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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, no longer restricted by the Trump administration, issued an extensive federal public health order late Friday requiring all individuals to wear masks over their mouth and nose on nearly all forms of public transportation and private ride-sharing services—and makes refusal to wear a face-covering a violation of federal law.

A young Texan grew up wanting to be a lawman. He grew up big—6’2", strong as a longhorn, and fast as a mustang. He could shoot a bottle cap tossed in the air at 40 paces. When he finally came of age, he applied to where he had only dreamed of working: the West Texas Sheriff's Department. After a series of tests and interviews, the Chief Deputy finally called him into his office for the young man's last interview. The Chief Deputy said, "You're a big strong kid and you can really shoot. So far your qualifications all look good,...

The Heritage Foundation has wasted no time in becoming the top conservative influence on homeland security and immigration policy, today announcing that it has scooped up Ken Cuccinelli, Mark Morgan, and Chad Wolf. The GOP’s go-to policy house named former acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf, former acting Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Ken Cuccinelli, and former acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan as fellows to its Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy....The trio begins on Monday. “Heritage has assembled an all-star team with significant policy expertise on issues related to homeland security, immigration, and China,” Heritage...

California law provides no standards whatsoever to safeguard women experiencing abortion from dirty and dangerous abortion businesses because every single one of the commonsense medical standards have been wiped off the books by state courts or pro-abortion lawmakers, at the urging of abortion practitioners and advocates. 'Americans United for Life' set out with the most extensive public records investigation ever to shine the light of truth on the nation’s abortion industry... The result is Unsafe,... and the grave implications this trove of inspection documentation raises for the safety of women who seek abortion in America. Unsafe’s 50-state investigation exposes abortion...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. 1 Timothy 2:1-2Religion Forum threads labeled “Prayer” are closed to debate of any kind.

The state party announced the passage of its censure resolution on Saturday in a statement, with Chairman Drew McKissick sharing the party's "disappointment" with Rice's vote. "Trying to impeach a president, with a week left in his term, is never legitimate and is nothing more than a political kick on the way out the door," said McKissick. "Congressman Rice's vote unfortunately played right into the Democrats' game, and the people in his district, and ultimately our State Executive Committee, wanted him to know they wholeheartedly disagree with his decision." The pro-Trump resentment has extended to officials beyond Congress. The Arizona...

The Biden administration only took over the White House last week, but it's already had to grapple with ethical dilemmas created by the complicated business dealings of Pres. Biden and VP. Harris's 'families'.... Bidens youngest son, lobbyist-investor Hunter, profited from the Biden name, specifically in China and Ukraine. His lucrative role with oligarch-linked Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings, for instance, was central to former President Donald Trump's first impeachment.....Hunter was under a federal tax investigation dating back to 2018 into his foreign associations and accusations of money laundering. This week, Biden's brother Frank featured in an ad for his Florida...

“We want to set the record straight — everyone has a right to self-determined death.” With these words, Free Democrat Member of Parliament Katrin Helling-Plahr introduced a cross-party draft bill to the German parliament that would regulate legal assisted suicide for the first time. The ban on so-called business-like assisted suicide in Germany was lifted almost a year ago by a ruling of the constitutional court. But without legislation to regulate the process, the right has existed “only on paper” for many people, as Helling-Plahr put it on Twitter. According to the bill, which was introduced by Helling-Plahr along with...

January 31 2021 Memorial of St. John Bosco Don Bosco's shrine, Matunga, Mumbai (Bombay), India Lectionary 71Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingDeuteronomy 18:15-20 ©I will raise up a prophet and put my words into his mouthMoses said to the people: ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like myself, from among yourselves, from your own brothers; to him you must listen. This is what you yourselves asked of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the Assembly. “Do not let me hear again” you said “the voice of the Lord my God, nor...

After weeks of being limited to takeout and delivery, struggling restaurants in Los Angeles were allowed to reopen for outdoor dining Friday with new restrictions in place. Restaurants must require employees to wear a face mask and shield, tables must be eight feet apart and seat no more than six people, and televisions are not allowed to be turned on. "Televisions or any other screens that are used to broadcast programming must be removed from the area or turned off," the order from the Los Angeles Department of Public Health says. "This provision is effective until further notice." This no-TVs...

Hollywood power-players are using private jets to fly hundreds of miles and even offering $50,000 'bribes' to get their hands on the coronavirus vaccine. Strict rules in California limiting the shots to over-65s and medical workers has led to 'vaccine tourism', with celebrity agents and studio heads travelling to Florida, Hawaii and even Alaska, where age limits do not apply. Last week, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis brought in legislation limiting the jab to those who can prove they are resident in the state after it was revealed that of the 1.1 million people vaccinated in Florida, 39,000 did not live...

“Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted” (Proverbs 31:5).

Republican Sen. Mitt Romney and QAnon-supporting Congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene took swipes at each other on Twitter Saturday after Green said she'd had a 'great call' with former President Donald Trump. In a series of tweets, Greene wrote that Trump had given her his support despite the recent backlash against the controversial Georgia lawmaker, claiming that the American people are 'absolutely 100% loyal' to Trump and that she 'won't back down' as she battles against the 'enemy within'. 'I had a GREAT call with my all-time favorite POTUS, President Trump!' Greene wrote in the first of her Saturday tweets.

Chicago’s spike in carjackings has some residents so rattled that aldermen are working with private security to make sure residents can pump gas in peace. South Side Ald. Stephanie Coleman, 16th, said one of her residents was carjacked at a gas station on Christmas Day, which inspired the idea to hire local security to provide a safe place to fill up “because people are afraid to get gas no matter what time of day of being carjacked.” “It hit home for me,” Coleman said. She’s since worked with local gas stations and Kates Security Services to set up times when...

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Democrats are about the pass the most draconian gun control legislation since 1968 GCA. Modern rifles are going to be highly restricted, if not abolished. Elections have consequences; The powerless have no rights; and telling a judge "I shall not comply" is not going to keep you out of prison. So hide that AR and get a lever action short rifle for defense.

A word from the Lord I received: Mary, Abraham, and Sarah are 3 witnesses. They all had a word from God, Mary's word Isa. 7:14 a virgin shall conceive and bare a son, Abraham's word Gen. 17:5 for a father of many nations have I made thee, Sarah's word Gen. 18:10 thy wife shall have a son. What God said came out of their mouth from their heart, Mary said to the angel, "Be it unto me according to thy word" and in verse 45 it says, And blessed is she that believed; Abraham's name change (meaning father of many...

The tale begins with an old peasant woman collapsing by the roadside with a basket full of twigs on her head. She laments her fate and we find out how she gave birth to a strange little child that has ‘spidery little legs, and instead of talking, he growls and miaows, like a cat.’ This is Little Zaches, and he crawls out from the basket that the old woman has been carrying. A more detailed description of Little Zaches follows: “ The thing’s head was set deep between its shoulders, it had a pumpkin-like outgrowth in place of a back,...

Unit 731 didn’t prevent epidemics—it spread them.Japan has gone down in popular memory as the original victim of weapons of mass destruction, after the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. But it was China that was the real first victim of WMDs in World War II—and the perpetrator was Japan itself. Tokyo’s biological weapons killed hundreds of thousands of Chinese. And their murders still matter today. It’s true that other nations—including Germany, America and Britain—maintained their own chemical and bio-weapons programs during the war. Mussolini’s Italy even employed mustard gas in Ethiopia in 1935. Yet...

Hilton Valentine, the original guitarist for the influential ‘60s band The Animals, passed away in Wallingford, Connecticut at the age of 77, his record company confirmed today. His wife Germaine made the announcement, though no cause of death was revealed. “We at Abkco have been privileged to serve as stewards of The Animals catalog and his passing is felt in a truly profound way by the entire Abkco family,” his record label, Abcko, posted. Valentine’s iconic guitar arpeggios on the Animals’ classic “The House Of The Rising Sun” remain a rite of passage for all budding guitar newbies. Played on...