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By a decisive margin, voters want their local schools open for in-person learning, according to a new Just the News Daily Poll with Scott Rasmussen. A majority of 53% of registered voters surveyed believe classrooms in their area should be open, while just 31% prefer they remain closed. The finding comes as Chicago's mayor and public school authorities are locked in a tense standoff with teachers over when and how to reopen public schools. K-8 teachers defied an order by Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot to return to classrooms Monday. While GOP voters overwhelmingly favor opening schools by 72%-19%, opinion is...

A Georgia Republican is introducing a bill requiring voters to send copies of their photo ID to election officials two times before being permitted to cast an absentee ballot. The legislation would also implement a photo ID requirement for voters sending in absentee ballots from outside the state, requiring them to submit proof of identification when applying for the ballot and when returning it. Acceptable forms of ID would include a photocopy of the voter’s driver’s license, voter ID card, U.S. passport, government employee ID, military ID card or tribal identification card. **SNIP** Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, Lt. Gov. Geoff...

"The Jerusalem Clock is hidden in London today," Fatah, the political movement behind the PLO and the Palestinian Authority, asserts in a post titled, "Jerusalem Stolen Clock". It goes on to claim that the British military ordered the clock tower dismantled. Then the "British moved the clock first to a new tower across from the municipality of Jerusalem, and transferred it to the British Museum in London, to become the famous British icon, 'Big Ben'." How did Big Ben, which was built in 1859, become a Muslim clock tower from the 20th century? There are some other slight differences between...

A woman is accused of stabbing her husband several times after finding photos of him having sex with a 'younger woman' before realising they were actually old photos of her. Police in Mexico were called out to reports of domestic abuse at a home in Sonora after neighbours heard screaming and shouting coming from the property. When they arrived they found a man, who has been named as Juan N, lying on the ground after sustaining multiple stab wounds to his arms and legs.(snip) According to the Daily Mail, the violent attack started after the woman found photos of her...

Nonvoters and registered Democrats were among those who were arrested at the January 6 Capitol protest, an analysis of voting records show. The January 6 event, which has been overwhelmingly branded as a pro-Trump protest, sparked the second impeachment of former President Donald Trump as Democrats, primarily, blamed him for the incitement of insurrection after he delivered a speech to supporters earlier in the day. Not once during the speech did Trump encourage supporters to engage in acts of lawlessness or destruction. Nevertheless, House lawmakers, some of whom indicated that they feared for their lives as protesters stormed the Capitol,...

On this date in 1944, the Nazi governor of Warsaw was “executed” by assassination. The Austrian Sudeten German Franz Kutschera had parlayed his early Nazi party membership into various posts in the Third Reich after it absorbed Austria into Greater Germany. The last of his several stations on World War II’s Eastern Front was SS and Police chief of occupied Warsaw. He did not hesitate to brandish the iron fist, intensifying arrests of perceived subversives and carrying out public executions of civilians to avenge German casualties. We enter ambiguous territory for this here site here, for Kutschera’s punishment, while delivered...

Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger has launched a new campaign to take the party back from the influence of members like Donald Trump and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. 'The Republican Party has lost its way. If we are to lead again, we need to muster the courage to remember who we are,' Kinzinger, 42, said in a video launching his Country 1st PAC. 'Republicans must say enough is enough. It's time to unplug the outrage machine, reject the politics of personality, and cast aside the conspiracy theories and the rage,' the Illinois rep added. His political action committee, unveiled in a...

An international team of scientists have been able to replicate how a wombat produces square poo—and it could change the way geometric products are manufactured in future. Research published today in the Royal Society of Chemistry's journal Soft Matter, expands on the discovery that wombat poo forms its distinctive shape within the wombat's intestines, not at the point of exit as previously thought. They have now discovered that the slow passage of the feces and differing stiffness within the last 17 percent of the intestines produces the square shape—before exiting via its round anus. This discovery is not only applicable...

-- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has announced it will make face masks mandatory on all forms of transportation within the United States, including aboard cruise ships and inside cruise terminals across the country. The new guidance, which will take effect February 2, will also mandate the use of face masks by all travelers within, to or out of the United States onboard all airplanes, ships, ferries, trains, subways, busses, taxis and ride-sharing services like Uber. In addition, all bus stations, subway stations, airports and cruise terminals will also require all travelers to use face masks...

Given Joe Biden’s affinity for firing off executive orders as fast as they’re shoved in front of him — along with accompanying index cards that he’s supposed to read aloud so both he and the rest of us can know what he’s signing — the question of “constitutional” — or the lack thereof — is increasingly under debate, and with good reason.

[Catholic Caucus] ‘The World Economic Forum…could not have expressed it better!’: Abp. Viganò decries Vatican letter to consecrated men, womenFebruary 1, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Below is a new reflection from Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò.PARS HEREDITATIS MEÆ On the occasion of the XXV Day of Consecrated LifeDominus pars hereditatis meæ et calicis mei: tu es qui restitues hereditatem meam mihi.Ps 16: 5On February 2 the Church celebrates the Purification of Mary Most Holy and the Presentation of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Temple. The feast, also called Candlemas because of the candles that are blessed during the rite on this...

Grocery company Kroger announced Monday it will be shuttering two of its stores in Long Beach — a Ralph’s location and a Food4Less store — in response to a city ordinance requiring a $4 “hero pay” salary boost for some workers. “As a result of the city of Long Beach’s decision to pass an ordinance mandating extra pay for grocery workers, we have made the difficult decision to permanently close long-struggling store locations in Long Beach,” according to a company statement. “This misguided action by the Long Beach City Council oversteps the traditional bargaining process and applies to some, but...

My how times have changed in our households. Modern appliances and other inventions have afforded us conveniences that our predecessors didn’t have. Don’t you sometimes wonder what things were like a century or two ago? Explore the past by looking at these vintage wares and try to figure out what they were used for. Some of these objects were more common during certain historical periods, or in particular parts of the world. Though they all share the same status of being antiques, you may find one or two of these items still in use.

Former Washington state high school football coach Joe Kennedy lost his job more than five years ago for silently praying on the field after each game, but his ongoing unemployment and an extended legal battle are not enough to deter the former Marine from his fight for faith. While coaching at Bremerton High School, Kennedy began kneeling alone in a silent, 15-second prayer at the 50-yard line at the conclusion of every game. He was suspended and later fired in 2015 for refusing to stop the public practice. Kennedy, a retired Marine Corps gunnery sergeant who did a combat tour...

Detectives: Heads stolen from Mount Dora graves for Santeria rituals (Can't be posted)

Advisers to former President Donald Trump are split on devising an impeachment defense, with Steve Bannon among those urging him to turn the Senate trial into a political bear fight by claiming once again that the election was stolen, according to a source familiar with discussions. Trump’s legal team is scrambling to devise a strategy after he in recent days replaced five lawyers who were reluctant to relitigate what they saw as flimsy allegations of voter fraud. While the Republican Party prefers arguing that the impeachment of a former president is unconstitutional, his allies fear Trump is gambling on a...

It could be the best proof yet that Jimmy Hoffa is buried at a dump in North Jersey. “Fox Nation’’ says in a new report that it used radar experts to locate what appears to be a slew of underground steel drums at the state-owned spot where a late mob associate’s son said his father helped stash the body of the famous Teamsters chief. “He couldn’t fit in the drum body-first, feet-first — they had to turn him and put him in head-first,” Frank Cappola told the streaming service’s series “Riddle, The Search for James R. Hoffa” — referring to...

In the the morning on January 6th we noted Vice President Mike Pence would end the day in history branded as a hero or a traitor to his country. We now know that answer. At noon on January 6th, while the President was speaking to a million patriots in the Capital, VP Pence released his own memo explaining why he was overlooking the corruption and election fraud which ended up stealing the election from President Trump, his boss, and the American people: “It is my considered judgement that my oath to support and defend the Constitution constrains me from claiming...

Joe Biden is considering revoking Trump’s access to intelligence briefings over concerns he may leverage the top secret information to enrich himself. Former US presidents are traditionally extended the privilege of receiving classified information. However, Biden’s national security team is reviewing whether to revoke Trump’s access to classified information because Democrats believe he cannot be trusted with state secrets. Joe Biden, AKA, “the Big Guy” has spent his adult life selling out his public office to the highest bidder through his crackhead son and slimy brothers but now he’s in charge of whether Trump will keep his security clearance.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Some victims of child sexual abuse might have to wait two years or more to pursue legal claims because of a major bureaucratic bungle that prompted angry denunciations across the political spectrum Monday and the resignation of Pennsylvania's top state elections official. A proposed state constitutional amendment allowing lawsuits over decadesold claims — prompted by investigations into child sexual abuse allegations inside Pennsylvania’s Roman Catholic diocese — wasn’t advertised as required and so cannot appear on the ballot this spring, the Wolf administration disclosed Monday. Pennsylvania's Department of State called it “simple human error" and apologized,...