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President Donald Trump issued a flurry of statements Sunday against Pope Leo XIV, saying in part that the U.S.-born pope supports Iran having a nuclear weapon. Trump on Truth Social characterized Leo as “Weak on Nuclear Weapons.” “I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon,” Trump wrote April 12.  However, the pope has specifically spoken against nuclear weapons and their devastation. In a March 5 video message, Leo said: “Today we lift up our prayer for peace in the world, asking that nations renounce weapons and choose the path of dialogue and…

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS Joining me today is Patrick Henningsen, here to discuss largely the Iran war—and the many lies surrounding it—as he has just returned from Iran where he was able to definitively debunk numerous western lies about what recently took place in the country. We also discuss the shifting political landscape of the United States and the growing awareness of the broken nature of the US political system. Finally we address the hard truth that many are struggling with, and that is the possibility that the American Empire may be dying, and whether there was a recent…

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From today’s opinion by Judge Darrin Gayles (S.D. Fla.) in Trump v. Dow Jones & Co, Inc.: On January 15, 2025, Palazzolo emailed White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt advising her that Dow Jones intended to publish an article (the “Article”) about a letter that President Trump purportedly sent to Epstein (the “Letter”). President Trump, through counsel, denied writing the Letter and warned Dow Jones not to publish the story. Two days later, the WSJ online edition published the Article. The title of the Article—”Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One was from Donald…

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A new poll of Israelis shows that six-in-ten are opposed to the current truce with Iran. Last week, the US and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire to allow space for talks to bring a permanent end to the conflict.  The survey, conducted by the Institute for National Security Studies, found 61% of Israelis are opposed to the ongoing ceasefire with Iran. Earlier this month, Pakistan brokered a truce between the US and Iran that was intended to halt fighting across the Middle East. However, Israel has refused to stop attacking Lebanon.  69% of Israelis support continuing military operations inside…

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Seven of the American League’s 1937 All-Star players: Lou Gehrig, Joe Cronin, Bill Dickey, Joe DiMaggio, Charlie Gehringer, Jimmie Foxx, and Hank Greenberg. Image Wikipedia. Seventy-five years ago, my father and I gazed down from the stands at Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle in the outfield at Yankee Stadium. I was thrilled by the sight of two heroes of my time, but Dad was not impressed. He had seen Babe Ruth. I think about that now, in a time desperate for such symbolic representatives of our better selves, which we once derived from sports figures like Mickey, Joe, and the…

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Books Nothing Worth Staying Up For George Saunders’s latest is an exercise in lefty moralizing. (Johnny Louis/FilmMagic) Vigil: A Novel, by George Saunders, Random House, 174 pages. G.K. Chesterton may or may not have actually said, “The first effect of not believing in God is to believe in anything,” but in this, the third decade of the 21st century, the words ring true. We might want to add a corollary: The first effect of not believing in sin, as traditionally defined by the major schools of religious and moral thought, is to believe in forms of “sin” that are no…

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At last Friday’s University of Virginia Federalist Society Originalism Symposium on “Originalism and Article III,” I participated in a Rupe Debate with Professor Jed Shugerman on the resolution: “The Supreme Court’s deference to recent executive actions on the emergency docket is consistent with the separation of powers.” Professor Shugerman and I had a fruitful and enjoyable exchange, even if he agreed with me on many points and we dove deep into the question of how the Supreme Court should have handled the stay applications in the various removal cases, such as Wilcox and Boyle. The video is below. Source link

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