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(Last Updated On: August 25, 2023) STAR TREK DAY | September 8 Fans across the globe celebrate Star Trek Day on September 8 to remember the timeless legacy Star Trek has made on society and pop culture. #StarTrekDay On September 8, 1966, a television series pilot known as Star Trek was introduced on American television. Aiming for an adult audience, this was the was the first time a scientific fiction series would explore morality through scientific narratives. Most movies or television shows would contain science but would often create conflict of suffering and injustice to solve problems. However, Star Trek...

Well, this is one way to ensure that Blue states and cities won’t have to provide the promised “sanctuary” to illegal immigrants: force them to remain in Texas. It’s both brilliant politically and proof positive that the flood of illegal immigration Biden has invited is largely intended to punish Red states and change their demographics.

China-based hackers impersonated American voters online and used artificial intelligence (AI) to create and promote divisive online content during the 2022 midterm elections, according to a report by Microsoft. The effort was part of a series of covert influence operations by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intended to mimic U.S. voters from across the political spectrum and create controversy along racial, economic, and ideological lines, according to the Sept. 7 report. “Ahead of the 2022 U.S. midterms, Microsoft and industry partners observed CCP-affiliated social media accounts impersonating U.S. voters—new territory for CCP-affiliated [influence operations],” the report reads.

The Biden administration in August blew past its self-imposed limits on the number of asylum seekers it would allow into the country, releasing a group dominated by single males into the nation’s interior, internal Department of Homeland Security data obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show. Customs and Border Protection processed 45,403 migrants through the CBP One mobile application in August, an average of roughly 1,465 migrants per day. The federal government in June capped the number of migrants who can apply through the app at 1,450 per day. August was the second month the Biden administration failed to honor...

A leaked internal memo obtained by CatholicVote from the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs has exposed the U.S. Department of Veterans’ Affairs (VA) for promoting extensive abortion propaganda to veterans and staff. In addition to the memo, CatholicVote acquired a staff training video describing abortions as “opportunities for growth” and instructing employees that both men and women can become pregnant. The video also invites participants to think of ways to encourage expectant mothers to abort their babies, but in a “sensitive, inclusive, and affirming” way.

Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) is reportedly set to be the latest Republican governor to endorse former President Donald Trump’s presidential bid.Citing “two sources familiar with the plans,” CNN reported Thursday that Noem is set to voice her support for Trump on the campaign trail Friday in South Dakota.Noem, who launched a national ad campaign recruiting workers to the Mount Rushmore State in June, was widely discussed as a potential GOP presidential candidate in recent years, especially as she rose to conservative stardom with her never-lockdown response to the coronavirus pandemic.Noem told Breitbart News in 2021 that she would back Trump...

As anticipated, the Ohio Supreme Court on Sept. 7 formally dismissed two legal challenges to the state's post-2020 Census congressional district map, fixing them into place for the 2024 election cycle. The dismissals were briefly noted without comment in a four-page ‘Case Announcements’ update from the Ohio Supreme Court issued two days after plaintiffs in Neiman v LaRose (pdf) and League of Women Voters of Ohio v Ohio Redistricting Commission (pdf) petitioned to drop their lawsuits. The inconspicuous conclusions end more than 18 months of post-2020 Census litigation in Ohio, although dozens of similar redistricting lawsuits are proceeding or pending...

How can educated men like former Vice President Mike Pence, former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, and former Texas Representative Will Hurd be so stupid? (I am leaving out former Attorney General Bill Barr since he’s busy looking at bridges.) They have spent much of their lives in Republican politics and yet have a minuscule understanding of the largest grassroots Republican movement in modern history that is embraced and endorsed by more than half of Republicans—primarily the “base.”No Republican can win the nomination without the MAGA base. America First Patriots stand with Donald Trump just...

The European Union is “freaking out” about the possibility of Donald Trump returning to the White House in January 2025 after the former President announced his intention to reimplement a ten percent tariff on imported goods as he did on European steel and aluminium in 2018.“It’s on everyone’s mind: what if the elections [in 2024] go the wrong way?” stated an anonymous EU trade diplomat, with an EU-based lawyer advising on trade admitting that EU officials and businesses are “frightened” about Trump’s re-election.The 45th President floated the idea of a “universal baseline tariff” in a meeting with a number of...

...But for 17 other Trump co–defendants in the Georgia criminal conspiracy case against the former president, it remains to be seen whether Trump will step in with any financial help. For now, most have been left to figure out how to pay for their own criminal defense regarding their alleged scheme to help keep him in office, according to a number of people familiar with the case. All of the defendants face the same charge of racketeering under Georgia law, in addition to other charges involving alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has separated from Suzanne Malveaux, her partner of more than 10 years. In a new interview with Vogue published on 7 September, Jean-Pierre, 49, revealed that the two have shared custody of their nine-year-old daughter, Soleil. “I’m a single mom who is co-parenting this amazing kid,” she told Vogue. “Our number-one priority is her privacy and to make sure we create an environment that’s nurturing.” Jean-Pierre and Malveaux first met at the Democratic National Convention in 2012. Her former partner served as a White House correspondent for CNN for more than 10 years, before...

One hundred years ago today, during the Battle of the Marne, seven French soldiers were shot without trial for retreating. Most of the resources about this Gallic tragedy are in French, and so are most of the links in today’s post. All were enlistees of France’s 327th Infantry Regiment. On the night of September 6, German shelling panicked their sister 270th Regiment into a disorderly retreat away from the front lines. That rout ran right into the 327th, behind them, and panicked that regiment too. Further in the army’s rear, the hubbub awoke from his farmhouse bivouac division commander Gen....

On this date in 1292, Johann de Wettre, “a maker of small knives,” was condemned to die at Ghent for sodomy. De Wettre was consequently (whether on September 8 or subsequently) “burned at the pillory next to St. Peter’s” in what appears to be the earliest documented execution of homosexuality in Christian Europe. Whether he was a habitual or a one-time offender, how he was detected and prosecuted, and the fate of his male partner — all of these are obscure. One can safely suppose that de Wettre was not the first European executed for sodomy; perhaps the scanty lines...

What a mess Biden and his Progressive backers have made. And we are forced to suffer the consequeinces of his policies. Or follies! Money-market funds saw inflows for the 7th week of the last 8 with a $42BN jump (the most in 2 months) to a new record high of $5.625TN… Source: Bloomberg The inflow was dominated by a $24BN increase in Institutional fund assets while Retail also saw a sizable $17.7BN increase… Source: Bloomberg And the divergence between money-market fund assets and bank deposits continues to grow… Source: Bloomberg And while we actually saw huge deposit outflows (on a...

Square, a company that supplies point of sale (POS) systems to small businesses that allow for credit card processing, has been down all day Thursday, affecting users in the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, France, and Spain. Square is one of the largest suppliers of POS systems to all kinds of businesses, like restaurants, salons, tattoo parlors, boutiques, and much more. According to the website, Square is “Trusted by millions of businesses worldwide.”Without the ability to process credit cards, many businesses have reported turning away customers who don’t have cash—or taking an enormous risk and writing down credit card...

CNN commentator Adam Kinzinger said Thursday on “The Lead” that former White House trade adviser Peter Navarro and former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon deserve jail time after being found guilty of contempt of Congress. Reacting to Navarro’s conviction, Kinzinger said, “It’s great. It’s sad that we have to get to this. I mean, the role of the people’s house is to do things like investigations, and especially on something as important as January 6th, as serious as January 6th. And we have people, we had many people – he’s obviously one of them – that simply refused to...

A recent study on the immune effects of Pfizer’s COVID-19 mRNA vaccine has scientists raising concerns over vaccine-acquired immune deficiencies. Vaccine-acquired immune deficiency syndrome (VAIDS) is a new colloquial term coined by researchers and health practitioners since the COVID-19 vaccine rollout. Though not recognized as a medical condition, some experts believe the COVID-19 vaccines may impair or suppress immune responses. While the new study does not use the term VAIDS, the researchers recognized “a general decrease in cytokine and chemokine responses” to bacteria, fungi, and non-COVID viruses in children after COVID-19 vaccination. “Our findings suggest SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination could alter...

An remarkably well-preserved child's shoe from the Iron Age has been found in Austria.The discovery was made by archaeologists from the German Mining Museum in Bochum during excavations at Dürrnberg near Hallein, in an area that was mined for rock salt during the Iron Age...The entire shape of the shoe, as well as string used to fix it onto the child's foot, can still be seen.It is made of leather and is the equivalent of a child's 12.5 size shoe today...Shoes dating from the Iron Age have been found before but the child's shoe is of particular significance, the press...

The Bible In Paintings ~ Encouragement for Applying and Appreciating God's Word ~ •Drawings•Engravings•Facades•Frescoes•Illuminations•Miniatures•Mosaics•Photographs•Reliefs•Statues•Tapestries•Windows• WOMEN IN THE BIBLE WOMEN WITH FAITH FOR SALVATION AND EVANGELIZING THE WOMAN AT THE WELL JOHN 4: The Lord left Judea and went through Samaria. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband and come back.” “I have no husband,” she replied. Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. The fact...

Photo: AlamyPresident Donald Trump appears poised to emerge victorious in the great state of Iowa in next year’s anticipated caucuses, with the most recent 2024 GOP presidential polls showing the 45th president as the overwhelming Republican favorite.The newest data from Fabrizio, Lee & Associates found that Trump held a 26-point lead in the Hawkeye State over Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla.In late August, the president additionally dominated an important poll from the Des Moines Register that surveyed likely Republican caucus-goers in Iowa, finding that 42 percent preferred President Trump as their first choice for the Republican presidential nomination. Their second choice...