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A circuit judge in Kentucky has again blocked a pair of state abortion bans from taking effect — in part, he said, because they adopt “a distinctly Christian and Catholic belief” about when life begins. “The laws at issue here adopt the view embraced by some, but not all, religious traditions, that life begins at the moment of conception,” Judge Mitch Perry of the Jefferson County Circuit Court wrote in an opinion issued Friday. “The General Assembly is not permitted to single out and endorse the doctrine of a favored faith for preferred treatment. By taking this approach, the bans...

[Catholic Caucus] Get With the TimesMiniver cursed the commonplace And eyed a khaki suit with loathing;He missed the mediæval grace Of iron clothing. (from “Miniver Cheevy,” by Edwin Arlington Robinson)Pope Francis has called traditionalism the dead faith of the living. It’s an easy thing to criticize. You can do it by assuming that everyone who dearly loves tradition is a boor, stolid and mulish, who says that we must continue to do things this way because that’s the way we’ve always done them. Or you can assume that the traditionalist looks on the past as Robinson’s Miniver Cheevy does, turning...

Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order to ‘safeguard’ abortion access which will support patients traveling out of state for abortions. White House reporters peppered Karine Jean-Pierre with questions about Joe Biden’s new executive order and how it squares with the Hyde Amendment. Biden’s White House spokeswoman actually claimed that the Supreme Court overturning one of its previous rulings is “unconstitutional.” She can’t be this stupid? “There has been an urgency from this president from day one, when the Supreme Court made this extreme decision to take away a constitutional right, it was an unconstitutional action by them,” Jean-Pierre...

Maricopa County and the State of Arizona have not updated their primary election results since 2:30 AM in the morning. They quit counting when Kari Lake pulled ahead. The Maricopa County elections department tweeted this out at 2:42 AM on Wednesday morning. They all went home with 20% of the vote left to count. .... Snip..... 50 minutes ago they posted a new video of elections workers back counting in Maricopa County. The county insists this is legitimate. They are making a mockery of the election process in America. And, of course, they say they are calling every voter to...

LOL: WH Press Sec Jean-Pierre Calls Roe v. Wade Reversal ‘Unconstitutional’ White House press propagandist Karine Jean-Pierre rightly took heat Wednesday on social media after she claimed that the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade was an “unconstitutional action.” “From day one, when the Supreme Court made this extreme decision to take away a constitutional right, it was an unconstitutional action by them,” she said. She then described abortion as “a right that was around for almost 50 years,” as well as “a right that women had to make a decision on their bodies and how they want to...

Students at a Manhattan private school have revealed how they were forced to attend a drag queen performance earlier this year. The pupils at Grace Church High School, an independent Episcopal school that costs $57,000 a year, were required to attend chapel on April 27 for the school's Sixth Annual Pride Chapel event. The event was sponsored by the school, the reverend as well as students and the faculty advisors for Spectrum, the school's LGBTQ club. This year, it featured a performance by Jesse Havea as the drag queen Brita Filter, who was filmed strutting down the aisles of the...

August marks the start of an important chapter for many college students around the world, but it also marks the start of #BamaRush on TikTok. Bama Rush follows budding sorority girls through rush week, documenting them desperately trying to get into a sorority house at the University of Alabama. Last summer, the University of Alabama's recruitment process blew up on TikTok after budding sorority girls documented everything having to do with rush week, from what they wore on each day of rush to the best and worst aspects of bid day. And although the university's official recruitment date is August...

<p>For years, European policymakers had assured the world that the relatively rapid "transition" to "green" energy was the world's preordained future -- regardless of the costs.</p><p>Accordingly, many European Union governments followed the advice of green experts. They eagerly shut down coal, natural gas, and nuclear power plants to transition immediately to "renewable energy."</p>

Exclusive: Joseph Farah reviews Obama eligibility issue to mark ex-president's purported birthday Donald Trump was hardly the first "birther." Neither was I. Nor was my colleague Jerome Corsi. And neither was Hillary Clinton. That honor belongs to one person and one person alone – Barack Obama. We all followed suit, but were not the first to raise it. Obama went to extreme lengths to conceal his past. And, indeed, if he was born in the U.S. and was eligible to serve as president, he certainly did his best to create the mystery that led to the question being asked. Years...

[H/T foldspace]Q is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation.Q describes this awakening as follows: "The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding 'mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure future events through transparency and regeneration of individual thought (breaking the chains of ‘group-think’),...

Here's my view of the Trump rally from D.C. on January 6th, 2021. It was cold and windy. It was an awesome experience. We arrived at the Ellipse at daybreak and the crowds were already there. Decided to stake out a place in the field on the north side of the Washington Monument. By 10:30 am the areas from the Ellipse to the Washington Monument was shoulder to shoulder. I removed my American and Trump flags from the makeshift flagpole and tywrapped my phone to the pole and hoisted it up! The horizon gets a little crooked but overall the...

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 appears to have a good shot at being signed into law. If Senate Democrats can get Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) to join Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), the bill will have the necessary 50 votes to pass through the reconciliation process. Let's hope that never happens. The plan would hurt working-class taxpayers and small-business owners across America. The act will introduce a "corporate alternative minimum tax," which will compel a 15% tax on corporate income. It will increase the taxes imposed on certain high-income earners. Finally, it will step up enforcement mechanisms within the IRS....

CNN - Republican senators and the business community are mounting a full-court press on Sen. Kyrsten Sinema to sink – or substantially change – the Democrats’ economic package, arguing in private conversations that the new tax increases would hurt companies in her home state of Arizona. And in a private call with business groups on Tuesday, Sinema asked a question about the bill’s proposed 15% minimum tax on corporations that gave them some hope for optimism. “Is this written in a way that’s bad?” Sinema asked, according to Danny Seiden, president of the Arizona Chamber of Commerce, who relayed the...

[H/T grey_whiskers]Based on the figures from Techniker Krankenkasse, as many as 1 in 500 covid vaccine injections are expected to cause serious side effects.The cesspool of vaccine side effects in Germany is finally completely open. According to the Dutch news site, Blckbx, five months after a Wob request, it appears that 437,593 of the 11 million insured persons of the country’s largest Health Insurance fund, Techniker Krankenkasse (TK), had to undergo medical treatment in 2021 for Covid vaccine side effects. That is 1 in 25 and an increase of 3000 percent.This week, TK finally provided facts and figures about the...

Harming the Jewish people via false narratives and conspiracy theories. Tue May 3, 2022 StopAntiSemitism.org Mohamed Hadid is best known for being the father of supermodels Gigi and Bella Hadid. A dual Jordanian-American citizen, the once successful real estate developer has recently gone broke. Hadid moved into real estate in the 1980s partnering with Saudi Arabian SAAR Foundation owned by multibillionaire sheikh Sulaiman Al-Rajhi, one of Saudi Arabia’s leading bankers. Hadid fell from fame and success in the years after the SAAR Foundation was raided by government agents and accused of financing the Al Qaeda terrorist network. Many have noted...

It’s now legal in Brazil to kill motorcycle thieves. Compilation video is outstanding.

Since the early 2000s, Tehran’s construction of gas centrifuge uranium enrichment facilities has been the main source of proliferation concern. Gas centrifuges enrich uranium by spinning uranium hexafluoride (UF6) gas at high speeds to increase the concentration of the uranium-235 (u-235) isotope. Such centrifuges can produce both low-enriched uranium (LEU), which can be used in nuclear power reactors, and highly enriched uranium (HEU), which is one of the two types of fissile material used in nuclear weapons. Tehran asserts that its enrichment program is meant to produce fuel for peaceful nuclear reactors.

One way Big Tech can control the information people get is through its "AdSense" service. Under Google AdSense, websites like SharylAttkisson.com can defray a small part of operating costs by allowing Google to rotate ads into spaces on the site. The website operator receives a small payment based on number of visits or clicks. To learn about more censored people and topics, click the CENSORED tab at the top of this page. But when Google wants to censor content, it flags pages on these sites and demands they be taken down, or else Google ads cannot be posted. If that...

[Catholic Caucus] The Diocese of Arlington’s brutal Latin Mass crackdown is cruel. That’s the pointTo feel such stinging cruelty from the leaders of one’s own religion is an especially painful kind of spiritual abuse, one that cannot be easily healed or forgotten.(LifeSiteNews) – Catholics in the Diocese of Arlington, famous for its large number of priests who offer the Traditional Latin Mass in addition to the Novus Ordo, were given grim news on Friday afternoon. Beginning September 8, the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the 21 locations in the diocese where the Old Mass is currently...

Twisted Sister lead singer Dee Snider should be elated to find that someone is still interested in his band’s body of work, but instead, the rocker attacked Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake as a “fascist moron” after a pro-Lake Twitter account shared the lyrics to his 1984 song, “We’re Not Gonna Take It.” Snider responded to a Twitter account describing itself as Lake’s official campaign account, clarifying that the song is a pro-abortion anthem that specifically rallies around a woman’s right to kill her unborn child. “HEY IDIOTS! READ THE 1ST LINE: ‘We’ve got the right to CHOOSE!’ This is...