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With a growing number of American voters expressing skepticism over U.S. involvement in Ukraine, Republican North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum doesn’t appear to be reading the room so well. Burgum who is on Donald Trump’s short list of potential running mates, appears to be doubling down on the neoconservative impulse to engage the rest of the world via military force. Burgum has long been on record as stating that the U.S. is engaged in a cold war with Russia and China. Now he’s being even more reckless, telling a reporter that “We’re at war with Russia, we just haven’t sent...

Polls close in less than 3 hours. 10pm (GMT +1). Voter ID is mandatory. Results will come in through the night UK time meaning Freepers on ET/PT will have a ringside seat. Respected pollster Survation report that Nigel Farage's Reform UK party could win 15 or more seats with Labour scoring a massive majority. Nigel himself should get elected so it depends how many go with him. That will be the story worth following. Good luck.

4 July 2024 Thursday of week 13 in Ordinary TimeSt Elizabeth of Portugal Church, Richmond, LondonReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First readingAmos 7:10-17The Lord took me from herding the flock and sent me to prophesyAmaziah the priest of Bethel sent word to Jeroboam king of Israel as follows. ‘Amos is plotting against you in the heart of the House of Israel; the country can no longer tolerate what he keeps saying. For this is what he says, “Jeroboam is going to die by the sword, and Israel go into exile far from its country.”’ To Amos, Amaziah said, ‘Go...

While investigating an illegal immigrant encampment in Ireland, journalist Andy Ngo was told to "go back to China." He's not Chinese.According to The Post Millennial, where Ngo is a senior editor, the incident occurred in ultra-liberal Dublin's city center on June 19. The individual who hurled the racist remark at Ngo was an illegal immigrant living in one of the 100 tents lining the Grand Canal. The encampment sprung up along the waterway reportedly consists of all adult male foreign nationals, mainly from the Middle East and Africa.As Ngo was reporting on the European nation's border crisis, the newly arrived...

The problems early Americans faced in 1776 were very different from the problems we face today. For one thing, in those days Americans yearned to throw off the yoke of a white-haired, mentally confused ruler with serious memory problems given to impotent outbursts and hallucinations. One colorful anecdote holds that King George told Palace staff that cannibals ate his uncle, Baron Mosey. Haha! The colonists’ situation was totally different from our modern configuration. We enjoy a government by president, which a wise Latina Supreme Court Justice insisted this week is actually a King. You probably think I’m making some kind...

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Biden’s campaign just released an ad to sow more Dem discord following the reasonable SCOTUS presidential immunity ruling. The mangled message of the “250 Years” ad is that for the first time in nearly 250 years the president is above the law -- that he is essentially a king. In their perverted minds, Donald J. Trump could be unbound when he returns to the White House. Of course, that’s unfounded fearmongering -- we already had him for four great years (COVID notwithstanding). In reality, it is Joe Biden who has been unbound, and unable, and unadvised, and unaware, and “un”...

Former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean said Wednesday on “Anderson Cooper 360” that if President Joe Biden drop out of the race it is already “cooked” that Vice President Kamala Harris will be the Democratic nominee. Guest host Jim Sciutto said, “Joining The New York Times, The Boston Globe editorial board. They wrote today that President Biden should step aside and in their statement, they went on to make the case that having an open primary convention at this point would be exciting for the Democratic Party.”

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned of the evils of climate change Thursday, urging “greater ambition” to move away from fossil fuels. “Our climate is breaking down, threatening water and food security, driving displacement, and fueling political instability,” Guterres stated on X (former Twitter). “We need far greater ambition to slash emissions and deliver climate justice, starting with the biggest emitters,” he added. “Making peace with nature is the defining task of the 21st century,” contends the Portuguese Socialist. “It must be the top, top priority for everyone, everywhere.” Earlier this week, Guterres visited the former Soviet Socialist Republic of...

Housing prices are growing more unaffordable in the U.S., as high mortgage rates and rising home prices put ownership out of reach for millions of Americans. That's according to a new report published by real estate data provider ATTOM, which examined 572 U.S. counties and determined that median-priced homes in about 80% of those areas are out of reach for the average income earner, who makes about $71,214 annually. [cut] Affordability is worsening across the country, thanks to a second-quarter spike in both home prices and mortgage rates. Combined, the two have helped to push the typical portion of average...

Today, supporters of the “Protect Women & Children” ballot initiative submitted more than 205,000 signatures to the Nebraska Secretary of State, including at least 5% of registered voters in over 90 counties. 10% of the state’s registered voters, about 123,000 signatures, and at least 5% of registered voters in 38 of 93 counties were needed by July 3rd to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot. Nebraska Family Alliance released the following statement celebrating the signature submission: “In less than 100 days, over 205,000 Nebraskans signed the Protect Women & Children ballot initiative. Nebraskans are motivated to stand up to...

A union that represents Michigan corrections officers asked Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Wednesday to deploy the National Guard to help understaffed prisons. Byron Osborn, the president of the Michigan Corrections Organization - SEIU Local 526M, said in a letter to Whitmer that she needs to "take working conditions that have persisted and worsened" throughout her time as governor. The letter says that corrections officers have to work mandatory 16-hour overtime shifts per week, and have to run prison operations with "far less" than the number of officers required. Osborn said officers often have to work in isolated areas by themselves, jeopardizing...

National Right to Life President Carol Tobias is fond of saying that the abortion industry has the money, but the pro-life movement has the people, and we will take the people over the money any time. That proved true in the South Carolina Republican primary elections June 11 and the runoff June 25, when pro-life voters turned out to defeat three extremist Republican pro-abortion women senators and replace them with pro-life candidates who have pledged to support South Carolina Citizens for Life’s life-saving legislation. “These races show that South Carolina voters in the Republican primary care deeply about the protection...

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Biden said that he had a "bad" debate performance against former President Trump but argued that his accomplishments during his term were more important in a radio interview Thursday. "I had a bad night," Biden said in an interview on July 4 with radio host Earl Ingram. "And the fact of the matter is that, you know, I screwed up." Biden has faced calls to step down from media figures as speculation over whether he can remain at the top of the ticket continues to dog his campaign. "I made a mistake," he told Ingram. "But I learned from my...

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) issued a Fourth of July message in which it urged Americans to “reelect President Joe Biden” to protect our “fragile democracy” from the threat of Donald Trump, a “wannabe dictator.” Its full statement follows: On July 4, 1776, our country’s forefathers declared the United States’ independence and laid the foundation for our nation’s founding principles of equality, freedom, and liberty that we still strive to live up to today. Since that time, generations of Americans have dedicated their lives to preserving our freedoms and working toward a more perfect union – from our men and...

Observant sidewalk counselors reported an emergency at a Virginia Planned Parenthood, located at 201 North Hamilton Street in Richmond on April 12, 2024. Operation Rescue secured 911 records for the emergency call made at 11:50 a.m. that day. The Planned Parenthood employee who made the call stated the “patient is currently having (emphasis added) a termination procedure done and, it looks, appears to be a possible uterine perforation” (incorrectly pronounced “preferation”). “Because the caller said the woman was ‘currently having’ an abortion, we do not know if the baby was still alive,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “We know...

A spokesperson for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday shut down the idea of an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. “Mr. Tucker Carlson should more carefully check his sources in the FSB. The president of Ukraine has a completely different schedule, and Tucker Carlson is not on it,” Zelenskyy spokesperson Sergii Nykyforov said in a statement. The FSB is Russia’s Federal Security Service. The denial of the interview came after Mr. Carlson had posted Wednesday on X that it looks like “we’ve got the Zelenskyy interview.”

Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a temporary order ruling that, despite Idaho’s efforts toward protecting the unborn, the state must allow expecting mothers access to “emergency abortions” in cases where health is compromised. On Tuesday, in step with the SCOTUS ruling, the Biden administration released an “Emergency Abortion” letter arguing that hospitals should be able to terminate pre-born babies. This letter, which was sent to various medical professionals, portrayed abortion as a “stabilizing treatment” no woman should “be denied.” Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Director Chiquita Brooks-LaSure wrote...

The United Church of Christ (UCC), a mainline Protestant denomination known for its progressive stance on social issues, faces a significant decline in membership according to a recent report by the UCC Center for Analytics. From 2012 to 2022, the denomination lost over 286,000 members and 551 congregations, marking a continuing trend over several decades. Six decades have seen a dramatic decline in UCC membership, with numbers plummeting from over 2.24 million in 1960 to just 712,000 in 2022. This decline is partially attributed to a 2005 resolution supporting same-sex marriage, which caused some congregations to leave the UCC. The...