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65 Year Old Woman Tackled, Arrested For Refusing To Mask A Day After Abbott Lifted Mandate The mask mandate was lifted statewide on March 10, but the very next day a 65-year old woman was tackled to the ground by police after being told by a Galveston Bank of America branch to mask up. She later recounted in an interview with FOX Houston that she was there to close her account, and that she couldn’t enter the drive-thru. “Ma’am you have to leave…,” the bank staff told her upon entering. “I just want to close my account, I’m gonna get...

President Biden is reportedly planning the first major hike in federal taxes in almost 30 years to fund the economic program set to follow the recently approved $1.9 trillion pandemic stimulus package. Unidentified sources told Bloomberg that the increases will reflect the promises Biden made during his 2020 campaign. The planned increases reportedly include: raising the corporate tax from 21 percent to 28 percent; increasing the income tax rate on people making more than $400,000; expanding the estate tax; paring back tax preferences on pass-through businesses such as limited-liability companies; and setting up a higher capital gains tax rate for...

Democrats want to use stimulus money to make you into the people populating Disney's cartoon 'Wall-E.' Instead, turn it into a weapon for antifragility.Democrats’ fifth round of “coronavirus” “stimulus” will soon hand another $1,400 in government debt, plus interest, to every American man, woman, and child in 90 percent of U.S. households. It’s clear this is yet another round of hush money meant to keep Americans quiet and distracted while Democrats restructure the United States into a larger version of their failed uniparty state, California.While COVID times have been obviously worse than the four years of prosperity and freedom under...

Minnesota’s Muslim African-American Attorney General Keith Ellison did not charge Officer Derek Chauvin with a hate crime or even with intentionally murdering Floyd. So far, the most interesting aspect of the trial of police officer Derek Chauvin are the crimes for which he has not been charged. Chauvin has been vilified for his role in the arrest-related-death of a man resisting arrest. Despite almost a year of riots, ranting and raving by cable news, and even condemnations by supposedly law-and-order radio talk show hosts, Former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin is not being charged with the intentional murder of George...

Retired Lt. General Michael Flynn joined Pete Santilli this past weekend to discuss the outcome of the 2020 elections. General Flynn spent thirty-three years as an intelligence officer and was just named National Security Adviser by President-elect Donald Trump. General Flynn served as the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Senior Military Intelligence Officer in the Department of Defense. Pete Santilli: You were one of his greatest weapons. If you had not been messed with and you were with President Trump would November 3rd resulted in something completely different than it did? General Flynn: I believe it would...

Pray For the Peace of JerusalemLambs, Sheep, and Shepherds Psalm 3Psalm 3[a] A psalm of David. When he fled from his son Absalom. 1 Lord, how many are my foes! How many rise up against me! 2 Many are saying of me, “God will not deliver him.”[b] 3 But you, Lord, are a shield around me, my glory, the One who lifts my head high. 4 I call out to the Lord, and he answers me from his holy mountain. 5 I lie down and sleep; I wake again, because the Lord sustains me. 6 I will not fear though...

Article VI, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution is abundantly clear. Why did Democrats defy it in their election-rigging bill, H.R. 1? The “For the People Act,” the much-ballyhooed scheme by Democrats on Capitol Hill to codify the mechanisms through which voter fraud can become ubiquitous, has received plenty of blowback from the political right. Most of us have argued that H.R. 1 creates a perpetual environment that we first saw in 2020 with Covid-19 lockdowns. We argue that the rules made by legislatures, election boards, and the judiciary were unnecessary through the pandemic and therefore should definitely be...

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Rome (CNN)The Vatican said Monday that the Catholic Church would not bless same-sex unions, in a statement approved by Pope Francis that threatens to widen the chasm between the church and much of the LGBTQ community. Explaining their decision in a lengthy note on Monday, the Holy See referred to homosexuality as a "choice," suggested it is sinful and said it "cannot be recognized as objectively ordered" to God's plans; a combative stance that is certain to disappoint millions of gay and lesbian Catholics around the world. "The blessing of homosexual unions cannot be considered licit," the Vatican's top doctrinal...

The left-wing postmodern idea of “truth” as a mere pick-and-choose official narrative is now normal. any politicians at one point or another live by lies—if they can get away with them. Our supposed sentinels, the media—self-defined as independent, cynical, and skeptical journalists—are supposed to separate political fictions from truth. Legends As Facts Of course, sometimes they used to do that—if only selectively. There were Communist sympathizers in the Roosevelt Administration and holdovers in the 1950s deep state. But the Red Peril was not always what the demagogic Joe McCarthy claimed when shaking his lengthy, indiscriminate “lists” of “commie” names and...

She screamed “Allahu akbar” as she brandished the severed head. But never fear, psychiatrists have fixed all that. Gulchekhra Bobokulova horrified the world in February 2016 when she beheaded four-year-old Anastasia Meshcheryakova, whom she served as a nanny. Once Russian police got around to arresting her (she brandished the head and raved for fully twenty minutes), she was declared to be mentally ill. And now for the good news: psychiatrists have pronounced her cured, and she is set to walk free. The UK’s MailOnline reported Friday that after just five years in a psych ward, Bobokulova has been “cured” of...

In 1841, Charles Mackay wrote a 702-page book titled Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. The book details investment hysteria and panic, but it’s really about human nature, something that doesn’t change throughout recorded history. I will show the reader, in this essay, how we are experiencing popular delusions and the madness of crowds, right now, with the current corona virus, COVID-19 hysteria and panic. Today’s social psychologists use the term “groupthink” to describe the modern versions of crowd madness. “Groupthink” represents the prevailing beliefs and rationalizations that influence the decisions of the general public as well as...

Editors' note: Below is a letter from the leaders of ZOA to the publishers of Obama's new book, “A Promised Land.” They point out all the falsehoods, lies and omissions about Israel in the book, and make a request for their correction.* BY EMAIL AND CERTIFIED MAIL Mr. Markus Dohle CEO, Penguin Random House 1745 Broadway New York, NY 10019 Ms. Madeline McIntosh CEO, Penguin Random House US 1745 Broadway New York, NY 10019 Re: Falsehoods, Misleading Statements and Material Omissions in “A Promised Land,” by Barack Obama Dear Mr. Dohle and Ms. McIntosh: We write on behalf of the...

There is no general price increase to report in the March monthly report What will be the results of a Pelosi/Biden government? Many think there will be inflation. Milton Friedman taught us that “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon, in the sense that it cannot occur without a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.” The $2Trillion Covid relief plus the !5% minimum wage plus the forgiveness of college loans all pump money into the economy. Those actions are the very definition of monetary phenomena. The Bureau of Economic Analysis keeps us informed on...

A physical therapist died at her home just two days after she received a COVID-19 vaccine in January. 28-year-old Haley Link Brinkmeyer, of Evansville, Indiana, died January 21 after she received an mRNA vaccine believed to be either from Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna. “My 28 year old daughter took the vaccine on a Tuesday and she was dead by Thursday,” Brinkmeyer’s mother Shauna O’Neill Link allegedly said in the COVID Blog that was shared to Facebook. “Autopsy shows no other red flags. Corner (sic) has assured us he will get to the bottom of this vaccine crap.” “Anything with Bill Gates...

The Testing of Eric Olthwaite

Some older relatives of mine struggled to get the COVID vaccine. No matter how many hours they spent on the phone, trying to set up appointments with the county government, the answer was always the same: "All our vaccines are gone now. Try again next time."Kind of like standing in a Soviet breadline. Then the grocery store down the street rushed in to help. They emailed us to report, “I called yesterday and made appointments for this morning. We're slightly sore, but very happy.” Like going through a drive-through at McDonald’s. Despite the success of the free market – under...

ROME — Pope Francis insists in a new book things will never be the same in a post-pandemic world, calling instead for the establishment of a “new world order.” In a book-length interview with journalist Domenico Agasso titled God and the World to Come, scheduled for release in Italian on Tuesday, the pontiff reiterates his case for the Great Reset with a shift away from financial speculation, fossil fuels, and military build-up toward a green economy based on inclusiveness.

.. OLD TESTAMENT REVIEW, Part 1: GENESIS thru EXODUS TO HELP US TIE EVERYTHING TOGETHER, HERE IS ONE PICTURE FROM EACH OF THE MAJOR BIBLE STORIES WE’VE SEEN Note: I’ve omitted the usual attributions and sources, in order to focus solely on the Scripture’s story-telling ..Genesis 1GOD CREATES THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH..Genesis 2GOD CREATING ADAM ..Genesis 2GOD CREATING EVE ..Genesis 3ADAM & EVE BEING TEMPTED .. Genesis 3ADAM & EVE BANISHED FROM EDEN ..Genesis 4 CAIN MURDERS ABEL ..Genesis 6-8GOD'S FLOOD & NOAH'S ARK ..Genesis 11THE TOWER OF BABEL ..Genesis 12GOD CALLS ABRAM ..Genesis 16BARREN SARAI GIVES HAGAR TO...

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