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The rising cases of young and otherwise healthy people dying suddenly has claimed another victim with a promising future. According to End Times Headlines: A 25-year-old doctor of Pharmacy died suddenly in Pittsburgh in December, just before her father was rushed to the ICU, loved ones say in a GoFundMe campaign. Dr. Lindsay Ann Heck, 25, died unexpectedly from an unknown cause on Dec. 20, 2022, as stated in her obituary.

[Catholic Caucus] A Blessing on the Via del Moro; A Scandal at St. Peter’sMy family always used to spend a month or more in Rome after the end of the academic year in New York in May and the beginning of the Roman Forum’s Summer Symposium on Lake Garda. In 1995, my wife and I arrived in the Eternal City with our firstborn child, Nicholas, who was only two months old.We always stayed at a religious-run house on the Janiculum Hill called the Villa Bassi, dining every night at an inexpensive and extremely welcoming restaurant on the Via del Moro...

There’s no politics here. Washington DC is comprised of magnanimous institutions filled with exceptionally moral people who commit their lives to a career of public service on behalf of this nation. So sayeth Rod Rosenstein as he takes up a defensive position against the vulgarian horde who do not cherish their rulers with enough reverence, or something like that. As the story is told, there are only honorable and altruistic officials within the institutions of the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation. The examples of Robert Mueller, Christopher Wray, Merrick Garland and both special counsels Smith and...

WEST CHESTER — A Luzerne County pastor drew a lengthy prison sentence Monday in a child sex abuse case that involved his behavior from over a decade before when he had taught at a private religious school in Chester County. The incident for which Randy Lee Boston was convicted at a jury trial last year involved performing oral sex on a student at the West Chester Christian School in West Goshen, where he had taught fifth grade, and having the child perform oral sex on him. It took years before the victim was able to come forward and tell first...

The discovery of a fourth set of classified documents, at the Biden residence in Delaware, has further undermined the White House’s virtual mantra that the president “takes classified documents very seriously.” Putting aside the repeated movement of highly classified documents over six years, one curious element has emerged in this scandal: the use of private counsel. Not only did President Joe Biden enlist lawyers to clear out his private Washington office; he then used them — rather than security officers or the FBI — to search for additional classified documents. The initial use of lawyers is notable. While it seems...

The downfall of capitalism will not come from the uprising of an impoverished working class but from the sabotage of a bored upper class. This was the view of the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter in 1942. Schumpeter believed that at some point in the future, an educated elite would have nothing left to struggle for and will instead start to struggle against the very system that they themselves live in. Nothing makes me think Schumpeter was right like the contemporary climate movement and its acolytes. The Green movement is not a reflection of planetary crisis as so many in media...

George Washington University has one of the largest Jewish student populations in the United States. So it could surprise you that the Washington D.C. private college is again caught in an Antisemitism scandal. While showing a class some paintings of the Prophet Muhammad now cause your termination, the current state of higher education apparently says constructing an entire course on vile anti-Semitism is “academic freedom” and not a concern. Last week, the pro-Israel organization, StandWithUs, filed a complaint with the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights on behalf of Jewish and Israeli students enrolled in GW’s professional psychology program.The...

On Sunday's Meet the Press on NBC, host Chuck Todd made the laughable claim that he’s a journalist who “deals in facts” during a heated back and forth with Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson on the congressional investigation into President Joe Biden’s drug addict criminal son Hunter Biden. Anyone familiar with Todd’s journalistic track record will realize how absurd his comment was. “I take it at your word that you’re ethically bothered by Hunter Biden,” Todd said to Johnson to which he shot back “are you not?” “I’m a journalist. I have to deal in facts. Senator my question to...

Denver, Colo., Jan 13, 2023 / 15:30 pm Textbook publisher Pearson Canada has dropped the Ontario Catholic education curriculum “Fully Alive” from its offerings after LGBT advocates claimed the Catholic content is “homophobic.” The Assembly of Catholic Bishops of Ontario sponsors Fully Alive, calling it a “family life education program.” It accounts for about 20% of the religious education program in Ontario Catholic schools and is taught about once a week, the Toronto bishops’ website said. The series was first published between 1988 and 1992, with updates in 2006 and 2012. Family life and sex education, as represented in Fully...

January 15 is the feast date, and the 1648 execution date, of the Catholic protomartyr of China — St. Francis Ferdinand de Capillas. The pride of a tiny Castilian hamlet, de Capillas was a Dominican who got his start saving souls proselytizing in the Philippines, where Spain did a robust trade. In 1642, he joined other Dominican friars on a mission out of Fu’an in the south of China. Spain and Portugal had made steady inroads* for Christianity in the peninsular locale of Macau over the preceding decades but de Capillas’s was a mission to make converts in the mainland....

I gotta ponder that for a moment...Jim Crow -gone. Segregation -gone. The civil rights movement has made tremendous gains in 50 years. I wonder what the statistics were in the late 60's concerning the USA black community? I'm not making accusations here...just pointing out the obvious. In 1968 was 13% of the population responsible for 50% of the murder? Were blacks killing other blacks in significantly higher rates than any other race was killing each other? Was the single motherhood rate in the black community 80%? -no it was 20%. What would Martin Luther King Jr. say about the black-on-black...

Generative AI, like OpenAI's ChatGPT, could completely revamp how digital content is developed, said Nina Schick, adviser, speaker, and A.I. thought leader told Yahoo Finance Live (video above). "I think we might reach 90% of online content generated by AI by 2025, so this technology is exponential," she said. "I believe that the majority of digital content is going to start to be produced by AI. You see ChatGPT... but there are a whole plethora of other platforms and applications that are coming up." The surge of interest in OpenAI's DALL-E and ChatGPT has facilitated a wide-ranging public discussion about...

Mosque: Novus Ordo Church Falls ApartThe Margaret Mary Church in Ottawa, Canada, will soon be operating as a mosque, reports Cbc.ca (7 January).The new owner is the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada, which owns 32 mosques across the country, including two former Christian churches.The sale will be completed in March. The church has not been used for three years.

Disgraced former FBI official Andrew McCabe said the DOJ should obstruct the House GOP’s investigation into the Biden document scandal. House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) launched the first congressional investigation into classified documents stored at Joe Biden’s private office and home. It was revealed this week that Joe Biden improperly stored stolen classified documents at his private office and in his garage next to his Corvette. Joe Biden STOLE the classified documents. US Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Robert Hur as the special counsel to investigate the Biden document scandal. McCabe said it’s time for the DOJ to play...

Update from Ukraine | Bakhmut is under the threat but Ruzzia is unable to take it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI5jM776m0Y Follow on Instagram up to date uploads. https://www.instagram.com/denys_pilot/ SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here: https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-326-summary/ https://militaryland.net/maps/deployment-map/

A teacher in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, accidentally emailed sexually explicit photos to students, and the principal is asking students not to share them. In a letter Friday, Principal Taryn Washington told families of students enrolled at Dr. Henry A. Wise Jr. High School what happened, Fox 5 reported. The letter read: A Wise employee inadvertently emailed a message that included sexually explicit photos to all students. Immediate action was taken by school administrators to retract the correspondence; however, many individuals saw the photos and have since shared them with others. I am asking that all students, as responsible online citizens,...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a bill into law on Friday that legally protects out-of-state abortion seekers, as well as abortionists and doctors who perform sex-mutilating surgeries, CBS Chicago reported. “In addition to shielding reproductive and gender-affirming health care patients and providers from legal action originating across state lines, the act will also protect the Illinois licenses of health care providers licensed in multiple states who provide treatment legal in Illinois but may cost them their license in a state where it’s not,” according to the report. “The measure also prevents insurers from charging more for out-of-network care when in-network...

President Joe Biden has told lie after lie, getting caught each time. You’d think he’d learned his lesson by now. In yet another fabrication of his, Biden claimed that he attended a black church in Delaware every morning after he attended Catholic mass in high school, despite members of the church not being able to recall the president ever being there. During a visit to the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Biden shared his so-called “experience” with black churches. “I may be a practicing Catholic, we used to go 7:30 am...

Meet Ryan O’Leary. He currently is in the Bakhmut area of operations fighting under the command of Ukrainian officers. Mr. O’Leary is not happy. He is a 34 year old alumni of Carroll High School in Iowa and a National Guard veteran who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, He reports that his unit is undermanned and lacking in heavy weapons because “they’ve gone missing.” In other words, the weapons are being sold on the black market. O’Leary blames the logistics problems on the corrupt, criminal behavior of his Ukrainian chain of command — from the Major General to his Captain....

The White House confirmed Thursday morning that President Joe Biden improperly stored classified information in his Wilmington, Delaware garage. Contrary to Biden’s statements: -he did not take classified documents “seriously” -he failed to follow protocol -none of this is by the book -he did not act “immediately” -he and his DOJ failed at a cover-uphttps://t.co/i2QR8jGdN9 — Spencer Brown (@itsSpencerBrown) January 12, 2023 Biden kept classified documents in his Wilmington garage. Conveniently, there isn’t a visitor log available to the public keeping track of who visits, despite all of the time Biden spends there. — Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) January 12, 2023...