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The Biden administration faced backlash online after it issued a grovelling statement about the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi. Raisi and his country’s foreign minister, along with other officials, died in a helicopter crash this week.

DUBAI, May 20 (Reuters) - Iran proclaimed five days of mourning for President Ebrahim Raisi on Monday, though the muted atmosphere revealed little of the spectacular public grief that has accompanied the deaths of other senior figures in the Islamic Republic's 45-year history. While government loyalists packed into mosques and squares to pray for Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian, both killed in a helicopter crash, most shops remained open and the authorities made little effort to interrupt ordinary life. A year after Raisi's hardline government cracked down violently to end the biggest anti-establishment demonstrations since the 1979 revolution,...

Behind the anti-Israel protests and riots is a coalition of radical leftist and Islamist groups drawing sustenance from a vast dark money network... that is linked to the Chinese Communist Party. How did anti-Israel protests erupt within a month of the Hamas-led October 7 massacre? How did university campuses in America turn into tent cities of keffiyeh-clad youth calling for the liberation of Palestine, the annihilation of Israel, and death to Jews? If you suspect these protests are well orchestrated and funded, you are right. Behind them is a coalition of radical leftist and Islamist groups drawing sustenance from the...

21 May 2024 Tuesday of week 7 in Ordinary Time Our Lady of Mercy and St Godric, Durham, UK Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First readingJames 4:1-10 ©Resist the devil and he will run awayWhere do these wars and battles between yourselves first start? Isn’t it precisely in the desires fighting inside your own selves? You want something and you haven’t got it; so you are prepared to kill. You have an ambition that you cannot satisfy; so you fight to get your way by force. Why you don’t have what you want is because you don’t pray...

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A university library I visited recently was giving away stickers that said, “You Belong Here.” Surely this affirming declaration does not mean that students can’t flunk out or get expelled, or that employees can’t ever get fired. I began to wonder what it means to belong at one’s college or university. The sticker’s message soon became newbiquitous: I’ve since noticed “belonging” referenced by corporate consultants, as well as high-school and university administrators who have added a “B” to DEI. Some education scholars have argued that student success depends on a sense of belonging. Educational leaders are trying to build belonging...

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When I was vice president, things were kind of bad during the pandemic, and the thing that happened was, Barack said to me, "Go to Detroit and help fix it!"

Amid a record-breaking heat wave, a Miami TV weathercaster had an urgent message for his viewers over the weekend: Go vote if you want to fight climate change. Why it matters: NBC 6 meteorologist Steve MacLaughlin challenged Florida's climate policies and warned viewers about politicians who don't believe in climate change.

There is undoubtedly a backlash against LGBT ideology unfolding in many Western countries, the source of which includes many ambivalent towards LGBT lifestyles but who are still uncomfortable teaching the ideology to children. (LifeSiteNews) — In March, podcaster Joe Rogan paid tribute to his favourite teacher. His seventh-grade science teacher, he noted, “was a brilliant man and he taught me about wonder. I think about that guy all the time.” But now, Rogan said, teachers are frequently fixating on issues of sex and gender. “I don’t want that gang of morons teaching my children about biological sex or gender,” Rogan...

Four states - Georgia, Kentucky, Idaho, and Oregon, hold primary contests on Tuesday, including several congressional showdowns that could shape key contests in the autumn battle for control of the House. And in a move that will give Republicans a bit of breathing room as they protect their fragile, razor-thin majority, voters in a California congressional district will choose a successor for former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. But potentially grabbing the most attention during a day of coast-to-coast contests will be a county prosecutor primary in Atlanta. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is leading the prosecution of former...

Firefighters responded Monday evening to an apparent blaze at the Tesla Fremont factory. Local outlets reported that a Fremont Fire department spokesperson said a call about the fire came in at just after 5pm. Officials noted that it was a two alarm fire being battled by a local crew, and was quickly put under control by about 6.15pm.

[T]he latest NHJournal/Praecones Analytica poll finds Biden tied with Trump in New Hampshire ...

Embattled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis suggested on Monday that the creation of a new prosecutorial oversight panel in Georgia is racially motivated. “Georgia had never had a prosecutorial oversight committee,” Willis told MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, when asked about the state Senate’s special committee investigation. “All of a sudden, 14 minorities were elected to office to serve as district attorney,” she continued. “And now all of a sudden they need an oversight committee to look after district attorneys because they want to tell us how to prosecute and who to prosecute and where we should put our resources,...

A leading pro-life group has launched a new initiative to keep the Republican Party platform pro-life. The initiative is important given that some Republicans want the party to water down its historic pro-life positon in the face of the Dobbs decision that finally allows states to protect babies from abortions. Students for Life Action (SFLAction) President Kristan Hawkins announced the launch GOP for Life, an SFLAction initiative that calls on the leadership of the only national political party standing with women and preborn children to stay strong on the human rights issue of our day – abortion. SFLAction will be...

In 2022, three Jewish women sued the state of Kentucky over its law protecting preborn children from abortion, claiming the law violates their religious freedom. Nearly two years later, they’re getting their day in court. Jessica Kalb, Sarah Baron, and Lisa Sobel claim that the law’s statement that life begins at conception is a religious belief and that the law prevents them from growing their family. Kalb, who has polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), has nine embryos currently frozen, but she isn’t willing to use them out of fear that there may be complications. “I have these nine embryos that are...

The noteworthy British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli once remarked that “there are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.” The Ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus also observantly wrote ”in war, truth is the first casualty.” There could easily be another corollary to these great quotes that could go ... in the battle over school board recalls, there are lies, damn lies, and recall campaign slogans. The Temecula Valley Unified School District recall campaign against current School Board President Dr. Joseph Komrosky is a prime example of the lies and mistruths perpetrated by a leftist dominated coalition of local...

By slicing and dicing various demographics, Pew Research does some fascinating work, often coming up with conclusions you probably haven’t thought of. Or maybe not. “Views about abortion among adults who read scripture at least once a week by parental status” is one of those findings that would conform to your common sense. By “parental status,” Pew means those adults who have kids under 18 versus those adults who don’t have children (“non-parents”). The question they asked is the “% of adults who read scripture once a week who say abortion should be…” For those with minor children 66% say...

In April, we brought you special reports on families rocked by fatal overdoses. Tequila Bates‘ family was one of them, and on Monday, May 20, her family unveiled a large billboard in Nashville with Bates’ face and life-saving message on it. Those who knew Bates know she wasn’t afraid of a little limelight. “She is in heaven looking down saying, ‘You go, mama. Look at all this attention that I’m getting,” said Christy Rhoton, Bates’ mom. Family said Bates wouldn’t mind seeing herself on a billboard. Not one bit. “Oh yeah, she’d love it. ‘Look at everybody looking at me....

George and Amal Clooney Amal Clooney played a key role in arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. If her name sounds familiar it is because she is the wife of actor George Clooney. She advised the International Criminal Court (ICC) in favor of issuing the warrants. The fact that Israel is accused of crimes against humanity when it is fighting for its survival against the internationally recognized terror organization that massacred Israelis and others on October 7, 2023, is unbelievable. Equating Israel and Hamas is unacceptable. How would any reasonable person argue that...