Author: Freedom Watch

Israeli rabbis send letter to Vatican expressing concern over papal remarks Times of Israel August 25, 2021 Rabbi Ratzon Arusi, the chair of the Chief Rabbinate’s Commission for Dialogue with the Holy See, has expressed concern over recent remarks by Pope Francis about Jewish law, Reuters report. According to the report, Arusi sent a letter to the Vatican requesting clarification of comments the pope made to a general audience earlier this month. On August 11, Francis spoke at the Vatican about the first five books of the Bible, known in Hebrew as the Torah. The pope referenced the…

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Analysis: Why Biden will end the final mission in Afghanistan in just 7 days By Analysis by Stephen Collinson CNN August 25, 2021 (CNN)The instincts that drove President Joe Biden’s decision to end the US presence in Afghanistan by August 31 were revealed by what he talked about before he announced it to the American people. In a televised statement billed as an update on a remarkable airlift that has now saved more than 87,900 people, Biden celebrated the latest House votes on his $3.5 trillion jobs, social spending, family leave and health care blueprint. “We are a…

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Grand Forks Herald August 25, 2021 When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain…

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Journal of the American Revolution August 25, 2021 The scribe of the Declaration of Independence—and perhaps the first man to read it in public—was born on March 28, 1736 in Haddonfield, New Jersey. His family moved to Philadelphia eight years later. At the age of thirteen, Timothy Matlack began an apprenticeship under a prosperous Quaker merchant named John Reynell. Looking forward to a bright future, Matlack enthusiastically signed his contract with characteristic looping flourishes. But then disaster struck his family. His father, Timothy Sr., was a brewer who fell into debt, and the court ordered the seizure of his…

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First lady’s press secretary calls on Rachel Campos Duffy, Fox News to apologize for host’s comments By Dominick Mastrangelo TheHill August 25, 2021 The first lady’s press secretary on Monday called for an apology from Fox News and weekend host Rachel Campos-Duffy, who over the weekend said Jill Biden had failed the country by letting her husband run for president. Campos-Duffy also criticized President Biden’s “mental state” in commentary criticizing the exit of troops from Afghanistan and the administration’s struggles to evacuate people from that country. Continue Reading…..

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Newsweek August 23, 2021 Wallace asked, referring to the substantial criticism the Biden administration has faced over the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan. “The president said a few other things on Friday that are flat wrong,” Wallace said during his interview with Blinken on Fox News Sunday before sharing a clip of Biden emphatically denying U.S. allies had questioned his administration’s credibility. Continue Reading…..

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Capitol Police officer who shot Ashli Babbitt formally exonerated By Rebecca Beitsch TheHill August 23, 2021 U.S. Capitol Police have formally exonerated an officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt on Jan. 6. “USCP’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) determined the officer’s conduct was lawful and within Department policy, which says an officer may use deadly force only when the officer reasonably believes that action is in the defense of human life, including the officer’s own life, or in the defense of any person in immediate danger of serious physical injury,” Capitol Police said in a statement. The…

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