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A local Catholic church official was shot and killed in Los Angeles County, California, on Saturday, according to the sheriff's department. David O'Connell, the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, was fatally shot in the incident in Hacienda Heights, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said. The shooting occurred at around 1 p.m. local time in the 1500 block of Janlu Avenue. Deputies responded to the shooting and when they arrived at the scene, they discovered O'Connell suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

US government agents had been tipped off about the cult by a postal driver alarmed by the number of guns he had been delivering to the group's headquarters. Special agent Davy Aguilera had concluded that the Branch Davidians had been illegally converting AR-15 rifles from semi-automatic to automatic weapons, without applying for the required licences or paying the taxes due. Spooked by rumours that cult members were planning a mass suicide at Passover, amid reports of child abuse against under-age girls, ATF agents began in July 1992 to lay the groundwork for the biggest operation in the agency's history. The...

19 February 20237th Sunday in Ordinary Time One of the oldest church altars in Volyn, Ukraine (Museum of the Volyn Icon exhibit) Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingLeviticus 19:1-2,17-18 ©You must love your neighbour as yourselfThe Lord spoke to Moses; he said: ‘Speak to the whole community of the sons of Israel and say to them: ‘“Be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy. ‘“You must not bear hatred for your brother in your heart. You must openly tell him, your neighbour, of his offence; this way you will not take a sin upon yourself. You...

"This I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment" (Phil. 1:9). Christian love operates within the parameters of Biblical knowledge and spiritual discernment. As a Christian, you are a repository of divine love. More than anything else, your love for God and for other believers marks you as a true disciple of Jesus Christ (John 13:35). In addition to possessing God's love, you have the privilege and responsibility of expressing it to others on His behalf. That's a sacred trust. Paul qualifies it in Philippians 1:9, which tells us love is...

- Britain is training Ukrainian soldiers to fight in a more "Western way" and use less ammunition than the traditional Soviet way of fighting, British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said on Wednesday.Britain along with other Western allies has been training Ukrainian soldiers and providing weapons and ammunition to support Kyiv in its battle with Russia."Ukraine uses huge amounts of ammunition to defend itself, partly that's why we're training them to fight in a Western way," Wallace told Times Radio.

What are you, some kind of science denier? You probably think wealth redistribution from the middle and lower classes to the one percent via exorbitant taxes won’t stop the weather from warming or cooling too — idiot. What these government clowns are peddling isn’t even pseudo-science anymore; there appears to be zero burden to even give the impression they’re adhering to scientific methods or pursuing objectivity. Enter stage left: Rochelle Walensky, director of the CDC. In a viral video from Twitter a few days back, a Republican congresswoman from Washington state quizzed Walensky on the fact that the CDC remained...

When the Agriculture Department finished its calculations last month, the findings were startling: 2022 was a disaster for upland cotton in Texas, the state where the coarse fiber is primarily grown and then sold around the globe in the form of tampons, cloth diapers, gauze pads and other products. In the biggest loss on record, Texas farmers abandoned 74% of their planted crops — nearly 6 million acres — because of heat and parched soil, hallmarks of a megadrought made worse by climate change. That crash has helped to push up the price of tampons in the United States 13%...

After nearly five months of waiting, an alarm activated on Michael Cove’s radio, a sign his study was working. To hunt pythons, an invasive predator in the Florida Keys, Cove and fellow researchers have been strapping GPS collars to opossums and raccoons. When one was eaten by a python in September, researchers programmed the device to notify them from within the snake’s stomach.... According to a ScienceDaily study, the number of raccoons, opossums and bobcats in the Everglades all dropped by at least 87 percent between 1997 and 2012. The same study found that marsh and cottontail rabbits and foxes...

Exactly how woke do we want to make the people who defend our freedom? Recent incursions into American airspace by Chinese spy balloons, an increasingly threatening Chinese military, and an escalating war in Ukraine that pits NATO forces against Russia all point to the need for a strong, tough, professional U.S. military that can win wars and protect the homeland. The United States spends more on defense than any other country in the world. In fact, our 2021 total of $801 billion exceeded the $777 billion spent that year by the next seven countries — China, India, the U.K., Russia,...

This editor doesn’t intend to do a post on transgender issues every Saturday, but somehow always ends up doing one. For a “marginalized” community with no power, transgender activists have nonetheless compelled the dictionary to change its definition of “woman.” Is there any place worse than Arkansas? A trans doctor testified before the state senate there and was appalled and utterly mortified over her treatment by the legislature. She told her story to The Independent: I’m a trans doctor. What happened to me in front of the Arkansas senate was appalling https://t.co/eDAPIws6jj — The Independent (@Independent) February 18, 2023 Gwendolyn...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemMark 5Jesus Restores a Demon-Possessed Man5 They went across the lake to the region of the Gerasenes.[a] 2 When Jesus got out of the boat, a man with an impure spirit came from the tombs to meet him. 3 This man lived in the tombs, and no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain. 4 For he had often been chained hand and foot, but he tore the chains apart and broke the irons on his feet. No one was strong enough to subdue him. 5 Night and day among the tombs...

The Talk Shows Feb 19th, 2023 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: 2024 Republican presidential candidate and former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-S.C.); John Kirby, coordinator for strategic communications at the Biden’s National Security Council and retired Army Gen. Jack Keane, former Army vice chief of staff. Panel: Rich Lowry, Never Trump editor in chief at National Review; Bloomberg Washington Bureau chief Peggy Collins; Michael Allen, former special assistant for national security to President George W. Bush; and FOX News senior political analyst Whine Williams.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by...

Can the pencil-neck vote outweigh the DEI Left on behalf of Adam Schiff? History shows that leftists always end up eating their own, as they continually jockey for the top rung on their political ladder. This week’s target is the odious Congressman Adam Schiff. He has been a congressman for 22 years and this year has decided to run for the seat being vacated by Senator Dianne Feinstein, whose staff, apparently without her prior knowledge, has announced she will not run again in 2024. He is a consummate liar and misused his perch as the ranking member of the House...

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The revenge of the membership continues. Prominent anti-Boris activist Damian Green has been rejected by the new Weald of Kent Constituency Executive as their candidate. Originally neighbouring MP Helen Grant had put her name forward as well. After a conversation with Damian Green, presumably to agree a stitch up for another neighbouring seat (distrct), she withdrew her candidature. Despite knocking out the competition things did not pan out well for the super-wet Damian. The chair of the One Nation Caucus- which claims the support of a third Tory (RINO) MPs – was active in efforts to destabilise and dethrone Boris....

Welcome To Your Weekend... It's time for an East Palestine, Ohio Update the disaster of toxic contamination of a community. For this update the theme music that is synonymous with "The Rush Limbaugh Show"... "There's dead worms and there's dead fish all throughout this water" US Senator JD Vance Of Ohio In East Palestine, Ohio 2/16/2023... Before JD Vance got to the US Senate in this year 2023 back in December of 2022 Joe Biden and Congress (House and Senate) imposed on the railroad workers of this country a contract they didn't want... Championed By "Pro-Choice" Female Personalities In The...

Tyler Borys said his wife, 26-year-old Alexandria Cress Borys, was loading groceries into her car at the Kroger in Irmo, South Carolina, when she got into an argument with a woman she didn't know, according to FOX 57 Columbia. After the argument was over, the stranger, later identified by Irmo police as 23-year-old Christina Harrison, allegedly pulled out a gun and shot Borys in the back. The couple's children, a 2-year-old and an infant, were in the car when she was shot.

At a time when growing Cold War anxiety about the Soviets ranged from psychological warfare to wholesale nuclear annihilation, the U.S. government worried about the prospect of a growing national hysteria. In the previous year, UFOs had begun to figure prominently in the public conversation. In April 1952, the popular magazine LIFE published a story titled “Have We Visitors from Space?” that promised to offer “scientific evidence that there is a real case for interplanetary saucers.” In July that year, newspaper headlines around the country blared reports of flying saucers swarming Washington, D.C. Between March and June that year, the...

In an interesting interview on Fox News titled The Church of Environmentalism (here), journalist Tucker Carlson has brought to light a contradiction that may have escaped the notice of many people but which I consider extremely revealing. Carlson recalls that the American Constitution prohibits any state religion, but for some time the governing Democratic party has imposed on the American people the globalist cult, with its green agenda, its woke dogmas, its condemnations and cancel culture, its priests of the World Health Organization, the prophets of the World Economic Forum. A religion in all respects, all-encompassing not only for the...

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell on Friday told attendees at the Munich Security Conference that Republican leadership backs continued aid to Ukraine as it fights off a Russian invasion, despite voices within his party opposing continued assistance. "Reports about the death of Republican support for strong American leadership in the world have been greatly exaggerated," he said. "My party’s leaders overwhelmingly support a strong, involved America and a robust trans-Atlantic alliance. Don’t look at Twitter, look at people in power." The Kentucky senator pointed to himself, as well as Speaker or the House Kevin McCarthy and top Republicans on the...