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Think about what's been happening. We're a blink away from world war. There are drugs taking the lives of 100,000 Americans a year – the biggest cause of death of those between 18 and 45. The president of the United States is clearly cognitively challenged. His predecessor, a clear-headed man who was a hero to the nation, was just indicted in New York – unjustly. Crime and lawlessness are reaching astronomical levels. Children are now being "groomed" to receive "gender-affirming care" through mutilation. "Gender dysphoria" seems to be rampant, with perhaps millions of girls thinking they are boys and vice...

Somebody at China's foreign ministry must be getting promotions.It's been one diplomatic victory after another for the Chinese, While most of the attention is focused on China's growing military might and technological success, the diplomatic front is racking up successes, too.David Goldman had an interesting tweet:. Whoops! There went Brazil. Whoops! There went Honduras. Whoops! Here goes Malaysia.https://t.co/NZfJavjIGt — David P. Goldman (@davidpgoldman) March 30, 2023 The article references Malaysia's fairly new prime minister, Anwar Ibrahim, reputedly a Western-friendly leader, calling for China to step up its One Belt, One Road development initiative, which is focused on high-value infrastructure investment...

What could go wrong? You elect a leftist in Brazil, China comes calling and the U.S. president is too busy with what he calls equity. Well, the Brazilians sing you a samba called "adeus norte-americano" or goodbye, North American. Yes, nice knowing you and your "Dinheiro" (money) but we are turning "chinês" (chinese). To paraphrase that song from the 1980s, Brazil is turning Chinese -- I really think so.Well, here is the story: The deal, announced Wednesday, will enable China and Brazil to carry out trade and financial transactions directly, exchanging yuan for reais -- or vice versa -- rather...

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough mocked Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) for urging conservatives to donate to former President Donald Trump’s campaign following his indictment Thursday night. “I always talk about the Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker approach to politics scamming people like my grandmother out of their Social Security checks, $25 here, $50 there,” Scarborough said on his morning table talk program on Friday. “I’ve got to say, that Lindsey Graham moment, he’s tearing up. Lindsey knows what a bad man Donald Trump is. Lindsey is one who said if we make him our nominee, he’ll destroy the Republican Party, and...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — New York law enforcement won't be releasing as many mugshots from now on. A new law requires that many mugshots be withheld from public distribution. This comes after third party websites take and post the pictures online and then demand money if the person in the photo wants it to be taken down. One possible exception to the rule will be when releasing the photo is important for public safety. "Effective immediately, New York State Police will not include mugshots in press releases, and they will not be provided to media when requested. This is due to...

The Democrats’ Road to HellA new documentary by Vince Everett Ellison rips the mask off Democrats’ evils and the consequences of going along with them.The most significant things can start from the most ordinary moments.“This started from a trip my daughter and I had and we stopped by McDonald’s and this lady [who was] going to a pro-abortion march asked my daughter to join her because she saw she was black, and she thought she was a liberal Democrat,” Vince Everett Ellison recalls. “And my daughter very, very nicely said, ‘Uh, ma’am, I’m a Christian and I vote my values.’”“And...

Hyper-violent transgender militants say they’re just getting started after a targeted attack on a Nashville Christian school by a woman claiming to be a man who took the lives of three young children and three of their teachers.

A planned transgender rally in Washington D.C. that has drawn widespread criticism after the Nashville school shooting is still set to take place on Saturday, despite increasingly violent rhetoric from the trans lobby. The New York Post reports that the rally, scheduled for April 1st at 11:00 AM outside the Supreme Court, is being organized by the far-left group Trans Radical Activist Network (TRAN). The event had been announced prior to the March 27th shooting, when 28-year-old Audrey Elizabeth Hale, a woman who identified as a man, killed six victims at The Covenant School in Nashville – including three 9-year-old...

Donald Trump’s niece Mary Trump said Thursday on MSNBC’s “The Last Word” that she found it “absolutely understandable” that some people would be feeling “celebratory” over reports former President Donald Trump will be indicted in the Manhattan district attorney’s criminal probe into a 2016 hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. Host Lawrence O’Donnell said, “I have a feeling that there are millions of people watching this right now in a celebratory mood.” Trump said, “Lawrence, that’s fair. I absolutely think it’s fair because we can feel both things at the same time. It is a dark day. This...

Thursday, during an appearance on Fox News Channel, law professor Jonathan Turley criticized the merits of the Manhattan grand jury’s indictment of former President Donald Trump. Turley deemed the indictment “legally pathetic.” “It is, it’s historic, it’s not necessarily good history that it is being made,” he said. “It’s not that I oppose the indictment of a former president. I don’t even oppose the indictment of a sitting president on a constitutional basis. But this indictment, if it is reportedly following the theory that we’ve been talking about is political. It’s a raw political prosecution. Now, the indictment may come...

Early in the introductory college economics course, instructors talk about the Law of Diminishing Returns. An illustration: A farmer has a 100-acre field on which he wants to harvest wheat. If he does all the work himself, he can get 5,000 bushels of grain. With a second worker helping him, he can get 8,000 bushels, and with two helpers, 9,000. As more workers are added, output rises, but by sharply diminishing amounts. Another example: The first ice cream cone a consumer eats adds a lot of pleasure (what economists call “utility”), but if the consumer is forced to eat lots...

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Thursday called for calm heads to prevail after the Manhattan District Attorney’s office indicted former President Trump in relation to hush money payments made to an adult film actress Stormy Daniels during his 2016 campaign. “Mr. Trump is subject to the same laws as every American. He will be able to avail himself of the legal system and a jury, not politics, to determine his fate according to the facts and the law,” Schumer said in a statement on Thursday night.

(Last Updated On: March 24, 2023) If you like your spuds, National Tater Day on March 31st is for you! The day recognizes all kinds of potatoes which provide us with essential vitamins, minerals, and fiber. #NationalTaterDay Potatoes are quite versatile, which might explain why so many people like them. They are the number one consumed vegetable in the United States. And when you consider how many ways we can eat the over 200 different kinds of potatoes in the United States, you shouldn’t be surprised. First off, we can bake them. Who doesn’t like a baked potato? Yeah, we...

In the late 1950s, dentist and US Navy Capt. Kirk C. Hoerman, then a young man in his 30s, attempted to answer a bold question: Might the saliva of prostate cancer patients have different characteristics from that of healthy people? Could it contain traces of a disease that’s so far away from the mouth? Without wasting more of their own saliva on elaborate discussion, Hoerman and his colleagues from the department of dental research at the Naval Training Center in Great Lakes, Illinois, got down to work. They analyzed samples from more than 200 patients and healthy controls, and found...

Inflation is slowing just a little. But my feeling about The Fed (that partly caused the problem in the first place by keeping rates too low for too long (TLTL) under Yellen is all I can do is laugh. The US Core Deflator (Personal Consumption Expenditure CORE PRICE Index YoY fell only slightly in February to a still-high 4.6% in February despite The Fed jacking up interest rates and slowing M2 Money growth. I thought Biden and Congress passed the inflation reduction act?? I forgot. Under Obama/Biden, the US is now a failed state. Or a banana republic without bananas....

American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten told an audience in Washington, D.C., that “private, religious, online and home schools” are an “extremist scheme by a very vocal minority of Americans” that lead to the “bullying of the most vulnerable among us.”

31 March 2023Friday of the 5th week of Lent Armenian Cathedral of the Assumption of the All-Holy Virgin, Lviv, Ukraine Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(I).First readingJeremiah 20:10-13 ©He has delivered the soul of the needy from the hands of evil menJeremiah said:I hear so many disparaging me,‘“Terror from every side!”Denounce him! Let us denounce him!’All those who used to be my friendswatched for my downfall,‘Perhaps he will be seduced into error.Then we will master himand take our revenge!’But the Lord is at my side, a mighty hero;my opponents will stumble, mastered,confounded by their failure;everlasting, unforgettable disgrace will be...

Does this sound familiar to you, the public? In May 1919, at Dusseldorf, Germany, Allied forces captured a very significant document: “Communist Rules for Revolution.” As you read these “rules” now, over 100 years later, keep in mind what you are reading and hearing every day in the news media: A. Corrupt the young; get them away from religion. Get them interested in sex. Make them superficial; destroy their ruggedness. B. Get control of all means of publicity, thereby: 1. Get people’s minds off their government by focusing their attention on athletics, sexy books, plays and other trivialities. 2. Divide...

A transgendered Tennessee mass shooter this week executed three adults and three nine-year-old children at a Nashville private Christian school. Supposedly she left behind her a manifesto justifying her mass murdering. As of this writing, law enforcement officials have declined to make the document public. Yet in about a nano-second after the news was disclosed, the left-wing activist machine kicked in, led by politicians, entertainers, and the media. Three predictable themes surfaced. The first was led by none other than Joe Biden. He lectured that guns were the cause of the mass deaths, not the free will of a psychopathic...

This is the first Gospel reading from Catholic Masses for today March 31, 2023. There is no need to comment. Jerimiah 20: 10-13 10Yes, I hear the whisperings of many: “Terror on every side! Denounce! let us denounce him!” All those who were my friends are on the watch for any misstep of mine. “Perhaps he can be tricked; then we will prevail, and take our revenge on him.” 11But the LORD is with me, like a mighty champion: my persecutors will stumble, they will not prevail. In their failure they will be put to utter shame, to lasting, unforgettable...