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This is the moment a police van was set on fire as riots broke out near a hotel used to house asylum seekers in Dublin. Officers were also attacked with missiles and fireworks as protesters gathered at the Citywest Hotel last night. Six people were arrested and the Irish police service, the gardai or An Garda Siochana, said one of its officers suffered a foot injury. Ireland's Justice Minister Jim O'Callaghan said that those involved in the violence will be brought to justice. He said: 'The scenes of public disorder we have witnessed at Citywest tonight must be condemned. 'Unfortunately,...

It was just a couple of weeks ago — October 3 to be precise — that I reported that the long-running “net zero” political consensus in the UK was finally “crumbling.” In the intervening two-plus weeks, the slow crumbling has turned into a rapid collapse. The biggest roadblock for opponents of a green energy transition in the UK has been that the Conservative Party, which should have been the natural home of opposition to net zero, has instead long (and foolishly) allied itself with the net zero cause. In June 2019, the Conservatives (under Prime Minister Theresa May) put through...

22 October 2025 Wednesday of week 29 in Ordinary Time St. John Paul II Church, K.Channasandra, Bangalore Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingRomans 6:12-18Make every part of your body a weapon fighting on the side of GodYou must not let sin reign in your mortal bodies or command your obedience to bodily passions, you must not let any part of your body turn into an unholy weapon fighting on the side of sin; you should, instead, offer yourselves to God, and consider yourselves dead men brought back to life; you should make every part of your body into...

As reported in Florida Today.com, the Brevard County commissioners have amended their employee policy to allow county employees to openly carry firearms while at work. The change is consistent with the appeals court ruling that the Florida ban on open carry is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment. On October 16, 2025, from floridatoday.com :The next time you see a county employee, they could very well have a pistol on their hip.And they would not be violating any county policy.Brevard County commissioners this week amended their employee policy around firearms to reflect an appeals court ruling in McDaniels vs. State of...

Ben Domenech has a very interesting take on Vice President Vance in an essay on The Transom. [T]he truth is: They hate him because they view him as a traitor to their class, after they welcomed him with open arms. He recounts the rapturous response Hillbilly Elegy received upon publication and the instant celebrity conferred upon Vance, in so small part because it satisfied a need of “people on the center left trying to make some sense of (or offer some dismissive explanation for) the Trump phenomenon.” Vance went all-in (something he has done as Trump’s number two as well):...

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For centuries, men built and defended Western civilization -- from its farms and cities to its laws, its art, and its moral order. But in just a few generations, that foundation has been shaken. Masculinity, once honored as the engine of strength, protection, and leadership, is now treated as a social problem. The very qualities that sustained families, communities, and nations are being redefined as “toxic.” Today, masculinity itself is treated as something to be “reformed” or “re-educated.” What happened? How did the very qualities that built the modern world become objects of suspicion and ridicule? The truth is simpler:...

"Vladimir Putin has ordered massive, near daily missile and drone attacks which are devastating Ukraine's capacity to fight on. Brian Berletic of The New Atlas and Alexander Mercouris of The Duran join the show to break down the military and diplomatic shockwaves being sent through the West as Ukraine crumbles, as well as a new war being declared by Donald Trump that is leaving the world in shock." Not sure what the claim of a new war is about....

Ex-White House residents Bill and Hillary Clinton were mocked on social media Tuesday after the former first lady criticized President Trump’s latest construction project at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Hillary took issue with the demolition that began Monday on the East Wing of the White House to accommodate Trump’s massive $250 million ballroom, making it clear that she’s no fan of the renovation. “It’s not his house. It’s your house. And he’s destroying it,” she wrote on X Tuesday morning. Hillary included an image taken from the Washington Post’s coverage of the partial teardown in her tweet, showing rubble piling up...

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First Archbishop of Canterbury, Apostle of the English; date of birth unknown; d. 26 May, 604. Symbols: cope, pallium, and mitre as Bishop of Canterbury, and pastoral staff and gospels as missionary. Nothing is known of his youth except that he was probably a Roman of the better class, and that early in life he become a monk in the famous monastery of St. Andrew erected by St. Gregory out of his own patrimony on the Cælian Hill. It was thus amid the religious intimacies of the Benedictine Rule and in the bracing atmosphere of a recent foundation that the...

Gafcon, a movement claiming to represent the majority of Anglicans worldwide, particularly in the Global South, has officially rejected the authority of the Archbishop of Canterbury and related institutions such as the Lambeth Conference — declaring itself the true “Global Anglican Communion.” The declaration marks a formal split in the Anglican Church, following years of mounting concern among Gafcon leaders over what they view as the mainstream Communion’s departure from biblical teaching. Their announcement comes after recent controversies, including the appointment of the Rt. Rev. Cherry Vann, a practicing lesbian, as Archbishop of Wales, and the naming of Dame Sarah...

churches were bursting with visitors on September 14. Many people hauled themselves to church for the first time in a long time—or ever. In some places, there were lines just to get in the doors, and attendance exceeded that of Christmas or Easter. Why? Because four days earlier, Charlie Kirk had been murdered Americans saw a man murdered because he had spoken out for family, masculinity, femininity, responsibility and tradition—not merely as “conservative values” but as binding biblical principles. He stood up for what he believed, and people across America thought, I should be like that. Jesus Christ, whom all...

Over Easter, the Catholic Church in France baptized nearly 18,000 people—the highest number ever recorded. The Catholic diocese in Westminster, at the heart of London, baptized 500. The Diocese of Lansing, Michigan, baptized 633, 30%more than the year before and the highest number in a decade. Stephen Foter, rector of the Anglican St. Aldates in Oxford, which caters to university students, had 1,000 show up for his Easter morning service—“more people in our building … than any time in the last thousand years,” "Among the young Christian converts I speak to, an overwhelming theme is a sense of disaffection with...

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PULSE POINTS❓WHAT HAPPENED: Over 515,000 illegal aliens have been deported since President Donald J. Trump returned to the White House in January, with the administration on track to break deportation records.👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: President Trump, Department of Homeland Security Secretary (DHS) Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Border Czar Tom Homan, and U.S. Immigration Enforcement (ICE) officials.📍WHEN & WHERE: Since January 20, across the United States.💬KEY QUOTE: “This is just the beginning,” said DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, adding, “Our agency was vilified and barred from doing its job for the last four years.”🎯IMPACT: The administration has...

As Republicans across the country pursue new congressional maps to boost their party ahead of next year's midterm elections, Democrats are ramping up pressure on states where they can respond. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., has held discussions with members of the Maryland delegation and Democratic Gov. Wes Moore in recent weeks about possible mid-decade redistricting efforts, according to a source with knowledge of the conversations. The source also said Jeffries spoke with members of the Illinois delegation about drawing new district lines, as Politico first reported. Maryland has just one Republican, Rep. Andy Harris, in its eight-member House...

Karoline Leavitt has obliterated Joe Biden's former press secretary in a scathing on-air takedown, calling her 'bitter' as she embarks on a nationwide media blitz to sell her memoir. Leavitt was speaking with Jesse Watters on Fox when she was asked to respond to Karine Jean-Pierre's recent rebuke calling her 'deplorable.' Without missing a beat, Leavitt launched into a 90-second blitz on Jean-Pierre's character and role in the White House during her time under Biden. 'With all due respect to my predecessor, she is one of the main culprits of the greatest cover-up and scandals in American history,' she said....

President Trump tore into a foreign ambassador on Monday who badmouthed him in the past after signing a multibillion-dollar, rare-earth and critical minerals deal with visiting Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. “Did an ambassador say something bad about me?” Trump asked Albanese when a journalist mentioned Australian Ambassador Kevin Rudd’s prior remarks vilifying the 45th and 47th president. “Where is he? Is he still working for you?” Albanese informed Trump that Rudd, a former prime minister and Australia’s top diplomat in Washington since 2023, was sitting across the table, prompting Trump to ask, “You said bad? “Before I took this...

When Taylor Edwards and her husband Travis first learned they were pregnant in late 2022, they were filled with joy — and relief. After more than two years of trying, and three rounds of IVF, they would be parents. "With IVF and infertility, you are always waiting for the other shoe to drop," says Edwards, 33. After she passed her 12-week mark into her second trimester, she felt like she could relax. "I was like, 'Finally. I've run a marathon. I did it. It's my turn to be a mom.' " But when she and Travis, 34, went in for...