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Pray For The Peace of JerusalemLuke 9 The Transfiguration 28 About eight days after Jesus said this, he took Peter, John and James with him and went up onto a mountain to pray. 29 As he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became as bright as a flash of lightning. 30 Two men, Moses and Elijah, appeared in glorious splendor, talking with Jesus. 31 They spoke about his departure,[a] which he was about to bring to fulfillment at Jerusalem. 32 Peter and his companions were very sleepy, but when they became fully awake, they saw...

(Daily readings from the USCCB)“I gave them your word, and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. I do not ask that you take them out of the world but that you keep them from the Evil One.” John 17:14–15Unfortunately, the evil one is real. He is the highest of the fallen angels who retain their natural spiritual power given them at their creation. God created all angelic creatures with the purpose of serving His holy will. The Scripture reveals that there are nine levels or “choirs”...

Attacking the vulnerable and elderly and trashing human rights is what police in Australia do best. I have personally witnessed or been the victim of half a dozen police assaults on the innocent in Melbourne. A 95 year old woman tasered by police in aged care in New South Wales has died from the injuries which included a fractured skull. The New South Wales police officer faces three charges of assault. Recklessly causing grievous bodily harm. Assault occasioning actual bodily harm. Common assault. Will these charges be upgraded to murder? In Victoria, police put their victims on trial. This nation...

Sales of Bud Light continue to plummet, reflecting ongoing backlash to the brand's decision to hire transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney as a spokesperson.According to data cited by the beverage industry trade publication Beer Business Daily, sales volumes of Bud Light for the week ending May 13 sank 28.4%, extending a downward trend from the 27.7% decline seen the week before. (snip) Initially, Bud Light's response was to ignore the criticism, saying Mulvaney was simply one of hundreds of influencers it worked with. (snip) "It just seems like an unlucky draw," he said. "The timing and the zeitgeist and the divided...

The controversy, now nearing its third month, has turned off a broader customer group than just those who characterize themselves as conservatives. Bud Light Boycott Continues After Company Partnered With Transgender Influencer An anti-Bud Light sign hangs on a country road in Arco, Idaho, on April 21.Natalie Behring / Getty Sales of Bud Light continue to plummet, reflecting ongoing backlash to the brand's decision to hire transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney as a spokesperson. According to data cited by the beverage industry trade publication Beer Business Daily, sales volumes of Bud Light for the week ending May 13 sank 28.4%, extending...

Instead of fighting anti-civilization lunacy, corporations are taking their money off the table, along with their life-affirming affordable fuel. "We need to criticize the people who got us here,” says Alex Epstein, founder of the Center for Industrial Progress and author of Fossil Future. “We can’t keep treating these designated experts as real experts. They are not real experts, they are destroyers. They are anti-energy, non-experts. And that needs to be made clear.” Epstein is right, and his advice has never been more urgent—or as difficult to make people understand. It is no exaggeration that every major institution in America...

The United States has sought to distance itself from a dramatic raid into Russian territory by pro-Ukraine forces who appeared to use American equipment in their attack. Moscow said Tuesday it had fought off an assault into its Belgorod region after two days of battles with attackers who had staged a cross-border raid

VIDEOThere was recently a fascinating conversation between Joe Biden and Professor Irwin Corey in which they talked right past each other while speaking in fluent gobbledygook.

JACKSON, Miss. -- A transgender girl in Mississippi is not participating in her high school graduation ceremony because school officials told her to dress like a boy and a federal judge did not block the officials' decision, an attorney for the girl's family said Saturday. Linda Morris, staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union's Women’s Rights Project, said the ruling handed down late Friday by U.S. District Judge Taylor McNeel in Gulfport, Mississippi, “is as disappointing as it is absurd.” “Our client is being shamed and humiliated for explicitly discriminatory reasons, and her family is being denied a once-in-a-lifetime...

(Last Updated On: May 19, 2023) NATIONAL ESCARGOT DAY | MAY 24 Each year on May 24th, National Escargot Day honors the famous French dish of cooked land snails. While escargot is enjoyed by many it is an acquired taste. Many French restaurants serve the dish as an appetizer. #NationalEscargotDay Escargot {es.kar.go} is the French word for snail. Cooks usually prepare Escargo by removing the land snails from their shells, cooking them with garlic, butter, and wine. Once cooked, the gastropods go back into their shells with the sauce for serving. Because the snails are clumsy to eat, special forks...

Montana has become the first state to specifically ban people dressed in drag from reading books to children at public schools and libraries. Republican governor Greg Gianforte signed the bill on Monday because he 'believes it's wildly inappropriate for little kids, especially preschoolers and kids in elementary school, to be exposed to sexualized content,' spokesperson Kaitlin Price said. But the law is unique among efforts by states to block drag performances as it does not require a sexual element to a performance for it to be banned. Bills in Florida and Tennessee also appear to try to ban drag reading...

Many people view baseball as a family-friendly sport. That’s why it made sense for the Los Angeles Dodgers to agree with a letter from Sen. Marco Rubio asking them to refrain from giving an award to the blasphemous drag group known as the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (“SPI”). However, a week of agitation from the LGBTQ++ crowd caused the team to change its mind. Once again, the squeakier wheel, which is supported 100% by its political leadership, got the grease. The SPI is a drag group that began in 1979 when some gay men decided to dress as campy nuns...

A downtown Orlando bar filed a federal lawsuit against Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state of Florida over a law that restricts sexual performances in front of children. Gary Israel, an attorney representing Hamburger Mary's Bar and Grille, said that DeSantis has overstepped his bounds and claimed that the drag shows were a simple matter of free speech rights. "Plaintiff offers 'family friendly' drag performances announced on Sundays where children are invited to attend. There is no lewd activity, sexually explicit shows, disorderly conduct, public exposure, obscene exhibition, or anything inappropriate for a child to see," read the...

A CRISPR-alternative has been used to create eggs that are unlikely to trigger allergic reactions. That’s a potentially big deal for millions of children who are allergic to eggs — not just for their diets but also for their immune systems. The challenge: Allergic reactions are caused by the immune system mistaking something usually benign, like peanuts or pollen, for a harmful invader. Depending on the severity of the allergy, this can lead to anything from a mild rash to life-threatening anaphylaxis. Eggs are a pretty common allergy, with up to 2% of children experiencing a reaction to them. Most...

The “Defund” movement became so unpopular that the Democrats tried to claim that it was actually the Republicans that had called to defund the police, but this was too comical even for the Left and the ruse had to be abandoned. After the May 25, 2020 death of George Floyd, a Black man, in the custody of Minneapolis Police, many Democrats, including Joe Biden, have said the police are systematically racist. San Francisco Democrat Mayor London Breed, Democrat “squad” member Rep. Cori Bush and others have called to defund them. Their reasoning, so to speak, is that since some police...

President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly said that Russia is a world leader in hypersonic missiles, cutting-edge weapons capable of carrying payloads at up to 10 times the speed of sound to punch through air-defence systems. Asked about the accusations facing the ITAM experts as well as about previous treason cases linked to China, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said security services were watchful for possible cases related to "betrayal of the motherland".

Gov. Roy Cooper (D-NC) has not been handling well the priorities of the Republican-controlled legislature. Last week, the legislature overrode his veto on a 12-week abortion ban, to which he reacted with a slew of angry tweets and media appearances. He's taken even more of an extreme stance in response to the legislature on school choice, though, and on Monday afternoon declared a state of emergency for public schools during a special address. The governor got right to it, as he proclaimed "it’s time to declare a State of Emergency for public education in North Carolina." He even warned "it's...

WASHINGTON, Saturday, May 23. The National Republican announces, by permission of the President, the following dispatch. It was received by the latter at half-past twelve: MEMPHIS, Tenn., Saturday, May 23. Col. Anson Stager, Washington, D.C.: Official information from below, to Wednesday, states that Gen. Grant has capturad Haines' Bluff and the outer works of Vicksburgh, a large number of prisoners, and fifty-seven pieces of artillery. The battle is still raging, with every prospect of capturing the entire force in Vicksburgh. We hold Jackson, Black River Bridge and Haines' Bluff. A report is making up for Washington. (Signed,) W.G. FULLER, Ass't...

The twelve apostles included "James the son of Alphaeus" (Matt. 10:3). God often uses ordinary people to accomplish great things. Like most Christians, James the son of Alphaeus is an unknown and unsung soldier of the cross. His distinguishing characteristic is obscurity. Nothing he did or said is recorded in Scripture—only his name. In Mark 15:40 he is called "James the Less," which literally means "Little James." That could refer to his stature (he might have been short), his age (he might have been younger than James the son of Zebedee), or his influence (he might have had relatively little...