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It is hard to imagine a candidate more unworthy to serve as president of the United States than Donald Trump. He has proved himself morally unfit for an office that asks its occupant to put the good of the nation above self-interest. He has proved himself temperamentally unfit for a role that requires the very qualities — wisdom, honesty, empathy, courage, restraint, humility, discipline — that he most lacks. Those disqualifying characteristics are compounded by everything else that limits his ability to fulfill the duties of the president: his many criminal charges, his advancing age, his fundamental lack of interest...

Strap yourselves in for this one, folks. You think you know TDS, but the witch community — it exists, and they outnumber CNN viewers — hate Donald Trump so much that they're attempting to cast spells on him in order to force him to lose the 2024 election, or maybe even possibly, a lot more than that. Witches Claim They're Finding It Too Hard to Cast Spells Against Trump Because of Some 'Protection' By Brandon Morse | 10:11 AM on October 23, 2024The opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of RedState.com. AP...

Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933, bringing an end to German democracy. Guided by racist and authoritarian ideas, the Nazis abolished basic freedoms and sought to create a "Volk" community. In theory, a "Volk" community united all social classes and regions of Germany behind Hitler. In reality, the Third Reich quickly became a police state, where individuals were subject to arbitrary arrest and imprisonment.In the first months of his chancellorship, Hitler began a concerted policy of "synchronization," forcing organizations, political parties, and state governments into line with Nazi goals and placing them under Nazi leadership....

Michael Patrick Leahy: ‘Absolutely Illegal’ Bureau of Prisons Refusing to Apply First Step Act Credits to Steve Bannon October 24, 2024 Kaitlin Housler Michael Patrick Leahy Michael Patrick Leahy, CEO and editor-in-chief of The Tennessee Star, said the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) refusal to apply the First Step Act (FSA) good time credits accrued by Steve Bannon, former White House chief strategist and host of the popular show War Room, towards an early release to home confinement, is “absolutely illegal.” Bannon is currently serving a four-month prison sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Danbury, Connecticut, for a 2022...

In one sense, the Yoshinoya Japanese Kitchen across the street from MacArthur Park couldn’t be in a better location. Thousands of potential customers stream by each day on foot, headed to and from work, home, shopping, school and the Metro station. In another sense, it couldn’t be in a worse location. The fentanyl epidemic is often literally at its doorstep, along with the same raft of public safety issues that prompted the exasperated owner of nearby Langer’s Delicatessen to tell me in August that he was thinking of shutting down after 77 years in business. Yoshinoya manager Hortencia Garcia told...

26 October 2024 Saturday of week 29 in Ordinary Time Saint Demetrius Catholic Church, Gallitzin, PA Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First readingEphesians 4:7-16By grace, we shall not be children any longerEach one of us has been given his own share of grace, given as Christ allotted it. It was said that he would:When he ascended to the height, he captured prisoners,he gave gifts to men.When it says, ‘he ascended’, what can it mean if not that he descended right down to the lower regions of the earth? The one who rose higher than all the heavens to...

I just watched Dennis Quaid in “Reagan”. Excellent film. But it reminded me of how Reagan sank the Soviet Union: by outspending the Soviet Union on the arms race. It worked! The Soviet Union, hamstrung by grossly inefficent central planning, couldn’t keep up and collapsed under President George H.W.Bush. Fast forward to today. Starting with Barack Obama and Joe Biden in 2009, following the financial crisis in 2008. The Federal government ramped up Federal spending, and Federal debt. While The Federal Reserve, the hand maiden to the Federal government, ramped up M2 Money supply. “You never want a serious crisis...

A federal judge in Virginia on Friday ordered the commonwealth to place non-citizens back on its voter rolls. The judge ruled that removing the registered voters from the rolls violated federal law, WRIC reported. The Justice Department sued Virginia earlier this month over removing non-citizens from its rolls ahead of the Nov. 5 elections. The suit was against the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Virginia State Board of Elections, and the Virginia Commissioner of Elections for allegedly violating the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. The NVRA prevents states from using systematic programs to remove ineligible voters from voter rolls within...

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — After deliberation on Friday, an Orange County jury found Sarah Boone guilty of second-degree murder in the death of her boyfriend, Jorge Torres Jr. Torres Jr. died from suffocation in February 2020 after a medical examiner says he spent about 11 hours inside a small suitcase Boone zipped him in. The couple had spent the day drinking before Torres Jr. willingly and playfully got into the suitcase before bed, Boone testified on Tuesday.

The study looked at the top 100 grossing films of 2013 and found that Latinas fare best in the “scantily clad or naked” category.The study broke down the percentage of the population each ethnicity (blacks, Caucasians, Latinos, and Asians) accounts for and compared that to the amount of on-camera performances and flesh-baring performances.Does Hollywood have a thing for Latin heat? According to a recent study by the University of Southern California, the answer is: sí.The study analyzing diversity in popular motion picture content suggests Hollywood producers prefer naked Latina women over breast-baring Caucasians. It looked at the top 100 grossing...

Prior to Freddie Freeman's walk-off grand slam, MLB fans couldn't get over a certain fan's hat for Game 1 of the World Series. There was a fan wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat while sitting in the first row behind home plate. It's unclear if she was rooting for the New York Yankees or Los Angeles Dodgers. For all we know, she could've went to the game strictly to make a political statement before the presidential election.

Iran informed Israel through a foreign mediator that it will not respond to Israel's attack.

Democratic presidential nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris dealt with questions on border security during her CNN Town Hall this week, responding to arguments that the Biden administration had not acted quickly enough to deal with undocumented migrants entering the U.S. While GOP presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump has described the administration's actions as a failure, figures from the last four months have shown a steady and significant reduction in the number of apprehensions along the U.S. border with Mexico. Harris told CNN's Anderson Cooper that numbers had more than halved in recent months, pointing to newly released...

More than 6,500 volunteers have assisted with the identification of some 1,000 prehistoric burial mounds in the central Netherlands in the Heritage Quest project, according to a ZME Science report. The citizen scientists were tasked with reviewing small image tiles compiled from lidar data. Each tile was analyzed by at least 15 trained volunteers to reduce the possibility of errors. Archaeologists then traveled to 380 sites chosen by the volunteers and collected soil samples from each. The study determined that about 59 percent of the sites identified by the volunteers were actual burial mounds. When more than seven volunteers agreed...

by Capt. Seth KeshelIn ten days, if I’m still above ground, I will stroll into my local polling station and cast my ballot for the Trump-Vance ticket and all down ballot races and measures on Election Day. I believe fundamentally that it is the soundest, most secure way to vote, and most importantly, is the fulfillment of practicing what I preach. Even though things are looking great right now, I don’t think freedom lovers can win every election from now until the end of time with so many open ended ways to control and manipulate election outcomes. If America is...

...A total of 1,689 cremains were dated and studied, and they were categorized as belonging to one of three time periods: 364 to the La Tène Period, 113 to early Roman, and 1212 to the Imperial Roman period...On average, individuals lived longer during the Roman Period than during the Iron Age, with far more cases of individuals reaching the age of 60 and above.However, during both the Iron Age and Roman Period, females were more likely to die younger than their male counterparts, with over half the cremations for both the Iron Age and Roman Period representing females below 40...

[Catholic Caucus] Müller: Holy Spirit Doesn't Inspire Francis To Invent False DoctrineBishops are betraying their divine mission by failing to preach the Catholic Faith, Cardinal Gerhard Müller told a conference the day before the Roman Rite's 'Summorum Pontificum' pilgrimage event to Rome tomorrow (Edward Pentin, X.com).Müller knows that the power of politics, the media and the banks is, in secular terms, "the safe side". Truth, on the other hand, defies contradiction and promises suffering with Christ. Müller also pointed out two serious errors:1. That a Pope with his maximum apostolic authority (plenitudo potestatis) could even change the hierarchical constitution of...

The Department of Defense (DOD) is facing significant backlash after releasing DOD directive 5240.01, which took effect on September 27. The Biden-Harris administration’s latest DoD directive has been accused of authorizing the U.S. military to use lethal force against American citizens.The directive gives the Pentagon authority to approve “assistance in responding with assets with potential for lethality, or any situation in which it is reasonably foreseeable that providing the requested assistance may involve the use of force that is likely to result in lethal force, including death or serious bodily injury.”The DoD directive also “includes all support to civilian law...

The accusations against President Trump fall on deaf ears because the political left has spent the last several decades ensuring that no one takes such allegations seriously.I’m not sure if you’ve heard, but Donald Trump is a fascist, a Nazi even. And you don’t have to take my word for it. The entirety of the political and media establishments is saying as much. The Atlantic says so. Vice President Kamala Harris says so. Even Hillary Clinton says so. The closing argument of this election, it seems, is that nothing matters except that Donald Trump is Hitler reincarnated. The problem...

Israel launched a long-awaited retaliatory strike against Iran early Saturday, almost four weeks after the Islamic Republic's massive ballistic missile barrage on the country, with the military saying the "precise strikes" by the Israeli Air Force targeted strategic military sites — specifically drone and ballistic missile manufacturing and launch sites, as well as air defense batteries.Reports of explosions near Tehran began to emerge around 2:15 a.m. local time, with the Israel Defense Forces quickly releasing a statement confirming that it was attacking, in response to "months of continuous attacks from the Iranian regime against the State of Israel."The strikes were...