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Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, on Wednesday released an FBI document that House GOP members have long been seeking -- FBI Director Christopher Wray was even threatened with a contempt-of-Congress for not sharing it. The Federal Document 1023 was released Thursday only lightly redacted after Grassley acquired it through legally protected disclosures by Justice Department whistleblowers. "For the better part of a year, I've been pushing the Justice Department and FBI to provide details on its handling of very significant allegations from a trusted FBI informant implicating then-Vice President Biden in a criminal bribery scheme," Grassley wrote in a statement. "While...

Jack Poso 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec BREAKING: DeSantis calls on Trump to attend debates “You’ve got to earn it. You’ve got to earn everything in this world” From DeSantis War Room 🐊 11:34 AM · Jul 20, 2023 ·

Friends, in today’s Gospel, the Lord offers to relieve us of our burdens. He is identifying everyone who feels oppressed by the world: by sin, worries, suffering, injustice, the death of a relative or friend, the fear of death—whatever it may be.Relief comes when we submit to his kingship, his new way of ordering things. We are meant to imagine ourselves as pack animals who have been tied under a yoke and are under the command of a farmer. It seems rather demeaning, but this is what submission to Christ’s lordship looks like: we serve his purposes and go where...

Former president Donald Trump accused his successor of dragging the U.S. into a potentially nuclear conflict by even considering allowing Ukraine into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in a video released on Thursday. “We have a corrupt compromise president, Crooked Joe Biden, who is dragging us into World War III,” asserted Trump before arguing that Biden is doing so “on behalf of a nation [Ukraine] that paid his family millions and millions of dollars in obvious bribes.”

None—video Synopsis. A toddler is playing and a stranger, 19 year old man with autism, randomly comes up and sloppily kisses him all over his mouth. The boy tells his parents who get in an argument with the 19 year olds parents defending the Pedo. The police quickly get involved with surprising results.

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RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) – Former Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross plans to host Republican leaders and donors at his Hamptons mansion in August for an event for Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin.The event – first reported by The Messenger – will give top GOP figures a chance to meet with Gov. Youngkin as some party leaders and donors look to entice him to run for president. It will be held on Aug. 4 at Ross’ mansion in the Hamptons on Long Island, members of Youngkin’s PAC confirmed.

Inflation fell again in June according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics’ report on July 12. That’s good news but more important for the country’s future is the Bureau of Economic Analysis release on June 29 of its monthly report on the Gross Domestic Product. Two data series in that report, both dealing with investment, should be getting more attention as inflation recedes because investment driven growth is what the country needs. The two BEA data series covering investment are 1) Gross Private Domestic Investment and 2) Government Gross Investment by the Federal, State, and local governments. They tell us...

Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Thursday denied making a promise to former President Trump that the House would vote to expunge his impeachments, shooting down a report that said the GOP leader pledged the vote as a way to temper tensions with the former president. “There’s no deal,” McCarthy told reporters Thursday, “but I’ve been very clear from long before when I voted against impeachments that they did it for purely political purposes.” “I support expungement but there’s no deal out there,” he added. Those comments contradict a Thursday morning report from Politico Playbook that McCarthy assured Trump that the...

[Catholic Caucus] Latin and Liturgical ParticipationWhen told his movie The Producers was vulgar, Mel Brooks quipped “It rises beneath vulgarity.” That anecdote came to mind in reference to one of the most telling attempts to defend the restrictions placed on the Tridentine Mass over the past two years—an attempt which rose beneath ignorance to reveal that the foundation of the anti-Tridentine position is incompatible with Catholic dogma.In their now-notorious series of articles, Father Thomas Weinandy, John Cavadini and Mary Healy gave the game away in two simple sentences: “Without the vernacular, the active, vocal, intelligible participation [making responses together with...

While just 7% of Americans are LGBTQ+, students at Ivy League universities are identifying as non-straight at rates as much as five times the general public. Brown University made headlines after a student poll revealed a whopping 38% of their student body is not straight. “Honestly I’m not surprised by that statistic,” an anonymous senior at Brown University told The Post. “At Brown, there’s no social pressure to fit into a box or hide your identity.” Other Ivies aren’t far behind. In fact, more than a third of students at Princeton and more than a quarter at Yale and Harvard...

While just 7% of Americans are LGBTQ+, students at Ivy League universities are identifying as non-straight at rates as much as five times the general public. Brown University made headlines after a student poll revealed a whopping 38% of their student body is not straight. “Honestly I’m not surprised by that statistic,” an anonymous senior at Brown University told The Post. “At Brown, there’s no social pressure to fit into a box or hide your identity.” Other Ivies aren’t far behind. In fact, more than a third of students at Princeton and more than a quarter at Yale and Harvard...

As supporters of HD 4420 try to rally their fellow lawmakers behind a plan to hurriedly enact the sweeping gun control bill into law before the end of the month, Massachusetts’ Gun Owners Action League has released a detailed response to what its labeled the “Lawful Citizens Imprisonment Act.” In a sign of just how terrible this legislation truly is, GOAL’s markup of the bill stretches to nine pages, and the group acknowledges at the outset that it “by no means represents the entirety of the concerns of Gun Owners’ Action League or the Second Amendment community,” and is instead...

[Catholic Caucus] The Dam Burst!Interview with Peter Seewald originally in kath.net (July 20, 2023, original in German)"The latest developments (in the Vatican), however, point to a real breach of the dam" - "This flood could destroy what has still withstood" - kath.net interview with Pope biographer Peter Seewald about break of Francis with Benedict XVI.kath.net: Mr. Seewald, on the occasion of the announcement of the newly nominated cardinals and the future prefect of the dicastery of the faith, Der Spiegel ran the headline, "Pope Francis Clears Up Benedict's Legacy." The Frankfurter Rundschau wrote: "Francis finally breaks with Benedict." Were you...

It's hot out and cooking a heavy meal is kind of 'out'. I've done the going out to dine a few times but really home cooked meals often and mostly to me are the best, however I've run out of dinner ideas. Freepers out there have any of you some nice summer recipes you'd like to share?

Qualified Immunity is a controversial legal principle that “protects a government official from lawsuits alleging that the official violated a plaintiff’s rights, only allowing suits where officials violated a ‘clearly established’ statutory or constitutional right.” The bottom line for those of us who believe in civil liberties is that Qualified Immunity makes it very difficult to hold public officials accountable, especially police officers even in cases of horrific brutality, and it’s grating to think that this doctrine was invented by the Supreme Court in 1967. There’s a tension between the Bill of Rights, especially the Second Amendment, and Qualified Immunity....

GOP LA Senator John Kennedy Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) stated that he thinks the Justice Department will do “whatever they can to make sure that President Trump is the nominee, because that’s who President Biden wants.” And Biden “thinks President Trump is the only person he can beat.” Kennedy said, “I don’t know what the facts are. I haven’t seen the indictment yet. I will say, in terms of the politics — and this is the cynical point of view — but I think some Americans are drawing this conclusion, that President Biden and President Trump have a co-dependency, President...

(Last Updated On: July 13, 2023) NATIONAL LOLLIPOP DAY | JULY 20 July 20th recognizes National Lollipop Day as a way to celebrate this enduring and ever-popular treat. Pick up your favorite flavor to savor! #NationalLollipopDay Ever delightful and sweet, lollipops have satisfied generations of sweet tooths. And it’s possible they’ve been doing that for centuries. However, no one is sure how old the lollipop is. During prehistoric times, a form of lollipop may have preserved nuts and berries in honey. As sugar became plentiful, lollipops appeared much later in 16th century Europe. In the United States, confectionaries and medicine...

Trans influencer and biological male Dylan Mulvaney appears to be trying to cash in on his newfound infamy after sparking a national Bud Light boycott this summer by soliciting speaking gigs on college campuses. “Booking speaking opportunities for the upcoming 23/24 school year and would love to come visit,” Mulvaney told his 1.8 million followers in an Instagram Story on Wednesday, according to a report by the New York Post. The trans influencer also included an email address “for serious inquiries,” before signing off with “love ya!” Notably, the Creative Arts Agency’s (CAA) talent agency lists Mulvaney on its website...

Rotterdam, New York – The ongoing migrant crisis brewing in New York State appears to have worsened after long-term residents and guests of a Super 8 motel were kicked from their rooms on Tuesday. The sudden evictions, according to a County official, were conducted to make room for “busloads” of third-world migrants being resettled from New York City. According to reports, the Super 8 Motel near Fort Hunter Park in Schenectady County, abruptly demanded that all its guests and long-term residents check out of their rooms, leaving some with little to no time to find a place to stay. The...