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Sri Lanka has announced plans to ban the wearing of burqas and said it would close more than 1,000 Islamic schools known as madrassas, citing national security. “The burqa has a direct impact on national security,” Weerasekara told a ceremony at a Buddhist temple on Saturday. “In our early days, we had a lot of Muslim friends, but Muslim women and girls never wore the burqa,” Weerasekara said, according to video footage sent by his ministry. “It is a sign of religious extremism that came about recently....” The wearing of burqas was temporarily banned in 2019 after the Easter Sunday...

On January 5th, Michael D. Graveley, District Attorney of the County of Kenosha, Wisconsin, called a news conference to explain why charges would not be brought against Officer Rusten Sheskey for shooting Jacob Blake on August 23, 2020. During August anti-racism protests in response to a black man being shot seven times by a white police officer, rioting had led to two deaths and to fifty million dollars in damage to over one hundred businesses in Kenosha, including forty that were shut down for good with the loss of many jobs. Graveley was joined at the podium by Noble Wray,...

The “attack” on the Capitol started well before then President Trump finished his speech at the rally at The Ellipse. This attack was no spontaneous event as alleged by Democrats, the Media, and the Radical Left. It is evident to any police officer who has been on a police line this attack was preplanned when coupled with the intelligence compiled by the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) and other agencies. From the videos, this is self-evident, e.g., coordination, tactics in engaging the police lines, hand signals, gas masks, bear spray, goggles, helmets, knee pads, improvised weapons, and milk to...

Happy Pi Day! In before "math is racist"

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Saturday ordered an emergency agency that usually responds to floods, storms and other major disasters to help care for a growing number of migrant children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in news release that he would deploy the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) “to help receive, shelter and transport the children" over the next 90 days. The move signals the scope of a growing humanitarian and political crisis for the administration of President Joe Biden, a Democrat who took office on Jan. 20. The increased...

PJ Media’s Megan Fox has a very disturbing six-part series on alleged judicial corruption in St. Louis, Missouri. The first five detail how family court guardians and psychologists are misusing their positions to siphon off money from parents in custody disputes while the St. Louis judges ignore the fraud and collude with them, by, for example, ordering children's visits with sexual molesters and/or otherwise abusive parents in order to compel the other parent to keep paying lawyers to appeal the decisions and change the arrangements. One might expect that bar examiners, judicial conduct boards, the state attorney general, the Department...

Source: P Photo/Charles KrupaAmericans like to believe our resources are as unlimited as the possibilities for our future. That may be true. Ideas like “peak oil” – which seemed on the verge of winning acceptance just a decade ago – have petered out as science and engineering have pointed the way to discoveries of energy deposits so rich the nation has become a net energy exporter. More than that though, America has made tremendous gains by learning to use the resources we already produce more efficiently. These gains are a winner for everyone, producers and consumers alike. This is certainly...

A Louisiana legislator, Danny McCormick, Republican, has filed a Constitutional Carry Bill in the House, HB16. It has a chance of becoming law. Constitutional Carry is a close approximation of the state of law which existed concerning the carry of weapons when the Second Amendment was ratified in 1791. At that time, no permit was required to carry weapons, either openly or concealed.The Louisiana legislature has strong Republican majorities in the House and the Senate. 27 – 12 in the Senate, and 68 – 35 in the House, with 2 independents.Democrat Bel Edwards is governor. He was re-elected in 2019...

The Talk Shows March 14th, 2021 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchored by Chris Wallass: Never Trumper Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.); Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.); White House Medical Advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci; Alec Cabacungan, Shriners Hospital. Panel: Karl Rove; Jonathan Swan, Axios; Donna BrazileNut. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Chuck U. Toad: White House Medical Advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci; Stacey AbramsTank, Fair Fight; Georgia Lt. Gov. RINO Geoff Duncan. Panel: Lanhee Chen, Stanford; John Heilemann; Hallie Jackson; María Teresa Kumar, Voto Latino.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: Dr. Marcella...

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In their desperation to avoid saying anything good about Trump, the Biden Administration has hung young Jen Psaki out to dry. Jen Psaki, Joe Biden’s press secretary, twists and turns to avoid giving any credit at all to President Trump for getting Covid vaccines produced and to market so quickly. She tries to make it sound like anything Trump did was inconsequential. Trump’s Operation Warp Speed supercharged the process, so the vaccines got out far faster than anyone even thought possible. Trump set it all up, but the vaccines came online during Biden’s time. Biden’s administration is trying to take...

Hey, look who’s suddenly reporting on the Portland riots! – After 8 months of pretending the riots simply did not exist, corrupt, leftwing media outlets like CBS News and The Hill are suddenly filing reports on the latest turn in the ongoing BLM/Antifa insurrection in Oregon’s largest city: As you can see, the focus of the story is on the fact that the Portland Police are suddenly being allowed by Communist Democrat Mayor Ted Wheeler to actually arrest a large number of the domestic terrorists, a stark contrast to the hands-off policy they had been forced to deploy while President...

Today we study Jesus’s most famous and dramatic miracle that triggered a series of events leading to his Crucifixion and Resurrection.The miracle — found only in the Gospel of John — chronicles the two reasons why Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead and is shown below in bold.First, Jesus hears the news about his close friend: “Lord, the one you love is sick.” Jesus responds: “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God’s glory so that God’s Son may be glorified through it” (John 11:1-4).The second reason is what Jesus wants you to know after he...

How we deal with boundaries is called "morality." It's not looking good lately. We have all been circling around the genesis of our society's ills since the COVID epidemic struck and the riots and peaceful protests began. It is not ironic that everything happened seemingly at once; rather, once the wound appeared, it became inflamed and infected almost immediately. On the most fundamental level, we are suffering from a complete disrespect for boundaries. The idea of boundaries is fairly simple, yet its roots grow deep, indeed to the core of humanity. One of my favorite books describes the entire book...

Just felt two 6:29 and 6:31 CST. Second one felt fairly strong.

With direct payments hitting bank accounts as soon as this weekend, the newly passed American Rescue Plan is quickly going into effect, and President Joe Biden is headed on the road to educate the public on the benefits included in the massive $1.9 trillion law. Next week, Biden will set off to give his sales pitch as part of the "Help is Here" tour, backed up by Vice President Kamala Harris, first lady Jill Biden, second gentleman Doug Emhoff and members of his Cabinet -- all taking part in the effort to secure credit and continue to build support for...

Jack Maxey is sharing something especially significant -- the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop -- and discusses the importance of the content to every American patriot. Hunter Biden's laptop is front and center as Jack Maxey, formerly of Steve Bannon's "War Room," continues to uncover blockbuster facts that need to be covered by the mainstream media.

I told you so. It's become crystal clear I was right on the money. I've said for two years now on my national radio show that the best thing that could ever happen for the Mexican drug cartels would be a Democratic presidential victory. Mexican drug kingpins have waited their entire lives for this fantasy. They must be singing, dancing and toasting champagne right now, because President Joe Biden is the greatest gift ever bestowed upon the Mexican cartels. Experts estimated the money made on drug trafficking by the cartels at around $500 billion a year. That's half a trillion...

(...) EVANSVILLE, Indiana, March 12, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — A 28-year-old physical therapist died two days after being injected with an experimental mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, according to reports. Haley Link Brinkmeyer, who completed her doctorate in physical therapy in 2018 and soon after was married to her high school sweetheart Evan Brinkmeyer, died unexpectedly on January 21, after receiving the shot on January 19, according to her mother. (...)

It is easy to become distracted in this age of information overload. We are bombarded with data input from sources both ridiculous and sublime. And every issue seems to be existential, or at least is cast in that way. Covid virus hysteria, China rising, budget-busting budgetary blow-out bills brought to us courtesy of a Democratic Party at the controls of all the levers of power. It is in just such times, with our country’s leadership, such as it is, juggling many balls, that our adversaries see opportunity. It is good, therefore, that we have folks like Dr. William Saxton and...