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Walmart is getting ready to administer Covid-19 vaccinations across the country once a vaccine is approved, the company’s chief medical officer said Thursday. In a post on the company’s website, Dr. Tom Van Gilder said the retailer is preparing its more than 5,000 stores and Sam’s Club locations to receive the vaccine doses — such as having freezers and dry ice at pharmacies to store them at the right temperature. “I know we are all ready to get back to normal and enjoy life beyond the epidemic, and these vaccines will help us do that,” he said.

The California Catholic Conference said it’ll take an active role to promote and encourage COVID-19 vaccinations.CALIFORNIA, USA — With so much anticipation about coronavirus vaccines, there has been a lot of misinformation and unfounded claims about its safety. So, leaders in the Catholic Church in California are doing what they can to dispel some of those rumors and inform people about the vaccines. Some churches are still holding indoor services during this pandemic, but leaders in the Catholic Church here in California are speaking out about coronavirus vaccines and have decided whether or not it’s morally right for parishioners to...

The list of states joining Texas continues to increase. The state of Texas sued Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin on Monday night with the US Supreme Court challenging their unlawful election procedures. Texas argued these four states violated the US Constitution because they made changes to voting rules and procedures through the courts or through executive actions. But these states did not make the changes through the state legislatures as spelled out in the US Constitution. We reported earlier today that President Trump joined Texas in suing the four states being sued by Texas. Last night we reported 18 states...

AUGUSTA, Georgia — Vice President Mike Pence told Georgians Thursday that President Donald Trump, Sens. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), and David Perdue (R-GA) have continued to pursue “American greatness,” while Georgia Senate Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff’s leftist policies would put America into a decline. Pence argued during his speech that Loeffler and Perdue are champions of Trump’s America First agenda and have served as leaders of the conservative movement in the Senate. The vice president said of Perdue: I’m here because of who these people are. David Perdue is the son of Macon [Georgia]. He worked his way to...

CNA Staff, Dec 8, 2020 / 09:20 am MT (CNA).- St. John Paul II’s “highest priority” was combating clerical abuse and protecting young people, a Catholic archbishop said Monday in response to what he called “unprecedented attacks” on the Polish pope. In a Dec. 7 statement, Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki, president of the Polish bishops’ conference, defended John Paul II’s legacy in the wake of the McCarrick Report, which unleashed criticism of the pope who appointed McCarrick as archbishop of Washington in 2000 and made him a cardinal a year later. “On the 100th anniversary of the birth of St. John...

Morocco has agreed to normalize diplomatic relations with Israel, bringing a third nation into the bloc of Arab-Israeli deals known as the Abraham Accords. “This has been held back for so long by old thinking and by stalled process, and we finally had a breakthrough four months ago, and we're continuing to push the region forward,” White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and point-man for Middle East issues, told reporters. The Abraham Accords have emerged as a legacy item in the waning months of the Trump administration, as first the United Arab Emirates and then Bahrain agreed...

Pope joins with global companies to promote capitalism in line with UN’s pro-abortion goalsThe new partnership aligns the Vatican with the UN, which supports 'universal access to sexual and reproductive health care services' such as contraception and abortion.VATICAN CITY, December 10, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Pope Francis joined forces with major global corporations such as the Rockefeller Foundation and Bank of America to promote a new “economic system” of capitalism based on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.Launched on December 8, the feast of the Immaculate Conception, the Vatican partnership with the “Council for Inclusive Capitalism with the Vatican” is apparently...

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Montgomery County, Maryland is a wealthy suburb of Washington, D.C. Like many such jurisdictions, Montgomery County remains tightly locked down. Its public schools are closed, and all students are required to participate in “distance learning.” The results have been disastrous –particularly for minority students. Since the advent of the great “War on Poverty” liberal educators in Montgomery County and elsewhere in the nation have trumpeted their efforts to close the “achievement gap” -the yawning chasm that exists between the performance of white students and minority, particularly black, students. Quite rightly educators have focused on the fact that in an increasingly...

(h/t foldspace)Q is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation.Q describes this awakening as follows: "The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding 'mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure future events through transparency and regeneration of individual thought (breaking the chains of ‘group-think’),...

So: according to the Woke, if you don’t see color, you are a racist. But if you see color, you are also a racist. You cannot win. If they want to destroy you with accusations of racism, they will. What you have actually done, and what you actually thought, doesn’t matter. All that matters is what those with the power to destroy you on the basis of accusation alone say you have done. Do you understand now why the people who grew up under Soviet communism are so alarmed now? Do you understand why I wrote Live Not By Lies?...

CONTACT: Barbara Burns PHONE: (716) 843-5817 FAX #: (716) 551-3051ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a 74-count indictment charging Philip M. Close, 42, of Rochester, NY, with 61 counts of production of child pornography, and 13 counts of possession of material containing child pornography involving prepubescent minors. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum of life in prison, and a $250,000 fine.Assistant U.S. Attorney Meghan K. McGuire, who is handling the case, stated that the defendant owns the Close School of...

Newsmax TV has scored a historic, first-ever ratings victory over Fox News Channel, according to a CNN Business report. The notable win came this week in the key 25- to 54-year-old demographic prized by advertisers, when the “Greg Kelly Reports” show topped Fox’s “The Story with Martha MacCallum.” Kelly’s show averaged 229,000 viewers compared to MacCallum’s which averaged 203,000. “Before the election, Newsmax was not regarded as a formidable competitor to Fox; it was mostly dismissed as one of a handful of wannabe challengers,” the CNN writeup states. “But President Trump’s loss on November 3 changed the cable TV calculus.”...

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”, and it seems, as we approach the holiday of Hanukkah (beginning tonight) that these words are exceptionally true…especially in California, New York, and other states flexing their authoritarian muscles. ... Under the guise of “protecting against Covid-19,” multiple state governors have put citizens in lockdown. These governors have arbitrarily decided which businesses are essential and which are not, with total disregard for the holistic well-being of the people ... It is sickly ironic that Gov. Newsome here in California considers the production of television and films essential, but church...

Federal, state and local authorities have arrested eight individuals on federal drug trafficking charges, including 41-year-old Texas Syndicate Lieutenant Hilario Nieto who previously received a pardon from President Barack Obama, announced U.S. Attorney Gregg N. Sofer; Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Steven S. Whipple, Houston Division; and Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Director Steven McCraw. Those arrested Tuesday include: Hilario Nieto (aka “Shorty”) of San Antonio; 31-year-old Daniel Castaneda of San Antonio; 29-year-old Joe Sanchez of San Antonio; 40-year-old Melissa Molina of San Antonio; 31-year-old Deanna Diaz of San Antonio; 56-year-old former Texas Mexican Mafia member...

The U.S. Supreme Court, in a Justice Amy Coney Barrett-less 8-0 decision on Thursday, deciding that the people of faith can file suit under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA) against government officials who have “unlawfully burdened” their religious exercise. But those government officials will have a defense available to them that has often been criticized in the context of police misconduct: qualified immunity... ..."The Supreme Court held that “claims for money damages” against government officials in their official individual capacities are included in what constitutes “appropriate relief.” "Justice Thomas noted that money damages are, in some cases,...

A judge approved Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s emergency motion to intervene in a case against a small county that alleges fraud and focuses on Dominion Voting Systems machines. Michigan Circuit Court Judge Kevin Elsenheimer ruled in favor of the state’s motion during a Thursday hearing conducted virtually over Zoom. The plaintiff in the case, a voter named William Bailey, argued through his attorney Matthew DePerno that the state should not be granted an intervention given the timing... ...He said that his team is already in possession of the “forensic images” and that “some conclusions” have already been made...

Sky News presenter Kay Burley is to stay off-air for six months after admitting breaking Covid rules during a night out for her 60th birthday. Political editor Beth Rigby and north of England correspondent Inzamam Rashid, who were among those with her, will be absent for three months. "I made a big mistake, and I am sorry," Burley wrote on Twitter. Burley was among 10 people who went to a restaurant on Saturday before she briefly went into another restaurant. She then moved on to a private residence where individuals from at least three households mixed, the BBC has been...

Despite a plea from Penn National Gaming to keep casinos open, Gov. Tom Wolf went ahead with his anticipated temporary shutdown announcement Thursday, saying no dice to the entertainment industry for the remainder of 2020 and into early 2021. His order requires casinos, along with theaters, concert venues, museums, movie theaters, arcades, bowling alleys, private clubs, and all other similar entertainment operations to cease operating as of 12:01 a.m. on Dec. 12 and ending at 8 a.m. on Jan. 4. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has marked movie theaters and other indoor settings as “higher-risk activities” for contracting...