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The United States and our allies have a waning opportunity to preserve peace through strength. But we must be willing to do something that was just some years ago unthinkable: combat the true engine of our enemies’ power, the Chinese economy. Chinese Communist Party Secretary General Xi Jinping has undertaken "the largest military buildup since World War II," in the words of former Indo-Pacific Command head Adm. John Aquilino. Xi has also fortified the Chinese economy against international sanctions and told his generals to prepare for war. Simultaneous with a robust policy of military deterrence, America and our allies must...

I think [Vance] is a bad decision for a number of reasons. At 39, Vance is too young...with less than two years in the Senate as his only political office, he has nowhere near the experience that a VP should bring to a ticket. Vance, who is unknown to the general public, won’t bring Trump a single new vote. In fact, there is no reason to think that he is any kind of political powerhouse: in his only race, he ran far behind the other statewide Republican candidates in Ohio. ...Vance’s political views are...half-baked. He is still evolving...he denounced Trump...

The near-assassination of former President Donald Trump is the Secret Service’s most stunning failure in decades. That’s the opinion of her boss, Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. “When I say that something like this cannot happen, we are speaking of a failure,” he said Monday on CNN; on ABC, it was: “A direct line of sight like that to the former president should not occur.” The total security breakdown at Trump’s Butler, Pa., rally — which came an inch from killing the ex-prez, and did take Corey Comperatore’s life with two other civilians put in critical condition — is on her,...

“This is how republics collapse.” Those ominous words captured the hand-wringing, hair-pulling reaction to the dismissal of the Florida case against Donald Trump by Judge Aileen Cannon. It was not just that she reached a conclusion long supported by some conservative lawyers and a Supreme Court justice. To rule in favor of Trump in such a dismissal is, once again, the end to Democracy as we know it. The 93-page order methodically goes through the governing cases and statutes for the appointment of prosecutors. There has long been a debate over how an attorney general like Merrick Garland can circumvent...

Former US president Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday evening. A bullet grazed his ear before he dropped to the stage and was covered by Secret Service members. The shooter, a registered Republican who made a single donation to a Democratic super PAC in 2021, was killed. A defiant Trump then stood up and refused to get off the stage before raising a fist to a roar of approval from his supporters. The photo of his raised fist after having just been shot will go down in history books. We are living through...

In sunny Chicago, Illinois, on the weekend of Independence Day, 2024, we are told that 109 people were shot, 19 of them fatally. This of course doesn’t include the always-unknown numbers of people who were shot at but missed, and those who were shot but chose not to seek medical care, and those who were stabbed, slugged, or clubbed, because the gun is the only weapon in which most modern journalists are interested. Statistics of any kind are rarely truly comprehensive. But still, “109 shot, 19 fatally” is in itself a scary enough number for a four-day weekend in a...

Ancient Egyptians, 2000-3000 thousand years ago, not only worshipped crocodiles, offering them bread, meat and wine, but also sacrificed and mummified them, a new study confirms. Published in the journal Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, the research purports to have gained a deeper understanding of a religious practice behind the mummification of crocodiles in ancient Egypt. The specific crocodile mummy examined for the study that led to the conclusions was 2.2 meters-long and is housed at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. The team of experts conducted various scans on the mummified crocodile, which revealed a fish hook...

The discovery of a ship, missing for five centuries, in a southwest African desert, filled with gold coins, is one of the most thrilling archaeological finds in recent times. The Bom Jesus (The Good Jesus) was a Portuguese vessel that set sail from Lisbon, Portugal on Friday, March 7, 1533. Its fate was unknown until 2008 when its remains were discovered in the desert of Namibia during diamond mining operations near the coast of the African nation. When it sank in a fierce storm, it was on its way to India laden with treasures like gold and copper ingots. Two...

At a Trump 2024 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024, an apparently lone gunman aimed multiple shots at President Trump, fortunately only grazing the President but killing one attendee and seriously injuring two others in the audience, before the Secret Service brought him down. Our reactions are varied, as they must be. We are relieved that President Trump survived and that the shooter was killed. We are saddened that our society has come to this, that a 20-year-old’s mind has been poisoned enough to believe that Donald Trump, out of all the politicians of the age, is somehow...

President Donald Trump made his first major public appearance Monday at the Republican National Convention after an attempted assassination against him Saturday, entering the arena visibly emotional and with a bandage over his right ear, where he was shot while speaking in Pennsylvania. A misty-eyed Trump walked into the arena as the crowd applauded him and Lee Greenwood sang his “God Bless the U.S.A.” before Trump took his seat in between his running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, and Florida Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla. Trump’s two adult sons, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., were seated behind him, and House...

US Central Command reporting destruction of five drones in Yemen and the Red Sea off the coast. The Houthi forces in Yemen launched attacks... The Biden Administration deciding to grant Secret Service protection to Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.... Three Israelis wounded by gunfire from Israeli soldiers late tonight. They were wrongly identified... In Paris a French soldier guarding the upcoming Olympic games stabbed. A suspect arrested... Ohio US Senator JD Vance has been selected as the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate... A Russian representative says Western nations seek to fabricate and allegation of chemical weapons use in Ukraine... Azerbaijan...

After Microsoft laid off an internal team focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion, a team leader blasted the company for a lack of investment in these efforts. "True systems-change work associated with DEI programs everywhere are no longer business critical or smart as they were in 2020," a leader of the team wrote in an email sent to thousands of employees, which was viewed by Business Insider. The email states the team was eliminated due to "changing business needs" as of July 1. It's unclear how many employees were affected. Many technology companies, including Microsoft, made commitments to improve diversity...

Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media.This is the confidence we have in approaching God: That if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14)Religion Forum threads labeled *Prayer* are closed to debate of any kind.Prayer For Revival In Our LandJeremiah 29:7 “Seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the LORD for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.”Loving Lord Jesus, it saddens us to see the way that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is being so compromised in...

[Catholic Caucus] "To God Who Giveth Joy To My Youth": Thoughts on the Growing Revolutionary Threat to the Traditional Latin MassJohn XXIII celebrating Low Mass in his private chapelOne of the marks of revolutionaries is a complete lack of respect or tolerance for anyone who has an opposing point of view. Once they have formulated their opinions then nothing and nobody will come between them and the course of action they intend to follow. To the revolutionaries, anyone who is not singing their tune must be suppressed and removed as quickly as possible. A current example is the contemptuous way...

BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest money manager, has pulled an ad that briefly featured Thomas Crooks, the 20-year-old who shot and wounded former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. The company said Crooks was a student at Bethel Park High School and appeared in the 2022 ad with other unpaid teens. “In 2022, we ran an ad featuring a teacher from Bethel Park High School, in which several unpaid students briefly appeared in the background, including Thomas Matthew Crooks,” the company said in a statement to Reuters Sunday, adding that the ad has been pulled.

It's been a wild ride the past 48 hours in the wake of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump on Saturday. After the initial shock wore off, several of Trump's family members weighed in on the horrific incident. His two elder sons, Don Jr. and Eric, both echoed the sentiment that their father is a fighter, one who won't give up on America. His daughter, Ivanka, expressed her gratitude for the prayers for her father and the other victims and for the quick reactions of law enforcement, and expressing her love for her father. His wife, Melania, penned...

Joe Biden was asked by NBC News host Lester Holt about what he’ll do to lower the temperature in this country after Saturday’s assassination attempt on President Trump. His answer is embarrassing: Biden first said “Continue to talk about the things that matter to the American public.” Okay fine, I’m with you so far. Biden continues, “It matters whether or not you accept the outcome of elections. It matters whether or not you, for example, talk about how you’re going to deal with the border instead of talking about people as being vermin…[incomprehensible]…those things matter. That’s the kind of language...

Joe Biden got angry and combative when NBC News host Lester Holt brought up his performance in the debate. Biden is clearly tired of hearing about it and accused Holt of not covering all of “Trump’s lies”, even after Holt said they had covered it. Biden told him “no you haven’t, no you haven’t” and then tried to recover with one of his “God love ya” mannerisms. Biden is so used to the Democrat media kissing his butt that he can’t stand it when actually ask him tough questions. I can just imagine what he said to his staffers after...

He's in the house- just put him on the big screen!!!

Former president Donald J. Trump’s Secret Service permanent detail were stood down for the Butler, Pennsylvania rally on Saturday, according to an admission by Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi. In place of Trump’s permanent detail, “supplemental special agents” were sent from the Pittsburgh field office to provide all of the security measures for the rally on Saturday.