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Radio personality Howard Stern is fed up with America’s obsession with Queen Elizabeth II. Back from summer vacation, the shock jock lashed out at the “annoying” coverage of the monarch’s recent death on an episode of The Howard Stern Show this week.“ Enough with the Queen!” he told co-host Robin Quivers (per Page Six). “I mean, it’s America, we don’t have a Queen.” The Queen’s death has dominated the planet’s front pages since she died last Thursday at age 96. “The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon,” the royal family tweeted. Stern, 68, acknowledged that Elizabeth II was a...

[Catholic Caucus] SSPX. As I was saying….I read something familiar at LifeSite in a piece about Bp. Athanasius Schneiders remarks about the SSPX.I have often explained in these electronic pages that…There is no question that the Mass celebrated is in a Catholic Rite. The priests of the SSPX are Catholic priests and not some other kind of priests. Regardless of their unique and somewhat thorny canonical status, they are priests of the Catholic Church and not some other Church. They are even able to receive faculties from competent authority. They validly absolve sins even when there is no danger of...

The U.S. Navy quietly rolled back an order punishing SEALs who remain unvaccinated due to their religious beliefs, according to recent court documents.The order, "Trident Order #12," disqualified SEALs seeking religious exemptions from the COVID-19 vaccine from training, traveling for deployment and conducting other standard business. It was first issued on Sept. 24, 2021 by Vice Chief of Naval Operations Admiral William Lescher, and all special warfare forces were initially expected to come into compliance with the vaccine mandate by mid-October 2021.The order specifically said that "Special Operations Designated Personnel (SEAL and SWCC) refusing to receive recommended vaccines based solely...

Archbishop Viganò: ‘Authoritarian tyrant’ Pope Francis causing ‘incalculable’ damage in the Church'It seems obvious to me that the assessment of the intellectual dishonesty of the proponents of the recent restrictions on liturgical matters – all of whom are emissaries of Bergoglio – is inexorably negative.'(LifeSiteNews) – Editor’s note: Below follows the transcript of an interview between Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò and Paix Liturgique during a conference held by the Civitas movement on August 13. The interview has been translated from Italian.Paix Liturgique (PL): Your Excellency, why, after Vatican II, is the question of the liturgy such a burning question?Archbishop...

Consumer prices surged again last month — they’re now up 8.3% over last year. But what do you expect? President Joe Biden and Congress have done zilch to stem the tide and instead have kept fueling it. That’s left the job to the Federal Reserve, which will now have to risk a painful “hard landing” recession to rein in runaway inflation. Last month Biden boasted that the economy had “0% inflation” in July, though prices were up 8.5% over a year earlier, near the worst in 40 years. He and his supporters tried to pretend the crisis was over, or...

NEW YORK - New York City officials claim that many of the migrants who are being bused from Texas did not want to go to New York so they are helping them get to other states. The New York City Commissioner of Immigration Affairs appeared on the FOX 5 NY morning show "Good Day New York" on Wednesday. Commissioner Manuel Castro says that a lot of the migrants are fleeing Venezuela and are [not wanting to be in New York.] Castro says, "Many want to go to places like Florida where the largest community of Venezuelans live." He says they...

A towering bronze and granite monument to the Confederacy in Arlington National Cemetery depicts Southerners gallantly marching off to the Civil War -- and their Black slaves holding a white soldier's baby and following troops obediently. Ringing the memorial, built in 1914, are shields listing the states that violently rebelled against the U.S. in an attempt to break away and keep about 4 million people in bondage. "It is problematic from the top to the bottom," retired Brig. Gen. Ty Seidule, the vice chair of the Naming Commission, told a press gathering on Tuesday. The 108-year-old monument should be stripped...

UKRAINE has been handing out "surrender cards" to Russian soldiers containing secret codes with advice on how they can return home alive, reports have claimed. The cards feature a message in Russian for Vlad's invading forces, as well as a QR code on the back with links to further information on how soldiers can surrender to Ukraine. Pictures of the cards supposedly being distributed widely among Russian forces by Ukraine were shared on social media. One side of the card is in the blue and yellow colours of the Ukrainian flag. The headline reads: "YOUR TICKET TO A PEACEFUL LIFE."...

U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Nicholas D. Goshen passed away from natural causes on September 6, 2022 while serving in Eastern Europe. Lt. Col. Goshen was deployed with the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) and was based at Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base, Romania.Since June, the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) has nearly 4,000 soldiers deployed to Europe to assure NATO Allies and deter Russian aggression.“Nick was a valued member of the team whose passion and commitment to the division and our Soldiers was extraordinary,” said Maj. Gen. JP McGee, commanding general of the 101st Airborne Division. “I can personally attest to...

EXCLUSIVE: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis followed through on his promise to drop off illegal immigrants in progressive states, sending two planes full of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard on Wednesday. A video provided to DeSantis’ office and shared with Fox News Digital shows the migrants deboarding the planes at Martha’s Vineyard Airport in Massachusetts, the office said. "Yes, Florida can confirm the two planes with illegal immigrants that arrived in Martha’s Vineyard today were part of the state’s relocation program to transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary destinations," the governor’s communications director, Taryn Fenske, told Fox News Digital. FLORIDA GOV. DESANTIS SAYS...

EXCLUSIVE: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis followed through on his promise to drop off illegal immigrants in progressive states, sending two planes full of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard on Wednesday. A video provided to DeSantis’ office and shared with Fox News Digital shows the migrants deboarding the planes at Martha’s Vineyard Airport in Massachusetts, the office said. "Yes, Florida can confirm the two planes with illegal immigrants that arrived in Martha’s Vineyard today were part of the state’s relocation program to transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary destinations," the governor’s communications director, Taryn Fenske, told Fox News Digital.

-President Zelensky was involved in crash involving his motorcade and other car -Accident occurred in Kyiv and he was examined by doctors afterwards -He does not have serious injuries after the crash in Ukraine's capital -The driver of the car was taken to hospital in an ambulance for treatment President Zelensky was checked by medics but is not seriously hurt after a car crashed into his motorcade leaving the driver needing hospital treatment. His spokesman said that the accident occurred in Kyiv and he was examined by doctors travelling with him afterwards. He does not have serious injuries after the...

Behind the closed doors of an unassuming philanthropic consultancy in Washington, D.C., is one of the most powerful lobbying forces in the United States. The Atlantic has called it “the massive progressive dark-money group you’ve never heard of” and “the indisputable heavyweight of Democratic dark money.” The Washington Post believes its potent lobbying arm is reason enough for Congress to enact forced donor disclosure laws, while Politico labelled it a “dark-money behemoth.” “The system of political financing, which often obscures the identities of donors, is known as dark money,” wrote The New York Times, “and Arabella’s network is a leading...

Earlier this afternoon I was listening to the Howie Carr Show...a great Boston talk show host (and great Trump supporter).He read from the Martha's Vineyard's local paper that a planeload of about 50 "undocumented workers" (my words) landed on the Vineyard last night,the flight having originated in Texas. They're gonna be housed in the school's cafeteria and an island official greeted the flight promising to take care of these unfortunate folks.

With a national debate on the value of a college education smoldering, heads of postsecondary institutions in New Jersey are seeking to buck the national trend of declining enrollments. The pandemic and its widespread effects helped bring college enrollment to its lowest levels in about 15 years in 2020, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. Those declines continued into 2022, according to researchers at the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. This spring, center researchers estimated that 662,000 fewer students were enrolled in U.S. collegiate undergraduate programs when compared with spring 2021. The year-over-year drop of about 4.7% piggybacked on a...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans began to worry as the White House hosted a star-studded party with the theme, "We Are Not Currently Being Nuked By China." Guests included the Property Brothers, television actor Elizabeth Warren and the corpse of James Taylor.

Hunter Biden is trying to lower his child support payments for his four-year-old love child with Lunden Roberts, claiming he's having financial difficulties. According to documents obtained by DailyMail.com, the president's son filed a motion to adjust child support Monday, citing 'a substantial material change' in his 'financial circumstances, including but not limited to his income In a November 2019 filing in the child support case, he claimed, 'I am unemployed and have had no monthly income since May 2019,' adding he had 'significant debts.' Meanwhile, Hunter just moved out of a $20,000-per-month Malibu home where he lived with his...

Black comedian and commentator Terrance Williams decided to buck the left by launching his own, legitimate pancake mix and put his own face on the box. But now Facebook is banning the man’s product because they are calling a pancake mix with a black man’s face on the box an example of “racism.” Williams was incensed when they began taking black people off packaging — Mrs. Butterworth’s and Aunt Jemima, for instance — to assuage woke whiners. So, he launched his own product line and put his face on the box. “So according to Facebook, my Pancakes are racist!” Williams...

Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 riot has a recently received a large volume of text messages, emails, and radio communication sent by Secret Service agents during the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Earlier this summer, the inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security sent a letter to Congress informing them that Secret Service text messages sent by agents on and before January 6 had been erased.

President Joe Biden and Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg addressed the Detroit Auto Show Wednesday to boast about their infrastructure policies, even as a massive rail strike looms that could shut down freight and some passenger traffic.