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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Even as it has ushered in sweeping changes to American law and society - on abortion, gun rights and affirmative action - the U.S. Supreme Court has kept tabs on another issue of keen interest to its conservative majority: keeping federal regulatory power in check. The issue will figure prominently during the court's next term, which begins in October, as the justices already have agreed to decide several cases that could curtail the authority of U.S. agencies to issue regulations and enforce laws in areas ranging from finance to fisheries. The cases involve what has come to...

“Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.” Thomas Paine, Common Sense. July 4, 2023, finds the American Founding and its constitutional order under intense and coordinated attack by an assorted mob of radical academics, Marxists, communists, anarchists, anti-capitalists, globalists, and the digital super-elite poised to claim their own superpower status among the world’s powers. The reason these...

The Bible In Paintings ~ Encouragement for Applying and Appreciating God's Word ~ The Best of VASILY POLENOV “VASILY DMITRIEVICH POLENOV (1844–1927) was a Russian landscape painter associated with the Peredvizhniki movement of realist artists. His contemporaries would call him the “Knight of Beauty” as he embodied both European and Russian traditions of painting. His vision of life was summarized as following: “Art should promote happiness and joy”. As a painter and a humanist, he would truly believe in the civilizing mission of Art, Culture and Education.” excerpted from Wikipedia 1 VASILY POLENOV "Christ among the Doctors" 2 VASILY...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemLuke 19 Zacchaeus the Tax Collector 19 Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. 2 A man was there by the name of Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy. 3 He wanted to see who Jesus was, but because he was short he could not see over the crowd. 4 So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way. 5 When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house...

"Coming to [Christ] as to a living stone, rejected by men, but choice and precious in the sight of God" (1 Pet. 2:4). God’s view of Christ is the only accurate standard by which to measure Christ’s worth. I once read about a conversation in the Louvre Museum in Paris. One of the curators of the museum, a man with great appreciation for art, overheard two men discussing a masterpiece. One man said to the other, "I don't think much of that painting." The curator, feeling obliged to reply to the man's statement, said to him, "Dear sir, if I...

Many children of divorce experience a kind of exile. Although you are told your home has not shrunk, but expanded, it rarely feels that way. Not only has the place you used to think of as home changed many of its rituals and rules, but it has altered how you are viewed and treated. At first there is a sense of the newcomers not really knowing you, not knowing all your preferences or aversions and having to explain so many backstories from your past that clarify the present. Then this graduates to not understanding you, your possibilities and limitations, where...

Independence Day no more: America is no longer independent By Ezequiel Doiny Biden has sabotaged the American economy and surrendered decision making power to the IMF. Op-ed.

TAMPA, Fla. - On Monday, a 26-year-old suspect was taken into custody after pointing a green laser at pilots onboard a Tampa PD helicopter, according to authorities. Police say that the pilots were hit twice with a green laser from an apartment complex off Busch Boulevard and 56th Street just after 12:15 a.m. Investigators were able to locate the apartment that the laser originated from. That's when they located the laser inside 26-year-old Juan Lozada-Zamorano's apartment.

AMERICA IS THE NEW SOVIET REPUBLIC. INVERSION OF ROLES: After taking control of America, Marxists are using the power of the White House to spread Marxism around the World. Biden is using Ukraine as an excuse to remove Putin and return Marxism to Russia By Ezequiel Doiny Important background information: Please read my article below about the Marxist takeover of America: ARTICLE 1 "Night falls in America: STALINISM in Biden's America. Persecution of Kulaks (white middle class small businesses), brainwashing in schools, Political repressions through widespread intimidation, arrests, and imprisonment" https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/4161260/posts ARTICLE 2 "Instead of stopping the Iranian nuclear program...

Across the Canadian province of New Brunswick, the number of people afflicted by a mysterious, potentially deadly brain ailment keeps growing. Neurological symptoms like hallucinations, muscle wasting, vision problems, memory loss, and abnormal movements were seen in 2015 in a small cluster of patients, eventually growing to 48 cases. But some health experts and local residents say the number of people with the condition is much higher — and may exceed 200. In addition, an unusual number of those cases are in young people, who do not typically show dementia-like symptoms or signs of other neurological problems. “I am particularly...

@Nigel_Farage Just to keep people up to date… I have just had the 9th bank rejection confirmed. Maybe I need to go to law and fight this for the sake of so many people. I don't want to live in communist China.

White House evacuated after discovery of suspicious substance sparks security concerns The incident has raised concerns about security protocols and how the substance found its way into the presidential residence. An audio dispatch recording obtained from the D.C. fire department reveals that a preliminary test on the substance indicated it was cocaine hydrochloride. The recording, timestamped at 8:49 p.m., was made by a firefighter from the department's hazardous materials team. “We have a yellow bar saying cocaine hydrochloride.”

Its the 4th of July, American Independence Day from England, but under Biden and The Federal Reserve, Americans are DEPENDENT on debt and Federal spending. In other words, Americans are addicted to gov. First, Bankrate’s 30-year mortgage rate index is up 150% under Biden. You can see the rapid rise in mortgage rates started with Biden (orange box). Meanwhile, the US Treasury yield curve (10Y-2Y) is the most inverted (negative slope) since 1981. Way to go, Joe!! On the metals side, gold and silver are up slightly. (Go silver go!!) On the crypto side, Polkadot is up 1.26% while Bitcoin...

In 1776, Great Britain’s American colonists revolted in response to George III’s corruption of the British constitution. The twenty-seven indictments of him in our Declaration detailed his assaults. Americans didn’t have an Article V or its equivalent to peacefully secure the rights enjoyed by Englishmen in England. Similarly, 21st century America is witness to a dying Constitution in which its open corruption is the subject of endless opinion columns and appeals. Article V opponents curiously admonish Article V supporters to “enforce the Constitution we have.” Through the election of better Representatives, Senators, and Presidents, they say, is the road to...

The University System of Georgia spent millions on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts prior to cuts from the state budget approved earlier this year, according to a Monday report by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC). The report detailed a nearly 200-page response from system Chancellor Sonny Perdue to Georgia Republican Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, who questioned how much had been spent on DEI efforts following complaints from the former over the approved $66 million decrease in funding for the system. The report said that although it was difficult to calculate one total sum spent on DEI from all 26 of...

The two-state-solution is a failure: India-Pakistan as living proof By Ezequiel Doiny ...Since the British-sponsored 1947 partition there have been 14 million refugees, 4 wars and now a dangerous nuclear race... The India-Pakistan partition did not solve the Muslim-Hindu conflict, it made the conflict more dangerous. The creation of another Arab tyranny in Judea and Samaria will make the conflict worse. Hamas would attack Israel from Judea and Samaria as it does from Gaza. The two State Solution would endanger Israel, it would make the conflict more dangerous. The concept of creating "two states for two peoples" was seen as...

Eight rollercoaster riders were stuck upside down on a carnival ride Sunday at a Wisconsin festival. The stoppage took place at the Forest County Festival in Crandon, which is approximately 230 miles north of Milwaukee. The riders on the Fire Ball were stuck for at least three hours as first responders worked to bring them down safely.

North Carolina labor officials are looking into an amusement park roller coaster after a visitor spotted a crack on one of the ride's support pillars last week. Jeremy Wagner posted to Facebook on Friday that he discovered the crack in the Fury 325 giga roller coaster at the Carowinds amusement park and notified officials. The ride was temporarily shut down.

... As global competition in AI inevitably intensifies, Western companies should be taking lessons from China. While it is undeniable that the U.S. still dominates globally in AI, how long it can retain leadership with China snapping at its heels is debatable, given China's high technology adoption rates, mass digitalization, government support that amounts to over $150 billion for AI research and development, the world's largest AI model, and over 4.5 million science, technology, engineering and math graduates a year. China, though, also faces some major hurdles. Private-sector funding for AI in China amounted to just $13.5 billion last year...

The Undeliverable Ballot Database can save us from DNC mail-in ballot antics. One of the best things about a segment on the War Room, after virtually meeting Steve Bannon, is the incoming mail two days later. The RNC, the Trump Campaign, almost every Republican state party chairperson believes the road to 2024 electoral victory is to “out-ballot-harvest the left.” It’s hard to argue with absolute nonsense. To the rescue, however, comes a retired mail carrier who sent the following message: Message: I am a retired mail man. I just saw your War Room interview. I now know where the mules...