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29 September 202426th Sunday in Ordinary TimeCatholic University of America, Saint Michael the Archangel chapel, Washington, DCReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First readingNumbers 11:25-29If only the whole people of the Lord were prophets!The Lord came down in the Cloud. He spoke with Moses, but took some of the spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders. When the spirit came on them they prophesied, but not again. Two men had stayed back in the camp; one was called Eldad and the other Medad. The spirit came down on them; though they had not gone to...

Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sworn in its first police officer who is not a U.S. citizen, according to reports. The Minnesota Police Dept. has reported that Lesly Vera, a native of Somalia, was sworn in on Thursday as the department’s first non-citizen officer. Vera was seen at the swearing-in ceremony wearing a hijab over her head as she took the oath of office and received her badge

It is absolutely, completely, totally ridiculous that this election is even close. But here we are.The choice between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump should not be a tough call. Harris is a former prosecutor; Trump, a felon. Harris gives campaign speeches about her civic values; Trump rants endlessly about his personal grievances, interrupting himself with asides about sharks and Hannibal Lecter. Harris has outlined a detailed set of policy proposals for the economy; Trump nonsensically offers tariffs as a panacea, describing this fantasy in terms that make it clear he doesn’t understand how tariffs work.Also, Harris...

Mexico is building the Interoceanic Corridor railway to compete with the Panama Canal and ease international trade. The new railway would aim to relieve the burden on the Panama Canal, which is struggling to receive shipments due to a drought. The Panama Canal has raised toll prices nearly eight-fold, and water levels at an all-time low make ship passage through the canal challenging. Mexico’s Interoceanic Corridor The $7.5 billion dollar project will stretch 188 miles across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. The railway will move containers from ships to the train and transport them to ships on the other side that...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today [Sep 25], U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) forced the Senate to vote on his “Six Penny Plan” federal budget that will balance within five years. Dr. Paul spoke on the Senate floor ahead of the vote, below are excerpts from his remarks. “This year, the United States will spend over $6 trillion while only bringing in $4 trillion in revenue. That’s a profound gap, $2 trillion will be borrowed this year. To add insult to injury, Congress spends like drunken sailors without even bothering to pass a budget…In fact, over the past 20 years, Congress has...

A pastor's daughter thought she had escaped a childhood of sexual abuse by moving out and getting married only to see her father break into her house and sodomize her weeks after she had a baby. Bertheophilus 'Judge' Bailey, a respected minister at St Andrew Christian Church in Tulsa began abusing Harmony Oates when she was in sixth grade, court documents claim. He told his daughter he was her 'boyfriend' and that the little girl would unleash a 'total catastrophe to the whole kingdom of God' if she ever revealed what he was doing to her. But he was arrested...

Tim Walz is 'nervous' about facing J.D. Vance in next week's vice presidential debate as he hunkers down this weekend to prepare for Tuesday's showdown. The Democratic presidential nominee has fretted to friends he's worried he will let Kamala Harris down, people close to him told CNN. Adding to the pressure is the fact that the debate is likely to be the last marquee showdown between the two presidential tickets before the November 5th election. Harris has accepted CNN's offer for another presidential debate but Donald Trump has not.

Pretty funny to read this. CINOs in retreat? He says it needs to focus on the leadership contest between the 4 contenders. Robert Jenrick is Fav to take over. He was an immigration minister and quit from the last government. Look for him to set out his stall he has made this his main issue.

During an interview with MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle, Democrat nominee for president Vice-President Kamala Harris tried to refute Ruhle's fact-check that the tax cuts passed during Trump's term as president weren't only for the rich by explaining the math. "Okay, say there's an across-the-board 10% cut," Harris began. "The rich person making $200,000 a year saves $20,000, but the middle class person making $30,000 saves only $3,000. Worse, the person on welfare who doesn't earn any income gets no savings. I say, once someone earns more than a middle class income that person already has more than they need. They should...

How Much Does Each American Pay? I am curious how much the cost per taxpayer is each time I hear that the administration is sending more money to Ukraine or reducing student debt or such other unconstitutional nonsense. The number of tax returns in 2021 was 153.6 million In 2021, more than 54 million taxpayers chose to file "married filing jointly," while roughly 3.9 million opted for "married filing separately." 100 million single returns mean 100 million individuals. 54 million joint returns mean 108 million individuals. 208 million individuals file tax returns. What is the cost per taxpayer when the...

Our cause transcends any border and any obstacle! Hundreds of towns in Venezuela and hundreds of cities in the world united today in a cry for FREEDOM! Thank you, Madrid! Thank you to every Venezuelan in Spain and to every Spaniard with their heart in Venezuela, for being a firm and active part of our cause! Thank you to every citizen who was active today in these powerful swarms that have managed to make the world reverberate with our firm determination to recognize Edmundo González as our President Elect and to enforce our Popular Sovereignty!

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PORTLAND, Ore. — Vice President Kamala Harris's husband, Doug Emhoff, is set to speak at a campaign event on Portland Sunday. This comes as Democratic nominee Harris is running to beat former president and Republican nominee Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, as well as Tuesday's planned debate between both parties' vice presidential nominees, Democrat rival, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Republican Ohio Sen. JD Vance.

Democrat strategists and their allies in the mainstream media have been sounding alarm bells for several years now over the erosion of support among black and Hispanic/Latino voters. The slow but steady drop was brought about in part by the inroads Donald Trump has made with both communities. In particular, the Hispanic community has shifted how they've voted not just in presidential elections but in Congressional elections as well, which we saw for example in some 2020 and 2022 races in Texas, Florida, and New Mexico. Needless to say, this has brought about a great wailing and gnashing of teeth,...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton criticized former President Donald Trump and stressed her purported innocence in an interview with Margaret Hoover of PBS’ “Firing Line” on Friday. Clinton echoed sentiments that Trump poses a threat to democracy and mocked him for directing his administration to investigate her only to not file any criminal charges. While the Trump administration never formally accused Clinton of breaking the law, Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey in July 2016 said that Clinton had stored 110 emails containing classified information on a private email server, with eight email chains containing top secret information....

At the November 2024 election, twenty-three individuals are on the ballot for President in at least one state. That is down from 2020, when there were thirty-six, a historic record. The reason there were so many in 2020 is that Vermont let anyone on by request, and Colorado allowed anyone on who paid $1,000. Neither of those states have those policies any longer.

Tampon Tim attended the Michigan-Minnesota game on Saturday in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Football fans waited out in the rain to boo Tampon Tim at the game. Tim Walz wore his Army Special Forces hat at the Big Ten football game today. Via Amuse: Walz has never been in the unit and he's been asked repeatedly to quit wearing the hat and pretending like he was Army Special Forces.

Two and a half years since the war began, we’ve finally come to the point where most of the Mockingbird Media is ready to call it quits, and openly admit the obvious: Russian Federation troops are winning the war.Even in their cheerleading for Kiev, they have to admit that ‘if Ukraine and its Western backers are to win, they must first have the courage to admit that they are losing.’The Economist reported:“A measure of Ukraine’s declining fortunes is Russia’s advance in the east, particularly around the city of Pokrovsk.[…] Ukraine is also struggling off the battlefield. Russia has destroyed so...

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A former congressional candidate was charged over allegations that he threatened to dispatch a hit squad to murder his political opponent while he was running against Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) William Braddock, 41, of St. Petersburg, Fla. is accused of making the alleged threats on June 8, 2021 — including one where he threatened to “call up my Russian-Ukrainian hit squad” to take out his rival. Prosecutors did not outright name the victim, but at the time, he was vying against fellow Republican Luna and he was allegedly caught on audio calling the lawmaker a “dead squirrel” and “a...