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The third part of the trial scene from the 1966 movie "A Man for All Seasons". Thomas More is on trial because he would not take the Oath of Supremacy recognizing Henry VIII as the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, and failure to do so was treated as treason. Roman Catholics such as More had to take the Oath or were tried and usually executed.

A lawsuit by a 70-year-old veteran who was targeted in an unprovoked attack by federal police while he was trying to go through security at a Veterans Administration hospital is being appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. That's after a ruling by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals that the officers "may act with impunity and not be held accountable for their actions, no matter how unconstitutional." A video shows an officer confronting José Oliva and directing him through a screening machine and a second officer attacking as a chokehold was applied. Eventually, three officers were in on the physical...

One of the benefits of having a music subscription service (i.e. Spotify; Apple Music) is that you can stream pretty much everything ever recorded. Kind of makes your carefully curated music collection obsolete. If only I knew this 40 years ago. Since about 1975, I've been building a massive music library. Started out as vinyl, a few 8-tracks (that played mostly in my AMC Pacer), then went to cassettes for a while, finally to go to compact discs sometime in the mid 1980s. Anyway, I probably spent a good $50,000 on recorded music between 1975 and about 2010 or so...

The Biden administration is withdrawing the U.S. from agreements with three Central American countries that restricted the ability of people to seek asylum at the southwest border, part of a broad effort to undo the the immigration policies of President Donald Trump Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Saturday the administration had notified El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras that it had started the formal process of terminating agreements that had been part of Trump’s effort to restrict asylum. The agreements, which had been on hold since early in the coronavirus pandemic, required many people seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border...

Conservative activist and commentator Candace Owens pledged her love for America and revealed she was thinking about running for President. Owens wrote to her 2.5million Twitter followers: “I love America. Thinking about running for President.” I love America. Thinking about running for President. 🇺🇸 — Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) February 6, 2021

Can one do evil without being evil? This was the puzzling question that the philosopher Hannah Arendt grappled with when she reported for The New Yorker in 1961 on the war crimes trial of Adolph Eichmann, the Nazi operative responsible for organising the transportation of millions of Jews and others to various concentration camps in support of the Nazi’s Final Solution. Arendt found Eichmann an ordinary, rather bland, bureaucrat, who in her words, was ‘neither perverted nor sadistic’, but ‘terrifyingly normal’. He acted without any motive other than to diligently advance his career in the Nazi bureaucracy... ...Arendt dubbed these...

"We're only 24 hours away from the big game! Gen. Frank McKenzie, commander of @CENTCOM, has a special pregame message before #SuperBowl LV. #KnowYourMil #SBLV" DoD Twitter

There were three critical swing states in which the Green Party appeared on the ballot in 2016 and didn’t appear in 2020. The states of Arizona, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania all removed the Green Party from the presidential election in 2020, with Democratic operatives using underhanded tactics to kick them off. Labor activist Howie Hawkins was the Green Party’s 2020 presidential nominee. In 2016, the Green Party nominee Jill Stein won more than 34,000 votes in Arizona. If a Green Party candidate had appeared with ballot access in the state in 2020, he or she would’ve been sure to win enough...

More than a year after COVID-19 surfaced in the United States, the pandemic rages on, with 433,000 deaths and counting in the United States as of early February. While the situation remains dire—we can only hope the virus is past its peak—there’s finally a light at the end of this long, dark tunnel. Two vaccines, produced by Pfizer and Moderna and both in the form of a double dose, were authorized and recommended to prevent COVID in December. While the rollout is moving slower than expected—as of the end of January, about 25 million people had received at least one...

Mrs. Yellen’s last year as Federal Reserve Chair will long be remembered as one in which she kept interest rates too low and the Fed’s balance sheet too large for too long. She did so in an apparent attempt to curry favor with President Donald Trump in her unsuccessful bid to get a second term as Fed Chair. In the process, she contributed importantly to the creation of a global everything asset and credit market bubble. It was only once she left the Fed and was safely ensconced at the Brookings Institution that she warned of the risk to the...

PBS doesn't care how liberal they sound when their White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor goes on the hot-talk programs on MSNBC and launches into how "cruelty was the point" of President Trump's immigration policies, "to try to torture immigrants at the border." On Tuesday's Deadline: White House, host Nicolle Wallace could only agree: "Trump turned human beings into portable pawns and took pleasure in torturing them." Alcindor concluded: "And I have to say, one other thing underscoring all of this as we talk about this racial reckoning is xenophobia -- is racism -- is white supremacy." The PBS correspondent began...

On this date in 1391, the condottiero tyrant of Mantua, Francisco Gonzaga, removed his consort from his right arm by removing her head. Daughter of the powerful Milanese Visconti family, Agnese Visconti had been dynastically married off to the Mantuan prince by her father. Dad had in 1385 been overthrown and murdered by a kinsman, Gian Galeazzo Visconti, but still this was all in the family: the thing was that Francisco Gonzaga started wanting to cut ties with that family. No trouble: Francisco simply accused his wife of adultery with a knight,* Antonio da Scandiano, and had both put to...

For the first time in 2020, the (CONTENT film festival branched out to cover News and Journalism as one of its categories. The Christian film festival and media conference included 50 speakers and panelists, held in Dallas from Feb. 1 to Feb. 4.“Everybody raved about the News and Journalism,” said John Diamond, coordinator for the News and Journalism department of the conference. He added the category is now here to stay. The decision to add the category was made a year and a half ago, and Diamond said people are increasingly looking to sources other than mainstream media in order...

The seemingly endless restrictions on freedom are causing people to take to the streets, at least in Switzerland. About 500 protesters gathered in the Swiss city of Zug following the health minister's announcement that current coronavirus restrictions will remain in place until the end of February, perhaps longer if more infectious strains of the virus continue to spread. Protesters wore white protective suits as they marched against the country's lockdown measures. Switzerland tightened restrictions last month, limiting gatherings to five people, having employees work remotely when possible, closing nonessential stores and mandating face masks in stores that remain open. According...

A large Saharan dust plume is moving NE over parts of Europe -- from Spain and France today, February 6, 2021, into Italy, Germany, and the rest of northern and eastern Europe and the Balkans in the coming days. Sand-laden rains, a fairly rare phenomenon in winter, are expected over much of the region. Events such as this can significantly lower air quality and be dangerous for sensitive groups -- be sure to track your local air quality index.

House Republican Conference Chair Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., said she will remain in office and in her position as one of the highest ranking Republicans in Congress. despite opposition following her vote to impeach former President Donald Trump. After House Republicans voted not to remove Cheney from her leadership position, the Wyoming Republican Party censured her on Saturday and called for her to resign. On Sunday, Cheney made clear she has no plans to do so. "I'm not," Cheney told "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace. "Look I think people all across Wyoming understand and recognize that our most important...

Yesterday, the intrepid and extraordinary Mike Lindell laid out the PROOF that the 2020 election was stolen from President Trump and other Republicans running for office. It was explosive in its findings and laid out the exact numbers stolen from Trump which were transferred to Biden & Company meticulously and listed the exact numbers, when the thefts occurred and who stole them…down to the individual IP addresses that did so. 60% of them came from China. The evidence is both overwhelming and with any honesty that may be left…irrefutable. Thus far, however, the media are ignoring the findings and politicians...

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Colin Kaepernick won’t be playing in Super Bowl LV, but the quarterback-turned-activist found another way to draw attention ahead of the big game. Ben & Jerry’s unveiled last week a billboard and a mural featuring the NFL free agent in Old West Tampa, Florida, not far from Raymond James Stadium, where Super Bowl LV will be played Sunday evening. The signage represents a not-so-subtle jab at the NFL from Kaepernick, who has not played since he opted out of the final year of his contract with the San Francisco 49ers in March 2017 following a season in which he gained...

<p>Indian authorities launched a search operation Sunday after part of a mountain glacier broke, sending a massive flood of water and debris slamming into two dams and damaging a number of homes. At least nine people were killed and 140 were missing.</p>