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Former President Donald Trump is leading Gov. Ron DeSantis in Florida in the latest Victory Insights survey, which shows a 25-point swing from DeSantis to Trump head-to-head since November.In a crowded field in the Sunshine State, Trump takes an eight-point lead over DeSantis, leading 42.9 percent to 34.8 percent.-- cut --2024 Florida Republican Primary:Trump 43% (+8)DeSantis 35%Ramaswamy 4%Haley 3%Hutchinson 1%Johnson 0%.Head-2-Head:Trump 47% (+15)DeSantis 32%.@VictoryPolling, 1,000 LV, 4/6-8https://t.co/HaNHExFifS— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) April 10, 2023Trump’s lead expands even greater when DeSantis is taken out of the scenario, leading 65.9 percent to Haley’s 7.8 percent. In that scenario, 22.4 percent remain undecided.The survey...

Whole Foods opened its 64,000+ square foot “flagship” store in downtown San Francisco in March of 2022. On Monday, the grocery giant announced it was shuttering that location — at least for now.“We are closing our Trinity location only for the time being,” a Whole Foods spokesperson said in a statement. “If we feel we can ensure the safety of our team members in the store, we will evaluate a reopening of our Trinity location.”A City Hall source told The Standard the company cited deteriorating street conditions around drug use and crime near the grocery store as a reason for...

WHEN DEMOCRATS ATTACK DEMOCRACY. The United States Constitution and all the state constitutions establish legislatures and give those legislatures the authority to set their own rules. The constitutions also give lawmakers the authority to punish members for violating those rules.Rules make a legislature run, which is why party leaders always stack their rules committees with lawmakers sure to side with their party on any heated dispute. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), for example, was widely regarded as a master of using the rules to further her party's ends. To see how she did it, look to January 2021, at...

Donna Brazile, the ethically challenged Democrat operator, said on Sunday, “Ron DeSantis is running on a 1950s America, not a 2050 America.” Cool because the 1950s were a period of peace, prosperity and promise in America under President Eisenhower. After 20 years of wars and depression under Democrat presidents, America was ready to roll again, this time without Uncle Sam spending money he did not have on the military. America remained, however, the champion of the free world. We drafted the King of Rock and Roll to drive a tank to protect West Germany from a Soviet invasion. Elvis did...

Justin Jones, one of the so-called “Tennessee Three” who ended up expelled may be back on the job in no time. According to a new report, Jones appears to have secured the votes from Nashville’s council to be reappointed to the position he was removed The Democrat was booted from office after he and two others helped lead an insurrection that breached the Tennessee capitol building. Jones then used a bullhorn to lead chants on the chamber floor in solidarity with the mob. Republicans came together and voted to expel him on Thursday.Exiled Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones is expected...

President Trump will return to the sh*t hole of New York City this week for AG Letitia James’ fraud case. Letitia James in September announced a lawsuit against former President Donald Trump and his family. AG James has been investigating whether the Trump Organization inflated values of some of its properties. “Today, I filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump for engaging in years of financial fraud to enrich himself, his family, and the Trump Organization.” Letitia James said on September 21. Letitia James said her office is seeking to: Make Trump pay $250 million. Ban the Trumps from running NY...

A Texas soldier was found guilty of murder on Friday after Soros-backed District Attorney Jose Garza sought murder charges for an act of self defense during the 2020 George Floyd riots. Sgt. Daniel Perry, an army soldier who shot and killed an armed BLM-Antifa protester in Austin in July 2020 was indicted on a murder charge in 2021. A Travis County jury found Daniel Perry guilty of murder. A video from that night shows that the victim aimed an AK-47 at Perry before he was shot dead. Side-by-side video with both angles, you can see Perry come to a complete...

In this episode, I'll share some new information I've received regarding the notorious disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa. Someone reached out to me with what they claim is a credible lead on the location of his body. While I don't know the exact whereabouts of Hoffa's remains, I do believe this information is worth discussing. Over the years, nine different locations have been suggested as the burial site, all of which have turned up empty. I've been sitting on my own information for years, waiting for some kind of definitive proof, but this new lead seems to line up with what...

A top Florida State University professor whose research focused on race in the criminal justice system abruptly left his post in the wake of years-long allegations of academic fraud. A Fellow of the American Society of Criminology, Eric Stewart has had six research studies retracted, blemishing FSU’s top-ranked criminology department. Stewart was first accused of falsifying data in 2019 by Professor Justin Pickett of the University of Albany, who co-authored a 2011 study with Stewart. The study tested if the public’s prejudicial views impacted their desire for harsher sentences for black and hispanic Americans. The published findings were that as...

Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus encounters the women on the road to tell the disciples of his Resurrection, early evidence for the reality of his rising. Far too many contemporary scholars attempt to explain away the Resurrection, turning it into a myth, a legend, a symbol, a sign that the cause of Jesus goes on.But this kind of speculation is born in faculty lounges, for few in the first century would have found that kind of talk the least bit convincing. Can you imagine Paul tearing into Corinth or Athens with the message that there was an inspiring dead man...

Parchment was scarce in the desert in the Middle Ages, so manuscripts were often erased and reused.A medievalist from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) has now been able to make legible the lost words on this layered manuscript, a so-called palimpsest: Grigory Kessel discovered one of the earliest translations of the Gospels, made in the 3rd century and copied in the 6th century, on individual surviving pages of this manuscript. The findings are published in the journal New Testament Studies...The small manuscript fragment, which can now be considered as the fourth textual witness, was identified by Grigory Kessel using...

Connor Sturgeon, the 23-year-old suspect who fatally shot four individuals on Monday, livestreamed the shooting at the Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky. During a press conference on Monday, Louisville Metro Police Department Interim Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel was asked about reports that the shooting was livestreamed on social media. "I will say this that the suspect was live streaming and unfortunately that's tragic to know that that incident was out there and captured," she said. "We're hopeful that we can have that incident removed."

[Catholic Caucus] Our Lord is Truly Risen, But His Church Remains Fettered by Vatican II“And if Christ be not risen again, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.” (1 Corinthians 15:14) In his commentary on St. Paul’s First Epistle to the Corinthians, Cornelius a Lapide elaborated on the logic of St. Paul’s words about the necessary link between the Resurrection and our Faith:“It rightly follows that, if Christ has not risen, we are still in our sins; for . . . if Christ has not risen, therefore faith in risen Christ, which is the basis for...

At work, Alissa Heinerscheid is the Vice President of Bud Light, tasked with evolving and elevating an iconic brand that was in decline — and she’s the first woman to lead Bud Light in the brand’s 40 year history. At home, she’s a mom who celebrates her kids’ wins with a family swag chain, and a cancer survivor, who finds her joy paying it forward and coaching other women through the tough moments she's been through herself, like having her three kids through surrogacy. During Covid, she started a project called, 100 Women in 100 Days, asking each person, “what’s...

Update from Ukraine | A hard day for defenders | Bakhmut still Holds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHTAkwVArqE ****NEW SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here: Invasion Day 410 – Summary April 9, 2023 Jerome News The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-410-summary/

After a short stint in downtown San Francisco, the Whole Foods at 1185 Market St. is closing this week

More than one in four Anglican churches are no longer holding regular Sunday services, a report reveals. Over one-quarter of all Churches within the Church of England are no longer holding regular Sunday services according to data released by authorities within the Christian denomination. It is the latest piece of evidence pointing to the decline of Anglicanism in Britain, with a number of more Conservative churches mainly in Africa now in schism with the English church over its decision to start blessing gay marriages. According to a report seen by The Times, the denomination now appears to be struggling to...

The lay faithful have launched 'Save Our St. Louis Parishes' in an effort to halt the merger of up to 90 of the archdiocese's 178 parishes.ST. LOUIS (LifeSiteNews) — Catholics of the Archdiocese of St. Louis launched a project named “Save Our St. Louis Parishes” to prevent the restructuring of the parishes of the archdiocese, proposed initially as part of a strategic planning effort by Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski. The archbishop announced the strategic plan for the archdiocese in January 2022. The plan, titled “All Things New,” cited the steady decline in vocations in St. Louis as well as a decline...

Of course Hunter Biden is at the White House! Hunter Biden on Monday joined his father at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll. Hunter attended the Easter Egg Roll with his son, Beau. Biden glad-handed with the guests and ogled the children. After Joe Biden was finished shaking hands and kissing babies, Hunter Biden whisked his father, AKA, “The Big Guy,” away. Hunter Biden is a still a free man while Trump is facing criminal charges. WATCH:

In an April 10 Press Release, Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) announced that his committee has subpoenaed the FBI for documents relating the FBI’s move to infiltrate Latin Mass communities in search of any “radical extremism” that could potentially signal domestic terrorism. Vatican journalist, Diane Montagna tweeted out the latest on the FBI’s efforts to weaponize the Southern Poverty Law Center’s decades-old witch hunt against Latin Mass Catholics: House Judiciary Committee Chairman @Jim_Jordan confirms FBI planned to “engage in outreach to leadership” of SSPX chapels in Richmond area “to sensitize these congregations to warning signs of radicalization & to enlist their...