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"The biggest threat to the Republican Party in 2028 is if we do not deliver on our promises of [home]ownership for the next generation," Kirk told Fox News Digital in an interview at the Turning Point Student Action Summit in Tampa, Florida… "If we don't fix the homeownership problem in this country, the cost-of-living crisis, and if we don't give the next generation [a chance] at being owners and not renters, we are going to see what I call ‘Mamdani-ism’ spread across the country," he predicted. The influential conservative media personality said there was no doubt that younger voters were...

File this one under, Ya Think? On Saturday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, co-host Eugene Daniels, interviewing the authors of a book about the 2024 election, mused: "Have we just underestimated Donald Trump's popularity with the American people?"Of course "we"—meaning the liberal media—underestimated Trump's popularity. They couldn't imagine that a majority of voters would support someone that the MSM had spent the previous eight years denouncing as Hitler redux, the proverbial "existential threat" to American democracy. Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

13 July 2025 15th Sunday in Ordinary TimeSt. Henry's Catholic Church, St. Henry, Ohio (?)Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingDeuteronomy 30:10-14The Law is not beyond your strength or beyond your reachMoses said to the people: ‘Obey the voice of the Lord your God, keeping those commandments and laws of his that are written in the Book of this Law, and you shall return to the Lord your God with all your heart and soul. ‘For this Law that I enjoin on you today is not beyond your strength or beyond your reach. It is not in heaven,...

US President Donald Trump has said he will have "a major statement" on Russia on Monday, without going into detail. Trump made the remark in a phone interview with NBC News on Thursday, referring to the situation in Ukraine. The president said, "I'm disappointed in Russia, but we'll see what happens over the next couple of weeks." Trump has recently been stepping up his criticism of Russia. He has suggested he would consider additional sanctions against Moscow. Russia's presidential spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said on Friday that Moscow is waiting for the statement to understand what exactly President Trump means.

Protesters and even California Gov. Gavin Newsom targeted Vice President JD Vance as he visited Disneyland with his family this weekend. Sharing a video of Vance with his family at the Southern California theme park, Newsom wrote, “Hope you enjoy your family time, @JDVance. The families you’re tearing apart certainly won’t,” in a post on X on Saturday. Some 100 to 150 protesters gathered outside the gates of the “Happiest Place on Earth” to jeer Vance and his family on Friday and Saturday after his presence at the park was reported, according to the Orange County Register. Protests were also...

Today, U.S. Senator Rand Paul, Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) released the Committee’s final report regarding what can only be described as stunning failures by the United States Secret Service (USSS) that allowed then-former President Donald J. Trump to be shot on July 13, 2024, in an attempted assassination in Butler, Pennsylvania. One year later, the facts remain as chilling as ever: a former President of the United States and major party candidate was shot in the head at a publicrally by an individual who was reported as suspicious and carrying a rangefinder to...

Reflections on Don Kroah’s ministry and legacy in faith-based mediaMarch 11, 2025Don Kroah knew how to use his voice, in the pulpit and on the airwaves. For six decades, that curious, compassionate, and energetic voice changed countless lives for the better. Today, its silence is deafening.Don served for 34 years in full-time pastoral ministry in New England. During those years, he also worked as a radio news anchor, reporter, political commentator, and general-market radio talk show host. Then, in October of 1997, WAVA-FM/Arlington began airing a new evening talk program called The Don Kroah Show. It would become one...

Video shared on social media appears to have captured the moment a woman in a gray Jeep appears to drive through protestors in Fairview, New Jersey. The incident unfolded outside Noches De Columbia on Fairview Avenue in the borough of Fairview where marchers, organized by a group called united Without Fear, were protesting ICE raids. The footage shows the woman driving up to the restaurant’s exit, as a line of protestors streams slowly in front of her. A protestor approaches the Jeep, to ensure the female driver will stop. He then turns from the vehicle, which lunges forward, clipping his...

The Epstein cover-up is not about protecting powerful pedophiles. (Video)

Medellín, Colombia – Argentina’s economy recorded a surge of 7.7% in April 2025 compared to the same month last year, outperforming projected growth rates for the Latin American nation. Since the second half of 2024, the country has continued to emerge from its recession. According to a June report by Reuters, Argentina has recorded its fastest GDP growth since 2022. Libertarian President Javier Milei strategized to revive Argentina’s failing economy — marked by high inflation and poverty rates — with his divisive ‘chainsaw’ austerity measures, characterized by decreased public spending and a keen focus on privatization initiatives facilitated by deregulation...

New CEO Lip-Bu Tan is streamlining Intel’s operations and reducing spending in response to a sharp downturn in sales and technological setbacks that rendered Intel an also-ran in an industry it helped invent. Intel had been firing workers all last week but then Friday evening came word the company plans to lay off nearly 2,400 Oregon workers. Intel’s position in the industry has slumped badly. The company’s market value is around $100 billion, about half what it was just 18 months ago. Nevertheless, the company is hugely important to Oregon as one of its largest private employers. Across the U.S.,...

Today is the first anniversary of the shooting of the Republican presidential candidate while on stage in Butler, Pennsylvania. Once it became clear that the hit had not succeeded, the awful corrupt American media lost all interest in the story, which remains the most under-investigated presidential assassination attempt of the last hundred years. Curious. Here is the column I wrote a year ago with a few annotations twelve months on: Let's cut to the chase - the US Secret Service: In on it? Or just totally crap? To get that out of the way: At the bare minimum, the Secret...

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More than 1,300 employees were forced out of the State Department on Friday, leaving their offices with small boxes of plants and old coffee mugs and taking with them decades of specialized skills and on-the-job training as part of the United States diplomatic corps. “It’s so hard to work somewhere your entire life and then get treated this way,” one veteran civil servant with more than 30 years working at the department told NBC News. “I don’t know how you treat people this way. I really don’t.” Michael Duffin, a civil service employee with the department since 2013, spent nine...

During the Cold War, Soviet communists reportedly referred to American liberals as “useful idiots.” Although the origin of the quote has been challenged (and attributed to both Lenin and Stalin), it captured many of the adherents of communism after World War II. From higher education to Hollywood, dilettantes on the left embraced Marxism with little real understanding of the philosophy or its implications. We are now seeing the rise of a new generation of armchair revolutionaries who are calling for everything from the overthrow of the U.S. government to the seizure of factories and homes. Democratic New York mayoral candidate...

Politics is downstream from culture. It’s a sentiment that has echoed and reverberated throughout the conservative movement for years – a sentiment that originated with our founder, Andrew Breitbart. Andrew always knew that culture was the single most significant factor that affected political change. It’s 2025. The establishment media’s credibility is nonexistent, and they are in disarray. The influence of Hollywood celebrities has been rendered not only impotent but a detriment to those in politics relying on their endorsements. Sports figures and musicians are doing the Trump dance at major events in front of major crowds. DEI is disappearing as...

It’s no secret that over the past 60 years U.S. Christian apologists have witnessed a dramatic cultural sea change. In the past, we could assume two things: the general belief in reasonable objective truths, and a baseline cultural familiarity with what’s in the Bible. All that shifted with the appearance of Gen Z, which Barna Group has dubbed “the first truly ‘post-Christian’ generation.” - Shifts in the Apologetics Landscape: 1. Students are asking questions about God at a younger age than before. 2. Nonbelievers now have equal access to young people. 3. There has been a move from objective to...

Daily Readings from the USCCB“You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your being, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” Luke 10:27A scribe asked Jesus what he needed to do to inherit eternal life. Jesus asked the scribe what the Law of Moses taught. The above line was the scribe’s response. He was essentially quoting Deuteronomy 6:4, which was a common prayer prayed by the Jews and seen as a summary of the entire Law of Moses as found in the Ten Commandments. Notice that this summary...

Taxpayers will no longer pay for the education of noncitizens in the U.S. illegally, the U.S. Department of Education said Thursday. The department said “it will end taxpayer subsidization of illegal aliens in career, technical, and adult education programs.” A news release said that this change takes place due to an interpretative rule issued Thursday in which “the Department rescinded a Dear Colleague letter from the Clinton Administration that enabled non-qualified illegal aliens to access federal public benefits in contravention of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA).” Title IV of PRWORA “generally limits eligibility for ‘federal public...

The climate science establishment is fond of lecturing us about the dangers of rising temperatures. With the return of Donald Trump as US President, however, it is rising scrutiny, not the rising heat, that has them most alarmed. In May, President Trump signed an executive order titled "Restoring Gold Standard Science," requiring federally funded agencies to ensure their work is accountable, reproducible, and subject to open debate. It was unremarkable in tone, bordering on mundane. Yet the reaction was swift and bitter. The clause insisting that scientists consider dissenting views and protect employees from retaliation for expressing them cuts across...