Jim Valvano taught us to enjoy life and to cherish every moment. As we continue this journey, we’re reminded that the Stanley Cup Final is about more than hockey. It’s about people, purpose, sacrifice, and appreciating the moments that bring us together.

Documents obtained by @TheAssemblyNC reveal WakeMed snubbed its rival’s offer to merge, despite UNC Health offering $3 billion more than Charlotte-based Atrium Health. Another scoop by @j__still. theassemblync.com/news/healt…

Soft, just like those supporting taunting.

Funny that the way to end #SchumerShutdown is to vote for the #BidenCR. And they say the @GOP is in charge. They are useless, we're still waiting for them to grow Lia Thomas sized balls.

This story is truly crazy. Between this and the recent Big 10 saga, it’s clear that College Sports have a major financial crisis that no one wants to acknowledge. Commissioners must admit that we have a problem and work to find solutions. There are straightforward and proven ways to significantly increase revenue and make sure we preserve this great American Institution. Selling it off in pieces to Private Equity and Foreign entities is NOT the answer.

ACC power rankings heading into Georgia Tech weekend.

Where's the woodshed for the UNC BoG to take UNC to? Did they dismantle it in 1990? First, an academic scandal avoided on a technicality. Now, selling tickets?

Mr. @JoelHancockJr was so soft, he blocked me for this... Wonder how often he craps himself in the courtroom.

Uh oh, ran into the grammar police... What a tool?

Ive been going back and watching videos of Charlie debating with students. This particular debate left me in awe. What an incredibly knowledgeable man. Take a moment to witness and be inspired……

I am told that as a state representative this is the moment where I'm supposed to express my heartfelt condolences and then stand in solidarity with those on the other side of the aisle as we condemn political violence and stand unified as one people. But we aren't "one people" are we? The truth is we haven't been for some time now, and there is really no point in pretending anymore, if there ever was. We are two very different peoples. We may occupy the same piece of geography, but that is where the similarities seem to abruptly end. I convinced myself for a long time that whenever the left called me a racist, a bigot, a sexist, a fascist, a "threat to democracy" for even the most innocent of disagreements, that it was simply hyperbolic rhetoric done for effect. And now the "effect" is a widow and two orphaned children, because the left couldn’t bear the thought of a peaceful man debating them and winning. I don’t think they realize it yet, but murdering Charlie is going to be remembered as the day where we finally woke up to what this fight really is. It’s not a civil dispute among fellow countrymen. It’s a war between diametrically opposed worldviews which cannot peacefully coexist with one another. One side will win, and one side will lose. Charlie tried to win that fight through argumentation, through discussion, through peaceful resolution of differences. And the other side murdered him. Not because he was “extreme” or “inciting violence” or any other hyperbolic slur they hurled at him. They murdered him because he was effective. Because he was unafraid. Because he inspired others and made them feel like they had a voice, that they were not alone. And he did it at the very institutions which have fomented so much hatred toward conservatives. I don’t want to “stand in solidarity” with the other side of the aisle. I want to defeat you. I want to defeat the godless ideology that kills babies in the womb, sterilizes confused children, turns our cities into cesspools of degeneracy and lawlessness…and that murdered Charlie Kirk. Social media is aflame right now with leftist celebration of Charlie’s death. I wonder if any among them understand what has just happened. If there is a Yamamoto somewhere in their midst warning, that all they have done is awoken a sleeping giant. I doubt it. I think they gave up such introspection and self-awareness long ago. I don’t know exactly what will happen next. I just know that it won’t be the same as what has happened in the past. There will be thoughts and prayers…Charlie would have wanted prayers. Not for himself but for those left behind and for the country that he loved. But then there will be a reckoning. My Christian faith requires me to love my enemies and pray for those who curse me. It does not require me to stand idly by in the midst of savagery and barbarism...quite the opposite. So every time I feel tired, every time I feel discouraged or overwhelmed, I am going to watch the video of a good man being murdered in Utah…I will force myself to watch it…and then I will return to the work of destroying the evil ideology responsible for that and so much more. Rest with God Charlie, your fight is over. Ours is just beginning.

The greatest hummingbird feeder ever created, a KC-135 bird feeder! 😎

Anyone else tiring of Protestant twitter bigotry? It's one thing to debate and argue about what is true. It's a whole other thing to simply state Catholics should leave America and can't be American. To say our faith worships Satan.

One of the most famous stories of Mother Angelica: She ordered a $600,000 satellite but didn't have the money to pay for it. When the delivery truck arrived, she still didn't have the money, so she went to the chapel to pray, "‘You know, Lord, I guess I've messed this up." Mother Angelica thought that perhaps she had not fully understood God’s will, and out of desperation, prayed, “Is there anything You could do to help me with this?” There was. One of Mother Angelica’s nuns came to the chapel, saying that there was a man on the phone who wanted to speak to her. Initially, Mother Angelica brushed her off, and then changed her mind and answered the call. The man on the other end of the call was on a yacht in the Caribbean. His son, who was struggling with drug addiction, had come across one of Mother Angelica’s mini-books, and that book prompted him to enter rehab and change his life around. The man wanted to make a donation to Mother Angelica out of gratitude for what she did for his son. And so he said, "I want to send you $600,000,” which happened to be the exact amount needed for the satellite dish. "Do you think you could wire transfer that to me?" He did, and that satellite dish still stands on EWTN's main campus today, and has been the principal uplink antenna to broadcast EWTN’s programming around the world. These are the kinds of stories we share time and time again because they're the stories of our EWTN Family's legacy and our humble beginnings. We want to share that with you at the EWTN Family Celebration in Tysons, VA on August 30! Get all the details and save your spot at ewtn.com/familycelebration

THE CORRUPT DEMOCRAT GERRYMANDERERS  There's not a single Republican representative from Massachusetts.  There's only one Republican representative from Maryland.  In California, there are 43 Democrat representatives and 9 Republican.  In Illionois, there are 14 Democrat representatives and 3 Republicans.  New York has 19 Democrat representatives and 7 Republicans.  Furthermore, in 2020, the Census made "mathematic" errors resulting in upwards of 5 congressional seats assigned to blue states, which should have been held by red states.  I'm not done.  The open-borders policy of Biden and the Democrats was and is intended to greatly increase the number of seats assigned to Democrats in the next census.

Why does the church call it the Sacrament of "Matrimony" and not the Sacrament of "Marriage"? Because "Matrimony" comes from the Latin "Matri" [mother] and "mony" [hood]. The ceremony then is not about two people really loving each other but two joining who are open to children.

I'm incredibly grateful for Catholic apologetics OGs like Scott Hahn, Patrick Madrid, and Karl Keating, who have defended the Faith for decades without a hint of scandal in their lives.