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The Chief Rabbi of Moscow, Pinchas Goldschmidt, has fled from Russia after being pressured to support the invasion of Ukraine, Avital Cizik-Goldschmidt, a journalist in the United States and the Chief Rabbi’s daughter-in-law, has announced. “I can finally share”, the journalist wrote on her Twitter account, “that my in-laws have been pressured by the authorities to publicly support the ‘special operation’ in Ukraine and they refused to do so.” “They fled to Hungary two weeks after the Russian invasion and they are now exiled from the community they loved and built and in which they raised their children for 33...

how me you don't understand the underlying issue at hand without showing me you don't understand the underlying issue at hand. Our contestant is George Takei, best known for playing George Takei in cameos that call for George Takei. Also, Star Trek. Takei has a crazy idea. Let's take the 20 million AR-15s people in this country have for self-defense and give them to another country... for self-defense. Yes, I know another celebrity is in the news for a gun control rant. But we've been down this road with him before, and he's not always alright, alright, alright. Crazy thought,...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has kept the upper chamber’s negotiations on gun reform narrowly focused by tasking one of his top deputies, conservative Sen. John Cornyn (Texas), to take the Republican lead in the talks. Cornyn’s participation in the negotiations opened the door for another reliable Trump ally, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), to play a greater role in the negotiations. This has balanced the influence of Republican negotiators who are seen as more moderate and more likely to endorse reforms that could wind up roiling the pro-gun rights GOP base.

<p>The mayor of the Mexican city of Cuernavaca was proudly inaugurating a footbridge over a scenic stream Tuesday when the bridge collapsed, sending him and about two dozen other people plunging into a gully.</p><p>The hanging bridge made of wooden boards and metal chains had recently been remodeled. Video of the collapse suggested the boards separated from the chains supporting them.</p>

former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke was locked in a tight primary race for the other seat with former state Sen. Al “Doc” Olszewski of Kalispell. No votes had been reported from Lincoln, Glacier and Beaverhead counties by midnight. Zinke, who served as a Cabinet member under then-President Donald Trump, is running for the seat to represent the western part of the state after Montana was granted a second representative due to population growth documented in the 2020 census.

SEOUL – Alarmed by North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats and China’s aggressive diplomacy, America is playing catch-up on the eastern rim of Asia after perceived neglect of the region.At the vanguard of America’s diplomatic offensive this week, Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, in talks here with top Korean and Japanese officials, promised a “forceful” response if North Korea’s Kim Jong-un actually orders the regime’s seventh underground nuclear test. Sung Kim, the U.S. envoy on North Korea who was in Seoul last week, said in Washington the North was ready for the test and could do it “any time.”“The...

The mayor of a North Carolina town announced Saturday that a Drag Queen Story Hour event, part of an upcoming pride festival, was canceled after receiving “feedback from citizens.” Jacques Gilbert, mayor of Apex, North Carolina, announced Saturday via Facebook that the previously planned Drag Queen Story Hour was canceled one week before the Apex Pride Festival, citing citizen feedback. Gilbert shared the feedback he received to the Apex Festival Commission, who then took it into consideration and removed the program, his announcement stated.

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8 June 2022Wednesday of week 10 in Ordinary Time Catholic Church, Lviv, Ukraine Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First reading1 Kings 18:20-39 ©Elijah vanquishes the priests of BaalAhab called all Israel together and assembled the prophets on Mount Carmel. Elijah stepped out in front of all the people. ‘How long’ he said ‘do you mean to hobble first on one leg then on the other? If the Lord is God, follow him; if Baal, follow him.’ But the people never said a word. Elijah then said to them, ‘I, I alone, am left as a prophet of the Lord, while the...

“‘For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?’” (Matthew 6:25). For Christians to worry is to be disobedient and unfaithful to God. Nothing in our lives, internal or external, justifies our being anxious when God is our Master. Worry is basically the sin of distrusting the promise and providence of God, and yet it is a sin Christians commit perhaps...

VIDEOShe appears to be satanic as you can plainly see in this video. So much so that you have to wonder if the Canadian HR recruiter Tammy (Serpent?) Sepetis who posted a chilling video on TikTok has been possessed by the devil. In her extreme leftist anger she threatens to check social media for any hint that prospects display the slightest bit of conservatism, such as showing support for the Canadian Freedom Convoy, and then ruin their careers if she deems them politically guilty. Unfortunately for Sepetis, it was her extreme stupidity that caused her to post her vitriolic video...

People aged under the age of 40 being urged to go and get their hearts checked May potentially be at risk of having Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS) SADS is an 'umbrella term to describe unexpected deaths in young people' A 31-year-old woman who died in her sleep last year may have had SADs

Most of the mass murderers have given plenty of signs that they are unstable, and many of them were known to the police/FBI to be people to be watched or taken in for mental health evaluations, yet they were not. And in several high profile cases, the police hid behind their vehicles while children were murdered. In Uvalde, they even arrested parents trying to save their own children. I am sure that some parents will try to sue the police for their inaction, but will ultimately lose because the Supreme Court has ruled multiple times that the police have no...

A detailed list of the destroyed and captured vehicles and equipment of both sides can be seen below. This list is constantly updated as additional footage becomes available

Its The Fed’s Limbo Rock! Except that it is how HIGH can they go? Mortgage rates have soared 71.4% over the past year as The Fed signals tightening of monetary policy. Mortgage applications decreased 6.5 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending June 3, 2022. This week’s results include an adjustment for the Memorial Day holiday. The seasonally adjusted Purchase Index decreased 7 percent from one week earlier. The unadjusted Purchase Index decreased 18 percent compared with the previous week and was 21 percent lower...

Nixon's Revenge It’s been a long time since Watergate. For its 25th anniversary, I wrote a book with Peter W. Morgan, originally titled Nixon’s Revenge, on one of Watergate’s most toxic legacies, the proliferation of “ethics rules” and ethics authorities that in practice do anything but promote ethical behavior in government. (The publisher chose a less-provocative title, The Appearance of Impropriety, instead, which I still think was a mistake.) But now 25 more years have passed, and I will not be producing another book. Instead, I offer a few thoughts on Andrew McCarthy’s 50th-anniversary retrospective. McCarthy’s central claim is that...

DETROIT -- Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles and dozens of other women who say they were sexually assaulted by Larry Nassar are seeking more than $1 billion from the FBI for failing to stop the convicted sports doctor when the agency first received allegations against him, lawyers said Wednesday. There is no dispute that FBI agents in 2015 knew that Nassar was accused of assaulting gymnasts, but they failed to act, leaving him free to continue to target young women and girls for more than a year. "It is time for the FBI to be held accountable," said Maggie Nichols,...

The author has been interested in the historical costs of .22 rimfire cartridges since childhood. Starting in early adolescence, and continuing for many years, the value of things and time was measured in .22 cartridges. It was a simple calculation, an easy comparison. From that era, 1964 to the present, .22 Long Rifle cartridge list prices, converted to constant unskilled labor dollars, have been fairly stable. The unskilled labor number is based on the time it takes for an unskilled laborer to earn the same purchasing power for a particular year. It took about 146 hours (about two weeks, 12...

Introducing the Rattler chambered in .300 Blackout gives SOF troops a good combination of rifle and round for covert missions in tight spots. U.S. special operators are finally getting ultra-compact personal defense weapons, or PDWs, chambered in .300 Blackout and standard 5.56x45mm ammunition to blast out of tight spots with a wallop similar to a full-size assault rifle. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) on May 19 issued a notice of intent to buy Sig’s MCX Rattler short-barreled rifles as personal defense weapons, or PDWs, under a five-year sole-source contract. No contract has been awarded yet and how many of these compact...

House Oversight Committee Democrats have launched an investigation into the gifts former President Trump received while he was in office, claiming he failed to account for thousands of dollars’ worth of gifts he received from foreign officials. According to the committee, the former president appears to have flouted laws that require turning over any gift deemed to be worth more than $415 — a longstanding practice based on the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, which places limits on what the president can receive from foreign governments.