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Pam Bondi slams @RepJasmine for her incendiary rhetoric: "Your words have consequences, and what happened after she said that about @elonmusk... in her own home state... 3 explosive devices were found in Austin, Texas. So, she needs to unequivocally denounce the violence."

Early on, I followed three recent decisions in other district courts holding that claims brought by public-sector unions concerning federal employee terminations had to be channeled through the Merit Systems Protection Board and/or the Federal Labor Relations Authority and therefore the district court had no subject-matter jurisdiction over those claims, although I accepted subject-matter jurisdiction over claims by the organizational plaintiffs. After further briefing, however, this order holds that the district court does have subject-matter jurisdiction over these claims by public-sector unions and that my earlier ruling to the contrary was mistaken.

The distinction between saving faith and sanctifying faith is rarely made in sermons. We are called to receive Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. Receiving Jesus as Savior and Lord of our lives is a giant step. Through His grace alone and with the faith He has given us, we choose against the path of self, and enter the “pilgrim’s progress” towards our Heavenly Home with Jesus as our Hope, our Savior, and our Guide. He tells us to follow Him, not simply to adopt His name, but follow our own whims and desires.

NATIONAL LOBSTER NEWBURG DAY National Lobster Newburg day on March 25th ushers in a celebration worthy of a sea captain. An American seafood dish, Lobster Newburg includes lobster, butter, cream, cognac, sherry, eggs, and cayenne pepper. #LobsterNewburgDay Delmonico's of New York debut Lobster Newburg in 1876. A sea captain by the name of Ben Wenburg developed the elegant and rich dish. After he demonstrated the recipe to restaurant manager Charles Delmonico, Chef Charles Ranhofer made refinements and they added the creation to the restaurant’s menu as Lobster a la Wenburg. It wasn't long before the dish grew in popularity. However,...

“‘You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men’” (Matthew 5:13). Salt has always been valuable in human society, often much more so than it is today. But the particular characteristics of salt that Jesus was referring to in this passage have resulted in various suggestions. Some interpreters point out that salt is white and therefore represents purity. As the “pure in heart” (v. 8), Jesus’ disciples are to be...

Cities looking to eliminate fossil fuels in buildings have notched a decisive court victory. Last week, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by plumbing and building trade groups against a New York City ban on natural gas in new buildings. The decision is the first to explicitly disagree with a previous ruling that struck down Berkeley, California’s first-in-the-nation gas ban. That order, issued by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2023 and upheld again last year, prompted cities across the country to withdraw or delay laws modeled after the Berkeley ordinance. While New York City’s law functions...

The Department of Government Efficiency( DOGE) issued a new update in its ongoing audit of government credit cards. This has been a significant focus for the department, and DOGE has issued updates on its findings weekly on X. Their most recent post announced the cancellation of over 200,000 government credit cards. According to their post, DOGE has continued its pilot program with 16 federal agencies to audit unused cards. They say that while hundreds of thousands of credit cards have been deactivated, millions more need to be deactivated. For context, DOGE acts on the president’s authority, and Trump directly addressed...

Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley said on Fox News Monday that it’s time to curb the powers of activist district courts. “The key thing to do here, Laura, is to end the ability of these district courts to abuse their judicial authority by issuing these so-called nationwide injunctions,” Hawley told host Laura Ingraham. “I don’t think they have that authority, properly speaking, under the Constitution, Article III. What they’re doing is they’re purporting these judges, they’re purporting to go out, and to bind parties and individuals who aren’t before them [in their districts].” Hawley said such actions exceed their constitutional...

Proposed laws to give terminally ill adults on the Isle of Man the right to choose to end their own lives have been agreed by the Manx parliament. It means the bill can now be sent for Royal Assent, making it the first parliament in the British Isles to take this step. Under the provisions in the Assisted Dying Bill 2023, adults with a prognosis of 12 months or less to live would be given the right to choose to die. Those eligible would have to be over the age of 18, and have lived on the island for five...

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) said Monday that she believes Democrats need to “punch” opponents to win elections in Texas, especially Republican politicians like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who she said needs to be “knocked over the head, like hard.” Crockett made the pugilistic remarks during an interview with NBC DFW, despite being warned by Attorney General Pam Bondi on Sunday to temper her inflammatory rhetoric. When asked “how do you win elections in Texas as a Democrat? What do you do? Especially statewide,” Crockett, wearing a bright yellow pantsuit, responded “I think that you punch, I think you punch. I...

Well, Attorney General Pam Bondi isn’t going to discuss further the details regarding the deportation flights of Tren de Aragua members, a Venezuelan gang that the Trump administration has designated a foreign terror group. Judge James Boasberg, however, wanted to know the classified details regarding this operation. No, sir. This will not happen, as the Justice Department informed the courts that they’re invoking the State Secrets Act. Move on, little man. It still doesn’t negate the days of judicial overreach and insanity from Boasberg, who thought he was the executive, or at least in charge of deportation policy. He is...

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has launched an unprecedented cleanup operation targeting jaw-dropping irregularities in the U.S. Social Security database. Over 7 million supposed numberholders aged 120 and older have now been officially marked as deceased. The official DOGE X account announced:

A federal judge in Maryland on Monday indefinitely blocked the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing the sensitive personal data of about 2 million union members, student loan recipients and veterans. U.S. District Judge Deborah L. Boardman ordered that the Department of Education, Department of the Treasury and Office of Personnel Management cease in divulging personally identifiable information to DOGE representatives. Those three agencies, she wrote, had already “likely violated” the Privacy Act and Administrative Procedure Act by granting DOGE affiliates sweeping access to systems containing plaintiffs’ banking information, social security numbers and other sensitive data. “No matter how important...

Russia and the United States are analyzing the outcome of talks in Saudi Arabia on Monday, the Kremlin said, declining to give details of the discussions. -snip- “You see, we are talking about technical negotiations that go deep into details. Therefore, of course, the content of these negotiations will definitely not be published. This should not be expected,” Peskov said. “Secondly, I repeat once again, the reports back to the capitals are now being analyzed. Only then will it be possible to talk about some understanding.” There was currently no talk of a three-way meeting involving Russia, the U.S. and...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(3/25/25)[Prayer]Names and Titles of God the Holy Spirit (Spirit of New Life) Romans 8:99 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.King James Version________________________God Bless America.ML/LTOS

During a Sunday appearance on MSNBC, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) denied playing any role in promoting the violence waged against Elon Musk’s brand, Tesla. The Texas Democrat acknowledged participating in the so-called “Tesla takedown,” which she maintained was a “large protest.” “So, I’m actually going to say that I participated in a Tesla takedown,” she said. “That is the name of the website. And it was all about this large protest that they’re calling for. And this is a nonviolent protest that they’re calling for. And in fact, when I was on there, which is why the attorney general had...

A reminder that the anti-Boer agenda is very evil and very Marxian. As the South African government ramps up the persecution of and aggression against white Afrikaners, having passed a new “land reform” law (legalized land seizures without compensation) in January of this year, a clip from a six-year-old Lauren Southern documentary is going viral, reminding the West (and everyone else) that not only is the anti-Boer agenda in South Africa very evil, but very Marxian as well. Boer @twatterbaas “5 black men drowned the 12 year old white farmer’s son in boiling water” Look at this documentary ‘Farmlands’ from...

25 March 2025 The Annunciation of the Lord SolemnitySt. Dismas Church, Waukegan Il Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).First readingIsaiah 7:10-14,8:10The maiden is with childThe Lord spoke to Ahaz and said, ‘Ask the Lord your God for a sign for yourself coming either from the depths of Sheol or from the heights above.’ ‘No,’ Ahaz answered ‘I will not put the Lord to the test.’ Then Isaiah said:‘Listen now, House of David:are you not satisfied with trying the patience of menwithout trying the patience of my God, too?The Lord himself, therefore,will give you a sign.It is this: the...

Removing the glycans (dark blue on the left illustration) from a coronavirus’ spike protein leads to greater vaccine efficacy. Credit: Lorenzo Casalino, edited ========================================================================================= Viruses like SARS-CoV-2 use sugar molecules to hide from the immune system, but scientists at Scripps Research have designed a universal coronavirus vaccine that strips these sugars and exposes a stable, rarely mutating part of the spike protein. This approach triggered strong immune responses in animal studies and showed promise in neutralizing multiple coronaviruses, including those causing COVID-19, MERS, and even the common cold. A Sweet Shield: How Viruses Use Sugars to Hide Viruses, including those...

ARepublican member of Congress and a Harvard professor are calling for a ban on special interest judicial junkets following Just the News revealing that Judge James Boasberg attended a privately-funded conference with an anti-Trump organization last year. Just the News reported Sunday night that, months before he blocked President Donald Trump’s deportations of illegal alien gang members, Boasberg attended a privately-funded legal conference in Idaho that featured sponsors and speakers who have expressed clear anti-Trump sentiments — particularly on immigration and January 6th — and a theme that echoed the Democrat Party’s 2024 stated mission of "saving democracy." Federal judicial...