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In a recent essay for Social Science & Medicine–Mental Health, epidemiologist Catherine Gimbrone and coauthors identified a significant gap in depressive attitudes between liberal and conservative teens. This gap was present in all years observed in the study (2005–18). It grew significantly starting in 2012, however, as depressive affect unilaterally spiked among liberals. Three years later, conservatives also began reporting increases in depression—although that rise tapered off relatively quickly while the increases among liberals continued. Liberal girls tended to be significantly more depressed than boys, particularly after 2011. However, ideological differences swamped gender differences. Indeed, liberal boys were significantly more...

The parents of Thomas Matthew Crooks have hired a high-powered legal firm as the investigation continues into their son’s July 13 attempt to assassinate former President Donald Trump. The firm of Quinn Logue, which is based in Pittsburgh, will represent Matthew Crooks and his wife Mary, according to the Daily Mail. The firm, founded by some of Pittsburgh’s top attorneys, says it specializes in “criminal defense and civil suits including wrongful death and personal injury.” The Mail, citing a supposed anonymous family member, reported that as the FBI investigates the shooting, the agency remains uncertain exactly how much the gunman’s...

Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem (8/27/24)[Prayer]Names and Titles of God the Holy Spirit (Life-Giving) Psalm 104:3030 Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.King James Version________________________God Bless America.ML/LTOS

Democratic strategist James Carville said Monday on CNN’s “OutFront” that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would be in a mental hospital if he were a citizen of a “more humane country.” Democratic strategist Paul Begala said, “Look, Bobby Kennedy had a parasitic brain-eating worm in his head and the worm died of starvation, okay. So I just think that we ought to give him like a lot of leeway because I think he’s he’s a bit eccentric.” Host Erin Burnett said, “A Trump-Kennedy ticket, do you feel have any difference of opinion here from Paul on what he said about it?...

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13 US servicemen and women were killed in the attack. Today marks the third anniversary of the devastating Kabul Airport bombing that claimed the lives of 13 brave U.S. servicemen and women. President Trump honored the 13 U.S. service members who tragically lost their lives three years ago during this chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan after Joe Biden surrendered to the Taliban. Conspicuously absent from the ceremony were Joe Biden and Kamala Harris—Biden is reportedly on vacation, while Harris is busy campaigning, disconnected from the painful memories still fresh in the hearts of many Americans. On August 26, 2021, a suicide...

Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. WASHINGTON, Friday, Aug. 25. The following was received this evening, at 12 o'clock: HARPER's FERRY, Friday, Aug. 26. EARLY attempted to cross the Potomac this morning, but was repulsed by AVERILL. The enemy are still in strong force at Charlestown. Slight skirmishing continues along our lines. It is believed that the movement on the river was a feint. Gen. CROOK made another reconnissance this morning from in front of his line on the left, capturing some sixty prisoners, including a Lieutenant-Colonel. Nothing new. HEADQUARTERS NINETEENTH ARMY CORPS, IN THE FIELD, Thursday, Aug. 25, 1864....

Look at the contrast between how Secret Service treats people near Jill Biden versus how they treated a gunman wandering around a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Joe and Jill Biden took a taxpayer-funded weeklong vacation in Santa Ynez, California last week. Secret Service agents violently pushed peasants out of the way so Jill Biden could go on a shopping spree on Friday afternoon. Jill Biden made a ‘surprise visit’ in Los Olivos and bystanders with cameras were roughly cleared out. One woman was violently pushed away. “Out of the roadway! Move now! Go!” one member of Jill Biden’s security...

Police in Birmingham have launched an investigation after three instances of apparently anti-white graffiti appeared in the multicultural British city. The inner-city Birmingham neighbourhood of Alum Rock saw graffiti reading “no whites” and “no whites allowed” appear over the past week, the Daily Telegraph broadsheet reported. The paper obtained CCTV footage appearing to show a man in a hoodie sweatshirt scrawling the message “no whites” on a wall outside of a primary school in the early hours of Thursday morning. Two other locations were marked with a similar message, however, there is currently no indication that the same man was...

[Catholic Caucus] Spitting in the face of Ugandan martyrs: Pope Francis massively pushing LGBTQ in AfricaOn this episode of Faith & Reason, John Henry-Westen, Father Charles Murr, and Frank Wright discuss Pope Francis encouraging homosexual activists in Uganda, Cardinal Cupich praying at the Democratic National Convention, and more.On this past week’s episode of Faith & Reason, John Henry-Westen, Father Charles Murr, and Frank Wright discussed Pope Francis encouraging homosexual activists in Uganda, Cardinal Cupich praying at the Democratic National Convention (DNC), near where a Planned Parenthood truck offered free abortions, a Francis-appointed Kentucky bishop celebrating an LGBT Mass after canceling...

“They are advising us now, suggesting from different sides: 'Withdraw here, free up there.' It goes as far as: 'Forget about Russia, turn away from Russia. Join the fight against Russia alongside Ukraine. We'll bring NATO troops to the border, right up to Smolensk.' It even reaches this level.

A Texas city is America's second-fastest growing urban area - despite being too hot to go outside during summer and facing water shortages. During the pandemic, homebuyers flocked to Kyle, Texas where an aquifer, an underground water source, is currently shrinking, leaving more than 67,000 residents struggling for water. Before summer even began, temperatures reached almost 100 degrees in the city - which sits 20 minutes outside of Austin - as nearby creeks and watering holes have dried up due to the city's extensive drought. Hays County, where the popular city is located, will most likely experience extreme droughts at...

If she's elected president, Kamala Harris pledges to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the wall along the southern border — a project she once opposed and called "un-American" during the Trump administration.

They just want to pretend it didn't happen,' says Gold Star aunt Cheryl Juels... The families of U.S. service members killed at Abbey Gate in Afghanistan said they have never been contacted by Joe Biden or Kamala Harris, three years after the administration’s rushed withdrawal left 13 Americans dead and hundreds stranded. "There's never even been condolences [from Biden or Harris]. They just want to pretend it didn't happen," said Cheryl Juels, the aunt of fallen 23-year-old Marine Sergeant Nicole M. Gee. "They want to take credit for ending the war, but they don't want to take any responsibility for...

Kamala Harris has strong ties to U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves and his activist wife. Which is why a Harris Department of Justice could be more dangerous than Biden's DOJ. Democrats ended their four-day convention on Thursday with a vacuous speech by the party’s installed candidate, Kamala Harris. Her short stint on the main stage made the regime media, which has blessed her with 84 percent positive news coverage since the Pelosi coup according to one analysis, drunk with joy. Harris, like the roster of speakers before her, spent most of the speech demonizing her general...

Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii who has since become an Independent, endorsed former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential race. Renowned for her vocal opinions and military service, Gabbard made the news on Monday at the National Guard convention in Detroit. Her support came as a sharp indictment of the existing government, especially of Trump's opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris. (...) The United States awarded Gabbard the Meritorious Service Medal and the Combat Medical Badge. In addition, she was given a gold German Armed Forces Badge for Military Proficiency. After 17 years of service, Gabbard departed...

It’s not nuclear war. It’s not global warming. It’s closer to home. Once, America had the world’s best educated workforce. Today, our average American high school graduates are two and a half years behind those in top-performing countries. The curriculum of our colleges is at the level of high schools in top-performing countries. The U.S. has “gone from being the world’s best educated workforce to the least well educated in the industrial world: an existential crisis,” according to a National Center On Education and the Economy (NCEE) policy brief, co-authored by Marc Tucker. Having the lowest level of basic skills...

...two teams, called UNITE (UNISTELLAR Network Investigating TESS Exoplanets) and Exoplanet Watch, have combined forces to confirm a new planetary discovery—a toasty "warm Jupiter."...Planets around other stars, called exoplanets, sometimes block the light from the stars they orbit. When this happens, it's called a "transit." Amateur astronomers can observe exoplanet transits with their own telescopes by watching for the light from a nearby star to dim.NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) sees these dimming events, too—many thousands of them. But just seeing a star dim once is not enough. You need to catch multiple dimming events (and perform various other...

The Kursk operation is one component of this plan, he stated at a press conference. - The second component is "Ukraine's strategic position within the global security infrastructure." The third is a "powerful package to compel Russia to end the war through diplomatic means." The fourth component is economic. - "I will first present this plan to the U.S. President. The success of this plan depends on whether we receive what is outlined in it or not. Whether we will have the freedom to use what is in this plan or not," Zelensky said. - The plan is intended to...

Microsoft is known for their signature, “my way or the highway” approach when it comes to their offerings, with the Windows operating system being the most prominent one among those.Many in the FOSS community disagree with that approach, with a strong rejection of such practices, suggesting people go for more open options for their operating systems and applications, and I agree with them.Unfortunately, that same approach has now affected many Linux distribution users, who were sent scampering searching for a fix to a problem caused by a Windows update (who would've expected that?).Microsoft Slips Up: Linux Users Beware!Source: paku1234First spotted...