s woke aggression against Florida law and against Florida’s and America’s children. News it out now that, within days of the news about Disney’s loss of self-governing status, ExxonMobil announced that it would no longer fly in front of its corporate office any flags associated with social or political organizations, including the LGBTQ++ or BLM flags....

The Australian version of 60 Minutes recently aired this 17-minute segment about the level of apprehension and preparation now going on in Poland over the possibility of war with Russia. According to it, Poland is taking the possibility of a Russian attack very seriously. The military is exercising near the border, and is actively expanding and mobilizing. And also, ordinary Poles are terrified about the possibility of war, and are making plans how to flee if worse comes to worst. I disagree. I am an American expat who has lived in retirement in Poland since 2007. Admittedly I live in...

Tim Miller, a former spokesman for Jeb Bush’s 2016 presidential bid who has since left the GOP, said of the recent measures, “I think in the short term, it’s a political winner, and that’s why you see so many other states doing copycat bills on Florida.” But “I think that there are some big risks for Republicans, though in the medium term,” he added. “There’s a reason that the politics on gay marriage shifted so quickly. … The broad middle of this country does not want to see gay people or trans people be targeted.” Many Republicans argue that their...

On War Room, Steve Cortes recently declared Big Business an enemy to conservatives. Cortes could have taken it farther and announced Big Business an enemy to the people of the United States. This is not to make a statement against the wonderful economies of scale and massive social benefits provided to society by corporations. It is, instead, to criticize the overly comfortable relationship between the boardroom and Washington, D.C. Business is not the problem. Government is the problem. They are not one and the same. As Cortes astutely pointed out: Far too many conservatives — you know folks who are...

My quiet neighborhood in the capital, which is patrolled by the Metropolitan Police, the U.S. Park Police, and the Secret Service’s Foreign Missions Branch, has been the site of an unprecedented number of crimes. Someone -- identity unknown as far as I know -- tried to break into and presumably rob the Peruvian ambassador whose home is about four blocks away. Four blocks in the opposite direction, a sniper shot four people and then killed himself. The roads were blocked by law enforcement. The search for the shooter involved police helicopters circling overhead for hours. At about the same time...

WASHINGTON - A Colorado man has died after setting himself on fire in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building in the nation’s capital Friday night. Officials identified the man as Wynn Bruce, 50, of Boulder. He was airlifted to a hospital after the incident. Police said Saturday that the man had died. The incident occurred on the plaza in front of the Supreme Court building around 6:30 p.m. No one else was injured. **SNIP** The man's neighbors told Denver7 that they are unsure how Bruce made it to Washington since he was unable to drive. They said a childhood...

YENAGAO, Nigeria (Reuters) - More than 100 people were killed overnight in an explosion at an illegal oil refining depot on the border of Nigeria’s Rivers and Imo states, a local government official and an environmental group said on Saturday. “The fire outbreak occurred at an illegal bunkering site and it affected over 100 people who were burnt beyond recognition,” the state commissioner for petroleum resources, Goodluck Opiah, said. The bunkering site was in the Ohaji-Egbema Local Government Area of Imo state in the Abaezi forest that straddles the border of the two states. Unemployment and poverty in the oil-producing...

The Republican poobahs in Tennessee creating rules that booted Morgan Ortagus off the primary ballot for the Fifth Congressional District... But what are those Tennessee Republicans?... Are they Chinese Communist Factory Republicans like the local poobahs bringing the Fufeng corn milling factory into Grand Forks, North Dakota?... Inflation rages in the aftermath of massive COVID spending as the world comes out of lockdowns... A US Economic Update and our US Economic Update Theme courtesy of the Beatles because between car shortages and higher prices... All these Russia hating politicians with their wasteful spending on COVID turning the US into the...

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We live in times in which mercy, like so many other things, has become a detached concept in people’s minds, separated from the things that really help us to understand it. For indeed, mercy makes sense and is necessary because we are sinners in desperate shape. Yet many today think it unkind and unmerciful to speak of sin as sin. Many think that mercy is a declaration that God doesn’t really care about sin, or that sin is not a relevant concept.On the contrary, mercy means that sin does exist. Thanks be to God for the glory, the beauty, and...

State Department spokesman Ned Price answered questions about Afghanistan and Pakistan and said Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar is not representing President Biden or the administration in a trip this week to the region. Omar visited the disputed territory of Kashmir and met with former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who accuses the U.S. government of orchestrating his fall from power. The U.S. obviously denies the allegation. Khan said last week that Donald Lu, assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asian Affairs, led the "foreign conspiracy" to topple his government via a parliamentary no-confidence vote. Read more from Reuters: US...

April 24th 2022 Divine Mercy Sunday National Shrine of The Divine Mercy in Stockbridge, Massachusetts Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White First readingActs 5:12-16 ©The numbers of men and women who came to believe in the Lord increased steadilyThe faithful all used to meet by common consent in the Portico of Solomon. No one else ever dared to join them, but the people were loud in their praise and the numbers of men and women who came to believe in the Lord increased steadily. So many signs and wonders were worked among the people at the hands of the apostles that...

A recent poll was conducted by a national polling outfit, "YOUGOV. Results to these questions asked of average people on the street. What percentage of the country is black? Answers 41%. Actual, 12% What percentage is "Latino? Answers 39%. Actual numbers 17% How many families make over $500,000 a year? Answers 26%. Actual figure? 1% (We think a quarter of the country is rich). What percent of American's are vegetarians? Response? 30% Actual? 5% What percent of American's live in NY city? Answers? 30% Actual 3%. What percentage of Americans are 'transgender? 22% Actual number, 1% (People believe this BS!)...

The citywide scourge of lithium-ion e-bike batteries injured a dozen people in four separate fires sparked in a single day, FDNY officials said Friday. The blazes - three in Manhattan and one in Brooklyn - continued the troubling trend of malfunctioning lithium-ion batteries used to power electric bicycles setting off blazes in city residences. The phenomenon was responsible for four deaths last year, the department said. **SNIP** The largest fire was in Brooklyn’s Kensington section just after 4 a.m. Thursday, when an e-bike battery sparked a three-alarm fire that gutted an E. 9th St. home near Cortelyou Road and the...