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"The Supreme Court ruled Friday that Colorado cannot require an evangelical Christian web designer to provide same-sex wedding websites that she argued was in violation of her conscience. The court found that the state’s anti-discrimination law violates Lorie Smith’s free speech rights under the First Amendment by demanding that she create same-sex wedding websites if she wants to do so for opposite-sex unions. The decision narrows states’ ability to apply public accommodation laws to artists, dealing a significant blow to LGBTQ advocates."

Members of California's Black reparations task force handed off their historic two-year report to state lawmakers Thursday, beginning the next chapter in the long struggle to compensate the descendants of slavery. The first U.S. panel of its kind met one last time Thursday, urging supporters to press lawmakers into action on more than 100 recommendations. State legislators and Gov. Gavin Newsom must agree for any money to be paid or for any policy changes to be adopted. “This book of truth will be a legacy, will be a testament to the full story,” said Lisa Holder, a civil rights attorney...

The film “The Core” was a silly film, but core inflation in the US is a serious problem for the middle class and low-wage workers. It remains elevated despite Treasury Secretary Janet “The Marxist Gnome” Yellen saying it was “transitory.” Looks pretty permanent to me! The Federal Reserve’s preferred measures of US inflation cooled (slightly) in May and consumer spending stagnated, suggesting the economy’s main engine is starting to lose some momentum. The personal consumption expenditures price index rose 0.1% in May, Commerce Department figures showed Friday. From a year ago, the measure eased to the slowest pace in more...

It’s easy for conservatives to think of the LGBT activist crowd as constantly crying wolf over pronouns and “deadnames,” but when self-described “queer” people try to describe who they are and what they do, pay attention. A prime example of this principle occurred just this week: participants in New York City’s annual Pride Parade chanted, “We’re coming for your children.”

As I understand it, using a personal email to conduct government business is not exactly kosher. Doing it to avoid accountability is definitely forbidden. Telling others to hide their correspondence on government business is Hillary Clinton-level malfeasance. That, my friends, is exactly what the Senior Advisor to Anthony Fauci did during the COVID pandemic. As you would expect, our “public servants” at the National Institute for Allergies and Infection Diseases want to make sure that we normies don’t have access to anything they don’t decide to tell us. ... Mr. Morens wanted to make sure that any discussion regarding the...

SCOTUS is scheduled to release the final three opinions for the October 2022 term today at 10:00 a.m. I'll post information as to those decisions and a link to the opinions as soon as they are made available. The three remaining cases are the two student loan forgiveness cases and the 303 Creative First Amendment case. Below is the issues to be decided on this cases as compiled by Amy Howe (attorney at scotusblog). Just a reminder, scotusblog is a website maintained by court-watchers and is not affiliated with the Court itself. 303 Creative v. Elenis (argued Dec. 5, 2022):...

During a discussion reacting to the Supreme Court’s ruling that affirmative action policies in college admissions violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears called out Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson for being a diversity hire. The comment came during an interview on Fox News’s “The Story,” after host Martha MacCallum read viewers Jackson’s dissent. “This is the dissent from Justice Jackson, she said, ‘With let them eat cake obliviousness today, the majority pulls the ripcord and announces color blindness for all by legal fiat. But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make...

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Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said former President Trump “admires strongmen” and wishes he could be “Putin in America” in a newly published interview with the Financial Times. The presidential candidates and one-time allies have been feuding since well before Christie officially entered the race in early June, and Christie’s attacks come as Trump claims he could finish the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. “He’d give Ukraine to the Russians. He wouldn’t care less,” Christie said in the FT interview. “Trump is someone who believes: fill the moat, pull up the drawbridge,” he added.

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<p>The Governor has just 14% support among GOP voters younger than 45 years of age.</p><p>New polling points to trouble for Ron DeSantis with one particular demographic in the 2024 presidential race.</p><p>A Fox News poll conducted from June 23 through June 26 shows the Florida Governor 50 points behind former President Donald Trump, 64% to 14%, with Republican voters under the age of 45.</p>

The Bible In Paintings ~ Encouragement for Applying and Appreciating God's Word ~ •Drawings•Engravings•Facades•Frescoes•Illuminations•Miniatures•Mosaics•Photographs•Reliefs•Statues•Tapestries•Windows• THE SISTINE CHAPEL’S CEILING 1 MICHELANGELO BUONAROTTI "Ceiling" [CORNER] PENDENTIVES 2 "PENDENTIVES" 3 "Judith Carrying Away the Head of Holofernes" 4 "The Israelites' Deliverance from the Plague of Serpents by the Creation of the Bronze Serpent" 5 "Punishment of Haman" 6 "David and Goliath" SYBILS & PROPHETS 7 "SIBYLS AND PROPHETS" 8 "Delphic Sibyl" 9 "Prophet Isaiah" 10 "Cumaean Sibyl" 11 "Prophet Daniel" 12 "Libyan Sibyl" 13 "Prophet Jonah" 14 "Prophet Jeremiah" 15 "Persian Sibyl" 16 "Prophet Ezekiel" 17 "Ezekiel, detail" 18 "Erythraean Sibyl" 19...

President Trump on Thursday reacted to the Supreme Court’s decision to crush the racist ‘Affirmative Action’ policies at Harvard and the University of North Carolina.The US Supreme Court ruled 6-2 in the Harvard case with liberal justice Ketanji Brown Jackson opting out.The high court ruled 6-3 in the University of North Carolina case.The conservative justices said the race-based affirmative action policies violated the equal protection clause of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, CNBC reported. “We have never permitted admissions programs to work in that way, and we will not do so today,” Chief Justice Roberts wrote.“Two discriminatory wrongs can not make...

Whether Illinois' gun and magazine bans are constitutional is now up to a federal appeals court. The consolidated cases challenging state and local gun and magazine bans in Illinois were heard Thursday by a three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. Defendants asked the court to affirm the Northern District Court upholding the bans while reversing a Southern District Court injunction against the law. Using U.S. Supreme Court precedent from an opinion released last year, plaintiffs argue the gun ban violates the Second Amendment plain text and there’s no history or tradition of governments banning commonly owned...

Ron DeSantis is in free fall in New Hampshire’s Republican primary, with support for the Florida Governor tumbling from 29 percent in March to just 19 percent in June. Support for his leading rival, Donald Trump, has risen from 42 percent to 47 percent. The Floridian has had a bad week in the Granite State, with his team recently branded “just stupid” for picking a fight with its leading conservative women’s group.The data comes from a Saint Anselm College Survey Center poll based on surveys of 1,065 New Hampshire registered voters between June 21st and 23rd, 2023, with a margin...

President Biden is “very focused on details,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg insisted — after the 80-year-old commander in chief confused Ukraine and Iraq twice in 12 hours. The Cabinet member defended Biden after being asked, “What do you say to people who are concerned about his age, and slip-ups like the one he had today?” by CNN host Kaitlan Collins. “Well, what I’d say is I wish you could be in a room with him, the way I often am, seeing how he is simultaneously focused, on a big-picture vision, and very focused on details,” Buttigieg said. “Look, this is...

The perpetual crisis at the U.S. southern border behooves a reminder of President Donald J. Trump’s policy achievements – and an exhaustive list of actions taken over just four years – which led to one of the most secure periods of time in the region for decades.In 2015, Trump declared “the U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else’s problems.” Surely enough, those problems have come home to roost in variety of ways, be it related to infrastructure, crime, jobs, or otherwise.Now, Trump’s opponents including candidates such as Ron DeSantis and the pro open border Koch network are attempting...

One of the first audience members to speak at Thursday’s California Reparations Task Force meeting suggested Secretary of State Shirley Weber receive a Nobel Prize. A few hours later, Weber, who three years ago wrote the piece of legislation that set California on its historic reparations journey, addressed the crowd.

30 June 2023Friday of week 12 in Ordinary TimeSalzburg cathedral, AustriaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingGenesis 17:1,9-10,15-22 ©The Lord make a covenant and gives Abram and Sarai new namesWhen Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to him and said, ‘I am El Shaddai. Bear yourself blameless in my presence, and I will make a Covenant between myself and you. You on your part shall maintain my Covenant, yourself and your descendants after you, generation after generation. Now this is my Covenant which you are to maintain between myself and you, and your descendants after you: all...