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New York’s Democratic politicians are welcoming the arrival of more penniless foreign migrants to their overcrowded city. The Democratic politicians are pushing Americans aside to display their compassion for foreign economic migrants who are being welcomed in large numbers by President Joe Biden and his border deputies.

A counselor who says she works with sex offenders claimed pedophiles are the “most vilified population” in a ten-minute YouTube video. “I want to talk about minor-attracted persons because they are probably the most vilified population of folks in our culture,” Miranda Galbreath began, noting that her “pronouns” are “she/her.” “Most folks are making incorrect assumptions about them without actually knowing much about them. And those assumptions create harm for an already marginalized population,” Galbreath continued. Galbreaths’s claim “shows what a wolf in sheep’s clothing the entire ‘LGBTQ’ movement has become,” responded Candice Jackson, a Trump-era former acting assistant secretary...

Donald Trump’s long reach, effectively anointing political newcomer Leora Levy to challenge second-term U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, has changed the face of the Connecticut Republican Party while insinuating MAGA grievances into the entire fall campaign for governor, top-of-the-ticket constitutional officers and the 187-seat General Assembly. Political scientists in the state said that while Trump’s late-campaign support in blue-state Connecticut was surprising, it’s always the party base that is most-energized for primaries and Levy channeled it to handily defeat party-endorsed Themis Klarides, the former state House minority leader who won the endorsement at the May conventions. “The Trump effect was as...

William Penn, a multi-brand retailer and distributor of writing instruments and accessories, said it has acquired Sheaffer, a 110-year-old iconic American brand, particularly known for its premium fountain pens. The Bengaluru-based firm has acquired the brand from A.T. Cross Company, in a transaction that comprises Sheaffer’s complete product portfolio and licenses, including premium pens, journals and gift sets. William Penn didn’t disclose the acquisition value. As part of the acquisition, it will be taking over Sheaffer’s manufacturing, marketing and retailing across 75 countries including USA, UK, Mexico, Malaysia, Thailand, South Africa, Japan and India, among others. This is William Penn’s...

A 41-year-old woman is facing felony charges in Nebraska for allegedly helping her teenage daughter illegally abort a pregnancy, and the case highlights how law enforcement can make use of online communications in the post-Roe v. Wade era. Police in Norfolk, Neb., had been investigating the woman, Jessica Burgess, and her daughter, Celeste Burgess, for allegedly mishandling the fetal remains of what they'd told police was Celeste's stillbirth in late April. They faced charges of concealing a death and disposing of human remains illegally. But in mid-June, police also sent a warrant to Facebook requesting the Burgess' private messages. Authorities...

Thirteen tankers at heart of new ship-to-ship transhipment hub established mid-Atlantic to consolidate Russia-origin oil cargoes ... Evolving marine transport model seeks tankers to operate outside established markets, yet remain compliant with class, insurance and other regulatory and technical rules ... MYSTERY surrounds the identity of a China-based shipowner who has spent around $376m to acquire 13 tankers for deployment in high-risk, ship-to-ship transfers of Russia-origin crude in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Lloyd’s List has tracked five aframax tankers, seven very large crude carriers and one suezmax vessel to the anonymous buyer, via 20 separate but interconnected single-ship...

A respected snake researcher who had been making significant discoveries about the species since childhood has died after being bitten by a timber rattler. John Sealy, a rattlesnake researcher from Stokesdale, North Carolina, who knew Martin for more than 30 years, said Martin was perhaps the foremost authority on timber rattlers, a species he studied since childhood. Age can also be a factor in a person’s susceptibility. “They save their venom for their prey,” he said.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher praised the climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act but noted that climate activists have “thrown around these numbers forever.” And said that back in the 1990s “we were already going to die” if numbers reached levels they’ve already reached. Maher began by saying that President Joe Biden “just signed the biggest climate bill ever. Finally, we’re doing something about climate.”

“When Jesus heard this, He said, ‘It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick’” (Matthew 9:12). Basic human logic and common sense tells us that physically sick people need treatment from a doctor. Here Jesus simply answers the Pharisees’ cynical question with the plain statement that the spiritually sick also need treatment. It’s as if He said to the Jews, “If you’re really so spiritually healthy, you don’t need a spiritual physician. But if by their own confession, the sinners I’m eating with are the spiritually needy who must have the gospel...

Those who choose to live in the middle ground share certain characteristics. I see those characteristics shown in the two and a half tribes of Israel that chose to stay west of the Jordan. They were Reuben, Gad and half of Manasseh. Those tribes’ Hebrew names exposed their sin struggles. Reuben means “A son who sees!” He was Jacob’s firstborn, but he lost his birthright because he was driven by lust. Jacob described his son Reuben as “Unstable as water, you shall not excel, because you went up to your father’s bed; then you defiled it” (Genesis 49:4, NKJV). Reuben...

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher commented on the attack on author Salman Rushdie and said that he doesn’t think the suspected attacker is Amish and “Islam is still a much more fundamentalist religion than any of the other religions in the world, and that means they take what’s in the holy book seriously and that has been dangerous for a long time. It’s still dangerous.” Maher stated, “We don’t know the motivation yet, but Sal did have some enemies in the past, as I recall. So, I’m guessing [suspect Hadi Matar] is not Amish. Sal…was...

Back in 2016, an unconventional and forward-thinking, new Army Chief of Staff, General Mark Milley, began a riveting series of speaking engagements within the D.C. Beltway to both the academic and defense crowds using the unofficial title, "Miserable, Disobedient, and Victorious." The entire premise of the speaking tour was to highlight the rapidly changing nature of the battlefield, and the need for the US Military to lean into and embrace it. Most notably, In 1914, “nations and empires marched off to their destruction, blind, blind to the changes in war,” said Milley. “Let us commit to not march into that...

[Catholic Caucus] Shelf Warmer: Francis' "New Morality" Was Already Condemned By Pius XIIAs early as 1952, the Francis' “rigidity” accusation which is used to promote immorality was debunked by Pius XII (+1958).In his 23 March 1952 Radio Message, Pius XII condemned Situation Ethics, an ideology of which Francis is a representative which evaluates human acts only in light of their narrow situational context ("case by case") rather than by the application of broad-minded moral principles which Situation Ethics attempts to denigrate.Therefore, Pius XII said: "The accusation of oppressive rigidity made against the Church by the ‘new morality,’ in reality, attacks,...

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is demanding answers from Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray regarding Monday’s raid of former President Donald J. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence. On Thursday, the conservative titan and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee sent Wray a list of questions concerning the unprecedented raid in Palm Beach, Florida, among other topics, including Hunter Biden. The FBI’s execution of a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago was reportedly about documents Trump may have taken with him when he left office last year. Grassley began by asking Wray about his knowledge of the raid before it happened, what...

Breitbart is facing widespread criticism after the far-right media outlet published the names of FBI agents who carried out the raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home. The conservative outlet published a leaked version of the search warrant that allowed the FBI to execute the raid hours before the document was unsealed Friday evening. Breitbart released a version of the warrant that included the names of the FBI special agent and supervisor agent who signed off on the receipts detailing the documents taken from the Mar-a-Lago residence — prompting widespread criticism that the outlet put a target on the...

Synthetic chemical , The German state of Brandenburg’s environment ministry said analysis of river water showed evidence of “synthetic chemical substances, very probably also with toxic effects for vertebrates.” It remains unclear how the substance entered the water. Tonnes of dead fish were hauled out of a 200-kilometre stretch of the river earlier this week, with the situation labelled an ecological catastrophe by water authorities. The Oder flows 854 kilometres in total through Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic, making it one of the largest rivers in central Europe. At least 10 tonnes of fish have been pulled from the...

VIDEOCenk Uygur aka Chunk Yogurt of The Young Turks suffered weird seizures over the FBI raid upon President Donald Trump's estate in Mar-a-Lago. The seizures are sure to become worse since that raid is already boomeranging due to more and more revelations that the raid had as much validity as the Trump-Russia Collusion HOAX and Hunter Biden's laptop being declared to be the result of Russian disinformation.

British author JK Rowling has received a death threat from an Iran-backing Islamist extremist who appears to have praised Salman Rushdie's suspected attacker, repeatedly expressed support for Tehran's theocratic dictator Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and branded Israel, Ukraine and India 'terrorist states'. The Harry Potter writer and free speech campaigner - who has been pilloried by trans activists for her beliefs on gender - had expressed her horror at the sickening attempt on Rushdie's life in upstate New York when she was issued the chilling threat on Twitter. Meer Asif Aziz, who describes himself on Twitter as a 'student, social activist,...

An international LGBTQ gathering in Taiwan has been cancelled after global organisers demanded the self-ruling island’s name be removed from the 2025 event. Taiwan on Friday blamed “political considerations” for the cancellation of the WorldPride 2025 Taiwan after it said the organisers had insisted that the name “Taiwan” be removed from the title. Taiwan participates in global events such the Olympics Games as “Chinese Taipei”, to avoid political problems with China which views the democratically-governed island as its own territory and bristles at anything that suggests it is a separate country. ...