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Incumbent Republican Sen. Ron Johnson is widening the gap over his Democratic challenger, Mandela Barnes, in Wisconsin’s Senate race, a new poll from Marquette Law School found. The poll, whose results were released on Wednesday, has Johnson racking up support of 52 percent of likely voters, compared with Barnes’ 46 percent. The results are a jump from September, when polls showed Johnson polling just 1 percentage point ahead of Barnes, but are still within the survey’s margin of sampling error. Barnes has seen a decline in the polls over recent months after facing a slew of attack ads depicting him...

Britons are preparing for possible power cuts by stocking-up on portable generators and torches, in addition to winter clothing, thermal underwear and candles. National Grid warned this month that Britain could face three-hour planned power cuts to homes and businesses this winter if it cannot import electricity from Europe and struggles to attract enough imports to fuel gas-fired power plants.

[Catholic Caucus] Why the Traditional Catholic Faith is So Important TLM & NOMThe June-July 2021 issue of Christian Order referenced a 2019 Catholic Herald report headed, "Traditional Latin Mass attendees more devout and orthodox, study says." The study in question was a piece of research carried out by US Catholic priest Fr. Donald Kloster, which compared the attitudes of Catholics attending the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) in the USA with the attitudes of those attending the Novus Ordo Mass (NOM). The research revealed huge differences between the two groups. Just 2% of those attending the TLM approved of contraception, compared...

Kelly Chang Rickert rose to TicTok fame by giving pithy advice so you don’t end up in her office asking her to litigate (or better yet, mediate) your divorce. Happily married herself, she reveals the top 5 questions you should ask before marriage so you don't end up divorced: 1. What is your credit score? (And ask to see recent credit report) ..... 2. Children ...... 3. Household chores ...... 4. Sex ...... 5. Health ..... These questions are just the starting point. It is much better to have an awkward conversation now than having this conversation in front of...

A few years back I made this query but got no answer. Thought I'd try again. In the mid 80s I compiled a library of music of over 3100 pieces. It is the only thing I listen to in my cars. So over the many years several have become my favorite. The second of which is Nana Mouskouri's Amazing Grace. This song, IMHO, best puts out her incredible voice and I have more than one of her albums. But gettng back to the piece, in the background is a choral group that sounds almost as good as her. I have...

Vatican II didn’t fail. It’s just getting started.I sometimes wish that I could travel back to see my parish in the 1950s in West Philadelphia. The great domed church, St. Francis de Sales, towering over Victorian houses and Edwardian apartment buildings, can seat 800, but back then it needed simultaneous Masses in the lower church and the parish hall to fit all the attendees. I wish I could still watch that many people streaming toward the church each Sunday. We are not now that strength which we once were. The loss of that strength is hard, but it can end...

Company partners with Merck for "new treatment paradigm." Moderna, the bio-tech company behind one of the now-ubiquitous COVID-19 vaccinations, said this week that it is actively moving forward with the development of a "personalized" anti-cancer vaccination. The Cambridge, Mass.-based company said in a press release that pharmaceutical company Merck had opted to " exercis[e] its option to jointly develop and commercialize [a] personalized cancer vaccine" with Moderna itself. "We have been collaborating with Merck on PCVs since 2016, and together we have made significant progress in advancing mRNA-4157 as an investigational personalized cancer treatment," Moderna President Stephen Hoge said in...

The 2022 midterm elections are now 25 days away, and Republicans have a seven-point lead in their bid to recapture control of Congress. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that, if the elections for Congress were held today, 48% of Likely U.S. Voters would vote for the Republican candidate, while 41% would vote for the Democrat. Just four percent (4%) would vote for some other candidate, but another seven percent (7%) are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.) The GOP lead is up three points from last week, when they led 47% to...

Two powerful House Republicans demanded Friday that the National Archives and Records Administration disclose whether the history-preserving agency collaborated with Democrats to encourage an FBI investigation into Donald Trump's presidential records. Rep. James Comer, the top Republican on the House Oversight and Reform Committee, and Rep. Jim Jordan, the ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee, request a tranche of documents be turned over to them in a letter to acting Archivist Debra Steidel Wall, saying they have suspicions there was collusion between her agency and congressional Democrats in the effort to get the FBI to investigate allegations Trump possessed...

Tensions are rising between the United States and its Western allies over Ukraine’s deteriorating economy, as American officials increasingly prod the European Union to ramp up financial assistance to the war-torn country. On several occasions this week during meetings of global financial leaders in Washington, Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen called on her international counterparts to accelerate both the speed and amount of money going to Ukraine. New projections from the World Bank last week suggest that Ukraine’s economy will contract by 35 percent this year, and the country’s financial officials say inflation could hit 40 percent early next year...

Democrat group Florida Rising began fundraising after Hurricane Ian, claiming the funds were going to charity. In reality, it was given to a dark money political C(4), posing as a charity. Florida Rising Tweeted the fundraising link on September 29th, just a day after Hurricane Ian landed. The tweet claimed that the groups the funds would be going to are the same ones that assisted in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma and assured readers that the funds would help “prepare for the rebuilding and recovery.” However, the link provided, ianresponse.org, is housed by the tech platform ActBlue, according to a...

The past couple of years have revealed severe stress fracture deficiencies in the American system. Idiotic responses to covid and the destruction of the legitimacy of our political system through vote fraud and the J6 committee have compounded already systematic problems stemming from economic slowdown and skyrocketing inflation. Yet, if there’s one thing that many, many Americans have always thought they could fall back onto, it was the fundamental goodness and rightness of “the American mission” all across the world. Having convinced ourselves that we were always the force for justice and righteousness in the world, we thought that there...

Billionaire New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft sealed the deal with his longtime girlfriend Dana Blumberg in a super-secret surprise wedding ceremony in New York City, as Elton John serenaded the newlyweds. Kraft, 81, said 'I do' to ophthalmologist Dana Blumberg, 47, on Friday night at what guests were told was a 'Kickoff and a Touchdown Party'. The couple, who began dating in 2019, hired the lower Manhattan Hall des Lumières and told 250 friends and family members to dress festively, The New York Post reported. The invitees - among them Jon Bon Jovi, country singer Kenny Chesney, film tycoon...

Col Douglas Macgregor - the build up for a Russian offensive in NovemberCol. Douglas Macgregor: "Keep in mind, these reservists are going into groups of Russian forces that are collecting in the south and on the borders in western part of Russia and Belorussia. These forces are going to be quite large by the time they amass. They won't be used in mass in a concentrated fashion until November. What you're seeing happen right now after all of these massive counterattacks launched by the Ukrainians that achieved, frankly, nothing from a strategic standpoint at all. They have taker such horrendous...

The US is at or very near the end of its capacity to give, while fears grow of a military confrontation with Russia. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin signaled this week that the U.S. and its Western allies are having trouble keeping pace with Ukraine’s demand for the advanced weaponry it needs to fend off Russia’s invasion. That signal reflects dwindling supplies for Ukraine and fear in the White House of escalation that could lead to war between the U.S. and Russia. The risk of reduced U.S. stockpiles of high-end munitions has been reported almost since the U.S. began contributing to...

Translated from Russian with Safari TranslateRussian "military commissars" say that the first attacks have been stopped, the Ukrainian side is silent. What happenedOn the morning of October 15, pro-Russian telegram channels wrote that the Armed Forces of Ukraine resumed a counteroffensive in the Kherson region, and about heavy battles in this direction. In recent days, analysts have discussed how the situation near Kherson can develop, and Ukrainian officials have said that Russians are preparing to flee the city. However, on the first day of the onset, the Ukrainian army did not seem to have achieved great success. What is...

All times Eastern. All schedules and networks subject to change. Week 7 Friday, Oct. 14 Princeton 35, Brown 19 SMU 40, Navy 34 UTSA 30, FIU 10 Saturday, Oct. 15 No. 10 Penn State at No. 5 Michigan | 12 p.m. | FOX Auburn at No. 9 Ole Miss | 12 p.m. | ESPN No. 19 Kansas at Oklahoma | 12 p.m. | ESPN2 Iowa State at No. 22 Texas | 12 p.m. | ABC Minnesota at No. 24 Illinois | 12 p.m. | Big Ten Network Colgate at Army | 12 p.m. | CBSSN Central Michigan at Akron |...

SÃO PAULO – Facing opposition from both the Brazilian bishops and the National Association of Catholic Education, conservative Christian groups are pressuring President Jair Bolsonaro and lawmakers to legalize homeschooling. Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled in 2018 that although homeschooling was possible, specific legislation was necessary to allow it. Seeking a second term in elections scheduled for next month, Bolsonaro has met with advocates of homeschooling on two different occasions since the end of August. It is estimated that around 30,000 families in Brazil educate their children at home, despite the legal ambiguity surrounding the practice. Without specific legal protection, they...

A North Carolina man was thrown in the slammer for 24 hours after refusing a lefty judge’s order to wear a mask in court – despite no such local mandates in place. “I never thought I would show up to jury duty and end up behind bars,” Gregory Hahn told Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” Hahn, a 47-year-old US Navy veteran and single father, was among 98 jury candidates called to Harnett County court Monday who showed up not wearing a mask, WRAL reported. The courthouse didn’t have a mask mandate, but Judge Charles Gilchrist – an appointee of former...

NATO is playing a dangerous game that poses a risk of escalating into a nuclear war with Russia. Sorry to ruin your day. NATO is kicking off its annual nuclear weapons exercise today–i.e. STEADFAST NOON. Although this exercise has not been ginned up in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it comes at a delicate time and will have Russia raising its nuclear alert level. While it is true that NATO conducts this exercise every year at this time, it is foolish to pretend that the war in Ukraine is irrelevant. Why? Because NATO is exercising deploying nuclear weapons, arming...