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New San Diego cardinal says political divisions are flowing into ChurchROME – The only American in Pope Francis’s new crop of cardinals has pushed back against characterizations that he is somehow in rivalry with other local prelates who didn’t receive the red hat, saying such depictions are the result of a problematic polarization in U.S. Catholicism.Speaking to Crux during a sit-down interview in Rome, Cardinal-Designate Robert McElroy of San Diego, who will get his red hat from Pope Francis on Saturday, said one of the most problematic trends in American Catholicism is “polarization along ideological lines, mostly within the Anglo...

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As President Obama used to say of his clownish vice president: "Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up."Which brings us to Joe Biden's student loan debt forgiveness rollout, announced this week.Let's set aside the issue of the legality of the matter.The actual execution of the matter is Joe in Action.According to Axios:The implementation of President Biden's widespread, income-targeted student loan forgiveness is shaping up to be a bureaucratic challenge for the Department of Education.Why it matters: Millions of Americans are in limbo waiting for information on how to take action on student debt relief — the success of which...

Get woke, go broke. We've seen it again as wokester efforts in company after company cut into corporate bottom lines -- Gillette, Disney, the NBA -- they get woke and eventually go broke. But for Goya Foods, its opposite is completely true, according to a new study -- Reject woke mob and all its wokester demands, and take it to the bank. Here's the backstory, according to Legal Insurrection:Back in July 2020, Goya Foods CEO Bob Unanue came under fire from The Usual Suspects after he dared to praise then-President Donald Trump during a White House event announcing a “Hispanic...

A U.S. coast guard cutter conducting patrols as part of an international mission to prevent illegal fishing was recently unable to get clearance for a scheduled port call in the Solomon Islands, according to reports, an incident that comes amid growing concerns of Chinese influence on the Pacific nation. The cutter Oliver Henry was taking part in Operation Island Chief monitoring fishing activities in the Pacific, which came to a close on Friday, when it sought to make a scheduled stop on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, to refuel and re-provision, Coast Guard Lt. Kristin Kam told the Stars and Stripes newspaper....

Three purchases made by spouse on August 18, 2022 for $54.42, 49.04, and 8.65 were double-debited to our checking account by Amazon, resulting in a $126.14 overcharge within one week, which its Customer Care Center assured us, on Saturday, August 20, would be credited back to the checking account within 3-5 days. However, as of Friday, August 26 seven days later, no such credit had been received. (Spouse orders from Amazon on an almost weekly basis. We spend a lot of money at that site.) A second call to Amazon just this morning resulted in an hour and fifteen minutes...

After three weeks of COVID, vacation, more COVID, more vacation and a couple appearances to sign over $1 trillion in new government spending ($700 billion for green new deal and $300 billion for excusing student loans) Joe Biden made a quick stop in Maryland on Thursday night. Joe Biden held a rally for some reason. They bused in a bunch of idiots to stand behind him and cheer the collapse of the United States. During the rally, Joe Biden slurred, mumbled, lost his train of thought numerous times, wandered away from the podium, and screamed at the audience.

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has said the UK’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic was “too draconian” and that she would “never impose a lockdown” if she becomes prime minister. Truss, the frontrunner in the race to replace Boris Johnson as Conservative Party leader and prime minister, said she questioned the lockdown measures though she was not on the committee making the decisions on the response to COVID-19. Speaking at the penultimate leadership contest hustings, held in Norwich on Aug. 25, she said: “I think when COVID happened we were all hugely shocked. And there was a discussion about what the...

Ads urge Russians to sign up for military service as authorities turn to prisoners and mercenaries to grow ranks. The Kremlin has embarked on a nationwide drive to recruit new military personnel as Russian President Vladimir Putin seeks to regain the offensive in Ukraine and replenish some of the estimated thousands of soldiers lost in Russia’s war effort. Six months after Russia invaded Ukraine, Moscow’s military has lost much of what momentum it had but has chosen not to take the politically risky decision to declare a national mobilization.

CHILENO BEACH, MEXICO — According to sources, fan-favorite superhero lawyer She-Hulk continued to insist to her husband today that she is "fine", while literally turning into a green rage monster. "No really, I'm ok," said She-Hulk, as her skin changed color and veins burst out of her forehead. "It's just...never mind. I'm fine. Why wouldn't I be fine?" she continued, quadrupling in size from blind fury. Despite her protestations, Mr. Walters couldn't shake the feeling something was wrong. "After you've been together for a while, you get to know the little signs," he said. "When my sweet Jessica turns into...

A crude drawing spray-painted onto a lamppost or scribbled inside a school textbook may cause an eye roll, but wouldn't be too surprising.However archaeologists were taken aback when they discovered an 18-inch (half-metre) phallic carving in an ancient Roman settlement known as El Higuerón.Excavations by the Museo Histórico Local de Nueva Carteya uncovered the bas-relief penis, which was unveiled on the museum's social media channels last Friday.El Higuerón, a municipality of Nueva Carteya in Spain, was occupied by Iberians in the 4th century BC until the Roman conquest of the region around 206 BC.They erected a tower-shaped building on its...

The paperwork just released, containing portions of the affidavit, is as predicted heavily redacted. The document says: “Information in the affidavit could be used to identify many, if not all, of these witnesses. For example” – which is followed by a long redacted passage. The document then adds: “If witnesses’ identities are exposed, they could be subjected to harms including retaliation, intimidation, or harassment, and even threats to their physical safety. As the court has already noted, ‘these concerns are not hypothetical in this case’.” Another redacted passage follows,

Former Attorney General Bill Barr criticized some on the right for “pandering to outrage” after the unprecedented raid by the FBI on former President Donald Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago.On an episode of journalist Bari Weiss’ “Honestly” podcast released Thursday, Barr defended the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) handling of the raid. He admitted, however, that the politically motivated investigation into Russian collusion with the Trump 2016 campaign damaged trust in federal law enforcement and “created the condition” for the public to think “the worst.”“So what do you say to conservatives who say, ‘Why should we possibly trust these institutions to prosecute...

Political commentator and former Proud Boys leader Gavin McInnes was reportedly arrested during a live broadcast of his show on Censored TV on Thursday.“We are shooting a show. Can we do this another time,” McInnes told law enforcement officials as his show was live streaming.McInnes responds to the arresting officers or agents who can not be heard, “Yeah. Alright, I’m happy to do that but — uh, I’ll get a lawyer and we will sit down and have a conversation and schedule a meeting and we’ll sit down with my lawyer. ““I didn’t let you in,” McInness shot back.Yhe Gateway...

Representative-Elect Pat Ryan (D-NY) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Alex Wagner Tonight” that former President Donald Trump is “essentially traitorous.”Tuesday, Ryan defeated his Republican opponent in a special election in New York’s 19th district.Wagner said, “When we talk about democratic freedoms, and you look at the polling, and I think voters are legitimately concerned about freedoms. Some people sort of read into that democratic norms, elections, the existential threat posed by Donald Trump. Is he the one who talked about on the campaign trail? There are so many investigations right now I think it makes people’s heads spin. I think it...

Almost a month after one of the biggest names in sneaker resale was accused of orchestrating a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme, federal prosecutors are now being tasked with selling off millions of dollars worth of exclusive stock. Michael Malekzadeh, once called the Bernie Madoff of Sneakers, was charged with wire fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud, and money laundering on Aug. 3, accused of swindling millions of dollars out of his customers by selling exclusive shoes which never arrived. Now, more than 59,780 pairs of shoes neatly boxed up are in the hands of a court-appointed receiver who needs to sell...

Immigration watchdogs say nearly 4.9 million unauthorized immigrants have entered the U.S. since President Joe Biden took office last year, and have branded New York and Los Angeles as the country's most dangerous sanctuary cities. The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) says the record flow of people into the U.S. since Biden's inauguration includes 3.4 million crossings at the southwest border and 900,000 others who slipped in there undetected.

If Republicans take over the U.S. House, they will have authority to empower Speaker Kevin McCarthy to sue President Joe Biden over his illegal transfer of student debt to non-college families, because the president has no power to “cancel” those debts. The national uproar continues over Biden’s transferring hundreds of billions of dollars of debt from adults who attended college and still owe money, to taxpayers who either (1) never attended college, (2) saved money to pay for college, or (3) borrowed money to attend college but then honored their debt contract by paying off their loans.

Following up here on the Shia Labeouf story of yesterday, the link below is the very human, very revealing, (though unbelievable for some as the Bible was not so instrumental in this), interview of this man’s spiritual story that overcame him in a way he could not conceive of- while preparing for a role in the movie about the life of Padre Pio. For me, having written off the vapid, self-absorbed, artificial world that is Hollywood, I know I was not expecting this kind of riveting interview. You may think it’s just a typical story of the celebrity who “finds...

Economic war with Russia is likely to keep prices high and send growth into reverse but specter of rationing is fading. There is no end in sight for Europe’s surge in energy prices. That could be just what the continent needs to avoid the devastating effects of having to ration natural gas this winter. This is because prices are so high—many times their level from last year—that they are forcing Europeans to save fuel and secure alternative supplies. That has resulted in rising gas reserves and a higher likelihood that the economy will shrink but not crash outright in the...