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NOCATEE, Fla. – Jennifer Ruotolo is busy packing up her life after bringing home a 2023 Mercedes Benz EQE350+. Her Nocatee home was destroyed in a fire sparked by the electric car. It was a loaner from Mercedes Benz while her personal car was getting serviced.

The Federal Reserve is about to launch its new FedNow Service, allowing banks to transfer money instantly. But what many describe as just back-end plumbing for real-time payments could be a slippery slope to an "evil" central bank digital currency (CBDC), according to Rich Checkan, President and Co-Founder of Assets Strategies International. "I'm a big fan of FedNow. But I don't like that it's a slippery slope that leads to the evil of CBDC," Checkan told Michelle Makori, Lead Anchor and Editor-in-Chief at Kitco News. "This is not happening tomorrow, but the cornerstone is being laid, and now is the...

Generra Peck, DeSantis’ top aide, is “hanging by a thread,” said a DeSantis donor who is close to the campaign. “It is the chatter among donors, and it extends beyond the first rung of the bundler class. Money people are losing confidence quickly,” a DeSantis money-bundler said. “It’s time for that kind of change. It’s time for a shake-up at the top.” “Governor DeSantis and Casey very much support her. I wouldn’t say it’s never going to happen, but right now her job is safe,” the DeSantis ally said. Phil Cox, former exec director RGA returned to the inner circle...

State Sen. Robby Mills, who GOP gubernatorial nominee Attorney General Daniel Cameron tapped as his running mate Wednesday, is a longtime public official in Western Kentucky. He spent 16 years on the Henderson City Commission starting in 1998 before serving a term in the Kentucky House, then winning election to Senate District 4 in a one-point 2018 win over an incumbent Democrat. In 2022, he won re-election to a second term by 33 percentage points. At an event announcing Mills’ addition to the ticket, Cameron praised Mills as “rock-ribbed conservative with a history of beating legacy Democrats in a historically...

Republicans have proposed that apologies and reparations be made to all of the "Jack Smiths" in the US. Normal sane Jack Smiths are required to carry pictures of Jack "Dog Feces" Smith with them when accosted in public and accused of being the greasy, slimy, dirtbag Jack Smith of the Biden DOJ infamy. Although these Jack Smiths deny being that Jack Smith, many of these Jack Smiths are being unjustly publicly shamed and spit on because of the mis-identification. In addition to the public apologies and reparations, these Jack Smiths also would require Jack "Dog Feces" Smith to be required...

Senator Chuck Grassley on Thursday released the FBI report that Republicans claim proves the Bidens accepted bribes from Ukraine. But there’s just one problem: there’s still no evidence. House Republicans have accused the Biden family of corruption for months but have been unable to provide any actual evidence linking President Joe Biden or his son Hunter to any wrongdoing. The GOP has repeatedly insisted that the just-released FBI document, which House members were initially allowed to see in June, proves the two men accepted bribes. But this is an unverified form, and it relies on a Rudy Giuliani conspiracy theory....

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WYMT) - 7-19-2023 Update: In a Tweet Wednesday morning, Kentucky Attorney General and Republican nominee for Governor Daniel Cameron announced his running mate. In the tweet, Cameron said Sen. Robby Mills from Henderson will run on his ticket as Lt. Governor. “Robby will be a strong partner in our quest to defeat Andy Beshear and bring common sense back to the governor’s office.” In a release from the current attorney general’s campaign, Cameron said the state senator is “a strong conservative with a history of beating legacy Democrats in a historically strong Democrat region” in Western Kentucky. Mills...

Former President Donald Trump laid out his latest presidential campaign policy agenda as related to rescuing America's auto industry from "Joe Biden's disastrous job-killing policies." "Joe Biden is waging war on the U.S. auto-industry with a series of crippling mandates designed to force Americans into expensive electric cars — that's just what you want — even as thousands of electric cars are piling up on car lots all unsold," Trump said in an Agenda47 policy video shared on Rumble. "This ridiculous Green New Deal crusade is causing car prices to skyrocket while setting the stage for the destruction of American...

The Biden administration has released thousands of illegal immigrant children infected with tuberculosis into 44 states without any attempt of treating the children.Close to 2,500 children who have been diagnosed with TB have potentially infected thousands of American children within the last year.The new numbers stem from a report from the US Health and Human Services Department.The new report revealed, “The government says it can’t treat the children because they are in custody for a short time and treatment requires three to nine months.”

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...