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Nigerian authorities are searching for hundreds of schoolgirls who were kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in a raid early Friday morning, according to police in the northwestern state of Zamfara. Police Commissioner Abutu Yaro told reporters that 317 girls had been kidnapped from Government Girls Science Secondary School in the town of Jangebe, according to its principal. He said efforts to trace the kidnappers and retrieve the students are underway, and that authorities were looking into information that they had been moved to neighboring forests. "All of us are angry, and all of us are sad," he said. "Despite that we...

The priorities of the Democratic Party have always been hard for me to understand, and a recent survey from Echelon Insights once again has me scratching my head wondering how Democrats’ priorities can be so out of wack. What do you think the Democrats’ number one issue of concern is? Jobs? Poverty? COVID-19? The environment? Health care? Pfft. You’re not even close. According to Kristen Soltis Anderson, the cofounder of Echelon Insights, Democrat voters’ number one issue is none of those issues. Nor is it police brutality or LGBT issues. In fact, the number one issue for Democrat voters isn’t...

Jack Hanna on Letterman with some of his animals. One of the funniest segments I've ever seen......Only 6:44 long....

How much more proof do you need that Joe Biden is simply reversing anything Trump did because “Orange Man Bad”? In December, Trump signed an executive order called “Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture.” The order itself didn’t attempt to enforce or ban a particular style, but expressed a preference for classical architecture over the Brutalist style of architecture, which was popular in the 1950s through the 1970s, and was widely implemented in the 1960s when the federal government’s growth required more office space. Brutalism was seen as modern, stylish, and even futuristic at the time. It was also cheap to...

A judge has ruled that Maricopa County must provide ballots from 2020 for audit.

There is a quote attributed to the French philosopher Voltaire, who is credited with observing that the ability or inability to offer critiques of certain people demonstrates who really pulls the strings. A lot of noise is currently made of white privilege, white supremacy, and whiteness. At the same time, Black History Month contradictorily shares a narrative of both black power and black oppression. Perhaps the idea of black power represents their wielding of control over a muzzled white population by pretending to be victimized.Pop culture is a bastion of debauchery and shamelessness, but it also encapsulates everything wrong with...

Tenants continue to take advantage, abuse GTA landlordsHarpreet Kaur rented out the two-bedroom basement apartment in her Mississauga home to a tenant in December of 2019 with rent paid up until September of last year.That’s when things started to fall apart.First the tenant — a WestJet employee who lost his job during COVID — moved in a friend and both refused to pay the $1,700-a-month rent. Kaur, an optician, said the tenant promised to pay “something” by Oct. 7 and when he didn’t, the friend answered the door ordering her to get in touch by text from that day forward....

NATO is deploying 3,500 more troops amid fears that ten thousand ISIS fighters are poised for a fresh wave of terror. The incremental increase in troops come as ISIS fighters are reportedly on stand-by in northern Iraq, after using the pandemic to rebuild their forces. In response, defence ministers agreed to bolster a NATO training mission aimed at strengthening the country's military. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday the increases would be "incremental". "The size of our mission will increase from 500 personnel to around 4,000," he said. "Training activities will now include more Iraqi security institutions, and...

A Catholic school teacher who called into question the death of George Floyd while she was speaking with students has been placed on administrative leave, according to reports. WCMH Channel 4 reports that the Catholic Diocese of Columbus released a statement saying that Deborah DelPrince, a theology teacher at Bishop Ready High School, made “unsupported personal assertions and opinions” in regard to Floyd’s death. Floyd, 46, died in May 2020 after a Milwaukee police officer knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes during an arrest. According to the New York Times, a medical examiner ruled the death a...

.....And now Antifa protesters are openly bragging online about their involvement in the US Capitol riots....There were actually three Antifa-BLM protests organized on January 6th before the US Capitol riot. The Antifa organizer John Sullivan was inside the US Capitol dressed as a Trump supporter.

Someone told me that Democrats would try to stuff a load of pork in to their Covid relief bill. “That’s absurd!”, I proclaimed. I know, of course, that they only have our best intentions in mind as they craft their bill. I can’t think of a better way to spend COVID relief funds, for instance, than giving federal employees 15 week vacations and $21,000 cash. You might get a one-time stimulus check for $1,400. But our beloved federal workers with children are eligible to receive up to 15 weeks of paid leave at $1,400 per week.

Jason Brown, 24, faces charges of criminal homicide and carrying firearms without license in Katara Bray's killing Bray, 22-year-old mom-of-four, was shot in the head and neck while driving Brown on February 8 in Pittsbugh Police say Bray had just found out she was pregnant again and she did not want the baby to be Brown's; he is the father of one of her older children Brown allegedly shot Bray while she was driving, causing her to lose control and crashed into a pole

“Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will bring it to pass” (1 Thessalonians 5:24). God is faithful in forgiving our sins and securing our salvation. We have learned that God protects us from temptation, but what happens when we don’t rely on God and give in to sin? John has the answer: “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9). The Lord says in Jeremiah 31:34, “I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.” God...

Contentment was a huge test in Paul’s life. After all, God said he would use him mightily: “He is a chosen vessel of Mine to bear My name before Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel” (Acts 9:15). When Paul first received this commission, “straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God” (9:20). Paul was in no hurry to see everything fulfilled in his lifetime. He knew he had an ironclad promise from God, and he clung to it. For the present moment, he was content to minister wherever he was: witnessing to a...

The Japan Coast Guard could directly fire a weapon against foreign official vessels aiming to land on the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, ruling party members said Thursday, citing government officials. The government officials told a panel of the Liberal Democratic Party they have confirmed their interpretation of existing laws. China implemented a new law earlier this month that allows its coast guard to use weapons against foreign ships that Beijing sees as illegally entering its waters. Government officials had said earlier Japan's coast guard is only allowed to fire weapons directly at foreign vessels in cases of...

Gunnison's Black Canyon: The Flood Solves Mysterious Missing Time 2-26-2021 Brian Thomas, Ph.D., and Tim Clarey, Ph.D. The Gunnison River winds westward from the Colorado Rocky Mountains through dry and dramatic landscapes. Morning sunlight enlivens Colorado’s tallest cliff, the stunning Painted Wall, found in Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park (Figure 1). Lookout points along the park’s south rim road permit people to peer down into the deep canyon where birds fly far below and the Gunnison River roars in the distant depths (Figure 2). But Black Canyon does more than drop jaws. It conceals mysteries, including supposedly lost...

Coca-Cola employees were urged to be “less white” as part of the company’s alleged diversity training — but the material was yanked offline following a viral whistleblower post.The “Confronting Racism” course in question was offered by LinkedIn Education and allegedly utilized by the soft-drink titan.“In the U.S. and other Western nations, white people are socialized to feel that they are inherently superior because they are white,” reads one of the slides, allegedly sent from an “internal whistleblower” and (posted on Twitter) by YouTube commentator Karlyn Borysenko.

For months now, all of the major cruise lines have asked would-be passengers to be patient while they worked through everything from the implementation of protocols to dealings with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They’ve spoken to us in vague terms about what progress has been made, insisting that when they have answers, so will we. Yet when it comes to actual, solid information, they’ve been incredibly reticent. Not one line has stepped forward to spell out, in detail, how their talks with the CDC are going. Not one line has offered a detailed, comprehensive explanation of exactly...

San Francisco Mayor London Breed released a plan Thursday to redistribute $120 million from the city’s law enforcement budget to projects aimed at helping the city’s black minority. Bay Area public radio station KQED reported: San Francisco Mayor London Breed on Thursday announced a plan for how the city will spend $120 million over the next two years, pulled from law enforcement budgets, to reinvest in the city’s long-underserved Black communities. “The Dream Keeper Initiative,” as it’s dubbed, increases investments in workforce development, health campaigns, youth and cultural programs and housing support. The allocations reflect spending priorities conveyed by Black...

A statement from Kathryn Limbaugh and family said Rush Hudson Limbaugh III was honorably laid to rest Wednesday in St. Louis, with close immediate family in attendance. There will be additional celebrations of Rush's life to come both virtually and in his home town of Cape Girardeau, the statement said. It was later confirmed that Limbaugh was buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery, a historic cemetery in St. Louis where many other famous Missourians have been laid to rest.