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On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that while he’s not a huge fan of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “over the last month, he’s gone against world opinion and American opinion on a whole range of issues, and he’s been absolutely right” in a way that has “served world peace” by weakening terrorist groups, and so those calling for him to declare victory in the wake of the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar should accept they don’t have the same intelligence as Israel and Netanyahu has “been making some right calls over the last...

Donald J. Trump turned his back to the crowd and stared up at the screen. Ominous music rang out. For the next minute and a half, the former president and his audience in Atlanta stood and silently watched clips of news reports of undocumented immigrants committing horrific crimes. When the montage ended, Mr. Trump said out loud what he has been telling his advisers in private for weeks: that, in his view, immigration is the “No. 1” issue in the 2024 election. “That beats out the economy. That beats it all out to me, it’s not even close,” Mr. Trump...

Karen Cannestra does not like that drop box in front of West Bend City Hall. Ms. Cannestra, 72 and retired, prefers to vote at her polling place in Wisconsin on Election Day, the way it was always done. It goes beyond personal preference, she says. Who knows the motives of the person who’s pulling those ballots out at the end of the day? Couldn’t somebody tamper with the process? Isn’t that exactly what happened in 2020, she asked, when, she felt, the election was stolen? “I don’t trust it, the drop box,” Ms. Cannestra said, before walking into City Hall...

My Wife and I are in your late 80's. This years when planning to get an annual Flu Shot we were asked to get an RSV also. We did get out Flu Shot yesterday but no RSV was available. Was that a SIGN ? Would a FReeper(s) with some knowledge contribute to this discussion?

Terrifying new research has laid bare how notorious Venezuelan super gang Tren de Aragua's criminal tentacles have spread across America. Members of the violent migrant gang TdA have crept into the US hidden among the one million Venezuelan migrants who have entered the country during the Biden administration.

The flawless launch of SpaceX’s 5,000-ton Starship and its Super Heavy Booster, and the precision recovery of the booster on its launch pad, has opened the way to a manned mission to the moon next year and perhaps to Mars as soon as 2030. One giant leap for Elon Musk’s company on Sunday was one more reminder that Europe’s space program is a colossal failure. Elon’s Musk’s dream has become Europe’s nightmare Europe is currently unable to launch even its own weather satellites, and India, which managed a soft landing on the Moon last year, now has a more credible...

Shortly after their son received a D grade for using AI on a history paper at Hingham High School, his parents filed suit — claiming that “artificial intelligence is here to stay.”The Harris boy and his partner were able to get only into the preliminary stages of the project when Petrie’s “spot check” of their work revealed the presence of AI-generated content. The teacher accused them of cheating, according to the complaint. Petrie and Andrew Hoey, the head of the school’s history department, told the students they would have to each start new projects separately, could not use any of...

A British army veteran who served in Afghanistan was found guilty today of praying silently near an abortion clinic in England. Adam Smith-Connor breached a Public Spaces Protection Order by this action, according to the ruling at Poole Magistrates Court in the town of Poole near Bournemouth, Dorset, England. The court gave Smith-Connor a conditional discharge, meaning he will be sentenced only if convicted of future offenses within the next two years. “Today, the court has decided that certain thoughts — silent thoughts — can be illegal in the United Kingdom,” Smith-Connor said after the court ruling. “That cannot be...

A watchdog group is demanding answers following a U.S. Army training that labeled pro-life organizations as "terrorist groups,” citing people who counsel women outside abortion facilities or display Choose Life license plates on their cars as potential threats. Judicial Watch, a conservative foundation that seeks accountability in government, filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense in the District Court for the District of Columbia last week. The foundation says it filed the lawsuit after failing to receive a response to an Aug. 13 request. The suit is in response to a briefing titled...

The Kansas City Police Department has returned thousands of dollars in stolen goods to a church that vows to “emerge stronger than ever” from the challenge and pray for the perpetrator of the theft. The Kansas City Police Department in Kansas City, Kansas, announced in a Facebook post Monday that it had recovered $36,000 in stolen goods from Forest Grove Baptist Church after receiving a tip that the items were located outside a home in the city. The items taken from the church in an Oct. 11 burglary included musical instruments, electronics, maintenance equipment, clothing and health products. The place...

Elon Musk speaks to voters and takes questions at an America PAC town hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Former Congresswoman and J6 hoaxer Liz Cheney will join Kamala Harris on the campaign trail across Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin next week in an attempt to sway suburban voters. As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier this month, Liz Cheney joined Harris on the campaign trail in Wisconsin after she and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, endorsed the Democratic ticket. In response, President Trump scorched Liz Cheney during an interview, calling her a "stupid Warhawk" and telling Bill Melugin that he thinks she will hurt Kamala's chances. The Hill reports, A senior Harris campaign official said the vice president...

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) responded to 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris saying that her home care policy is a difference between her and President Joe Biden by stating that Biden actually has been pushing home care policy for the past four years. After playing video of Harris saying that her home health care proposal is a policy difference she has with Biden, host Kaitlan Collins asked, “So, she’s noting her work on home health and on prioritizing housing, but when you talk to Michigan voters who are undecided or who...

MSNBC host Ali Velshi has offered some strong words to pro-life advocates, characterizing laws that restrict access to abortion as “Christian Sharia.” Velshi’s comments came in the context of an interview on SiriusXM radio’s The Dean Obeidallah Show. Velshi is a longtime broadcast journalist who serves as a business correspondent for MSNBC and NBC. He is also host of “Velshi,” a weekend news program on MSNBC.

John was out shopping for his youngest son’s birthday in July 2021 when he received a panicked call from his wife. A state child welfare worker and police officers were at their home, trying to take away their autistic son. The social worker claimed the Christian family’s refusal to affirm his apparently newfound sexual orientation was child abuse. John raced home in time to record a video of the harrowing encounter. “I’m going to take the child with me,” Edwina Nimley, a casework specialist for the Maryland Department of Human Services, can be heard saying in a video of the...

CV NEWS FEED // A group of Wyoming pro-life advocates recently contended at their local city council that they are the ones who experienced harassment, not the clinic escorts and patients, when they were praying and offering pro-life alternatives outside of a local abortion facility. Eighteen or more pro-lifers shared at the Casper City Council on October 15 about the situation related to the Wellsprings Health Access Clinic, which performs abortions, according to Oil City News. According to Cowboy State Daily, Casper Council member Brandy Haskins had said at a Council meeting the week before that a Wellsprings employee and...

Florida and its Department of State filed a lawsuit this week against the Biden-Harris administration, claiming it is hindering the state from removing noncitizens from its voter rolls. A copy of the lawsuit, obtained by Fox News Digital, notes, "Florida has an obligation to maintain accurate and current voter registration records," and the "federal government has an obligation to cooperate with the States in ensuring only citizens vote in their elections." However, according to the state, the Biden-Harris administration "is refusing to comply with these obligations and frustrating Florida's ability to maintain the integrity of its elections. The complaint added...

[Catholic Caucus] American Jesuits have betrayed the faith for woke political activismThe Jesuit focus on politics over Catholicism has never been stronger. The Synod on Synodality is the obvious example. Other evidence is plentiful at Jesuits.org.The late Malachi Martin pulled no punches in his nonfiction masterwork, The Jesuits: The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church.The 1987 book detailed the five-century-old religious order’s “abandonment of basic Roman Catholic teaching, the replacement of it with sociopolitical solutions, and the inevitably consequent abandonment of the prime Jesuit vocation to be ‘Pope’s Men.’”Martin’s “war between the papacy and the...

19 October 2024 Saints John de Brébeuf and Isaac Jogues, priests, and their Companions, Martyrs on Saturday of week 28 in Ordinary Time St. John Brebeuf & Companions Church in Kingsville, OntarioReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingEphesians 1:15-23Paul’s prayer for the enlightenment of the faithfulI, having once heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus, and the love that you show towards all the saints, have never failed to remember you in my prayers and to thank God for you. May the God of our...

After weeks of dodging real interviews and refusing a debate on Fox News, Kamala Harris sat for an interview with Bret Baier. Her handlers saw that she was sinking in the polls with her basement dwelling strategy, and she is now in a mad scramble for interviews anywhere. It didn't go well. It started with her arriving 15 minutes late for an agreed upon 30-minute interview beginning at 5 pm. Her handlers then insisted on truncating the interview time to 20 minutes, almost certainly because of their fear of a train wreck. Which happened anyway. Harris was combative - the...