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Montgomery County Public Schools granted a $191,000 salary to a principal with 18 counts of sexual assault, harassment, and bullying reported against him. Joel Beidleman was employed with the Maryland district for years as principal of Farquhar Middle School, and was promoted in June to run Paint Branch High School in Burtonsville. MCPS announced on Friday that Beidleman would take an “extended leave,” after a bombshell report from the Washington Post highlighted the former administrator’s years of alleged harassment. Many sources interviewed for the Post’s article agreed to publicize Beidleman’s purported misconduct because of his new position. Educators who used...

[Catholic Caucus] Admission Free, but Churches Empty. Dreams and Realities of a Pontificate on the WaneThe Church “does not have doors”, and therefore everyone can come in, but truly “everyone, everyone, everyone, without any exclusion.” This is the message on which Pope Francis insisted most during his travel to Lisbon, in the run-up to a synod that – in its “Instrumentum laboris” – puts at the top of the list of those invited to enter “the divorced and remarried, people in polygamous marriages, or LGBTQ+ Catholics.”But meanwhile in Italy, where Francis is bishop of Rome and primate, the churches are...

Attorney General Merrick Garland's appointment of Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss to serve as special counsel in the Hunter Biden criminal probe is raising alarm with some legal experts who say it explicitly violates the Justice Department's regulations requiring such appointments come from outside the agency. That regulation states: "An individual named as Special Counsel shall be a lawyer with a reputation for integrity and impartial decisionmaking, and with appropriate experience to ensure both that the investigation will be conducted ably, expeditiously and thoroughly, and that investigative and prosecutorial decisions will be supported by an informed understanding of the criminal...

[Catholic Caucus] Fratelli Non Tutti: Trads Not IncludedAbove: Vatican City – October 28, 2015. Pope Francis meets with an interfaith audience. © L’Osservatore Romano.In 1960, Ida Friederike Görres asked, “Is not the secret crisis of so many fellow believers, often hardly conscious, that they can no longer think of the past and the future together in the Church?”[1] Today this crisis is no longer secret. This was the onset of a decade in which attempts to rip apart the past from the future became the dominant current of modern culture, not least of all inside the Church. Our current Pope...

Egypt is resisting calls from the Biden administration to arm Ukraine for its imminent counteroffensive, just months after Cairo dropped plans to help Moscow. The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that although Egypt has agreed not to assist the Kremlin's invasion, its government is hesitant to help the Western effort to refill Ukraine's dwindling ammunition supplies. Top-ranked members of the Pentagon reportedly asked Egypt in March to supply Ukraine with artillery shells, antitank missiles, air-defense systems, and small arms — a request they have still been pushing.

VIDEO Are we the baddies?The questioning of four star Marine General Michael Langley by Congressman Matt Gaetz sure brings up that question to mind. As America gets involved in all sorts of nefarious activities around the world including the destruction of the Nordstream Pipeline, supporting Ukrainian Nazis, and coups in Africa highlighted by Gaetz in his questioning of the AFRICOM commander, General Langley, who repeatedly recites the term "core values" as if it is a magical incantation that will make the uncomfortable questions by Gaetz go away. Oh, and notice that "core values" are about to do its work again...

Bidenomics, which is also Yellenomics (the former Fed Chair and current Treasury Secretary) has The Good, The Bad and The Ugly to say for it. First, The Good! The Atlanta Fed’s GDP Now real time GDP tracker has Q3 GDP at … 4.12%. Pretty good, but bear in mind that there is still more than $8 trillion in Fed Monetary Stimulus outstanding (aka, Yellenomics). Second, The Bad. Bank credit growth is now negative. As lenders are tightening credit standards for commercial and industrial loans. The ugly? There are several candidates for this dishonor. One, The Conference Board’s leading economic indicators...

WEST ORANGE, New Jersey (WCBS) -- The owner of a bagel shop in West Orange, New Jersey thinks he's being unfairly targeted by the town's zoning department. Jarrett Seltzer, who opened Bagels by Jarrett in early 2020, claims he was cited twice for zoning infractions even though he's following the rules. "We switched to curbside, obviously because of COVID. And it was one of those things that just ended up working," said Seltzer. That curbside-only business model stuck. Customers still order online and their food is carried out to them. Seltzer keeps the shades down to lower his cooling bill...

Having watched Big Labor buy the White House for Joe Biden in 2020, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has taken a page out of the same playbook. Last month, the governor, who reportedly has designs on the Oval Office himself one day, handed a taxpayer-funded sweetheart deal to one of his state’s largest public employee unions. The state’s new collective bargaining agreement with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Council 31 gifts its 35,000 state employee members a nearly 20 percent pay raise over four years, including a 4 percent raise this year. That adds up to...

A Chicago man charged with committing two robberies on the CTA after his mother saw him in a CPD publicity bulletin and turned him in has been sentenced to eight years. Trequan Jackson Young, 20, pleaded guilty to armed robbery in exchange for the sentence from Judge Steven Watkins on Thursday, according to court records. Prosecutors dropped one of the robbery cases completely in Young’s plea agreement. The first robbery occurred on a Red Line train near 47th Street around 2:26 a.m. on June 6, 2022. Prosecutors said a 23-year-old man was riding home when four men, including Young, stood...

Orange County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ferguson has been charged with murder in the shooting death of his wife. Soon after pulling a handgun from his ankle holster and fatally shooting his wife, prosecutors say, Orange County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ferguson alerted his staff that he wouldn’t be taking the bench at the Fullerton courthouse to handle the next day’s calendar. “I just lost it. I just shot my wife. I won’t be in tomorrow. I will be in custody. I’m so sorry,” the judge texted his clerk and bailiff, according to documents filed late Thursday by the Orange...

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. Loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles 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 a vehicle is captured and then...

With the new disclosures in the Biden corruption scandal, the media has, again, pivoted to avoid acknowledging the obvious. It now has a new demand before it will fully recognize or report on the scandal. Of course, after long repeating denials of Joe Biden that he ever knew about his son’s foreign business deals, the media must now recognize that Hunter was selling influence and access. So they have added yet another task: show Joe Biden actually accepting money. It is what in literature is called the “impossible task” demand like the Slavic tale of a Tsar ordering a suitor...

Far-left members of the City Council want to make Big Apple landlords do their work for them — or face five-figure fines. A new bill would require property owners to provide tenants with contact information for all elected officials representing their respective neighborhoods. Under the bill, introduced last week by Brooklyn Councilwoman Jennifer Gutiérrez, landlords would be required to supply new and existing tenants with hard-copy notices listing the names, office addresses and phone contacts for all federal, state and city pols representing their neighborhoods.

12 August 2023 Saturday of week 18 in Ordinary Time St. Jane Frances de Chantal Catholic Church in Riviera Beach, MDReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingDeuteronomy 6:4-13 ©You shall love the Lord your God with all your heartMoses said to the people: ‘Listen, Israel: the Lord our God is the one Lord. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength. Let these words I urge on you today be written on your heart. You shall repeat them to your children and say them over to them...

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Parents are planning on pulling their daughters off a Wisconsin high school sports team after a male has been allowed to compete.. About 50 parents and athletes within Green Bay Area Public School District met with officials Thursday who told them that a male would be allowed to compete on a high school sports team and potentially use locker rooms on the basis of gender identity rather than biological sex ... With tryouts starting Monday, some girls do not plan to attend over concerns for their physical safety. ... “The girls are just kind of fed up hearing that your...

The 45th President of the United States is expected to address Iowans at the Iowa State Fair and walk the fairgrounds. Coverage expected to begin at 12:00 PM ET

New pro sports teams bring more than a rooting interest to American cities — they also sparked a spike in flu deaths, according to a new study. Flu mortality jumped as much as nearly 25% in cities that picked up new sports franchises in baseball, basketball, football or hockey, economists at the West Virginia University found. “It’s important for sports fans to realize that there is some additional risk that they’re taking, now that we’re all acutely aware of airborne virus transmission or respiratory virus transmission…when they decide to go to a sporting event,” Brad Humphreys, a WVU economics professor...

The Biden administration is asking Congress to approve a temporary housing program for migrant families that illegally cross the southern border — a plan that would give them more freedom than traditional detention, Axios has learned.Why it matters: The government has struggled to balance humanitarian concerns about detaining migrant children while enforcing immigration laws amid a rise in families illegally crossing the border to seek asylum.