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“‘And why are you anxious about clothing? Observe how the lilies of the field grow; they do not toil nor do they spin, yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory did not clothe himself like one of these. But if God so arrays the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more do so for you, O men of little faith?’” (Matthew 6:28-30). Observing the flowers is a way to remember that God cares for you. In Matthew 6, some of the people...

Kamala has flip-flopped yet again. This time, the pathetic, failed border czar—who’s watched as the country is overrun by illegals—now claims she wants to build a border wall. And if you believe that, we’ve got “81 million” legal mail-in ballots to sell you. This story is the kind of political fairytale designed to fool those who think Kamala is “too radical.” But the reality is, she is too radical, and despite her latest claims, she’ll never build a border wall—and everyone knows it. Yet that doesn’t stop our pathetic media from trying to paint Kamala as a “moderate” who’s in...

The San Diego Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 to support 14 bills making their way through the California legislature to provide reparations for slavery, even though California entered the Union in 1850 as a free state. The San Diego Union-Tribune reported: The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to support a series of bills making their way through the California Legislature that would provide reparations to Black people who have been harmed by systemic racism and other inequities. … Supervisor Joel Anderson was the lone no vote. … “If we wanted to go through our history, there isn’t...

German liberal and Green parties are pretty dang slick, even when their backs are up against an election wall. There's no quit in them, even when the pooled water that hosed blood from the murdered bodies of their fellow Germans off the sidewalk and cobblestones is barely dry on the pavement. ... the overwhelming problems inherent with the unrestricted immigration policies that began during the Angela Merkel years and have increased the misery index exponentially. In June, I wrote a post about the plague of "knife crimes" in Germany - they average sixty A DAY - and how those constant...

The Harris campaign believes that “joy” and “good vibes” alone will be enough to convince voters that she should be the next president. In 1959, Richard Condon’s book The Manchurian Candidate was published, a political thriller about a communist plot to infiltrate the highest echelons of the U.S. political system, thereby allowing communism to spread its wings in the United States. Fortunately, this work of fiction remained just that; a fictitious tale. Yet, here we are, a few decades after the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, with an avowed Marxist on the top...

a worrying majority of Democrat voters are completely ignorant of the political positions of Kamala Harris... voters who backed Joe Biden in the 2020 election ... ... A whopping 81 percent of those polled were totally clueless about Harris’ support for the elimination of private health insurance. ... Harris made a stand on the issue while sparring with other Democratic candidates leading up to the 2020 election, backing the single-payer system dubbed “Medicare for all” ... Most people polled are also unaware of Harris’ work as border czar under Biden. Harris and her mainstream media allies have worked hard to...

The Democratic presidential candidate and America’s most prominent ‘conspiracy theorist’ talks about his family, the military-pharmaceutical complex, and our new system of social control first met Bobby Kennedy Jr. when he showed up one summer afternoon in 1976 at the door of my ordinary suburban home in the company of a friend from Harvard named Peter Shapiro, who was running for a seat in the New Jersey State Assembly. I was 9 years old, and not particularly thrilled about our family’s recent move from Brooklyn to a street of empty suburban lawns whose nearest point of interest was a candy...

The wine in the glass urn. Credit: Juan Manuel Román The oldest wine ever discovered, originating from Andalusia, is a white wine over 2,000 years old. A 2019 excavation in Carmona revealed the oldest wine ever discovered, preserved in a man’s tomb for 2,000 years, highlighting significant aspects of Roman funerary rituals and societal gender norms. In 2019, a Roman tomb in Carmona was uncovered, revealing the remains of six individuals—Hispana, Senicio, two other men, and two women, whose names remain unknown. These inhabitants from 2,000 years ago likely never envisioned their funerary rituals gaining significance in the modern era....

Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem (8/28/24)[Prayer]Names and Titles of God the Holy Spirit (Wind) Exodus 14:20-2120 And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night. 21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. King James...

With headlines like “Harris Surges Ahead: A New Era of Democratic Enthusiasm and Opportunity” and “Former Friend Exposes JD Vance’s Radical Transformation: A Study in Political Opportunism”, you might mistake NioThinker for another mainstream media outlet. Only the occasional odd word choice and convoluted bit of grammar hints that the digital media site flowing with enthusiasm for Kamala and contempt for Trump isn’t really American.

No criticism of terrorists and their pro-Hamas supporters at the DNC. Fresh off his gold medal at the Paris Olympics, Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr showed up at the Democratic National Convention to plug the Democrats’ Harris-Walz ticket. “I believe in a certain kind of leadership,” Kerr said, “I believe that leaders must display dignity. I believe that leaders must tell the truth.”The appearance drew a response from Donald Trump, who charged that Kerr had failed to criticize human rights violations in China. Back in 2019, fans might recall, China declined to air two NBA games after Houston Rockets...

The IAF, in a pre-dawn preemptive raid in southern Lebanon on Sunday, struck at thousands of rocket launchers that were poised and timed to fire at Israel at 5:00 a.m., preventing a major Hezbollah attack and its “revenge” for last month’s killing of its chief of staff, Fuad Shukr. It’s about time. Nearly 11 months after Hezbollah – completely unprovoked – started firing on Israel, forcing dozens of communities in the North to evacuate, and upending life for hundreds of thousands of people, this was the first significant Israeli offensive against Hezbollah inside Lebanon. No, this wasn’t Israel’s preemptive attack...

Will the US let Israel win? Tony Blinken is back in Israel for his ninth visit since 10/7. I wish I had his frequent flyer points. Humor has always been a part of warfare. In order to endure oftentimes unspeakable experiences or images, people sometimes need to find a way to laugh. There is a story of British warships preparing to engage a German U-boat wolfpack in the Battle of the Atlantic. A submarine commander messaged his destroyer counterpart that in the event of engagement with the enemy, he would plan to stay on the water surface. The destroyer captain...

There is a serious consequence to the fact that the nation’s socialist media are the marketing arm of the DNC. They are the gaslighting gatekeepers, the people who decide who is to be slapped with a “fact check” and suppressed and who is sanctioned as a “trusted source” and who is ignored. Thus, the media are free to propagate any propaganda for what is obviously their side, while mercilessly attacking pro-freedom media sources for the “crime” of telling the truth. This means that the left has become overly dependent on lies. Lying is the left’s only way to move “forward.”...

On August 20, 2024, Tyler Johnson, 32, and his father, Chris, were backpacking and hunting on the Resurrection Trail in Alaska. The trail is in the Chugach National Forest South of Anchorage, across the Turnagain arm of Cook’s Inlet. The north end is just South of Hope, Alaska. The trail is about 38 miles long. On the first day, the Johnsons had hiked in about 15 miles. The weather was great; it was about 64 degrees, and it was mostly sunny. Both men were in excellent physical shape. Hiking 15 miles in the mountains with heavy packs in a day...

28 August 2024 Saint Augustine, Bishop, Doctor on Wednesday of week 21 in Ordinary Time Cathedral of St. Augustine, St. Augustine, FL Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading2 Thessalonians 3:6-10,16-18We worked night and day not to be a burden on youIn the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we urge you, brothers, to keep away from any of the brothers who refuses to work or to live according to the tradition we passed on to you. You know how you are supposed to imitate us:...

Why did Harris deceive not only the public but also the courts about her presence at the DNC? For a criminal defense attorney, the scariest moment in any trial is when his client unwittingly opens the door to otherwise inadmissible evidence. On Thursday, during her acceptance speech, Vice-President Kamala Harris opened that door. The Trump people would have preferred that no one at the DNC talk about January 6, but Rep. Jamie Raskin shattered that hope on the convention’s opening night in a speech so laden with lies Satan was envious. Harris was much more careful, too careful. So crafted...

Three years ago today, 13 American heroes were killed in the Harris-Biden botched Afghanistan withdrawal. To this day, Kamala Harris has never mentioned these fallen soldiers' names. President Trump will never forget them.

On Aug. 6, Ukrainian mechanized forces, likely a division strong, invaded Russia’s Kursk Oblast. In the process, Kyiv had recaptured the battlefield initiative, undermined the narrative that it was doomed to surrender, and caused the Kremlin obvious political embarrassment. The Ukrainian high command claims that the incursion has resulted in the capture of 74 settlements and the occupation of 390 square miles of Russian territory—more than double what the Russians concede. Moscow was forced to evacuate nearly 200,000 civilians from the Kursk and Belgorod regions, as it brought in reserves and heavy weaponry, while the Russian air force began striking...

THIS is the shocking moment Vladimir Putin lost another of his Su-25 planes as it was shot down over Ukraine in the latest humiliating blunder to Russia. The attack aircraft was downed as it was striking Ukrainian positions around Kramatorsk, defenders claimed. Anti-aircraft gunners of the 28th separate mechanised brigade took down the latest Su-25 scalp with a man portable air defence missile, they said. The plane - estimated in £8million by Ukrainian outlet Babel - was low flying and operating with another similar aircraft.