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The FBI Doesn’t Seem To Care Enough To Explain Their Trump Raid

August 15, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on The FBI Doesn’t Seem To Care Enough To Explain Their Trump Raid

By NEIL PATEL From the moment Donald Trump came down the escalator to formally step onto the political stage, America’s leading establishment figures have misjudged what was happening. Most still refuse to think deeply about what drove such massive popularity for Trump. Some of it was his focus on issues, such as extended wars in the Middle East and a lack of border security, where there was a growing chasm between voters’ desires and politicians’ priorities.The biggest part, though, was a growing mistrust felt by many Americans for their political leaders altogether. There are still so many open questions about the FBI’s raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home this past week, but one thing for sure is it reinforced the feeling…Continue Reading

“The Viruses Among Us”

August 14, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on “The Viruses Among Us”

By BARBARA SIMPSON Have you grown tired of it yet? The news — radio, TV, print, Internet, and whatever else there might be — has been filled lately with information about and warnings against the monkeypox virus.To read what is being reported, you would think that monkeypox is the only virus that humans have to be concerned about. It isn’t, but it is the “virus of the day” and given that it is virtually “new” in the United States and is pretty horrific, the warnings are necessary.The federal government has declared it a major health emergency as have the governors of California, New York, and Illinois.Perhaps you’d never heard of it and, given that it has not been a disease…Continue Reading

Who Won The Taiwan War Games?

August 13, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Who Won The Taiwan War Games?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defied White House signals that she not stop in Taiwan on her valedictory tour of Asian capitals, she ignited the worst diplomatic U.S.-China row in decades.And how did last week’s collision turn out for the United States?Writes The New York Times:Speaker Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan began with her “plane departing from Kuala Lumpur and heading southeast toward the Indonesian part of Borneo, then turning north to fly along the eastern part of the Philippines. A more direct — and shorter — route would have been to fly northeast in a direct route over the South China Sea to Taiwan.”Pelosi’s avoidance of the South China Sea might have something to do with…Continue Reading

At Napa Institute . . . Catholics Respond With Prayer And Song To Disruptive Protesters

August 12, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on At Napa Institute . . . Catholics Respond With Prayer And Song To Disruptive Protesters

By ZELDA CALDWELL WASHINGTON, D.C. — When protesters tried to disrupt a conference of Catholics leaders held over a weekend in Napa, Calif., they soon gave up when their chants were drowned out by 800 people singing Salve Regina, a hymn to the Virgin Mary.The July 30 incident, which later became a viral sensation on social media, took place at the 12th annual summer conference of the Napa Institute, a group dedicated to training the Church’s leaders how to evangelize in an increasingly secularized society.Austin Quick, who was attending the conference at the Meritage Resort and Spa in Napa, told Catholic News Agency that former Attorney General William Barr had begun his keynote address on Saturday night, July 31, when…Continue Reading

Arlington Bishop Curtails Traditional Latin Masses

August 11, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Arlington Bishop Curtails Traditional Latin Masses

By SHANNON MULLEN WASHINGTON, D.C. (CNA) — Thirteen parishes in the Diocese of Arlington, Va., must stop offering Traditional Latin Masses come September 8 under new rules issued Friday, July 29 by Bishop Michael J. Burbidge to conform with Pope Francis’ liturgical directives.Under the rules, eight other parishes may continue to offer Masses in what is called the Extraordinary Form, but five of those may only do so in other locations besides their churches, including school buildings and a former church.Moreover, none of the eight parishes may publish the times of their Latin Masses in their bulletins, parish websites, or social media channels, in conformity with the Vatican’s requirements.Three parishes in the 70-parish diocese may continue to host Latin Masses…Continue Reading

Communist China Deserves To Be Disrespected

August 10, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Communist China Deserves To Be Disrespected

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY The American people last year bought $75 billion worth of cellphones manufactured in Communist China and $59 billion worth of computers.We also bought more than $39 billion in Chinese-made toys and games, $24 billion in clothing and textiles and $19 billion in household appliances.Over the course of the year, people in this country purchased $504.9 billion in goods from Communist China, while Communist China bought only $151.4 billion from us. The result was a $353.5 billion bilateral trade deficit — by far the largest trade deficit the United States ran with any country.In fact, in every year since 1985 — the first year that the Census Bureau reported the U.S.-China trade balance — the United States…Continue Reading

California Legislators Appear Hellbent On Decriminalizing Infanticide

August 9, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on California Legislators Appear Hellbent On Decriminalizing Infanticide

By MICHAEL J. DaPOS (LifeSiteNews) — With so many leftists in positions of power in the United States, one wonders: What is their approach to solving the problems in our country? If recent history is any indicator, it’s certainly not by taking swift action to fix it, and it almost never involves addressing the problem, or even admitting that a problem exists in the first place.More recently, though, the left’s solution to most every problem they invariably cause seems to concern redefining things, events, and even people — from vaccines to recessions and even women — in order to craft a new narrative entirely, build fake straw men, and advance their warped agenda no matter what the cost.What may be…Continue Reading

When Clinton, Biden, And Schumer Defended Marriage Against Ted Kennedy

August 8, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on When Clinton, Biden, And Schumer Defended Marriage Against Ted Kennedy

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY When Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts led the fight in 1996 to stop a federal law that would define marriage as the union of one man and one woman, he faced some prominent opponents in his own party.They included then-Cong. Chuck Schumer of New York, then-Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware, and then-President Bill Clinton.The marriage issue came up that year because of a case working its way through the state courts in Hawaii. The issue there was whether the Hawaiian constitution protected a right to same-sex marriage.If Hawaii’s Supreme Court were to rule that this was the case, the other 49 states could have been forced by Article IV, Section 1 of the Constitution to…Continue Reading

The Supremacy Of Fact Over Fiction

August 7, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on The Supremacy Of Fact Over Fiction

By DONALD DeMARCO Virginia Woolf was an English writer, born in London in the year 1882 and regarded as one of the most important modernist authors of the twentieth century. She was particularly noted for her use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Her works have been translated into more than fifty languages. Throughout her life, however, she was plagued by mental illness, with what today would be classified as a bipolar disorder. She was institutionalized several times and tried to commit suicide at least twice. In 1941, at the age of fifty-nine, she died by drowning herself in the River Ouse at Lewes.She was a harsh critic of Christianity and considered herself to be an atheist. In…Continue Reading

Is Taiwan’s Independence Worth War?

August 6, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Is Taiwan’s Independence Worth War?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN When a man knows he is about to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully, said Dr. Samuel Johnson.If there is any benefit to be realized from the collision between China and the U.S. over Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan, it is this: America needs to reflect long and hard upon what it is we will fight China to defend in the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea.China, after all, is a nuclear-weapons nation with a manufacturing base larger than our own, an economy equal to our own, a population four times ours and fleets of warships larger in number than the U.S. Navy.An air-naval-and-missile war in the Western Pacific and East…Continue Reading