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President Trump’s nominees for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and Director of the FBI will be facing confirmation hearings in the U.S. Senate this week. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to face sharp questioning over his nomination to head the Dept. of Health & Human Services because of his skepticism toward the effectiveness of the federal food and medicine regulatory apparatus. In particular, large numbers of employees of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have been preparing their letters of resignation for the past two months and say they will quit...

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee subpoenaed 14 agencies in mid-January about the origin of Covid-19 and risky research conducted at a lab in China with U.S. funding, its chair, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), announced Monday. The list of agencies includes the National Institutes of Health, the State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Department of Health and Human Services, the FBI and the CIA, among others. The subpoenas were issued in the last days of the Biden administration and before the CIA announced it had decided that it was more likely a lab leak that...

New York City, Chicago and Boston are among the sanctuary cities collapsing after waves of migrants stormed across the open borders. Even cities that once boasted of providing sanctuary to illegal aliens from federal immigration enforcement are now running away from the name. Sanctuary cities were always intended to be destructive. They were not, as many Democrats now wrongly claim, about providing safe harbor to refugees, but about bringing down America. The sanctuary cities did not emerge in response to the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide or any actual genocide, but to provide support and sanctuary for Marxists fleeing the civil...

President Donald Trump’s budget office on Monday ordered all federal agencies to temporarily block disbursement of grants and loans — other than for Social Security, Medicare and other programs providing direct aid to individuals. The memo says the temporary pause, effective starting at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, is intended to ensure agencies are complying with Trump’s executive orders to root out “Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies” from programs within their purview.It’s not immediately clear how wide-ranging the pause will be in practice, due to the Office of Management and Budget’s ability to grant exceptions on...

VIDEOMargaret Brennan has a peculiar head twitch. It happens while the CBS host is smugly reciting Democrat talking points but when someone knowledgeable such as Vice-President JD Vance shatters her DNC narrative with reality checks her head springs into a peculiar shaking motion. Therefore we are pleased to offer you Margaret Brennan Shaking Head Dolls. They are voice activated. All you have to do is say "I don't really care, Margaret!" and they will instantly begin the head shaking. And when you buy a dozen Margaret Brennan Shaking Head Dolls you get a FREE "I Don't Really Care, Margaret!" T-shirt.

RINO South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham told NBC’s Kirsten Welker on Sunday morning that he thinks Trump’s pardoning and release of January 6 hostages was a “mistake” while comparing the victims to radical left Black Lives Matter rioters who burned down cities across the United States. President Trump freed over 1,500 political prisoners last Monday. Men and women who’ve been imprisoned by the Biden/Obama shadow government for daring to protest the legitimacy of the 2020 election have lost family members, jobs, businesses, friends, and reputations, all because Democrats needed to push a fake narrative that President Trump committed a crime...

Net migration could fuel a rise in the UK population to 72.5 million by 2032, figures suggest. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has projected a population growth of 7.3% between 2022 and 2032, compared with an increase of 6.1% over the previous 10 years. The number is almost entirely based on the net migration - the difference between those entering and leaving the country - of an estimated 4.9 million people over the 10-year period. The number of births and deaths is expected to be roughly equal, while it is projected there will be an additional 1.7 million pensioners...

On Monday’s broadcast of ABC’s “GMA3,” Newark Mayor Ras Baraka stated that ICE is engaging in “this witch hunt for people who they say may be murderers or rapists or criminals. I don’t know how you determine a criminal simply by looking at them or somebody that’s undocumented simply by looking at them, particularly in a place like Newark, New Jersey, where there’s high levels of diversity, of people from different parts of the world here.” Baraka stated, “Well, so three undocumented folks were detained, taken away by [ICE]. But there [was] a whole store full of other folks who...

The mysterious duo who were pulled over in Coventry, Vt. in the deadly shootout are leftist trans militants with alleged ties to a trans terror cell allegedly involved in three other homicides. On Inauguration Day, the shocking news that a US Border Patrol officer had been shot dead near the Canadian border in Vermont in an incident involving a now-deceased foreign national was overshadowed by coverage of Donald Trump's events in the nation's capital. One week later, a 21-year-old Washington woman was charged over the deadly incident, but little has been reported about her and her deceased accomplice, a German...

Navy Seal Author and Historian Matt Bracken returns to the podcast to talk Trump’s first week in office, his recent substack “On Purchasing Greenland,” Panama Canal, Russia, Putin, deportations, cartels in Mexico, LA fires, and much more.

Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem (1/28/25)[Prayer]Names and Titles of God the Holy Spirit (The Hope Of Righteousness)Galatians 5:55 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.King James Version________________________God Bless America.ML/LTOS

“. . .once Trump runs out of easy ways to unf--- the federal government, his administration will hit a crossroads moment, probably sooner rather than later.” — Matt Taibbi. That’s the sound of a swamp being drained. And much fetid water is still backed up over the 68.3 square miles that comprise the District of Columbia. You might be just realizing that the “Joe Biden” regime was not a government at all, but rather, a colossal racketeering operation. And let’s be clear and precise: racketeering is making money dishonestly. Thus: the grubby Biden Family itself at the top of that...

“This was to fulfill what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet” (Matthew 4:14). Centuries before the Incarnation, the prophet Isaiah foretold this great truth: “‘The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles—the people who were sitting in darkness saw a great Light, and those who were sitting in the land and shadow of death, upon them a Light dawned’” (from Isa. 9:1–2). And eight hundred years later—just as prophesied—the despised, unbelieving Galileans glimpsed the Messiah and, ahead of many of the Jews in Jerusalem, saw the...

Hundreds of illegal migrants have returned to Mexico after being deported from the United States amid President Donald Trump's sweeping immigration crackdown. Footage shows how dozens of deportees are being escorted across the international border bridge after being deported under Title 8, a law that allows authorities to immediately expel those who crossed into the US without authorization. The illegal aliens, many of whom are handcuffed, are returned to Mexico by armed US border patrol agents and immigration officers. Mexico has accepted more than 4,000 migrants, of which a 'large majority' were Mexican, from America in first week of Trump's...

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These days the far-left is in big trouble. Like a washed-up magician with nothing but a bag of old, worn-out tricks and linguistic sleight of hand, they have nothing to offer but hoaxes and lies without the merest ring of truth. Their usual deceptions have been exposed, and no one is buying them anymore. They judge people on the color of their skin instead of the content of their character, and so their racist projections fall on deaf ears. Their song and dance on climate change has become a punch line covering everything except their credibility. They’ve become the “Sideshow...

The TikToker, who goes by the name 'Matt Daydreams,' was furious with his neighbors' indifferent reaction to the raid of his 'favorite taqueria.' 'I think I'm gonna sit here and just talk to people as they walk by and see if I can find anyone that seems to give a f*** about them,' he said. After confirming as best he could that the restaurant was the subject of a search, he began to ask passersby if they'd heard about it. He then said he'd gone '0-for-3' in finding anyone who disapproved of the raid.

To me, whenever all the Democrats line up united on an issue, as the Democratic Party senators did for the vote on the nomination of Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense, I always have a question. And that’s different from the question of why a guy like Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) would vote with the Democrats. Just what was their problem with Secretary Hegseth? I mean, it’s not as if he’s going to blow up the Department of Defense and replace Boeing and Lockheed with a brilliant Elon Musk startup and compromise all the senators’ contributions from defense contractors. Seriously:...

An FBI SWAT team smashed the front door of a suburban Atlanta home in 2017, threw a stun grenade inside and held a family at gunpoint as they attempted to serve a search warrant. There was one problem: They had the wrong home. The traumatized family sued for damages in federal court, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit found in 2024 that they had no recourse. The federal government had broad immunity from being held liable for the error. The Supreme Court said Monday it will review that decision, in a case that could have broader...

28 January 2025 Saint Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Doctor on Tuesday of week 3 in Ordinary Time St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, CharlotteReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingHebrews 10:1-10Christ’s self-offering sanctifies usSince the Law has no more than a reflection of these realities, and no finished picture of them, it is quite incapable of bringing the worshippers to perfection, with the same sacrifices repeatedly offered year after year. Otherwise, the offering of them would have stopped, because the worshippers, when they had been purified once, would...