1A: Jim Havens was told that his sidewalk counseling organization could not share information about abortion and abortion alternatives with women outside of a Rochester Planned Parenthood clinic. He sued New York Attorney General Letitia James and the City of Rochester for the violation of his First Amendment rights and won. Attorneys from the national non-profit law firm Thomas More Society represented Haven.
2024: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3566944430295318 [5:45] to hear prez candidate Vivek Ramaswamy explain what Woke is. He’s really sharp.
COVID-19: Family members of people who died from COVID-19 have sued EcoHealth Alliance and its president, Peter Daszak, for their role in creating the virus. The suit charges that defendants deliberately engaged in research aimed at creating a lethal new virus, knowing it could lead to a pandemic.
EDUCATION:The New College of Florida in Sarasota is the only public liberal arts college in the state. The Board of Trustees has flipped to conservative and set out to “transform New College into a classical liberal arts institution.” Toward that end, they just voted to end the Gender Studies major.
GOD vs. SCIENCE: This one is a joy! CLICK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otrqzITuSqE [15:17] to hear a wonderful speech by Professor John Lennox about why he, as a scientist, believes in the God of the Bible. Lennox is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics (Oxford), Emeritus Fellow in Mathematics and Philosophy of Science at Green Templeton College (Oxford), an Associate Fellow of the Saïd Business School, and a Senior Fellow at the Trinity Forum.
NICARAGUA: Dictator Ortega continues his persecution of the Catholic Church. Last week, he refused to allow two priests to return home from World Youth Day in Portugal. And now he has frozen the bank accounts and assets of the Jesuit-run Central American University (UCA).
CLICK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBqaZ6iVlFE [2:47] to see a news report from eleven months ago. Six months ago, Ortega threw 222 political enemies out of the country, including Bishop Rolando Álvarez. The Bishop, however, refused to leave. He has been sentenced to 26 years in prison for opposing Ortega’s regime and calling for free elections.
A year ago, Ortega expelled the Missionaries Sisters of Charity and another 100 NGOs from the country and seized their assets. The sisters, whose order was founded by St. Teresa of Calcutta, serve the poor, particularly the elderly. They say they were able to find safe housing for their charges who Ortega wished to end up on the streets.
An attorney at the Pro Transparency and Anticorruption Observatory says that Ortega and his wife are engaging in “a frontal war against the Catholic Church of Nicaragua and its objective is to completely eliminate all those institutions related to the Church.” A report entitled “Nicaragua: A Persecuted Church? (2018–2022),” documents 190 attacks on “bishops, priests, seminarians, religious, lay groups, and toward everything that has a direct or indirect relationship with the Catholic Church.”
- https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255090/dictatorship-in-nicaragua-blocks-two-priests-who-attended-wyd-from-returning-to-the-country
- https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255085/ortega-dictatorship-in-nicaragua-freezes-bank-accounts-assets-of-jesuit-university
- https://www.npr.org/2023/02/10/1156260758/nicaragua-sentence-cathollic-bishop-prison
- https://www.ncregister.com/cna/missionaries-of-charity-expelled-from-nicaragua
OHIO: Last week, voters crushed an effort to raise the bar on constitutional changes from 50% to 60%. This bodes ill for pro-life efforts to keep a right to abortion out of the state’s constitution. But never mind that they won the vote. Vandals damaged Immaculate Conception Church in Willoughby and St. Francis de Sales Parish in Parma, leaving behind damaged property and anti-Catholic, pro-abortion, and pro-trans messages.
TRUMP: On Monday evening, a Fulton County, Georgia, grand jury indicted former President Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants with 41 charges under the RICO Act. As per usual, it reads like a laundry list of all the things the Dems did to steal the election in the first place.
CLICK https://twitter.com/ImMeme0/status/1691291110717390848 [6:20] to hear Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz and others discuss.
- https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/us/georgia-grand-jury-returns-indictment-in-trump-2020-case-5455188
- https://www.fultonclerk.org/DocumentCenter/View/2077/CRIMINAL-INDICTMENT
- https://notthebee.com/article/trump-was-indicted-in-georgia-last-night-for-absolutely-ludicrous-reasons-let-famed-lawyer-alan-dershowitz-explain-exactly-whats-going-on-here
WHALE BALLET: CLICK https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/bright/epic-whale-ballet-dad-captures-rare-breach-of-3-synchronized-whales-on-his-birthday-heres-the-video-5438903 to see the embedded thirty second clip of an amazing synchronized breach by three whales off Cape Cod. What a wonderful birthday present God sent the guy who caught it on camera!
WOMEN’S SPORTS: A Wisconsin high school has a trannie on the girl’s volleyball team. He’s been under testosterone suppression therapy for at least a year, but he’s still got his male bone structure and muscle. After getting lots of unusual bruises and welts, several of the girls decided to drop out for fear of sustaining more serious injuries. Last fall, a female volleyballer was slammed in the face by a trans player’s spike and suffered “severe head and neck injuries, resulting in long-term concussion symptoms.” A Wisconsin state rep is advocating for a bill to prevent males from playing on the girls’ teams.
- https://catholicvote.org/wi-girls-sports-quitting-team-after-officials-allow-male-participant/
- https://www.totalprosports.com/ncaa/transgender-volleyball-spike-severe-injury/
- https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2022/10/24/volleyball-player-sustains-head-injury-from-transgender-athlete-spike-n2614905
GRAMMY NOTES: I tried to give my nephew my kazoo. His dad was standing nearby and said, “No. Just no.” LOL.
SHORTS:
CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QAvbp_tino0 for some more R*CKST*R.
CLICK https://twitter.com/LoveThisBar/status/1691110991495639040 [:09] for important life advice.
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