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[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Gregory issues decree to implement Pope Francis’ Traditionis CustodesNorms take effect September 21, 2022WASHINGTON, D.C. – Cardinal Wilton Gregory today released a decree with the Liturgical Norms for the implementation in The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington of Traditionis Custodes, an apostolic letter issued moto proprio (“on his own impulse”) by Pope Francis in July 2021. Traditionis Custodes, which means “Guardians of the Tradition,” contains a set of norms for the celebration of what is popularly known as the Traditional Latin Mass.The decree from Cardinal Gregory states that, effective September 21, 2022, three non-parochial churches are designated...

A metal-working site uncovered in Moray may have helped arm Caledonian tribes against the Romans, before being burned down by the invaders.Archaeologists have described the site at Lochinver Quarry, near Elgin, as fascinating and unusual.Evidence has been found of metal production over a period of up to 2,000 years from the Bronze Age through the Iron Age.Archaeologists believe they could end up excavating as many as 40 iron smelting sites.Prior to these discoveries around 25 such sites have been found for the whole of Scotland.Lochinver appears to have been abandoned suddenly and homes and other structures burned down.Archaeologists suggest one...

Tesla and its suppliers have secured a car lane for their own exclusive use at the US-Mexico border after Elon Musk’s electric-car maker hammered out a deal with officials in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon. The exclusive lane, complete with a green highway sign labeled with the company’s distinctive logo, is located at the Colombia Solidarity border checkpoint near Laredo, Texas. Tesla shifted its corporate headquarters from California to Austin, Texas last year. [Snip] Under normal conditions at its busiest point of entry, the average wait time for commercial vehicles at that portion of the border is about 20...

Oregon voters will decide this fall on a proposal that would require a permit for gun purchases and ban magazines higher than 10 rounds, except for current owners, law enforcement and the military. Initiative 17, the Reduction of Gun Violence Act, has surpassed the minimum number of signatures required, 112,080, Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan's elections division said Monday, Fox News reported. If approved, an applicant for a gun permit would be required to complete an approved firearm safety course, pay a fee, provide personal information, submit to fingerprinting and photographing and pass a criminal background check. The National...

At least 76 churches and pro-life organizations have been targets of arson and vandalism since May when news leaked that the U.S. Supreme Court would overturn Roe v. Wade. The latest count comes from the Catholic News Agency, which has been keeping track of the incidents targeting pro-life advocates. The crime wave has many churches and pro-life organizations increasing security and Republican lawmakers demanding action from the Biden administration to crack down on the growing domestic terrorism. According to CNA, there have been 76 attacks and counting since early May when someone leaked a draft ruling of the Dobbs v....

... While Malaysia will likely be able to suppress the arbitral award eventually, this case is a reminder that boundaries drawn in colonial times sit uneasily with more ancient cultural linkages. Oblivious to the modern border between Malaysia and the Philippines, locals have traveled across the Sulu Sea for years. Malaysia set up an expensive new border force after the 2013 intrusion, but it has failed to stop the illegal movement of people between Sabah and Mindanao. Indeed, most of the foreign Islamist fighters who joined the seizure of the city of Marawi in Mindanao in 2017 arrived via Sabah....

Former President Trump’s top allies are preparing to radically reshape the federal government if he is re-elected, purging potentially thousands of civil servants and filling career posts with loyalists to him and his "America First” ideology, people involved in the discussions tell Axios. The impact could go well beyond typical conservative targets such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Internal Revenue Service. Trump allies are working on plans that would potentially strip layers at the Justice Department — including the FBI, and reaching into national security, intelligence, the State Department and the Pentagon, sources close to the former president...

The news these days for President Joe Biden and his errant son Hunter is almost all bad. As the Justice Department investigates Hunter Biden for tax and weapons charges, it’s become increasingly obvious over the years that Joe Biden has far more to answer for than Hunter does. The headlines haven’t been kind to the Biden White House of late: “Hunter Biden payments to Eastern European escort ring were flagged by bank: Report,” “Hunter Biden laptop shows dozens of meetings with dad, business partners,” “Overwhelming Evidence: Joe Biden Lied, Had Dozens of Meetings with Hunter Biden’s Business Partner,” “Inside The...

VIDEOOne of the side effects of sitting in a sensory deprivation tank is that you can hear voices in your head. Here are some of the voices that Hunter Biden heard while cracking himself up in the sensory deprivation tank.

President Joe Biden is set to press Congress for a new $37 billion plan to fund increased policing across the nation.

The Biden administration has canned several immigration judges, all appointed by Trump, and replaced them with “progressive” magistrates. Republicans have an idea as to why this happened (spoiler alert: politics as usual) but sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding answers anyway. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) want the answers by 5 p.m. on August 3. The letter begins:Dear Attorney General Garland:We write about your decision to terminate the employment of multiple immigration judges who were hired during the Trump Administration. If true, your termination of these immigration judges because of their political ideology...

You have to give those Chinese Communist censors their props. One of the most popular topics on Chinese social media sites doesn’t exist according to the censors, and they’re bound and determined to keep it that way.The topic is #stopmortgagepayments and refers to the growing boycott by homeowners who are refusing to pay mortgages on homes that were presold to buyers. The homes have not been completed for a variety of reasons, and the eminently practical Chinese don’t see why they should be paying for a house that doesn’t exist.Home buying in China is a little different from what it...

With great gravitas Rep. Benedict Kinzinger sent out this tweet todayWe the people must demand more of our politicians and ourselves. Oaths matter. Character matters. Truth matters. If we do not renew our faith and commitment to these principles, this great experiment of ours, our shining beacon on a hill, will not endure. pic.twitter.com/uexdc0Inwv — Adam Kinzinger (@RepKinzinger) July 22, 2022Truth matters. Oaths matter. Character matters. Bullsh*t matters too, Kinzinger. This thing began as sh*t show right from the outset when, for the first time in the country's history, Pelosi denied Republicans the right to choose their members of a...

I have to hand it to the Jan. 6 Committee. They’ve already proven what hacks they are, yet they just keep digging that hole deeper for themselves and in so doing, they keep revealing how empty their case is.Let’s be frank — the whole point of the Jan. 6 effort is to try to do all they can to take down Donald Trump, because they’re afraid he’ll run again and win in 2024. So, if they wanted to be honest about it, what they’re doing is an effort to “interfere” in the 2024 election ahead of time.But the testimony of...

There is no clear evidence that depression is caused by low serotonin levels, research suggests. The new review, which analysed existing studies, suggests the condition is not likely caused by a chemical imbalance, and calls into question what antidepressants do. Researchers say their findings are important as studies show that as many as 85-90% of the public believes that depression is caused by low serotonin or a chemical imbalance.

Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY), who is running for governor of New York, was attacked Thursday night during a campaign speech in Perinton, New York. A man climbed onto the stage and got right next to him with what the police are calling a “sharp object.” As we reported last night, there are pictures of the man being arrested and what looks like a pair of brass knuckles.Zeldin had been giving a speech about the dangers of the screwed-up bail reform system Democrats were responsible for in New York which leaves people unsafe. Zeldin blocked the assailant’s first move and then...

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the...

The meaning of weiqi, the ancient Chinese game of strategy, is ‘encirclement game.’ But in weiqi it isn’t enough to surround enemy stones to capture ground. It’s vital to have some of your stones within enemy territory. When you then lay siege, swathes of the board fall with no fighting. China’s leaders, strategists, and generals swear by Sun Tzu and weiqi: they combine the lessons of the philosopher’s Art of War with principles of the game to win without fighting, deploying long-term plans and deception, skirmishing on many fronts, and creating outposts hidden in plain sight.One such outpost, an agro-industrial...

Articles of Inquiry: The Role of MediaThe media, both traditional and social media, had an outsized role during the pandemic in pushing the US government’s Covid response and defending the resulting coercive measures, including lockdowns, school closures, mask and vaccine mandates, while ignoring collateral damage and treating skeptics of these measures as having bad motivations. Their result was a one-sided, often factually misleading or unsubstantiated narrative on important issues concerning science, economics, and health, for the better part of two years. This has had a chilling effect on information flows and journalism, and it dramatically distorted public understanding in many...

Residents express anger at Angela Merkel’s open border policy.. Some have expressed anger at former German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open border migrant policy after a Syrian national was arrested for the murder of a teenage girl whose body was found at a sewage treatment plant. 17-year-old Tabitha E. left an apartment in Asperg, southern Germany, on Tuesday afternoon last week, but the alarm was raised after she didn’t return home that evening. After an extensive police search, the girl’s body was found on Sunday at the Leudelsbach sewage treatment plant. After the home of a suspect was search and investigators...