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On certain Sunday mornings in America, you can still hear a church bell toll across an otherwise silent neighborhood. The sound is familiar, but the congregation it once summoned has vanished. Pews sit undisturbed, hymnals gather dust, and sanctuaries once filled with life now echo only with the footsteps of estate agents measuring out a future that will no longer be Christian. In much of the West, the bell remains — but its audience has gone. Nowhere is that shift clearer than in Buffalo, New York, where the Diocese sold the former St. Ann’s Church and Shrine — a Gothic landmark completed in 1886 — to Buffalo Crescent Holdings, a company associated with the Downtown Islamic Center. The purchase price was $250,000, far below the tens of millions required for structural repairs. There was no scandal — only a quiet transfer of a building one faith could no longer sustain to a community that could. Renovation has begun, with plans to establish the site as an Islamic center. (RELATED: Trivializing Religion Left Us Unprepared for Political Islam) Across the United States, similar stories now surface with increasing frequency. In Bridgeport, Connecticut, the historic United Congregational Church — founded in the 17th century — sold its sanctuary to the Bridgeport Islamic Community Center, which reopened the building as a mosque and community hub. When a mosque rises where a church once stood, it signals the retreat of one identity and the advance of another... In South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the former St. Adalbert’s Catholic Church and school was purchased by Masjid Al-Huda and now operates as an active mosque. In Bristol Township, Pennsylvania, the closed Immaculate Conception B.V.M. Catholic Church was acquired by the United American Muslim Society and is being redeveloped as Mevlana Camii. These examples sit atop an undeniable demographic reality: a nationally recognized Lifeway Research study found that 4,500 U.S. churches closed in 2019, while only 3,000 opened. Some... No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here. Support independent journalism and get unlimited access to quality commentary. Subscribe Already a subscriber? Login here

As the sun rises on a new Trump-era geopolitical chapter, Washington confronts a defining choice: Will America view the People’s Republic of China and its regnant Communist Party through the rose-colored lens of transaction and diplomacy, or will it soberly recognize Beijing as America’s foremost geopolitical adversary in a multigenerational cold war? (RELATED: Trump’s Post-Globalist ‘Flexible Realism’) We should stop treating China with kid gloves ... and start treating it as the existential challenge to the American republic and the American way of life that it demonstrably is. The stakes could not be higher, and the answer ought to be simple. We should stop treating China with kid gloves — as a spirited economic or diplomatic competitor — and start treating it as the existential challenge to the American republic and the American way of life that it demonstrably is. (RELATED: Can Trump’s New National Security Strategy Effectively Counter China?) In June, federal prosecutors in Michigan charged multiple Chinese nationals with conspiring to smuggle dangerous biological pathogens into the United States for use in American university research laboratories. The case centered on Fusarium graminearum, a fungus widely classified as a “potential agroterrorism weapon” because of its ability to ravage crops and cause serious harm to humans and livestock. Prosecutors alleged that the defendants received funding from the Chinese government and brought the pathogen into the U.S. for ostensible “lab work” at the University of Michigan. As if the University of Michigan needed to use smugglers to acquire research materials. (RELATED: DOJ Cracking Down on CCP Espionage) This should have triggered alarm bells for anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear: Chinese researchers allegedly attempted to slip biological threats past U.S. borders under the guise of legitimate scholarship. The implications are chilling. In a world still scarred by the devastating COVID pandemic — which, lest... No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here. Support independent journalism and get unlimited access to quality commentary. Subscribe Already a subscriber? Login here

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by Michael Snyder, End Of The American Dream: The seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker was an extraordinarily shocking move by the Trump administration.  Will it be followed by the seizure of more oil tankers?  This is a question that the press really needs to be asking right now.  If a U.S. blockade stops the […]

30-year-old Salvadoran illegal alien Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was released from an immigration detention center in Pennsylvania, hours after a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration had been "holding him illegally" for nearly four months.

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