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Vice President Kamala Harris’ past statements in support of renaming Columbus Day resurfaced Monday, prompting the Trump campaign and others to accuse her of trying to “cancel American traditions.”During the Democratic nominee’s failed 2020 presidential campaign and vice presidential tenure, she repeatedly said in public remarks that she was supportive of labeling the federal holiday “Indigenous Peoples’ Day.”“Count me in,” Harris told a voter who asked during a February 2019 campaign stop in Portsmouth, NH, whether she would change the name of the day via federal law.“People did not want to deal and accept and, most importantly, admit that we...

The US Embassy in Beirut is calling on Americans to leave Lebanon as soon as possible as the war between Israel and Hezbollah intensifies. “US citizens in Lebanon are strongly encouraged to depart now,” the embassy said in a notice to citizens on Monday. “US citizens who choose not to depart at this time should prepare contingency plans should the situation deteriorate further.” Just 1,100 of the estimated 86,000 Americans who live in Lebanon have fled the nation so far, with the US setting aside thousands of seats on flights out of Lebanon since Sept. 27, according to the State...

Country singer Brantley Gilbert’s wife, Amber, welcomed their third child on a tour bus in the middle of his concert on Friday. ... The “Tattoos” singer had just started his set when he received word that Amber was in labor. He’s seen running to be by his wife’s side as she was giving birth inside the tour bus. The video shows the bundle of joy as Gilbert is on the phone with his mother to tell her the good news. “You got a new grandbaby,” he tells her. The singer goes on to call his wife “a freaking savage.” After...

Oct 14, 2024 Sky News host Rita Panahi reacts to "chameleon" Kamala Harris attempting a Jamaican accent during an interview.

[Catholic Caucus] Vindicating the Mother of God Against False ApparitionsMEDJUGORJE COMPLETE: The Definitive Account of the Visions and Visionaries by Donal Anthony Foley. Angelico Press, 2021. 538 pp. Foreword by Dr. Manfred Hauke; Preface by Dr. William A. Thomas. PaperbackWhen I was a greenhorn (bluehorn?) Marian devotee in high school—this would have been right around the year 1988—a friend of mine who used to drive me to conferences, retreats, rosary rallies, special Masses, and the like, and who had strained to breaking point his rearview mirror with the number of devotional items hanging from it, introduced me to the already-burgeoning...

The woke are going to like this one because they detest both Zionism as a “settler colonial” crime and the European colonization of North America, which they believe was theft from the indigenous natives. Columbus’s goal and the striving for Zion/Jerusalem come together in this true slice of history. Christopher Columbus was no Jew, though some want to believe that. In 1892, the Spanish government promoted this fiction because, as America celebrated the quadra-centennial year of his historic voyage, Spain thought it might experience a tourist boom if it identified him as a Spaniard (even a Jewish one) rather than...

Several families of October 7 victims have reportedly filed a lawsuit against the city of Sderot in southern Israel, as well as a company that manufactures “smart shelters,” for what they say is negligence that contributed to their loved ones’ murders by Hamas. The shelter, advertised as a “smart shelter,” was supposed to unlock during rocket sirens or other emergency alerts, but remained locked well after the first sirens sounded, leaving the victims unprotected from the rocket fire and the Hamas assault.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) signed a number of gun control bills on Wednesday, one of which requires licensed gun dealers to post signs warning would-be buyers about alleged dangers associated with firearms. Spectrum News 1 posted about the new law, which forces gun dealers’ signs to “[include] a paragraph explaining how guns in the home increase the risk of suicide, death during a domestic dispute or unintentional death to children.” The sign “must also include contact information for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.” North County Now noted five other gun controls were signed by Hochul, which do everything...

What do the polls of elections past tell us about the current presidential race? Borrowing from Charles Dickens’s classic “A Christmas Carol,” miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by ghosts from Christmas past, present, and future, converting him into a kinder and gentler soul. Political polling also creates scrooges, especially when we see our preferred candidate losing in the polls, or our disliked candidate given a false boost due to the polling sample composition and spin. The ghost of election present is today, the first week or two of October, less than a month until election day. The Real Clear Politics...

JD Vance, once again, shows that he is an extremely effective communicator as he destroys uber-lib Martha Raddatz, who attempts to argue that the Venezuelan take-over of apartment complexes in CO. is not really that bad.

Trump military vs Harris military

Cut the Truth Out of Our HeadsThe censors are losing patience. They have gone from regretting the existence of free speech and gaming the system as best they can to fantasizing about ending it through criminal penalties. You can observe this change in temperament – from frustration to fury to calling for violent solutions – over the last several weeks. And it serves as a reminder: censorship was never the end point. It was always about controlling society’s “cognitive infrastructure,” which is how we think. And to what end? A secure monopoly on political power. This week, Fox reporter Peter...

Kamala Harris will sit down with Fox News‘ Bret Baier for her first formal sit-down interview with the network ever.The interview will be conducted in Pennsylvania and will air on Special Report with Bret Baier at 6 p.m. ET. Baier is the network’s chief political anchor and executive editor of the newscast.Harris has upped her media appearances, having sat down with Stephen Colbert, 60 Minutes‘ Bill Whitaker and Howard Stern, among other personalities. But she’s also been urged to make an appearance on Fox News.Earlier in the day, Fox News will air a town hall with Donald Trump, moderated by...

NEW: Colleague @BretBaier will sit down with VP @KamalaHarris for an interview on Wednesday in the battleground state of PA. Airing on @SpecialReport

This hot, new style is literally blowing up. Air-conditioned clothing could be the coolest trend to hit the market and offer relief in sweltering temperatures. Japan-based Anrealage, spearheaded by designer Kunihiko Morinaga, breathed new life into nylon apparel for its spring/summer 2025 collection at Paris Fashion Week. The brand introduced a line of inflatable garb that ballooned as models walked down the runway, each piece powered by fan technology from Kuchofuku, a company that makes chill-down garments. “By showing air-conditioned clothes in Paris, we hope to be able to suggest new physical forms, but also a sustainable solution to hot...

"Gangs have taken control of several of our properties in Aurora, Colorado. In an attempt to discredit this fact for political purposes and avoid governmental accountability, some have spread false information about our situation. Let’s set the record straight." CBZ Management (Video)

Day #33 of the Top 50 songs on my iTunes playlist -- ranked in reverse order by play frequency from #50 to #1 and presented here on a series of FR threads. I've been posting them here on a new thread that compiles the growing list one day at a time over the course of several months. I only post them on weekdays and may miss a day or two here and there, so this will probably be done in early November. I've picked up the pace a bit over the last week. And to show my gratitude to the...

A. Overview of Pseudo-Ephraem:1. Here is the full text of both the Latin and Syraic versions of Pseudo-Ephraem.2. As you will see, Pseudo-Ephraem teaches that Christians escape tribulation by death not rapture!3. Rapture advocates use "Pseudo-Ephraem" as an example of rapture doctrine that was believed and taught in 375 AD. Such a use of Pseudo-Ephraem is wrong, unscholarly and desperate. But this desperation is because Pseudo-Ephraem is the only example they can find before 1830 of Rapture doctrine. Of course, Pseudo-Ephraem DOES NOT teach rapture or anything even close to it.4. The purpose of this section of the outline is...

Vice President Kamala Harris sat down for another “hard-hitting” interview this week and it didn’t take long for things to get weird. During an interview on “The Shade Room,” host Justin Carter began the interview by telling Harris that she “smelled good” before giving her the floor to talk about her “Opportunity Agenda For Black Men.” “How did we get here? You smell good, you look good,” Cater said. Kamala responded, “That’s better than smelling bad.” “There’s 23 days left until the election and I am in these streets,” Harris told Carter. Harris also had another awkward moment when she...

Newly promoted White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, who also now serves as a senior adviser to President Joe Biden, prevents national security spokesperson John Kirby from joining her at the podium at White House press briefings, people familiar with the matter told Axios. Infighting and “tension” reportedly exist between Jean-Pierre and Kirby about how much time each is allotted to provide the establishment media with canned public relations remarks during press briefings, Axios previously reported. Kirby is reportedly a “Biden favorite” with experience in foreign policy. Axios reported Monday on Jean-Pierre’s attempt to prevent Kirby from speaking to the...