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Former Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley issued stunning remarks breaking with former President Trump, telling Politico in an interview published Friday that she believes he “let us down.” “We need to acknowledge he let us down,” Haley, who served in her ambassador role under Trump, said. “He went down a path he shouldn’t have, and we shouldn’t have followed him, and we shouldn’t have listened to him. And we can’t let that ever happen again.”

A tragic day in Texas. – Below is a photo of a 133-car pileup that took place just south of Downtown Fort Worth on I-35W this morning. At least 6 people were killed and dozens were injured, as the entire north Texas/Central Texas region was plagued by below-freezing temperatures and freezing drizzle that turned roads into skating rinks. This is just heartbreaking. Pray for the families involved. This also happened in Texas Wednesday: From the story at the New York Post (because most Texas news outlets could not be bothered to report it): A 12-year-old Texas boy who felt “sad...

The left is making its move, seeking to install a totalitarian information regime in the United States, completely reversing two and half centuries of tradition and bypassing the First Amendment by using private entities as the instruments of censorship. The left is making its move, seeking to install a totalitarian information regime in the United States, completely reversing two and half centuries of tradition and bypassing the First Amendment by using private entities as the instruments of censorship. So far, the Republican leadership has not seen fit to make a big issue of this, and the vast majority of “journalists”...

A Philadelphia elementary school recently forced fifth-grade students to celebrate “black communism” and simulate a Black Power rally in honor of political radical Angela Davis. According to whistleblower documents and a source within the school, a fifth-grade teacher at the inner-city William D. Kelley School designed a social studies curriculum to celebrate Davis, praising the “black communist” for her fight against “injustice and inequality.” As part of the lesson, the teacher asked students to “describe Davis’ early life,” reflect on her vision of social change, and “define communist”—presumably in favorable terms. At the conclusion of the unit, the teacher led...

Given Democrat majorities across all three branches of government and a strong wind from the socialist wing of the party at their back, there is a two-year window to coddle up to the Marxists of the Caribbean. Political luminaries on the left have always harbored a soft spot for the world’s dictators, Putin, Ortega, Jinping, Maduro, and Cuba’s successor to the Hermanos Castro, Miguel Diaz-Canel. Not to say that they align with the atrocities they commit, as that would be a pill too bitter for their voters to swallow. Rather, it is the vast power that they wield over the...

Congressman Byron Donalds (R-FL) is determined to make a lasting impact in the House of Representatives. The freshman lawmaker, who represents Florida’s 19th Congressional District, recently made waves delivering his first House floor speech. Unsurprisingly, the newcomer is also doing his part to shape the GOP’s future—leading by example in Washington. During the 2020 election, Donalds won a crowded primary to succeed outgoing Congressman Francis Rooney (R-FL). In November, he handily defeated his Democrat challenger 61.3% to 38.7%. With private sector experience and two terms in the Florida House of Representatives under his belt, Rep. Donalds’ perspective will be welcomed....

China's biggest Lunar New Year TV show has been accused by viewers of racism for including performers in blackface to look African. During a performance titled 'African Song and Dance', Chinese dancers appeared on stage wearing outfits that approximated African clothing and had darkened their skin with make-up. The four-hour annual gala, one of the world's most-watched TV programme, was aired on Thursday by state broadcaster CCTV and is said to have attracted more than 1.1 billion viewers.

It’s just the flu, bro. People are starting to see the wisdom of the Flubros’ and Flubras’ way of thinking. They see the power grab. They see mandates causing more harm than good. The problem is that if they are only coming around to the Flubro mindset now then it is a little too late. When the next virus comes along in two or three years these people will say “better safe than sorry” or “this virus is different than Coronavirus”. The left will always point out how any virus is different, unprecedented, unpredictable and something to exercise extreme caution...

GameStop's stock price shot through the roof in late January thanks to traders on Reddit. Now at least two government agencies are reportedly investigating why it happened as well as what roles Reddit and trading app Robinhood played in the stock market craziness.

They call her Assata Shakur but, no matter the name by which she’s known, Chesimard is a homegrown – and unrepentant -- American terrorist. JoAnne Chesimard: BLM unashamedly embraces her and, recently, the New York City school system decided to incorporate her so-called wisdom into its curriculum. Therefore, it is more imperative than ever to shine a bright light upon the life, times, and accomplishments of one JoAnne Deborah Chesimard, a.k.a., Assata Olugbala Shakur. If you are, like me, of a certain age and grew up or lived in New Jersey during the 1970s and 1980’s, the name JoAnne Chesimard...

The pandemic has highlighted a serious problem with K-12 education that we ignore at our own peril. Public K-12 education in this country suffers from a lack of effective competition that prevents market forces from working the way they should. What would happen if there was school choice in America today? Parents who are dissatisfied with the educational product their public schools provide could vote with their feet and take their tax dollars and their children to schools that offer better value. Opposition to school choice is highly regressive because the wealthiest families have the ability to pay twice for...

We are reading from Hebrews 12 in the Liturgy this week (Monday of the 4th Week) which mentions, among the heroes of ancient Israel, Jepthe. More on that in a moment.But one of the most strange and horrifying stories of the Bible is the story of Jephthah (Pronounced “Jeff-tha” and alternately spelled Jepthe) and his ritual murder of his daughter. It is a tale of faith and piety gone terribly wrong and a teaching of what happens when error and false religion are substituted for the true faith. It is also a tale of how God can work even...

There may indeed be White Supremacists, White Nationalists, Christian Identitarians, or other unsavory groups that progressive minds associate with the political right, but in my two decades of living in Hollywood, I never met any. I met Russian gangsters, Armenian gangsters, hookers and pimps of all stripes, MS13 gangsters, White Fence, independent criminals, and various other miscreants, but never the Central Casting Racist depicted in television or the movies. Working on a tuna boat, or in an oil field, or on a construction site, I have never met the feared Neo-Nazi. Even working for eight years in the steel town...

It has been with some amusement that over the past four years we watched segments of the media to express outrage at the favoritism Fox News would show for the president. The unspoken, but recognized subtext was, ‘’They cannot do that - only WE can do that!’’ For anyone in the press to pretend that a connection between journalists and an administration was unprecedented it showed a desperate attempt at deflection away from what has been a long established relationship.We are now getting details that the civil union between journalists and the Democrats has already been reestablished, and the brazen...

Dramatic video shows a Texas mom body-slamming a suspected peeping tom accused of looking into her teenage daughter’s bedroom window, according to reports. "First instinct was just to make sure he didn’t go any further," said mom Phyllis Pena. "My kids are my life and just making sure I protect them," Pena added. The Lake Jackson mom said she got home from a store around 7 a.m. on Jan. 31 to find the suspect staring into the window of her 15-year-old daughter. He ran away as the mom called police. The suspect was found in the neighborhood by police, but...

February 12 2021 . St. Mary Star of the Sea church, New York Lectionary 332/p> Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingGenesis 3:1-8 ©The fall of manThe serpent was the most subtle of all the wild beasts that the Lord God had made. It asked the woman, ‘Did God really say you were not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?’ The woman answered the serpent, ‘We may eat the fruit of the trees in the garden. But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden God said, “You must not eat it, nor...

You may have heard that San Francisco’s Board of Education voted 6-1 to rename 44 schools, stripping ancient racists of their laurels, but also Abraham Lincoln and Sen. Dianne Feinstein. In normal times, bemusement would be the right response to a story like this. Cities should have idiosyncratic, out-there politics. You need to earn your “Keep X weird” bumper stickers. And for all the Fox News hosts who’ve collapsed onto their fainting couches, America isn’t suffering from a national shortage of schools named for Abraham Lincoln. But San Francisco’s public schools remain closed, no matter the name on the front....

Australian lawmakers agreed Friday to enable world-first legislation that will make Alphabet’s Google and Facebook pay publishers for content. The news media code, which Google has complained is “unworkable”, makes Australia the first country to challenge the market dominance of the U.S. tech giants. “The bill will now be considered by the parliament from the week commencing 15 February 2021,” Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said in an emailed confirmation, Reuters reports. As Breitbart News reported, the Australian push to rein in media companies has been months in the making and led to claim and counter-claim by Big Tech operators that making...

With the Democratic control in Washington, there appears no chance that the next pandemic relief bill will include one of the most high-profile items from previous negotiations: virus-related lawsuit limits for responsible businesses. It looks as if businesses that simply did their best to stay open, scrape by, and serve consumers as safely as they could during the pandemic will have to keep waiting and hoping. And it is pretty easy to figure out why these businesses are being left out — commonsense lawsuit limits would run afoul of the nation’s trial lawyers, who are favored allies of Senate Majority...

Won’t someone think of the children? Perhaps, but it won’t be the teachers unions. They aren’t called the children’s unions, after all. Those union contracts negotiated not with someone representing taxpayer interests but the state government, which is uniformly Democratic and decides the salary/benifit increases knowing a portion is funneled back to the party’s campaign coffers, and round and round we go. The teachers unions are the reason students aren’t in school...but Biden is flagrantly disregarding infectious disease experts and federal health institutions while undermining their position among the public. And so, press sec. Psaki has been sent out day...