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(Daily readings from the USCCB)As Jesus was teaching in the temple area he said, “How do the scribes claim that the Christ is the son of David? David himself, inspired by the Holy Spirit, said: The Lord said to my lord, ‘Sit at my right hand until I place your enemies under your feet.’” Mark 12:35–36At the time of Jesus’ ministry, the Jews understood that the Messiah would come from the line of David. Furthermore, many thought that the Messiah would simply be a nationalistic leader who would lead the Jewish nation out of the oppression of the Romans. Thus,...

Hoho counteroffensive not going well...

On Thursday evening, Donald Trump revealed that he has been indicted over the alleged mishandling of classified documents.“The corrupt Biden Administration has informed my attorneys that I have been Indicted, seemingly over the Boxes Hoax, even though Joe Biden has 1850 Boxes at the University of Delaware, additional Boxes in Chinatown, D.C., with even more Boxes at the University of Pennsylvania, and documents strewn all over his garage floor where he parks his Corvette, and which is ‘secured’ by only a garage door that is paper thin, and open much of the time,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth...

On Thursday, after weeks of resisting the House Oversight Committee’s requests for the FD-1023 form from 2020 detailing bribery allegations made against Joe Biden, FBI Director Christopher Wray granted the House Oversight Committee access to the document. The form contains allegations that Joe Biden received a payment of $5 million from an executive at Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings, where Biden’s son Hunter Biden served on the board while he was serving as vice president. Hunter Biden also allegedly received $5 million as part of the deal, and the payments were concealed by using multiple bank accounts. “$5 million for...

Donald Trump “understood that he got power when he was elected, but didn’t understand that he had obligations,” presidential historian Timothy Naftali said Friday of Trump’s indictment for mishandling classified documents after leaving the White House. “We live in a Constitutional democracy. Everybody, including the president, is bound by the Constitution and there are limits to their power,” Naftali, the former director of the Richard Nixon presidential library, told “CNN This Morning.

‘It’s Not Whether We’ll Have Blasphemy Laws but Which Ones’Pride Month is here—time for Western nations to once again roll out the rainbow flags and treat any associated criticism as blasphemy.For anyone who thinks I’m being witty and metaphorical with the term blasphemy, I invite them to read the latest headlines.This just in from NBC News:“LGBTQ flag burned at California elementary school before Pride event” The incident occurred the weekend that preceded May 22 at Saticoy Elementary School in North Hollywood, the school district said. An LGBTQ flag was burned at an elementary school in Southern California this month ahead...

San Francisco has 'become a fourth world country within a first world country,' Gen Z activist says One month after California Gov. Gavin Newsom promised to crack down on San Francisco's open-air drug markets, a Gen Z activist says far-left politics have made the city a "fourth world country within a first world country." "We are witnessing the collapse of the Paris of the West and potentially the decline of Western civilization, with San Francisco being the first domino," Darren Mark Stallcup told Fox News. Stallcup documents the drug and homeless crises in San Francisco — which he refers to...

The House SHOULD NOT pass an appropriations bill for the Justice Department Shut down their entire operation.

OneThe timing of the announcement – controlled by the DOJ's decision to inform President Trump – coincides with evidence of serious allegations of a $5 million bribe of then-Vice President Biden by a foreign national reaching Congress. A perfect way to crowd out news coverage.The decision to inform Trump of charges came on the same day that members of the House Oversight Committee were granted access to a FBI report into an allegation of bribery, while Biden was vice president. On the day members of Congress learn from an FBI document linking then VP Joe Biden to receiving $5 MILLION...

(Last Updated On: June 6, 2023) NATIONAL STRAWBERRY RHUBARB PIE DAY | JUNE 9 On June 9th of each year, National Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Day recognizes a delicious and seasonal pie. A tart vegetable, rhubarb is often paired with sweet fruits making for a pleasing dessert. #StrawberryRhubarbPieDay Around the country, rhubarb is a perennial favorite for home gardens. One of the first fruits of their labors, gardeners begin to harvest rhubarb in the middle of May and early June, and it finds its way into desserts and preserves. Since it takes on the flavor of the fruit or vegetable it...

Twitter has begun to mass delete videos linked to the appalling incident in France involving a Syrian asylum seeker.

Hollywood celebrities had a bonfire of collective internet joy on Thursday in response to the Department of Justice’s indictment of former President Trump over classified documents he allegedly held at Mar-a-Lago. Unaware of the disastrous consequences of the DOJ indicting a former president on suspicious charges, celebrities from Disney’s Frozen star Josh Gad to Stand by Me director Rob Reiner to Rosemary’s Baby star Mia Farrow to Two and a Half Men star Jon Cryer to Joker star Marc Maron did not withhold their excitement. Trump now has more indictments than terms in office — Josh Gad (@joshgad) June 9,...

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Fox News Contributor and George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley stated that if the Department of Justice charges former President Donald Trump with mishandling classified information, “it’s going to make it difficult not to charge Vice President Biden with the same crime.” But if they don’t, then it’ll seem like they crafted the indictment of Trump in a way to avoid having to charge Biden. Turley said, “[W]e have to see what’s in this indictment. There are a couple of things that we’ll be looking for: Obviously, the...

I have studied the term "corruption of blood" in the US Constitution which comes from old English law that means that no sins of the father shall be heaped upon his offspring. So it seems abundantly clear that, since no one alive in the US has been a slave or has owned a slave, "reparations" for slavery is absolutely unconstitutional and any attempt to force someone to pay it through taxes should be thrown out of any court in the land. And doubly so since there were relatively few slave owners/

An unexpected consequence of climate change known as upper atmospheric cooling has finally been confirmed by satellite sensors...While proving the accuracy of our previous climate models, the phenomenon has experts "very worried," according to Yale Environment 360...While the blanket of air close to the Earth's surface is warming, most of the atmosphere above is becoming dramatically colder...

Win one as the Gipper? Good luck with that. This week the Republican field for the presidency took near-final form, and it became clear that among Donald Trump’s suddenly expanded number of rivals, some are modeling themselves to varying degrees on that other former president, Ronald Reagan. That strategy is a way of breaking, if only implicitly, with Trump and Trumpism: going back to the future by invoking the most beloved of modern presidents among Republicans. Of all the announced candidates, none is more overt about embracing Reagan over Trump than Trump’s once-obsequious vice president, Mike Pence. At 64, Pence...

In November 2021, the Parker Solar Probe skimmed within a more-than-hair-singeing 8.5 million kilometers (5.3 million miles) of the Sun, a feat enabling it to detect the fine structure of the solar wind as it gusted tons of charged particles out into the Solar System through a hole in the Sun's corona, or atmosphere.The probe's readings give us the closest look yet at how the fast solar wind is generated, suggesting that a specific type of magnetic reconnection is what drives this powerful force of nature, according to a team of physicists led by Stuart Bale of the University of...

“They who are called devils (demons; fallen powers) attempt…to seduce men from God who made them, and from Christ His first-begotten.” Justin Martyr, 2nd century A.D., Apology 58. (Crucial Questions About Spiritual Warfare, Clinton E. Arnold, p. 40)

Illuminating a truly sad, pathetic — and terrifying — version of Stockholm Syndrome, a new poll has found that a stunning percentage of "Gen Z" Americans support the idea of the government placing cameras in every home in order to prevent crime and abuse. What could be the downside, right? That finding was part of a Cato Institute poll of 2,000 Americans. Americans. The poll asked whether respondents supported "the government installing surveillance cameras in every household to reduce domestic violence, abuse, and other illegal activity." What about invasion of privacy? While "only" about 14 percent of Americans overall supported...

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie slammed Donald Trump for behaving like “a child” on Wednesday, after the former president shared a video that was edited to insult Christie over his weight. Christie was depicted in the doctored clip as holding a plate of food and standing in front of an all-you-can-buffet while launching his presidential bid in New Hampshire on Tuesday. The anti-fat edited video originated on Twitter before Trump shared it on Truth Social. Christie said Trump’s decision to share the clip demonstrated that he is “such a spoiled baby,” during a Wednesday appearance on CNN.