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Daily Readings from the USCCB“But if it is by the finger of God that I drive out demons, then the Kingdom of God has come upon you.” Luke 11:20The Kingdom of God can come upon us in a variety of ways. The line from today’s Gospel above comes in the middle of a story of Jesus casting out a demon from a man who was mute. Once the demon was cast out, the mute man began to speak, and all were amazed. And though some were amazed and grew in faith as a result, others turned their amazement into irrationality....

Last week we shared some charts on the utter failure and folly of federal intervention in education for K-12.An even bigger failure has been the $1.5 trillion student loan boondoggle. As even more federal dollars have flowed into higher education in grants and (largely forgivable) loans. This is the result:We got a lot of praise and criticism from readers for our call to impose an excise tax on university tax-free endowments above $1 billion. But what is clear is that almost none of these treasure chests of wealth are being used to make college more affordable. Shameful.

The radical leftist mayor of sanctuary city Boston said she wouldn’t cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). But ICE just rounded up hundreds of dangerous criminal migrants anyway. Now if only the Trump administration defies the lawless, anti-Constitutional, activist judges and keeps deporting these illegal alien murderers, rapists, pedophiles, and gang members, it will be a thoroughly satisfying victory, and Mayor Michelle Wu (D-eadhead) will have to eat a little humble pie. ... 205 of the 370+ illegal aliens they arrested in a major operation in Massachusetts have serious criminal convictions or charges. They were all at large arrests...

The sea lions, at least, can be controlled. The leftists? Not so much. What am I reading? Well ... *Florida police said that two illegal aliens were arrested on Friday for allegedly molesting a teenager on a Royal Caribbean cruise off the coast of Miami. According to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, one of the illegal aliens has an HIV infection. Noem also noted that officials are working on deporting both. One question: what the hell are illegal aliens doing on a Royal Caribbean cruise? (I’ve never even spent the money to take a cruise.) I hope they...

Just how bad is our education system in America? Harvard University is being forced to launch a remedial math course for its students. The university is spinning this is only being done to make up for gaps in entering students’ algebra skills that it blames on lockdowns. Sure lockdowns were an unforgivable mistake. But the bigger question: how are students getting into America’s most elite college without knowing algebra, which is taught starting in junior high? The elite school has a 3.4% acceptance rate for applicants. What does this tell us about the math skills of the other 96% of...

Speaking of climate change fanaticism, the folks in the epicenter of hysteria – California – may be having second thoughts. Several cities have dropped planned bans on the use of natural gas for heating, hot water and cooking. A “freedom of heating” ballot initiative is planned for 2026. A January poll found the idea favored by 67% to 18% by voters. A recent survey by pollster David Wolfson found that nearly half of likely California voters are considering voting for a Republican to be their next governor. That’s amazing, because more than 1.5 million mostly Republican voters have fled the...

Lefties lie. That isn't an accusation. It is a statement of fact. A truth as solid as "gravity is a thing" and "men landed on the moon." It should be no more controversial to state this as a fact than the assertion that Joe Biden is a corrupt, kleptocratic moron or that communism is a failed economic and political system. Leftists deny those facts, liberals pretend not to believe them, but the truth is as obvious as the nose on your face. So imagine my shock and horror to discover that the President of Columbia University, AWFL Katrina Armstrong, held...

Police have arrested 36-year-old Paul Kim on arson charges and possession of an explosive device. The accused terrorist is believed to have pulled out a gun and shot the cars along with igniting Molotov cocktails. "He used what appeared to be multiple Molotov cocktails and firearms to conduct his attack," said LVMPD Asst. Sheriff Dori Koren. 5 vehicles were damaged in the incident. Kim was booked on 15 counts.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, a member of the Liberal Party, announced in an X post on Sunday that he had “just asked the Governor General to dissolve parliament and call a federal election on April 28.” This move paves the way for an election to elect a new Parliament. At the time of Parliament’s dissolution, the Liberal Party had 152 seats while the Conservative Party of Canada held 120 seats. The remaining seats were held by minor political parties, with 33 constituencies represented by members of the Bloc Quebecois Party, 24 seats held by the New Democratic Party and...

A genetically modified pig liver that was transplanted into a brain-dead patient appeared to function successfully inside their body for 10 days, according to the scientists who performed the groundbreaking procedure. The surgery, at a Chinese hospital last year, is thought to mark the first time a pig liver has been transplanted into a human. It raises the prospect of pig livers serving as a “bridging organ” for patients on the waiting list for a transplant or to support liver function while their own organ regenerates. The advance is the latest in a series of transplants involving pig organs since...

Is there only one judge in the entire United States? The clearest indication that the Signal “scandal” is the left’s latest attempt to discredit and destroy Donald Trump and his presidency is that there is already a legal case on the incident, and that it has been assigned to none other than U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who has been in the news lately because he happens to be the same far-left judge who is doing everything he can to make sure Trump can’t deport criminal gang members. Wow, what a coincidence, right? The same judge who, as Matt Margolis...

The battle over the health merits of various cooking fats has never really gotten below a simmer — but it’s starting to heat up again. Beef tallow and other animal fats, including pig lard and butter, were traditionally used as the main cooking fats in the United States up until the early 20th century. A shift occurred in the early to mid-20th century, when scientists started looking into the consumption of animal fat as the culprit behind the uptick of cardiovascular issues. Vegetable and seed oils that had largely been used for industrial purposes — such as soaps, machinery fuel...

A stranger shoved an 86-year-old woman to the ground — breaking her teeth — in a random attack near the exit of an Upper East Side supermarket over the weekend, cops said. The victim was leaving Morton Williams on Third Avenue near East 63rd Street around 1:25 p.m. Sunday when the maniac suddenly pushed her from behind, authorities said. The force of the shove sent the senior face-first into a pole supporting scaffolding set up outside the store, the sources said. The blow left her with multiple broken teeth, as well as injuries to her left eye and back, cops...

Board said founder's conduct 'gives rise to criminal liability… at a minimum, a third degree felony.' Dennis Kennedy with Hillary Clinton / National Diversity Council A prominent diversity, equity, and inclusion nonprofit declared bankruptcy this month after its board accused its founder and top employees of stealing millions of dollars, a Daily Wire investigation found. Bill Clinton and Oprah Winfrey are set to keynote a conference run by the alleged thief, apparently through his for-profit firm, next month. The National Diversity Council filed for bankruptcy on March 17 after its board said in a lawsuit that its founder R. Dennis...

VLADIMIR Putin is clinging to power as rumours swirl that he’s dying from a cocktail of illnesses, with Volodymyr Zelensky saying it's a fact that he will die soon. The Ukrainian President made the blunt prediction during a speech in Paris, standing alongside French leader Emmanuel Macron as he urged the West to “stay strong” and not ease pressure on Russia. Zelensky said: “He [Putin] will die soon, and that’s a fact, and it will come to an end.” The bold claim adds fuel to long-swirling speculation that the 72-year-old tyrant's grip on power may be slipping – not just...

It’s a demented feature of our days that if you stand to the right of Che Guevara in the political specter, automatically all the Liberal-Globalists in a choir will call you ‘a literal Nazi’, but when confronted with the real-life, present-day, self-identifying Ukrainian Nazis from the Azov Regiment and other groups like the Right Sector, these same groups in the western societies will stay dead silent.If today the USAID-media is willing to whitewash and even lionize these radicals, it wasn’t always like that: in 2014, The Guardian described Azov as a battalion with far-right, neo-Nazi leanings, openly expressing admiration for...

A tense exchange unfolded on CNN on Wednesday as Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins challenged host Kaitlan Collins on the network’s recent settlement of a $5 million defamation case involving a Navy veteran. The unexpected shift occurred after repeated questioning regarding leaked national security discussions within the Trump administration, leading the secretary to turn the tables on the interviewer. Initially, Kaitlan Collins pressed Secretary Collins for his perspective on the recent controversy surrounding leaked group chat messages discussing sensitive war plans. The secretary repeatedly deflected, emphasizing his commitment solely to veterans’ welfare.

Archaeologists have unearthed the huge tomb of an unknown pharaoh at an Egyptian necropolis, a team of researchers said on Thursday, in the second discovery of a king’s tomb this year. The team of Egyptian and American archaeologists found the tomb, which the researchers estimate is 3,600 years old, nearly 23 feet underground at Abydos, one of the oldest cities of ancient Egypt. The city, about 300 miles south of Cairo, was a burial place for early pharaohs, and a necropolis developed at Anubis Mountain to the city’s south. Researchers uncovered the tomb at the mountain, at the base of...

...Germany, perhaps more than any other country in Europe, feels adrift, orphaned and even betrayed by its closest ally. But if Germans have been pushed out of the nest, they are also beginning to respond, amid deep soul searching and questioning about the future — both their own and Europe’s. The biggest indication that shock is giving way to action came this week, as the German Parliament voted to loosen the country’s long aversion to debt so that it could begin rebuilding a military and a domestic infrastructure that had fallen into neglect. It was a groundbreaking step, given taboos...

Last Sunday the Vatican released the first photograph of Pope Francis since his ordeal began. He was wearing a stole around his neck, indicating that he had concelebrated mass in the chapel of the Gemelli hospital. Admittedly, all he had to do was raise his hand and whisper a few words of consecration, but it would have been impossible to take such a photo a week earlier, when Vatican-watchers were checking their phones hourly to discover whether the See of Peter had become vacant.Francis is still very ill, of course, and everyone noticed that the…Last Sunday the Vatican released the...