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This letter was sent to every bishop, archbishop, and cardinal of the Catholic Church in America on August 29, 2024. The goal? To ask them to speak out on the pre-eminent issue (according to them) in this election cycle. Your Excellency,For a number of election cycles, I updated and sent out copies of my book, Defeating the Culture of Death: the Pro-Life Vote to all of the bishops and higher clergy in America. The premise is simple… if Catholics would vote their faith, the culture of death (abortion, homosexual marriage, embryonic stem cell research, euthanasia, and cloning) would be defeated....

Democrats are apparently so worried about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s endorsement of former President Donald Trump last week that the party’s “War Room” has sent out a massive list of talking points against him — one week later. Last Friday, after the Democratic National Convention ended in Chicago, Illinois, Kennedy announced that he would be suspending his campaign in battleground states and endorsing Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris. He cited the fact that Harris had not been voted on by anyone, but merely selected by the party bosses, and kept away from the voters and the media. He also...

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DANA BASH: “You’ve been Vice President for three and half years. The steps that you are talking about now, why haven’t you done them already?” KAMALA: “I’m very proud of the work we have done.” She was speaking, you understand, but the main thing you noticed was the musical quality of her voice: sonorous, resonant, like one of the more obscure woodwind instruments, an alto clarinet or a basset horn, producing a sound like unto creamy dressing over the familiar word-salad of iceberg lettuce. It would be ungentlemanly to bang on the particulars of Kamala Harris’s CNN interview performance, so...

I hate to use the Democratic Party’s favorite word against them, but the Harris-Walz tag-team interview on CNN was… well, weird. The two grinning progressives sat side by side and tried their best to handle Dana Bash’s steady stream of softballs. CLICK THIS LINK For Kamala's plans for her first day in office. Unfortunately, the starlets’ most recent experience answering questions is when they are asking them of each other for schmaltzy social media videos, so to say they were rusty is an understatement. Bash first asked Kamala what she would do on day one if elected. Harris, never one...

The Ukrainian armed forces launched drone attacks against Russian strategic early-warning radar sites in late May, damaging at least one radar antenna. The attacks against the sites in Armavir and Orsk raised U.S. fears that Russia could misinterpret the move as an attempt to weaken the early-warning capabilities of its strategic nuclear deterrent. The Washington Post reported on May 29 that the United States has expressed its concerns officially to Ukraine. An unnamed U.S. official cited in the report said that damage to the early-warning radars could hurt strategic stability between Russia and the United States. The attacks occurred during...

French authorities arrested Russian-born dual UAE-French citizen Pavel Durov last weekend as he disembarked his private plane in Paris. Durov, who is the CEO and founder of popular messaging app Telegram, faces a number of serious charges from French authorities ranging from drug offenses to child sexual exploitation offenses.Of course, none of these charges have anything to do with Durov directly but rather refer to activity that allegedly occurred on Telegram, Durov’s privacy-focused messaging app that boasts nearly 1 billion active users. It is unclear from the charging documents what exactly the French authorities’ argument is regarding Durov’s culpability, and...

Vice President Kamala Harris vowed Thursday that she would “not ban fracking” if elected president – a major reversal from her position during her first White House run. “As vice president I did not ban fracking. As president I will not ban fracking,” Harris said in her first interview since replacing President Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket. Harris’ latest position on fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is diametrically opposed to her stance on the oil and gas extraction technique during her 2019 Democratic presidential primary campaign. However, the Democratic nominee claimed in her back and forth with CNN’s...

Brandon Miller, the high-profile New York real estate developer who took his own life last month, was in even more dire financial straits than was initially revealed at the time of his death. Miller, 43, who flaunted a high-flying Hamptons lifestyle bankrolled by millions of dollars in secret debt along with his influencer wife, Candace, was nearly $34 million in the red, with just $8,000 in his bank account, TheRealDeal reports. Through Candace’s now-defunct lifestyle blog Mama + Tata, Miller presented a fairy-tale life for the world to see, playing the role of the lucky and affectionate head of an...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Justice has given Ret. Special Forces Green Beret another preposterous but expected ultimatum: Take a plea agreement for four misdemeanor charges or face the full wrath of the United States government! The Biden administration has warned Jeremy that he now faces up to 20 years in prison. He is an innocent man who is being targeted by his government. Jeremy Brown is a Green Beret and former Republican candidate for Congress in Florida’s 14th Congressional District. Brown served in the United States Army from 1992 to 2012 and reached the rank of Special Forces...

CNN was the lucky winner of the first sit-down media interview with Vice President Kamala Harris since she was pushed to the top of the ticket nearly forty days ago and, well, it didn’t go great. It was not a particularly long interview. Internet rumors suggested it would be about eighteen minutes in totality and that it had been pre-recorded, which implied edits. While the interview was a bit longer than that and Dana Bash confirmed nothing was cut, we still got only about sixteen minutes of speaking time from Kamala. This was made more obvious by CNN’s decision to...

The commander of Ukraine's air force said on Friday that it had shared with U.S. partners a preliminary report about an F-16 jet crash that took place on Monday. Mykola Oleshchuk said on Telegram that partners from the United States, where the F-16 is manufactured, were assisting the investigation. The Ukrainian military said on Thursday that the F-16 crashed and its pilot died while approaching a target during a major Russian air strike on Monday.

A new study by Florida Atlantic University believes that 94 separate US banks are facing a significant risk of bank runs. The at risk banks have all reported a 50% or higher ratio of uninsured deposits to total deposits. Basically, they simply do not have the hard currency to shell out in the event of a panic. Banks currently limit cash withdrawals under the pretense of money laundering and security. They will ask all sorts of questions if you even TRY to withdraw your money. They realize we are on the verge of a crisis in banking on a global...

Scientists have unearthed the remnants of more than 1,700 viruses from deep inside a glacier in western China. Most of these viruses are new to science. With this discovery, the number of ancient viruses recovered from glaciers has grown fiftyfold.The viruses, gathered from a 1,000-foot ice core taken from the sprawling Guliya Glacier on the Tibetan Plateau, date back 41,000 years and span three major shifts from cold to warm. Scientists say the viruses differed markedly between colder and warmer eras, noting that a distinct community of viruses formed during the most dramatic of these climatic shifts, at the end...

Independent candidate Cornel West did not qualify for the presidential ballot in Virginia, but Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did, despite suspending his campaign and throwing his support to former President Donald Trump. The Virginia Department of Elections has not completed its review of required forms and signatures for three other independent candidates: Claudia de la Cruz of the Party for Socialism and Liberalism, anti-abortion activist Randall Terry and Indian American entrepreneur Shiva Ayyadurai.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has approved a request to provide the Secret Service with additional military support capabilities for presidential and vice-presidential candidates for the upcoming election, the Pentagon and the Secret Service said separately on Thursday.Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh did not provide details on the type of support that would be provided but said Austin had directed U.S. Northern Command to plan and provide support to the Secret Service at

The cold, hard world of betting markets framing the outcome of the 2024 presidential election were singularly unimpressed by the showing of Kamala Harris during her CNN interview on Thursday evening. Newsweek sought the views of two leading bookmakers and this was the outcome of the pre-taped Harris-Walz chat with Dana Bash: The vice president went from being the favorite to win with odds of 10/11 (52.4 percent) on Thursday to tied with Donald Trump on 19/20 (51.3 percent) each on Friday morning, according to the Star Sports betting company. Over the same period, Trump’s odds of victory in November...

The National Academies report...argues that there are not enough STEM degree holders to meet demand, and...more foreign workers and students need to be admitted or allowed to stay...The American Community Survey shows that 29% of STEM workers are now foreign-born in the USA...8.6 million STEM workers, but 17.2 million people with STEM degrees... Between 2008 and 2023...compensation grew at a rate of just 0.15% per year.

I used to be agnostic on the victor in the 2020 presidential election. I simply didn’t know since our system is so botched and riddled with holes in almost every state it’s difficult to determine the winner in any of our elections that are even relatively close. I still remain somewhat agnostic, but the tenacity, resembling monomania, with which our Torquemada-like special prosecutor Jack Smith seeks to indict and convict Donald Trump leads me to believe Mr. Trump actually won. Many may also feel that way because of the manner in which Mr. Trump’s poll numbers tend to grow the...

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