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There's no clear pattern to several shootings in St. Petersburg in the last month, including Wednesday night's killing by police of a man wanted in connection to a murder. But one thing is clear: the economic downturn caused by the pandemic is hitting minorities hard. The Rev. Kenny Irby is pastor of the Historic Bethel AME Church and is St. Petersburg's Community Intervention Director, focusing on the city's young African American residents. The violence, he says, may be provoked by systemic racism experienced by the Black community.

The majority of those who will refuse the vaccine are conservative Christians. I among them. By refusing to take it I will no longer be able to fly, attend concerts, buy groceries, enter restaurants, receive medical care, and ultimately work in my current job which I love. It is almost a certainty that companies will begin requiring your COVID vaccine certificate for employment, which will have a number on it. Go ahead and print your own, that won't save you. It will be verifiable via an online service. They will have effectively cut off their enemies from the modern world,...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — More than 300 people were detained in the Belarusian capital on Sunday, where crowds of people took to the streets for the 18th consecutive weekend, demanding the ouster of the country’s authoritarian leader who won a sixth term in office in an election widely seen as rigged.Thousands of people Sunday took part in dozens of small rallies scattered all over Minsk, the Belarusian capital — a new tactic the opposition employed instead of one large gathering to make it harder for the security forces to target the protesters.“We believe! We can! We will win!” the demonstrators...

Arguing that “a license to practice law is not a license to lie,” nearly 1,500 lawyers issued a letter on Monday calling on bar associations across the country to investigate and, if needed, penalize the members of President Trump’s legal team, including the architect of his post-election strategy, Rudolph W. Giuliani.“It is indefensible for lawyers to falsely proclaim widespread voting fraud, submit a pattern of frivolous court claims and actively seek to undermine citizens’ faith in our election’s integrity,” said the letter, which was signed by several former judges, former federal prosecutors and law professors. “We condemn this conduct without...

Readers of this blog will recall that I have written frequently on the eventful life of Saint Ambrose, bishop of Milan and Doctor of the Church, including his acclamation as bishop even before he was baptized, his discovery of the remains of Saints Protase and Gervase, his conflicts with the Empress Justina, and his confrontation with Theodosius the Great. On this feast day of Ambrose, let us examine some of the strange and portentous events which attended his death in AD 397, as attested by his secretary, Paulinus, who was witness to these things and wrote at the behest of...

2:15 P.M. UPDATE: (WBNG) - Court has adjourned for the day as Justice DelConte works to reach a ruling. DelConte said he would upload his ruling shortly. DelConte asked, "what's more important, getting this done, or getting this done right?" Both lawyers had nothing to add during closing arguments. 1:30 P.M. UPDATE: (WBNG) -- 12 new ballots were found in a drawer in Chenango County last week, DelConte revealed. That's on top of 55 ballots that had previously been discovered after DelConte asked for final vote totals. ----- 1:21 P.M. UPDATE: (WBNG) -- Claudia Tenney's lawyer begins by reiterating the...

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Right now the Nation *appears* to be in crisis regarding the November Election as we have two Parties claiming victory as neither Candidate will concede. Everything is in LIMBO right now as we wait to see WHO wins

United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Devin L. Ashford, 33, of Lincoln, Nebraska, was sentenced today after being found guilty by a jury of Sex Trafficking of a Minor; Sex Trafficking by Force, Fraud, or Coercion; Production of Child Pornography; and Interstate Transportation for Prostitution. Chief United States District Judge John M. Gerrard sentenced Ashford to 564 months (47 years) in federal prison. There is no parole in the federal system. After his release from prison, Ashford will begin a 10-year term of supervised release.When pronouncing sentence, Chief Judge Gerrard noted that he was particularly concerned with deterrence in...

It was in June 1996 that I picked up a book that, for all intents and purposes, changed my life: R.J. Rummel’sDeath by Government (Transaction, 1994). After purchasing the book, I devoured it on a flight from Houston to Indianapolis. Every anti-Communist thought my mother had so rightly drilled into me as a child, every viewing of The Killing Fields (the work of art that inspired my entrance essay for and into the University of Notre Dame), and every Goldwater-esque aspect of my very soul seemed justified by the very existence of Death by Government. All my firms were confirmed.Through...

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Denver’s El Chapultepec Nightclub, A Favorite Haunt For Jazz Aficionados, Closes December 7, 2020 DENVER (CBS4) – El Chapultepec at 20th and Market Street in Denver is closing for good, in part because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The unpretentious bar in LoDo was where jazz greats often stopped to play for free, just for the love of music. Jerry Krantz ran “The Pec” as it’s most commonly known, for decades, even long before the revival brought on by the building of Coors Field. He died in 2012 and the bar had been going strong thanks to his daughter Angela Guerrero...

Donald Trump embraced coal during his 2016 campaign. The crowd at a Charleston rally four years ago broke into wild applause when he told them, “I’m thinking about miners all over this country. We’re gonna put the miners back to work. We’re gonna get those mines opened.” It has not worked out that way. In fact, employment and production are levels are behind where they were when he took office. We will get to the reasons for that in a moment. But first, the Trump administration has tried to lend a helping hand to coal. Taylor Kuykendall, energy and mining...

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Video has emerged that shows a woman claiming to be a teacher yelling and swearing at a group of protesters in Oregon who are demanding that businesses be allowed to reopen amid the pandemic. The clip taken at a rally in Bend on Sunday has been widely shared on social media. In the video, a woman leans out of her car window and appears to yell "kill yourself" at one protester. "I'm a f*****g teacher, I work in schools," the woman shouts. "I teach students, my students' families are dying!" The woman then continues to make obscene gestures towards the...

ATLANTA — Judge Timothy Batten in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia has dismissed the lawsuit. A similar suit in Michigan was also dismissed this morning. Powell will appeal to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, which dismissed a similar suit brought by attorney Lin Wood this weekend.

Today (December 7th) marks the 79th year anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor naval base. How sad that this date - which would live in infamy - has been nearly forgotten by toady's American population and especially our youth. Tragically it has been the successful revision of our American history by the Left and the evils of it that has made us weak and vulnerable to a present day "Pearl Harbor" of EXPONENTIAL proportions (Rev. 6). It was under the deception of peace and negotiations that Japan struck without warning. To set the stage for 1941, tensions were high...

My family's Covid diagnosis shows how our broken, confusing system exploits privilege The only way we can get through this is if we have a system that works for everyone. And after having Covid-19, I'm convinced that we do not.By the time you finish reading this, at the rate we're at right now, about 10 people in the United States will have died of Covid-19. To date, over 14.7 million have tested positive for the coronavirus. You can now add me, my husband and our three children to that massive number. Despite our country's best efforts to "do the right...

A Korean drama music video about the relationship between the leader of a group of boys, and an independent female who wins a scholarship to their elite school after stopping a student suicide. For a more romantic music video, there's also one from the Chinese drama, Love O2O. The red dress is their formal marriage attire. That video shows the parallel between their online gaming marriage and the real-life marriage they've waited two years for. Love O2O - Say It Once - Glass Pear These dramas have more of the 1950s American morals than anything else I've seen.

Many people associate “You’re Fired” with Donald Trump. They associate it with being in the hands of somebody who, through their power over them, can make the worst thing happen. It’s great to watch others get fired on TV, but if you got fired… it wouldn’t great. That expression also tears away at a lot of people, reminding them they are lacking what it takes and of lost opportunity. In other words, it’s saying… you are a FAILURE. Donald on the other hand is a success. That is the rub in many people’s eyes. Many people have tried to succeed...