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The great convergence of Jupiter and Saturn for the first time in 800 years to form the Christmas Star also happened to converge with the date of this year’s Winter Solstice. And I missed it.We were under heavy cloud cover with rain so there was no way to catch even a glint of the Christmas Star, which I can’t help but feel is a bit like a bad omen. Anyway, as I missed the Christmas Star I’m left with only the Winter Solstice, Druids and 90 freezing, cold, gray days that will be followed by another 60 days of moderately...

As part of the $900 billion coronavirus relief package it passed late Monday, Congress is set to allow mixed-status households with undocumented family members to receive stimulus checks that they were denied under the first round of legislation in the spring. Under the bipartisan agreement, U.S. citizens and green card holders will be able to receive $600 in direct aid, even if they filed a joint tax return with an undocumented spouse, as well as additional $600 checks per dependent child, according to congressional aides and the text of the legislation. The new compromise would also retroactively make mixed-status families...

Bonnets, big houses and brooding heroes: a good period drama is the ultimate comfort watch, a lovely balm for our “poor nerves” - as Mrs Bennet from Pride and Prejudice would probably put it - that’s particularly soothing when the world seems uncertain and strange. From compulsive Sunday night viewing like Downton Abbey and Poldark to Oscar-baiting classics like Sense and Sensibility and A Room With A View, these are our all-time favourites...

Just when you thought they couldn’t be any more divisive…If you just arrived on the planet you’d swear the Democratic Party was trying to start a civil war. It wouldn’t be possible to divide people in more ways than Democrats do, all for their own benefit. The people without jobs are taught to resent those lucky enough to have them. People without savings are trained to be angry at those with. Everyone one is conditioned to hate people with more than them, more of anything. Further down the left-wing hate spiral, Democrats have indoctrinated people to distrust and dislike people...

A roadside bomb tore through a vehicle in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Tuesday, killing five people, among whom four were doctors who worked at a prison, police said. The doctors worked at the Puli Charkhi prison, Kabul's main penitentiary, and were killed as they were on the way to their office in the city's Doghabad neighbourhood. It was not immediately clear if the doctors were targeted in the attack. ...

Good grief the UniParty is in full swing and they don’t even care what our opinion is about this massive $2.5 TRILLION (approximated because it hasn’t been scored) COVID/Omnibus spending bill that totals over 5,600 pages. The actual 5,600 page bill wasn’t populated for public review until shortly after noon this afternoon and staff had an issue putting it on-line. Incredibly, and in keeping with the previous approach preferred by congress, the House plans on voting on this bill today; and Mitch McConnell wants the Senate to pass it by unanimous consent (no recorded votes). My rough review shows an...

Democrats and monopartiers think they’ve won today but they may have sown the wind and will reap the whirlwind, by waking the sleeping giant. There are a few points I find myself making in my responses to emails from worried and unhappy people. There’s a common thread I’m seeing in my own writing, so I thought I’d see if I could pull it all together in this post. Here’s a preliminary but important point: Don’t give in to depression and despair. Both of those are emotions that encourage passivity. No matter what is coming down the pike, we are effective...

When the church doors open, only white people will be allowed inside. That’s the message the Asatru Folk Assembly in Murdock, Minnesota, is sending after being granted a conditional use permit to open a church there and practice its pre-Christian religion that originated in northern Europe. Despite a council vote officially approving the permit this month, residents are pushing back against the decision. “I think they thought they could fly under the radar in a small town like this, but we’d like to keep the pressure on them,” said Peter Kennedy, a longtime Murdock resident. “Racism is not welcome here."...

The media have decided to censor criticism of the election instead of trying to disprove allegations. President Trump's attorney Jesse Binnall complained that his opening statement before a Senate Homeland Security hearing on election fraud was banned on YouTube. Binnall tweeted, "YouTube has decided that my opening statement in the U.S. [Senate], given under oath and based upon hard evidence, is too dangerous for you to see; they removed it. To this day, 'our evidence has never been refuted, only ignored.' Why is Google so afraid of the truth?" The following message appeared when his testimony was searched: "This video...

Even the glorious Gal Gadot can't save this shameful superhero sequel“Wonder Woman 1984” director Patty Jenkins sought inspiration from an unlikely source.“Superman III.”Yes, that scorned sequel leaned into the franchise’s funny bone with tragic results. Co-star Richard Pryor’s career never fully recovered. Nor did the “Superman” series.Jenkins isn’t done with her super homage, though. She also evokes the sub-par effects and Kumbaya tone of “Superman IV: The Quest for Peace.”Yes, “Wonder Woman 1984” takes its ‘80s nostalgia so seriously it cribs from not one but two of the decade’s worst superhero films.Jenkins isn’t done besmirching what should have been the...

If today’s poisonous cancel culture is ever to be remedied, the cause must be understood. When deliberating the origin, most just point to America’s universities and say, “they did it.” And, clearly, that’s where the programming occurs, but it doesn’t explain why. Selwyn Duke recently noted that vanguard leftists have “indoctrinated the young in schools to transform them into foot soldiers in the leftist campaign of civilizational rape.” Those foot soldiers are today’s cancel culture warriors. But why did old-time educators morph into purveyors of cancel culture hate? How did it happen? The Vietnam War did it. Or, more precisely,...

More than 70 West Point cadets are embroiled in the academy's worst cheating scandal in over four decades. Seventy-three cadets were caught cheating on a mathematics exam after all of them made the same error on their calculus final back in May. It's not immediately clear how the cadets - 72 of whom were first-year students at the time - cheated on the test, which was administered remotely due to the coronavirus pandemic. Of those who allegedly cheated on the test, 58 have admitted to doing so, leading to disciplinary action.

It’s hard to decide whether to laugh or cry at the education chaos in Liberal Land. It’s hard to decide whether to laugh or cry at the education chaos in Liberal Land. There’s Dalton, the swank private school on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, whose staff has just issued a 24-point anti-racist manifesto demanding, amongst other things, twelve diversity officers, thusly Expand the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to include at least 12 full-time positions: one Director, one Office Assistant, three full-time staff members per division, and one full-time staff member for PE/Athletics. Back when I went to a swank...

On his television show "The 700 Club," Robertson delivered a monologue in which he challenged the president on a personal and political level. .."I think it's all over - I think the Electoral College has spoken," Robertson said. "And I don't think the Biden corruption has been fully brought to fruition." Robertson proceeded to thank Trump for his tenure, saying Trump had "done a marvelous job for the economy" but adding that he was "very erratic, and he's fired people and he's fought people and he's insulted people, and he keeps going down the line." "You know, with all his...

Much as some Americans may long for a secession movement, one of America’s enemies is counting on it. There is much loose talk about secession among conservatives. Focused as they are on the outrages of the Left – the cheating, the immorality, the welfare-state entitlement, and the rabid anti-Christian beliefs that put men in women’s bathrooms – conservatives think that these represent the fundamental existential threat to the Republic. They do not. Over the horizon lies the largest, most well-funded, most well educated, communist power in the history of the earth. It is atheist, secularist, and mercantilist. It has a...

It’s just the flu, bro. https://apkmetro.com/hospitals-retreat-from-early-covid-treatment-and-return-to-basics/ Over use of ventilators early in the fauxdemic is responsible for a large percentage of the deaths. The murder of thousands was facilitated by doctors who lost their minds due to irrational fear and forgot their training. - https://www.foxnews.com/us/georgia-student-jailed-in-cayman-islands-update Somebody in the British Cayman Islands government is looking for 1776 all over again by imprisoning an American for four months for violating coronavirus rules. And please don’t say this girl from Georgia is acting “entitled”...she is a freedom fighter IMO.

Since the 2016 election, Democrats have made all kinds of nullification standard fare, but more pernicious than displaying a disagreeable temperament, or contrary opinion; more than First Amendment-protected civil disobedience. Instead, making that which is legitimate, illegitimate; making what is illegitimate, legitimate. Making what is decent, abhorrent; making what is grotesque, glorious—all enjoying approbation from a fawning media. Any and all tactics, now including election fraud, and covering up bribery of a president to-be, are used unapologetically, with no subterfuge, and with impunity. Truth now is subjective, conditioned on identity and whether it will be canceled by the mob, or...

In 1923, Who Was: 1. President of the largest steel company? 2. President of the largest gas company? 3. President of the New York stock Exchange? 4. Greatest wheat speculator? 5. President of the Bank of International Settlement? 6. Great Bear of Wall Street? These men were considered some of the world's most successful of their day? Now, 90 years later, the history books ask us if we know what ultimately became of them? The Answers: 1. The president of the largest steel company. Charles Schwab, died a pauper. 2. The president of the largest gas company, Edward Hopson, went...

In a slew of important cases before the Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts “has engaged in strategic maneuvering, observed Adrian Vermeule and Varad Mehta at The Washington Post: Roberts' goal appears to be to preserve what he takes to be the legitimacy of the Supreme Court, by disproving any suspicion that the justices vote ideologically or otherwise ­engage in political behavior.” The problem: “Because it is so clear that he is crafting opinions with this end in mind, the chief justice defeats his own aims.” His effective rewriting of the ObamaCare law in 2012 was the most notorious example....

The Facebook-owned social-media giant "Instagram” is characterizing “well-established criticisms” of Joe Biden and his 1994 crime bill as “False,” reports blogger Glenn Greenwald. A post on the platform “said nothing more than what Biden’s chosen running mate, Kamala Harris, has herself said” — namely, that the ’94 law “contributed to the mass incarceration of Americans generally and African Americans specifically.” Indeed, many “media outlets, criminal-justice experts and politicians from both parties” have said the same. Yet Instagram plastered a “False” label on the post, saying it had “no basis in fact.” A tech giant declaring someone “a disseminator of disinformation...