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UPDATED Monday, June 17, 2024 11:12PM CHICAGO (WLS) -- The shooting victims from over the weekend range in age from 13 to 57, representing various parts of the city, and the violence has some seeking new solutions. South Lawndale residents met with police on Monday following a staggering number of weekend shootings. At least 71 people were shot, nine of them killed, across the city from Friday evening to Monday morning, police said. "Seventy people being shot is 70 too many. The fact is, we've got work to do. While we're making progress, we've got so much more to do,"...

The systematic mayhem is by design and will continue as long as the Left is in charge. Much is being written and spoken about regarding possible forms of leftist driven chaos this summer leading up to the election. Due to their worsening prospects of winning back the executive branch, it may be time for them to shake things up (again). The question is, how? Will they usher in WWIII by playing “poke the bear” with Russia? Will they employ their merry band of useful idiots -- Antifa, BLM, the rainbow brigade and other terrorist cabals, to instigate widespread “peaceful protests”...

The Holy Spirit directed me to the book of Nehemiah; and as I read chapter 2, I saw something I had not seen before. This chapter contains an encouraging story for all who come to the Lord with a heavy heart. Nehemiah was a cupbearer to King Artaxerxes. He tasted the wines before they were brought to the king’s table to make sure they weren’t poisoned. Over time, Nehemiah became a trusted servant to the king. Nehemiah received a report from his brother that Jerusalem was in ruins. The population had been decimated; the people were in terrible straits, and...

“Then [Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego] were tied up in their trousers, their coats, their caps and their other clothes, and were cast into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire. For this reason, because the king’s command was urgent and the furnace had been made extremely hot, the flame of the fire slew those men who carried up Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego. But these three men, Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, fell into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire still tied up” (Daniel 3:21-23). When God doesn’t deliver you from a trial, He refines you through the trial....

The good news: Thanks to God’s underrated sense of irony, President Joe Biden’s administration’s ludicrous plan to build a pier in Gaza without putting U.S. boots on the ground in order to deliver aid that absolutely, positively wouldn’t be stolen by Hamas has been, for the moment, foiled by the unseen element of bad weather that happens every year in the Mediterranean. More’s the pity. The bad news: Apparently, “devout Catholic” Joe Biden can’t take a divine hint and the American taxpayer will be on the hook for at least another $22 million to fix the thing so Hamas can...

Before the 1960s, it was really hard to get divorced in America. Typically, the only way to do it was to convince a judge that your spouse had committed some form of wrongdoing, like adultery, abandonment, or “cruelty” (that is, abuse). This could be difficult: “Even if you could prove you had been hit, that didn’t necessarily mean it rose to the level of cruelty that justified a divorce,” said Marcia Zug, a family law professor at the University of South Carolina. Then came a revolution: In 1969, then-Gov. Ronald Reagan of California (who was himself divorced) signed the nation’s...

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Evil is the absence of conscience; psychopathy is the lack of empathy and conscience; thus, many left-wing agitators are evil incarnate. Eric Hoffer, in The True Believer, identified three groupings of people involved with mass movements: men of words, practical men of action, and fanatics. These can be further summarized as the benefactors -- politicians and community leaders who gain power through aggressive protests; the agitators who play the role of true believers by manipulating causes and people to gain recognition and power; and the cannon fodder, those who are easily manipulated and see social justice as a means to...

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Republican Rep. Tom Cole, who was appointed chair of the House Appropriations Committee in April, is on defense in his state’s 4th Congressional District as one of the last remaining members of the Republican Party’s establishment wing.

Voters in Virginia and Oklahoma head to the polls Tuesday, when they'll decide on a slew of congressional, but not presidential, primaries. Chief among the most notable primary contests is whether House Freedom Caucus Chairman Bob Good (R-VA) survives a primary challenger backed by former President Donald Trump. House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole (R-OK) is also defending his seat from a GOP rival. Meanwhile, Georgia voters return to the polls Tuesday to vote in several primary runoff elections after candidates failed to reach a majority in the original May 21 primary races.

While faith has always been important to Catherine, 26, she did not always plan on joining a religious order. "I'd had this dream of getting married and having seven children - you know, proper Catholic, you need to have lots of babies, right?". Yet here she is, part of a small group of women in a convent on the edge of Dereham, a small Norfolk town. Growing up a Catholic and working for the local diocese, . She initially had doubts about joining them, working instead as an au pair in Austria. She hoped to find "a nice, handsome man",...

@Nigel_Farage Reform UK will leave the ECHR (European Convention on Human Rights) and deport all illegal migrants to stop the boats.

Around 1.39 million undocumented migrants from 177 countries traveled through Mexico in a bid to reach the U.S. in the first five months of this year, the Mexican government said on Sunday. The figure suggests this year may be on track to bear witness to more migrants entering the country without entry papers compared to last year. Some 2.4 million in total people crossed the U.S.-Mexico border without the correct documents in 2023, according to the Voice of America news outlet.... ...the majority of those heading to the U.S. were men traveling alone. There were 738,270 solo males compared to...

Beverly Winikoff, founder of Gynuity Health Projects — the sponsor of controversial abortion pill clinical trials on girls as young as 10 — has credited the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on America with ‘saving’ the abortion pill. On September 1, 2001, a woman in Canada died from taking the abortion pill, and the news of her death was made public on September 10, the day before 9/11. Her death was overshadowed by the horrific events of that day, and Winikoff was glad for that. In a May 2020 interview with Columbia University journalists, Winikoff said, in part: I remember...

A Missouri circuit judge has ruled against several clergy members who argued that the state's abortion laws infringe on the Missouri Constitution's Establishment Clause. The lawsuit, led by a diverse group of faith leaders, was met with a dismissal. The challenge, initiated in January 2023 by representatives from Christian, Jewish and Unitarian congregations, was spearheaded by advocacy groups, including Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the National Women's Law Center. They sought an injunction to halt Missouri's abortion laws, which lack exceptions even in cases of rape or incest, arguing these laws violate constitutional provisions against the...

A Hertz customer accomplished a new feat in the annals of rental car company disservice, actually being charged for a red light ticket before even renting the vehicle. They rented the vehicle on May 15th at the Calgary Airport for a period of six days, starting at 10:30 p.m. However the agent at the airport logged the rental as starting at 10:30 a.m. They were hit with an extra day’s charge, beyond the period they actually had the car for And the previous renter “ran a red light at 2:33pm.” But since the system now saw them as having the...

Three Florida residents pleaded guilty on Friday to charges connected to attacks on pregnancy resource centers, including in Winter Park, between May and July 2022. The Department of Justice (DOJ) said Caleb Freestone, Amber Smith-Stewart and Annarella Rivera chose to target pro-life reproductive health facilities that provided patients with resources and counseling on abortion alternatives. Authorities said the defendants vandalized the buildings with threatening messages. Freestone, Smith-Stewart and Rivera pleaded guilty to conspiring to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate employees of the targeted pregnancy resource centers. By pleading guilty, the defendants admitted to participating in attacks during nighttime hours, while...

In the age of feminism men are being driven to their deaths. The rounded off Australian figures in this little movie of 6 men a day and 2 women a day lost to suicide have increased to 7 men a day and 2 women. As bad and senseless as suicide it, it is one way in a country like Australia of opposing tyranny. And that makes sense. Sometimes.

The Supreme Court’s delays in deciding Donald Trump’s immunity case are creating a crisis — a collision between a Justice Department tradition and the necessity of an informed electorate. On one hand, voters deserve a verdict in the trial accusing Trump of attempting to interfere with the lawful transition of power after the 2020 election. On the other, the Justice Department customarily respects “election year sensitivities” — not initiating legal actions that could affect an election in the months immediately before it. This looming conflict was easily avoided. Unfortunately, however, the court’s radical conservative majority rejected three sensible ways to...