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‘They haven’t gone away, you know.” Gerry Adams’s chilling words, uttered during the peace process, to remind everyone that the IRA still existed, would do as well for Al Qaeda, the architects of the 9/11 outrage, the 25th anniversary of which fell yesterday. Osama Bin Laden’s killing in May 2011 may have removed the titular head of Al Qaeda but, neither that well-deserved death, nor the subsequent splintering of Al Qaeda from Isis (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) in 2014, has diminished either the virulence or potential danger that Al Qaeda presents. Reliable reporting is that Al Qaeda is...

The decision in Trump v. Barbara, which reaffirmed, by virtue of the 14th Amendment, that nearly all children born on U.S. soil are citizens at birth, pretty much shot down President Trump's attempt to squelch the citizenship issue.In light of what SCOTUS handed down, which did still allow him some latitude for restriction by executive order, the President moved to avoid the constitutional issue and pivot to regulating the visa, travel, and beneficiary vectors.In two executive orders, he hit what he could before a pregnant woman entered the country and the eligible categories, without tripping on the birthright pressure plate....Rather...

Karl Rove is maybe the least 'Republican' Republican in the history of Republicans. It's been an open secret for some time that he is as close to a card-carrying member of the Uniparty as exists in Washington, D.C.. He is as pure a swamp creature as you can find in the wild. So, when Rove came out of the RINO closet and announced that he was voting for a Democrat, nobody got the vapors. Nobody looked askance at the television set and did a spit-take. No one's jaw hit the floor. Rove, and everyone else in the Bushite orbit, speak...

New survey shows evangelical church attendance and belief are growing in the UK despite overall Christian declineEvangelical communities are among the youngest and most diverse segments of British ChristianityFindings suggest genuine faith commitment is thriving even as nominal Christianity fadesWhile headlines continue to proclaim the death of Christianity in Britain, a new survey reveals a stunning counter-narrative: evangelical Christianity is not just surviving—it’s growing. The research from the Evangelical Alliance demonstrates that authentic, Bible-believing faith is expanding even as cultural Christianity continues its decline across the United Kingdom.Peter Lynas of the Evangelical Alliance points to compelling evidence that evangelical communities...

Walk into certain churches today and you may encounter something that would be almost unrecognizable to Christians who worshiped in the same denominations only a generation ago.Rainbow flags surround the sanctuary. Pastors preach in Pride-colored vestments. Worship services feature queer hymns and transgender themes. Glitter replaces traditional ashes. Rainbow bread appears at Communion. Special ceremonies celebrate transgender name changes, while Pride Month brings its own sermons, liturgies and church celebrations.These aren't simply changes in decoration or attempts to make visitors feel welcome. Taken together, they reveal how deeply LGBTQ+ ideology has worked its way into the worship and theology of...

More young men in America are remaining single than ever before, with the rate almost doubling over the last quarter century, according to concerning new data released earlier this week. Statistics compiled by the Institute for Family Studies (IFS) revealed that there were 30.4 million single men aged 18 to 39 in 2025 in the U.S., amounting to almost 10 million more bachelors than there were in 2000 (20.7 million). IFS further estimated that there were 15 million more single men than husbands in this age group in 2025. In 2000, there was only a 2.6 million difference. This rise...

Bud Light Truck Driver Picks a Fight With the Wrong Cops… Big Mistake

Hacking a weak computer system does not equal global doomsday. The news has been full of articles recently about how we’re all going to die by 2030, 2027, or insert your year number. (The piece then quotes from an article from another source... and then continues.) For starters, we can discount the AI supervirus threat. AI doesn’t have to develop a doomsday virus, that world killing doomsday virus was already developed by the Aussie CSIRO in 2001 – who then promptly went on to tell everyone how to replicate their work. Aussie researchers stumbled across a simple genetic hack which...

A former Amarillo, Texas, police officer allegedly weaponized the city’s surveillance system to track a local father dozens of times after developing a personal interest in a female officer the man had previously dated. Christian Eder, 29, was fired from the Amarillo Police Department on July 17 after an internal investigation found that he allegedly misused law-enforcement databases for personal purposes. He now faces 78 counts of tampering with a government record, ABC 7 Amarillo reported. According to NewsChannel 10, an internal audit found Eder searched the father’s license plate through the city’s Flock automated license plate reader system 76...

The Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a major loss in his quest to restrict the use of mail-in ballots just weeks before the midterm elections. Lawyers for Trump had asked the Supreme Court to allow his executive order allowing US Postal Service rules allowing the government to 'check' mail-in ballots against a central repository of registered voters in each state - and reject ballots from voters not listed in the database. The appeal was the third time the Trump administration asked the high court to intervene - in a sign of its outsize interest in the matter. Critics have...

[Catholic Caucus] BREAKING: Toronto Oratory’s Latin Masses to be curtailed Sept. 20: reports Weekly Traditional Latin Masses at the Toronto's Holy Family and St. Vincent de Paul churches will no longer continue, according to two long-established blogs, and traditional-form sacraments will end immediately. Beginning Sunday, September 20, the weekly Traditional Latin Masses (TLM) at the Toronto Oratory’s Holy Family and St. Vincent de Paul churches will no longer continue as weekly celebrations of the 1962 Missal, according to two long-established Toronto blogs with deep ties to the churches in question.Each parish would instead be required to offer one Novus Ordo...

Amazon has paused operations with cargo carrier 21 Air following the fatal crash of an Amazon-branded freighter at Miami International Airport earlier this month. "After the tragic incident last weekend, we've spent time supporting the investigation and reviewing some of the surrounding circumstances, and we’ve decided to pause our operations with 21 Air, the operator of Flight 7598," Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel said in a statement to Reuters. "We'll continue working to support the investigation and everyone affected." The Sept. 6 flight, operated by 21 Air for Amazon Air, overran a runway while landing in Miami after arriving from San...

Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink made a bombshell admission this morning, disclosing that there are on-orbit weapons deployed right now to protect America’s interests in space. Those weapons support a Space Control mission set, and the U.S. Space Force has now also shared additional details about that directly with TWZ. Meink first made mention of what he described as “on-orbit space control weapons” during his keynote speech earlier today at the Air & Space Forces Association’s (AFA) 2026 Air, Space & Cyber Conference, at which TWZ is in attendance. As head of the Department of the Air Force,...

Projections indicate that a Paramount exodus would severely hurt California’s economy to the tune of billions of dollars and tens of thousands of jobs if movie studio head David Ellison made good on his threat to relocate. AG Bonta’s lawsuit halts the Warner Bros. acquisition.Conducted by the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation, the study found that California would lose roughly 28,990 to 57,980 full-time jobs statewide across various industries if Paramount relocated to a state like Tennessee, with revenue losses estimated between $10.6 billion and $21.2 billion annually. “It should be emphasized that these estimated job losses include direct,...

Cardinal: ‘Whoever has the children, has the future’ as Islam surges in Vienna Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schönborn responds to Islam becoming the predominant religion among students in Vienna's public schools amid a Christian demographic decline. An Austrian reporter recently asked Cardinal Christoph Schönborn whether it worried him that Islam is now the largest religion among Vienna’s schoolchildren. The retired archbishop of Vienna’s reply was brief: “Whoever has the children, has the future. That’s my simple answer.”The numbers behind the question are alarming for the capital city of historically Catholic Austria. In Vienna’s public compulsory schools for the 2025-26 schoolyear, Muslim...

Mitch McConnell returned to the Senate on Monday, ending a months-long medical absence. The Kentucky Republican was hospitalized in June after falling and briefly losing consciousness. "Today, I'll cast my first Senate vote since I took a bad fall back in June. I'm really looking forward to being back on the Senate floor and seeing my colleagues," McConnell said in a statement. He continued: "My recovery has been a long and often frustrating process, and the lingering effects of childhood polio haven't made it any easier. I'm still not quite back to 100%, but I've assured Leader Thune that, as...

Sisters Alicia and Christie Duncan were originally only granted 48 hours notice that their mother was going to be euthanised. It was Sunday, October 24, 2021, when 61-year-old Donna confessed to her family that she had been approved for Canada’s assisted-dying programme, officially known as Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD). Her death was scheduled for the following Tuesday - expedited due to her having qualified for Canada's streamlined 'Track 1' pathway, reserved for individuals whose natural death is reasonably foreseeable. But Donna was not terminally ill, according to her daughters, who insist she was in the midst of a spiralling...

The US actor Sydney Sweeney is facing a backlash from female Olympians and other athletes, who have accused her of demeaning and sexualising women’s sports by appearing in a controversial advert for a sports prediction company. In the viral commercial for Novig, which was viewed more than 22 million times in the first two days of its release, Sweeney’s nude body is covered by footballs, basketballs, and other sports equipment, as she tells users they can bet on “just sports”. After saying “sports” nine times, she appears topless on a pool table, before saying: “You can’t trade this, I just...

Leo’s Archbishop Says “The Church Is Called to Disappear” and Muslim Saints “Intercede” for Us. Leo’s Pastor of St. Peter’s Basilica Finds the Devil “Quite Likable.” He Adds “Spice” to People’s Lives! Rome’s interfaith chief says other religions “broaden the horizon of truth,” invokes a pluralist “City of God,” and turns Nehemiah into a mascot for religious dialogue.There are careless phrases, and then there are phrases that tell you how a man sees the Church.“The Church is called to disappear so that the Kingdom may grow.”That sentence belongs to Father Mario León Dorado, the 52-year-old Spanish Oblate whom Leo XIV...

The Supreme Court told the Trump administration on Monday that the midterms will be run on the same mail-ballot machinery that has been driving half the country crazy since 2020. Standardized envelopes, unique barcodes, and a list of who is actually supposed to receive a ballot? Not this year. Maybe later. That is the practical meaning of the unsigned emergency order. The justices left standing the nationwide blocks on the Postal Service’s Ballot Mail for Federal Elections rule. Fox News and The Gateway Pundit both reported the denial of the stay. Alabama, North Carolina, and Wisconsin have already started stuffing...