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[Catholic Caucus] "L'Eglise, c'est moi!" - Reflection by Francis Patruno The famous expression "L'État, c'est moi!" is commonly attributed to Louis XIV, the Sun King, ruler of France. It is debated among historians whether the King ever uttered it. Whether uttered or not, it expressed the idea of a fact, namely, that the state was identified with the person of the King. A conviction that dies hard when we recall that a De Gaulle, still in the 20th century, affirmed: "Je suis la France."Now, moving to the ecclesiastical level, paraphrasing the famous phrase we have recalled, Francis may well...

In the final weeks of the Trump Administration, the Justice Department attempted to seize the records of six journalists as part of a leak investigation. Small clues point towards Durham. Backstory. On or about January 21st of this year, Sergei Millian teased a “secret sealed SpyGate case” via a series of now deleted tweets. Shout out to The Washington Pundit Telegram channel for posting this screenshot of it. image Twitter user @mgEyesOpen searched PACER and found it. Sure enough, it exist and is sealed. image I searched the case myself, 21-SC-3164 (ZMF), and it was difficult to find. That is...

**SNIP** The latest situation earning the ire of watchdogs is Rep. Cori Bush's (D-MO) newly announced marriage to a security guard for her campaign, despite her husband, Cortney Merritts, reportedly not holding a St. Louis private security license. Bush's marriage, which was quietly inked in January, is part of a string of alleged ethics issues for Squad members, which include the likes of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and five other Democrats, watchdogs say. **SNIP** Ocasio-Cortez is being investigated by the House Ethics Committee, per a December 2022 government press release. While it's...

California's governor pledged not to do business with Walgreens after the nation’s second-largest retail pharmacy barred selling abortion pills in 20 states that prohibit the procedure and the necessary medication for it. Gavin Newson announced the decision on Monday in a tweet that read, 'We're done,' following the company's decision last week. The move comes after Walgreens received pressure from anti-abortion lawmakers not to carry the drug, Mifepristone, which makes up half of the combination used to induce an abortion. 'California won't be doing business with @walgreens - or any company that cowers to the extremists and puts women's lives...

"Definitely we're selling to a lot of governments around the world, not only in Europe," sales and marketing director Poven Kumaresan told reporters. He added that Inflatech's three dozen employees currently produce 30-40 decoys a month. These decoys including tanks, armoured vehicles and even jet fighters, weigh between 25 and 90 kilos and take two to four people to handle in the battlefield. The engine used to inflate the weapons also emanates heat that will fool the enemy's infrared sensors.

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Explanation: It was visible around the world. The sunset conjunction of Jupiter and Venus in 2012 was visible almost no matter where you lived on Earth. Anyone on the planet with a clear western horizon at sunset could see them. Pictured here in 2012, a creative photographer traveled away from the town lights of Szubin, Poland to image a near closest approach of the two planets. The bright planets were then separated only by three degrees and his daughter struck a humorous pose. A faint red sunset still glowed in the background. Jupiter and Venus are together again this month...

The Southern Poverty Law Center is the radical leftist organization that corporate media and government bodies turn to for “information” about hate groups and domestic terrorists. Among those government bodies are law enforcement agencies, especially the Federal Bureau of Investigation who named the SPLC as “valued asset” in their war against America. Following Sunday’s attack by Antifa domestic terrorists on an Atlanta-area police training facility, arrests are being made. Law enforcement is turning again to the Southern Poverty Law Center, but this time for a different reason. One of the Antifa members arrested is Tom Jurgens, a staff attorney for...

"And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother." "And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes." "Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God."...

The last “big one”-level movements in California’s recorded earthquake history are the 1857 earthquake in the central third of the San Andreas and the 1906 earthquake in the northern third...that’s not to say there haven’t been major earthquakes since then. The 1989 San Francisco-area earthquake and the 1994 Northridge earthquakes, for instance, were both devastating and destructive shocks... The impact that a large earthquake has, whether it’s a 6.5 or an 8.0, largely depends on the proximity to urbanized areas. The southern San Andreas is particularly of concern for experts when looking at places that are overdue for an earthquake...

Depression is a leading cause of disability around the world and contributes greatly to the global burden of disease. Nutrition is essential for the maintenance of normal emotional states. Nutritional therapy is rising up in many disease treatments, but little is known in the depression field. Unbalanced nutrition is implicated in the etiology of depression, potentially hindering treatment. For example, many essential amino acids (EAAs) in serum are changed in patients with depression, such as tryptophan, threonine, leucine, isoleucine, and valine. However, whether EAA contributes to depression and the underlying mechanisms remain largely unknown. Now, researchers, led by Feifan Guo,...

DEY TOOK MAH JOB! DEY TERK MEH JERB! D'TERK M'JERB! DURKA DURKA DERRRR! DEY TERK UR JRBS So, a layoff is imminent. My company, a health insurance company, is getting rid of a large bread-and-butter portion of their focus, namely Employee Group insurance. That's the health insurance component that employers give employees. Guess what area of the company I work for?The layoff could occur as soon as 60 days from now, or (at max) 6 months from now.So my manager, who really loves my work, gave me a inside-scoop that our area (Producer Services, basically sales commissions for agents) is...

An attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center is among the 23 protesters who have been charged with domestic terrorism after they allegedly hurled Molotov cocktails and fireworks at a future Atlanta police training facility, cops said Monday. Thomas Webb Jurgens, 28, was one of the nearly two dozen people detained on Sunday in what police have described as a “coordinated attack” on the still-under-construction Atlanta Public Safety Training Center — dubbed “Cop City.” Jurgens is a staff attorney with SPLC — the left-leaning, anti-hate group, according to the State Bar of Georgia and his since-deleted LinkedIn page. Of the...

Biden FAA nominee, Phillip Washington, admitted that he knew nothing about the FAA's operations or responsibilities but did correctly supply his name to the Senate panel. Although the CEO of the Denver Airport, Phil tried not to get too involved with "airplane" stuff and focused on ensuring all the airport concourse vendors anteed up big bucks. Phil did suggest some changes to improve air travel. First he would promote all co-pilots to pilots which should relieve the pilot shortage. Latin American immigrants would be pushed through the same pilot course that the 911 terrorists used to become co-pilots. Since co-pilots...

Self-help author and Democratic presidential hopeful Marianne Williamson on Sunday accused party bigs of “rigging” the primary system in favor of President Biden

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed Monday not to retreat from Bakhmut as Russian forces encroached on the devastated eastern city they have sought to capture for six months at the cost of thousands of lives. Less than a week ago, an adviser to Zelenskyy said the defenders might give up on Bakhmut and fall back to nearby positions. But Zelenskyy on Monday chaired a meeting in which top military brass “spoke in favor of continuing the defense operation and further strengthening our positions in Bakhmut.” Later in his nightly video address, the president reported that his advisers unanimously agreed to...

As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier on Monday, Joe Biden was the keynote speaker at the 2023 International Association of Fire Fighters Legislative Conference. As usual, Biden’s remarks were filled with blunders and bizarre statements. One of the most eyebrow-raising things Biden said was when he told the crowd of firefighters that when he had terrible headaches doctors ‘had to take the top of his head off a couple of times to see if he had a brain.’ WATCH:

Nebraska officials say a pair of migrants shot and killed a North American bald eagle - a protected animal and the national emblem of the United States - with the intention of eating the bird. Two Honduran nationals, Ramiro Hernandez-Tziquin, 20 and Domingo Zetino-Hernandez, 20, both of Norfolk were cited for unlawful possession of the eagle. Hernandez-Tziquin was also cited for having No Drivers License," the Stanton County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release on Feb. 28. The sheriff’s office said officials responded to an area near the Wood Duck Recreation Area, which is about 100 miles northeast of...

Anthony Fauci has almost no actual intelligence regarding the source of COVID. Two eminent scientists had informed him of their judgment that the virus was likely manufactured, not natural. The virus emerged right next to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The Chinese were being very cagey, hiding the evidence they had about the virus. Fauci’s response? Hold an emergency conference call with the authors of the paper alleging an engineered origin, bully them into recanting, and “commissioning” them to write a paper saying the opposite of what they had claimed just hours before. Watch Dr. Martin Makary explain the sequence...

Dozens of people face domestic terrorism charges after “violent agitators” allegedly infiltrated a protest of a police training center site dubbed “Cop City.” The suspects threw “large rocks, bricks, Molotov cocktails, and fireworks” at authorities and construction equipment, torching the site, authorities say. “The agitators destroyed multiple pieces of construction equipment by fire and vandalism,” the Atlanta Police Department (APD) wrote in a press release. “Multiple law enforcement agencies deployed to the area and detained several people committing illegal activity.” Police have arrested 35 people, who were mostly — though not all — from out of state. “The illegal actions...