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Court Upholds Decision To End Temporary Legal Status In 4 Countries

Court Upholds Decision To End Temporary Legal Status In 4 Countries Via AP News: The Trump administration can end humanitarian protections that have allowed hundreds of thousands of people from El Salvador, Nicaragua, Haiti and Sudan to remain in the United States, a divided appeals court ruled Monday. While an appeal is imminent and orders to leave wouldn’t take effect for months, the decision moved many people closer to losing […]

today09/15/2020 5

Joseph Sciambra

Remaining in a Church That Hurt(s) Me By Joseph Sciambra

Remaining in a Church That Hurt(s) Me By Joseph Sciambra Joseph Sciambra originally wrote this piece on  josephsciambra.com It seems to be a fact that you have to suffer as much from the Church as for it… ― Flannery O’Connor, “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor” At mid-life, I have absolutely no patience or charity for eunuch huckster priests who sell the LGBT lie like patent medicine. At 16, […]

today09/14/2020 15

Mulan

American Box Office Struggles, ‘Mulan’ Doesn’t Fare Much Better In China

American Box Office Struggles, 'Mulan' Doesn't Fare Much Better In China Via AP News: Moviegoing audiences in North America are not rushing back to the theater just yet and “Mulan” is also faltering in its China release as the global box office slowly comes back online in the COVID-19 era. In the second major weekend for U.S. and Canadian movie theaters, Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” earned only $6.7 million from 2,910 […]

today09/14/2020 4

San Francisco

San Francisco Considers Lowering Local Voting Age To 16

San Francisco Considers Lowering Local Voting Age To 16 Via The Hill: A new proposition in San Francisco could allow teenagers as young as 16 to vote in local elections, NBC News reported Saturday.  Residents will vote on the measure in November. If it passes, San Francisco will become the first major American city to grant 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote in municipal elections.  A similar measure introduced in […]

today09/14/2020 6

Absentee Balloting

Wisconsin Supreme Court Pauses Absentee Balloting

Wisconsin Supreme Court Pauses Absentee Balloting Absentee Balloting is back in the news, now in the state of Wisconsin.  Via The Hill: The conservative-majority Wisconsin Supreme Court on Thursday ordered that absentee ballots not be mailed until the court resolves a dispute over which third-party candidates qualify for the battleground state’s ballot, raising concerns about delays as election deadlines near. The 4-3 decision, which broke along ideological lines, stems from […]

today09/11/2020 7

Non-Residents

Judges Block Executive Order, Allow Non-Residents To Be Counted In District Drawings

Judges Block Executive Order, Allow Non-Residents To Be Counted In District Drawings Another win for non-residents from non-elected officials  Via AP News: Saying the president had exceeded his authority, a panel of three federal judges on Thursday blocked an order from President Donald Trump that tried to exclude people in the country illegally from being counted when congressional districts are redrawn. The federal judges in New York, in granting an […]

today09/11/2020 8

Atlantic

Atlantic Hit Piece Did Little To Move The Needle For Most Americans

Atlantic Hit Piece Did Little To Move The Needle For Most Americans Per YouGov: A recent story published in The Atlantic reported that President Donald Trump had referred to American soldiers killed in combat as “losers” and “suckers” during conversations with staff members.   According to the report, Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018. In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit, Trump reportedly said, “Why should I go […]

today09/10/2020 8

mail-in ballots

Louisiana Mail-in Ballots Could Delay Results By Days

Louisiana Mail-in Ballots Could Delay Results By Days Another state is warning of the potential chaos that mail-in ballots will bring to election 2020. Via The Hill: Louisiana’s election commissioner said Wednesday she is “extremely concerned” about getting election results on Election Day even if the state’s mail-in voting program isn’t expanded as the Democratic governor and voting rights advocates are pushing to do.  The volume of absentee ballots could delay […]

today09/10/2020 7

U.S. Debt

U.S. Debt Soars To A Record $3.3 trillion Due To COVID19 Hysteria

U.S. Debt Soars To A Record $3.3 trillion Due To COVID19 Hysteria The federal budget deficit is projected to hit a record $3.3 trillion as huge government expenditures to fight the coronavirus and to prop up the economy have added more than $2 trillion to the federal ledger, the Congressional Budget Office said. The spike in the deficit means that federal debt will exceed annual gross domestic product next year […]

today09/03/2020 2

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