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A growing number of students are saying "no" to a traditional four-year college, instead choosing trade schools or apprenticeships after high school. Part of this has to do with the increasing cost of higher education. ... U.S. News reports that the average student debt is $30,000 for a recent college graduate. At 23 years old, Brady Woodel makes more than most recent college grads. Without a four-year degree, Brady takes home $25 an hour, while the average entry-level college grad makes $20. “When I came out and got my license, I would have earned as much money as I would...

On this date in 1553, the capable heir apparent to Ottoman Emperor Suleiman the Magnificent was strangled at dad’s order — casualty of the the realm’s lethal harem politics. Suleiman’s first-born son by his first concubine, Mustafa seemed well-positioned to emerge in the Ottomans’ fratricidal succession. The racket: when the current sultan dies, all his sons by his various concubines make a rush from their provincial outposts for the capital and fight it out, the winner killing off his half-brothers to consolidate his rule. This disorderly ascension made, while dad still lived, for fraught internal politicking among the sons for...

American broadcasting company Cumulus Media abruptly announced Thursday during a morning talk show that it’s ending the KGO (810 AM) news-talk format as listeners know it, and company officials told SFGATE in an email that it will be revealing a new brand on the channel on Monday.

In 2021, TGP asked how come Trump supporters were searched and detained on Jan 6 because of the so-called pipe bomber, but the members of Antifa who were at the Capitol with guns were allowed to leave town. In August of this year, Revolver released information on the mysterious pip bomber. It was uncovered that the FBI had video of the bomber planting the bomb at the DC headquarters that was not being released. Today, Darren Beattie, from Revolver released more information on the mysterious pipe bomber from Jan 6.

MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace said Thursday on her show “Deadline” that there was “rot” in white women who voted for Donald Trump. Wallace said, “The sign of rot in white Independent women voters voting for Donald Trump and the numbers they did after he committed on tape to being enthusiastic about grabbing women in the — because he is famous and they let you, he is describing enthusiasm for sexual assault, and they voted for him anyway.”

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) is expected to retire from his seat in the Senate by the end of the year in order to become the president of the University of Florida. In a statement posted to Twitter, Sasse said he had been courted by “wonderful institutions” previously, but felt that the University of Florida was unique. “UF is the most important institution in the nation’s most economically dynamic state. Washington partisanship isn’t going to solve these workforce challenges — new institutions and entrepreneurial communities are going to have to spearhead this work. If UF wants to go big, I’m excited...

The pencils of Russian commanders 😅 #RussianArmyPhoto 1Photo 2Photo 3You'll figure it out.

TUCSON, Ariz. (CNS) — Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich praised Pima County Superior Court Judge Kellie Johnson for ruling Sept. 23 that a state law prohibiting nearly all abortions can take effect. “We applaud the court for upholding the will of the Legislature and providing clarity and uniformity on this important issue,” Brnovich said in a tweet. “I have and will continue to protect the most vulnerable Arizonans.” The Republican attorney general filed a motion in July asking the court to allow the law to take effect. Enacted in 1864, before Arizona became a state, the law prohibits all abortions...

Vice President Kamala Harris made the absurd claim that Americans don’t need to compromise their religious values to be pro-abortion. While claiming to be a devout Catholic, Harris declared that getting an abortion, i.e. killing an innocent life, has nothing to do with God or religious beliefs. When asked what Harris would say “to someone who understands why abortion should be a personal decision between a pregnant person and whomever else they decide to include in the conversation but believes they can't reconcile it with their faith?” Harris responded that the decision should only involve the pregnant woman’s decision. “That's...

Republican Michael Henry slightly leads Democrat state Attorney General Letitia James in her reelection bid to continue serving as the state’s top law enforcement officer, a Trafalgar Group survey revealed this week. The most recent survey found that Henry, within the 2.9 percent margin of error, leads James in her reelection bid by one point.

Few institutions can match the global prestige of Oxford University. Just look at the gifts lavished on it, like offerings brought to some mighty emperor of the ancient world. There’s the Saïd Business School, controversially funded with £50 million from Wafic Saïd, who helped to broker the British-Saudi arms deal. There’s the carbuncular Blavatnik School of Government, criticised by Russian dissidents for how the funder made his millions. There’s the new student housing at St Peter’s College, partly paid for with a donation whose original source was the mid-20th-century fascist demagogue Oswald Mosley. Yes, people do sometimes ask whether there’s...

Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that her opponent Gov. Brian Kemp (R), is a voting suppression architect. Last week a federal judge found that Georgia election practices challenged by a group associated with Abrams did not violate the constitutional rights of voters.

“Remember the former things long past, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like Me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things which have not been done, saying, ‘My plan will be established, and I will accomplish all my good pleasure” (Isaiah 46:9-10). I have not written much lately concerning prophetic trends occurring today. A few reasons include things are happening so fast I can hardly keep up, there are Bible teachers a lot smarter than me writing and talking about these things, and life has...

CNA Newsroom, Sep 29, 2022 / 01:30 am After a French court confirmed the removal of a statue of St. Michael from a seaside town, supporters have vowed to continue their fight to keep it standing. On Friday, Sep. 16, the Court of Appeal in Nantes ruled in favor of removing a statue of St. Michael in the town of Les Sables-d’Olonne in the Vendée. The court decision was made against the wishes of more than 90% of participants in a consultation held by the town’s mayor, Yannick Moreau, last March. On Sept. 29, the feast day of the archangel,...

Kanye West says the black T-shirt he wore to a Paris fashion show Monday emblazoned with the words “White Lives Matter” across the back with a photo of the pope on its front drew a threat of physical violence. In a sit-down interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson that aired Thursday night, West said he received a phone call after the surprise show in France, which was presented for the rapper’s Yzy fashion collection. “I had someone call me last night and said anybody wearing a ‘white lives matter’ shirt is going to be green-lit,” West said. “That means...

Only NBC would declare it news when a Democrat like Liz Cheney campaigns against two Arizona Republicans. One thing you have to give Liz “Moneybags” Cheney credit for is knowing exactly how to sell her soul. Step 1: Even though you’re not, call yourself a Republican. Step 2: Trash other Republicans, most especially, those Republicans the media hate most, like Donald Trump and Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake. Step 3: Buy into every fake media narrative. Step 4: Never take a position that will lose your newfound status in the fake media, even if it means saying nothing while children...

You might think the organization at the heart of the COVID pandemic would be banned forever from receiving any more federal dollars. You would be wrong. The organization, Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance, is having its best year ever. It has just scored its fourth ongoing grant from Anthony Fauci’s National Institutes of Health for — as incredible as it may sound — “pandemic prevention.” In all, it will rake in almost $3 million tax dollars this year alone, with millions more in the pipeline in coming years. Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst, who has just introduced legislation to blow up the...

Ex–grand chancellor: Pope's reforms are catastrophic for Order of MaltaVATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Knights across the world are considering leaving the Catholic Church because of Pope Francis' reforms, the former grand chancellor of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta revealed. In a confidential letter obtained by Church Militant, Albrecht von Boeselager lamented that many confreres had expressed to him "their great disappointment in the Holy Father — they could no longer regard him as the father he promised to be for the order." Boeselager sent the letter to an elite group of knights after Pope Francis issued a Sept. 3...

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[Catholic Caucus] In historic first, Pope Francis approves an ‘ecclesial conference’ with lay people instead of a bishops-only leadership body“We are living a ‘kairos,’ a propitious time of God in the history of the church,” Cardinal Pedro Barreto Jimeno, S.J., told America in an exclusive interview in Rome on Sept. 6 in which he revealed for the first time that Pope Francis has approved the statute of the Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon (CEAMA), giving it formal recognition in the church.Cardinal Barreto, 78, the archbishop of Huancayo in the Central Andes mountains of Peru, was elected president of the Amazon...