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@RandPaul US Senate candidate, KY In times of disaster, taxpayer money should be spent to help Americans, like the flood victims in Eastern Kentucky. Instead of sending money overseas, that money should be spent here in Kentucky. I’ll continue to stand with and support our Commonwealth. Ad...

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A local think-tank just reported that the state's cities have some of the highest crime rates in the nation. Guess why. The Common Sense Institute (CSI), a think-tank local to Colorado, reported at the beginning of October 2022 that the state's cities have some of the highest crime rates in the nation. "Crime in Colorado in 2022: The Data on Colorado's Increasing Crime Problem" was authored by George Brauchler, Mitch Morrissey, and Steven Byers, Ph.D. "It is very difficult to comprehend Colorado, the Colorado I grew up in ... hosting four cities in the top ten for all these crime...

6 October 2022Thursday of week 27 in Ordinary Time Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Cathedral, Odesa, Ukraine Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(II).First readingGalatians 3:1-5 ©You received the Spirit because you believed what was preachedAre you people in Galatia mad? Has someone put a spell on you, in spite of the plain explanation you have had of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ? Let me ask you one question: was it because you practised the Law that you received the Spirit, or because you believed what was preached to you? Are you foolish enough to end in outward observances...

Kelly Tshibaka, the Alaska Senate candidate endorsed by former President Donald Trump, has received more in-state donations than her rival, 21-year incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, according to OpenSecrets. So far, 85% of Murkowski's 2022 cycle donations have come from out of state. As Opensecrets outlines, the Alaskan Republican senator has raised $5,284,321 from out-of-state donors. Only 15%, or $929,774, has been donated by in-state contributors. Breitbart reported the large influx from out-of-state donations raises questions about where the senator's, who voted to impeach Trump, loyalties lie. In contrast, Tshibaka has received $1,349,384 or 55% of her donations from in-state...

PHOENIX — Arizona Republican Kari Lake is running for governor as a hard-charging outsider. That’s why it came as a surprise when, ahead of the August primary, a supporter asked her about a rumor that she’d hired prominent GOP strategists closely aligned with the party establishment. “I don’t know who these people are,” Lake pushed back, adding that she didn’t have “big, high-priced D.C. consultants” and that she preferred her team of true believers, many of them pro-Donald Trump 20-somethings who are new to politics. To drive the point home, Lake recalled, she waved over one of her young lieutenants...

Investigators in California are working to determine the motive behind the killing of a family of four – including an 8-month-old baby – as the bodies were recovered Wednesday in a rural farm area after they were kidnapped earlier this week by an armed man at their business.

Photos taken by astronauts on the International Space Station show a giant black streak created by a lava flow thousands of years ago. The photos, taken in June but not released until late September, have been put together by NASA in order to create a larger photo showcasing the streak in its entirety. In total, the streak, located in New Mexico, measures 50 miles (75 kilometers) in length across the Chihuahuan Desert, according to the NASA Earth Observatory. Black lava streak.jpeg An astronaut onboard the International Space Station took photos of Carrizozo Malpaís, a large basaltic lava flow in central...

SEOUL/TOKYO, Oct 6 (Reuters) - South Korea scrambled fighter jets after North Korean warplanes staged an apparent bombing drill on Thursday, Seoul's defense ministry said, as allied warships held missile defence drills and Pyongyang fired off the latest in a series of ballistic missiles. The rare bombing drill by at least eight North Korean fighter jets and four bombers prompted the South to deploy 30 fighters. The warplanes swarmed each side of the heavily fortified border amid rising tensions over a string of missile tests by Pyongyang.

As the November 8 elections near, now is a good time for a personal inventory of sorts. Our goal is always to advance the founding principles of our constitutional republic and stand unflinchingly for the individual freedoms bestowed upon us by Almighty God. We do this by being fearless in spite of the adversities that come our way. We also give each other courage, so that our steadfast purpose will succeed. "As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another." We choose to protect life, liberty, mutual fellowship, and personal ownership over the fruits of our labor — guiding lights...

A South African guy I am aquainted with in China tweeted this out and mentioned it in a Youtube broadcast today . I more or less agree with him . Your thoughts ? Fact: These leaders will save our planet from total destruction. Xi Jinping - China Trump - America Putin - Russia

Something seemed to snap after President Joe Biden asked, “Where’s Jackie?” The snap wasn’t in the president himself, but rather from much of the media, as what had been whispered about in Washington and bandied about on talk radio had become a mainstream topic. (Although a Morning Consult survey in August found that a plurality of 48% believed that Biden was not mentally fit to be president.)

In January 2017, Chinese leader Xi Jinping promised "win-win outcomes" via a "dynamic, innovation-driven growth model." Yet only several months prior, Xi had struck a different tone in a speech to an audience that included Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, Alibaba CEO Jack Ma, high-profile People’s Liberation Army researchers, and most of China’s political elite.

Amid growing fears that Russia could resort to nuclear warfare in Ukraine, Poland has requested to share US atomic weapons. White House officials told The Guardian that they were 'not aware of the issue being raised' while experts have widely suggested that the gesture was purely symbolic. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) largest member from the former Warsaw Pact, has been the most vocal in bolstering the alliance's eastern flank. 'The problem, first of all, is that we don't have nuclear weapons,' Polish president Andrzej Duda said in an interview with the Gazeta Polska newspaper. 'There is always a...

Despite posturing as if they care about the American middle class, behind closed doors our political elites, alongside their media servants and the guardians of academia who do the bidding of the collectivist elite, despise them. The war against the American middle class is intentional, for it is only the American middle class that has power to stop global collectivism and the new feudalism emerging across the world. To prevent this from happening, our elites and their allies divide the American middle class to weaken and subdue it, thus enabling their collectivist agenda to continue apace, even as they speak...

UPDATE3:05 PM PT -- Bobby Wagner's head coach, Sean McVay, says he's not even flinching over the police report ... telling media members Wednesday, "We all know where Bobby's intentions were, and I support Bobby Wagner." NO ILL WILL Los Angeles Rams "That's where I'm at with that," he added. "I don't think anybody would disagree." 2:40 PM PT -- Wagner spoke with reporters about the incident on Wednesday ... saying, "It's behind me." "Can't really focus on it. I'm more concerned about the security guard that was hurt trying to chase him and the people that was ... we...

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) on Wednesday criticized her party for what she sees as a growing sector of the GOP that supports Russian President Vladimir Putin as he wages his attacks on Ukraine. “You know, the Republican Party is the party of Reagan, the party that essentially won the Cold War. And you look now at what I think is really a growing Putin wing of the Republican Party,” Cheney said at a McCain Institute event at Arizona State University. The outgoing congresswoman, who lost her reelection bid in Wyoming to her Trump-backed Republican challenger, knocked Fox News for “running...

Belarus’ opposition leader said Wednesday that she believes Russian military setbacks in Ukraine could shake the hold on power of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. “We have a distracted Russia that is about to lose this war. It won’t be able to prop Lukashenko up with money and military support as in 2020,” said Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, speaking at a security conference in Warsaw. Tsikhanouskaya fled to Lithuania after Russian ally Alexander Lukashenko claimed victory in disputed August 2020 elections that were viewed in the West as fraudulent, and which many thought she won. She said that hundreds of Belarusian volunteers have...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemMatthew 6 Prayer 5 “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. 7 And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be...