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Charges have been brought against an educator who was earlier this year dubbed “teacher of the year” by Athens City Schools. According to the police, Daelyn Waldroup, 26, broke into a car after scaling a fence to get to one that was impounded at a vehicle impound facility. According to an affidavit obtained, this occurred on the morning of June 6. It states that J Pro Car & Towing on Decatur Pike received a call from Athens police. According to the report, the officer discovered Waldroup there sitting in a locked car behind a fenced-in area. According to the affidavit,...

Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. Proverbs 14:34 (King James Version) The Pro-abortion crowd only want to kill babies and nobody else for society’s convenience. Which is what every Communist Movement around the world said right before the slaughtered over two hundred million of their own citizens for the crime of being an inconvenience. The Death in the Womb crowd only want to protect the Rights of the mother to do with her body what she wishes. Funny, how they were just the opposite for the military this week when tens of thousands of...

In 2018, archaeologists made a staggering discovery in Swaga Swaga Game Reserve in central Tanzania: 52 previously undocumented rock shelters, deliberately painted with rock art. Weathering had mostly destroyed all but a handful; but of those that were preserved, one was an absolute enigma.The site, named Amak'hee 4, was elaborately painted with a frieze of figurative art – including three mysterious, anthropomorphic figures with extremely oversized heads...The Amak'hee 4 panel is difficult to date, but in 2021 Grzelczyk was able to gauge that it's at least a few hundred years old. It's painted almost entirely in red pigment, except for...

3 July 2022 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time St Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church, Claughton, UK Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingIsaiah 66:10-14 ©Towards Jerusalem I send flowing peace, like a riverRejoice, Jerusalem,be glad for her, all you who love her!Rejoice, rejoice for her,all you who mourned her!That you may be suckled, filled,from her consoling breast,that you may savour with delighther glorious breasts.For thus says the Lord:Now towards her I send flowingpeace, like a river,and like a stream in spatethe glory of the nations.At her breast will her nurslings be carriedand fondled in her lap.Like a son comforted by his...

As is usual, the Supreme Court saved its most important decisions for the end of this term, and the three biggies were handed down within days of each other: “Bruen (gun rights), Dobbs (abortion rights) and West Virginia (administrative regulation of CO2).” You don’t have to be a constitutional law scholar to wade through all this and the footnotes, citations, and legal disputations. Francis Menton has done it for you: (You can’t rely on the major media to do it. For the most part they share the same ideological viewpoint as that of the three dissenting justices, a view Menton...

"Life's Illusions" sung about by Judy Collins from way back and are we just being hustled with illusions. What an illusion we have President Emmanuel Macron outaged by the US Supreme Court over abortion proclaiming his pro-choice credentials with a new abortion law in France this year going to 14 weeks from 12 weeks. Emmanuel Macron wants people in France to seek him as liberal and progressive with a 14-week abortion law. And then Governor Tate Reeves of Mississippi taking his victory lap with the Supreme Court ruling touting his pro-life credentials for singing a 15-week abortion law more liberal...

Hey, I thought Mayor Pete Buttigieg, the US Transportation Secretary, was supposed to unclog the supply-chain crisis! Instead, we get heartaches on heartaches as diesel prices rise 118% under Biden AND now the bottle-necks may get a lot worse. A US Supreme Court decision that could force California’s 70,000 truck owner-operators to stop driving is set to create another choke point in already-stressed West Coast logistics networks, a truckers’ organization said. “Gasoline has been poured on the fire that is our ongoing supply-chain crisis,” the California Trucking Association said in a statement following the Supreme Court’s decision to deny a...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) --- A new poll released Friday night by the Trafalgar Group has the three leading candidates in the Missouri U.S. Senate Republican primary separated by about one point. The poll released on Friday has current U.S. House Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-MO) leading former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens and current Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt. Hartzler earned 24.0% in the poll, with Greitens coming in with 23.5% and Schmitt rounding out the top three with 22.8%. The primary is one of the top contested races across the country.

King David, the author of so many psalms, grew weary of his struggles. He was so tired in soul, so embattled and beset by troubles, that all he wanted was to escape to a place of peace and safety. “My heart is severely pained within me, and the terrors of death have fallen upon me. …So I said, ‘Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest. … I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.’” (Psalm 55:4-8, NKJV). A lesson from nature reveals what happens when we trade the...

Volunteers to the country’s territorial defense forces, reserve units of Ukraine’s armed forces, were initially assigned unglamorous but safe tasks in relatively tranquil regions like western Ukraine, where the Russians did not invade. But severe losses of manpower in the Donbas region, where Russia is grinding forward with ferocious bombing and shelling, has forced Ukraine’s military to draw reinforcements from the West. Many of the fighters like Mr. Brukhal, who had no previous military experience, are simply unprepared for that escalated level of fighting. And the training they receive is limited — sometimes two weeks or less. Colonel Kurko said...

@RepThomasMassie I called it on March 27, 2020. The popular bill to spend $2 trillion dollars and shut down our economy was “the biggest mistake in history.” That bill and subsequent bills that spent another $4 trillion are the reasons we now have shortages and inflation. Clip... [2 minutes]

Russia’s Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu told President Vladimir Putin on Sunday that Moscow and its allies now controlled all of Ukraine’s Luhansk region after capturing the last major city, Lysychansk. (cut) The ministry had said earlier on Sunday that its troops had captured the villages surrounding Lysychansk, encircling the area, and were fighting inside the city. Calls to the Ukrainian General Staff and Defence Ministry went unanswered. The ministry did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment.

Are you woke enough to attend Florida Atlantic University’s Schmidt College of Medicine? Students literally have to prove it when submitting their application. It shows that medical schools are increasingly interested in pushing political ideology – and less concerned with training physicians. A tipster who’s concerned by identity politics at FAU pointed us to this offensive requirement, which can be found in the list of secondary questions that applicants must answer. To start, they must show they believe in “anti-racism” and oppose “systemic racism”: “As a community FAU Schmidt COM has made a commitment to be anti-racist and address systemic...

IPray For The Peace of JerusalemGenesis 3030 When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she became jealous of her sister. So she said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I’ll die!” 2 Jacob became angry with her and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?” 3 Then she said, “Here is Bilhah, my servant. Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and I too can build a family through her.” 4 So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife. Jacob slept with...

“‘You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they? So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit’” (Matthew 7:16–17). One’s basic character—attitudes, inner motives, loyalties, standards—eventually manifests itself in his or her life. Christians produce good fruit in their attitudes and actions. But unbelievers, especially false prophets, will eventually manifest bad fruit. False teachers can hide their true fruit for a time behind ecclesiastical trappings, evangelical vocabulary, and false fellowship. But how they behave when not around Christians will soon enough reveal their...

The Talk Shows July 3rd, 2022 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Guest host Mike Emanuel: NSC Strategic Communications Coordinator (Biden’s Pentagon Press Sec) Jack Kirby and Mississippi Republican Governor Tate Reeves. Panel: Marc Thiessen, Mollie Hemingway, Howard Kurtz and Whine Williams. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Chuck U. Toad: Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.); HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra; Danny Cevallos, legal analyst for NBC and MSNBC and co-founder of the law firm Cevallos & Wong, LLP. Panel: Matthew Continetti, Jeh Johnson, Marianna Sotomayor and Ali Vitali—just another easily forgotten group of...

In a normal housing market, a relatively quick and painless home sale is by no means a given. It's not unheard of for homes to sit on the housing market for months on end without a buyer -- especially if they're not priced or marketed well. Today's housing market is different, though. Right now, real estate inventory is down, and buyer demand is strong. That puts sellers in a strong position to not just move their homes off the market quickly, but command strong sale prices. If you're thinking of selling your home, there are certain items you should tackle...

Okay, so it's not a war, but a series of Special Military Operations over a generation or two, involving one country after another, that'll be collectively known in Russia as the Second Patriotic War. Who knew? Link is just to the latest segment - and no,this isn't a Brass Eye satirical show, it's what passes for serious punditry in Russia's mainstream media.

Some employers in Florida will be prohibited from requiring their employees to attend activities that promote or otherwise endorse certain concepts related to race and sex beginning July 1, 2022. Specifically, the Stop Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees Act (Stop WOKE Act) (HB 7), which passed earlier this year, amends the Florida Civil Rights Act to create a new basis for an employment discrimination claim. Prohibited Activities for Covered Employers The new law, which applies to employers with 15 or more employees companywide, makes it an “unlawful employment practice” to require employees to attend any activity that “espouses, promotes,...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) — Starting July 1, people who live in the Town of Perinton will have to pay for their recycling to be picked up. For years, as part of a deal with the landfill in their backyard, residents were able to get their recycling picked up for free by Waste Management weekly but that deal was recently renegotiated and not everyone is happy about it. Recently, the Town of Perinton entered into a new host agreement with Waste Management.