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Arizona Republican Candidates Being Given National Spotlight In Coverage

October 14, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Arizona Republican Candidates Being Given National Spotlight In Coverage

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — As October began, the widely followed Citizen Free Press website posted a video of Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake at a lectern with a placard identifying this as a Hispanic community center event.A reporter off-camera asked Lake about abortion.Citizen Free Press, which often features news about Lake, is one of the national conservative sites that grew to fill the void when the popular Drudge Report increasingly began to resemble the kind of dominant liberal site that conservatives already saw enough of.Lake is one of the Grand Canyon State’s GOP candidates who seem to be attracting a lot of attention from East Coast media worried that pliable Republican politicians of the past are being replaced…Continue Reading

DC Suburbs And Silicon Valley Compete To Be Richest Place In USA

October 13, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on DC Suburbs And Silicon Valley Compete To Be Richest Place In USA

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY If you want to live in one of the wealthiest communities in the United States of America, do not move to Manhattan or Palm Beach, Fla. Move instead to the suburbs or exurbs of San Francisco or Washington, D.C.The Census Bureau this past week released its data on the 2021 median household incomes for areas that have populations of 65,000 or more.According to this data, taken from the bureau’s American Community Survey, the five wealthiest counties in the United States were all situated near the nation’s capital or the city by the bay.Specifically, Loudoun County, Va., had the highest median household income ($153,506) of any county in the survey, and Santa Clara County, Calif., ($141,562) had…Continue Reading

Biden’s Student Loan “Forgiveness”. . . Is An Unjust, Cynical Abuse Of Power

October 12, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Biden’s Student Loan “Forgiveness”. . . Is An Unjust, Cynical Abuse Of Power

By DAVID HARSANYI “No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.” That’s what it says right there in the Constitution. And yet, without any legislation, President Joe Biden now promises to “cancel” up to $10,000 in student loans per borrower ($20,000 for Pell Grant borrowers), limited to those with annual incomes of less than $125,000.Let’s start by pointing out that Biden isn’t “canceling” or “forgiving” any student loans. Those are preposterous euphemisms favored by Democrats and the media. The debt in question already exists, it has been lent and spent, and those who borrowed the money of their own volition have already received services. This debt isn’t cancelable.The president hasn’t “forgiven” loans;…Continue Reading

A Book Review… The Three Wise Men Revisited

October 11, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… The Three Wise Men Revisited

By PEGGY MOEN The Wise Men Who Found Christmas, by Raymond Arroyo; hardcover, $17.95; 48 pages. Published in 2022 by Sophia Institute Press, Manchester, NH; order by calling 800-888-9344; email: orders@sophiainstitute.com. In his latest book, The Wise Men Who Found Christmas, Raymond Arroyo, an author, journalist, news director and lead anchor of EWTN News, presents a historically sound and theologically solid account of the Three Wise Men, who have so often been misrepresented, and even ridiculed in silly songs and stupid jokes. The press release for the book explains that “they were not three kings. Nor were they from the Far East, or even Persia.”The book opens with this line: “There are many tales of the Wise Men who followed…Continue Reading

Amid New Testimonies . . . Vatican Corruption Trial Points To Key Question

October 10, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Amid New Testimonies . . . Vatican Corruption Trial Points To Key Question

By ANDREA GAGLIARDUCCI VATICAN CITY (CNA) — The hearings at the Vatican’s corruption trial resumed last week and shed light on new aspects of the “trial of the century” and the broader context of Vatican finances.Behind every decision and litigation, in the end, one can glimpse a power struggle, whether it is big or small, systemic or personal.Primarily, the trial revolves around the Secretariat of State’s investment in luxury real estate in London. However, it also explores further criminal allegations.Angelo Cardinal Becciu, for instance, also faces charges for allocating money from the Secretariat of State to Caritas in his native region. The Sardinian is furthermore called to answer for the engagement of Cecilia Marogna as a consultant to the Secretariat…Continue Reading

Is “Our Democracy” Failing Our Country?

October 9, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Is “Our Democracy” Failing Our Country?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Asked, “What is an American?” many would answer, “An American is a citizen of the United States.”Yet, at the First Continental Congress in 1774, 15 years before the U.S. became a nation of 13 states, Patrick Henry rose to proclaim that “British oppression has effaced the boundaries of the several colonies; the distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian, but an American.”Henry was saying — more than a dozen years before our constitutional republic was established — that America already existed as a nation, and he was her loyal son.In an 1815 letter to Thomas Jefferson, long after both men had served as president, John Adams…Continue Reading

More California Gas Taxes!

October 8, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on More California Gas Taxes!

By BARBARA SIMPSON There was a time when the idea of living in California was compared to being in “God’s Country.” If you lived on the East Coast, that was the idea you had of the West Coast and in a way they were right. Actually, California is a completely beautiful state — it has gorgeous natural beauty, an easy climate, and everything from mountains, to desert, to ocean beaches.Unfortunately, now it also has politicians who have a knack of spoiling things for everyone, regardless of political party. I won’t go into all the areas they influence, but I will focus on the issue of gasoline prices and the mischief that is being done to them and drivers.Right now, prices…Continue Reading

California Gov. Newsom . . . Cites Jesus On Billboards Promoting Abortion

October 7, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on California Gov. Newsom . . . Cites Jesus On Billboards Promoting Abortion

By KEVIN J. JONES DENVER, Colo. (CNA) — When Gov. Gavin Newsom of California unveiled his plan for a billboard advertising campaign inviting women to travel to his state to have abortions, he was swiftly condemned by Catholics, who called the ads “unconscionable” and “blasphemy.”Why the strong reaction? The abortion-selling ads include a passage from Scripture:“Need an abortion? California is ready to help,” reads the message to be displayed along Indiana and Oklahoma highways. In smaller lettering, the ads cite Jesus Christ’s words in the Gospel of Mark: “Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no greater commandment than these — Mark 12:31.”“It is unconscionable that these ads distort Scripture to support abortion, specifically in states that have already dramatically…Continue Reading

Calls Killing Babies “Religious Freedom”. . . Satanic Temple Sues To Overturn Indiana Abortion Ban

October 6, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Calls Killing Babies “Religious Freedom”. . . Satanic Temple Sues To Overturn Indiana Abortion Ban

By MICAIAH BILGER (LifeNews) — The Satanic Temple filed another pro-abortion lawsuit September 21, this time claiming the state of Indiana is violating its members’ religious freedom by banning the killing of unborn babies in abortions.The Satanic group says an abortion is one of its “religious rituals,” and banning it violates its members U.S. constitutional rights.Indiana protects unborn babies by banning almost all abortions. However, a judge temporarily blocked the pro-life law the previous week in response to a separate lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union and several abortion facilities. Pro-life leaders estimate the law, if enforced, will save about 161 babies from abortion every day.In the Satanic Temple lawsuit, the group says the pro-life law violates its Indiana…Continue Reading

Must We Answer Fools?

October 5, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Must We Answer Fools?

By DEACON JAMES H. TONER “I myself shall give you a wisdom in speaking that all of your adversaries will be powerless to resist or refute” (Luke 21:15). + + No: Do not respond to a fool’s comments: “Do not answer a fool in the terms of his folly for fear that you will grow like him yourself” (Prov. 26:4 JB).Yes: Your duty is, in fact, to respond cogently to the fool: “Answer a fool in the terms of his folly for fear that he imagines himself wise” (Prov. 26:5 JB).Notes in various Bibles are at pains to argue that these two verses are complementary, not conflicting. The Catholic New American Bible, for instance, insists that there “is no contradiction…Continue Reading