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It was perhaps on this date, that the prophet Mani — he of Manichaeism — underwent his Passion at the hands of the Sassanid Empire in a Gundeshapur prison. The actual date of this event is an Aramaic (lunar) date whose year is unrecorded, so it attaches only uncertainly to the Julian calendar. (2 March 274 is another possibility, as are other dates in the mid-270s.) Perhaps more to the point for this blog is that Mani’s “crucifixion” as celebrated by his followers was a literary exultation: the 60-year-old died in prison after 26 days in chains, maybe even sooner...

William Burns, the nominee for CIA director, testified before the Senate about links between a think tank he leads and a Chinese foundation that serves as a front group for the communist party. Burns said that he cut ties with the group, the China-U.S. Exchange Foundation (CUSEF), “not long after” he took over as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. But the founder of the foundation gave a pro-Beijing speech at a Carnegie event more than 14 months after Burns took over the think tank. CUSEF donated between $200,000 and $500,000 to Carnegie between 2015 and 2017. The...

It was a short fight that lasted only 7 minutes, but it was a classic, because it shocked the world. Frazier was supposed to win. Instead the boxing World finally had to admit that Foreman's punches were devastating.George Foreman, and Joe Frazier are two world class boxers who's careers extended through the end of the golden age of boxing. They both gave credit to our Lord Jesus Christ for their salvation when they were at the height of their careers, and never wavered from their faith. So, it's only fitting I share this classic boxing match on my blog for...

The House Intelligence Committee's Kash Patel said senior intelligence officials 'continuously impeded' their release – usually by slow-walking their reviews of the material.After four years of railing against “deep state” actors who, he said, tried to undermine his presidency, Donald Trump relented to U.S. intelligence leaders in his final days in office, allowing them to block the release of critical material in the Russia investigation, according to a former senior congressional investigator who later joined the Trump administration.Kash Patel, whose work on the House Intelligence Committee helped unearth U.S. intelligence malpractice during the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane probe, said he does...

The Southeast Missourian (Cape Girardeau newspaper) reports that Rush Limbaugh was buried in St. Louis, Mo

Over the past decade and change, the world of viral cooking hacks -- much like the end times of late-night infomercials -- have slowly grown increasingly crazed. From depicting calm iterations of home life and office happenings in the '80s to highlighting dystopian clips of families dancing in sleeved-blankets and employing inexplicably screaming hosts (may Billy Mays rest in peace) ... it seems viral food videos may be headed down a similarly alarming path. Beginning with quaint, overhead clips depicting a pair of hands -- much like our own -- preparing biscuit-dough monkey bread and mini tacos in the mid-20-teens,...

Study finds an extract of enhanced Spirulina reduces by 70% the release of an immune-system protein that causes dangerous cytokine storm in the lungs. =============================================================== Spirulina powder. Photo by FOODISM360 on Unsplash ======================================================== An extract of Spirulina blue-green algae may help Covid-19 patients avoid getting seriously ill, according to a study by Israeli and Icelandic scientists published in the journal Marine Biotechnology. “The potential health benefits of Spirulina are well documented,” the authors noted. “This blue-green algae contains C-phycocyanin (C-PC), a pigment-binding protein, which enhances antioxidation, anti-inflammation, and anti-tumor activities.” The scientists found that an extract of photosynthetically enhanced Spirulina...

The Biden administration apparently wants to make the United States a dumping ground for illegal aliens, based on its lax policies and destructive actions. That’s the sad conclusion of officials in many border states, where illegal border crossings have skyrocketed ever since Joe Biden was installed as president. The surge started picking up steam after Biden secured the Democratic presidential nomination in June 2020 and has mushroomed since the November election. The sheriff said illegal crossings averaged 300 to 500 a month during former President Donald Trump’s tenure after his border wall and tough policies took effect to stem the...

Prince Harry's 'unhelpful' decision to pour his heart out to James Corden has already caused 'disquiet' at Buckingham Palace after the Queen's grandson insisted he and Meghan Markle 'never walked away' from the royal family by emigrating to Los Angeles - and blamed the media for driving him from the UK. The Duke of Sussex said the move to California last year was about 'stepping back rather than stepping down' as royals as he appeared on The Late Late Show with Mr Corden, who has gazumped Oprah Winfrey to the exclusive 17-minute interview with his British friend. The Duchess of...

The problem with the strike is two-fold, however. First, he hit the wrong target. Despite Bidens’s efforts to emphasize proportionality, the airstrike was not proportional; rather, it was less. A U.S. Embassy or an airport where U.S. forces reside are not the equivalent of a dusty outpost used as a tea stop for militiamen traversing from Iraq into Syria. Nor are U.S. forces the equivalent of an Iranian-backed militia. A proportional response would more directly target Iranian interests or property. The danger is not Iranian escalation, but rather the normalization of rocket attacks on embassies or airports. Iranian authorities might...

London's Piccadilly Circus has long been famed for the constant streams of cars, buses, cyclists and pedestrians which navigate it every day. Now a stunning photochrom image shows how, even in the 19th century, the interchange was extremely busy - but was thronged with horses and carriages and smartly dressed men and women instead of what we see today. The colour photo - produced using a method invented in the 1880s - is among a collection showing Victorian London in all its splendour which has been released by the US Library of Congress.

Adding ‘sexual orientation’ and ‘gender identity’ to the list of protected classes may seem straightforward enough, but the proposed law does more—much more.The statutory language instead provides for an extreme remaking of all aspects of society, destroys the promise of equality for women, and threatens religious liberty and the privacy rights of all Americans, especially children. The proposed law also will upend state and federal protections of the unborn—yes, the Equality Act is about abortion too.Here are the five facts about the Equality Act Americans need to know.1. The Equality Act Is Deceptively SimpleThe statutory language of the Equality Act...

All of a sudden, here it is the end of February and there is no State of the Union (SOTU) address scheduled for President Biden. That’s odd because last month, Biden promised what sounds exactly like a SOTU:"Next month, in my first appearance before a joint session of Congress, I will lay out my 'Build Back Better' recovery plan," he said. "It will make historic investments in infrastructure, manufacturing, innovation, and research and development in clean energy."AP and PBS both got wind that the address was to be given on February 23 in and said so in posts that are...

Seven weeks into his presidency, senile Joe Biden surprised many by calling in a Syria airstrike.Which was puzzling, given that there seemed to be no immediate threat. And that's just for starters.It was billed as a strike on pro-Iran militants stationed in the region, and in retaliation for an earlier strike of theirs against a U.S. installation. Which seems a little eyebrow-raising, given Biden's eagerness to make nice with the mullahs. Even that explanation has skeptics who call the whole thing laughable.There are also those who think Biden is finishing up what President Obama started. You know, for the legacy...

The number of unaccompanied minors in federal custody is already overwhelming border facilities.he border crisis that anyone could have seen coming is finally here, thanks largely to the actions of the Biden administration over the past few months. It turns out that promising to roll back Trump-era immigration restrictions, signing a raft of executive orders to that effect, and then introducing a mass amnesty bill sends the message that if you can get across the U.S.-Mexico border, you can stay.Plenty of families in Mexico and Central America have gotten the message. According to a recent report in the Washington Post,...

Earlier Thursday, we treated you to a TikTok video of a white girl singing about racism: “If you’re white, yes, you are racist” and “Pretending you’re not racist only makes racism grow.” We’re guessing our next contestant in the most cringeworthy TikTok video is a teacher, and she’s asking you please not to teach if you don’t subscribe to the tenents of “anti-racism.”

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WASHINGTON (AP/WHEC) - New York Republican Congressmen John Katko and Tom Reed crossed party lines to help pass a Democratic-led House bill Thursday that would enshrine LGBTQ protections in the nation's labor and civil rights laws. The bill passed by a vote of 224-206, Reed and Katko were among two of the three Republicans to vote yes. The Equality Act amends existing civil rights law to explicitly include sexual orientation and gender identification as protected characteristics. The protections would extend to employment, housing, loan applications, education, public accommodations and other areas. Supporters say the law before the House on Thursday...