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On the day Vivek Ramaswamy made official his run for Ohio Governor, President Donald Trump did not dally. “He will be a GREAT Governor of Ohio, will never let you down, and has my COMPLETE AND TOTAL ENDORSEMENT!” the President wrote on Truth Social on Feb. 24 of last year, within hours of Ramaswamy kicking off his campaign. Trump’s post essentially cleared what had been expected to be a crowded GOP field, boxing out the likes of state Attorney General Dave Yost, state Treasurer Robert Sprague, and Lieutenant Governor Jim Tressel in a state where Republicans felt dominant. It also...

Pope Leo encyclical makes ‘Spirit of Assisi’ Church teaching, cardinal claims Cardinal George J. Koovakad says Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas made the 1986 Assisi interreligious prayer gathering a defining criterion ‘through which to interpret the present.’A Vatican cardinal has claimed that Pope Leo XIV has elevated the interreligious “Spirit of Assisi” to the level of the Church’s ordinary Magisterium.On October 7, during an address delivered at the Pontifical University Antonianum in Rome, Cardinal George J. Koovakad, prefect of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, asserted that paragraph 223 of Pope Leo’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas officially incorporated the “Spirit of Assisi” into...

Back in the day, young people gravitated towards rock n' roll and drugs. Now, it's Islamic sharia law. A huge chunk of young Americans are giving sharia law a thumbs up, according to a new survey from Rasmussen Reports and Our Republic, which found 43% of citizens between the age of 18-24 have a positive view of it. It's nearly as popular with Americans between the age of 25-29 too, with 39% saying they have a "mostly positive" or "somewhat positive" view of sharia. In fact, sharia is more liked than disliked among young Americans, as the survey found 36%...

Despite ongoing protests in France, the NFL still plans to hold the Week 7 game between the New Orleans Saints and the Pittsburgh Steelers at the Stade de France. The civil unrest began in late September due to complaints about teacher shortages, run-down buildings, and underfunded schools. The Saints are scheduled to fly out on Sunday night for their game against the Steelers in Paris next Sunday. Over 550,000 citizens are protesting and nearly 2,000 arrests have been made across France. Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy publicly questioned the league’s decision: “This seems incredibly stupid,” he wrote on X. According...

“The Dems are a total mess of cluster B psychopathology. They will continue to humiliate themselves & alienate the normal population.” — JD Haltigan on X Looks like the punishments will continue across the pond until morale improves. France on fire in the “mostly peaceful” riots — according to the BBC — this past weekend could yet ignite a final, furious, Globalist-Jacobin bid to wreck Western Civ as populist nationalism looms ever larger to defeat them. That is, whatever the demonic coalition of desperate Euro elites backed by the Soros NGO empire, the WEF, the UN bureaucracy, possibly the British...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope names members of Vatican’s key advisory theology commission The members will serve for a five-year term, with some of the new intake raising eyebrows due to their questioning of Catholic teaching on ordination and homosexuality.A series of new members of the International Theological Commission have been appointed today, comprising the new faces of the organisation which serves as an advisory body to the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith. Working from his recovery room in the Apostolic Palace, Leo XIV finalised the new look of the International Theological Commission (ITC), after the previous members have come...

The husband of the Rhode Island Democratic Party Chair Liz Beretta-Perik has been indicted in the alleged theft of $20 million from a now-closed community college through educational grants, according to Ohio state officials. The Ohio Auditor of State's Office announced that Michael Perik, along with two other people, is accused of participating in a coordinated criminal scheme that diverted Pell grants, other federal aid and state subsidies through fraudulent reimbursements and illegal incentive payments. Officials allege the scheme also contributed to the closure of Eastern Gateway Community College. Perik faces a dozen charges, including engaging in a pattern of...

Former Florida House District 20 candidate Elijah Manley surrendered to authorities Thursday and was booked into the Broward County Jail on two counts of making written threats to kill or cause bodily injury. Manley, a 27-year-old Democrat, faces the charges over social media posts he made shortly after losing the August election, according to an arrest warrant obtained by CBS News Miami. Investigators said the warrant stems from a series of Facebook posts exchanged between Manley and two other people. According to the warrant, one post said: "Every Democrat needs to get behind the Democratic nominee for Senate. Anybody not...

Elijah Manley, who sought the Democratic nomination for Florida’s 20th Congressional District earlier this year, was arrested for allegedly writing threats on social media. Manley, 27, faces two counts of written threats to kill or do bodily injury. According to the arrest affidavit, the Broward Sheriff’s Office was notified about two posts on Facebook by an account using the name ‘elijahdmanley.’ “I’m talking to y’all. I saw y’all comments earlier. I’m already pissed off, do not piss me off more. I swear to god, take me to war over this black woman and I promise y’all I will burn y’all...

The Treasury Department released its August statement of receipts and outlays with all the ceremony the occasion deserved: none. No press conference, no address, just a PDF on a government website, the way a man slips a foreclosure notice under the door. Buried in Table 3 sits a number that would have been a scandal in any saner era: of every dollar Washington expects to collect in income taxes this year, forty-three cents will go to interest on the national debt. Not to pay it down. Just to carry it. Run the arithmetic; Treasury prints it in plain sight. The...

As has become traditional, my decrepit semi-comatose body roused itself for its annual appearance on the Mark Steyn Cruise only to implode immediately upon disembarkation. So I am playing catch-up here, even though there is nothing much to catch up to, only the same old same old, albeit accelerating toward the final civilisational dénouement: today, a Canadian province votes on whether to hold a binding secession referendum; an Australian MP is in critical condition after being deliberately mown down by a constituent; and a UK woman has been marked down by HM Constabulary as having "mental health issues" because she...

Federal law enforcement throughout California today arrested 11 foreign nationals living in the United States who are among 28 total charged in criminal complaints with federal crimes, including that they fraudulently registered to vote in U.S. elections, electoral contests in which most of them cast illegal and fraudulently obtained ballots. Today’s arrests are part of “Operation Protect the Vote” – a coordinated effort among all four California-based United States Attorney’s Offices to combat and root out fraud in U.S. elections and protect electoral integrity. All 28 foreign nationals charged are lawful permanent residents (LPRs), or “green card” holders. Although LPRs...

United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby is calling for a national wealth tax and inheritance taxes approaching 100% for certain estates, arguing that growing wealth inequality poses a threat to American society...snip The airline executive argued that a wealth tax would need to be implemented nationwide rather than at the state level to prevent wealthy Americans from relocating to avoid paying it.

Let me get one thing out of the way before the hate mail starts: Kaylub Giamanco is a hero. Full stop. Understand that right now before reading further. Giamanco is the 36-year-old father who grabbed his pistol from his truck, followed a 16-year-old gunman into Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Ore., and put him down. Three children and a teacher died before he got there. Nobody knows how many more would have died if he hadn't. And I want Oregon to charge him for carrying a loaded firearm on school property. Yeah, I know. “Say what?” Hear me out,...

Carolyn Marvin was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after blocking the path of an Uber delivery robot and refusing to get out of the way. Marvin told Philadelphia’s ABC13 “I know they’re taking the jobs of human delivery workers and so, I have been protesting them whenever I saw them by standing in front of them and preventing them from going forward.” Police responded to the scene and asked Marvin to move out of the robot’s way. When she refused, they placed her in cuffs and arrested her. The incident was captured on video and has now garnered considerable...

New Mexico should immediately change its name to New America. We are not Mexico, we are the United States of America! The name would add great value and prestige to the State! Home Values and Incomes would rise, and you would be even prouder while saluting our beautiful American Flag! Maybe even the Crooked Elections, that New Mexico is known for, would become honest again! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Laws against guns on school grounds don’t deter murderers and shouldn’t threaten good Samaritans.Last week, not only did Oregon's restrictive gun laws fail to stop a shooter intent on killing innocent people, but a passing good Samaritan had to violate those laws to end the murder spree. Fortunately, authorities don't appear intent on prosecuting Kaylub Giamanco, father to two girls who attend the school, for ignoring the ban on guns on school grounds to save lives. But the law is clearly more of a threat to people with good intent than it is to those bent on doing harm. Such...

The Democrats and their allies in the media like to accuse Republicans of being the side that tries to sow distrust in American elections and insinuate that candidates like Donald Trump collude with enemies of America to rig elections. As usual, the projection is off the charts. Evidence of that can be found almost every day, but six years ago one of the most egregious examples of the Dem-media-Dem circle of life happened. @WesternLensman has marked the anniversary of when Politico and a so-called "journalist" pushed this story designed to harm Trump just ahead of the 2020 election. Remember this?

Explanation: Explanation : What is Treble Clef? This unusual radio structure extends over 2 million light-years and resembles a common musical symbol -- but has its visible light hidden by our own Milky Way Galaxy. Examined in 2004, the nature of VLSS J0318.9+5755, dubbed Treble Clef, remained unknown. Recent observations by the Chandra X-ray Observatory and eROSITA, however, have led to the hypothesis that the Treble Clef central cloud of charged particles was originally expelled by a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy. After the radio emission from those particles faded, they may have been reinvigorated by...

On Oct. 18, 1963, a cat went to space! Félicette was a French "catstronaut" who became the first and only feline to fly to space. Here's why it mattered. On Oct. 18, 1963, a cat went to space! Félicette was a French "catstronaut" who became the first and only feline to fly to space. While the U.S. and Soviet Union were busy launching primates, dogs and humans, the French decided to join the space race by launching a cat. Félicette, a stray tuxedo cat from the streets of Paris, was a substitute for another cat named Felix, who somehow escaped...