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English, Spanish and Polish melded as a group of about 40 people braved the cold to protest the removal of the La Pieta sculpture from St. Adalbert Church in Pilsen. The removal, which was scheduled for Tuesday, was ultimately postponed due to a permit issue, according to the Archdiocese of Chicago. Protesters took breaks from chanting “Save our church!” and “Shame on you!” in order to pray in different languages, holding rosaries and American and Mexican flags up as they stood in an alley behind the church. About 30 police officers flanked the group. “It just isn’t right,” said Anina...

Democratic Rep. Katie Porter of California could be in danger of losing her House seat as the race has shifted in the GOP's direction, according to a nonpartisan political forecaster. The Cook Political Report on Tuesday released a new analysis that moved California's 47th congressional district from a "lean Democratic" rating to a "toss-up," showing signs that Porter might not cruise to reelection. Porter, a progressive Democrat seeking a third term, has become a breakout star within her party in recent years, attracting widespread support. She's often gone viral on social media for using a whiteboard during committee hearings to...

Schick’s accusation of right-wing extremism towards faithful Catholics follows similar smears against the Berlin March for Life participants.(LifeSiteNews) — German Archbishop Ludwig Schick has stated that rejecting other religions as a Catholic is a sign of “right-wing extremist tendencies” and that he sees these tendencies among “certain pro-life activists.” Schick, who is the archbishop for the diocese of Bamberg, talked about the danger of “right-wing ideas” among members of the Church in an interview with domradio.de. “Whoever is a Christian must stand up for freedom, for unity, for worldwide solidarity and worldwide charity, otherwise he does not deserve the name...

Arizona State Senator Sonny Borrelli appeared on Steve Bannon’s War Room today following yesterday’s bombshell presentation on voter fraud in the 2020 Election. Borrelli reviewed the findings from yesterday with Steve Bannon, and he said the 2020 election in Arizona was “uncertifiable.” The Gateway Pundit reported on the full presentation yesterday live from Maricopa County, Arizona. A team in Maricopa County reviewed voter registration forms and compared them with signatures on over 100,000 ballot envelopes, and they identified a staggering 20% error rate in signature verification. Below is a summary of their findings.

Mississippi Today Mississippi Today Donate CONTINUING COVERAGEJackson Water Crisis The Backchannel Health Welfare Scandal Abortion Law Culture Sports Noticias en español POSTED INSPORTS RIP Ray Guy, the best athlete I ever saw Avatar photo by Rick Cleveland November 3, 2022 Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) Ray Guy, the best athlete these eyes have ever witnessed, died Thursday morning in Hattiesburg following a long illness. He was 72. Many times over the...

San Francisco’s top prosecutor confirmed Wednesday her office will not release police body camera footage or 911 calls from the alleged Paul Pelosi attack late last week. Authorities said that David DePape, 42, allegedly broke into the San Francisco home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her husband Paul during the early morning hours of Oct. 28, according to court documents, before he allegedly struck Pelosi with a hammer. No security camera footage, police body camera footage, or 911 calls have been released. When pressed about releasing more evidence in the case, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins told...

Republican Cassy Garcia said the campaign donation, which was made over 15 years ago, is “part of a troubling pattern.” Republican Cassy Garcia, the nominee challenging Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28), said her opponent has “disgraced” his office after National Review published a report about a donation to Cuellar’s campaign over 15 years ago from someone connected to the Los Zetas drug cartel. At the time, Cuellar’s team indicated that it donated the cash to charity after becoming aware of the criminal activity surrounding the individual in question. Garcia blasted the congressman in a statement published this week, calling it “part...

It took a while, but I have now softened up to the concept of "house butter."Let me get this part out of the way: According to the Food and Drug Administration, it's safe to leave butter and margarine out at room temperature. The agency warns that leaving your butter in this temperate state for a few days may result in its flavor turning toward rancid, but I like to live my life on a knife's edge, and I take the risk. This isn't how I was raised. Did you grow up in a butter household? I didn't. It was...

Derek Brown's new company, Positive Damage Inc., leans into his punk rock past to help Americans think and drink more mindfully.Most of what Derek Brown needed to know about life, he learned from punk and hardcore music. That includes finding the courage to be publicly sober while also being one of the most respected bartenders in the business. In a phone interview a couple days after his 48th birthday, Brown was feeling a little rough. Not from overconsumption; rather, he'd celebrated by going out to see a couple D.C. bands he'd loved growing up (Soulside and Verbal Assault, if...

This is a very interesting interview. He's still a Democrat. He supports Tina Forte, Lee Zeldin, and....Donald Trump. And he refuses to leave the Democratic Party. The party left him. He wants to push the party past this current insanity to a new platform. Maybe he and others can.

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For almost two years, COVID-19 vaccine holdouts have been the objects of earnest pleading and financial inducements, of social-media shaming and truth campaigns. They’ve missed weddings, birthday celebrations and recitals, and even forfeited high-stakes athletic competitions. Until last month, they were barred from entering the United States and more than 100 other countries. Now the unvaccinated are suddenly back in the mix. They’re dining in restaurants, rocking out at music festivals and filling the stands at sporting venues. They mingle freely in places where they used to be shunned for fear they’d seed superspreader events. It’s as if they’re no...

Novak Djokovic says he has been given "positive signs" that he will be allowed to enter Australia and compete in the Australian Open in January despite being under a three-year visa ban. The Serbian, whose ban was imposed along with his deportation for his potential to cause "civil unrest" as a "talisman of anti-vaccination sentiment", said these indications were on an 'unofficial' basis. The nine-times Open champion added that he should have confirmation in 'the next few weeks' of whether he will be allowed in.

Joe Biden Wednesday evening delivered a dark and divisive speech with less than one week to go until the midterm elections. Just like Tucker Carlson said, the guy who took “inappropriate showers” with his own daughter is trying to tell you that you’re a bad person. Biden lashed out at Trump in his speech and smeared him with lies. Joe Biden also signaled that the fix is in and claimed certain races won’t be called on election night. Biden did not mention inflation once Wednesday night. One of the key issues for Americans going into the midterms is the persistent...

Next week, the Supreme Court will have a chance to save the free market economy from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Even as the court reins in the administrative state, the FTC is advancing new rules and novel theories that stretch the limits of its mandate. Under its progressive chair, Lina Khan, the FTC wants to cancel the gig economy, cripple the ad-supported internet, and address racial justice, rather than simply protect consumers. In Axon Enterprise v. FTC, the court could take a big step toward cabining the FTC within its statutory and constitutional authority. Axon itself involves a narrow...

Former Olympic swimmer Scott Andrew Miller's unorthodox and lonely youth led him down the treacherous path to importing over $2million worth of meth, a court has heard. 'That became a lonely and depressed adulthood, marred by substance abuse and depression,' his lawyer ​​Arjun Chabra told the NSW District Court on Thursday. 'The circumstances only seem to explain what led him down this treacherous path.' He added Miller's life as a boy was 'regimented and geared towards competition', where he was 'mismanaged'. Miller, 45, has pleaded guilty to two counts of supplying a commercial quantity of a prohibited drug. He was...

Earlier in the day, I warned readers that Biden was set to make Wednesday night about democracy. Well, I watched Custard’s Last Stand. On the upside, I need to lose a little weight and now I have no appetite. I thought I would address my reaction to the ersatz commander-in-chief: Dear Mr. President, First of all, the United States of America is not a democracy. Dear God, that is Civics 101. America is a republic. It was designed as a republic because the framers knew that democracies could easily descend into mob rule. That includes mobs you like. More on...

Republicans are taking a more proactive approach to election integrity in 2022. Learning from their slow reaction to sweeping late rule changes in the 2020 presidential election, Republicans are being more proactive in their efforts to secure elections in 2022. In keeping with this new approach, House Republicans led by Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), the ranking member of the House Administration Committee, have peppered state and local officials with letters ahead of the Nov. 8 midterm elections demanding redress of prior failures and preventive measures to preempt problems on Election Day. Hogan Gidley, the vice chair of the Center for...

Henry V was a power-hungry imperialist rather than an English hero, the Globe’s latest production of the William Shakespeare play will suggest. Rather than lauding a “band of brothers” defeating the French against the odds at Agincourt, the new staging will show audiences the “devastating cost” of Henry’s “bombastic pursuit of power”.