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An immense gathering of the citizens of New-York was held last evening at the Academy of Music, under the auspices of the Loyal League and the hundred gentlemen who, some time since, tendered to Gen. BUTLER the compliment of a public dinner, to extend to him in this form, as most agreeable to him, a welcome to the City, and to testify their appreciation and approbation of the distinguished services he has rendered the country during the present war. The Academy was crowded to its utmost capacity. The boxes, dress circle and balcony fairly blazed with the beauty and fashion...

Were the opposition to match tit-for-tat these Democratic means, then the republic would not survive. As we await the publication of all the impending indictments of former President Donald Trump by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Americans are trying to figure out what constitutes an indictable offense for current and retired public officials. Most legal experts, Left and Right, have noted: 1) Bragg promised in advance that he would try to find a way to indict Trump. His prior boasts are reminiscent of Stalin’s secret police enforcer Lavrentiy Beria’s quip, “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.”...

The New York Times lost its verified check mark on Sunday after Twitter CEO Elon Musk announced efforts to crack down on users avoiding payments for "Twitter Blue." Musk along with the official Twitter Verified account announced on Mar. 23 that the social media company would set a deadline of Apr. 1 for verified users to apply and keep their status. Those who refused to pay the $8 per month subscription for individuals or $1,000 per month for organizations would begin to lose both their blue check mark and verified status. In a tweet reply, Musk revealed that this could...

A bit after noon on February 27 at Vestpynten in the Svalbard Archipelago (administered by Norway), far north of the arctic circle, a polar bear was shot during a conflict with people and dogs. Vestpynten is a small village in the Archipelago roughly 90 miles North and a bit West of Longyerbyen.The incident report was uncovered with a Freedom of information Act (FOIA) request by AmmoLand. Individual names have been redacted. The report was translated into English, so it has been edited for readability, and fictitious names have been substituted. From the FOIA account, incident 162:The bear was observed around...

The Chinese spy balloon that flew across the U.S. was able to gather intelligence from several sensitive American military sites, despite the Biden administration’s efforts to block it from doing so, according to two current senior U.S. officials and one former senior administration official. China was able to control the balloon so it could make multiple passes over some of the sites (at times flying figure eight formations) and transmit the information it collected back to Beijing in real time, the three officials said. The intelligence China collected was mostly from electronic signals, which can be picked up from weapons...

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office said a parking garage attendant who was wounded wrestling a gun away from an alleged thief and shooting the suspect will not face charges at this time, according to FOX 5 NY. Moussa Diarra, 57, was initially charged with attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon in the incident that unfolded Saturday morning. Diarra had noticed a man peering into cars on the second floor of the West 31st Street garage in Manhattan when he confronted him and asked what was in his bag. The suspected thief, Charles Rhodie, 59, then pulled...

3 April 2023 Monday of Holy Week St. Richard of Chichester Catholic Church, Sterling, MA Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(I).First readingIsaiah 42:1-7 ©Here is my chosen one in whom my soul delightsHere is my servant whom I uphold,my chosen one in whom my soul delights.I have endowed him with my spiritthat he may bring true justice to the nations.He does not cry out or shout aloud,or make his voice heard in the streets.He does not break the crushed reed,nor quench the wavering flame.Faithfully he brings true justice;he will neither waver, nor be crusheduntil true justice is established on...

Members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives take the oath of office on swearing-in day on Jan. 3, 2023. (Capital-Star photo by Peter Hall) In the month after securing their 101-vote majority, Pennsylvania House Democrats have held hearings on gun safety, raising the minimum wage, and expanding access to reproductive health care. While they might at first appear to be the routine work of a state legislative chamber, hearings on Democratic policy priorities are a source of optimism for advocates across the state. Under Republican control of the House in the last six sessions, committee chairs have not given Democratic...

As Chicago’s mayoral candidates have sparred over their vision of the city’s future, two themes have largely dominated the conversation: crime and policing. Whether Brandon Johnson or Paul Vallas wins, the new mayor will have to work with the current police leadership to tamp down rising crime and implement sweeping court-ordered reforms. The candidates have presented vastly different plans to take on this daunting challenge. Vallas, endorsed by Chicago’s Fraternal Order of Police, has said he’d lean into “proactive” policing and has committed to filling more than 1,700 department vacancies to address what he has described as an “utter breakdown...

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MADISON, Wis. — Control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court and probably the future of abortion access, Republican-drawn legislative maps and years of GOP policies in the key swing state rests on the outcome of an election Tuesday that has seen record campaign spending. The winner of the high-stakes contest between Republican-backed Dan Kelly and Democratic-supported Janet Protasiewicz will determine majority control of the court headed into the 2024 presidential election. The court came within one vote of overturning President Biden’s narrow win in the state in 2020, and both sides expect another close race in 2024. It’s the latest election...

The legal team representing former President Donald Trump reportedly expects that the Manhattan judge will put a gag order on him as the case awaits trial. A source close to the legal team told the Daily Mail the judge will take an “unprecedented step” to silence the 2024 presidential candidate. The gag order could potentially undercut his ability to campaign on the issue of legal corruption during the primary. “The Trump legal team now thinks that the Manhattan judge will take the unprecedented step of silencing the presidential frontrunner with an unconstitutional gag order tomorrow,” the source said. “The Trump...

Major oil powers led by Saudi Arabia announced a surprise production cut of more than one million barrels per day on Sunday, calling it a "precautionary" move aimed at stabilising the market. The reductions, on top of a Russian decision to extend a cut of 500,000 barrels per day, and despite US calls to increase production, risk stoking inflation and pressure to raise interest rates. Cuts by Saudi Arabia, Iraq, the UAE, Kuwait, Algeria and Oman from May to the end of the year will top one million barrels per day -- the biggest reduction since the OPEC+ cartel slashed...

MADISON, Wis. — A special election to fill an open Wisconsin Senate seat will determine whether Republicans gain a supermajority that would allow them to impeach Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and other office holders as well as move the GOP a step closer to overriding gubernatorial vetoes. Voters on Tuesday will pick Democrat Jodi Habush Sinykin or Republican state Rep. Dan Knodl to represent Milwaukee's northern suburbs. The seat has been under Republican control for decades but came open in November after longtime incumbent Alberta Darling chose to retire after 30 years in the Senate. Evers scheduled a special election...

Shortly after our February report on DEI activity at Appalachian State University, the Martin Center received a tip from a concerned App State employee. According to this faculty member (who has requested anonymity), App State has been paying many of its “diverse” graduate assistants a higher hourly wage than its “non-diverse” grad students receive. This pay disparity, our source maintained, was neither accidental nor informal but part of a longstanding, written policy in App State’s Cratis D. Williams School of Graduate Studies. To support this claim, our source provided the following chart, which seems to indicate that rates of pay...

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts—New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu is not a natural fit for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024. He has been outspoken about Jan. 6—how “domestic terrorists attacked our nation’s Capitol.” He supports people getting boosted for COVID-19. He thinks the 2020 election was fair and secure. He even calls himself “pro-choice,” though he also supports restrictions on late-term abortions. But Sununu is starting to do the things presidential contenders typically do, like showing up at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics last week to tout his governing record—and give his take on a presidential field he may shortly join. As...

Now that it's April, we can say a spate of banks collapsed last month, but the repercussions of the crisis continue to unfold as if it all happened yesterday. The chatter now centers around a looming credit crunch — but the troubling part is that red flags were flying well before we heard a peep from Silicon Valley Bank. Before March, the number of small- and mid-sized businesses filing for bankruptcy was already on the rise, meaning the bank turmoil only exacerbates an existing trend. UBS strategists wrote in a note last week that those companies have been facing pressure...

And therein lies the beginning of what could become quite a story. It has been said that one cannot use an old map to explore a new world. Yet, if one is Communist China, one might be able to edit it to create a new world. Beijing’s recently revised mapping standards seem to suggest it is attempting just that. The standards, released by the Ministry of Natural Resources on the approval of the State Council of the people’s republic, require that all Chinese maps “accurately reflect the scope of China’s territory.” In addition to islands in the South China Sea...

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On the “International Women’s Day”, March 8, 2022, I published on FACEBOOK a Catholic point of view of Christian feminism. Women who live Christian feminism instead of secular feminism are very attractive to men who pray! I included in my article, “Catholic Prophecy Today”, a whole section on secular feminism: “38. RADICAL FEMINISM - One of the greatest forces working to DESTROY THE FAMILY and society is radical feminism. The goals of secular feminism are: the destruction of patriarchy; control of reproduction including contraception, abortion, and reproductive technologies; destruction of the fatherheaded family with divorce and illegitimacy made normal; all...