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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson had to intervene to get former President Donald Trump into Arlington National Cemetery for the third anniversary of the Afghanistan withdrawal with Gold Star families, a family told the Daily Caller. The Gold Star families, who lost their children during the Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, invited Trump to Arlington National Cemetery. He laid a wreath there for the 13 servicemembers who were killed serving their country in Afghanistan. However, a Gold Star family told the Caller that Arlington National Cemetery was trying to make it difficult for the former President to appear for...

Daily Readings from the USCCBHerod was the one who had John the Baptist arrested and bound in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, whom he had married. John had said to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.” Herodias harbored a grudge against him and wanted to kill him but was unable to do so. Mark 6:17–19The suffering and death of Saint John the Baptist greatly parallels the suffering and death of Jesus. They were cousins. John was one of the first to acknowledge the divine presence of our Lord...

[Catholic Caucus] The Modernist Pedigree of Francis’s Synod on Synodality, and Its Implications“The Holy People of God has been set in motion for mission thanks to the synodal experience. . . The seeds of the Synodal Church are already sprouting!” (Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, June 14, 2024)Fr. Dominique Bourmaud went to his eternal reward on September 4, 2021, a month before Francis announced his intention to “create a different church” with the Synod on Synodality. Remarkably, though, Fr. Bourmaud was able to describe the essence of the Synodal Church in his 2003 book, One Hundred Years of Modernism:“The Tyrrellian Church is...

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THE SUBURBAN ARMED VIGILANTE RESPONSE In the absence of effective official police response to the exploding levels of violence, suburbanites will first hastily form self-defense forces to guard their neighborhoods—especially ones located near ethnic borders. These ubiquitous neighborhood armed defense teams will often have a deep and talented bench from which to select members, and they will not lack for volunteers. Since 9-11, hundreds of thousands of young men (and more than a few women) have acquired graduate-level educations in various aspects of urban warfare. In the Middle East, these troops were frequently tasked with restoring order to urban areas...

[OFFICIAL.] WASHINGTON, Aug. 28, 1864. Maj.-Gen. Dix: A dispatch from Gen. GRANT, just received, states that the Richmond papers of yesterday, (27th) announce that Fort Morgan is in our possession. It is not stated whether the fort was surrendered or whether it was blown up. Another dispatch gives the following extract from the Richmond Examiner of yesterday; "Fort Morgan is in the enemy's possession -- whether blown up or evacuated is not known." Gen. SHERIDAN, in a dispatch dated yesterday, at half-past two o'clock P.M., reports: "The enemy left my front last night, falling back to Smithfield or Middleway. We...

We all recall when the Democrats tried to drag former President Trump for suggesting a wall for the Southern border. He asked for $25 billion to build the wall and we are spending quadruple that amount on providing for migrants. The wall, the “Trump wall,” was considered “racist” and “Un-American” by VP Kamala Harris and a “medieval vanity project.” Now, Harris believes the time is right to fund the Trump wall. Over eight to ten million people entered the United States under Biden-Harris, with Harris appointed as the point person to solve the problem. They have done absolutely everything imaginable...

Kamala Harris and running mate Tim Walz have yet to do a formal interview, though one is in the works, but the Minnesota governor did give his biggest sit-down to date this week with a TikTok star. Walz joined host Kareem Rahma on 'SubwayTakes' to talk about his 'take' involving home gutters. 'My take is the most neglected part of home ownership is the gutters,' Walz told Rahma. 'It's personal for me.' The Democratic vice presidential nominee has been known to dole out home and car improvement advice on social media, and the interview posted on Tuesday was no different....

Marxist ideology and practices have come to Minnesota schools disguised as new teacher licensing rules that take effect July 1, 2025. The Minnesota teacher licensing board is called the Professional Educators Licensing and Standards Board or PELSB. Each board member was appointed by Governor Walz. The state adopted the new PELSB teacher licensing requirements on April 10, 2023. The new standards embed basic Marxist principles and practices such as Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI), fluid sexual identity, and gender politics as required instruction into all Minnesota public schools (this includes charter schools) and adoption for public school students. Standard Marxist...

DOUBLE HEADER TRUMP EVENT DAY! President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, will Deliver Remarks on the Economy, Inflation, and Manufacturing in Potterville, Michigan, on Thursday, August 29, 2024, at 3:30 p.m. EDT. Watch all-day LIVE coverage on RSBN starting at 11:00 a.m. ET. And.... President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, will Hold a Town Hall - moderated by Tulsi Gabbard - in La Crosse, Wisconsin, on Thursday, August 29, 2024, at 7:00 p.m. EDT.

Two men have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man in a wheelchair was stabbed to death with a machete Wednesday in east London. The BBC reports the Metropolitan Police confirm officers were called to reports of an altercation in Clapton at 15:38 and found a man with a stab injury. Jade Anthony Barnett, 38, was treated by paramedics but later died at the scene, police say. Air ambulance resources were also called in. His sister Simone Barnett described the deceased to the outlet as a “cheerful and caring” man, explaining her brother had lived in Clapton with...

This is a long video about the discovery of and research into a newly discovered essential fatty acid, C15, aka pentadecanoic acid. Very quick synopsis (by me, so may have reflect misunderstanding, lack of attention, etc.): first noticed Navy dolphins having 1 type of health problem; studied hard; found low levels of C15. Research showed this causes weakening of cell linings (and a bunch of technical stuff about mitochondria and so on), end result: this weakening of cell walls causes premature aging due to death of cells. Notice: more and more and more children now have Type 2 diabetes, which...

(Reuters) -Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday reposted a lewd social media remark about Vice-President Kamala Harris, the latest in a volley of demeaning attacks by Republicans against Trump's Democratic rival. The comment was made by another Truth Social media user, who wrote, below a picture of Harris and Trump's 2016 Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton: "Funny how blowjobs impacted both their careers differently..." The remark appears to be a reference to former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, who briefly dated Harris over two decades ago. A frequent right-wing line of attack against Harris is that Brown fueled her political...

We all know how pollsters ALWAYS oversample Democrats. Well, this latest Michigan poll by Activote takes the cake. The poll weighted its results 25 points for Democrats! And despite the outlandish weighting advantage for Kamala Harris she only leads by 0.2% points. ADVERTISEMENT And despite the outlandish weighting advantage for Kamala Harris, Trump leads Kamala with independent voters by 56 points!

While top man Yahya Sinwar slithers from tunnel to tunnel to stay alive. The IDF has been relentlessly killing Hamas’ top leaders and commanders with surgical strikes. On July 13, the long-sought military commander of Hamas in Gaza, Mohammed Deif, was assassinated. On July 31, the head of Hamas’ political wing, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed when a bomb exploded in his room at a heavily-guarded guesthouse in Tehran. Another dozen Hamas commanders, just below the top level, have been killed during the Gaza campaign. Only Yahya Sinwar, the man mainly responsible for the October 7 attacks, has still managed to...

Will we take it lying down? Last summer a Missouri judge ruled in a case brought by the state that the Biden administration had to cease contact with social media companies. This was addressing the charge that the president and/or his staff were engaged in the muzzling of expression on social platforms, regarding the pandemic as well as other topics. (The ruling was recently overturned by the Supreme Court, this June.)The case followed revelations from the Twitter Files, the document release overseen by Elon Musk after taking over that company. In those documents it was established how the federal government...

How do accomplished radicals elect a mediocre far-left presidential candidate? The task might at first seem impossible. Kamala Harris is currently a radical incumbent vice president. For more than three years, she was second in command to an unprecedentedly unliked Democrat president, his failed policies, and his unpopular record. Harris herself had compiled a hard-left trail over her own entire career while loudly boasting indiscreetly to leftist audiences of being proudly “woke” and “radical.” Most challenging for a Harris candidacy makeover was the long, entrenched Democratic Party’s reluctance to remove a debilitated President Biden from the Democratic ticket. Why? Because...

Can you buy votes by attracting freeloaders? Winston Churchill warned the free world 80 years ago: “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” Yes, a gospel of envy can be attractive to anyone who doesn’t have to pay for what they want. It’s easy to understand why “equity” is such a powerful word in the progressive world of the left. Equal opportunity is for conservatives. After hours of watching the Democratic National Convention, it’s clear that leftists feel they are entitled to equal...

n oil tanker loaded with roughly a million barrels of crude was on fire and in danger of leaking after it was attacked by Houthi rebels while crossing through the Red Sea. The 900-foot Sounion was hit over the weekend, part of a campaign by the Yemen-based group to target vessels passing through the Suez Canal. The crew was evacuated from the ship, which is now anchored in a busy maritime channel. The Suezmax tanker—the largest size that can transit the canal when laden—had taken on cargo in Iraq, and its final destination was Europe, brokers said. It is one...

There's an investigation underway in Tempe after a Wells Fargo employee died while on the job. A new timeline released by police suggests her body was there for four days before being discovered. "It's really heartbreaking and I'm thinking, 'What if I were just sitting there?'" a worker said. "No one would check on me?" The body was found inside the Wells Fargo corporate office in Tempe. An associate who spoke with 12News anonymously said the situation is troubling. "To hear she's been sitting at the desk like that would make me feel sick," the worker said. "And nobody did...