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The House select committee investigating the US Capitol insurrection long ago dropped the notion of being a narrowly focused quest for the facts as members use their probe to try to defend democracy in its intensifying struggle with Donald Trump. The panel returns to the public eye Thursday after its late-summer break with a televised hearing that sources tell CNN will serve as a pre-midterms warning that the ex-President is a clear and present danger to free elections. But are the American people listening? And do the committee’s efforts to undermine Trump’s cadre of election denier candidates in 2022 and...

Our own mindlessness leads us like sheep to the slaughter. Have you ever heard the expression, “lipstick on a pig”? America’s entrenched bureaucracy, often referred to as the Fourth Branch, is that pig. No amount of superficial or cosmetic measures can obscure the fact that federal agencies of unelected policymakers are no different than dirty sties full of gorged swine (there’s a reason wanton and greedy spending is called “pork”). ‘Lipstick’ comes in many forms: “news” reports from a once-sacred institution like American journalism is really just propaganda, the use of words like “progress” and “sustainability” cover over agendas of...

SPECIAL DISPATCH FROM CARLISLE CARLISLE, Saturday, Oct. 11. From the most reliable sources I learn that the cavalry under command of STEWART reached Chambersburgh about 6 o'clock Friday evening. They crossed the Potomac below Hancock, some 40 miles off, proceeding by the way of Mercersburgh and Campbellstown to Chambersburgh. About eight hundred entered the town, the residue remaining a mile outside. A portion of the latter divided -- one part going toward Greencastle, taking with them their artillery; the other remaining in camp near by all night. A person directly from William sport to-day, says that we lost sixty men...

The “utopian” one-world government elites are trying to impose upon us is not as it seems and may crumble as people learn about what it really is. Back in the 1980s (yes, a long time ago), I wrote a science fiction story set somewhere between contemporary times and the Star Trek era. I imagined humans having the run of our solar system and breaking out a bit further in the Milky Way. Since human development isn’t stagnant, I knew that I needed to invent a novel political system for the future I was envisioning. I decided that the political actors...

In a state where independent voters make up a plurality of the electorate, Colorado Democratic senator Michael Bennet has focused his reelection campaign on appealing to centrist voters. In private, however, he’s reminding left-wing donors at a drag queen-themed fundraiser that he has a "more progressive" record than socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (D., Vt.). "When I say I have a progressive track record, I mean it, I’m more progressive than Bernie Sanders," Bennet said at an Oct. 9 fundraiser featuring Jewish drag queen Laura Menorah. "In terms of our, you know, our tax code because of the profound income inequality...

Scores on the ACT college admissions test by this year’s high school graduates hit their lowest point in more than 30 years — the latest evidence of the enormity of learning disruption during the pandemic.

13 October 2022Thursday of week 28 in Ordinary Time Saint Edward the Confessor Catholic Church, Dana Point, CA Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(II).First readingEphesians 1:1-10 ©Before the world was made, God chose us in ChristFrom Paul, appointed by God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, to the saints who are faithful to Christ Jesus. Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.Blessed be God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,who has blessed us with all the spiritual blessings of heaven in Christ.Before the world was made, he chose us,...

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the...

Power has largely been restored across Ukraine following this week's attacks by Russia on Ukrainian energy facilities, the head of Ukrainian grid operator Ukrenergo said on Thursday. Volodymyr Kudrytskyi told national television that some repair work was continuing on damaged infrastructure but supplies had been restored. Despite this, Ukrainians should continue to conserve energy because further Russian attacks were possible on energy facilities, he said.

A member of the Oath Keepers who traveled to Washington before the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol testified Wednesday about a massive cache of weapons the far-right extremist group stashed in a Virginia hotel room. Taking the stand in the seditious conspiracy case against Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and four associates, Terry Cummings showed jurors an AR-15 firearm and an orange box for ammunition that he contributed to the so-called quick reaction force the Oath Keepers had staged at the hotel outside of Washington in case they needed weapons. “I had not seen that many weapons in...

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Ukraine’s capital region was struck by Iranian-made kamikaze drones early Thursday, officials said, sending rescue workers rushing to the scene as residents awoke to air raid sirens for the fourth consecutive morning following Russia’s major assault across the country earlier this week. Kyiv regional governor Oleksiy Kuleba said the strike occurred in the area around the capital. It wasn’t yet clear if there were any casualties. Deputy head of the presidential office Kyrylo Tymoshenko said on Telegram that “critical infrastructure facilities” in the area were hit, without offering any details on which ones.

Joe Biden admitted on CNN that he plans to coerce Saudi Arabia into producing more oil by withholding congressionally approved military aid; but wait, didn’t the left try to impeach Donald Trump over something like that? ... British Intelligence MI6 had a plot to blow up the Kerch Bridge well before the Ukrainian truck bomb did - a plot containing similarities to the Nordstream 2 Pipeline attack. A member of the ‘Green Goblin’ girl gang, that terrorized and mugged subway riders in New York, turned herself into the police after things went farther than she intended. The Biden administration is...

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October 13, 02:35 The Economist announced the improvement of the Russian economy against the backdrop of falling into recession in Europe © Sergey Karpukhin / TASS The publication claims that a critical moment has come in the economic war between Russia and the West. LONDON, 13 October. /TASS/. The British magazine The Economist drew attention to the improvement of the economic situation in Russia, while Europe is teetering on the brink of a deep recession. Under the headline "While Europe Falls into Recession, Russia is Climbing Out of It," the publication argues that the economic war between Russia and the...

This week’s Liberal Media Scream shows the ridiculous spin liberal flacks are eager to use to deflate the Hunter Biden scandal story as the midterm elections near. In focus this week is former Biden White House press secretary Jen Psaki, who said the Hunter Biden story is a big zero since she hasn’t seen it show up on the front pages of many of the nation’s newspapers. Psaki said on Meet the Press, “As much as there was so much news happening in Washington this week, it doesn’t always translate, and often doesn’t translate, to what voters are talking about...

"Do you want to say I'm a Black Lives Matter supporter, or do you want to say I'm a white supremacist. Which is it?" Ammon Bundy Speaks In A Newspaper Interview 10/5/2022 As He Campaigns To Be The Next Governor Of Idaho As An Independent There have been so many characterizations of Ammon Bundy in the last six plus years one tends to lose track of them. The Militant The Militia Leader The Occupier Of A Federal Wildlife Refuge The Extremist The Domestic Terrorist The Black Lives Matter Supporter The Illegal Immigration Supporter But that's what you get when you...

Oct. 12 - An ordinance to create a homeless encampment ban around temporary shelters and protected waters in Tacoma was passed by the City Council on a 6-3 vote Tuesday night. The ordinance restricts homeless camps from being set up within 10 blocks of the city's temporary homeless shelters. The implementation and enforcement of the ordinance will be determined by Neighborhood and Community Services and Tacoma Police Department, ahead of the Nov. 14 effective date. Encampments now would be banned near Aspen Court, Tacoma Emergency Micro-Shelter Sites at 6th Avenue and Orchard Street, South 69th Street and Proctor Street, 60th...

A convicted rapist in California whose sentencing judge argued he should "never get out of prison" was arrested in the murder of a Sacramento man just weeks after his release, officials said. Michael Xavier Bell, 36, was arrested this past Sunday for murdering a 60-year-old Sacramento care facility employee just 73 days after he was released early from a decades-long sentence, according to the Association of Los Angeles Deputy District Attorneys. Association President Michele Hanisee called his early release "tragically predictable" and said it resulted in "another senseless murder of an innocent victim." Bell’s release came amid the state’s effort...

AUSTIN, Texas - In a cavernous, modern sanctuary at Greater Mt. Zion Church, the Rev. Gaylon Clark introduced Beto O’Rourke to his congregation one recent Sunday as “the next governor of the state of Texas.” Then he raised his hand and, over the strains of a keyboard, prayed for “victory in the name of Jesus.” In the sanctuary, the churchgoers said, “Amen.” In the lobby, they lined up for pictures with the one-time Democratic sensation now lagging in the polls. “With God and faith and him being here today,” one of the congregants told me, “you should see a change...