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On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani has fallen and is engaging in “mob behavior.” Brooks said, “[T]he fall of Giuliani is one of the great stories of our age. I covered him a lot when he was mayor, extremely brilliant, extremely sharp, not the man I see today. The one continuity is that he would sit around with his staff and watch the ‘Godfather’ movies over and over again. And the mob behavior — this really is mob behavior. It’s like, let’s dig up dirt on this guy.”

“The majority of our youth—63 percent—are believers,” commented the head of the Дepartment for External Church Relations, His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, citing a VTSIOM survey, according to which only 37% of young Russians aged 18-24 consider themselves unbelievers, reports Foma. “It’s another question how they believe? There are young people who are churched. There are young people who are seeking, who consider themselves believers but haven’t yet decided which religious community they should join,” Metropolitan Hilarion said. According to the survey, only 16% of 24 to 34-year-old respondents consider themselves unbelievers. “The percentage of believers increases with age—this...

He announced on Twitter that he’s finished. “Will not be playing in the (NFL) anymore these owners can cancel deals do whatever they want at anytime we will see if the (NFLPA) hold them accountable sad they can just void guarantees anytime going on 40m 2 months will see if they pay up !” the tweet read. Brown was recently released by the Patriots.

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Roger Thornhill. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Celebrating its 60th anniversary, Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest is an iconic movie, starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly, back in an age when movies were brilliantly produced and written, while roles were played by actors with both intelligence and emotion. This quote was one of the many quips played by Grant's character, Roger Thornhill. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidental...

Ethiopian Christians took to the streets after morning mass on Sunday to protest multiple attacks on Ethiopian Orthodox churches in the country.The protests were mainly centered in the Amhara region and parts of Addis Ababa, and follow a year-long spate of attacks on both Orthodox and Protestant churches in the country. Protestors are demanding an end to what they view as “a planned and orchestrated attack on the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church”, according to a report on Borkena.com. * Thousands protested despite church organisations announcing on Friday that the action was postponed in favour of dialogue. * Diaspora communities are...

State appeals court says transsexual man can sue Mercy San Juan Medical Center for refusing to perform hysterectomyThe 1st District Court of Appeal in San Francisco ruled that a Sacramento-area transgender man can sue Mercy San Juan Medical Center over the last-minute cancellation of his hysterectomy, overturning a lower-court ruling that dismissed the case. Dignity Health, which operates Mercy San Juan, arranged for Evan Minton to have the procedure at Methodist Hospital in south Sacramento within 72 hours of the denial, court records state. The procedure was canceled, the lawsuit stated, after Minton mentioned to a nurse that he is...

Chairman of finance council: 'Claims come forward every time you turn around'CHICAGO (ChurchMilitant.com) - A prominent sex abuse attorney announced at a press conference on Sept. 17 that he recently settled cases for long-ago sexual misdeeds for more than $80 million for 160 victims over the last two decades. The more than $80 million the Chicago archdiocese has paid since 2001, attorney Jeff Anderson of Jeff Anderson & Associates said, represents a large chunk of the estimated $220 million that the archdiocese had spent in total to settle such claims. The financial toll of priest sex abuse on the Chicago...

Posted on September 21, 2019September 20, 2019 by Msgr. Charles Pope On Being Faithful in a Few Things before Being Ruler over Many Things - A Homily for the 24th Sunday of the Year In this Sunday’s Gospel, the Lord Jesus gives a penetrating analysis of the state of the sinner and some very sobering advice to us would-be saints. Let’s look at the Gospel in two stages:I. ANALYSIS OF THE SINNER – In the opening lines of the Gospel, Jesus describes a sinful steward.DELUSION (of the sinner) – Jesus said to his disciples, “A rich man had a...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem (Old Testament) Daniel 11 11 1 And in the first year of Darius the Mede, I took my stand to support and protect him.) The King Who Exalts Himself 36 “The king will do as he pleases. He will exalt and magnify himself above every god and will say unheard-of things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed, for what has been determined must take place. 37 He will show no regard for the gods of his ancestors or for the one desired by women, nor will he...

“His Son Knows Nothing, He’s a Stiff” – President Trump Doubles Down – Blasts Joe Biden on Son’s Billion Dollar Pay-for-Play with China (VIDEO) Jim Hoft by Jim Hoft September 22, 2019 ShareTweetEmail In his 2018 book, Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends Peter Schweizer revealed how the Biden family secured a billion-dollar China deal just days after former Vice President Joe Biden visited China in 2013. The Clintons aren’t the only ones securing huge contracts with foreign governments off their political status!

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the release of North by Northwest. Here's what Mark had to say about this classic film a few years ago: Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest contains what I think of as the all-time great strangers-on-a-train scene, and one I always recall if I'm in the dining car of an at least potentially exotic choo-choo - the Eurostar, say - and a glamorous femme comes sashaying down the aisle, even if she does park herself at some other guy's table. In a lifetime's travel, everyone should have a North by Northwest moment: on a...

Thomas Cook, a British travel company that’s been around for more than 100 years, met with shareholders on Sunday in the company’s fight to avoid bankruptcy. Thomas Cook confirmed Friday that it is seeking £200 million in new capital. The company’s largest shareholder is Chinese investment company Fosun. […] A collapse could leave around 150,000 travelers from Britain stranded, along with tens of thousands of travelers from other countries. The British government may have to lease planes to get its citizens home. …

Spin the magic wheel: click, click, click, click, click—click—click: Ukraine! We’re all going to Ukraine!Another week, another pseudo-scandal fomented by anonymous anti-Trump actors in the “intelligence community” and fanned into attention-grabbing headlines by an impatient, irresponsible press.Can anyone keep them all straight? They rise like noxious bubbles from the cauldron of deep-state anti-Trump sentiment, only to pass away almost immediately, carried off by their own insubstantiality and the contrasting bright-light series of real achievements on the part of the Trump Administration. Just this last week, we saw the New York chapter of the left-over Left make a last-ditch effort to...

FREDERICK COUNTY, Md. — The Frederick County Sheriff's Office has charged two teens for the random, unprovoked physical attack of a 59-year-old man at the Great Frederick Fair. The victim was found near the midway area of the fairgrounds around 5:36 p.m. Friday, lying unconscious. Police interviewed multiple witnesses who told them the victim had been minding his own business. Maryland State Police airlifted the victim to R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore where he died from his injuries Saturday. An autopsy is now scheduled at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to determine an exact cause...

He’s done it again. The gaffe machine was at a campaign event in Cedar Rapids, Iowa when he spoke about trans prisoners. Joe Biden thinks that male convicts that identify as female will be housed with women: “In prison, the determination should be that your sexual identity is defined by what you say it is not what in fact the prison says it is.”

“That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee” (Proverbs 22:19).

This is worth watching for everyone who won't object to the religious content. I have already pinged the Amir Tsarfati ping list, but this is so chock-full of very recent news and news analysis, as well as Bible interpretation of events, that I thought everyone who subscribes to the Religion forum should see it. Amir is the most important Christian preacher in the world today. Begin watching at the 20-hour-and-10-minute mark to see/hear the message. There is an interview with Amir immediately following the message.

Several Democratic presidential candidates will be attending an annual steak fry event, despite lecturing Americans about the need to eat less meat because of climate change. The organizers of the Iowa Polk County Democratic Party's annual steak fry will be grilling 10,500 steaks and 1,000 vegan burgers on 10 grills, during Saturday's event. Some of the candidates will grill steaks themselves. Democratic candidates recently participated in a CNN climate town hall, where multiple candidates discussed the importance of reducing meat intake. Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) called for the U.S. government to create incentives to eat less meat. "As a...

This is my most concise expose of climate fraud. Please pass it around to everyone you know and your elected officials. The video is short, but cuts right to the heart of the matter.https://youtu.be/8455KEDitpU Tony Heller

In a Rasmussen poll conducted on September 5th and 8th, 2019, 28% of Democrats in the sample of 1,000 likely voters thought Americans should be prohibited, by law, from belonging to the National Rifle Association, or other groups that support enforcement of Second Amendment rights. From rasmussenreports.com: The National Rifle Association is America’s largest gun rights organization with more than five million members. But a sizable number of Democrats views it as a terrorist group and believes it should be against the law for Americans to belong to pro-gun rights organizations like the NRA. I have written about the mindset...