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SEATTLE — Voters passed IL-638 this week which, come December 3, will require all girls to prove their sex assigned at birth in order to play on a girls’ sports team at public schools, but the fight is likely far from over. "Every girl in Washington State deserves a safe place to play sports,” co-chair of No Hate in WA State Diane Bedwell said. “I think there can empathy and sympathy for boys that think they're girls,” founder of Let’s Go Washington Brian Heywood said. "There can be a solution in the trans sports arena, but it shouldn't come at...

Cardinal Bernardin’s Victim Speaks Out Last week I (Fr. David Nix) had a four hour dinner with Bernardin’s victim and her husband. She is now 80 years old. The Satanic Ritual Abuse happened to her about 70 years ago by Fr. Joseph Bernardin (later Cardinal Archbishop of Chicago, top-left.) The abuse happened at St. Mary’s Church in Greenville, SC (top-right.)My mother is from Chicago (and my father is from West of Chicago) so I grew up hearing from extended family that one day Cardinal Bernardin would be canonized. Much in my life has changed since then. Another thing that has...

I am not sure conservatives - including many readers of this website - quite grasp the scale of what happened on Tuesday. Outgoing Florida governor Ron DeSantis called it "an extinction-level event", and pointed out that of America's ten most populous states his was now the only one with a Republican government. At the federal level, as JD Vance observed en passant, the GOP has no realistic expectation of recovering the Senate until the mid-2030s.Intraparty disputes between soi-disant rock-ribbed conservatives and jelly-spined RINO squishes are irrelevant: whether you're Susan Collins or Vivek Ramaswamy, Greg Abbott or Darline Graham - and...

Authorities intercepted what they believe is the first small-boat smuggling attempt to launch from the Netherlands. A rubber dinghy packed with 38 migrants was discovered drifting without an engine off the southern Dutch coast last Saturday. Emergency crews towed it to the nearby port of Cadzand, in the Zeeland province, and two Sudanese men were arrested on suspicion of being involved in human smuggling, Dutch prosecutors said. A magistrate ordered their detention for 14 days on Tuesday, and both suspects are being held in restricted conditions, meaning they can only communicate with their lawyers, they added. Mike Tapp, the Labour...

A pilot with the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels has been removed from the elite flight demonstration team for failing to meet its standards, military officials confirmed. Maj. Scott Laux, a U.S. Marine Corps aviator, was dismissed from the squadron, the Chief of Naval Air Training (CNATRA) confirmed to the Pensacola News Journal on Friday, Nov. 6. In a statement provided to the News Journal, CNATRA confirmed that Laux, who flew the No. 6 jet for the team, would not participate in the team’s remaining performances this season. “Blue Angel #6 was removed from the team for failing to uphold the...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dMBBOawFy_4&pp=ygUWam9lIHJvZ2FuIGNhbGxleSBtZWFucw%3D%3D This is an interesting episode to watch or listen to. I have listened to Calley Means and his sister, both MDs as they talk about food in the States. He has been working with the Administration and recently quit.

If election night results are any barometer, it might be time for everyone to get more woke. The country saw a blue tsunami Tuesday night, with traditional Republican strongholds chipped away at — or even flipped — by Democrats. Jon Ossoff won reelection in Georgia handily; South Carolina's Senate seat flipped to blue; and Democrat James Talarico is Texas' next senator. The Associated Press called the race, saying the House and the Senate had flipped to Democratic control. The internet has come to its own (somewhat joking) conclusion: DEI is so back. Delighted X users spent the evening joking that...

7 November 2026 Saturday of week 31 in Ordinary Time St. Vincent Liem Parish, Calgary, CanadaReadings at MassThis is a preview of Universalis. The Universalis app gives you every day of every year, not just the single week you’re seeing now, and it doesn’t need the Internet. It gives you the official New American Bible version for the readings at Mass. As well as the Mass, it gives you the Liturgy of the Hours. It costs $9.99-12.99 on your phone, or £19.99 (about $26.50) on your computer. Get it now.Liturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(II).First readingPhilippians 4:10-19With the help of...

Days after Toronto Blue Jays power hitter Anthony Santander reposted and then deleted Islamophobic comments to his Instagram account, the Muslim community in Canada — including fans of the team — are unhappy with the response from the team and player to date. Following the results of Tuesday’s U.S. midterm elections, the 32-year-old Santander reposted a pair of stories to his personal Instagram account. One post, shared from the account @theamericantruthproject, included a video that was critical of Michigan Senator-elect Dr. Abdul El-Sayed. The first video claimed that all Muslims elected to office on Tuesday are radicals, and want to...

When President Donald Trump promoted Stephen Miller to White House chief of staff, Democrats started fuming almost instantly. That reaction alone tells you it was a good move. I suspect Democrats thought the fallout from the midterms would scare Trump into submission. They wanted a chastened president who would spend his final two years tiptoeing around them. Instead, Trump handed the most powerful staff job in Washington to a man they deeply despise, and they read the move as defiance. They read it correctly. "Donald Trump learned nothing from his historic defeat. Stephen Miller is the architect of the most...

Explanation: De Gerlache-Kocher massif looms on the visible horizon in this close-up of the edge of the Moon. The mountainous formation rises about 4 kilometers above its surroundings and is located very close to the lunar south pole. Boasting permanently shadowed crater floors that likely contain deposits of water ice and peaks that receive almost continuous sunlight for solar power generation, the south polar region is considered a prime location for the first human settlement on the Moon. In fact, De Gerlache-Kocher massif itself has been considered as a potential landing site for future crewed Artemis missions to the Moon....

Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker are calling for an investigation into the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), previously led by Elon Musk, as talks have heated up among Democrats to launch a probe into the multibillionaire. "I had no specific plan," Raskin told Fox News Digital about the potential investigations. "Look … DOGE was a catastrophe for America, and at least one committee, I feel pretty certain, will investigate it. It needs to investigate it." -snip The tech CEO helped launch DOGE at the start of President Donald Trump's second term to root out waste...

Woman who has no hate in her soul wishes Trump got shot in the forehead. (July 2024)

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) want to overhaul America’s system of government. Its current political program calls for abolishing the Senate and Electoral College and replacing the presidency and Supreme Court with institutions controlled by Congress. These changes would dismantle much of the system of checks and balances established by America’s founders — a system that has worked well for over 250 years. Here’s what DSA platform wants to change. 1. Abolish the U.S. SenateCongress has two chambers. The House represents people based on state population, while the Senate gives every state two senators, regardless of its size. Both...

Beautiful Iranian singer Parastoo Ahmadi was sentenced to 74 lashes after she was seen singing without a hijab. That’s not all. To make sure she does not put on such an illegal display the brutal regime, or what’s left of the regime, has banned her from singing for two years. Parastoo sang without a hijab and her arms showing in an online concert on YouTube in 2024. Now she will pay for her shameful display.

After replacing his former boss Susie Wiles as the White House Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller has urged the president to end the war in Iran. That war was undertaken with the idea of eliminating Iran’s nuclear research program but was incredibly unpopular with the American people. “Miller's pitch for the job, according to people who heard it, was that the president needed to wind down the Iran war, a conflict that the president's core supporters viewed as a betrayal,” said The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman in live updates. The war in Iran, launched by Trump along with close...

Embattled New York Attorney General Letitia James aimed a fresh threat at President Trump this week — bragging that she’ll continue to “sue, baby, sue” while claiming she’s targeting “oligarchs.” The far-left state prosecutor – emboldened after being re-elected to another four years in office on Tuesday — did not mention the president by name, yet all but gloated that she will continue to target him while addressing supporters on Friday at the SOMOS political conference in Puerto Rico. “Mortgages are too high, interest rates are too high, car insurance is too high,” said James to applause. “We’ve got to...

Anthony Constantino — who survived one of the nastiest House races in upstate New York by “being authentic” and standing by the president — is poised to become one of the GOP’s most outspoken voices in the minority. The CEO of custom printing company Sticker Mule, who burst onto the political scene in 2024 by putting a huge “Vote for Trump” sign on the roof of his factory in the city of Amsterdam, spoke to The Post Thursday after declaring victory in his midterm rac ---SNIP--- Asked why he teed off on a pair of TV reporters during his moment...

Israel's president on Saturday chose Gadi Eisenkot, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's strongest rival, to try to form a ​new government following a deadlocked election that left neither man with a clear path to power. Netanyahu, Israel's longest-serving leader, is ‌fighting to stay in office after his religious-nationalist coalition lost its majority in an October 27 election but still emerged as the largest bloc in parliament. Eisenkot, a former military chief, has declined to join forces with Arab parties, with whose support he would have a majority of seats in parliament. But Arab leaders, incensed by what ​they view as the...

First published in 1726, Jonathan Swift's adventure novel has been chopped, changed and adapted ever since. Is it a "misanthropic satire" or a "fantastical nursery tale"? You may be familiar with the story of Lemuel Gulliver. He wakes up after a shipwreck only to be pinned down by ropes and surrounded by tiny Lilliputians, who clamber up to the incapacitated adventurer. It's a scene that's been replicated and satirised ever since Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels was published in 1726, 300 years ago. Yet fewer may know of Gulliver's darker exploits, where the voyaging anti-hero encounters scientists inserting bellows into dogs,...