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Samuel Harris is a familiar name to the New Orleans Police Department's homicide squad. It belongs to a man from the St. Roch neighborhood, and to his son. Each is accused of carrying out a killing in New Orleans in 2022, a particularly grim year for murder in the city. The cases pending against 41-year-old Samuel J. Harris and 23-year-old Samuel K. Harris appear unrelated, except for the DNA of the suspects. The killings erupted in different parts of town and under very different scenarios. Swift rage seemed to spark one slaying, while the other appeared planned, police reports show....

After FBI agents raided former President Donald Trump's residence at Mar-a-Lago on Monday, legal expert Alan Dershowitz questioned on Newsmax the justification of a "last-resort" action by the Justice Department. "A raid is supposed to be a last resort, but this administration has used the weaponization of the justice system against its political enemies," Dershowitz told Monday's "Rob Schmitt Tonight." "It's arrested people, denied them bail, put them in handcuffs – used all kinds of techniques that are not usually applied to American citizens, and I just hope this raid has a justification. "If it doesn't have a justification, the...

Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams defended killing nearly fully-formed unborn babies in abortions through the second trimester Sunday, saying God gave women a “free will” to choose abortion. Abrams, a favorite of the left who has lost election after election in Georgia, is running again against pro-life Republican Gov. Brian Kemp this fall. If elected, she said one of her top priorities will be to repeal the state heartbeat law, which bans abortions once an unborn baby’s heartbeat is detectable. Speaking with Yahoo News Sunday, she claimed that she can be a Christian and support abortion on demand. “While your faith...

In these times turmoil in the Republic, I want to make a plea to some democrats. You know, the ones in the Humphrey-Mondale tradition. The ones that were pro union and voted for the little guy. I didn't agree with you then, but I didn't hate you. I respected you as a loyal opposition party. Times have changed and the modern progressive democrat party is given over to Nazi like tactics and the total destruction of American culture. I ask you this November to hold your nose and vote for any candidate opposing the current regime in Washington. We are...

Another irascible ESPN employee worth tens of millions recently decided to bash the country that made him rich despite never working a real job in his life. d A couple days ago, Jalen Rose recorded an incoherent video of himself regurgitating clichés someone told him to have about Mount Rushmore. The rant about native Americans, Columbus, and stolen land came from nowhere and made little sense. Unlike how ESPN treated its few right, leaning, employees, they surely will not reprimand Rose and may even applaud the idiocy. It’s also not the former pro basketball player’s first effort into hard-left idiocy...

Abortion activists are now literally building altars dedicated to sacrificing their unborn babies in abortions. Drew Hernandez, a conservative commentator with FRONTLINES and Turning Point USA, uncovered a disturbing “DIY” video on YouTube of a woman explaining how to build an abortion altar at home. “A woman teaches how to build an altar for a post abortion, which includes a container for the remains of the baby after being aborted and the abortion pills on the altar, she ends the DIY video by kneeling before the altar,” Hernandez wrote, linking to the video. VIDEO ON LINK In the video, a...

Donald Trump called FBI Director Christopher Wray "the worst member of my administration." Chris Christie writes in his memoir that Trump blew up at Christie for recommending Wray for the role. "He's doing an awful job, and he's your pick. He was your pick," Trump told Christie of Wray. Former President Donald Trump told Chris Christie that FBI Director Christopher Wray was the " worst member " of his administration and blamed Christie for recommending Wray for the role, the former New Jersey governor wrote in his forthcoming memoir. Christie writes that Trump randomly brought up Wray's job performance while...

President of National Action Network and MSNBC PoliticsNation host Al Sharpton joined Chris Jansing Reports on Thursday to discuss abortion and religion. Sharpton didn’t understand how one could be a good Christian and be pro-life because, according to him, “the Bible is about choice.” Jansing led Sharpton with some polling data, “there was a Gallup poll back, I think it was the fall of 2020 showing the black committee has slowly become more accepting of abortion over the past couple of decades, but there are deeply held religious beliefs playing into this, especially with older black voters who are incredibly...

The Bible In Paintings 2 ENCOURAGEMENT FOR APPRECIATING AND APPLYING GOD'S MESSAGE EZEKIEL'S VISION OF DRY BONES E Z E K I E L CHAPTER 37 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry. He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” I said, “O Sovereign...

9 August 2022Tuesday of week 19 in Ordinary Time Dormition of the Mother of God Church, Odessaa, Ukraine Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(II).First readingEzekiel 2:8-3:4 ©He gave me the scroll to eat and it was as sweet as honeyI, Ezekiel, heard a voice speaking. It said, ‘You, son of man, listen to the words I say; do not be a rebel like that rebellious set. Open your mouth and eat what I am about to give you.’ I looked. A hand was there, stretching out to me and holding a scroll. He unrolled it in front of me;...

This was the scene outside the Palm Beach resort Mar-a-Lago owned by Donald Trump on Monday night soon after the former president revealed the FBI had launched a raid on his property. The image, snapped by local media WPTV, show what appears to be a plain-clothed Secret Service agent with his weapon — an automatic machine gun — as he paraded outside the property. An unmarked vehicle is also in the picture exiting Mar-a-Lago. Radar has confirmed the FBI notified its counterparts at the Secret Service that a warrant would be executed and Secret Service facilitated access to the property...

Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God? But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows. Luke 12:6-7 (King James Version) The Federal Bureau of Insurrection has crossed a bridge too far. For America’s version of the KGB and my apologies to the honest men in the KGB for the comparison, to raid the residence of an ex-President of the United States is something you expect in China, North Korea, Russia, or Cuba, not America. The corrupt...

<p>There’s something especially charming about the dappled pattern on the backs of baby deer. But the white spots are more than just adorable: They also help the defenseless fawns stay safe during their early days on Earth.</p><p>As Henderson State University biology professor Renn Tumlison explains, the flecks effectively camouflage a fawn by mimicking patches of sunlight that shine through trees and other plants, landing unevenly across the already-varied neutral hues on the forest floor. Without the strength or size needed to outrun a predator, a newborn fawn’s best bet for survival is to simply blend in with the scenery.</p>

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) reacted to the FBI’s shock raid of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home, Mar-A-Lago, on Monday, proclaiming that “until Joe Biden denies it, a President just raided a former President – his political opponent.” “Let that sink in,” Massie added. “There are only three branches of government. The FBI is works [sic] for the current President.” “Is AG Garland bitter that Trump kept him from becoming a Supreme Court justice? Is that why, according to news reports, he raided Trump?” the congressman added in a follow-up tweet. Trump also reacted to the FBI raid, writing, “These...

In the recent Supreme Court decision of NYSR&PA v. Bruen, the court ruled the proper way to determine restraints on the exercise of Second Amendment rights was to review history and see if restraints on those rights had been widely accepted across the American polities, especially at the time of the ratification of the Second Amendment in 1791 and the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868, as the Second Amendment has been applied to the States by the Fourteenth Amendment. The right to bear (carry) arms for the protection of self and others has long been a part of...

The U.S. Department of Justice told a Florida federal judge on Monday that the Sunshine State's medical marijuana patients had no Second Amendment right to possess firearms since they were breaking a federal law. The DOJ's brief was filed in response to a lawsuit brought by the commissioner of the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and three Florida residents, who allege a federal rule barring medical marijuana patients from having guns is unconstitutional. In its motion to dismiss the case or secure a favorable judgment, the government countered that the policies being challenged by the lawsuit only apply...

Passengers say they were given contradictory reasons for delay, including United Airlines’ pilot’s refusal to fly and a non-existent ‘curfew’ at Ben Gurion Airport A United Airlines flight from Newark to Tel Aviv was delayed for 24 hours after the pilot reportedly refused to fly to Tel Aviv “because of the security situation,” according to a Channel 12 report Sunday. The Saturday evening flight was already in the process of boarding passengers onto the plane when a staff member informed those still waiting at the gate that the flight would not depart on schedule. Initially, the airline staff told customers...

On August 2, 2022, Xcel Energy submitted its plan to spend more than $300 million on building 730 electric vehicle (EV) charging stations and increasing the use of electric school buses to the Public Utilities Commission (PUC). The proposal would force Minnesota families and businesses to pay higher electricity prices to finance the construction and operation of the EV chargers, plus a 10 percent government-approved profit for Xcel Energy if the PUC gives Xcel its blessing. Goals are not mandates.. The point of a monopoly electric utility is to provide reliable, affordable electricity to the customers who are forced to...

Houma native Tim Trahan shows off his mounted state record bluegill. The fish, which he caught May 30, werighs in at 2.24 pounds. Fishing in his neighbor's pond, Houma native Tim Trahan said he didn't realize what he had hooked until he reeled it in. "Actually, I was amazed by the size of it," he said. "I thought I was back at home fishing for sheepheads." Trahan had caught the a state record bluegill, weighing in at 2.24 pounds. The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and the state Outdoor Writers Association have since confirmed it, and now Trahan and...

In the first week in August, roads in southern Israel were closed, summer vacation activities for children were held close to bomb shelters, communities adjacent to the Gaza fence were under lockdown, and the train from Ashkelon to Netivot was suspended, following the arrest overnight on August 3, in Jenin, of the senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader in Samaria, Bassam al-Saadi, and his son in law. Al-Saadi was the main PIJ figure in the West Bank, in charge of relations with Iran, and in training PIJ recruits in acts of terrorism. Israel had learned of his part in planning upcoming...