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Liberals will never be happy when it comes to former President Donald J. Trump. First, they wanted him silenced and now they’re complaining that he is being too quiet. After four years of demanding that Trump be banned from Twitter and Facebook, the left rejoiced when all major Silicon Valley platforms pulled the plug on him three weeks ago but the celebration has quickly been replaced with a gnawing sense of dread. Now that the nation’s 45th president has retreated from public life after leaving the swamp for the balmy climates of South Florida and some well-deserved rest at Mar-a-Lago,...

Prelate Urges Pope to Sign Catholic-Shia PactFrancis on 'pointless' mission to meet ayatollah in IraqVATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Iraq's top prelate is persuading Pope Francis to sign an interfaith covenant with Shia Islam's top cleric, similar to the human fraternity declaration the pontiff ratified with the global leader of Sunni Muslims in Abu Dhabi 2019.Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans Louis Raphaël Sako "It is a desire we share with the Shiite [Muslims]," Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans Louis Raphaël Sako said in light of the pope's forthcoming trip to Iraq, confirming the meeting between Francis and Grand Ayatollah...

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The neoliberal drift A key question for this year’s conference, which is due to be followed by a second phase in Singapore in May, is whether a new form of globalisation will be developed. There was a free-market form of globalisation leading up to the first world war, then a retreat during the inter-war period. Bretton Woods led to an era of regulated globalisation from 1945 until the 1980s. But since then, the “global elite” has pushed back regulatory restrictions on everything from speculative financial flows across borders to mergers and acquisitions. A new era is required, building on the...

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Longtime South Dakota Republican voter Jim Thompson is ready to leave the GOP, hoping that an exodus of Donald Trump supporters like him will punish the state’s preeminent politician, Sen. John Thune, for defying Trump.

“Walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called” (Ephesians 4:1). Compared to walking worthy of Christ, nothing else is really important. Let’s review what Paul has taught us from Ephesians 4:1-6. God has chosen and called us to be part of His family, and He expects us to act like His children. He wants us to walk worthy of Christ and be unified. To follow God’s will in this, we must, with His help, deal with our sin and develop godly virtues. Our lives must first be marked by “all humility” (v. 2). We...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has asked Britain to pause vaccinations once at-risk groups are inoculated, so doses can be “fairly distributed” overseas. Despite a near-consensus among liberal media and health experts that Britain’s decision to opt-out of the European Union’s vaccine programme and manage its own situation would be a disaster, the island nation has in fact managed to approve vaccines, secure orders, and begin mass vaccinations long before the 27-nation bloc and many other countries, possibly offering a light at the end of the tunnel for a citizenry struggling under lockdown and long-term separation from friends and family....

VIDEOYou have probably encountered guajillo sauce if you've eaten at a Mexican restaurant. The good news is you can easily make that sauce at home. In this video I show you how to hydrate the dried guajillo chiles that can be purchased inexpensively at Mexican or Spanish markets. I previously used the guajillo as a marinade in conjunction with achiote to smoke some incredible chicken leg quarters. This time I added the sauce to my scrambled eggs. Oh, and as you can see in the video, if you use a high pulse on your lender, you don't need to use...

Hedge fund Melvin Capital Management lost 53% in January amid a record rally in GameStop and other stocks the fund was betting against, according to The Wall Street Journal citing people familiar with the matter. The heavy losses come as retail investors piled into popular hedge fund short targets, including the struggling video game retailer. Shares of GameStop finished last week with a gain of 400%, bringing its total return this year to 1,625%. The stock closed Friday’s session at $325. As recently as October it traded under $10. CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin reported last week that Melvin Capital closed...

Acting Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman has called for permanent fencing and troop deployments around the US Capitol Building in Washington, DC. "Numerous members of Congress have expressed fear for their safety since the insurrection of early January," Pittman said. "The rulers of our country cannot properly do their work if they are perpetually fearful. Reassuring them and guaranteeing them a freedom from fear strikes me as the next logical step toward establishing the unity President Biden wants for the nation." Pittman dismissed claims that "the Capitol is the people's house and ought to be open for visitors. In a...

Double-mask? Only if you want your mask(s) to not work as intended. President Biden’s COVID-19 advisor Anthony Fauci, a holdover from the Trump administration, is getting publicly challenged by a new Biden COVID-19 advisor, Michael Osterholm of the University of Minnesota. In an interview with WCCO Radio this week, the head of the university’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy said Fauci’s recommendation to wear two masks at once to stop viral infections made no epidemiological sense. “Masks, as they’re defined[,] work in two ways,” Osterholm said: The first is in regards to how that masks fits. How well...

A massive section of California’s historic Highway 1 has collapsed. On Thursday, torrential rains took down a chunk of the road near Big Sur, leaving a gaping hole in the historic road.Authorities closed the scenic route for over 20 miles in each direction and will now work to reopen the route as soon as possible.

Gun dealers say they are selling more firearms than ever in the Chicago area since the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol — and they predict sales will shatter the records set during last year’s civil unrest and in the early days of the coronavirus panic. And their top salesman is fear. Richard Pearson, executive director of the Illinois State Rifle Association, traces the surge in sales to the Black Lives Matter protests last summer and other civil unrest. “People are worried about it,” Pearson said. “And so, they are beginning to wonder if the police can protect them. And many...

A prominent Trump supporter is facing life in prison for licking an envelope at a polling location on election day and making a joke, which is apparently considered a bioterror hazard in the age of COVID-19 mass hysteria. Peter Trzos, a Trump supporter from Keego Harbor, is in court under felony charges for what he claims was a joke made to a city clerk after the clerk made him lick an absentee ballot envelope while he was turning it in at a polling location. Big League Politics broke the story last month when the charges were announced. “I kinda thought...

A group of Republican senators on Sunday sent a letter to President Biden suggesting they meet as part of his call for “unity” to negotiate the administration’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package. ​”​In the spirit of bipartisanship and unity, we have developed a COVID-19 relief framework that builds on prior COVID assistance laws, all of which passed with bipartisan support​,” the lawmakers, including Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Mitt Romney of Utah, wrote​ in the missive. -snip- Along with Collins and Romney, the letter was signed by Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Rob Portman of...

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On this date in 1606, Guy Fawkes, “the only man to ever enter parliament with honorable intentions,” was hanged, drawn and quartered in London with three conspirators for attempting to blow up the Houses of Parliament … and the government with it. Fawkes, a soldier, was part of the Gunpowder Plot, a Catholic attempt to assassinate the new king James I when it became clear the House of Stuart would continue its Tudor predecessors’ intolerance of the Roman church. The conspiracy was crowded, so it was something of a miracle the secret kept for over a year while the plotters...

How can we miss him when he won’t go away? John Kerry has escaped from Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum and is back in the BS business now that another doddering old codger, Dementia Joe Biden, is ensconced in the White House. Kerry is Biden’s new “climate czar,” which I guess is the U.S. equivalent of being in the House of Lords. Liveshot, however, has convinced himself that this latest sanctimonious self-promotion is not only on the level, but very, very significant: “No — no one, no political person in the future would be able to undo what the planet is...

Ten Republican senators announced plans Sunday to release an approximately $600 billion covid relief package that could serve as a bipartisan alternative to President Biden’s $1.9 trillion plan, and requested a meeting with the president to discuss it. The senators, led by Susan Collins (R-Maine), said they would release additional details of the package on Monday. In a letter to Biden they said they were offering their proposal in recognition of the president’s “calls for unity.” “We want to work in good faith with you and your administration to meet the health, economic and societal challenges of the covid crisis,”...

CUOMO: “A third of all deaths in this nation are from nursing homes. New York state, we are only about 28 percent, only, but we are below the national average in number of deaths in nursing homes. But who cares, 33, 28, died in a hospital, died in a nursing home, they died. And I dealt with the loss of my father. The pain is so incredible and inexplicable and why, and why, and why? It’s a tragedy. It’s a tragedy.”