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WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Sept. 2. Gens. KEARNEY and STEVENS were killed in a severe engagement which took place last evening near Chantilly, about two miles North of Fairfax Court-house, between a portion of Gen. POPE's army and JACKSON's forces. Our loss was heavy, but the enemy was driven back a mile, and we occupied the field of battle until 3 o'clock this morning. Gen. STEVENS was killed with a Minie ball, which entered his brain while he was leading his men into action, bearing the colors in his hand, the Color-Sergeant having been slain. His son, acting as Assistant-Adjutant of the...

China vows ‘counter-measures’ as US okays $1.1bn Taiwan arms sales Saturday, 03 September 2022 9:31 AM [ Last Update: Saturday, 03 September 2022 9:33 AM ] China has warned the US of impending “counter-measures” following the Biden administration’s approval of yet another $1.1 billion in weapons sales to Taiwan. Beijing was "firmly opposed" to the sales that "severely jeopardize China-US relations and peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait," said spokesman for the Chinese embassy in Washington on Twitter Saturday, demanding that Washington "immediately revoke" the deal. "The US interferes in China's internal affairs and undermines China's sovereignty and security...

Have you ever wondered why we just keep getting hit by one thing after another? I grew up during a time when it seemed like America was endlessly blessed, but now everything around us seems the opposite of blessed. Our economy is imploding, inflation is out of control, the housing market is starting to crash, our weather patterns have gone completely nuts, the western half of the nation is enduring the worst drought in 1,200 years, we are dealing with three major pandemics simultaneously, we are losing our proxy war with Russia in Ukraine and it looks like war with...

4 September 2022 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Rose of Viterbo Convent, La Crosse, Wisconsin Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(II).First readingWisdom 9:13-18 ©Who can divine the will of God?What man indeed can know the intentions of God?Who can divine the will of the Lord?The reasonings of mortals are unsureand our intentions unstable;for a perishable body presses down the soul,and this tent of clay weighs down the teeming mind.It is hard enough for us to work out what is on earth,laborious to know what lies within our reach;who, then, can discover what is in the heavens?As for your...

More frightening than the speech, is the willingness of Americans to gorge on the rhetoric. I actually missed Biden’s Thursday-night speech in real-time, but when I woke up yesterday morning, I discovered that what I thought were memes, were actually soundbites and unmanipulated images. Staging by Leni Riefenstahl. pic.twitter.com/IGRFT11jA1 — Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) September 2, 2022 (Leni Riefenstahl was a German cinema star who aided in the production of Nazi propaganda.) The lighting and staging of Biden’s speech evoked pure dystopia — all I could see was the wicked High Chancellor Adam Sutler from the film V for Vendetta. No...

DEAR ABBY: Our daughter and her cousin are the same age. Both are medical school graduates. Eight months ago, when this cousin got married at an in-person wedding, he was showered with gifts from the family. My daughter, in contrast, had a private ceremony because of COVID concerns and sent a wedding announcement to the family. To the shock and amazement of my husband, my daughter and myself, not a single person in the family thought to send her a gift or even a card. There’s no bad blood in the family. Everyone appears to love her. She is disappointed...

As Russia’s war in Ukraine continues, and supply-chain disruptions and production shortfalls threaten the flow of crops around the world, Americans are significantly concerned about global food security. According to a new Harris Poll commissioned by Bayer, a majority of Americans are concerned about food shortages (71%) and "food deserts," or regions of the country where people have limited access to nutritious and affordable food (69%). The poll of 2,010 adults, conducted in June of this year, was commissioned in an effort to chart the sentiment of Americans on food security at this historic time.

That was hands down the worst presidential speech in the history of the republic. Never mind the self-flattering puffery of how Biden is a combination of FDR—Ike—Clinton & Obama (a line the egregious Jon Meacham has been peddling to him since January 20 of last year). Who could have thought the setting and lighting for that speech was a good idea? I know the millennials who run the White House live in their tight media-academic bubble, but can they be that clueless? Apparently yes.

New ad buys in New Hampshire show national Republicans are worried the front-runner in the GOP Senate primary is too extreme and could squander the party’s chance to defeat Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan in the general election. The White Mountain political action committee, which filed papers Tuesday with the Federal Election Committee, has purchased at least $3.5 million in television ad time through the Sept. 13 primary. The PAC is expected to boost Chuck Morse, the New Hampshire state Senate president who trails Don Bolduc, a retired Army brigadier general who’s aligned himself with former President Donald Trump’s doubts about...

Washington's wayward class of inveterate liars requires a resurgence of fearless Americans willing to tell the truth. After my condemnation of our "banana republic" in a previous essay, a clever commenter remarked pithily, "Last patriot turn out the lights." I laughed. But the truth is that the light is not dimming; it is getting brighter. We, all of us together, are in the sunshine business. And the more sunshine we bring, the more difficult it becomes for the darkness not to light up! Case in point: After Facebook's Zuckerberg recently confessed to censoring the New York Post's explosive Hunter Biden...

Whoever wrote the “Soul of the Nation” speech clearly thinks those who oppose the current corrupt and lawless administration are “extremists.” Joe Biden, with his history of brain injuries (two!), rapidly advancing dementia, lifelong tendency to plagiarize, lie, and self-aggrandize, and his mouthful of marbles and no doubt costly white porcelain, can be quite difficult to understand. As a public service, then, allow me to translate some of Crusty Joe’s “Soul of America” speech to the best of my ability. “We, the people.” By that, Biden meant Democrats, teachers unions, the fake-news media, the hopelessly corrupt DoJ and FBI, and...

This, from a 21-year-old female, was in the Waco Tribune Herald in Waco, Texas on November 18, 2010 (maybe…I haven’t checked it; but it sounds good anyway!). "Put me in charge . . . " Put me in charge of food stamps. I’d get rid of Lone Star cards; no cash for Ding Dongs or Ho Ho’s, just money for 50-pound bags of rice and beans, blocks of cheese and all the powdered milk you can haul away. If you want steak and frozen pizza… …then get a job. Put me in charge of Medicaid. The first thing I’d do...

An unprecedented rise in food and energy costs compounded by the climate crisis is resulting in a perfect storm for civil unrest in more than 100 countries, according to newly released analysis. Popular anger at cost-of-living crises has seen the Sri Lankan government toppled, protests in Argentina and rising discontent in Europe. The report, produced by risk analysis firm Verisk Maplecroft, warns that political turmoil in the next 12 months is set to increase, with over 80 percent of countries experiencing inflation above six percent and the prospect of repressive measures being used to quell dissent likely. Countries in the...

Possibly 8K - 10K casualtiesMercouris reporting massive damage to ukie forces involved in the show counteroffensive. Russians apparently using Mongol tactics, retreating to lure ukies into traps and then annihilating them with artillery. One particular "mountain brigade" totally annihilated, home region holding "day of mourning"... US and UK forcing those people into this **** is beyond criminal, more like sinful, sooner or later God is going to get pissed off over it. The only ratioinal thing anybody in Ukraine could think of doing at this point is surrender, they're fighting way out of their weight division.

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In a surprise to nearly no one, children’s reading and math scores have plummeted. National Assessment of Educational Progress, nicknamed “the nation’s report card,” results show the first-ever drop in math and the largest drop in reading in more than 30 years. Black children had an even bigger collapse in scores. Decades of educational progress undone. Poof. Horrific. Stupid. Unnecessary. We know the school closures did this. It wasn’t the COVID virus. It was the hyper-political reaction, from the left, on reopening schools during the pandemic. The orders came from the top. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued...

The political push to force people to buy electric vehicles (EVs) has run into problems. The State of California has decreed that no fossil-fueled vehicles will be allowed to be sold in the state after 2035. About a dozen other states that have linked their vehicle emission rules to the "California Standard" are now legally obligated to follow whatever regulations California adopts. Left unconsidered in this bold stride toward clean energy is how enough electricity to power the growing number of EVs these rules will mandate. Right now only 1% of the vehicles on the road are EVs. Even with...

Steve Bannon says a fake call sent armed police to his home on Thursday night. The practice of calling officers to a home under false pretenses has become known as “swatting.” Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia was a recent victim, with police sent to her home to deal with a reported shooting that never took place. Police were summoned to Bannon’s Washington, D.C., home at 7:17 p.m., according to the Daily Mail. President Joe Biden delivered an address to the nation at 8 p.m. ET, labeling former President Donald Trump and his supporters as extremists who “[threaten] the...

Speaking to CNBC’s Steve Sedgwick at the Ambrosetti Forum in Italy, Guriev said it was extremely difficult to predict what might happen when Putin is eventually replaced as president. “So, probably initially it will be some kind of ultra-nationalist guy or military junta, but it will not last for long exactly because the system is built around Putin. And eventually, I think the system will collapse,” Guriev said. “It could be months, it could be several years, it could be North Korea on steroids, who knows? But it could also be a situation where the system collapses and somebody who...

Russia won’t immediately resume exports of natural gas to Europe through its Nord Stream 1 pipeline, worsening a shortage that threatens to tip the continent into an energy crisis this winter. On Friday, Russian state energy giant Gazprom said it would not resume flows through the pipeline on Saturday as planned because it had detected an oil leak at its Portovaya compressor station. The pipeline has been shut since Wednesday for maintenance. It didn’t give a timeline of when exports might resume.