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Even though I been at this for a long time, it is still endlessly fascinating to me how the web can and does lead you from one item to another to another… Today’s example is from Focus on the Family whose pro-life bona bides could never be doubted. FOTF President Jim Daly spoke at the Saturday night closing Banquet which concluded the 2022 National Right to Life Convention in glorious fashion. Their latest article on “Abortion Ethics” was published on line yesterday by the Focus on the Family Advocacy Team. One section is titled “Opinion of Abortion Advocates” and leads...

Ignoring massive public opposition, Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee signed a radical bill Tuesday to allow shelters to hide runaway children from their parents without any allegations of abuse and allow them to have taxpayer-funded, elective abortions and sex-change treatments. The Post Millennial reports nearly 4,700 people signed up to oppose state Senate Bill 5599 during a Senate hearing in February. Parents also organized protests at the state capitol in Olympia, and Republican lawmakers unanimously opposed the bill, according to CBN. The bill, sponsored by state Sen. Marko Liias, D-Edmonds, passed the Democrat-controlled state legislature anyway, and Inslee signed it...

Additional barrages of rockets have been fired at communities in southern and central Israel this evening (Wednesday) after Egyptian media reported that Egypt had brokered a ceasefire agreement between Israel and the terrorist organizations and the Gaza Strip which has already gone into effect. Israeli officials have acknowledged that contacts have been made with the Egyptian government on the possibility of a ceasefire, but have not acknowledged that any agreement has been reached. "Egypt approached us with a request for a cease-fire - the issue will be examined," Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said in an interview with Kan News. At...

New figures reveal that Bud Light sales have plummeted in every US region in the wake of their disastrous partnership with Dylan Mulvaney. America's flagship beer brand has been sent into a steep decline after they used the controversial trans influencer, 26, to promote the beverage. Data from Beer Business Daily showed that the US's number one brand has fallen in every region of the country. Sales in the Rocky Mountains dipped the most significantly, down by 29 percent, with the South Atlantic, West North Central and East South Central all dropping 25 percent. The Tumbleweed, a cowboy bar in...

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Tuesday canceled Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s antisemitic event at the U.S. Capitol scheduled for Wednesday and will host a “bipartisan discussion to honor the 75th anniversary of the US-Israel relationship” in its place. Tlaib planned a Wednesday event at the Capitol Visitor Center to mourn Israel’s founding. The event was to celebrate the “Nakba,” which is a Palestinian term for the creation of Israel that loosely translates as “catastrophe,” according to the Washington Free Beacon. As the Washington Free Beacon detailed: Tlaib was scheduled to headline the anti-Israel event with several organizations that support the...

The amount of environmental exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAH for short, is strongly linked to a person's risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis, suggests research. These chemicals, formed from the burning of coal, oil, gas, wood, or tobacco as well as the flame grilling of meat and other foods, also seem to account for most of smoking's impact on risk of the disease, the findings indicate. The researchers drew on the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) between 2007 and 2016. NHANES evaluates a wide variety of toxicants, along with data related to health, nutrition, behaviors and...

A couple was reportedly assaulted outside of a liquor store after being confronted by a group of men over their suspected purchase of Bud Light beer, police suspect. The incident took place on Saturday night in the city of Vaughn, Ontario, a suburb located just north of Toronto in Canada. York Regional Police said in an official statement that a couple was accosted by a group of three men after leaving a liquor store located on Jane Street and Major Mackenzie Drive West, allegedly targeting the 26-year-old male victim's supposed purchase of Bud Light and using various homophobic insults. When...

EL PASO, Texas — Migrants seeking shelter on the streets of El Paso near Sacred Heart Church woke up to a letter from the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol asking them to turn themselves in for processing. The letter, written in Spanish with no government logos, spread fear and panic amongst the migrants sleeping on the streets of El Paso. Advertisement Throughout the day, migrants started slowly clearing the streets near Sacred Heart Church. Volunteers are still arriving to pass out water and food during the hot May days of the Borderland. "It's just a human impulse. Anybody who isn't...

After more than 11,000 migrants were caught crossing the southern border on Tuesday, the Biden administration is now preparing a memo that will direct Customs and Border Protection to begin releasing migrants into the United States without court dates or the ability to track them, according to three sources familiar with the plans. The Biden administration began releasing migrants without court dates to alleviate overcrowding in March 2021, but had previously enrolled those migrants in a program known as Alternatives to Detention, which required them to check in on a mobile app until they were eventually given a court date....

Bryan Blehm, an attorney for We The People AZ Alliance, on Monday filed a Special Action Complaint against Runbeck Election Services and Maricopa County for public records relating to chain of custody and video documentation of ballot receipts at the Runbeck facility. Roughly 81% of the 1,311,734 Maricopa County 2022 election voters voted by mail and had their ballot sent to Runbeck for signature verification with discrepancies in ballot chain of custody documentation. The Gateway Pundit recently reported that the Arizona Supreme Court issued a ruling in Kari Lake’s lawsuit, confirming a previous mandate for the trial court and issuing...

Lawmakers investigating the Biden family’s foreign business deals say family members received millions of dollars in payments from foreign nationals while President Biden was serving as vice president in the Obama administration. The information, discovered in bank documents obtained by Republican investigators, showed the Biden family and their business associates used a “complicated, suspicious,” web of 20 companies to launder $10 million in payments from foreign nationals, and many of the transactions took place while Mr. Biden was vice president, lawmakers said. The companies were based in Romania and China, among other countries, and several business associates who paid the...

No one lends or borrows dollars. They lend or borrow what dollars can be exchanged for.Please keep this in mind amid all the hyper-ventilating over potential default. Janet Yellen, the walking, talking-est contrarian indicator on earth claims default would be "catastropic," while the always and everywhere expert reverent Catherine Rampell tells readers "If you're not afraid yet [about default], you should be." Wise minds will be calm. This is such a non-story.For one, As evidenced by the floating, occasionally very weak dollar over the decades, the U.S. has defaulted numerous times. And that’s not a partisan point. Left-of-center economists Carmen...

"Progress towards an energy transition appears to be significantly lagging the optimistic projections and any reduction in government mandates and subsidies could make many investments unprofitable, and at least some elements of the energy transition appear to be driven by irrational exuberance..."– Michael Lynch, Energy Policy Research Foundation, 2022The loudening insistence that renewables should displace, not just supplement, fossil fuels and nuclear energy in the power sector has some undeniable problems. In electricity jargon, politically favored wind and solar power are “non-dispatchable” resources (with capacity factors lower than 35%), while fossil fuels and nuclear are “dispatchable” (with capacity factors 85%...

Can the Military Rebuild Itself?As armed conflicts cover the globe, the United States struggles to gear upAs the second year of the war in Ukraine gets underway, American defense planners are growing worried. To supply the Ukrainians, the U.S. and its allies are exhausting their stockpiles of missiles and munitions and potentially leaving themselves vulnerable. The documents recently leaked by Jack Texeira only reveal what everyone already knows: Ukraine is low on ammo. The Ukrainians are using to good effect the artillery shells, surface-to-surface missiles, and man-portable Javelin and Stinger missiles they are receiving, but every shell and missile that...

What constitutes hate speech? According to the United Nations, “hate speech refers to offensive discourse targeting a group or an individual based on inherent characteristics (such as race, religion or gender) and that may threaten social peace.” The UN also says “hate speech is a growing international threat.” What is a hate act? According to California’s new Department of Hate (CA vs Hate), “A hate incident is a hostile expression or action that may be motivated by bias against another person’s actual or perceived identity.”

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its April Consumer Price Index (CPI) report on Wednesday morning, and it's more bad news for the Biden administration and the Federal Reserve as their half-hearted fight to tame inflation continues to look largely ineffective at making a noticeable difference for the American people. CPI inflation increased 0.4 percent in April, while costs rose 4.9 percent in the last 12 months. The core CPI number — excluding more volatile food and energy prices — also increased 0.4 percent month-over-month for April for a 5.5 percent annual advance.

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[Catholic Caucus] Sermon of Bishop Vitus Huonder on the Glory of the PriesthoodThe following sermon was delivered by Bishop Vitus Huonder on December 8, 2018, in his cathedral in Chur, on the occasion of the ordination of a priest from his diocese. The text was made available recently through Paix Liturgique. The bishop, whose name has been very much in front of traditional Catholics owing to his marvelous new videos (part 1, part 2), presents a compact theology of the priesthood and defends clerics against the malevolence of those who prattle about the "clericalism" of traditionalists when they themselves are...

ou would hope that a public sign would be able to point you in the right direction. But these hilarious signs have not only left social media users completely lost, but have also given them something to laugh about. The Reddit group Funny Signs has gathered together a gallery of some of the wacky notices that have been spotted around the world. One of them undoubtedly spoke to the insecurities of the younger generations, making sure they knew to escape a building that was on fire before tweeting about it. Meanwhile another gloated at drivers sat in traffic, informing them...

Indiana University’s famous sex research center is officially defunded after Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb signed a two-year budget bill. The state’s passage of the law on May 4 stipulates that taxpayer funds “may not be used to pay for the administration, operation, or programs of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction.” The College Fix asked university spokeswoman Amanda Roach what will happen next for the research center. She referred to IU President Pamela Whitten’s statement on the legislation. “As a premier research institution with a 200-year legacy of impact within our state and around the world,...