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Christian preacher arrested in UK after saying ‘God bless you’ to Gaza war protesters
- By RamiC
The UK National Anthem is called "God Save the King" Do the police think it is illegal?
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The Nobel Peace Prize went to Venezuela’s Maria Corina Machado - why not Trump? He's solved 8 wars!
- American Politics
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump’s job approval rating has fallen five percentage points to 36%, the lowest of his second term, while disapproval has risen to 60%. The latest decline follows three months of stability, with 40% to 41% of Americans expressing approval of his handling of the presidency. His prior second-term low point in approval was a statistically similar 37% in July, and his all-time low was 34% in 2021, at the end of his first term after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
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MAGA seems to be reluctantly facing the reality, a few at a time, and a crack is developing between the true believers and conservatives.
A stark divide is growing among conservatives who voted for President Donald Trump in 2024, according to a new Politico poll.
The survey found that 55% of Trump voters identified themselves as “MAGA Republicans,” while 38% did not. And those two groups have taken divergent views of how the president is handling his second term in office, with non-MAGA voters far more likely to disapprove of his performance on the economy and health care.
Trump’s approval rating is plummeting, but the real story is what’s happening among his own voters: New poll
Trump's Approval Rating Drops to 36%, New Second-Term Low
President Donald Trump's job approval rating has slipped to a new second-term low point and is approaching his all-time low of 34%.
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MAGA seems to be reluctantly facing the reality, a few at a time, and a crack is developing between the true believers and conservatives.
A stark divide is growing among conservatives who voted for President Donald Trump in 2024, according to a new Politico poll.
The survey found that 55% of Trump voters identified themselves as “MAGA Republicans,” while 38% did not. And those two groups have taken divergent views of how the president is handling his second term in office, with non-MAGA voters far more likely to disapprove of his performance on the economy and health care.
Trump’s approval rating is plummeting, but the real story is what’s happening among his own voters: New poll
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US military becoming more religious as nation remains more secular: study
- By Michie
The United States armed forces are seeing a rise in religious sentiment even as mainstream culture becomes more secular, according to a recent statistical analysis.
Ryan Burge, a professor of practice at the John C. Danforth Center at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, posted an article on his popular Substack page, Graphs About Religion, in which he analyzed data from the Cooperative Election Study, noting that the number of active-duty military personnel who attend church at least once a week has increased in recent years.
The number of military personnel who attended church weekly has increased from 21% in 2010-2012 to 28% in 2022-2024. Those who attended more than once a week increased from 15% in 2010-2012 to 17% in 2022-2024. In total, 45% of military respondents surveyed in 2022-2024 attended at least weekly.
During the same period, the number of surveyed civilians who attended church weekly stayed at 16%, while those who attended more than once a week declined from 9% in 2010-2012 to 7% in 2022-2024. In total, 23% of civilian respondents surveyed in 2022-2024 attended at least weekly.
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Ryan Burge, a professor of practice at the John C. Danforth Center at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, posted an article on his popular Substack page, Graphs About Religion, in which he analyzed data from the Cooperative Election Study, noting that the number of active-duty military personnel who attend church at least once a week has increased in recent years.
The number of military personnel who attended church weekly has increased from 21% in 2010-2012 to 28% in 2022-2024. Those who attended more than once a week increased from 15% in 2010-2012 to 17% in 2022-2024. In total, 45% of military respondents surveyed in 2022-2024 attended at least weekly.
During the same period, the number of surveyed civilians who attended church weekly stayed at 16%, while those who attended more than once a week declined from 9% in 2010-2012 to 7% in 2022-2024. In total, 23% of civilian respondents surveyed in 2022-2024 attended at least weekly.
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US military becoming more religious as nation remains more secular: study
The United States Armed Forces are seeing a rise in religious sentiment even as mainstream culture becomes more secular, according to a recent statistical analysis
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NJ admits to Supreme Court it had no complaints against targeted pro-life center
- By Michie
An attorney representing New Jersey before the U.S. Supreme Court has admitted that a pro-life pregnancy care center the state subpoenaed had no complaints leveled against it.
The Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday morning in the case of First Choice Women's Resource Centers, Inc. v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey.
At issue was whether New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin could require First Choice, a pro-life center network, to disclose its donor lists and donors' information under threat of legal penalties.
Sundeep Iyer, chief counsel to the New Jersey attorney general, argued the case on behalf of the state. He argued that the subpoena did not violate First Choice's First Amendment rights.
During the proceedings, Justice Clarence Thomas asked Iyer if he had “complaints that formed the basis of your concern about the fundraising activities” of First Choice.
When Iyer replied that “we certainly had complaints about crisis pregnancy centers,” Thomas interjected to ask if he had had complaints about First Choice specifically.
“So, I think we’ve been clear from the outset that we haven’t had complaints about this specific crisis pregnancy center,” Iyer responded.
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The Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday morning in the case of First Choice Women's Resource Centers, Inc. v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey.
At issue was whether New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin could require First Choice, a pro-life center network, to disclose its donor lists and donors' information under threat of legal penalties.
Sundeep Iyer, chief counsel to the New Jersey attorney general, argued the case on behalf of the state. He argued that the subpoena did not violate First Choice's First Amendment rights.
During the proceedings, Justice Clarence Thomas asked Iyer if he had “complaints that formed the basis of your concern about the fundraising activities” of First Choice.
When Iyer replied that “we certainly had complaints about crisis pregnancy centers,” Thomas interjected to ask if he had had complaints about First Choice specifically.
“So, I think we’ve been clear from the outset that we haven’t had complaints about this specific crisis pregnancy center,” Iyer responded.
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NJ admits to Supreme Court it had no complaints against targeted pro-life center
An attorney representing New Jersey before the U S Supreme Court has admitted that a pro-life pregnancy care center the state subpoenaed had no complaints leveled against it
www.christianpost.com
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Mamdani’s Socialist Grocery Store: Shopping in the Aisle of Denial
- By Michie
- General Politics
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New York City’s new socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani has pledged to open city-run grocery stores to lower costs and help the working class with his socialist policies.
City-owned and managed grocery stores have resurfaced as eye-catching policy ideas to lower food costs and fight hunger. However, they will have the opposite effect: wasting taxpayer money, promoting inefficiency and hurting local food businesses.
He argues that these stores are needed to address supposed food “deserts,” which are usually crime-ridden areas that retailers often avoid. He also claims the groceries will provide working-class New Yorkers with better access to affordable food. His pilot program consists of launching five stores across the city, one in each borough. It is all part of his socialist platform, which, besides lowering grocery costs, also includes freezing rent and increasing corporate taxes to fund this project.
A closer examination of the plan reveals it cannot succeed because it entirely replaces market signals—such as costs, property rights, profit and the profit motive—with bureaucratic decision-making. He proposes the classic Marxist alternative to a free market economy.
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City-owned and managed grocery stores have resurfaced as eye-catching policy ideas to lower food costs and fight hunger. However, they will have the opposite effect: wasting taxpayer money, promoting inefficiency and hurting local food businesses.
Mamdani’s Plan: Bad Economics
Mamdani bases the need for city-run grocery stores on a socialist theory rather than hard data. This is a blatant feel-good dream that denies basic economics. This sounds very good on paper, ‘free’ always does, until the money needed to fund the free goods cannot be found.He argues that these stores are needed to address supposed food “deserts,” which are usually crime-ridden areas that retailers often avoid. He also claims the groceries will provide working-class New Yorkers with better access to affordable food. His pilot program consists of launching five stores across the city, one in each borough. It is all part of his socialist platform, which, besides lowering grocery costs, also includes freezing rent and increasing corporate taxes to fund this project.
A closer examination of the plan reveals it cannot succeed because it entirely replaces market signals—such as costs, property rights, profit and the profit motive—with bureaucratic decision-making. He proposes the classic Marxist alternative to a free market economy.
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Mamdani’s Socialist Grocery Store: Shopping in the Aisle of Denial
New York City’s new socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani has pledged to open city-run grocery stores to lower costs and help the working class with his socialist policies. City-owned and managed grocery stores have resurfaced as eye-catching policy ideas to lower food costs and fight hunger. However...
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The Final Experiment (Flat Earth Bites The Dust)
- By lismore
- Non-Mainstream and Controversial Science
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When I was in primary school I remember being given a school book about evolution, diagrams of a fish like creature crawling onto land an artist's impression of ape men sitting round a camp fire having a jolly, based on a single tooth. The people who produce such drivel for children were evidently ideologically driven blinkered zealots, but I have even encountered people in the church who would irrationally defend this stuff. God Bless You have a good day
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My Role in the Pachamama Event.
- By Michie
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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Over the summer of 2019, there was a lot of righteous anger among traditional Catholics online (and in real life) over the fact that the folks in charge of the Vatican the last decade had placed Pachamama idols—idols Burgles’ staff admitted to Catholic News Agency were not the Blessed Virgin Mary—in various Catholic Churches in Rome, including St. Mary Transpontina near the Vatican.
Dr. Taylor Marshall and I had decided to go dunk these wicked idols, but he had to bail at the last minute. I still went to Rome, in any case, with a different Taylor M. (not kidding) and a traditional gentleman from England.
You see, Dr. Marshall and I had a big argument over this miscommunication but later reconciled. We actually discussed this reconciliation on his show on narcissism several years after the following event, but we did not exactly name the event you are about to read about because you-know-who was still alive. We discussed how narcissists don’t know how to apologize, and yet Dr. Marshall and I had to apologize each to each other for various parts of this event. I’m glad we did that.
In any case, Marshall sent Mr. Alexander Tschugguel into Transpontina to trash the idols very early on 21 October 2019. However, because I had lost contact with Marshall due to our argument, I didn’t know he sent in Tschugguel at 6am. Thus, the other Taylor M. and I went into Transpontina at 9am and got caught while trying to escape with the abominations in that temple. (Keep in mind Tschugguel bravely trashed several idols, but the wicked folks running Rome had many back-up idols at that point that we were able to intercept in the following body cam footage you are about to see.)
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Dr. Taylor Marshall and I had decided to go dunk these wicked idols, but he had to bail at the last minute. I still went to Rome, in any case, with a different Taylor M. (not kidding) and a traditional gentleman from England.
You see, Dr. Marshall and I had a big argument over this miscommunication but later reconciled. We actually discussed this reconciliation on his show on narcissism several years after the following event, but we did not exactly name the event you are about to read about because you-know-who was still alive. We discussed how narcissists don’t know how to apologize, and yet Dr. Marshall and I had to apologize each to each other for various parts of this event. I’m glad we did that.
In any case, Marshall sent Mr. Alexander Tschugguel into Transpontina to trash the idols very early on 21 October 2019. However, because I had lost contact with Marshall due to our argument, I didn’t know he sent in Tschugguel at 6am. Thus, the other Taylor M. and I went into Transpontina at 9am and got caught while trying to escape with the abominations in that temple. (Keep in mind Tschugguel bravely trashed several idols, but the wicked folks running Rome had many back-up idols at that point that we were able to intercept in the following body cam footage you are about to see.)
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My Role in the Pachamama Event.
Over the summer of 2019, there was a lot of righteous anger among traditional Catholics online (and in real life) over the fact that the folks in charge of the Vatican the last decade had placed Pachamama idols—idols Burgles' staff admitted to Catholic News Agency were not the Blessed Virgin...
www.padreperegrino.org
Trump to launch new social media platform TRUTH Social
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He truthed it, and truthed it again a few minutes later. It must be truth!
OK, now it's around its all time (post-SPAC) lows.
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Reactions mount in Canada to undercover video exposing late-term abortions
- By Michie
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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A week after The Catholic Register in Canada revealed that pro-life advocate Alissa Golob went undercover while 22 weeks pregnant to test whether late-term abortions were accessible in Canada without medical justification, the national response continues to intensify, with a new twist: a fourth hidden-camera video that Golob says she is legally barred from releasing.
Golob, co-founder of RightNow, posed as an undecided pregnant woman in abortion facilities in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and Calgary in 2023. The Nov. 19 Register story detailed her conversations with clinic counselors and physicians who told her late-term abortions could be arranged at nearby hospitals, sometimes “up to 32 weeks,” without needing to provide medical reasons.
Staff described procedures as a “mini stillbirth,” advised her she could “expel the fetus in the car,” and said reasons such as already having two children or “not wanting to be pregnant” were acceptable.
Those recordings — three of which have now been released — directly contradict long-standing political claims that late-term abortions in Canada are only performed in cases of maternal health risk or severe fetal anomalies.
In an email interview with The B.C. Catholic, Golob said the reaction from Canadians has been more visceral than she expected.
The dominant response has been “overwhelming shock and horror from the average Canadian who didn’t think late-term abortions were possible,” she said.
Many who describe themselves as pro-choice wrote to her saying the recordings were disturbing and that unrestricted late-term abortion “just shouldn’t be allowed.”
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Golob, co-founder of RightNow, posed as an undecided pregnant woman in abortion facilities in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and Calgary in 2023. The Nov. 19 Register story detailed her conversations with clinic counselors and physicians who told her late-term abortions could be arranged at nearby hospitals, sometimes “up to 32 weeks,” without needing to provide medical reasons.
Staff described procedures as a “mini stillbirth,” advised her she could “expel the fetus in the car,” and said reasons such as already having two children or “not wanting to be pregnant” were acceptable.
Those recordings — three of which have now been released — directly contradict long-standing political claims that late-term abortions in Canada are only performed in cases of maternal health risk or severe fetal anomalies.
In an email interview with The B.C. Catholic, Golob said the reaction from Canadians has been more visceral than she expected.
The dominant response has been “overwhelming shock and horror from the average Canadian who didn’t think late-term abortions were possible,” she said.
Many who describe themselves as pro-choice wrote to her saying the recordings were disturbing and that unrestricted late-term abortion “just shouldn’t be allowed.”
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Reactions mount in Canada to undercover video exposing late-term abortions
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Rome’s Failure to Correct Germany’s Bishops has Emboldened Their Pro-LGBT Agenda
- By Michie
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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As the country’s bishops issue a new document encouraging diversity of sexual identities in Catholic schools, German Catholic sociologist Gabriele Kuby explains the full extent of the crisis.
A recently published document from the German bishops encouraging Catholic school pupils to self-identify according to their “sexual identity” is the latest significant departure of the bishops’ conference from the Church’s teaching, re-igniting talk of a possible new, German-born schism.
The “orientation aid,” published on Oct. 30, states that Catholic schools should consider “diversity of sexual identities is a fact,” effectively normalizing any pupil to self-identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and non‑binary.
Teachers are further encouraged to use language that reflects “the diversity of sexual identities,” and are advised to present questions of sexual morality as “disputed,” allowing students to form their own judgments.
Only three German bishops have so far publicly voiced their opposition to the document: Bishops Stefan Oster of Passau and Rudolf Voderholzer of Regensburg, and Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, Archbishop of Cologne.
The Vatican has, at least in its teaching documents, been clear about its opposition to this “gender theory” approach, describing it as an ideology that denies the created difference of man and woman, and that undermines the anthropological basis of the family.
German Catholic sociologist Gabriele Kuby, a respected expert on the scourge of gender theory, believes this latest act of German episcopal dissent from the Magisterium is, to a large extent, a consequence of Vatican inaction against the German bishops.
In the following excerpt of an interview published in the latest edition of The Academy Review of the John Paul II Academy for Human Life and the Family (JAHLF), Kuby explains in illuminating detail the extent of the crisis related to the German episcopate which, aided by their 2019-2023 Synodal Path, has attempted to impose a change in the Church’s teaching on sexual morality, introduce liturgical blessings for same-sex couples, and is now trying to normalise sexual diversity identities.
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Rome’s Failure to Correct Germany’s Bishops has Emboldened Their Pro-LGBT Agenda
As the country’s bishops issue a new document encouraging diversity of sexual identities in Catholic schools, German Catholic sociologist Gabriele Kuby explains the full extent of the crisis.
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A YouTube Priest Says You Shouldn’t Pray After Communion. Here’s Why He’s Wrong...
- By Michie
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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Jimmy Akin corrects popular Franciscan YouTuber Fr. Casey Cole’s claim that it’s “not appropriate” to pray privately after Communion and that EVERYONE must sing the Communion hymn. Jimmy goes through the argument line-by-line and exposes the claim as a classic “pious little legalism.” Jimmy quotes parts of the General Instruction that Fr. Casey never mentioned and reveals what Rome actually says about post-Communion prayer. A powerful, fact-packed defense of your right to thank Jesus after receiving him in holy Communion!
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A YouTube Priest Says You Shouldn’t Pray After Communion. Here’s Why He’s Wrong...
Jimmy Akin corrects popular Franciscan YouTuber Fr. Casey Cole’s claim that it’s “not appropriate” to pray privately after Communion and tha...
Is Christian Zionism a heresy?
- General Politics
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Understood. Somethings just aren't publicly available. This snippet of the article is one of them.I’m just curious about where the info you posted came from specifically.
Thanks for sharing!
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