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How do corrupt politicians conduct investigations? Corruptly. Over the next couple months, it’s looking like we will see the inception of a new “9/11 style commission” to investigate the events of January 6, 2021. Per CNN reporting through a senior Democrat aide:A Commission of 7 Democrats and 4 Republicans. Or perhaps an evenly split commission if Senate Republicans get their way. An investigative scope dictated by Pelosi. A duration of nearly a year, if not longer, with a budget of millions. All to conclude at the end of 2021. Just in time for Congressional hearings before the 2022 election.Tools for...

Michael Stanley, who was the very symbol of rock ‘n roll for decades in the city of Cleveland, died Friday at age 72. The cause of death was lung cancer, diagnosed seven months earlier. Stanley’s illness became known when he took leave of his usual afternoon radio shift at Cleveland’s 98.5 WNCX in late February and the station released a statement requesting prayers for his family In a letter posted Saturday on the radio station’s website, Stanley wrote a farewell to fans: “Hey gang… Well, if you’re reading this then I am off to catch up with that big club...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (I John 5:14) Religion forum threads labeled (Prayer) are closed to debate of any kind.

Former President Trump vowed to travel to Alaska to campaign against Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R) next year as she seeks reelection. Murkowski, who first took office in 2002, has been a longtime critic of the former president and top GOP wild card in recent votes. She bucked her party this week by announcing she’d back Rep. Deb Haaland’s (D-N.M.) nomination to serve as Interior secretary, and she was one of seven Senate Republicans to vote to convict Trump in his impeachment trial last month. She is the only one of the seven seeking reelection in 2022. "I will not be...

NICOLAS Cage reportedly got hitched for the FIFTH time in Las Vegas to fiancée Riko Shibata - who is 30 years the actor’s junior. The movie star’s latest nuptials comes less than two years after his famously disastrous four-day marriage to his fourth wife, Erika Koike. The Oscar-winner, 57, married his 26-year-old fiancée Riko at the Wynn Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas, Daily Mail first reported. A state of Nevada marriage license obtained by the outlet shows that the couple got hitched on February 16 at the Vegas resort. His new bride took her husband’s last name - and...

Abstract Background Ivermectin is one among several potential drugs explored for its therapeutic and preventive role in SARS-CoV-2 infection. The study was aimed to explore the association between ivermectin prophylaxis and the development of SARS-CoV-2 infection among healthcare workers. Methods A hospital-based matched case-control study was conducted among healthcare workers of AIIMS Bhubaneswar, India, from September to October 2020. Profession, gender, age and date of diagnosis were matched for 186 case-control pairs. Cases and controls were healthcare workers who tested positive and negative, respectively, for COVID-19 by RT-PCR. Exposure was defined as the intake of ivermectin and/or hydroxychloroquine and/or vitamin-C...

[I]n this case we're talking about the star VY Canis Majoris (or VY CMa for short). This ridiculously bloated red hypergiant is about 4,000 light years away in the constellation of Canis Major... VY CMa is an immense star, well over 2 billion kilometers wide. Observations of the star show that it is blasting out way too much infrared light for a star of its kind, which is a telltale sign that it's surrounded by dust. This is usually microscopic grains of rocky (silicate-laden) or carbonaceous (sooty) material around the star (so we call it circumstellar, which is just a...

Australia’s senior cleric lauds report calling for Church governance by lay womenAustralia's bishops commissioned a task force, which included liberal theologian Massimo Faggioli among its international advisors, and the group produced a report called, 'The Light from the Southern Cross.' Faggioli believes the report should form the basis of a worldwide reform of the Church.AUSTRALIA, 4 March, 20201 (Famlily Life International) – An Australian document designed to undermine orthodox Catholicism may soon become the model for governance of the universal Church. The document is being hailed by head of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, Mark Coleridge, and is being promulgated...

A cyberattack on Microsoft Corp.’s Exchange email software is believed to have infected tens of thousands of businesses, government offices and schools in the U.S., according to people briefed on the matter. Many of those victims of the attack, which Microsoft has said was carried out by a network of suspected Chinese hackers, appear to be small businesses and state and local governments. Estimates of total world-wide victims were approximate and ranged broadly as of Friday. Tens of thousands of customers appear to have been affected, but that number could be larger, the people said. It could be higher than...

Call it author's ego, but there are very few other historians that I read and say, "Wow, I wish I could write as good as him." Among those who come to mind, David Hackett Fischer, Paul Johnson, Ron Chernow, Barbara Tuchman, and David McCullough. Now I have another to add to that list. Ian W. Toll's magnificent Pacific war trilogy was one of those books (three, actually) that when you were finished you were sad because there were no more literary worlds to conquer. His previous claim to fame was a book about the War of 1812 called "Six Frigates,"...

Iceland eruption could mark the beginning of a volcanic period lasting a few centuries David Hartley Interesting article in the Iceland Monitor about eruptive phases on Iceland. What caught my eye was the fact it settled round about 1300 which Wiki has as round about the beginnings of the Little Ice Age. “If an eruption occurs, it would likely mark the beginning of such a [volcanic] period – lasting a few centuries (emphasis added), I believe,” states Magnús Á. Sigurgeirsson, geologist at ÍSOR Iceland GeoSurvey – a consulting and research institute in the field of geothermal sciences and utilization. Research...

A public school in New York City has provoked a firestorm of outrage by asking parents to become “white traitors” and promote “white abolition” in an effort to allegedly fight racism. The controversial letter was sent by Mark Federman, principal of the East Side Community School in New York City. It included an “ethnography of whiteness” written by Northwestern University associate professor Barnor Hesse who ranks all whites on a color-coded scale of “The 8 White Identities” which range from “White Supremacist” to “White Abolitionist.” ““There is a regime of whiteness, and there are action-oriented white identities. People who...

The last of the Capitol rioters had barely vacated the premises when Nancy Pelosi’s allies began slandering their Republican colleagues claiming that Republican members of Congress had taken an active role in permitting the demonstrators…indeed, if they were BLM demonstrators, we would be calling them “peaceful”…to enter the Capitol. Baseless allegations were made that some Republican members of Congress allowed rioters to enter the Capitol by having them issued visitor’s passes. This is Nancy Pelosi:In order to serve here together, we must trust that people have respect for their oath of office, respect for this institution. If in fact it...

In 2019-20, 77% of high school seniors took the SAT test as part of the process of applying for admission to colleges and universities. In 2020-21, fewer than 50% will do so and most colleges are not requiring SAT scores because many of the testing dates were canceled because of COVID.Now the “woke” race activists are demanding that standardized testing be eliminated altogether as part of the college admissions process. Their reason? Because lower test scores by minority students (except Asians — pay not attention) is a reflection of racism — the results prove the racism, and nothing more be...

It’s a miracle! After a sharp increase in Covid-19 cases starting the month before the 2020 election and continuing until a very specific date, there was a sudden and jolting plunge that immediately followed. That date was January 20, Inauguration Day, and people like Dave Rubin have questions....Let’s cut straight to the lede. This is, with 100% certainty, a political move initiated by The Swamp and their cronies in mainstream media, Big Tech, and the CDC to pad their numbers. The goal: To bloat the numbers of coronavirus cases under President Trump while diminishing the number of coronavirus under President...

PARIS — The first eight oak trees destined to replace the destroyed spire of Paris’s scorched Notre Dame cathedral have been selected from the Bercé forest in the French Loire region, church officials said on Friday. The iconic, 315 foot spire was completely destroyed in the fire that ravaged the Paris monument in 2019. It was made by architect Viollet-le-Duc in 1859. “It is a source of pride for the foresters of the National Forestry Office to participate in the rebirth of Notre-Dame de Paris,” said Forestry Office Director Bertrand Munch.

‘Imposing upon a Pastor the condition of his release, that he not pastor, that is a stain on the justice system, that is an injustice,’ commented the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms.EDMONTON, Alberta, March 5, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Canadian Pastor James Coates will remain behind bars for another two months after an Alberta court judge dismissed an appeal to his bail conditions, which block his release unless he agrees to not hold church services amid severe coronavirus lockdowns. On Friday morning, Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Peter Michalyshyn ruled that Coates remains bound to the “law” and must follow...

Vatican City, Mar 3, 2021 / 01:00 pm MT (CNA).- Pope Francis said on Wednesday that he was “delighted” to learn that a Muslim group had overseen the translation of his latest encyclical into Russian. In a message released by the Holy See press office on March 3, the pope said it was “a beautiful and joyful surprise” to hear that the encyclical Fratelli tutti had been translated into Russian and presented at a cultural center in the capital, Moscow. “In this way, it will be made available to a large number of men and women of goodwill who wish...

The place of Blessed Michael McGivney’s tomb and the birthplace of the Knights of Columbus suffered damage from Saturday’s vandalism.On Saturday, Feb. 27, St. Mary Church in New Haven, Connecticut, was the victim of a vandal or vandals. The parish church is also renowned with a shrine of the Infant of Prague and known as the birthplace of the Knights of Columbus. Blessed Michael McGivney, founder of the Knights, is entombed in a sarcophagus in the church. ​“Someone either punched or used some object to punch in the center doors’ stained glass windows,” Dominican Father John Paul Walker, the pastor,...

Priest Would Refuse Joe Biden Communion Because He’s Pro-Abortion: “Over My Dead Body, Not Until He Repents”In a deeply emotional message to his congregation, an Arizona priest mourned how President Joe Biden, a supposedly devout Catholic, is working to expand the killing of unborn babies in abortions.Father William Kosko of St. Henry’s Parish in Buckeye, Arizona, said he would welcome Biden to attend Mass but not to participate in communion unless he repents, The New American reports.“Over my dead body; not until he repents,” Kosko said. “He’s a public figure. He needs to publicly repent, and we need to pray...