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I had the opportunity to interview Spanish comic book artist and author Ibai Canales Benito. He has contributed to horror comics like Necromancer: Tombstone Blues, CU Next Tuesday, and Iron Sights. He’s also helped create sci-fi comics like The Abductables and Decimators.

May N.Y. Businesses Fire Employees for Using Parler and Gab? Colleen Oefelein was fired by the Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency, and the incident illustrates the vagueness of New York law on this point.

Rome, Italy, Jan 28, 2021 / 04:41 pm MT (CNA).- The John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences generated a flurry of controversy in the Italian Catholic blogosphere this week, after its Facebook page defended Joe Biden’s support of legal abortion. The Pontifical Theological Institute’s Facebook page reposted an article published on Jan. 20 in the Italian edition of the Huffington Post, titled “Joe Biden, a Catholic at the White House among the poisons of the American Church.”The article emphasized what it calls Joe Biden's “Social Gospel” and presented a series of declarations by political scientists...

This, when you think about it, is pretty grotesque.Despite an amazing media buildup, a vote tally of supposedly 81 million votes, and lots of judges ruling in favor of Biden on the cheating issue, Biden just can't cough up much evidence of popularity out among the hoi polloi who supposedly voted for him in the majority and aren't easily controlled.This is about par for Biden, who not only couldn't draw a crowd to his campaign rallies but who repeatedly demonstrates instances of favoring illusion over fact. To take another example, on Twitter, Biden boasts 16% fake internet followers (which are...

Scottsdale police said on January 4 just before 2 a.m., a photo enforcement unit identified a Toyota Celica that was criminally speeding on Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard at 119 MPH in an area where the speed limit is 45 MPH. (not actual race) (Not actual girlfriend)

Matt Taibbi In the fall of 2008, America’s wealthiest companies were in a pickle. Short-selling hedge funds, smelling blood as the global economy cratered, loaded up with bets against finance stocks, pouring downward pressure on teetering, hyper-leveraged firms like Morgan Stanley and Citigroup. The free-market purists at the banks begged the government to stop the music, and when the S.E.C. complied with a ban on financial short sales, conventional wisdom let out a cheer. "This will absolutely make a difference," economist Peter Cardillo told CNN. "Now, if there is any good news, shorts will have to cover.” At the...

Until Evita Duffy, one of its founders, wrote at The Federalist about the controversy at the University of Chicago over continuing that school’s commitment to free speech, I had never heard of The Chicago Thinker. It is a conservative student newspaper that Duffy and a few others created last year. I have no idea if it took inspiration from this online journal but would be highly pleased if that were the case. Free speech and free thought are two sides of the same coin.An article titled “Instructing Insurrections: How UChicago Can Avoid Creating the Next Ted Cruz” was published on...

Dodger Stadium’s mass COVID-19 vaccination site was shut down Saturday afternoon as about 50 protesters gathered at the entrance... The Los Angeles Fire Department closed the entrance to the stadium — one of the largest vaccination sites in the country — for about an hour starting just before 2 p.m. as a precaution, officials said. While some carried signs decrying the COVID-19 vaccine and shouting for people not to get the shots, there were no incidents of violence. A post on social media described the demonstration as the “Scamdemic Protest/March.” It advised participants to “please refrain from wearing Trump/MAGA attire...

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You probably heard that a snowstorm is approaching the major cities of the northeastern U.S. and the mid-Atlantic states. Some forecasting models have outcomes as high as 24-36 inches of snow for some areas. Most at risk appears to be eastern PA, NJ, and MD. NYC and LI could also get hit with 18-24 inch amounts. So far it looks a bit less extreme for most of New England, with forecast models saying 6-12 inches for most areas. That is also the case for western PA, central NY state, and some parts of the Midwest where the storm has already...

A new forecast from the University of Washington's pandemic forecasting team is frightening. Even in a best-case scenario, close to another 200,000 Americans are likely to die between now and May 1. More than 430,000 Americans have already died in the pandemic, and even if the entire population started doing everything right -- wearing masks, avoiding gatherings, staying two arms' lengths away from one another -- the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation predicts at least 130,000 more people would die in the next three months. And now the new variants are here. Virologists predicted from the beginning that the...

This is the week that Reddit became a greater menace to the modern world than Donald Trump’s defunct Twitter feed. Or at least that’s what the major media trying to hold on to their three readers would have you think. Hasn’t President Biden come up with an executive order that will make everyone come out even, and deliver cute free puppies while we’re at it? If only GameStop made solar panels. Oh, and we’re not quite done with Bernie memes yet.

Enjoy unity at gunpoint in the Bidenist banana republic. Joe Biden has called for “unity” and “healing”. And nobody knows as much about healing as Joe whose wife has a doctorate in education from the university that hosts his Biden Institute and the Beau Biden Foundation which was charging $3K for lessons on preventing online child sex grooming even as Hunter’s laptop with the Foundation’s sticker allegedly showed him doing it. Except maybe Joe’s brother who took out $650,000 in personal loans from a company that bankrupted local hospitals while trading on his brother’s name and connections to his campaign....

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene gushed Saturday over a supportive phone call from former President Trump — setting off a snarky back-and-forth with fellow Republican Mitt Romney.“I had a GREAT call with my all time favorite POTUS, President Trump!” the lightning-rod Georgia freshman tweeted.“I’m so grateful for his support…he is 100% loyal to the people and America First,” she added.

WASHINGTON — Two pipe bombs left at the offices of the Republican and Democratic national committees were actually placed the night before, federal officials said Friday. The FBI said the investigation had revealed new information, including that the explosive devices were placed outside the two buildings between 7:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. on Jan. 5. The devices were not located by law enforcement until the next day. The two explosive devices were very similar, and both were about a foot long with end caps and wiring that appeared to be attached to a timer, two law enforcement officials familiar with...

COPPERMAN While walking through San Francisco's Union Square recently I ran into Copperman. He is a street entertainer, a young actor in copper paint from head to toe, who sits motionless as people walk by on the busy street. Many stop, awe-struck to see this statue-like man. You cannot even see him breathing. People leave contributions in his copper pot in appreciation for this fine "performance". Copperman sits for 25 minutes at a time and then takes a break. During the break he is quite animated and eagerly shares his story with his audience. He told us that it...

Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) has tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday afternoon after a member of his staff tested positive for the virus. “This afternoon U.S. Representative Stephen F. Lynch received a positive test result for COVID-19 after a staff member in the Congressman's Boston office had tested positive earlier in the week,” Molly Rose Tarpey, a spokesperson for Lynch said in a statement, according to CNN. Tarpey said that Lynch plans to isolate and will vote by proxy over the coming week, the news outlet reported. He remains asymptomatic. Lynch had received a second dose of Pfizer and BioNTech’s...

PITTSBURGH — A South Park man was charged with casting a vote on behalf of his wife who had been dead since 2013. According to police, the Allegheny County Elections Bureau contacted police after discovering a ballot had been filled out by Judy Presto. Presto was confirmed as having died in 2013 and was survived by her husband, Francis Presto. Police contacted Presto who told them his mail had been stolen and he had to file a report with the postal service. After searching postal service records, police couldn’t find any record of a report being filed. An attorney for...

BOSTON — The Massachusetts Department of Transportation is getting ready to switch the exit signs along part of Route 128 to a mileage-based system. Work on the signs along Route 3 is expected to be finished on Tuesday and installations along Route 128 from Gloucester to Peabody will begin Wednesday. The swapping of signs along that part of Route 128 is expected to last about eight days, MassDOT officials said. The exit numbers are being changed by MassDOT to comply with federal highway mandates, which require mile-based exit signs. Massachusetts is one of three states that have not yet begun...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis on Vatican II: ‘The Council is the Magisterium of the Church’“Either you are with the Church and therefore you follow the Council, or you interpret it in your own way, according to your desire, you do not stand with the Church.”From Vatican News: Pope Francis called on catechists to “pray and think creatively about a catechesis centred on the kerygma, which looks to the future of our communities, so that they may be ever more rooted in the Gospel, communities that are fraternal, and inclusive.”The Holy Father was speaking to members of the National Catechetical Office...