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February 8 is the feast of Saint Josephine Bakhita, canonized by Pope St. John Paul II in 2000. Her perilous and inspiring journey from slavery to sainthood is fairly well-known as it has been the subject of several books and movies. A summary of her biography may also be found in Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical Spe Salvi from 2007. Pope Benedict wrote: The example of a saint of our time can to some degree help us understand what it means to have a real encounter with this God for the first time. I am thinking of the African Josephine Bakhita,...

Democrat Joe Biden's recent push for actions on climate will cause electricity prices to skyrocket across America, experts are warning. Examining the impact of Biden's climate change plans through the lens of energy prices, experts warn that the biggest green in green energy will come from the wallets of U.S. consumers.

Squad member Rep. Cori Bush quoted Martin Luther King Jr.’s, “A riot is the language of the unheard,” in response to an inmate riot at the St. Louis city jail over the weekend. “I want to talk to my constituents in the window. Their lives and their rights must be protected,” she tweeted: “A riot is the language of the unheard.” – Dr. MLK Jr. I want to talk to my constituents in the window. Their lives and their rights must be protected. My team and I are working to ensure that the urgent needs of people who are incarcerated...

Everyone's entitled to their fantasies, I suppose. Ben Ginsberg, a Republican election lawyer, fierce Trump critic, and CNN legal analyst, has his: a witness who would testify at the Senate impeachment trial that President Trump told him to storm the Capitol. Ginsberg twice shared his fantasy on CNN's New Day this morning. Asked whether he would call witnesses if he were a Democrat impeachment prosecutor, Ginsberg said his dream witness: "Would be someone who could testify that Donald Trump actually told them to go break into the Capitol or was part of that planning . . . someone who said,...

Iran has been clamping down on mining farms, but it also wants to use crypto mining to boost the sanctioned nation's revenue stream. Iran is trying to make crypto mining a source of income for the state, while cracking down on miners. Iran, hit hard by international sanctions, lost revenue supplied by oil exports. Crypto might be a way to get some extra cash, so Iran has been toughening its grip on miners at home in an effort to better control this revenue stream. Since last year, Iran has also opened new opportunities for foreign mining firms. Iran is a...

Bo said Rush wont be on today because he isn't "Feeling Well".

Demario Davis of the New Orleans Saints was the recipient of the NFL’s Bart Starr Award at Saturday’s NFL Breakfast during Super Bowl weekend. This devout Christian who wants to be a “walking billboard for Christ” took the opportunity to share the Gospel when he accepted the award. This is a powerful award since it’s voted on by the players. It is given to someone who exhibits high character and service to their community.

Two Democratic senators—Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Jon Tester of Montana—who initially voted in favor of a Republican amendment reversing President Joe Biden’s cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline later reversed themselves and voted with other Democrats to kill the amendment. Both Tester and Manchin voted late Thursday night for the amendment from Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., that would have reversed Biden’s Jan. 20 executive order ending further construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, but changed their votes before dawn on Friday morning.

‘[I]f Hollywood may host a studio audience or film a singing competition while not a single soul may enter California’s churches, synagogues, and mosques, something has gone seriously awry.’In a Friday night 6-3 injunction responding to emergency petitions from two California churches, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion that California’s restrictions against worship services have gone too far. The court gave a short, unsigned opinion demanding California lift its restrictions on in-person, indoor church services while allowing California to keep banning singing and limiting attendance to 25 percent of church buildings’ capacity. The decision allows churches to present evidence...

A recent survey by LawnStarter ranked Pittsburgh as the third best city for pizza lovers. The survey looked into factors such as the average cost of pizza, how many pizzerias there are per resident, and how many people search for pizza delivery. New York took home the top spot followed by Chicago.

Super Bowl LV: Kansas City Chiefs v. Tampa Bay Buccaneers kicked off Sunday at the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. According to reports, 22,000 fans attended the Super Bowl on Sunday. The Bidens barged in and made a creepy video appearance before kickoff to lecture Americans about “social distancing.” Americans just can’t get on with their lives because the Democrats have to drone on and on about Covid every second of every day. Joe Biden and his handler wife Jill made a video message from their Delaware basement bunker that played on the jumbotron – as if people watching...

Hungary’s minister for families believes that “the demographic crisis of the Western world” is one of its greatest challenges, and that without serious action to support parents “Europe will be lost.” Discussing some of the wider issues around Hungary’s world-leading programme of support for people to have families — as an alternative to mass migration, which the country’s conservative government sees as undesirable due to the long-term impact on social cohesion and the national culture — Minister Novák dismissed any suggestion that the policies are “leftist” merely because they involve state support. “I would never declare our family policies leftist....

While the Biden administration is inclined to return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) if Iran also returns to compliance, restoring the JCPOA will not end the growing diplomatic dispute between Washington and Tehran. American diplomats and their European counterparts seek a new round of talks to address other concerns about Iranian behavior, especially with regard to Iran’s growing ballistic missile program. Any nuclear weapons program has three main components: warhead design, enrichment, and delivery. The International Atomic Energy Agency found that Iran had previously worked on the first. The JCPOA addressed the second but, in their rush...

New Jersey’s main pizza war may be with New York, but the state’s saucy rivalry with Connecticut is getting richer and richer. Months after Gov. Phil Murphy and Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont got into a Twitter spat over who had the country’s best pizza, the two states took to Twitter to continue the beef this week. The latest skirmish in the Great New Jersey-Connecticut Pizza Conflict came as Connecticut lawmakers introduced a bill that would make pizza the official State Food.

Given the Left’s fascination with European authoritarianism, it wouldn’t be surprising to see the Biden administration soon following the lead of the UK by sending officials door-to-door to enforce his Covid mandates. The UK government is working on a plan to dispatch government officials to knock on the doors of those who have refused to take a coronavirus vaccine, in an effort to ‘coerce’ citizens into taking the shot, according to a report. The London Metro reports that Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi told MPs he wanted to identify ‘at an individual level’ those who have been offered the vaccine but...

Former President Barack Obama's ethics chief, Walter Shaub, ripped President Biden for publicly commenting on son Hunter's forthcoming memoir, likening it to a "book promotion tour." "It is not acceptable for the President of the United States to be part of the book promotion tour. No," tweeted Shaub, a U.S. Office of Government Ethics former director under Obama. The tweet that was issued Sunday afternoon was deleted but not before the Washington Examiner viewed its contents. Shaub also said it was "wonderful" that Hunter Biden, 51, was sharing his experience with addiction because it could help Hunter and other people...

Your betters want to decide who you can and cannot vote for. You should be angry. So the petty little fascists in the Democratic Party have decided that their first order of business is telling you who you are allowed to vote for in the future. You see, they know better than you. That first order of business was not $2,000 checks, and if you feel like a sucker you should. It wasn’t opening schools — turns out that’s not a priority for Joe Biden. No, It’s a sham impeachment instead. There is little point in litigating whether Donald Trump...

The Duchess of Sussex has some 'very serious book deals on the table' after being approached by 'numerous publishing houses', sources have revealed. Meghan Markle, 39, is currently living in her $14 million Santa Barbara mansion with Prince Harry, 36, and their eighteen-month-old son Archie, having stepped back from royal duty last year. According to Vanity Fair's Katie Nicholl, the Duchess is considering writing a book and has been approached with 'lucrative offers from respectable publishing houses.'

It is a general rule that corrupt economies tend to operate on faith and not on fundamentals. And to be clear, it’s not so much about naive faith that the system is stable or functional. No, it’s more about the masses having faith that the corruption and instability will never be derailed. Most people are not as stupid as the establishment and central bankers think they are – Almost everyone knows the system is broken, they just refuse to consider the possibility that the fraud will be disrupted, or that it will be allowed to fail. The old mantra “too...

On Saturday, a Black Lives Matter march through the streets of Washington, D.C., involved protesters dressed in antifa black bloc and threatening to burn down the nation’s capital if their demands were not met.“If we don’t get it, burn it down!” the mob chanted, seemingly referring to $2,000 individual checks in the COVID-19 relief bill Democrats are spearheading in Congress.Chants of “If we don’t get it, burn it down” as the march continues in DC tonight #DC #DCProtests #WashingtonDC pic.twitter.com/YMxy90P4oj— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) February 7, 2021Protesters gathered at 2 p.m. for a “DC Queer and Trans Black History Month March...