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AS Irish people have been locked out of the pubs for almost a year, the image of the perfect pint of Guinness has become a symbol for the eventual end of lockdown. According to Guinness, the most vital step of modern pouring is to fill the glass three quarters full, let it settle for exactly 119.5 seconds before topping up the pint. But Irish publicans’ world-renowned method was not always the accepted way to serve a pint of plain. Guinness veterans may remember the early method of pulling pints that was lost in the 1960s known as the “high and...

The College Board is a not-for-profit company that has a great deal of influence over American education. Its Scholastic Aptitude Test (the SAT) is the most widely used test for assessing the college readiness of students, and its many Advanced Placement exams allow students to show that they have learned subjects well enough not to have to take introductory college courses. Predictably, the Board has succumbed to the general trend toward “political correctness,” or to use the word currently in fashion, “wokeness.” That is to say, the Board has revised its materials to fit in with leftist beliefs. That is...

Here's a gem from a 1968 broadcast of "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" with Johnny and Jack Webb joining up for a "Dragnet" spoof. Hope it makes your day, as it's been an up and down week around here.

President Joe Biden personally called Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday to discuss the severe winter weather crippling power and water infrastructure in the state, according to the White House. “President Biden conveyed his support to the people of Texas in this trying time,” the White House said about the call. “He reiterated that the federal government will continue to work hand-in-hand with state and local authorities in Texas to bring relief and address the critical needs of the families affected.”

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is under investigation by the FBI and a United States attorney in Brooklyn for his administration’s possible cover-up of a COVID-related nursing home scandal. The Times Union in Albany is reporting that an investigation has been launched “examining, at least in part, the actions of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s coronavirus task force in its handling of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities during the pandemic.” ... Multiple New York state Democrats – that’s Democrats – have accused the administration of criminal conduct in the nursing home scandal cover-up. Fox News reports that nine Democratic...

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“Unfortunately, Sen. Toomey crossed a line that gives us no other option but to publicly address our belief that the senator has betrayed our country, our constitution, our party and our former President by his words and actions.”

. . by EDWARD BURNE-JONES, 1870 "Three Young Men in the Fiery Furnace"All Saints Church, Middleton Cheney, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England .. Ch. 1 Tributes to Daniel Ch. 2 Daniel, Dream Interpreter Ch. 3 Into the Fiery Furnace, 1 Ch. 3 INTO THE FIERY FURNACE, 2 Ch. 4 God Humbles the Proud King Ch. 5 Handwriting on the Wall Ch. 6 Into the Lions' Den, 1 Ch. 6 Into the Lions' Den, 2 Ch. 6 Into the Lions' Den, 3.. I N T O T H E F I E R Y F U R N A C E . DANIEL...

he most destructive and enduring slander against gay men is that they prey on children. Boys Beware, a 1961 educational film distributed to schools across the country, offers a glimpse of the menacing place which the homosexual occupied in the postwar American public imagination. The film follows a young boy named “Jimmy,” who after a baseball game with his friends hitchhikes a ride home from “Ralph,” a friendly, mustached man in sunglasses. The next day, Ralph waits for Jimmy in the same spot, and buys him a Coke. A week later, Ralph takes Jimmy fishing and shows him a few...

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is blasting the Biden administration for saying it is ready to join talks with Iran and world powers to discuss a return to the 2015 nuclear deal. Pompeo made his comments to The Washington Free Beacon. They came after the State Department said on Thursday that the U.S. would accept an invitation from the European Union to attend a meeting of the participants in the original nuclear agreement with Iran. Pompeo told the Free Beacon that European nations "wanted to appease the Iranian theocracy for my entire time as secretary of state. We refused....

Heralded as a serious effort at 'equity' and 'inclusion,' Madison’s Police Civilian Oversight Board openly states that white people need not apply and are not welcome.When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. took to the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963 to deliver his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, he offered Americans, of all races, a compelling vision of a society no longer prejudiced by race. He envisioned a country where citizens are judged “by the content of their character” and not “the color of their skin.” But to listen to today’s most prominent “antiracists,” King’s dream is what...

This week our neighbors to the north could soon see their right to own firearms greatly reduced, as Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called upon Canada’s federal government to launch a long-promised buyback program for “assault-style” firearms including AR-15s.

Former lead strategist for Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign James Carville said Thursday on MSNBC’s “The 11th Hour” that President Joe Biden was “doing a remarkably good job so far.”

Sen. John Thune is criticizing Republican activists and party leaders for engaging in “cancel culture” by rushing to censure GOP senators who found former President Donald Trump guilty of inciting an insurrection. In his first interview since he voted to acquit Trump, the Senate’s No. 2 Republican on Thursday defended fellow Republicans who sided with Democrats on the “vote of conscience” and warned against shutting out dissenting voices in the party. “There was a strong case made,” Thune said of the Democrats’ impeachment presentation. “People could come to different conclusions. If we’re going to criticize the media and the left...

February 18 2021 Our Lady of the Rosary Church, Boise, Idaho Lectionary 221Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet.First readingIsaiah 58:1-9 ©The sort of fast that pleases meThus says the Lord:Shout for all you are worth, raise your voice like a trumpet.Proclaim their faults to my people, their sins to the House of Jacob.They seek me day after day, they long to know my ways,like a nation that wants to act with integrity and not ignore the law of its God.They ask me for laws that are just, they long for God to draw near:‘Why should we fast if you never see...

The plunge in temperatures led to both a surge in heating demand and the concomitant power outages. Data from the EIA show that at nearly the exact same time demand was surging and energy grids were buckling, wind energy experienced a catastrophic drop-off: In the evening of Feb. 14, wind in the state was producing just over 9,000 MWh of energy, while 24 hours later it was putting out less than 800 MWh, a roughly 91% decrease in output. Virtually every other energy industry in the state also saw decreased output over the same time period amid record demand, yet...

President Joe Biden has given the Chinese Communist Party a free-pass to engage in genocide against Muslim Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Western China. In a televised CNN townhall, he dismissed it as a manifestation of a different “cultural norm.” Genocide would be more accurately described as a “CCP norm.” Throughout the Party’s sordid history, that transnational criminal organization has repeatedly engaged in truly “systemic racism,” industrial-grade oppression and, yes, mass murder. And the present General Secretary, Xi Jinping, is doing it all again as part of his relentless pursuit of absolute power.

Two hour C-Span video of his morning local NY show from June, 1990.

What we've gone through in the past year, to have that much hope be delivered in a row, that is absolutely phenomenal.To be Southern means to love thy neighbor and love thy Whataburger, are we right? To that point, patrons of one Whataburger in the Pensacola suburb, Pace, embodied the best of both virtues with a chain of more than 100 customers buying food for the people behind them in the drive-thru line.

Cancel culture is empowering a new infrastructure that will challenge the dominance of legacy cultural institutions. Corporations are using their power to enforce radical cultural standards—imported into their boardrooms from academia—on the rest of the country. Look no further than the last few days at Disney for evidence. The effect, however, is to empower a new infrastructure that will challenge the dominance of legacy cultural institutions.Ahead of Valentine’s Day, Disney-owned ABC aired a sympathetic report about OnlyFans, endorsing pornography as empowerment without any pushback whatsoever. Then Disney’s Lucasfilms dropped Gina Carano from “The Mandalorian” over a clumsy anti-woke meme she...