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Daily Readings from the USCCB“Lord, I am not worthy to have you enter under my roof; only say the word and my servant will be healed. For I too am a man subject to authority, with soldiers subject to me. And I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come here,’ and he comes; and to my slave, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.” Matthew 8:8–9These are words spoken by a man who is very familiar with the exercise of authority. He is a Roman centurion, and he states that he himself is “a man subject to...

@amuse PARDON? Democrats are now calling on Biden to pardon his entire administration, Democrats in Congress, and himself. So much for the party of ‘no one is above the law’!

BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - Stephen King’s radio stations are signing off for good at the end of the month. The Zone Corporation announced Monday morning that after 41 years of King’s ownership, Bangor area channels WZON, WKIT, WZLO will sign off on Dec. 31. In a press release, King cited losses in the millions of dollars and his advancing age as reasons for the shut down. “While radio across the country has been overtaken by giant corporate broadcasting groups, I’ve loved being a local, independent owner all these years,” said King. “I’ve loved the people who’ve gone to these stations...

Election 2024 is in the rearview mirror. Pollsters won’t be bombarding voters anymore. Today’s entertainment is liberal heads exploding on social media or the latest Democrat threatening but not actually following through on everything from drinking cyanide to setting themselves on fire to leaving the country if Donald Trump won the election. So far, few have followed through on their promises, although a handful have left the country. Good riddance to them. Trump did win, bigly, in a landslide of sorts. He won the Electoral College handily, 312 to 226. Trump also won the popular vote, 49.9% to 48.3%. As...

-snip- Konstantin Malofeyev, a Russian tycoon who is subject to western sanctions, told the Financial Times that President Vladimir Putin was likely to reject a peace plan proposal by Trump’s recently nominated special envoy for the conflict, Keith Kellogg. “Kellogg comes to Moscow with his plan, we take it and then tell him to screw himself, because we don’t like any of it. That’d be the whole negotiation,” Malofeyev said in an interview at a luxury resort in Dubai.

From the thread (edited to remove cursing): Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire Yup. True story. Hunter was our tenant in Venice, CA. Didn't pay rent for over a year. Tried to pay w/ art made from his own feces. Absolute s*** bag . 10:39 PM · Dec 1, 2024 · 618.6K Views Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire He changed the locks and used secret service to enforce. We had no access to the property. 10:44 PM · Dec 1, 2024 · 106.2K Views

Joe Biden’s whole presidency has been built on untruths. We were led to believe, for instance, that since 2021 the commander-in-chief has been fit and well enough to serve, when everybody could see that he was not. So the latest proof-of-dishonesty over the pardoning of Hunter Biden comes as no great surprise. Of course, Joe was going to grant clemency to his errant and only living son. He just pretended he wouldn’t all year for electoral reasons. “I believe in the justice system,” said the president in a statement. “But as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw...

Mexican drug cartels are now recruiting university chemistry students to enhance fentanyl production, according to a New York Times investigation. Fentanyl, responsible for 74,702 deaths in the US in 2023 alone, is a synthetic opioid notorious for its potency and addictive properties. To maintain their supply chains and increase product potency, cartels like the Sinaloa cartel are targeting young, skilled chemists to independently synthesize precursor chemicals traditionally imported from China.

The U.S. is preparing to send Ukraine an additional $725 million in military assistance, including counter-drone systems and munitions for its High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, which could indicate more of the longer-range missiles are headed to the battlefield. Two U.S. officials did not confirm whether the munitions for the HIMARS are the coveted ATACMS — the Army Tactical Missile System — but Ukraine has been pressing for more of the longer-range missiles to strike additional targets inside Russia. The package also includes more anti-personnel landmines that Ukraine is counting on to slow Russian and North Korean ground forces in...

LeBron James may be the wealthiest basketball player in history, but his media company is in troubled waters. According to financial documents obtained by Bloomberg, Springhill, the media company LeBron founded with his business partner Maverick Carter, is bleeding money and failing to turn a profit. Founded in 2020, SpringHill seeks to combine film and television production, athlete storytelling, and marketing. Its completed projects include the film Space Jam: A New Legacy and Netflix’s Top Boy. The report states: The company lost $28 million on sales of $104 million last year, according to documents obtained by Bloomberg News. SpringHill lost...

Russia and China could face economic chaos after Donald Trump threatened BRICS nations with 100% tariffs on US imports. The nine-strong alliance led by Russia and China, including Brazil, India, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates, has expressed frustration with the dominance of the US dollar. According to the IMF, nearly all commodities, including oil and crops, are traded using the US dollar, accounting for around 58% of all foreign exchange reserves. The bloc is set to be joined by applicants Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Malaysia. It has said it wants to trade in non-dollar currencies to...

Ever since the Ringside Politics program started 25 years ago, we have enjoyed an annual tradition. During Thanksgiving week, we announce our “Turkey of the Year” winner. Our previous award recipients have included both celebrities and politicians, as well as Republicans and Democrats. Our 2023 winner was Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the worst cabinet member of a failed administration. He inherited a secure border but created chaos by removing President Donald Trump’s successful policies.

Trump National Doral, Miami. Heaven on earth. Trump really has an eye for beauty and class.

Donald Trump’s recent announcement of Sheriff Chad Chronister as his nominee for Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Administrator has sparked a fierce backlash among conservatives, who are raising serious concerns about Chronister’s record, particularly his actions during the COVID-19 pandemic and his perceived alignment with leftist policies. ... many conservative voices have condemned the pick, pointing to his actions during the COVID-19 pandemic and his alignment with liberal policies. Among the most controversial moments of Chronister’s career was the arrest of Tampa Bay Pastor Dr. Rodney Howard-Browne in March 2020. The pastor was charged with violating public health orders after keeping...

The Israeli Air Force (IAF) forced an Iranian cargo plane full of weapons for Hezbollah to turn around mid-flight on Sunday after intercepting it in Syrian airspace, according to media reports. The Times of Israel reported: An Iranian flight suspected to be ferrying arms to the Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon was blocked by the Israeli Air Force over Syria overnight between Saturday and Sunday, The Times of Israel has learned. IAF fighter jets intercepted the Iranian plane over Syria and ordered it to turn around, and it did a short while later, a defense source said. … The interception...

U.S. — While the government has repeatedly insisted that no one is above the law, sources confirmed today that some people are, in fact, above the law. Though the number appears to be rather small, the existence of people who live their lives completely above the law was confirmed today without a shadow of a doubt. Few in America were surprised by the update, albeit appreciative of the final confirmation. "Duh," said local man Steve Jennings, in response to the news. At publishing time, the government had returned to explaining how it was time to restore institutional norms and decency,...

Former public protector Thuli Madonsela has condemned recent threats by US president-elect Donald Trump to impose 100% tariffs on Brics countries if they pursue the creation of a new currency. Madonsela described Trump's threat as bullying and “supremacist”, emphasising no country has the right to assert dominance over others. “Dear president-elect Trump, please note that just as no person has a right to dominate others. No country has a right to assert supremacy over others to order them to submit to its domination,” Madonsela said on X. “I reject responses that say whoever has greater economic means must call the...

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Joe Biden just gave President Trump the biggest gift any outgoing president has ever given his replacement. CNN ran one of several articles covering the story under the headline, “Analysis: Biden’s pardon of his son pours fuel on Trump’s claims of politicized justice.” Joe just gave President Trump the political equivalent of a diamond tennis bracelet for Christmas. No, no, never…Joe has emphatically promised that he would never pardon Hunter. “No man is above the law,” the old relic used to tell reporters every time Hunter’s name came up. More egregiously, Democrats and liberal legal commenters wrote poems blessing Biden...

China has rebuked the United States for destabilizing global finance and leveraging the dollar's dominance as a geopolitical weapon, following President-elect Donald Trump's threat to impose tariffs on BRICS nations pursuing de-dollarization efforts. "The U.S. has long used its dollar hegemony to shift crises, spread U.S. inflation to other parts of the world, and made it become a geopolitical tool, which damages international economic and financial stability, and disrupts international order," Liu Pengyu, spokesperson of the Chinese Embassy in the U.S., told Newsweek. He contrasted this with BRICS, which he said would continue to promote economic cooperation and a financial...