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A matter of projection: When anyone starts bleating about "dictatorship" they have to start with defining "regal" or "kinglike" actions, and look at the activity — and actions — of recent presidents to get a sense of perspective. A series of "No Kings" protests are touted to take place again on Saturday, representing yet another wave of organized objection from left-wing activists using the government shutdown to fill streets across the country. The same people aren't so quick — or capable — of explaining away why they sat silent while President Joe Biden engaged in activities that clearly exceeded his...

On Friday, a group of activists gathered at the Lincoln Memorial for a rally to kick off the "No Kings" protests "No Kings" protests against President Trump and his administration are underway in major cities across the country on Saturday.Protests are being held in cities including Washington, D.C., Chicago, New York City and Los Angeles.Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., a former Democratic presidential candidate, and Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., are among the speakers at the D.C. protest. The first "No Kings" demonstrations took place in June. On Friday, a group of activists gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C....

The Home Office was told last week that a ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans attending a football match in Birmingham was being considered, a police unit has said. On Thursday, Aston Villa said the city's Safety Advisory Group (SAG) - which advises the council on whether to issue safety certificates - decided that fans of the Israeli club should not be permitted to attend the Europa League fixture on 6 November. The Home Office had been briefed that restrictions on visiting fans might be imposed, but the BBC understands officials were not informed about the final decision. Authorities are...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Secretary of HHS Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ordered an airstrike on a cargo ship full of Tylenol attempting to reach the American coast. Declassified video showed Predator drones striking the ship with multiple Hellfire missiles, sending the ship and its five tons of Tylenol to the bottom of the sea. "Autism, defeated," announced Kennedy. "We received reports of a cargo ship carrying massive amounts of acetaminophen, commonly known as Tylenol, attempting to reach an American port. The organization involved, known as the American Red Cross, had planned to move the Tylenol to several distribution sites across...

What could go wrong?As the ancient proverb says, “if at first you don’t succeed at doing the idiotic thing you were trying to do, raise the price and try to do it all over again.”CNN’s effort to launch CNN+, a paid streaming service, at a time when its core ratings are crashing is confusing observers who wonder why the news network thinks people will pay for CNN when they won’t even watch it for free.CNN President Jeff Zucker billed CNN+ as being for “CNN superfans, news junkies and fans of quality non-fiction programming.”Spoiler alert: CNN superfans are almost as real...

The dubious voter rights group founded by political grifter Stacey Abrams is closing its doors after a run of corruption like no other in Georgia history. The New Georgia Project, according to its active website, claimed the group is “building long-term power in Georgia every year.” But a statement from the far-left organization released on Thursday announced the power has been turned off for Abrams’ old campaign ATM. “After more than a decade of advancing civic engagement, equity, and justice across Georgia, The New Georgia Project (NGP) and The New Georgia Project Action Fund (NGPAF) will officially dissolve as organizations,”...

During Thursday’s New York City mayoral debate, socialist Zohran Mamdani implied former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is unqualified to be mayor because he hadn’t visited a mosque.“He had more than 10 years and he couldn’t name a single mosque at the last debate we had that he visited,” Mamdani said, before going on to say that “Muslims … want equality and they want respect! … Can you name a single mosque you went to in 10 years?”Whether Cuomo has been to a dozen mosques or no mosques matters naught. What matters is that an American politician — in a...

One of the biggest problems, factually the biggest problem with revealing the 2020 election fraud, are the ramifications.That said, the competence of the United States government, and indeed our constitutional republic itself, is weakened without a full public airing of the fraud.The White House has hired Stop The Steal lawyer Kurt Olsen as a ‘Special Govt Employee.’ The Wall Street Journal (Rupert Murdoch) is going bananas:(WSJ) – “Kurt Olsen, a lawyer who unsuccessfully pushed claims of voter fraud, has joined the administration as a “special government employee,” some of the people said. The appointment gives Olsen 130 days to work...

A new study suggests the United States may have passed peak transgenderism, as the percentage of college students identifying as “transgender” or “nonbinary” has fallen significantly over the past three years.Nonbinary Revision“Trans, queer and bisexual identities are in rapid decline among young educated Americans,” declared the October 10 study from the University of Buckingham’s Centre for Heterodox Social Science.Authored by Canadian professor of politics Eric Kaufmann, the report analyzed the trends across several annual surveys of college students’ gender and sexual identities. Among the entities conducting the polls were the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), which surveys undergraduate...

Something tells me Illinois will find a way to do it. When has that state ever followed rules or laws? Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is a disgusting person. MSNBC’s Jen Psaki asked Pritzker to elaborate on comments he made on Sunday about the ability to charge ICE agents with breaking state and local laws. Pritzker answered (so glad Pam Key of Breitbart transcribed this because I did not want to hear his voice): “We don’t know that anybody would be held accountable at the federal level. So we’re looking at all of the options at the local level with county...

Novo Nordisk is the maker behind Ozempic and WegovyThe price of Novo Nordisk's blockbuster diabetes and weight loss-related drug Ozempic will be cut, according to President Donald Trump. Trump said this week during a White House event on fertility treatments and drug pricing the price reduction will come after swift negotiations with the drugmaker. "They'll be much lower," Trump told reporters. Novo Nordisk is the maker of Ozempic and Wegovy, which have the same active ingredient, semaglutide, but they are approved for different uses. Ozempic was approved by federal health officials in 2017 and marketed for medical use in the...

Rudy Giuliani endorsed fellow Republican Curtis Sliwa for mayor Monday night, dealing a blow to independent Andrew Cuomo as he tries to build crossover appeal to take out front-runner Zohran Mamdani. “Here’s my choice: 100 percent Curtis Sliwa,” Giuliani, 81, said on his X podcast while Sliwa appeared on the show. Giuliani said Cuomo “ran a terrible campaign” in the Democratic primary and “lost to a 33-year-old,” referring to Mamdani, the Queens assemblyman. “Giuliani said he’s gotten immense pressure — even from Republicans and some of his associates and friends — to endorse Cuomo over Sliwa in a bid to...

Texas attorney general Ken Paxton has asked the Texas State Securities Board (TSSB) to review what he says is evidence that entities tied to the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC)’s EPIC City project violated state and federal securities laws — and to refer the matter back so he can file suit. Paxton called the alleged misconduct “flagrant,” arguing that state law requires a TSSB referral before his office can bring a securities action. After a thorough investigation, it has become clear that the developers behind EPIC City flagrantly and undeniably violated the law,” said Attorney General Paxton. “The bad actors...

Donald Trump is the master of memes -- and of the media. No modern political figure understands better how to energize the long-humiliated conservative-patriotic soul that has been crushed for decades by a left-liberal media zeitgeist. His Gaza performance is the latest chapter in the ongoing media revolution of our time.Peace in Gaza: the guns have fallen silent between Israel Defense Forces and Hamas. What was unthinkable for decades has happened: a historic breakthrough. Hostage and POW exchanges -- all brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump.The achievement alone commands extraordinary respect. But with Trump now mediating in Armenia-Azerbaijan, between Israel...

Saturday 18 October 2025 Saint Luke, Evangelist FeastSt. Luke the Evangelist, Westborough, MAReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: C(I).First reading2 Timothy 4:10-17Only Luke is with meDemas has deserted me for love of this life and gone to Thessalonika, Crescens has gone to Galatia and Titus to Dalmatia; only Luke is with me. Get Mark to come and bring him with you; I find him a useful helper in my work. I have sent Tychicus to Ephesus. When you come, bring the cloak I left with Carpus in Troas, and the scrolls, especially the parchment ones. Alexander the coppersmith has...

There have been countless examples of liberalism being a mental disorder.Here is another one:Two researchers from Western Michigan University have written a paper titled “Beneficial Bloodsucking,” which was published by the journal Bioethics this past July. (No, it isn’t about vampires.)The paper argues that intentionally spreading alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), a potentially life-threatening allergy to red meat, could be not only morally defensible, but perhaps even necessary, in order to reduce animal suffering and combat climate change.Here are the authors, Parker Crutchfield and Blake Hereth, in their own words:Because promoting tickborne AGS prevents something bad from happening, doesn’t violate anyone’s rights,...

An influencer’s negative review of a bakery has backfired online, with the owner calling her out for “lying and bullying.” Aurora Griffo, who regularly reviews food on her TikTok account Glamorama, shared a video critiquing popular Arizona bakery JL Patisserie, and it quickly sent the internet into a spin*** In a now-viral response video, JL Patisserie revealed the influencer had contacted them before her visit, suggesting the idea of a collaboration with them. CEO Jenna Leurquin claimed the bakery “respectfully declined” because they just couldn’t accommodate the request in their budget. “Then she essentially tried to blackmail us by saying...

In 1776, American colonists, despairing that their rights as British citizens were being trampled upon by their overbearing king, George III, decided to secede from the British Empire. Thomas Jefferson wrote down their grievances in the Declaration of Independence. Just a few of them include the cutting off of trade, imposing taxes without consent, depriving the people of trial by jury, suspending colonial legislatures, and waging war on the colonists. I think Jefferson’s best argument was, “He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.” Yep, sounds as though they had...

Mamdani appears smiling, arm-in-arm with unindicted ‘93 WTC bombing co-conspirator and terrorist apologist Mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani happily campaigned with a popular Brooklyn Imam who is an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing — and whose son once ran a terrorist camp for kids. The Democratic nominee appears in a photo posted to X laughing and grinning, standing arm-in-arm with Imam Siraj Wahhaj and City Councilmember Yusef Salaam at Wahhaj’s Bed-Stuy mosque to celebrate the weekly Muslim prayer. “Today at Masjid At-Taqwa, I had the pleasure of meeting with Imam Siraj Wahhaj, one of the nation’s foremost...

In a surprising departure from usual partisan rhetoric, prominent Republican figures, including Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and political commentator Tucker Carlson, have extended rare praise to New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, acknowledging his grassroots-focused campaign strategy, even as they continue to oppose his political ideology. Greene, who had earlier shared a doctored image of the Statue of Liberty in a burqa in response to Mamdani’s rise, has since revised her stance. Speaking on Steve Bannon’s podcast, she said, “He really ran a campaign where he talked directly to the people… Even though his solutions are insane and...