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Jan. 4 (UPI) -- A sixth vote on whether Kevin McCarthy will lead Republicans as speaker of the House is set to take place on Wednesday. After losing five previous ballots, Florida Rep. Kat Cammack, nominated McCarthy for a sixth time. "Are we the party of Reagan," Cammack said. "That is the question I ask you to answer as we embark on this next ballot." During the fourth and fifth ballots, McCarthy received 201 votes, while the Democratic Nominee, Hakeem Jeffries of New York, received 212 votes from Democrats as he did in each vote on Tuesday. However, this time...

On November 2, 2018, Oakland tactical filed a lawsuit against Howell Township, Michigan, for using zoning to prevent the ability to construct commercial ranges in the Township, particularly a thousand-yard range on property which was a former quarry. Oakland Tactical has an option to purchase the property to construct such a range. On July 11, 2019, an amended complaint was filed by Oakland Tactical. From the complaint by Oakland Tactical:3.Howell Township has prohibited the siting, construction, and operation of shooting ranges in the town through its zoning regulations by failing to provide or allow any designated areas within the town...

Thou art my portion, O Lord, Alleluia, in the land of the living, Alleluia, Alleluia.—Bring forth my soul out of prison, to confess to thy Name; in the land of the living, Alleluia, Alleluia.—Glory and honor be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, world without end, Amen: in the land of the living, Alleluia, Alleluia. Such is the opening chant for the departed, in the Mozarabic Missal. With the Greeks, in like manner, no word is of more frequent recurrence in the Office of the Dead, than the Alleluia. Moreover, both Greece and...

HOW BEAUTIFUL are thy first steps, O prince’s daughter! Our eyes are never weary of contemplating in thee the marvel of harmonious sweetness united to the strength of an army. Blessed child, continue to grow in grace; may thy course be prosperous; may thy royalty be strengthened and established. But the Church will not wait till thou be grown up, to sing to thee her beautiful antiphon: Rejoice O Virgin Mary; thou alone hast destroyed all heresies throughout the world. Heresy, Satan’s denial of what God affirms by his Christ, this is the great struggle, or rather the only...

Red Semidouble PETER AND PAUL cease not to hearken to the prayer of their devout clients throughout the world. Time has wrought no change in their power; and in heaven, no more than formerly on earth, can the gravity of the general interests of holy Church so absorb them, as that they should neglect the petition of the humblest inhabitant of the glorious city of God, of which they were constituted, and still are, the Princes. One of the triumph gained by hell, at this day, is the lulling to sleep of the faith even of just men; hence...

Green Semidouble THE OFFICE FOR THE SIXTH SUNDAY after Pentecost, which began yesterday evening, reminded us, in its Magnificat Antiphon, of a repentence which has never had an equal. David, the royal prophet, the conqueror of Goliath, himself conquered by sensuality, and from adulterer become a murderer, at last felt the crushing weight of his double crime, and exclaimed: I do beseech thee, O Lord, take away the iniquity of thy servant, for I have done foolishly! “I have acted as a fool!” Sin is always a folly, and a weakness, no matter what kind it may be, or...

THE MAGI were not satisfied with paying their adorations to the great King whom Mary presented to them. After the example of the Queen of Saba, who paid her homage to the Prince of Peace in the person of King Solomon, these three Eastern Kings opened their treasures and presented their offerings to Jesus. Our Emmanuel graciously accepted those mystic gifts and suffered them not to leave him until he had loaded them with gifts infinitely more precious than those he had vouchsafed to receive. The Magi had given him of the riches which this earth produced; Jesus repays...

SIXTH ANTIPHON O REX Gentium, et desideratus earum, Lapisque angularis, qui facis utraque unum; veni, et salva hominem quem de limo formasti. O KING of nations, and their Desired One, and the Corner-Stone that makest both one; come and save man whom thou formedst out of slime. O KING of Nations! thou art approaching still nigher to Bethlehem, where thou art to be born. The journey is almost over, and thy august Mother, consoled and strengthened by the dear weight she bears, holds an unceasing converse with thee on the way. She adores thy divine Majesty; she gives thanks...

Thou art my portion, O Lord, Alleluia, in the land of the living, Alleluia, Alleluia.—Bring forth my soul out of prison, to confess to thy Name; in the land of the living, Alleluia, Alleluia.—Glory and honor be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, world without end, Amen: in the land of the living, Alleluia, Alleluia. Such is the opening chant for the departed, in the Mozarabic Missal. With the Greeks, in like manner, no word is of more frequent recurrence in the Office of the Dead, than the Alleluia. Moreover, both Greece and...

Nachumlist Year ThreeObama's One Hundred and Sixth Week in OfficeThe List" for 2/3/2011Obamanomics: Companies Stock Up As Commodities Prices RiseShell scraps bid to drill off Alaska’s coast this year, Alaska blames ObamaAn Egyptian Warns the United States to Back OffEgyptian Foreign Ministry to U.S.: Keep Your Nose Out of Our BusinessObama's attempt to abruptly push aside Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in favor of a transition government has sparked a rift with key Arab allies Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, which fear the U.S. is opening the door for Islamist groups to gain influence and destabilize the region.Utah Attorney General considers...

Obama's Ninety Sixth Week in OfficeThe List" for 11/25/2010 "Obamanomics: General Motors Co.'s recent stock offering was staged to start paying back the government for its $50 billion bailout, but one group made out much better than the taxpayers or other investors: the company's union. Thanks to a generous share of GM stock obtained in the company's 2009 bankruptcy settlement, the United Auto Workers is well on its way to recouping the billions of dollars GM owed itNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-il and his son and successor Jong-un visited the artillery base from where shells were fired at a South...

  Obama's Eighty Sixth Week in Office"The List" for 9/16/2010 Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner Grilled by Senate Banking CommitteeObama Says Moratorium Doesn’t Really Hurt Anybody; Louisiana Seethes With IndignationThe White House Touts Its Stimulating AbilitiesVIDEO: Barack Obama: The Musical VIDEO: Vitter Astonished at Administration's Disregard for Economic Effects of Moratorium (Gulf oil drill ban)The Obama administration is using nearly $200 million in taxpayer money to plaster every possible highway with signs touting how stimulus cash is "Putting America to Work" with infrastructure projects. Obama Wants To Restore Lebanon Aid Congress Feared Would Be Used Against IsraelWestern lumber records worst year in...

Obama's Seventy Seventh Week in OfficeThe List" for 7/15/2010 Fake Obama numbers on jobs.  The White House economic team didn’t actually count how many people got a job thanks to the stimulus. Instead, the number is a projection that relies on the myth that a dollar of government spending creates up to 2.5 dollars of economic growth.An American public relations firm with ties to President Obama has decided not to renew a contract to orchestrate a campaign aimed at breaking the blockade of the Gaza Strip after Jewish organisations expressed dismay at the arrangement. Fenton Communications - which boasts on...

Obama's Seventy Sixth Week in OfficeThe List" for 7/8/2010 Republican and Democratic leaders on the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation are moving toward an authorization bill that would reverse large swaths of President Obama’s proposed changes to NASA’s human space flight programNASA's Muslim outreach: Al Jazeera told firstAccording to the New York Times, prominent K Street lobbyists are buttonholing Obama officials at a Caribou Coffee shop on Pennsylvania Avenue, raising far more than just ethics questions. Caribou Coffee is a Shariah-compliant firm owned by an Islamic bank based in Bahrain. One of its founders and a current adviser...

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 Obama's Forty Sixth Week in Office"The List" for 12/11/2009 Latest Additions to "The List"VIDEO and Audio: Obamacare bill will protect Medicare benefits for 3 Democratic voting counties The White House: Republicans are against recoveryThe Palestinian Authority has been negotiating an understanding with the Obama administration regarding a Palestinian threat to unilaterally ask the United Nations to recognize a Palestinian state outside of negotiations with Israel"The List" for 12/10/2009 The Obama administration's pay czar, Ken Feinberg, will release new rulings Friday morning on the pay packages for some of the highest-paid employees at six companies receiving what the administration deems "exceptional...

Sixth Salt Man Discovered in Chehr-Abad Mine 04 June 2007 Chehr Abad Saltman No. 2. LONDON, (CAIS) -- The sixth salt man was discovered in Chehr-Ābād Mine in Zanjan City. It is likely that a large number of salt men were buried in Chehr-Ābād Salt Mine, said Farhang Farokhi head of Zanjan Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (ZCHTO). Five previous discovered salt men are being kept in Washhouse Museum , he added. Based on previous reports, Chehr-Ābād Mine had been used from the Achaemenid dynastic era (550-330 BCE) up to the early of the Sassanid dynasty (224-651 CE). The...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An aide to U.S. Sen. Jim Webb, a Virginia Democrat and gun rights advocate, was arrested on Monday by Capitol Police for carrying a loaded gun and two full ammunition magazines into a Senate office building. Media outlets cited an unnamed congressional official who said the gun belonged to Webb, but his office refused to comment... Webb said in a December 2006 interview with the Richmond Times Dispatch newspaper that he did not regularly carry a gun but liked having the option to do so. "I value the opportunity to be able to protect myself, depending on...

Team Opens Sixth Water Plant New facility provides 20,000 liters of water an hour. By Master Sgt. Dave Larsen 1st Cavalry Division Public Affairs CAMP ADDER, Iraq, March 6, 2007 — Children, community leaders and Coalition Forces attended the opening of a reverse osmosis water-treatment plant in Al Kuaam, Iraq, a small rural farming village of 2,000 people on the south bank of the Euphrates River, Feb. 18. "We all know how important clean water is to public health, agriculture, and economic development," said Lt. Col. Larry Herke, chief of staff for the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry...

Bird flu spreads to sixth South Korean farm 24 minutes ago Bird flu has spread to a sixth farm in South Korea, despite government efforts to contain the deadly virus by culling more than two million birds, officials have said. A new outbreak has been discovered at a farm near the capital Seoul with some 133,000 chickens, the agriculture ministry said. "Test results confirmed that breeding chickens at a farm in Iljuk Village were infected with high contagious bird flu virus," the ministry said in a statement. Poultry at the farm, in Iljuk Village near Ansung City, some 90 kilometres...