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"Top Gun: Maverick" took to the skies in late May and hasn't looked back. Tom Cruise's latest release is now the ninth-highest grossing movie of all time at the domestic box office. "Maverick," the sequel to the hit 1986 film "Top Gun," has grossed nearly $650 million in the US alone, a feat that has only been accomplished by a handful of other films. Just last week, "Maverick" blew past 2012's "The Avengers" to take sole possession of ninth place on the list, and is within striking distance to pass No. 8 "Jurassic World" and seventh place "Titanic," according to...

Maybe not as much as they are in Muslim nations...but it's sure to get worse. A new study by Lifeway Research found that more than half (54%) of the 1,005 Americans surveyed believe that religious freedom is eroding in the United States. Even more, 59%, said the treatment of Christians and intolerance for their beliefs is getting worse. "Intolerance is about cultural pushback," Scott McConnell, executive director of Lifeway Research, explained. "In the American marketplace of ideas, not all systems of thought are welcomed. The majority of all religions notice this pushback against Christians today." What does one make of...

The Talk Shows July 31st, 2022 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Guest host Bret Baier: Rep. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.); Michigan Republican Candidate for Governor Tudor Dixon. Panel: Guy Benson, Catherine Lucey, Gillian Turner and “Party on, Wayne” Marie Harf. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Chuck U. Toad: Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.); MS/NBC Jurnolists Vaughn Hillyard, Yamiche Alcindor, Dasha Burns and Pete Williams. Panel: Carlos Curbelo, Adrienne Elrod, Jonathan Lemire and Kristen Welker—just another easily forgotten group of angry Leftists slinging anti-American balderdash. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors:...

ROCHESTER — The Republican primary in Assembly District 63 is heated, engaging, important, confusing and downright strange. A former president has gotten involved. So has a former green beret tied to spreading falsehoods that fueled the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot. There have been three “debates” with only one candidate in attendance. A Racine County activist being investigated for election fraud is deeply involved in the challenger’s campaign. And seemingly every home from Burlington to Union Grove has a sign in the front yard, supporting one candidate or the other. This is all for a partisan primary, with two candidates...

Naming things is not insignificant in everyday life. How you call something shapes the meaning in your mind and manipulates your point of view. In Genesis, Adam names all the creatures of the earth. “God formed out of the earth all the wild beasts and all the birds of the sky and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that would be its name.” There are lots of explanations for why this is significant, depending on your theological viewpoint. To me naming things is not insignificant in...

IPray For The Peace of JerusalemGenesis 49The Death of Jacob 29 Then he gave them these instructions: “I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite, 30 the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in Canaan, which Abraham bought along with the field as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite. 31 There Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried, there Isaac and his wife Rebekah were buried, and there I buried Leah. 32 The field and the cave in it were bought...

Former President Donald Trump suggested that the proposed prisoner swap between Russia and the United States that would return jailed WNBA star Brittney Griner in exchange for a Russian arms dealer “doesn’t seem like a very good trade.” “She knew you don’t go in there loaded up with drugs, and she admitted it,” Trump told the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show. “I assume she admitted it without too much force because it is what it is, and it certainly doesn’t seem like a very good trade, does it? He’s absolutely one of the worst in the world, and he’s...

Reps. Peter Meijer, Jaime Herrera Beutler and Dan Newhouse have not grabbed the same type of headlines that other Republicans who voted to impeach President Donald Trump in January 2021. The Republican trio have remained steadfast in support of their votes against Trump but have otherwise mostly kept their heads down and tried to work hard on issues they have long focused on. Meijer, an Army intelligence officer in the Iraq War from Michigan, has been a major critic of the Biden administration’s handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Herrera Beutler, from a massive rural district in southwestern Washington, just...

Jared Kushner, former President Trump’s son-in-law and ex-senior adviser, claims in a forthcoming memoir that former Trump adviser Stephen Bannon told him “I will break you in half” if Kushner crossed him, according to CNN, which obtained an early copy of the book. “Steve, you gotta stop leaking on Gary,” Kushner says he told Bannon in his forthcoming book, “Breaking History: A White House Memoir,” referring to senior economic adviser Gary Cohn, who he says had told him that Bannon was leaking about him. “We’re trying to build a team here,” he added. Kushner says Bannon in response said, “Cohn’s...

A US draft act seeking to increase the amount of domestically made semiconductors moved one step closer to being signed into law on Thursday after it was passed by the US House of Representatives, but it is unlikely to challenge Taiwan’s critical role as a major global chip supplier, the Ministry of Economic Affairs said. Instead, it could help Taiwanese chipmakers by financing manufacturing projects in the US, the ministry said in a statement on Friday. Taiwan serves as a global semiconductor manufacturing hub and local manufacturers continue to invest in advanced processes to upgrade technologies, which has made the...

I arrived at the address and honked the horn. After waiting a few minutes I honked again. Since this was going to be my last ride of my shift I thought about just driving away, But instead I put the car in park and walked up to the door and knocked... 'Just a minute', answered a frail, elderly voice. I could hear something being dragged across the floor. After a long pause, the door opened. A small woman in her 90's stood before me. She was wearing a print dress and a pillbox hat with a veil pinned on it,...

Is this Irish bank collapsing also? At least 2 banks in China are collapsing as well as they lock down all depositor funds and protests escalate. Maybe we need another topic here just for "Collapse".

Israel's Law on Reducing the Use of Cash came into force in 2019 and next week, on August 1, the threshold for cash transactions is set to drop from NIS 11,000 to just NIS 6,000.The best way to boil a frog is to do it slowly. The frogs will never know what happened.

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Doug Mastriano the first of three good candidates I take note of in this post... Drunks Come From Everywhere In My Experience... Day 865 of The Dictatorship of COVID-19, Day 865 of America and the World Held Hostage to COVID Shots, Runaway Inflation and the Implosion of the Economy... "I'm Unvaccinated I Vote" And it remains sad to live in a nation where the unvaccinated are told not to report to work when someone else tests positive for COVID in a workplace. The employee told to stay at home and to not make a living because they are unvaccinated that...

SINGAPORE - A United States congressional delegation led by Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi will visit Singapore from Monday (Aug 1) to Tuesday. The delegation will call on President Halimah Yacob and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, and meet a number of Cabinet ministers, a spokesman for Singapore's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Sunday (July 31). Ms Pelosi's office announced on Sunday that she is leading a six-member congressional delegation to the Indo-Pacific region, including visits to Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan. Ms Pelosi said the visit seeks "to reaffirm America's strong and unshakeable commitment...

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**SNIP** Officials say the vehicle belonged to Amy Word, who was in the passenger seat. Detectives say during the stop they noticed a strong smell of weed coming from the vehicle. Clark was in possession of weed and cocaine for which he was arrested. Word was arrested and charged with maintaining a common nuisance. Word is the owner of Lamasco Bar and Grill, Amy’s on Franklin, as well as a member of the EVSC school board. Officials with the Evansville Police Department say during the course of the investigation, detectives developed information that Holman was trafficking large amounts of illegal...

Sky News host Cory Bernardi says “everything we are told” about the Russia-Ukraine conflict should be taken “with a huge dose of salt”. “I think the President of the Ukraine is not all that he’s portrayed as by the Western media,” Mr Bernardi said. ...

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