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November 18, 2024

LifeSiteNews: Join Our Novena for President Trump Starting November 21

By LifeSiteNews staff, LifeSiteNews - LifeSiteNews readers are warmly invited to register and take part in a nine-day novena dedicated to the well-being of President Donald Trump and his conversion to the Catholic faith... The novena will begin on the Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, November 21, and end on the Vigil of Saint Andrew, November 29. Saint Andrew is, of course, the patron saint of Scotland, the country in which the president-elect’s Gaelic-speaking mother, Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, was born and raised.

November 18, 2024

Trump Proved Rigged Elections Are Winnable. Now It’s Time To Un-Rig Them, by Elle Purnell

By Elle Purnell, The Federalist - In the 2024 election, Donald Trump and his voters faced media interference, suspicious ballot dumps, politicized censorship of information, low-security election laws, polling place issues, and legally dubious Democrat get-out-the-vote operations. On top of those, he faced two assassination attempts and a political lawfare campaign designed to bankrupt and jail him. The fact that Trump succeeded in making this election “too big to rig” doesn’t make those problems any less threatening to self-governance.

November 18, 2024

Modernity’s Self-Destruct Button, by Louise Perry

By Louise Perry, First Things - All politics is local, as they say. And so, before we proceed to the big question of this essay—Can modernity survive for much longer?—I want to start with a small one: Will the recent change of government make a difference to the people of Britain?... The recently departed Conservative government was sunk partly by a set of challenges that will be familiar to anyone in a high-income country—or, increasingly, a middle-income one. To start with, taxes are the highest they’ve been in generations, and yet the Conservatives felt compelled to keep funneling money towards health (20 percent of public spending) and pensions (10 percent of public spending) because both kinds of spending benefit their most reliable voting bloc. ...

November 18, 2024

While Mexican Leader Was Congratulating Trump, What President-Elect Did During the Call May Explain His Entire Strategy

By Jared Harris, The Western Journal - Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum's call may not have been as “cordial” as she claimed... A Nov. 11 report from the AP detailed the conversation’s critical turning point... During the call, Sheinbaum said Trump first brought up the border and highlighted the ongoing issues there... Trump’s position on border security, and his plan to address the uncounted millions of people illegally in the United States of America, was made abundantly clear in the appointment of Tom Homan as his future “border czar.” ...