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Understanding and Embracing the Role of the 21st-Century American DissidentBrent E. Hamachek | Jan 27 | 24 min read Recently a couple of stories have surfaced that most people are not associating with one another. In Russia, opposition leader Alexei Navalny returned to Moscow after having spent several months in Germany recovering from an attempt on his life by means of the old Soviet method of poisoning. In what was almost certainly at the direction of Vladimir Putin, Navalny was arrested as he stepped off the plane. Meanwhile, here in the United States, Russia’s opponent during the Cold War, the...

report issued by Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction noted that even though the United States spent more than $787 million dollars on “gender equality projects” in Afghanistan since 2002, “harmful socio-cultural norms” kept them making major progress. The report did note that some small advances. The number of pregnant women receiving prenatal care rose, that more women are working in healthcare and the literacy rate among women grew. However, the report also noted: The positive story of gains across these sectors is tempered by the reality that significant barriers—including restrictive sociocultural norms and insecurity— continue to impede progress for...

Pray For the Peace of JerusalemLambs, Sheep, and Shepherds.Micah 2:12Deliverance Promised 12 “I will surely gather all of you, Jacob; I will surely bring together the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in its pasture; the place will throng with people.New International Version (NIV)(End of Scripture Passage) Micah has a number of passages about Sheep and Shepherds.New International Version (NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate...

Rush Limbaugh TV- Robert B. Reichhh Fund At the time of the March 15, 1993 episode of Rush Limbaugh the Television Show, we were just getting to know the hilarious cast of characters in the Clinton administration. We fell in love with Labor Secretary Robert B. Reichhhh right away. He had a sense of humor about everything - including his stature - and pushed honestly the whacky, extreme liberal ideas that most Democrats try to slip into law in the dead of night. Our Man in Washington shot footage at a Children's Defense Fund event, and asked Secretary Reich what...

Today’s post is dedicated to all of us who haven’t seen a ray of sunshine – literally, metaphorically, or both - in a long time. Just keep looking up, casting your eyes skyward, towards the sun.it’s coming…Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter Little darling, it seems like years since it's been here Sunshine: do not accept any cheap imitations. Cats don’t.Posted from: MOTUS A.D.

Screen shot from Montana Public Access video, cropped scaled and text added by Dean Weingarten On 18 February 2021, Governor Greg Gianforte signed Montana HB102 into law. The bill is the largest, most comprehensive reform of Montana gun laws in the history of the state. A previous AmmoLand article discussed the details of the law.Many of the reforms in the law have been sought for decades, but have been thwarted by Montana Governors. Democrat Governors vetoed Constitutional Carry bills three times in the last 15 years.In 2021, Governor Gianforte said he was looking forward to signing HB102 on February 4th,...

This is what the left has wrought. – Speaking before the G-7 Summit on Friday, China Joe Biden declared “America is back,” and unilaterally surrendered American interests to Europe, China, and Russia. Because that’s what internationalists do. Calling an end to “America first” diplomacy, Biden signaled that the U.S. government would ensure that the interest of its citizens once again become subservient to other nations in a return to globalism.

Today’s blacklisters obsess over the injustice of others so much that they can’t see their own. Hey,” the bartender says of C3PO and R2D2. “We don’t serve their kind here.” Forty-four years later, the Palpatines of the Star Wars empire say the same thing to rebels. Disney wimps fired Gina Carano over social media for an opinion she expressed on social media. When did we reach the point where the latter rather than the former became unacceptable? The former MMA fighter starring in The Mandalorian noted on social media that before the Nazis rounded up the Jews they incited ordinary...

Gov. Cuomo continues to insist that nursing home–related charges against him are a "conspiracy theory." Cuomo is referring to suggestions that thousands of seniors may have died as a result of his actions and that he and others working under him undercounted and covered up those deaths. Liberals now use the phrase "conspiracy theory" to respond to any sort of criticism. But what exactly does Gov. Cuomo mean by "conspiracy theory"? What is the "theory," and who are the "conspirators"? Is it a "theory" to say the governor ordered nursing home patients with COVID-19 into nursing homes, where they might...

Here comes the demand for “rest reparations,” after "hundreds of years of sleep deprivation" that was due to systemic racism. They're serious, too. Teen Vogue magazine recently published an article by two writers who are calling for “rest reparations” in addition to the regular, old, garden-variety reparations for African Americans, which advocates have been advocating for years. Navild Acosta and Fannie Sosa contend that, on average, Black lives are shorter than white ones because Black people experience “generational fatigue” due solely to the fact that they are, in fact, Black. The two allege that “the American dream is a sleepless...

How to get the Covid -19 vaccination in Ohio Received my Covid 19 vaccination yesterday. It was a lot of work to get but we wanted to see the grand kids so I wanted it as soon as possible. It was a learning experience and I wanted to pass along a couple of points. First there are two types of signup processes que and schedule. The que process you fill out your information and they will contact you when a vaccine can be scheduled. It is offered by the Cleveland Clinic, Discount Drug mart University Hospital. One of the hospitals...

Viewers were left hooked by dark real-life BBC drama The Serpent, but it seems the twisting storyline wasn't the only thing that grabbed the attention of fans. The eight-part drama, which earlier this week became iPlayer's most watched show, has sparked a huge interest in 1970's style clothing - with some items gaining an 158 per cent increase in searches on eBay UK. The show tells the story of serial killer Charles Sobhraj who drugged and killed at least a dozen people on the Hippie Trail in Asia in the 1970s, with the help of his besotted lover and accomplice...

China has released a video which reportedly shows its border clash with Indian troops last June after Beijing admitted that four of its soldiers were killed in the fatal high-mountain fight. The footage, aired by Beijing's state broadcaster CCTV, is said to capture the bloody hand-to-hand combat between Chinese and Indian forces at the Galwan River valley, which also resulted in the deaths of 20 Indian servicemen. The official channel claimed the clip showed an Indian army 'several times the size of the Chinese side' launching a violent revenge attack after a Chinese commander had tried to solve the two...

How would your family, and a hundred thousand other families, like to be stuck in your cars for days at minus 16 degrees? The death toll would be huge. It almost happened in New England in 1989. And in Texas this week. I was part of the 1989 Freeze and have some hopefully interesting insights. In 1989, the weather just before Christmas was terrible. Cold temperature records were set from Texas to New England. That year, I was responsible for a midcontinent gas gathering system that normally produced about 500 million cubic feet (MMCFD) of natural gas a day. That...

Just how much does Mitch McConnell despise President Trump and his MAGA movement? While playing coy for weeks about his intentions before finally voting to acquit the president in an impeachment trial more preposterous than last year's farce, he immediately took to the Senate floor to lay the blame for the events of January 6 entirely at the president's feet. McConnell not only accused President Trump of being personally liable for any potential crimes committed that day by others (in effect, teeing up civil lawsuits for monetary damages directly against the president), but also suggested that private citizen Trump could...

Most people believe there is only one “truth” and it is supported by facts. Biden said Democrats, “Choose truth over facts.” But he is neither the sharpest tool on the tree nor the brightest bulb in the shed. Or was it a Freudian slip? The left believes they can prescribe the “truth,” by proscribing facts. In controlling what is the “truth,” they seek to define the present and establish the nation’s “true” history in order to use this history to dictate our future. It used to be the “big lie,” emphatically told often enough to become “truth.” In this age...

"#RestinPiss" was actually a trending hashtag in America in recent days. Radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh had died of cancer, and people were celebrating. Because of his own very public past of celebrating the deaths of those he disapproved of or disliked, it was declared justified. Some posts imagined with glee his entrance into hell. Do we really wish that upon a human being? I suspect some of the people tweeting such things don't actually give a lot of thought to the reality of hell and our role in adding to the sins that get people there. We are all...

Harry and Meghan were cast out as working royals last night. Buckingham Palace announced in a dramatic statement that they had been stripped of their remaining roles following their move to California. Pointedly, it said they could not continue with 'the responsibilities and duties that come with a life of public service'. Minutes later, the apparently furious Sussexes issued a stinging rebuke to the Queen, insisting they would still 'live a life of service' outside the royal fold. They added: 'Service is universal.'

There’s no way to improve upon many of the eulogies to Rush penned by his fans and friends, especially the one by Mark Steyn. Instead, I’ll mention an item that will strike many as trivial and irrelevant. Decades before the terms “deplorables,” “Deep-State” and “Fake News Media” entered common conservative usage, Rush Limbaugh was already championing the former against the two latter--and at a time such a position brought him no audience advantage whatsoever. To wit:Rush Limbaugh proudly stood shoulder to shoulder with Elian Gonzalez’s “deplorable” Miami family (and “deplorable” Cuban-Americans in general) when most Americans (and even many conservatives)...

George F. Will once said that without William F. Buckley there would have been no National Review; without National Review, no Goldwater; without Goldwater, no Reagan; and without Reagan, no fall of the Berlin Wall. Ergo, William F. Buckley ushered in the collapse of the Soviet Union. Today we might draw a direct line from Rush Limbaugh, to Donald Trump, and from Donald Trump to the remaking of the conservative movement, and from the remaking of the conservative movement to... we’ll have to see. What will their legacy be? We would like to hope it will include free speech.Limbaugh credited...