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As the funeral parade of fire trucks passed beneath an enormous U.S. flag suspended over the roadway, the citizens of the twin towns of Berwick and Nescopeck were dealing with tragedies that seemed out of proportion for such a small population. Sunday afternoon’s procession – going down Nescopeck’s main throughfare, across the Susquehanna to Berwick, and back – was for Dale Baker, 19, whose funeral was held alongside that of his sister, Star Baker, 22, earlier in the day. The siblings were two of the 10 victims of a house fire in Nescopeck on Aug. 5. Dale was an up-and-coming...

Leo Terrell and Victor Davis Hanson join Mark Levin on Life, Liberty & Levin tonight, August 14 at 8pm eastern on Fox News.

The FReeper Canteen Presents…..~ August 14th…National Navajo Code Talkers Day! ~ On July 26, 2001, the original 29 Code Talkers were presented with the Congressional Gold Medal by President George W. Bush. This long awaited recognition occurred 56 years after World War II despite the fact that the Code saved thousands of lives. The Code had been de-classified in 1968. Canteen Mission StatementShowing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies militaryand family members of the above.Honoring those who have served before. The Navajo Code Talkers received no recognition until the declassification of the operation in 1968. In...

Jill Biden hit the shops on Kiawah Island Sunday afternoon with her granddaughter Finnegan Biden and daughter-in-law Melissa Cohen. Images of the first lady shopping with Hunter Biden's wife and daughter were obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com. Members of the first family spent about 30 minutes in Freshfields Village, which is a small shopping center on the island off the South Carolina coast. They spent time in Indigo Books, an independent bookstore; Holly & Brooks, a fashion store; Las Olas, a swimware store; and Tina Stephens, which describes itself as a place for travel-friendly lifestyle wear.(snip) The Bidens are spending nearly...

Boston Children’s Hospital is facing backlash over a video they created that appears to be promoting “gender affirming hysterectomies” for “transgender” children. The video, featuring Dr. Frances Grimstad, an obstetrician-gynecologist, went viral after being posted by the popular Libs of TikTok Twitter account.

Medscape editor and author Dr. Bret Stretka, MD, died suddenly after a seizure last week according to his wife. Stretka was 43 years old. Stetka also contributed to Scientific American and NPR. He was the author of the 2021 book, A History of the Human Brain. Stretka’s last post on Twitter was July 21 and featured a photo of his young daughter reacting to getting a COVID vaccine shot. Stretka’s wife, New Yorker writer Amanda Petrusich announced his passing on Twitter and GoFundMe Thursday with an appeal for donations for a college fund for their daughter, “Last week, my husband...

For most of 2022, Democratic voters have been far more ambivalent about participating in the fall midterms than their Republican counterparts. According to conventional Beltway wisdom, however, that enthusiasm gap has been narrowed by the recent Roe v. Wade ruling and the Jan. 6 hearings. It’s probable, though, that last Monday’s FBI raid on former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate will reestablish the Republican advantage. This unprecedented action will likely energize GOP voters and drown any increase in Democratic enthusiasm beneath a red tsunami. The first poll to measure public response to the raid indicates that it has galvanized Republicans and...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemExodus 7 7 Then the Lord said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet. 2 You are to say everything I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his country. 3 But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in Egypt, 4 he will not listen to you. Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and with mighty acts of judgment I will bring out my...

[Catholic Caucus] The Ministry of Truth in the Diocese of Arlington The Arlington Catholic Herald, our diocesan newspaper, came yesterday. I generally check the priest's moves and the bishop's schedule and do a quick page-through to see if I want to read anything. It used to be a joke among some of my confreres, when Bishop Paul Loverde was our ordinary to count how many photos of him graced the pages of the paper. Bishop Burbidge can't compete. His only photo in this issues was the stamp-sized mini attached to his column.At any rate, one headline caught my eye...

There, boarding Air Force One at 1:20 p.m., shoulder to shoulder with his father, the president, was Hunter Biden, whose home has never been raided. Dressed in a suit and tie and accompanied by wife Melissa Cohen and toddler son Beau Biden, he made his way slowly up the stairs of the presidential jet, alongside Joe, exchanging private jokes before stopping at the top to turn and face the waiting cameras, father and son, giving the world a lingering view of their brazen smiles before they jetted off for a seven-day vacation to a favorite family haunt, Kiawah Island, SC....

The Death of Catholic IrelandIts secularist pols move to ban prayer vigils at abortion facilities.Ireland was once famous for dispatching Catholic missionaries to pagan lands. But now an increasingly secularized Ireland needs missionaries sent to it. The once-pious island has gone from saving civilization to losing it, plunging into a hedonistic culture that promotes “abortion rights” and the sexual revolution.The repulsive New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd recently chortled that “Ireland and the United States have traded places.” In the past, she said, the Irish went to America for abortions. Now Americans after the collapse of Roe v. Wade will...

St. Paul, Minnesota, July 17, 2022 Abortion rights protesters marched on the Minnesota Capitol to demand that abortion remain legal in Minnesota and to protest a recent US Supreme court decision that effectively made abortion illegal in many states.

Many in the Republican conservative base have good reasons for disliking Senator McConnell. However, he is the leader of the Senate Republicans, making him the highest-ranking Republican in office. Republicans with more political power and a larger base are currently on the outside looking in. That can change. I would never pretend to know what is going on in my senior senator’s head, but I have observed him since the Reagan administration, so I know how he operates.*** Kentucky does not elect him as the Republican leader of the Senate. That is on the senators who vote for him as...

Melania Trump is going on a shopping spree this next week. Melania was going through her things after being tossed by the FBI. Melania noted that many of her undergarments and clothes were missing or stained and soiled. Security, medical and hazardous material experts advised the Trumps to discard the remaining clothes and have them incinerated. The experts advised that incinerating the clothes would destroy any bugs, monkeypox or fentanyl or other contaminates and would be much cheaper and efficient than trying to decontaminate them. Melania said that she would consider the dresses and accessories that Meritless Garland and Potato...

Johnson & Johnson will stop selling its talcum-based baby powder worldwide and replace the product with its existing cornstarch version starting next year, the consumer products giant said late on Thursday. The move comes after thousands of lawsuits from women in recent years who claimed using the powder gave them either ovarian cancer or mesothelioma, a cancer that strikes the lungs and other organs. The company insists, and medical research on talc also indicates, that the baby powder is safe and doesn't cause cancer.

Explanation: Over 4000 planets are now known to exist outside our Solar System. Known as exoplanets, this milestone was passed last month, as recorded by NASA's Exoplanet Archive. The featured video highlights these exoplanets in sound and light, starting chronologically from the first confirmed detection in 1992 and continuing into 2019. The entire night sky is first shown compressed with the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy making a giant U. Exoplanets detected by slight jiggles in their parents-star's colors (radial velocity) appear in pink, while those detected by slight dips in their parent star's brightness (transit) are shown...

The Community of the Word of Life will be dissolved The Charismatic Community of the Word of Life, founded in 1986, will be dissolved as of 1 July 2023. Gathered at the Abbey of Andecy, in the Marne region of France, its members learned of Cardinal Jozef de Kesel's decision on 25 June 2022. The Community of the Word of Life brings together men and women of all states of life - lay people, consecrated persons and clerics - in two possible ways of belonging: community of life and community of covenant. The Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels, guarantor of the community,...

German Catholics rebuke senior bishop for employing pro-abortion activist in key church role(LifeSiteNews) — Maria 1.0, a German lay group of Catholic women, published on August 11 a letter to Bishop Georg Bätzing – the head of the German bishops’ conference – that they had sent to him on August 3. In that letter, they pointed out to him the scandalous fact that a prominent lay woman, Dr. Irme Stetter-Karp, had recently demanded “that the medical intervention of an abortion should be made possible across the board.” Dr. Stetter-Karp is chairwoman of the ZdK (Central Committee of German Catholics), and...

BENTONVILLE, Ark. (WSFA) - The ability to shop during overnight hours was a staple at many Walmart stores prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, while the pandemic has eased, America’s largest retailer’s decision against returning to 24-hour operations has not. Walmart, along with a number of other chains, shifted their operating hours in early 2020 to perform enhanced cleaning and to allow associates time to restock shelves as the pandemic ramped up. As some COVID-19 restrictions eased in mid-2021, Walmart adjusted its hours for U.S. stores to 6 a.m. until 11 p.m. local time. Don’t expect to be able to...

Former Republican governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer, told the New York Times for a profile of Kari Lake, published Wednesday, she could only support Lake if she backtracked on claims of election fraud.Lake, the Trump-backed, hard-right GOP candidate for governor of Arizona, has stirred controversy both at home and nationally in recent months for her attacks on late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), allegations of rigged elections (including her own primary which she won), and vows to “fire the federal government” if she wins in November.Brewer, who supported Karrin Taylor Robson in the GOP primary over Lake, described Lake’s primary campaign...