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15 June 2022Wednesday of week 11 in Ordinary Time St. Vitus Church, Cleveland, OH Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First reading2 Kings 2:1,6-14 ©Elijah is taken up to heavenThis is what happened when the Lord took Elijah up to heaven in the whirlwind: Elijah and Elisha set out from Gilgal, Elijah said, ‘Elisha, please stay here, the Lord is only sending me to the Jordan.’ But he replied, ‘As the Lord lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you!’ And they went on together. Fifty of the brotherhood of prophets followed them, halting some distance away as the...

South Carolina state Rep. Russell Fry beat incumbent Republican South Carolina Rep. Tom Rice handily in the state’s 7th Congressional District GOP primary Tuesday, according to multiple election forecasters. Fry earned just over the 50% margin of votes needed to win the primary outright and become the GOP nominee without going through a runoff election, while Rice, on the other hand, only managed around 25% of the vote. Rice drew former President Donald Trump’s wrath after voting to impeach him in response to the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. Trump consistently criticized Rice, calling him a “backstabbing RINO” for...

I still cant fully understand how the printing of money causes inflation. Economies are normally driven by supply and demand at the basic level. . If I need something that everyone else needs, it tends that the people who make the product or supply the service will raise prices to make profit when fulfilling the sale side of this, the need of that product or service making more profit for the provider. . Supply can affect price, also, the scarcity of the product means it costs more, generally, because new means to provide the initial raw materials or shipping of...

"I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision," stated poet Carl Sandburg in an interview with Frederick Van Ryn of This Week Magazine (January 4, 1953, p. 11.) Download as PDF ... Carl Sandburg was born on January 6, 1878, to Swedish immigrants who worked on the railroad. After 8th grade, Carl Sandburg left school, borrowed...

President Joe Biden on Wednesday called on U.S. oil refiners to produce more gasoline and diesel, saying their profits have tripled during a time of war between Russia and Ukraine as Americans struggle with record high prices at the pump. “The crunch that families are facing deserves immediate action,” Biden wrote in the draft of a letter to oil refiners obtained by The Associated Press. “Your companies need to work with my Administration to bring forward concrete, near-term solutions that address the crisis.” As Biden sees it, refineries are capitalizing on the uncertainties caused by “a time of war.” His...

On December 11, 2020, I warned the Supreme Court, if they gave in to extortionate threats, they would get more of them, with worse to come. My words seem prophetic now. I would have preferred to be wrong.This correspondent was only applying the lessons of recent history. From the 2020 article, 17 months ago:The terrorists have marked 5 or 6 members of the Supreme Court as enemies of the people.Those justices are: Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Barrett, and, less likely, Chief Justice John Roberts.The first five of those justices have been subject to death threats...

Herschel Walker, the Republican nominee for Senate from Georgia, who has often spoken out against absentee fathers, particularly in Black households, on Tuesday publicly acknowledged having fathered a second son with whom he is not in contact. The admission came in response to a report by The Daily Beast, which said it had confirmed the 10-year-old boy’s parentage but withheld his name and that of his mother. It said the child’s mother had sued Mr. Walker a year after giving birth to obtain a declaration of paternity and child support, and that the suit lasted until August 2014, when Mr....

@MegKinnardAP WASHINGTON (AP) — Freshman incumbent @RepNancyMace defeats Trump-backed challenger @karringtonscwinning Republican nomination for a 2nd term in #SouthCarolina's 1st District #SC01

Bret Weinstein 6 minute video commentary on what Nuremberg taught us and how the future needs frank, honest debates.

In another sign that the campaign of C-19 vaccination in Europe is far from over, French President Emmanuel Macron suggested last week that the appropriate response to the crisis in France’s overstrained emergency healthcare services is to “vaccinate everything that can be vaccinated.” “Vaccinate everything that can be vaccinated,” Macron said, “because we avoid the virus. That’s the best response for unburdening the healthcare system and having a healthy population. So, we’re going to continue to work on this aspect.”Macron’s word choice has attracted particular attention in the French Twittersphere and other online media, since he literally said that it...

IPray For The Peace of JerusalemGenesis 21The Birth of Isaac 21 Now the Lord was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised. 2 Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him. 3 Abraham gave the name Isaac[a] to the son Sarah bore him. 4 When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God commanded him. 5 Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. 6 Sarah said,...

Fox News host Tucker Carlson calls out President Joe Biden's leadership as Americans are fleeing the United States under Biden on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.' Appeal for Kamala's nomination in 2024 starts at 9:20.

Republican Rep. Tom Rice lost his solidly conservative South Carolina House seat Tuesday after nearly a decade in Congress, which included his vote to impeach former President Donald Trump over the Jan. 6 riots. SOUTH CAROLINA PROVIDES NEXT TEST OF TRUMP'S ENDORSEMENT POWER Although Rice repeated his support for many Trump policies as he campaigned across South Carolina's 7th Congressional District, from Myrtle Beach to the Pee Dee region, he defended his decision to impeach Trump as "the principled stance." "My opinion is that our Constitution is too precious to risk," he said during the district's five-way Republican debate. Trump...

Family members of murder defendant Isaiah Rivera-Perez and shooting victim Jaiden Connor filled nearly every seat in a Hillsborough County Superior Court hearing room Tuesday morning as a trial opened that will hinge on the state’s self-defense law. Homicide prosecutor Nicholas Chong Yen showed the jury a home security video that captures Connor, 17, running down Central Street and collapsing, where police found him with a bullet hole in his back. “He shot Jaden Connor in the back. He shot Jaden Connor while Jaden was running away from him,” said Chong Yen, an assistant New Hampshire attorney general. “That is...

Sports Illustrated has been taking a beating on social media after it criticized a Supreme Court case centered on religious freedom. As Breitbart News profiled, Sports Illustrated waded into political waters on Monday with an article by Greg Bishop bashing the Supreme Court case centered on Bremerton High School assistant coach Joe Kennedy, who was sanctioned by his school district in 2015 for praying on the field with his players. Tellingly, Bishop argued that Kennedy’s potential win in court could be an “erosion” of American democracy. “This Sports Illustrated article is little else but a long smear against Christians, conservatives,...

It’s unsettling enough to confront moral relativism as an abstract idea, but it’s downright chilling to see it in real people who let it dictate their lives. ...

The Democrat National Committee had to reschedule its Woman’s Leadership Forum fundraiser with Vice President Kamala Harris for lack of ticket sales. “The event was rescheduled last minute for the autumn, when the event is traditionally held, after the event couldn’t sell enough tickets,” Status Coup News reported. “When the invites were sent out on May 5, it was hyped as an incredible opportunity to mingle in person after two years of virtual events and meetings.” Ticket prices range from $250 to $50,000, according to the report. DNC spokesperson Daniel Wessel is on record claiming Kamala Harris is a huge...

Investigative reporter Luke Rosiak has posted an amazing thread showing the kind of grifters who are introducing Marxist racism into American education. Luke Rosiak has been paying close attention to the race hustlers making money going into American schools and teaching children that Whites are evil and Blacks are the victims of this evil. On Tuesday, he posted a few Twitter items that expose some of the worst grifters pushing these toxins into the American system—and making lots of money doing so. First up is Glenn Singleton, who founded the Pacific Educational Group: The attached docs show the actual bizarre...

Cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin are plunging amid market panic today Bitcoin fell nearly 8% to nearly $20,000, its lowest value in seven months Market has been spooked by US Federal Reserve plan to hike rates Cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin are crashing in value again in a new digital currency plunge as spooked traders frantically sell off assets before the US Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates today. Bitcoin fell this morning to a new 18-month low as the recent tumble in crypto markets showed no sign of letting up. The world's largest cryptocurrency fell as much as 7.8% to $20,289,...

The parents of a four-year-old boy are suing a Texas hospital for $500,000 after he was mistakenly given a vasectomy during surgery to treat a hernia on his groin. Before the surgery, the boy, only identified in court documents as 'R.B,' complained of of right-sided swelling in his scrotum that would worsen in the evenings when Dr. Susan L Jarosz recommended a right inguinal hernia repair in August 2021, according to ABC 13. The surgery, conducted at the Texas Children's Hospital, was scheduled for August 4, 2021, but when trying to remove the hernia, court documents say, Jarosz also cut...