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The devil is in the details behind all the weekend media headlines proclaiming equal TABOR refunds, but only if voters approve Prop HH that is disguised as a property tax cut. It’s a con job that would make Charles Ponzi proud. The last hour bill comes as the legislative session grinds to a close today. It came with zero review or input from the public and most of your elected lawmakers. The bill — sponsored by Democratic Reps. Chris deGruy Kennedy and Mike Weissman, as well as Democratic Sens. Chris Hansen and Nick Hinrichsen — was immediately heard Saturday afternoon...

As we move into this next phase, it’s time to consider what we’ve learnt about human behaviour during the pandemic, says this Swansea University academic.World Health Organization (WHO) experts have officially declared that COVID-19 no longer constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). This coincides with the WHO’s new strategy to transition from an emergency response to longer-term sustained COVID-19 disease management. This may not change too much practically. COVID-19 will still have pandemic status, and countries will continue to have their own authority as to whether to treat COVID-19 as an emergency within their territories (some countries,...

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Public university’s media affairs division will not say how much Davis was paid for speech… A prominent communist activist typically paid between $25,000 and $38,000 per speech used a recent keynote address at the University of Texas at Austin to bash capitalism as exploitative and call the murder of Tyre Nichols by black police officers “systemic racism.” Angela Davis, the vice presidential nominee for the Communist Party USA in 1980 who was previously on the FBI’s Most Wanted list, was the keynote speaker at UT-Austin’s Eric Williams Memorial Lecture on April 4. Davis, who supports reparations, started the lecture by...

Bob Huggins made an off-color joke about Xavier basketball fans, who apparently once threw an inflatable penis on the court. Huggins, 69, now the basketball coach of West Virginia, was doing an interview with Bill Cunningham on WLW in Cincinnati, when he twice used a derogatory word referring to homosexuals. Huggins was asked if he has poached any players from Xavier from the transfer to play for West Virginia. “Catholics don’t do that,” Huggins said.

Donald Trump rape accuser E. Jean Carroll has a bizarre Facebook post history that sheds light on some of her more personal thoughts and questions. Much of her commentary appears obsessed with sex, violence, and pornography, with one post from 2012 discussing sex with Donald Trump in a jovial fashion. Carroll, 79, first alleged that she was raped by Trump in a book released in 2019. Her story is extremely similar to the sub plot of a Law and Order episode which aired in late 2012, a few months after she posted a sex question about Trump to her Facebook...

"That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; "But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ." "This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness...

We were not aware of any mental health issues related to Mr. Garcia nor did the State of Texas report any issues when conducting a background check prior to issuing him a security license...' After being reportedly kicked out of the U.S. Army in 2008 “due to mental health concerns,” suspected Allen, Texas, mass shooter Mauricio Garcia embarked on a career as a state-licensed security guard. Garcia would have needed a background check from Texas before becoming a licensed guard. But according to one of the security firms Garcia worked for, the state never reported his purported mental-health issues when...

It’s the biggest con ever perpetuated by the national media. For all of their hysterics over “disinformation” and “collusion,” we know now that they were indisputably the most guilty of both. Recent reports show how the Washington ruling class, including career intelligence officials, the media and Big Tech, plotted well in advance to suppress and discredit the fully authentic and legitimate Hunter Biden laptop story, solely for the purpose of influencing the 2020 election. The greatest offense was on behalf of the news media, the constitutionally protected institution charged with holding the powerful to account.

As Hunter Biden faces a potential criminal indictment this week, his former best friend Devon Archer will make his last bid to avoid jail Tuesday when his appeal is heard in a courtroom in Lower Manhattan. As he grows increasingly despondent, friends with knowledge of Hunter’s thinking are telling Archer to accept that the Bidens have thrown him under the bus and that a last-minute presidential pardon has been ruled out. They have urged him to save himself by using the only currency he has left — his knowledge of the Biden family influence-peddling scheme, for which he had a...

The White House press office barred The Post from attending President Biden’s only daytime public event Monday as federal prosecutors near a decision on criminally charging first son Hunter Biden for tax fraud and other crimes. The Post has closely covered the president’s ties to his relatives’ foreign dealings and first reported in October 2020 on files from Hunter’s abandoned laptop that link Joe Biden to ventures in China and Ukraine. Biden, who falsely characterized The Post’s reporting as Russian disinformation, appeared with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to talk about airline policies in the White House-adjacent Eisenhower Executive Office Building

Texas mall gunman Mauricio Garcia appeared to be casing his target for weeks, attacking when it was busiest — after railing online against Jews, women and minorities while noting his own mental-health slide. Garcia, 33, shared more than two dozen photos of the Allen Premium Outlets on extremist forums in the weeks leading up to his mass shooting, seemingly determining what would be the most packed time at the mall to unleash the greatest carnage, NBC reported. … In addition to the disturbing snaps, Garcia shared several posts targeting Jewish people, women and racial minorities on the Russian social-networking platform...

Veterans of the United States military are refusing to help out with efforts to relieve the Pentagon's acute recruitment problems citing the wokeness problem embedded in the current military structure as their reason to not get involved. As reported by Just The News, the military has a major recruitment problem among Americans, however, that by itself is not exactly a new development. As previously noted by the DC Enquirer, while obesity rates are an external problem for the military force, wokeness poses an internal problem within the armed forces. The vast majority of Americans from the 17-24 demographic are, according...

NYC Catholic Church Hosts Shocking ‘God Is Trans’ ExhibitThe Manhattan Church of St. Paul the Apostle currently hosts a shocking exhibit called “God is Trans: A Queer Spiritual Journey.”The wildly offensive series of paintings have been placed next to the church’s altar.The artist described the exhibit as “a queer spiritual journey in three steps: Sacrifice, Identity and Communion.”The Post reports that “according to the exhibit, Sacrifice represents the need to ‘shed an old life.’ Identity is described as ‘the most impactful part’ of the display, asking the question, ‘What does holiness look like?’ Communion places ‘God and the mortal on...

Texas state legislators voted to advance a bill that would raise the legal age to buy certain semi-automatic rifles from 18 years old to 21 years old on Monday. State Rep Jarvis Johnson posted a video of the moment HB 2744 was passed out of committee. It will be scheduled for a vote on the floor of the House of Representatives next. HB 2744 passed with a vote of 8-5. The vote came two days after a mass shooting at a mall killed eight people, including children. Protesters, including families of Uvalde shooting victims, had filled the statehouse to support...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is preparing to send “thousands more” migrants to the Big Apple, Chicago and other sanctuary cities “in the coming days,” as the border is besieged ahead of Title 42 ending this week. Abbott, a Republican, slammed President Joe Biden for failing to act as states bordering Mexico prepare for the end of the federal policy which has allowed for the fast ejection of immigrants from the US since it went into place in 2021. Even before its end, the border has been swarmed with 81,000 people attempting to cross into the US in the last 10...

FIFTH WEEK OF EASTER John 14:21–26Friends, we see in our Gospel reading that the Holy Spirit’s principal sign is love. The night before he died, Jesus told his friends the deepest truths. He spoke of himself, his Father, and the Holy Spirit.The Holy Spirit is the love that connects the Father and the Son. From all eternity, he is breathed back and forth between the Father and the Son, and hence he is nothing but love. When therefore he comes to dwell in you and me, he turns us to the path of love. “On that day you will realize...