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Two elderly pro-life activists were beaten up in Baltimore, Maryland outside a Planned Parenthood abortion factory.The victims are identified as Mark Crosby and Dick Shafer. The victims 73 and 80 years old.Video of the attack shows the attacker punching and beating Mr. Crosby as he prayed. His injuries were so severe he had to be hospitalized.

A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that persons aged 12 to 17 face a heightened risk of myocarditis, a potentially fatal form of heart inflammation, and a related condition called pericarditis following injection of the Covid vaccine. The frequency with which these ailments occurred should have triggered a warning for persons in this age group to avoid getting the "jab." Instead, many schools required students get these vaccinations in order to be allowed to attend class. Dr. Peter McCullough, who was frequently censored and mocked for questioning the widespread mania to force these inadequately tested...

Analyst and financial writer John Rubino says this time, the so-called debt ceiling fight could end in a systemic failure. Rubino points out, “In a well-run society, the debt limit would be zero. Governments should not borrow money in the first place. The amount of money we are borrowing is catastrophic. Historians are going to look back at this era, and they are just going to wonder why we allowed it to happen and what were we thinking. We are destroying the global financial system by allowing governments to borrow this much money. The debt limit thing is being called...

Is the white-black IQ gap shrinking in the United States? Although many assume that the existence of sizable disparities in average IQ among the races simply must be “pseudoscience,” that different ethnicities average different levels of mental ability is one of the most overwhelmingly well-established findings of the social sciences. Exactly why ancestral groups have varying IQs remains controversial, but the fact that they do is not disputed among the well-informed. A general rule of thumb among researchers has long been that whites and blacks differ in average IQ by about one standard deviation. It’s natural to be interested in...

Former FBI Director James Comey said Tuesday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” that former President Donald Trump was an “existential threat” to the country.He also called the Republican Party a cult.Cooper asked, “Given the career you have had in the FBI, when you see the former president, now the frontrunner again for the Republican nomination, how big a threat is that?”Comey said, “A very serious threat to the rule of law, almost an existential threat if he were to become president again. He has tried to take a flamethrower to the FBI, to the Department of Justice to stop them...

The rich and famous appeared to have few qualms about palling around with Jeffrey Epstein following the disgraced financier’s 13-month prison stay for soliciting sex from an underage girl, with boldface names appearing on his schedule such as Chris Rock, David Blaine, Bill Gates, Richard Branson, JPMorgan boss Jamie Dimon, and the former CEO of one of Donald Trump’s Atlantic City casinos. That’s according to a tranche of emails obtained by The Daily Beast, which reveal others who showed up on Epstein’s dance card as having included music industry titan Tommy Mottola, Wendi Murdoch, Russian supermodel Irina Shayk, late comedian...

. McCarthy on Fox: The (segment of) People now required to work for Food Stamps will be able to Buy Homes and send their Kids to College! I don’t know how much more we can take. How many millions is McCarthy’s house worth? The Public Delusion is dangerous. 32 Hours at Papa Johns, and you’re buying a Home, Paying $12,000 a semester, and paying your 10k deductible (one year) for that small surgery? Luckily, you’ll get a Tax credit for that Electric Car.

[Catholic Caucus] Francis, King by Divine Mandate. What No Pope Before Him Had Dared to SayThe new fundamental law of Vatican City State was published the very day, May 13, when everyone’s attention was on the meeting between Francis and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. With the effect that the coverage was scanty and poor. When instead from its very first lines it marked a reckless and unprecedented turning point in the history and conception of the papacy.Mark well. The turning point does not lie in article 1 of the new fundamental law, in which it is written that “the Supreme...

Nine teenagers were arrested Tuesday in connection with the brutal on-camera beatdown of three Marines on a California beach over the weekend, authorities said. Four males and one female were charged with assault with a deadly weapon and were admitted to the juvenile hall, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department announced. Another four minors were reportedly charged with misdemeanor assault and battery, according to CBS News. The suspects’ identities have been withheld because they are minors, according to authorities.

U.S. Marshals tracked down and arrested a 15-year-old boy known as “Baby K” on Tuesday for attempted murder in an attack on a student on a school bus in the D.C. suburb of Prince George’s County, Maryland on May 1. A total of four teens aged 14 and 15, three boys and a girl (the alleged mastermind), have been arrested in the attack on the student. Police say the three boys boarded the bus with Baby K wielding a large handgun that he fired several times at the intended victim. The gun reportedly misfired. Baby K and two other suspects...

A 65-year-old man fatally shot an apparent armed robber, 32, in Queens early Wednesday, authorities said. The younger man displayed an “unknown object” as he approached the older pedestrian around 2 a.m. on 82nd Avenue near Queens Boulevard in Kew Gardens, in what investigators believe may have been a robbery attempt, cops said. The 65-year-old then pulled out a gun and shot the other man multiple times in the chest, police said. The gravely wounded man was pronounced dead at the scene by responding EMS workers, cops said. His name was not immediately released, pending family notification. The gunman was...

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The mother of the 11-year-old Mississippi boy who was shot in his home by police after calling 911 to report a domestic disturbance is suing the city, the police chief, and the officer accused of firing at her son. In the lawsuit filed on Tuesday, Aderrien Murry’s mother, Nakala Murry, accuses the Indianola Police Department of gross negligence, use of excessive force, and failing to adequately train and supervise officers, USA Today reported. The family is seeking $5 million in damages, the outlet said. Aderrien suffered a collapsed lung, fractured ribs, and a lacerated liver when he was shot in...

Bruce Springsteen Falls on His Face During Concert in Amsterdam Anti-Trump rocker Bruce Springsteen suffered an embarrassing fall during a show in Amsterdam on Sunday night, giving Joe Biden a run for his money. During the set, Springsteen came down flat on his face as he tripped on a set of stairs on the stage. The fall reminded some observers of the fall Biden took a few years back when he repeatedly fell up a set of aircraft stairs while boarding Air Force One. Watch VIDEO AT LINK................... Springsteen appeared to suffer the fall after completing the execution of Ghosts,...

@RandPaul There’s nothing conservative about a debt deal that grants unlimited borrowing for two years that experts estimate will likely exceed $4 trillion. I will insist on an amendment vote to enact REAL spending caps that lead to a balanced budget in 5 years!

[Catholic Caucus] Basilica Denied: Catholics Become HuronsAt Pentecost, Wisconsin Catholics wanted to attend Mass in union with the Paris-Chartres pilgrims.But the Basilica of Our Lady Help of Christians in Erin turned them down, so they improvised a chapel. Shawn Tribe explains on Facebook (May 30) that the setting reminded him of the Indian mission chapels that can still be found in places like Midland, Ontario or Canada.Below is the mission chapel of Sainte Marie among the Hurons in Ontario.

Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) is condemning the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old Black boy by a convenience store clerk in Columbia, S.C. In a statement this week, Clyburn said he is praying for “swift justice” for Cyrus Carmack-Belton, who was shot in the back after a convenience store owner falsely accused him of shoplifting on Sunday night. “I’m horrified and deeply saddened by the senseless murder of 14-year-old Cyrus Carmack-Belton in Columbia this weekend,” Clyburn said. “His family and loved ones should be celebrating his recent eighth grade graduation from Summit Parkway Middle School. Instead, they are mourning this unimaginable...

Has Ukraine finally given Russia some payback, given the air strikes now being rained down on Kiev? A first pass answer seems like it may well be. According to the New York Times:At least eight drones targeted Moscow early Tuesday, according to the Russian authorities, the first attack to hit civilian areas in the Russian capital and a potent sign that the war is increasingly reaching the heart of Russia.The assault came after yet another overnight bombardment by Russian forces of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, which has faced a barrage of attacks in recent weeks that have put the city...

There was a widespread expectation that the outrage over Bud Light’s pushing of transgender icon Dylan Mulvaney would fade over time, as often happens with boycotts. But not this time. Nielsen, which tracks sales scanner data released new data Tuesday showing the nightmare for Bud Light and its parent AB InBev is deepening. Josh Schafer writes at Yahoo Finance: Bud Light sales declines are accelerating, and shares of parent company Anheuser-Busch InBev (BUD) are falling alongside them. New data from Nielsen revealed Bud Light sales declined 24.3% year-over-year in the week ending May 20 while Budweiser sales were down 20.4%...

At a recent conference, Disney parks chief Josh D’Amaro reportedly said the company is still looking to expand or enhance existing attractions at Disney World in Orlando to the tune of $17 billion. D’Amaro was speaking last week at the the J.P. Morgan Global Technology, Media and Communications Conference in Boston, according to a CNBC report. He told audience members that the $17 billion investment “gives you a sense of how aggressive we’re being in Walt Disney World.”