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The world has spun too fast, lost its moorings, rudderless we drift into vacant seas, storm clouds gather. America is adrift, we can all feel it. So many crises afflict us, it is as if a wave has crested and all we can do is stand in its wake and weigh the damage, absent memories of what came before. Where to start but in some reflective thoughts on the passing of these times. Lost connections are the curse of our days. The rise of mental illness, depression, suicide, particularly among our youth, rising drug addiction, lowering life expectancy, the...

The Left will fight to the death for the right of the government to silence you. When Judge Terry Doughty issued an injunction in Missouri v. Biden that banned the government from “specifically flagging content or posts on social-media platforms and/or forwarding such to social-media companies urging, encouraging, pressuring, or inducing in any manner for removal, deletion, suppression”, all hell broke loose. Evelyn Douek, a Stanford law professor, formerly of the Knight First Amendment Institute, warned that preventing the government from colluding with corporations to censor citizens would have a “chilling effect on communication between the government and platforms.” In...

(Daily readings from the USCCB)A woman suffering hemorrhages for twelve years came up behind him and touched the tassel on his cloak. She said to herself, “If only I can touch his cloak, I shall be cured.” Jesus turned around and saw her, and said, “Courage, daughter! Your faith has saved you.” And from that hour the woman was cured. Matthew 9:20–21What a tremendous amount of faith this woman had! She had suffered for many years and continued to suffer with her hemorrhages. How did she know that touching Jesus’ cloak would cure her? The only answer to that is...

Fox News host Mark Levin sounds off on President Biden's and Attorney General Merrick Garland's Department of Justice for 'destroying America' on 'Life, Liberty & Levin.'

Bidenomics relied on massive Federal spending thanks to Covid and massive monetary expansion. This led to the highest inflation in 40 years (Bidenflation). But now The Fed is slowing M2 Money growth into negative territory and hiking their target rate. The result? Bank credit growth has crashed to 0.5% YoY. In other words, banks are no longer expanding credit for the first time since the aftermanth of The Great Recession and Financial Crisis of 2008/2009. Of course, Washington DC bailed out their bestest buddies, the banks, while middle America suffered. As America loses steam under Biden and The Fed, 41+...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s weaker-than-expected campaign is prompting other Republicans, such as Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, to take a new look at running for president, GOP strategists say. These Republicans argue that DeSantis, long seen as the strongest potential challenger in a GOP primary to former President Trump, has failed to establish himself as the clear alternative. “I think his high point was right after the last election, when he was the brightest spot on an otherwise somewhat disappointing night for Republicans,” said GOP strategist Vin Weber, commenting on the big DeSantis reelection victory for...

President Joe Biden has again been accused of delivering angry, abusive outbursts against his own staff when behind closed doors, a report Monday details. Axios reporter Alex Thompson laid out the accusations in a piece headlined — “Old yeller: Biden’s private fury” The story makes the point Biden likes to portray himself as a kindly figure given to eating ice cream and chatting to small children in public but in private he is reportedly prone to yelling invective. Thompson states: Behind closed doors, Biden has such a quick-trigger temper that some aides try to avoid meeting alone with him. Some...

A Georgia mayor was held at gunpoint after he allegedly trespassed into a home he dreamed of owning, according to reports. South Fulton Mayor Khalid Kamau was arrested Saturday morning around 6:52 a.m., after a man called police to report a trespasser at his home on Cascade Palmetto Highway, WSB-TV reported. Officers arrived on scene and were told by the homeowner his phone alerted him Kamau was on the property. The homeowner quickly got dressed and watched as Kamau reportedly walked up the driveway toward the lakehouse home before allegedly entering. The homeowner reportedly retreated to his truck to call...

This one is for people from Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras with relatives in the USA...DHS estimates that...as many as 73,500 aliens...could be eligible to be paroled into the country and receive work authorizations under this program.

Russian air defences claim they shot down a missile in the crossing's vicinity The £3 billion ten-mile crossing was built in 2014 after Putin annexed Crimea A Ukrainian cruise missile attack has forced the £3 billion ten-mile bridge linking Russia to Crimea to temporarily close. Russian air defences have claimed they shot down a missile in the vicinity of the crossing, which was built on Putin's orders after he annexed the Crimea after an invasion in 2014. One report said this was an interception by the 31st Air Defence Division north of Taman on the Russia side of the bridge....

* Researchers at Oxford University ranked 184 countries by calorie consumption * US came 2nd overall, while the UK ranked at 26th position in the tally ********************************************************* America is known for its big portion sizes and even bigger obesity problem — and this map reveals why. People in the US consume an average of 3,868 calories per day, the second-highest number of any country in the world. It is eclipsed only by Bahrain, in the Middle East, where people consumed more than 4,000 calories per day on average. That's according to research by Oxford University-based OurWorldInData, which compiled figures on...

Health-care giant says an unknown party made patient information available on an online forumHCA Healthcare HCA - which operates about 180 hospitals and other health-care facilities, said some patient information, including names, emails and phone numbers, were leaked online. The company said an unknown and unauthorized party made the information available on an online forum. The information includes patients’ names, cities, ZIP codes, emails, phone numbers, service date and more. However, payment information, clinical information and other sensitive information such as social security numbers weren’t leaked. [Snip] The company has disabled user access to the affected storage location as a...

MIDDLETOWN, Md., Thursday, July 9. The number of wagons destroyed by our cavalry is over 500. BUFORD destroyed 200 on Monday. DAHLGREN destroyed 170 on the same day. On Saturday and Sunday KILPATRICK burned, captured and destroyed between 200 and 300. Fully one-third of the transportation of the rebel army has been destroyed, and the damage to them of fully twice what they are able to carry out of Pennsylvania. The cavalry, under the vigorous leadership of PLEASANTON and his subordinates -- BUFORD, GREGG and KILPATRICK -- have done immense service during the past ten days. They have truly filled...

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Ukraine supports 90% of anti-Israel decisions in the United Nations, Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine Michael Brodsky told Ukrainian outlet ZN.UA."This is unusual considering Kyiv often turns to the Israeli authorities for various requests," he said. "If Ukraine sees Israel as a friendly nation and makes requests from it, then it needs to support us in the matters that are important to us just as Israel works with Ukraine on matters important to it." In a UN vote in January on referring Israel to the International Court of Justice for its “occupation, settlement and annexation of Palestinian territory”, Ukraine voted against...

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 Best of PETER PAUL RUBENS “PETER PAUL RUBENS (1577 – 1640) was a Flemish artist from the Southern Netherlands. He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens's highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history. His unique and immensely popular Baroque style emphasized movement, colour, and sensuality, which followed the immediate, dramatic artistic style promoted in the Counter-Reformation. Rubens was a prolific artist. The catalogue of his works lists 1,403 pieces. “Religion figured prominently in much...

If you listen to the mainstream media, “The Sound of Freedom,” a film about the horrors of child sex trafficking, is nothing more than a paranoid, far-right, “QAnon-adjacent” conspiracy theory — a “fantasy” dreamt up by transphobic extremists and starring a cast of “bigots.” The movie, which decimated Disney’s “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” over the Fourth of July weekend, is based on the true life story of Tim Ballard, a former DHS agent — played by actor Jim Caviezel — who dedicates his life to rescuing children from the clutches of pedophiles who would enslave them. Since...

“I gave them a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I would have done the same thing.” — Richard Nixon. What Nixon said, Donald Trump could easily say about himself. Of course, he will not. Richard Nixon was the last president who faced anything like the legal jeopardy former President Trump is facing — plus a frothing electronic lynch mob. The end game for both Nixon and Trump has some eerie similarities. Detested by the media, the New York-Washington elites and the left, both...

Enforcing the Law Has Become Abnormal. The usual suspects have weighed in on recent belated efforts to enforce U.S. immigration laws. Our now bankrupt media, the corrupt government of Mexico, and the Diversity/Equity/Inclusion apparat have damned a series of laws recently passed by the Florida legislature and signed by Governor Ron DeSantis that enforce existing federal immigration laws. Such critics seem oblivious to the current violence that is paralyzing Europe in general, and in particular France—as if such European chaos offers no lessons for the U.S. or any other salad-bowl, open-borders Western nation. Florida decided no longer to provide de...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar, who was convicted of sexually abusing female gymnasts, was stabbed multiple times during an altercation with another inmate at a federal prison in Florida. Two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press the attack happened Sunday at United States Penitentiary Coleman in Florida. The people said he was in stable condition Monday. One of the people said he had been stabbed in the back and in the chest.