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Well, they weren’t going to start singing now. It’s four matches at the World Cup and four mostly-silent national anthems for the U.S. Women’s National Team after the music stopped at the Round of 16 against Sweden. Vlatko Andonovski made a few changes to his starting 11 against the Swedes, and a couple more players than usual sang along with “The Star Spangled Banner” while the rest stood quietly. Alex Morgan, Julie Ertz and Lindsey Horan were again amongst the five who sung, along with Trinity Rodman and Emily Fox. The coaching staff was again quiet. The Swedish team, meanwhile,...

China and Russia conducted a joint naval operation near the coast of Alaska earlier this week in a “highly provocative” move amid the war in Ukraine that triggered a robust US military response. Eleven Russian and Chinese ships neared the Aleutian Islands off the coast of Alaska earlier this week near the maritime boundary Russia shares with the US, but the fleets never entered US waters, according to The Wall Street Journal.

On Friday President Trump posted this warning on Truth Social. [Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU! Aug 04, 2023, 3:16 PM] This should not be a surprise. Trump ALWAYS goes after those who attack him first. Just ask Rosie O’Donnell or CNN. As reported earlier – In response to President Trump’s post on Truth Social, dirty Jack Smith asked the far-left Obama judge overseeing the DOJ’s latest case against Trump to prevent the president from sharing information on the case with the public. .....snip..... Now this… The Obama judge on the case gave...

...The firebrand Kentucky Senator just handed over an “official criminal referral” for Fauci, and now the bureaucrat may be forced to lawyer up. Senator Paul announced the referral earlier this week, citing an email from February 2020 that he says proves Dr. Fauci lied to Congress during a hearing about his alleged use of U.S. taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research – the process of intentionally making a virus more deadly and contagious..

Throughout the United States, it takes three times as many hours of training to become a nail technician, a barber, or a plumber as it does to become a police officer. Finland, Australia, Denmark, and Germany – countries with far less crime and a fraction of American gun violence – spend dramatically more to prepare officers before sending them off into the streets. Finland, for instance, provides police cadets with 5,500 hours of training, nearly 14 times the minimum 408 training hours required by the state police board in Georgia. Highly trained law enforcement officers, studies consistently show, are better...

In summer 1959, four boys set out on a two-day trek in search of a missing dead body. The journey will test them in ways they had never imagined. Starring: Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, JerryO'Connel, Kiefer Sutherland

Public college administrators 2,700 miles apart are trying to escape legal responsibility for what some courts are calling potential viewpoint discrimination against campus chapters of the same nationwide conservative group. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals made that harder for California's Clovis Community College Thursday by refusing to moot the First Amendment lawsuit against several officials by former students in its Young Americans for Freedom chapter. The question of mootness was brushed aside by the court, because even though the college being sued rescinded their "Flyer Policy" at issue, the matter was capable of repetition yet avoiding judicial review....

Notice any differences between the two men seen above? The man of the left is Darryl De Sousa. The man on the right is Hunter Biden. De Sousa was the Baltimore Police Commissioner. Hunter Biden is the son of Joe Biden De Sousa was accused of not paying $67,000 in taxes and spent 275 days in jail in a plea deal. Hunter Biden was also offered a plea deal for failure to pay $2 million in taxes. His deal included no jail time. a minor penalty and immunity from all possible past and future crimes. This pasty-faced wiener "bulldog" was...

Sunday 6 August 2023 The Transfiguration of the Lord Feast Transfiguration Roman Catholic Church, Queens, New York Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(I).First readingDaniel 7:9-10,13-14 ©His robe was white as snowAs I watched:Thrones were set in placeand one of great age took his seat.His robe was white as snow,the hair of his head as pure as wool.His throne was a blaze of flames,its wheels were a burning fire.A stream of fire poured out,issuing from his presence.A thousand thousand waited on him,ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him.A court was heldand the books were opened.I gazed into the...

(Daily readings from the USCCB)Then Peter said to Jesus in reply, “Rabbi, it is good that we are here! Let us make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” He hardly knew what to say, they were so terrified. Then a cloud came, casting a shadow over them; from the cloud came a voice, “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him.” Mark 9:5–7Just prior to the Transfiguration, Jesus began to reveal to His disciples that He would suffer greatly, be rejected by the elders, be killed and then rise on the third day. This...

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the...

“The Bidens are the best at doing exactly what Chairman wants.” That WhatsApp message to a Chinese business associate was the perfect epitaph for the entire Biden corruption scandal. Part of the brilliance of the Biden influence peddling operation was to invest the media in the denial of any scandal. That is no more evident than the much discussed 2015 dinner of President Joe Biden with his son’s foreign associates. The alleged dinner demolished Joe Biden’s long denials of any knowledge of his son’s dealings. Accordingly, the Biden campaign denied he ever attended and the media happily dismissed the account....

Former President Donald Trump said he thinks that Democrats “have something” on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and blamed him for not doing enough to fight back against purported “election interference” after he was slapped with another federal indictment this week. Trump, the leading GOP presidential candidate, has repeatedly claimed the trio of indictments he’s been handed since March are attempts by the Justice Department to interfere in the 2024 presidential election Trump told the crowd at the South Carolina Republican Party’s 56th Annual Silver Elephant Gala on Saturday night that McConnell (R-Ky.) and other Republican senators need to step...

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All the hype around lies and hoaxes has been on Carlee Russell, the Alabama Black woman who hatched a misleading ploy about being abducted for 49 hours after reporting a missing toddler to 911. Because of Russell, some lawmakers want to make it a felony to lie about being kidnapped, and social media hasn’t stopped dragging her through the mud. The hell Russell is catching is absolutely warranted. But Russell is far from the first person in American history to create a hoax that deceived law enforcement and the public. Often the perpetrators have been white women who played on...

August 5, 2023: an attrmpted lynching. In the Binyamin area, dozens of "Palestinian" Arab rioters from the village of Burqa [بُرقه] attack a group of Jews with stones, clubs and fireworks. One of the Jews who felt his life was in danger opened fire and one Arab attacker Kosai Ma'atan [قصي معطان] died.*It started when a Jewish shepherd who left Givat 'Oz Zion' was grazing the flock at a distance of about 500-700 meters from the outskirts of the village of Burka. Several Arabs approached him and threatened him to stay away. At this point the shepherd called several friends...

The latest indictment of former President Trump threatens to destroy the First Amendment and give the federal government the unprecedented power to criminalize political lies, constitutional law professor and Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley warned Saturday. Trump was indicted this week on four charges related to Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into 2020 election interference and the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, including conspiracy to defraud the United States. Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges in a Washington, D.C., courtroom Thursday. In an op-ed for The Hill, Turley wrote that Smith’s indictment essentially charges Trump for spreading "lies that there...

Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord Matthew 17:1-9 Friends, today we celebrate the Feast of the Transfiguration. What does this event mean? Thomas Aquinas’ treatment in the Summa theologiae sums up much of the wisdom of the Church Fathers on this matter.Aquinas says that it was fitting for Christ to be manifested in his glory to his select Apostles because those who walk an arduous path need a clear sense of the goal of their journey. The arduous path is this life, with all of its attendant sufferings, failures, disappointments, and injustices.Beset by all of this negativity, a pilgrim...

ST. LOUIS, Wednesday, Aug. 5. The Democrat's Vicksburgh special dispatch, dated the 30th, says in the late advance on Jackson, letters were captured confirming the treason of JAMES BUCHANAN. His replies of JEFF. DAVIS confirm Gen. SCOTT's accusations. The rebel Gen. BOWEN died of dysentery a few days ago. In the late operations against Jackson, Gen. SHERMAN lost about 1,000 men. The army is now undergoing a complete reorganization. Gen. HERRON's division at Natchez destroyed an immense amount of rebel stores and captured a large quantity of salt from Louisiana for LEE's army, and a great number of cattle from...

Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever. Psalm 119:160 (King James Version) The Trump prosecutions are simply the final step of the coup to take out a once setting President by the World Communist Party. It began with the Russia and phone call scandals and when they did not work and the US economy was roaring the polls looked like a nationwide landslide which would destroy the Democrat Party and a high-risk coup needed to be set forward. According to my spy inside the Barak regime there was a meeting...