In 1919 a New York physician got so fed up with watching his patients get worse that he went to a museum to ask the dead for advice. His name was Blake Donaldson. He had a practice full of people who were overweight, ill, and getting steadily worse no matter what the medicine of the day threw at them, and he had run clean out of ideas. So he walked into the American Museum of Natural History, found the anthropologists, and asked them the question no respectable doctor was supposed to ask. What did healthy humans actually eat before all of this? They showed him the skulls. Ancient ones. Pre-agricultural ones. And the teeth stopped him in his tracks. No decay. No crowding. No abscesses. Rows of clean, strong, untroubled teeth belonging to people who had never met a dentist, a toothbrush, or a sack of flour. The anthropologists told him about the Plains hunters who lived on buffalo, and about pemmican, the dense brick of dried meat and rendered fat that carried men through a North American winter on next to nothing else. Donaldson went back to his surgery and did something that would get a modern doctor hauled in front of a committee. He put his patients on meat. Fat meat, specifically. Roughly six ounces of lean with two ounces of visible fat, three times a day, from beef or lamb. Coffee. Water. That was the prescription. He stripped out what he called the worst offenders, the flour and the sugar and the sweet milk, and he watched what happened. What happened was they got better. The weight came off without hunger, because he insisted they eat enough and eat often. The blood pressure settled. The gallstones, the migraines, the aching joints, the sour stomachs, the whole catalogue of modern complaints he had been failing to shift for years began, quietly, to resolve. He kept going. By the end he had run something like seventeen thousand patients through this regime over roughly forty years, which is a working lifetime of evidence rather than a passing fad. He wrote it down in a book called Strong Medicine in 1961. The establishment's response was swift and familiar. One prominent figure pronounced the book hardly scientific. Another filed Donaldson under food faddism and implied he had simply forgotten whatever he once knew about nutrition. A man with forty years of patient outcomes was waved off by people armed with a theory and a grievance, and the profession moved smoothly on to the low-fat advice that has served us so brilliantly ever since. He was not a guru and never pretended to be one. He thought he was just copying what those museum skulls had been quietly demonstrating for ten thousand years, which is about the most honest thing a doctor has ever said about diet. The book is still in print. The skulls are still in the case. And the advice that buried him is still printed on the side of the cereal box.

God bless from Fr. Andrew. Happy Friday. youtu.be/y-yQW1lQ-rU?is=72pR…

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After tweeting “Heil Hitler” and not even bothering to apologize, the UN Security Council platformed a delusional leader who spreads anti-Semitic statements. Today the President of Colombia even claimed that “We're going back to the era of the Nazis” It is not clear what he took before the discussion this morning, but nothing justifies the reprehensible words that came out of his mouth.

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58 years ago, Sirhan Sirhan introduced America to Palestinian culture (He murdered Robert F. Kennedy) June 6, 1968 Never forget the gifts that Palestine has given America.

The Prayer That Has Never Failed THE MEMORARE It's the most powerful Marian prayer in history.... For nearly 1000 years,Catholics have turned to this prayer in their moments of need. The Memorare is a prayer so powerful that saints,popes,and countless faithful have witnessed miracles after praying it : Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thy intercession, was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence I fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother. To thee do I come, before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in thy mercy hear and answer me. Amen. Memorare is rooted in Church Traditions. Prayed by St. Bernard of Clairvaux, St.Teresa of Calcutta, and St. Francis de Sales. Many saints have turned to this prayer in life or death moments, and miracles followed instant intercession. Blessed Pope Pius IX said, "This prayer has never failed me. Do you pray the Memorare everyday ?

President Nixon in 1970: “If we want to unite people, achieve peace in the world, and give our young people a deeper sense of fulfillment beyond material success, they must turn to the great spiritual sources that have made America the strong and exceptional country it is.”

On June 7, 1967, the Jewish people returned to the heart of their ancient capital. Jerusalem was reunited in a moment of historic joy and liberation. For 2,000 years, Jews kept Jerusalem alive in their prayers, dreams, and collective memory. Yet for 19 years (1948–1967), the city was divided, and Jews were barred from the Old City and the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray. Since that historic day in 1967, Jerusalem has remained open to all faiths, guaranteeing freedom of worship and access to holy sites for everyone. Jerusalem is the eternal, undivided capital of Israel. 🇮🇱✨

On the 7th day, God rested

The famed @UnionPacific Big Boy, the world's largest operating steam locomotive, chugs east through Allen County, Indiana on its coast-to-coast tour in celebration of America's 250th anniversary.

To you, it's just a Cracker Barrel parking lot. To me, it's where I gave my life to Jesus Christ. I was 21 years old. I was working at the Cracker Barrel in Tallahassee after some of the worst years of my life. I'd made mistakes. Real ones. I grew up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, raised by a mom who worked hard and didn't accept excuses. But I made decisions that should have ended my story before it ever really started. By the grace of God, they didn't. But every day, I was carrying them. One afternoon, a church group came into the restaurant, just back from a revival. I served them their meals like I served any other table. But something happened while I was serving them. I can't fully explain it to you. The Lord spoke to me. He said, “Stop running from Me.” It knocked me back. I went to find the table, and they were all gone. I could see through their windows that they were getting on their bus, and I knew deep down that if I let them drive away, I was going to keep running. So I went outside. The last woman, just as she was stepping onto the bus, turned to me and asked, “Are you okay?” I told her, “No ma’am, I’m not okay.” I told her the Lord was telling me to stop running. That whole bus emptied out, stood with me in the parking lot of a Cracker Barrel in Tallahassee, Florida, and prayed over me right there. I gave my life to Christ that day. Right there. I still get emotional about it. Because I know what I was before that moment, and I know what He's done since. He gave me a wife who shares my faith. He gave me three sons. He gave me a career, a community, a calling I never would have dared to ask for. He took a kid from Crown Heights who’d run out of chances and gave him a life that doesn't make sense apart from grace. People ask me sometimes why I talk about it. Why I bring up the parking lot. Why I don't just keep that part private and let folks see the polished version. I'll tell you why. Because there's a young man out there right now — maybe in Tallahassee, maybe in Tampa, maybe in Miami, maybe in a small town in the Panhandle — who thinks his story is already over. Who thinks the mistakes he's made disqualify him from the life he could have had. Who thinks God doesn't want anything to do with somebody like him. I'm here to tell him: that's a lie. In life, you're not who you are at the lowest point. You're who you choose to become after. The Lord met me in a Cracker Barrel parking lot. He'll meet you wherever you are. You just have to stop running.

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In 1977, a Jewish woman from the South Bronx won the Nobel Prize in Medicine. Most people have never heard her name. Rosalyn Yalow grew up the daughter of Jewish immigrants who never finished high school. She became a nuclear physicist at a time when universities openly told women they weren't welcome in science. When she applied to graduate school, one institution offered her a position as a secretary instead. She ignored them all. Working in a tiny Veterans Administration hospital lab in New York, Yalow co-developed radioimmunoassay (RIA): a technique so precise it could detect a billionth of a gram of any substance in the human body. It transformed the diagnosis of diabetes, thyroid disease, hormonal disorders, and dozens of other conditions. It is still used in labs around the world today. When she accepted the Nobel Prize, she said: "We still live in a world that does not fully use the talents of women." That was 1977. The fight she named is not over.

Detroit Catholic priest Fr. Jean-Baptiste Commins is being hailed as a hero after chasing down and tackling a suspected car thief who had just crashed a stolen vehicle into another car outside the parking lot of his church, injuring a woman with non-life-threatening injuries. He then checked on her to see whether she needed the Anointing of the Sick or a blessing. Info: Fox 2 Detroit

A priest in full cassock tackled a car thief. Rev. Jean-Baptiste Commins was in the parking lot of St. Joseph Shrine in Detroit when he heard screeching tires and a loud crash. A man had crashed a stolen vehicle outside the church and tried to run. Fr. Commins chased him down, tackled him, and held him until police arrived. Legendary 👏

Thousands of cormorants. Dead trees. A growing debate over the future of Lake St. Clair. WWJ's Tim Pamplin heads out on the water with a lawmaker to see firsthand how these controversial birds are transforming island habitat and hear why some want stronger population controls.

מרגש לראות את השדרה החמישית בניו יורק נצבעת היום בכחול-לבן. עשרות אלפי צועדים הגיעו כדי להעביר יחד איתנו מסר ברור: עם ישראל חי! דווקא בתקופה שבה האנטישמיות מרימה ראש ושנאת ישראל זוכה לעידוד מצד נבחרי ציבור, אנחנו עומדים זקופים, גאים בזהותנו ומניפים את דגל ישראל בגאון. אף אחד לא יגרום לנו להוריד את דגלי ישראל. לא בניו יורק, ולא באף מקום אחר בעולם. 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱

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Most prominent terrorist attacks since 1970 and their religion: 1. Munich Olympics massacre (1972) - Islam 2. Beirut barracks bombing (1983) - Islam 3. TWA Flight 847 (1985) - Islam 4. Rome & Vienna airport attacks (1985) - Islam 5. Pan Am Flight 103 (1988) - Islam 6. World Trade Center bombing (1993) - Islam 7. Paris Metro bombings (1998) - Islam 8. US Embassy bombings Kenya & Tanzania (1998) - Islam 9. USS Cole bombing (2000) - Islam 10. 9/11 attacks (2001) - Islam 11. Bali bombings (2002) - Islam 12. Istanbul bombings (2003) - Islam 13. Madrid train bombings (2004) - Islam 14. London 7/7 bombings (2005) - Islam 15. Fort Hood shooting (2009) - Islam 16. Toulouse/Montauban shootings (2012) - Islam 17. Boston Marathon bombing (2013) - Islam 18. Brussels Jewish Museum shooting (2014) - Islam 19. Ottawa Parliament attack (2014) - Islam 20. Charlie Hebdo / Hyper Cacher attacks (2015) - Islam 21. Paris November attacks (2015) - Islam 22. San Bernardino shooting (2015) - Islam 23. Brussels airport/metro bombings (2016) - Islam 24. Nice truck attack (2016) - Islam 25. Berlin Christmas Market attack (2016) - Islam 26. Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting (2016) - Islam 27. Westminster Bridge attack (2017) - Islam 28. Manchester Arena bombing (2017) - Islam 29. London Bridge/Borough Market attack (2017) - Islam 30. Barcelona/Cambrils attacks (2017) - Islam 31. Strasbourg Christmas market attack (2018) - Islam 32. London Bridge stabbing (2019) - Islam 33. Samuel apart beheading (2020) - Islam 34. Vienna shooting (2020) - Islam 35. October 7 Hamas-led attacks (2023) - Islam 36. Arras school stabbing (2023) - Islam 37. Solingen knife attack (2024) - Islam 38. New Orleans Bourbon Street attack (2025) - Islam 39. Bondi Beach Hanukkah attack (2025) - Islam 40. Winterthur train-station stabbing (2026) - Islam I couldn’t list them all, obviously, but let’s put it into perspective. Islamist terrorist attacks worldwide since 1979: 1979–April 2024: 66,872 attacks By period: 1979–2000: 2,194 attacks 2001–2012: 8,265 attacks 2013–April 2024: 56,413 attacks Total Deaths: at least 249,941 Now, who is the biggest threat to the world, again?