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The Goal of the Synodal Takeover of the Church Is the Corruption of Priests! Thank God for the SSPX!The Planned Synodal Takeover of the ChurchRemember Good-Bye Good Men, Michael Rose's book about the attack on orthodox men aspiring to the priesthood? Corrupt seminaries welcoming homosexuals bearing nicknames like The Pink Palace (St. Mary's in Baltimore) had gatekeepers to make sure only those who supported women's ordination, homosexuality, changes in moral teaching on sexuality, etc. were accepted. Those "rigid" Catholics, men who loved the faith as taught over the millennia, were blacklisted, excluded, and expelled especially if they had the temerity...

Three years ago, while the nation’s attention was on the 2020 presidential election, voters in Oregon took a dramatic step back from America’s long-running War on Drugs. By a 17-point margin, Oregonians approved Ballot Measure 110, which eliminated criminal penalties for possessing small amounts of any drug, including cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine. When the policy went into effect early the next year, it lifted the fear of prosecution for the state’s drug users and launched Oregon on an experiment to determine whether a long-sought goal of the drug-policy reform movement—decriminalization—could help solve America’s drug problems. Early results of this reform...

A new -- and even more dangerous -- form of fentanyl has been identified in dozens of deaths on San Francisco streets last year. According to a new report from the SF Medical Examiner's office, it's called fluorofentanyl. MORE: SF DA files 800+ drug cases 1st year in office but blames judges for allowing dealers to go free It was found during examinations of 45 people who died of drug overdoses last year. The strain can be up to five times more powerful than prescribed fentanyl. The Medical Examiner's office said it did not know how many deaths this year...

Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 @julie_kelly2 Big question: What criminal charges might Jack Smith bring against Trump related to January 6? As I've explained in interviews and columns for over a year, DOJs looming indictment against Trump for January 6 poses tremendous legal jeopardy to the former president. Why? Because DOJs 2 1/2 year-record of success in prosecuting more than 1,000 individuals for even minimal participation in Jan 6 has established new legal precedents that apply to anyone involved in the Capitol protest. This will include Trump and his co-defendants. January 6 Jurisprudence It's important to emphasize how DOJ--DC US Attorney's office...

Americans are evenly split about whether they'd consider voting for a third-party candidate for president in 2024, with 47% saying they would and 47% saying they would not, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll released Wednesday. Meanwhile, the poll numbers changed little from the last poll, on June 14, when it comes to the GOP presidential nomination: The poll numbers also changed little for the Democratic Party nomination:

Turkish research finds that the use of music in education leads to an improvement in young people’s numerical skills over time.With marks in mathematics among students in the United States at their lowest in decades – not to mention questionable passing scores in Malaysia – parents, educators and certain authorities alike are naturally concerned. A recent Turkish study suggests that music could be a solution to issues of innumeracy or mathematical illiteracy. Dr Ayça Akin of Antalya Belek University came to this conclusion after analysing 55 studies from around the world involving 78,000 learners. The researcher found that students achieved...

Gilgo Beach murder suspect Rex Heuermann once worked as an architect for former President Donald Trump, a report said. The Trump Organization hired Heuermann’s architectural firm, RH Architecture, for a plumbing job on the 17th floor of the Trump Building at 40 Wall St., according toan October 2018 filing with the New York City Department of Buildings. The project at the crown jewel Art Deco-style building was projected to cost $205,017.00, the document states. The filing names Heuermann as the applicant, while the Trump Organization’s VP of property management, Steve Lafiosca, is shown as the owner.

Things are reportedly growing tense between Donald Trump and his former press secretary, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R), who is apparently drawing the ire of Trump’s camp for her neutrality in the 2024 presidential primary. Sanders had told Trump’s campaign that she wouldn’t be making an endorsement until after her first legislative session, two sources familiar with the discussions told Axios. But that session ended in May, and with still no endorsement from Sanders, Trump is reportedly growing increasingly irate. In March, Trump said that he “never asked” Sanders for an endorsement, but “nobody has done more for her...

It wasn't until 2008 that the Supreme Court for the first time struck down a gun control law, ruling the 2nd Amendment protected the "right of law-abiding, responsible citizens" to keep a handgun at home for self-defense. Last year, the court went a step further and said an "ordinary law-abiding citizen" also has a right to a state permit to carry a concealed weapon in public for self-defense. Now the justices face a new frontier: Do gun rights extend to dangerous people and dangerous weapons? In just the last year, accused criminals and felons including drug dealers and domestic abusers...

A federal judge in New York has rejected former President Donald Trump's request to move his hush-money criminal case into federal court. "Trump has failed to show that the conduct charged by the Indictment is for or relating to any act performed by or for the President under color of the official acts of a President," Judge Alvin Hellerstein wrote in his ruling Wednesday. Trump has pleaded not guilty to a 34-count indictment charging him with falsifying business records in connection with a hush money payment made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels days before the 2016 presidential election. He...

Grassroots group SC Safe Elections (SCSE) continues fight for access to valuable election audit report information. Grassroots group SCSE (scsafeelection.org) sued eight counties and South Carolina’s state election commission for access to Cast Vote Records (CVRs) which are produced by election systems during elections. CVRs show the actual votes for each ballot recorded during an election. Twenty-seven states and DC already have access to CVRs—why not South Carolina? These records are valuable digital records from elections. SCSE repeatedly was denied access to CVRs through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests that the group started filing in January of last year...

Ron DeSantis and his team do not really believe the narrative they have constructed against Donald Trump around COVID, with one of his top financial backers telling the media the ruse is just “politics”.“No one believes he actually believes any of the stuff about the vaccine,” said one “megadonor” on the condition of anonymity, adding: “If you talk to the non-crazy people he’s got working for him, they don’t believe it, either. It’s politics.”The donor didn’t say who the crazies or non-crazies were, in their estimation, but told Rolling Stone they now have doubts about the DeSantis campaign having been...

Starting in 2020, airlines did two insanely stupid things: They forced a generation of their most experienced pilots into early retirement, then committed to new race-based hiring rules. A wagon train sounds more appealing to me right now than setting foot on a plane with a pilot more trained in detecting microaggressions at work than changes in airspeed and altitude. I hate flying. My poor husband still has a sore arm from where I grabbed him every time the plane hit turbulence on our last flight. I didn’t always hate it — I used to fly across the country to...

Carlee Russell researched the movie 'Taken' and whether she was too old for an Amber alert before she vanished last week then reappeared two days later claiming she'd been abducted. Carlee, 25, told police she was taken by a white man with 'orange hair' who appeared from the trees on the side of I-459 after she saw a 'baby boy in a diaper' walking along the road. Her disappearance sparked a frantic police and volunteer hunt which generated $62,000 in donations. She reappeared at her parents' house on Saturday night, 49 hours after vanishing. At a press conference, Hoover Police...

LAS VEGAS — The infamous unsolved murder of rapper Tupac Shakur on the streets of Las Vegas, once thought to be a hit by the Southside Crips, is now believed to be the work of none other than former President Donald J. Trump, who authorities believe acted alone. Trump has been indicted for the murder. A charge of murder in the first degree was brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith. "Tupac was murdered on Flamingo Road, less than two miles from where Trump Hotel later opened in 2017," he said. "Coincidence? I think not!" Authorities now believe Trump fired a...

A man who lost his right eye in an accident over 50 years ago has been given a new one by a tattooist in Sevilla. At the age of 25, Florencio lost his eye after being kicked by a horse in the stable where he worked. Finally, at the age of 80 he decided to have an eye tattooed on his eyelid, writes Nuis Diario, Wednesday, July 19. Florencio was only 25 years old and worked in a stable in a village in Sevilla when he was so badly hit in the face by a horse that he ended up...

The Kremlin’s move to seize the Russian assets of Carlsberg and Danone is Moscow’s most brazen attack yet on foreign firms operating in Russia, and is likely to trigger fresh concern among businesses that have continued operating in the country, experts said. President Vladimir Putin is handing control of the Russian subsidiaries of French food maker Danone and Danish brewer Carlsberg to regime loyalists, according to local media reports and government corporate registries, in a move that amounts to an expropriation of assets valued at well over $1 billion. Both companies have huge operations in Russia and had publicly said...

A doorbell camera captured the moment a motorist's car literally flew into an occupied home while speeding down a residential street - killing the elderly driver instantly and narrowly missing a three-year-old child inside the home. The fatal crash happened in St. Louis, Missouri, Tuesday, and left a literal hole in the occupied home on Kingston Drive. Veronica Schoettle, said her three-year-old nephew was on a bed near that wall when the car struck the home at frightening speeds that appeared to be around 100mph, and even pushed the bed along with the child several feet, NBC 4 reported. Schoettle,...

MOSCOW/LONDON (Reuters) - Russia warned that from Thursday any ships traveling to Ukraine's Black Sea ports will be seen as possibly carrying military cargoes after Ukraine said it was setting up a temporary shipping route to try and continue its grain exports.The moves by both countries on Wednesday came just days after Russia quit a deal - brokered by the United Nations and Turkey - that allowed the safe Black Sea export of Ukraine grain for the past year, and revoked its guarantees of safe navigation.Ukraine has made clear that it wants to try and continue its Black Sea grain...

More than two dozen Senate Democrats Wednesday sent a letter to leaders at UPS and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters pledging not to intervene in the event of a strike. “We are hopeful that both sides can negotiate in good faith and reach a consensus agreement that addresses basic human needs and allows workers to do their jobs safely and with dignity,” 28 Democrats said in the letter. “However, in the event a fair and equitable collective bargaining agreement cannot be reached, we commit to respect our constituents’ statutory and constitutional rights to withhold their labor and initiate and participate...