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MEMORIAL OF SAINTS MARTHA, MARY, AND LAZARUS JOHN 11:19–27 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus says, “I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live, and anyone who lives and believes in me will never die.” Jesus came primarily as a warrior whose final enemy is death. It is easy to domesticate Jesus, presenting him as a kindly moral teacher. But that is not how the Gospels present him. He is a cosmic warrior who has come to do battle with those forces that keep us from being fully alive. Throughout the Gospels,...

Just hours ahead of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s planned trip to Asia, Chinese state media has threatened to shoot down her plane and U.S. military pilots escorting her. The threat comes 24-hours after President Joe Biden spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping for two hours on a call from the White House. The communist government’s readout of the conversation also included a threat in response to Pelosi’s planned trip to Taiwan.

U.S. District Judge Raymond Moore, an Obama appointee, issued a temporary restraining order against Superior, Colorado’s ban on “assault weapons.” The judge cited the Supreme Court’s New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen ruling extensively in one of the first significant decisions since the landmark case. “In its simplest terms, the Second and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit governments from preventing ‘law abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their right to keep and bear arms,'” Moore said of the Court’s conclusion in Bruen. Employing the test created in Bruen, he ruled the town’s ban is unconstitutional. “The conduct...

An elderly couple, who were both widowed, had been going out with each other for a long time. Urged on by their friends, they decided it was finally time to get married. Before the wedding, they went out to dinner and had a long conversation regarding how their marriage might work. They discussed finances, living arrangements and so on. Finally, the old gentleman decided it was time to broach the subject of their physical relationship. 'How do you feel about sex?' he asked, rather tentatively. 'I would like it infrequently' she replied. The old gentleman sat quietly for a moment,...

I can't say, with certainty, that this video has or has not been doctored orr when it was recorded. But if it's real, than there is a definite problem.

Trump-Endorsed Kari Lake continues to hold her strong double-digit lead in the Arizona Gubernatorial Primary election, according to another new poll conducted from July 18th to July 20th.The Primary election is one week from today, on Tuesday, August 2nd.This poll was conducted before Lake gave a major speech at President Trump’s Save America rally in Prescott Valley, Arizona, last Friday.The Gateway Pundit reported that President Trump told the thousands of Arizona Patriots that Kari “will be one of the fiercest voices in the country standing up against Joe Biden’s Open Borders catastrophe—and she will do whatever it takes to protect...

NASA's image of vortex-like swirls that represent giant storms on Jupiter. JunoCam's recent image of the incredibly huge storms decorating Jupiter's north pole region. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Image processing by Brian Swift Our solar system's citrus-colored gas giant, Jupiter, is no stranger to chaos. And earlier this month, NASA's Juno mission captured a mesmerizing snap to prove that point. During the probe's 43rd close flyby of the enormous planet, its JunoCam instrument caught sight of watercolor vortices near the north pole. These hypnotic views are deceptively stunning -- they are of hurricane wind patterns that can reach over 30 miles (48 kilometers)...

As was the case when we launched the forecast a month ago, the Deluxe version of FiveThirtyEight’s midterm model still rates the battle for control of the Senate as a “toss-up.” But within that category there’s been modest, but consistent movement toward Democrats. Their chances of winning the Senate now stand at 55 percent. That’s up from 47 percent from forecast launch on June 30. It’s also up from 40 percent in a retroactive forecast dated back to June 1.

Facing a growing threat from China, the Navy envisions drone ships keeping an electronic eye on enemy forces across the vast Pacific Ocean, extending the reach of firepower, and keeping sailors out of harm's way. The Navy is speeding development of those robotic ships as an affordable way to keep pace with China's growing fleet while vowing not to repeat costly shipbuilding blunders from recent years. The four largest drone ships are being used together this summer during a multination naval exercise in the Pacific Ocean. Other smaller waterborne drones are already being deployed by the Navy’s 5th Fleet in...

Rush Limbaugh meets the negative with sincere positivity. The Democrats will fail and the MAGA agenda will succeed again.

Many leading Republicans and conservatives want someone other than Donald Trump to run for President in 2024. But this judgment requires an assessment of Trump’s vices and virtues in the context of our current political and cultural circumstances, as well as an assessment of other prospective Republican presidential candidates...

(Update: China threatens to shoot down plane if Pelosi visits Taiwan) The US military has begun developing contingency plans for any incident that may occur if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi follows through with her reported plan to travel to Taiwan next month — after President Biden said last week they believed it would be better for her to stay home. The Associated Press, citing multiple US officials, reported that if Pelosi (D-Calif.) travels to Taiwan, the Pentagon will step up its movement of forces and other assets in the Indo-Pacific region. Fighter jets, ships, surveillance assets and other military systems...

People who’ve received four doses or more are around 100 times more likely to be hospitalized than those who are unvaccinated against COVID-19. This U.K. and New South Wales Australia data is alarming as to the risks faced by the COVID jab boosted population for hospitalization and death (post shot). The fraud started when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes for Health (NIH), and World Health Organization (WHO), along with public health leaders like Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins and Rochelle Walensky, came up with the master deceit, whereby they redefined what it meant to...

X: Congressional Republicans are preparing to introduce legislation creating a "lend-lease" military aid program for Taiwan to ward off increased belligerence from Communist China. The bill, which is the brainchild of House GOP Rep. Michelle Steel and Sen. Marsha Blackburn, is modeled after an early 1940s program that allowed the U.S. government to bolster European Allies without having to directly enter World War II itself. "The Chinese Communist Party continues to intimidate and pressure our ally and the United States should always be on the side of freedom and democracy," said Steel, R-Calif.

(CNN)Moderna and Pfizer booster shots updated to target Omicron subvariants could be available in early fall, pending sign off by federal health agencies, the US Department of Health and Human Services said Friday. The department announced on Friday an agreement to purchase 66 million doses of Moderna's bivalent booster shot for potential use in fall and winter. That's in addition to 105 million bivalent boosters the US government has purchased from Pfizer. The US Food and Drug Administration advised vaccine makers in June to update Covid-19 vaccine booster to add an Omicron BA.4/5 component to the current vaccine mix to...

Dr. Lapado was the only surgeon general in the nation to recommend nutraceuticals to prevent and even treat common ailments, including Covid-19. He’s also not a fan of vaccine mandates, as he told an audience today. “How can you force people to take a vaccine in order to stop transmission when that vaccine is not effective at stopping transmission?” he asked.

When, during the Second World War, Raphael Lemkin, a Polish lawyer who had made it to the U.S., coined the word “genocide,” he intended that it should cover more than the Holocaust, which had consumed 49 members of his own family. Nazi-style annihilation was the ne plus ultra, but Lemkin argued that genocide could also be somewhat subtler. Genocidaires might want to destroy a national group as a distinct entity while being content to see many of those who had been a part of it survive, so long as they accepted the identity imposed upon them by their oppressors.

WELCOME, Md. — A 16th week had passed with no arrest in the murder of Patrice Parker’s son, another week in which she had struggled through grief for him and fear for herself and her surviving daughters. It wasn’t just that the person who had turned a gun on 24-year-old Markelle Morrow was still at large, but that so many other armed criminals were as well. Shootings were ravaging the nation’s capital, on track for its highest number of homicides in two decades. In Prince George’s County, where Parker lives, carjackings had more than quadrupled since 2019. But there was...

When the MP3 player took off in the late 1990s, the format itself entered the public consciousness in a way not many others have — with perhaps the Word document being an exception. But what is an audio format, anyway, and why should you care?This guide will cover some of the most popular formats used by audio streaming services today and explain their differences.What is an audio file format?A digital audio file is how recorded content gets saved on a computer, media player, smartphone, or other device. Digital audio is, at its most basic level, a series of numbers that...

Polish authorities must stop locking up migrants near the Belarus border and put an end to the “very different” treatment of Ukrainian and non-Ukrainian refugees, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on migrants’ rights has said. Poland has faced attempts by tens of thousands of migrants and refugees since mid-2021 to cross its border with Belarus and enter the European Union. Morales said these migrants and refugees, many of whom are from the Middle East and Afghanistan, were “routinely” being locked up in de facto detention centres in Poland near the border...