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This weekend, I watched the breaking news reports from Southern California with a mixture of shock, disbelief and anger. On Saturday night, what had been a gathering to celebrate the Lunar New Year in a Los Angeles suburb became the scene of a massacre. By Sunday, President Biden had issued a statement, noting: “While there is still much we don’t know about the motive in this senseless attack, we do know that many families are grieving tonight, or praying that their loved one will recover from their wounds.” I am from Monterey Park, Calif. I am struggling to process a...

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos responded to a report Monday that claimed that he was considering selling The Washington Post so he could purchase an NFL team from an owner who hates the newspaper. The New York Post reported that Bezos is looking to potentially buy the Washington Commanders from team owner Dan Synder. Snyder, however, despises the newspaper because it reported on the alleged toxic management of the NFL franchise. After the report was published on Monday, representatives for Bezos and The Washington Post both told CNN that the newspaper was not for sale. The New York Post report comes...

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) described the Second Amendment as a “suicide pact” in the wake of Saturday’s Monterey Park dance hall attack and made clear he and California lawmakers will continue to work on passing more gun control. Newsom told CBS News, “The Second Amendment’s becoming a suicide pact, it feels like.” He then pivoted and said, “What about our kids, when they’re going to school, what more can we do?”

The recent announcement that electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Tesla has cut its prices by between six and 20 percent just to maintain its production goals and market share is the latest manifestation of the fading enthusiasm for electric vehicles.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) responded to the Saturday night mass shooting in Monterey Park by claiming people with “large capacity clips… are perpetuating lunacy.” Newsome said: “It’s always a weapon of mass destruction isn’t it?” He continued, “I mean, I get it, we can talk about the anomalous nature of this and it certainly is. But what is also anomalous is the fact that there’s a pattern here in the United States of America, these mass shootings that doesn’t exist anywhere else in the world, at least the free world.

The Bible In Paintings ~ Encouragement for Appreciating and Applying God's Word ~ A RICH MAN & POOR LAZARUS ֎ Featuring 40 Paintings, 2 Reliefs, 1 Statue and 3 Windows ֎ L U K E Chapter 16 The Pharisees, who loved money, were sneering at Jesus. He said to them, “There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores and longing to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his...

Well, that certainly didn’t take long. Over the weekend, we warned about the steadily advancing agenda of imposing a new, permanent racial caste system onto the American public in the guise of “reparations.” The demands, we said, are steadily getting more and more ambitious, and the likelihood of true reparations actually becoming a reality is far closer than most realize. But even we were stunned by what just came out of San Francisco.

Two men discovered an ancient bison skull while scavenging near downtown Kansas City, Missouri, in mid-January. Mike Ruth and Dave Jamerson were poking around the waterways of the Missouri River, looking for artifacts, fossils, cool stuff like that, when they found what they first thought might have been a piece of driftwood, according to KCTV5. As they lifted the piece from the silt, they realized they had “something really cool,” as Ruth told the outlet. “I immediately thought bison,” Jamerson commented. The fossil was covered in silt and zebra mussels as they unearthed it, but came out of the dirt...

Stealth EducationThe Successful Humanist Subversion of Public SchoolingVirtually everyone today realizes that government schools are less than ideal for children, with polls indicating that the vast majority would prefer an alternative. The fruit is obvious enough. According to 2019 data compiled under the federal government’s own National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as “America’s Report Card,” two-thirds of eighth graders are not proficient in any core subject. According to a 2020 Gallup study, fewer than half of U.S. adults read at a sixth-grade level.1Meanwhile, polls show that some 70 percent of millennials would likely vote for a socialist—a total rejection...

New peak pricing at electric car chargepoints can leave consumers worse off than if they stuck to traditional petrol-engined vehicles, according to new analysis from the AA. Previous analysis by motoring organisations has showed the cost of charging electric vehicles has soared in recent months, driven by rising energy prices partly triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last February...

Ukraine dismissed the governors of five battlefield provinces and an array of other senior officials on Tuesday in the biggest shakeup of its wartime leadership since Russia's invasion last year. Separately on Tuesday, a long-awaited decision on whether allies could send German-made heavy tanks to Ukraine finally reached Berlin, after Poland said it had formally sent its request. Among more than a dozen senior Ukrainian officials who resigned or were dismissed on Tuesday were the governors of the Kyiv, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions. All five regions have been major battlefields over the past year, giving their governors an...

24 January 2023Saint Francis de Sales, Bishop, Doctor on Tuesday of week 3 in Ordinary Time Saint Francis de Sales Oratory, Saint Louis, Missouri Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingHebrews 10:1-10 ©Christ’s self-offering sanctifies usSince the Law has no more than a reflection of these realities, and no finished picture of them, it is quite incapable of bringing the worshippers to perfection, with the same sacrifices repeatedly offered year after year. Otherwise, the offering of them would have stopped, because the worshippers, when they had...

Smoking gun? Did Hunter Biden receive classified information from Joe Biden on Ukraine and then email the information to his business partner Devon Archer? Joe Biden stored top-secret files with the “sensitive compartmented information” (SCIF) designation at Penn Biden Center in DC (found on Nov. 2). Lawyers discovered more classified documents at Joe Biden’s Delaware home – in the garage next to his Corvette (found on Dec. 20). Additional documents stored in Biden’s library were discovered on January 12 and again on January 20. Hunter Biden had access to the garage where Biden stored some of the classified documents. Hunter...

The delivery of tanks, advanced air defense systems and potentially long-range ground-launched bombs may be a response to Ukraine’s dire requests, but it also brings with it a new load of problems. These hastily and urgently provided supplies indicate that all is not well in Kiev and that it is closer than ever to losing the war with Russia. These are not one-to-one replacements for equipment lost: Most of the delivered supplies aim to shift the fortunes of the war in favor of Ukraine. At least one of the projected weapons, a 100-mile ground-launched long-range bomb known as ATACMS, also...

China’s newly-trained fighter pilots are being rushed into action to intercept increasing foreign reconnaissance flights, according to recent news reports. This gives its novice pilots operational experience, reveals China’s responses to air incursions by the US and its allies, and adds new impetus to China’s reforms to its pilot training program. Last week, South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported that People’s Liberation Army – Air Force (PLA-AF) fighter pilots fresh out of training had been sent to intercept increasing incursions by US and other foreign aircraft in the East and South China Seas. The report notes that in some cases...

Two Biden scandals are converging: (1) Joe’s illegal possession of classified documents and (2) the contents of that genuine, 100%, all-real Hunter Biden hard drive. The conversation isn’t only pictures of Hunter Biden, drug addict and “international businessman,” suspiciously close to the garage trove of classified documents; it’s also a compelling claim that, on at least one occasion, Hunter Biden sent his business partners an email that has the smell of a reworked classified briefing. From the moment in October 2020 when the New York Post broke the news about Hunter Biden’s laptop, Miranda Devine has been all over the...

RAPID CITY, S.D. — In South Dakota’s second-largest county — the seat of political power in the western half of the state — the Republican Party is under new leadership. At the Pennington County GOP elections held on Jan. 21 in Rapid City, the energized, right wing of the party swept their more moderate counterparts across the six elected positions in the County Central Committee — county chair and vice chair; county treasurer; county secretary; and state committeeman and committeewoman. Each position serves a two-year term. While the split between the two factions in the party remains to be litigated...

Muscovites were braving the threat of arrest to lay flowers at an improvised memorial to victims of a missile attack in Ukraine's central city of Dnipro... The rare criticism of Russia's nearly year-long military campaign in Ukraine comes on the back of sweeping legislation that all but outlaws speaking out against the fighting. Officials in Ukraine say at least 46 people were killed by a Russian attack on a residential building in Dnipro... Flowers and children's toys have already been cleared away several times at the base of a statue in Moscow to Ukrainian poet Lesya Ukrainka but local residents...

TAXWATCH Tax season is starting for all Americans — but the tax code’s provisions play out very differently for white families compared to families of color, new research says. The tax benefits from some of the most advantageous parts of the federal income-tax code accrue disproportionately to white families, according to Treasury Department findings that show the broader implications of dry tax rules. White families are pulling in more than 90% of the tax benefits that come from lower tax rates for capital gains, more than 90% of the tax benefits from itemized charitable deductions and 90% of the deduction...

"New Seth Rich documents, fresh off the grill!” attorney Ty Clevenger tweeted Friday night. “FBI filed a new motion about CrowdStrike records. I’ve only given it a cursory review, but we have at least one bombshell.” Clevenger, a self-described, “Ex-cop, ex-journalist, disgruntled lawyer, muckraking blogger (http://LawFlog.com), and cheerful optimist,” was not exaggerating. The revelation that the Democrat-friendly cyber security firm CrowdStrike was the second party in possession of the laptop owned by the murdered DNC data analyst Seth Rich is a bombshell indeed. By way of background, in April 2016, the DNC learned that its computers had been hacked. Reportedly,...