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The United States military is currently seeking to replace its M4 Carbine and M249 squad assault weapon (SAW), while the M240 could also soon be replaced by a more modern platform. And while the M240’s replacement could even fill the role employed by the M2 .50 caliber, it isn’t likely the “Ma Deuce” will be retired anytime soon. Despite its nearly 90 years of service, it just does the job. It is just one of a few weapons that remained in the American arsenal for decades. Here are what I would argue are just a sample of some of the...

The NFL season ends Sunday, and I suspect it will end the same way it began: with reminders that we’re all racists who need to change our ways. No specifics will be given. None are ever given. And having not oppressed a minority since breakfast — hell, I’ve been a virtual shut-in since March — I’m sick of it. It’s all part of the radically mixed, highly selective social and racial messages that have been delivered with the cowardly, pandering certification and capitulation of Roger “The PSL Salesman” Goodell and a chosen blindness to what most continues to afflict black...

A four-year-old boy surprised his mother by bringing back a baby deer with him during a holiday. Stephanie Brown was shocked to find to her son Dominic, four, and a baby deer he had befriended in the nearby woods on the porch during a family holiday to Massanutten resort in Virginia. The mother managed to take a snap of the unique moment, and shared it on Facebook, where it quickly went viral, ABC 8 News - WRIC reported. People were impressed by how at ease the fawn looked in the presence of the four-year-old.

Barack Obama’s first chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, famously, and cynically, said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” As has become increasingly clear, teachers unions across the nation have used that advice as their playbook during the COVID-19 pandemic. Exploiting a crisis, as the teachers unions have done for the past 11 months, carries significant risks, however, and the unions will likely soon understand that their strategy of stalling the reopening of schools has backfired. Exhausted parents and exasperated public officials – even some of the most far-left progressive advocates of teachers unions – are increasingly...

The catchphrase for the Obama Administration was “leading from behind,” which was easy to confuse with “leading with our behinds” if you just looked at their policies. And already we have our catch phrase for the Biden Administration: “Circle back.” Perfect really, since the Biden Administration is circling back to Obama policies, and then doubling down on them in an effort to encircle American freedom. And then there’s the Lincoln Project, concerning whom you neither circle back nor turn your back.

Honest Americans are aghast at the seeming obsession of leftist Democrats (with support from the usual cadre of RINO traitors) to continue pursuing a wholly unprecedented, unwarranted, and unconstitutional “impeachment” of President Trump after he is no longer in the White House. A little “Constitution 101” for those who are in doubt, the sole purpose of impeachment is to remove an unfit occupant from office. In the wake of the stolen 2020 election, President Trump is already out. So absolutely no legal premise can be claimed for this latest bout of leftist Democrat idiocy. As a result of the flagrant...

It’s not right. It’s not fair. And, on top of all that, President Biden’s executive order allowing transgender males to compete against girls is going to destroy girls sports in America. Almost every one of Biden’s many executive orders to date is going to be harmful in some way to our security, our battered economy, or both. Closing the Keystone Pipeline, stopping construction of the border wall and raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour are a few of his terrible mistakes that come to mind. But the worst order Biden signed was the one saying biological males...

Just when you thought the FBI couldn’t fall any further, the Bureau utterly, hilariously, and luridly beclowns itself. In a formal document, a criminal charge. Using a Photoshopped picture from 4-chan, the reviled (by all people who abhor wrongthink) website where a wag substituted a lurid picture for the official portrait hanging on the wall of the US Capitol in the background of a shot of the Viking horn helmet guy and others who stormed in on January 6, 2021. Seamus Hughes was the eagle eye who spotted it, though the arrow in his picture on the following tweet directs...

Evergreen State College, one of the most “woke” campuses in the nation, continues to live up to its name. Despite plummeting enrollment and budget woes, the Washington-based college manages to maintain an office called the “Office of Spirituality & Meaning Making.” The person who runs that office — who makes about $53,000 annually plus benefits — now offers daily tarot card readings on the student activities

Following the start of its second racing league season last month, Zwift has announced six-month bans against two of its top riders. Participants must submit two sources of data when taking part in competitive races. In the case of those banned, the data didn’t match up. One racer’s power increased by nine percent throughout the event, while the other competitor saw a 32 percent increase. The racer with the larger increase confessed to editing the power data before submitting it to Zwift after initially denying the accusation. The banned rider with the nine percent increase says the discrepancy results from...

From trying to impeach former president Donald Trump (who is now a private citizen), to focusing on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, to maximizing the divide between Rep. Liz Cheney and Trump supporters, the propaganda media and the Democrats are trying to create a defensive Republican Party. They want to keep the GOP crouched in a circular firing squad shooting at itself.

A new bill revitalizes the war on terror's favorite slogan in service of forcing tech companies to turn over more user data to the government. The "See Something, Say Something Online Act," introduced by Sen. Joe Manchin (D–W.Va.) and co-sponsored by Sen. John Cornyn (R–Texas), is the latest attack on the federal communications law known as Section 230 as well as freedom of speech and online privacy. The legislation says any interactive computer service provider—that means social media giants, small blogs, podcast hosting services, app stores, consumer review platforms, independent political forums, crowdfunding and Patreon-style sites, dating apps, newsletter services,...

You may have heard that a 9-year-old was recently pepper-sprayed by a police officer in Rochester, New York. But did you happen to watch the whole 10-minute video of what transpired? There is so much more going on there than just another police brutality story. It's a window into pain. The police were called to a domestic disturbance. According to the mother, mental illness is involved. It's a sometimes under-the-radar plague in our country -- certainly for the individuals and families suffering from it. And the children! The Pennsylvania Parent and Family Alliance shared one mother's reaction to the incident...

.. T H E D A Y O F . T H E L O R D . ISAIAH 2 New International Version, emphases added Abrdgd: the complete text is in your Bible . C L I C K : To read ISAIAH 2 in full To hear MAX McLEAN reading it To hear a DRAMATIZATION of it HIGHLY recommended by Maudeen! To see an ANIMATION of Isaiah 7 3 9 B. C. . CHAPTER 2 . 6 You, LORD, have abandoned your people, the descendants of Jacob. . They are full of superstitions from the East; they practice divination...

February 6 2021 Memorial of the 26 Martyrs of Japan (日本二十六聖人) (Basilica of the 26 Martyrs of Japan), Oura Cathedral, Nagasaki, Japan Lectionary 328Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red.Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingHebrews 13:15-17,20-21 ©May God turn us all into whatever is acceptable to himself through Jesus ChristThrough Christ, let us offer God an unending sacrifice of praise, a verbal sacrifice that is offered every time we acknowledge his name. Keep doing good works and sharing your resources, for these are sacrifices that please God. Obey your leaders and do as they...

Reddit’s army of retail traders might not have been only force behind the unprecedented GameStop rally that turned Wall Street upside down, new data show. GameStop was “notably absent” from the list of 10 stocks that retail investors bought the most in January despite the video-game retailer being at the forefront of a supposed market revolution, according to JP Morgan analysts. “Although retail buying was portrayed as the main driver of the extreme price rally experienced by some stocks, the actual picture may be much more nuanced,” Peng Cheng, the megabank’s head of machine learning strategies, wrote in a research...

It’s just the flu, bro. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/south-africa-probe-finds-2417m-hole-in-covid-funds/ar-BB1dqJ2i $17M dollars of Coronavirus funds stolen in South Africa. That is a pathetic number. The USA will be well into 10s, maybe 100s of billions. With a multi trillion dollar bailout package maybe even 100s of billions is too low of an estimate for fraudulent funds. This is one of the reasons that there is less Coronavirus in poor countries. Coronavirus prevalence is proportional to the number of dollars of Coronavirus fraud that is available. Nobody can compete with the USA in this regard. - https://www.foxnews.com/sports/isaiah-navarro-california-high-school-football-player-newsom Article above is based on a viral tweet...

Fallon Fox, the first MMA fighter to come out as transgender, once fractured the skull of her opponent in an MMA fight in 2014. Fox was challenging Tamikka Brents at CCCW (Capital City Cage Wars) event, where the 45-year-old fighter brutally defeated her American opponent. The fight lasted just over two minutes after the referee was forced to halt the contest. Brents received seven staples to her head, and also suffered a concussion. She was overpowered by Fox to an extent that even the orbital bone inside her skull was fractured. What is more interesting the video stream from that...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is going to war against “extremism.” On Wednesday, Austin decreed that over the next sixty days, the entire U.S. Armed forces must go through a stand-down period in order to address the supposed shadow army of fascists and racists who fill its ranks. SNIP What might that look like? An exclusive report from Breitbart on Thursday described how special forces were threatened with consequences for embracing “extremist” symbols like…Pepe the Frog: Henry “told us that if anyone gets caught wearing, buying, selling, affiliated with in any way, any of those things on those list, that the...

“That’s a very deep rabbit hole you’ve found yourself in there, Alice.”In an age where everyone is just a heartbeat away from being cancelled for anything, is nothing sacred?Even coffee beans are no longer considered neutral ground(s).Cancel culture has reportedly spread to the banking sector, as Chase Bank refuses to do business with a pro-Trump coffee company.Chase Bank has stopped pro-Trump coffee company Covfefe Coffee from using its payment processor service, WePay, for seemingly no legitimate reason.Kinky drinks CovfefeAnd I see where Bank of America is using ‘War on Terrorists’ statutes in order to turn customer information over to the...