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Matthew 9:9-13 Friends, today’s Gospel celebrates the call of Matthew. Jesus tells the tax collector, “Follow me.”The call of Jesus addresses the mind, but it moves through the mind into the body, and through the body into the whole of one’s life, into the most practical decisions. “Follow me” has the sense of “apprentice to me” or “walk as I walk; think as I think; choose as I choose; see as I see.” Discipleship entails an entire reworking of the self according to the pattern and manner of Jesus.Upon hearing the address of the Lord, Matthew “got up and followed...

Jimmy Kimmel is a bit under the weather. "Well, Las Vegas, I got COVID, and sadly, we need to cancel this weekend's Strike Force Three show," he announced in an Instagram post shared on Wednesday, Sept. 20. "I could never live with myself if I got my hometown friends sick," Kimmel continued, as the Jimmy Kimmel Live! host lived in Las Vegas from age nine to 18, though he was born in Brooklyn, New York

Ex-Governor Andrew Cuomo urged New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to sue President Biden to recover the billions of dollars absorbed while grappling with the migrant “fiasco.” “The emperor has no clothes,” Cuomo said of Biden in the latest episode of his “As a Matter of Fact” podcast Cuomo repeatedly said the federal government headed by Biden is responsible for immigration and border enforcement, not New York City or the Empire State. “The states should sue the federal government for the entire fiasco,” he said. He likened Biden and fellow Democrats handling of the migrant crisis to “the army marching off...

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It's getting really crowded at the hog trough with the announcement that the Clinton Global Crime Initiative Foundation will muscle it's way to the Ukraine hog trough. The Clinton Global Crime Initiative Foundation has several decades of experience in milking humanitarian crises for hundreds of millions of dollars. The Foundation has turned grifting and money laundering into a veritable science. The Foundation and its Marxist State Media accomplice has been able to manipulate favorable public opinion of the Foundation while providing less than 10% of its proceeds to the humanitarian causes. The Foundation founder, Benghazi Clinton, stated you haven't seen...

The State Elections Enforcement Commission on Wednesday voted to open a sprawling investigation into Bridgeport’s recent Democratic primary and to subpoena all of the absentee ballots that were cast in the contest between seven-term mayor Joe Ganim and his challenger, John Gomes. The commission said it received at least four complaints from citizens and two referrals from the Bridgeport Police Department regarding possible misuse of absentee ballots, including the distribution of those ballots at senior housing complexes in the city. The commission intends to subpoena the city of Bridgeport for lists of all of the absentee ballot applications that were...

...The Romeikes are a homeschool family forced to flee Germany. They were being persecuted because of their religious conviction that they should be the ones directing their children’s education. In 2013, in the face of overwhelming public pressure to grant them asylum, the Obama administration granted the Romeikes an “indefinitely deferred action status.” This has allowed them to live and work in the United States for the last 10 years, without fear of deportation. Then in September 2023, without any prior warning or explanation, the Romeikes were told that they are being deported, and have four weeks to obtain passports...

Democrats are reportedly panicking over plans by former President Donald Trump, the front-runner of the GOP presidential primary, to visit auto workers striking against General Motors (GM), Ford, and Stellantis in Detroit, Michigan. Members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) are currently on strike against the Big Three, pushing to secure a new labor contract that includes wage increases to keep up with inflation and commitments that their jobs will not be eliminated by Biden’s Electric Vehicles (EVs) agenda. This week, sources confirmed to Breitbart News that Trump will skip the second GOP primary debate and instead visit striking auto...

Former President Donald Trump leads President Joe Biden nationally in a hypothetical general election match-up while a generic Republican candidate trails Biden by four points, according to a Democracy Institute poll first reported by the Daily Express. In a rematch of the 2020 election, 49 percent of likely voters back Trump, placing him 5 percentage points ahead of Biden at 44 percent. Another seven percent are either undecided or would support someone else in that scenario. In a race where Trump is the GOP nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris is the Democrat nominee, the 45th president’s lead expands to...

On Wednesday, the University of New Hampshire released a new 2024 New Hampshire GOP primary poll, which showed leading 2024 presidential candidate and 45th President Donald Trump winning by a landslide as absentee Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ (R-FL) numbers plummeted badly.UNH surveyed 1,006 likely voters from September 9th to the 18th and found President Trump coming in first place with 39 percent, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy (R-OH) coming in second place with 13 percent, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley (R-SC) coming in third place with 12 percent, failed New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ) coming in fourth place with 11...

Paul McCartney wrote “Hey Jude” for a young Julian Lennon who was caught in the middle of a divorce between his mother and his father, John Lennon. According to the song’s subject, he has a “love-hate” relationship with the music. “I’ve probably heard that song and heard renditions of it more than most people alive,” Lennon said in a new appearance on Club Random with Bill Maher. “And even my dear friends send me babies in nappies playing guitars singing ‘Hey Jude’–which I really don’t need

Amid the hold, Democratic senators had largely condemned the Coach's actions as compromising military readiness, a claim Tuberville rejected. In his floor remarks he opined that the considerable nominee backlog was the product of Democratic inaction rather than his efforts. "If Democrats want to complain then they should look in the mirror. I don’t control the Senate floor—the Democrats do. In a typical week, we work three days," he said. "Those aren’t the kind of hours people are working back in my home state of Alabama. This is one of the least productive Senates in our lifetimes. Democrats can’t have...

Video: "Heavy police presence remains at the #1MillionMarch4Chidren in Surrey BC. Paddy wagon and all. See what’s happening nation wide at http://StopClassroomGrooming.com" DreaHumphrey X TwitterStop Classroom Grooming "Stop Classroom Grooming: Young children in elementary schools are being sexualized by radical gender ideology. Publicly funded school boards appear to have gone rogue, censoring and silencing parents who express concerns over the appropriateness of sexually explicit content in school libraries and the necessity of gender theory being embedded into the curriculum."

On Monday, leading Republican presidential candidate and 45th President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to slam President Biden's hostage deal with Iran.The deal would allow for $6 billion in frozen funds to be unsanctioned by international banks that were the result of oil sales from countries like South Korea and Qatar, per Newsweek. In addition to releasing the money, the Biden administration will also be handing over five Iranians in American custody in exchange for five American citizens."This absolutely ridiculous 6 Billion Dollar Hostage Deal with Iran has set a terrible PRECEDENT for the future," Trump wrote. "Buckel up,...

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds is signaling she is likely to endorse Ron DeSantis for president, a move that would give him the support of a popular conservative leader as he looks to close the gap against frontrunner Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the matter.Article at Bloomberg not allowed on FR

The Gateway Pundit has obtained THOUSANDS OF HOURS OF J6 FOOTAGE from “Sedition Hunter” online crowdsourcing groups. Sedition Hunters are typically Antifa activists who define themselves as part of an anonymous group that tracks, identifies, and reports Trump supporters and protesters who attended the January 6 protests in Washington DC to the Federal Bureau of Investigations. Defense attorneys representing J6 defendants have access to over 41,000 hours of January 6 footage but are prohibited from publicly disclosing the footage until it is exhibited in discovery in a defendant’s trial. J6 defendants typically view their discovery for the first time during...

Rupert Murdoch, the powerful right-wing media mogul who built and oversaw one of the world’s most influential news empires, announced Thursday that he will step down as chairman of his companies, Fox Corporation and News Corporation. “For my entire professional life, I have been engaged daily with news and ideas, and that will not change,” Murdoch, 92, wrote in a memo to employees. “But the time is right for me to take on different roles, knowing that we have truly talented teams.” As the leader of Fox and News Corporation, which publishes influential broadsheets such as The Wall Street Journal...

Last week I warned that 2024 is literally the pivotal year in the history of the United States of America. Because if Trump doesn’t win, we are facing one party rule, the end of the Republican Party, the end of capitalism, the end of America as we know it. If President Trump doesn’t win in 2024, there will never be another Republican President. Anyone who doesn’t understand this, is blind, deaf and very dumb. But the real contention of this commentary is… if Trump loses in 2024, I strongly believe he will be the last Republican – period. Because being...

(Last Updated On: September 12, 2023) NATIONAL CHAI DAY | SEPTEMBER 21 On September 21st, the aroma filling the room comes from ancient spices, perfectly steeped into a cup of delicious tea. National Chai Day celebrates the strong, satisfying tea that is ordered at cafes across the country. While the Indian beverage dates back nearly 5,000 years, the chai served in homes and coffee shops today comes in many forms. For traditional chai, steep it with black tea leaves. Add whole milk for the richest flavor. Some even prefer almond or coconut milk. The most common spice in chai is...

A group of largely Hispanic protesters organized a peaceful demonstration on Tuesday against the presence of delegations from the communist regimes of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua in New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly. The event was the latest in a series of similar peaceful protests in New York over the week against the Cuban communist Castro regime, the Venezuelan socialist Maduro regime, and the Nicaraguan Sandinista Ortega regime. “The [U.N. General] Assembly is gathering here those who call themselves presidents,” Cuban activist Ana Olema told the outlet Cibercuba. “And we are here in support of the Venezuelans,...