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“But I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind, and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members” (Romans 7:23). Sin is the deadliest plague ever to affect mankind. Throughout history, deadly plagues have ravaged the human race. In just three years (1348-1350), the infamous “Black Death” (an outbreak of bubonic plague) killed half the population of Europe. In our own times, diseases such as AIDS have reached epidemic proportions. But there is one plague that is far deadlier than all the others...

Tampon Tim got waxed in the one and only VP debate on Tuesday night. Walz dropped 35 points during the 90 minute debate. By the time the debate was over Tampon Tim was at 35 cents to J.D. Vance at 65 cents. A thirty point spread. Via Midnight Rider. It was a rough night for Tim Walz. He started out talking about Israel’s proxy partners when he meant Iran. Walz then could not explain why he lied about being in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square massacre. And then Walz closed down the debate talking about being friends with school...

Back in July, I had a two posts (here and here) comparing the then candidates for President, Biden and Trump, on the issue of who is the greater “threat to democracy.” The posts reviewed actions of each candidate that may be viewed as such threats. For Trump, those things included J6, plus seeking legal advice and then bringing litigation as to what he claimed was fraudulent conduct in the 2020 election; for Biden, the things included having the prosecutors bring phony criminal charges against political adversaries, engaging in a systematic effort with social media platforms to suppress the opposition’s speech,...

SOMERSET – About 25 Republicans from this rural coal-mining community gathered at a sports tavern Tuesday night for the political showdown between vice presidential candidates. Amid tables filled with beer, pizza and wings, the GOP faithful expected a heaping serving of political red meat as tart-tongued Republican JD Vance took on homespun Minnesota Democrat Tim Walz. Only, they largely didn’t get it. Instead of confrontational fireworks between the candidates, a polite, reasoned policy discussion broke out. “It was a lot calmer than a Trump debate,” said Guy Berkebile, the Somerset County GOP chairman who organized the event. “You know, I...

If you’re old enough to vote in the United States, then you’re old enough to remember a time when Americans of all political stripes liked Donald Trump. A public figure for most of his adult life, a businessman with a taste for luxury, and a showman who embodied the “American dream,” Trump appeared in television shows and movies because people enjoyed seeing him. For decades, he was an American icon with universal name recognition, a global brand, and even a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Then he moved into the political arena, and everything changed. Actors, musicians, and...

Monroe County Executive Adam Bello today joined Seventh Judicial District Administrative Judge Bill Taylor and Seventh Judicial District Supervising Judge for City Courts Melissa Barrett to announce the launch of the Eviction Diversion Resource Center (EDRC) at the Rochester Hall of Justice in connection to Rochester Housing Court. This innovative initiative will provide residents facing evictions with direct access to essential financial assistance programs and resources every Monday and Friday. Located on the Mezzanine Floor of the Hall of Justice, the Eviction Diversion Resource Center serves as a support hub, where Monroe County Department of Human Services (DHS) staff will...

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, CNN was at the forefront of pushing the vaccines to “save people’s lives,” but now it seems the network has changed its tune three years on. In a recent headline, CNN writes, “Why vaccinated people dying from COVID-19 doesn’t mean the vaccines are ineffective.” The headline is almost a veiled admission to being wrong. In 2021, the network covered a study claiming that a single dose of Pfizer’s mRNA (modRNA) injection provides “strong protection for those who’ve had COVID-19.”

Following our recent stories of NIFB pastor Steven Anderson’s son Isaac detailing vicious abuse and beating at the hands of his father, and then his other son John alleging years of abuse by his father against his mom, claiming he used to hit her and whip her with an electrical cord, a third Anderson child has come forward, with Miriam Anderson, 17, claiming that her home life was so bad, that “from the time that I was probably like 11 to 15, I thought about killing myself every day. And I remember even as a little kid praying that God...

U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will on Wednesday see their way clear to visit areas devastated by Hurricane Helene, arriving some 72-hours after former President Donald Trump made the same journey to the stricken zone. Trump journeyed to the disaster area early on Monday, visiting the devastated town of Valdosta in Georgia. The Republican nominee traveled with a Christian charity organization that brought trucks of fuel, food, water and other supplies, as Breitbart News reported. The death toll is now approaching 160 people, and power and cellular service remains unavailable in some places.

@RandPaul Kelley and I went to see the movie Reagan (based on Paul Kengor's book) this weekend. Well worth your time. The movie brought back many memories. I was in Kansas City in 1976, at age 13, when my dad led the Texas delegates for Reagan… The movie's depiction of Reagan and Gorbachev reminded me of the hour I spent with Gorbachev in 2018. I asked Gorbachev how he came to realize the need for nuclear arms control. Gorbachev replied that as a young military man the army had him watch a depiction of what earth would look like after...

"Israel will continue to defend its citizens and uphold its national dignity, with or without António Guterres," he concluded. Israel's foreign minister declared UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres 'persona non grata' and was henceforth banning him from entering Israel, according to a post on X/Twitter on Wednesday. The ban on entry, said FM Israel Katz, was due to Guterres's failure to "unequivocally condemn" Iran's massive missile attack on Israel. "Anyone who cannot unequivocally condemn Iran's heinous attack on Israel, as almost every country in the world has done, does not deserve to step foot on Israeli soil," Katz wrote. He...

Here we go…The far-left CBS hacks moderating the debate on Tuesday took time to “fact-check” JD Vance on the 20,000 Haitian migrants that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris flew into Springfield, Ohio in the past three years.Senator Vance then interrupted and corrected Margaret Brennan about the Biden plan to fly in illegals to American cities.That’s when CBS cut his mic!They wouldn’t let him speak!

Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem (10/2/24)[Prayer]Names and Titles of God the Holy Spirit (Baptism of Fire) Matthew 3:1111 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance. but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:King James Version________________________God Bless America.ML/LTOS

The newspaper "Le Monde" covered the assassination of the Secretary General of Hezbollah and the terrorist with flattering descriptions of his love for sports: "a die-hard fan" • Journalist Alba Ventura was outraged and responded on the local TV channel: "to read and vomit". Sports Staff. 1/10/2024, 01:50, updated 1/10/2024, 01:53 Shame and disgrace. The assassination of Hezbollah Secretary General and terrorist Hassan Nasrallah, a welcome move that was one of the significant bright spots in light of the tense security situation in recent times, was widely covered in Israel as well as in the world. However, not all media...

The presidency of Joe Biden ushered in a new era of politics, one set to perpetuate under Kamala Harris; an era of idiocy. Kamala is dumb. I don’t intend this as an insult but as a cool-headed diagnosis. We could use more refined terminology, such as “intellectually unexceptional,” but we have a perfectly suitable, one-syllable word for her condition: dumb. I don’t mean that she would likely score in the mentally handicapped range on an IQ test, in the lowest decile, be legally considered in need of a guardian ad litem. Rather, relative to formally educated leaders, she is a...

2 October 2024 The Holy Guardian Angels on Wednesday of week 26 in Ordinary Time The Church of St. Leodegar, LucerneReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingJob 9:1-13,14-16How can man be in the right against God?Job spoke to his friends:Indeed, I know it is as you say: how can man be in the right against God?If any were so rash as to challenge him for reasons, one in a thousand would be more than they could answer.His heart is wise, and his strength is great: who...

Former Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) said Monday on CNN’s “The Source” that Vice President Kamala Harris is more conservative than former President Donald Trump on “free trade” and “rule of law.” Host Kaitlan Collins said, “A lot of people who are watching this show and have watched it are familiar with Republicans who come on who say Donald Trump is not fit for office. But I like his policies better than I like Harris’s. I mean, I think the first, maybe most prominent is the former attorney general, Bill Barr, who has certainly argued that. I wonder, what do you...

Voting starts Wednesday in the annual Fat Bear Week contest at Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve, with viewers picking their favorite among a dozen brown bears fattened up to survive the winter. The contest, which is in its 10th year, celebrates the resiliency of the 2,200 brown bears that live in the preserve on the Alaska Peninsula, which extends from the state’s southwest corner toward the Aleutian Islands. The animals gorge on the abundant sockeye salmon that return to the Brooks River, sometimes chomping the fish in midair as they try to hurdle a small waterfall and make...

Tim Walz and J.D. Vance debated Wednesday night. The debate was gracious on both sides. The moderators of the debate asked a number of policy questions, and each candidate answered giving some deference to the other candidate and in most cases suggesting there was some room for compromise on specific laws/policies that would need to be enacted during the next four years. Yet the tone of good will and compromise that each tried to establish to some degree was false and misleading. The differences between the two candidates and the presidential candidates with whom each is running could not be...