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March 21 2021 St. Mary's Cathedral and Basilica, seat of the Syro-Malabar diocese in Kochi, Kerala. Lectionary 35First readingJeremiah 31:31-34 ©I will write my Law in their heartsSee, the days are coming – it is the Lord who speaks – when I will make a new covenant with the House of Israel (and the House of Judah), but not a covenant like the one I made with their ancestors on the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. They broke that covenant of mine, so I had to show them who...

The Talk Shows March 21st, 2021 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchored by Chris Wallass: Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas; Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.); Selling digital artwork for record $69 million: Artist Mike “Beeple” Winkelmann. Panel: Guy Benson; Catherine Lucey, the Wall Street Journal; Charles Lane. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Chuck U. Toad: Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas; Sen. Raphael Warlock (D-Ga.); Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.). Panel: Julia Ainsley, justice and national security reporter at NBC News; Eddie Glaude Jr., Professor of African American Studies at Princeton...

AJ Pritchard's girlfriend Abbie Quinnen has suffered third-degree burns after a wine bottle exploded and set fire to her hair and clothing. The professional dancer, 23, was filming a video with her Strictly star beau, 26, when the accident happened on January 19 and was driven to Ealing Hospital in London by his brother Curtis, reports The Sun On Sunday. Since the awful incident, Abbie has needed three skin grafts and made 20 hospital visits with AJ caring for her as she recovers at home inbetween appointments.

Canceled four years ago by a president who considered global warming a hoax, climate crisis information has returned to the website of the US government’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as part of Joe Biden’s promise to “bring science back”. The revival of a page dedicated to the climate emergency reverses Donald Trump’s order in 2017 to drop all references to it from government websites, and prioritises the Biden administration’s pledge to “organize and deploy the full capacity of its agencies to combat the climate crisis”. In a statement, Michael Regan, confirmed by the US Senate last week as the federal...

Customs and Border Protection is considering a plan to release migrants who crossed the border illegally without first giving them a court date to reappear. The news comes as Biden officials are blaming the former Trump administration for the border crisis and the number of unaccompanied minors now in custody has swelled to 15,000. A senior CBP source told Fox News that Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector are considering releasing migrants into the United States without an official Notice to Appear, a process that normally takes hours for each individual or family.

In the case of Tah v. Global Witness Publishing, Inc., which emerged from the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, nobody but the parties involved cared about the issues in the case. It became noteworthy, though, because Judge Laurence Silberman used the dissent, not just to disagree with the majority’s ruling, but also to warn against the danger of a national media that is completely allied with the party controlling all of Washington D.C. However, I find the case even more exciting because it attacks the notion of Supreme Court infallibility. The majority in the...

A senior Teen Vogue staffer who expressed concern about the racist tweets posted by the magazine's now-departed editor used the N-word in her own tweets. Christine Davitt, a senior social media manager at Teen Vogue, wrote two tweets in 2009 to a friend identifying him as a 'ni--a,' and another in 2010 using the word 'ni--a', Fox News reported. The friend to whom the comments were addressed appears to be white. Davitt said in multiple tweets that she is of Irish and Filipino descent.

Spring breakers invading Miami Beach have become so uncontrollable that authorities imposed a curfew on Saturday and declared a state of emergency as SWAT teams were seen moving in to clear people out. A SWAT vehicle was filmed moving down Ocean Drive - a popular party street - and using an LRAD, also known as a sound cannon, to get people to disperse, video posted to Twitter shows. The move to control the crowds followed weeks of wild partying in Miami Beach, which is no stranger to uncontrollable spring break throngs of young people.

Republicans are aiming to stir up a legal battle over Biden's pandemic relief bill, targeting a provision in the American Rescue Plan they say is an unconstitutional infringement on states' ability to devise their own tax policies. A provision in the bill that forbids states from using billions in aid to offset any tax cuts they might implement has sparked a backlash from Republican lawmakers and state attorneys general. Their criticisms could lay the groundwork for a court battle over states' rights and government overreach akin to the Supreme Court case over the fate of ObamaCare. This time, the GOP...

Quentin Kidd, the dean of Arts and Sciences at Christopher Newport University, said the embrace of Mr. Trump and his debunked claims of massive voter fraud is the result of a candidate like Chase pushing the field to the right, and of an "echo chamber" occupied by GOP candidates and the base. "Election integrity is the number one issue to the base. And in a race like this one, that's all you're really talking to," added Virginia Republican strategist David Alvarez. Kidd predicted Cox or Snyder would win the nomination, but said whoever it is will have a problem appealing...

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VIRGINIA GOVERNOR RALPH “BLACKFACE” NORTHAM IS CALLING FOR BACKUP AHEAD OF AN ELECTION CYCLE DEMOCRATS FEAR COULD SWEEP THEM OUT OF POWER IN THE STATE, RESTORING VOTING RIGHTS FOR OVER 69,000 CONVICTED FELONS LESS THAN 8 MONTHS AHEAD OF ELECTION DAY. While incumbent Northam isn’t eligible for re-election himself due to consecutive term limiting, his old boss Terry McAuliffe is, and he’s running to become the first Virginia Governor in nearly half a century to be elected to two non-consecutive terms. As Governor, McAuliffe had no issue using even the most violent of convicted felons for Democrat political purposes, once...

Besides the cool, nearly 100-year-old rough-riding Model T Ford pickup truck, this nicely shot 6-1/2 min video includes some pretty Canadian scenery. There's very little audio, other than the sound of the old Model T itself. ________________ Robert Merz [YouTube uploader]"Out for a drive in a 1925 Model T Ford on the type of rough and rugged road it was built for. This 1925 Model T has a few extras, including a Ruckstell rear end and a 2 speed Universal transmission."1925 Model T Ford Sunday Drive (6-1/2 min):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXFo1V4p1To

An extraordinary catalogue of sexual misconduct allegations against Metropolitan police officers, including claims that one had sex with a rape victim and another assaulted a domestic abuse survivor, are revealed in documents obtained by the Observer. The disclosures will intensify pressure on the Met after its officers manhandled women at last Saturday’s vigil for Sarah Everard where hundreds demanded the right to be safe on London’s streets. Organisers of the vigil on Clapham Common subsequently accused the force of losing the faith of women and being unable to tackle its “institutional misogyny”. Campaigners said the latest revelations amplified concern among...

CBS News projects that Republican Julia Letlow will win the special election for Louisiana's 5th district, taking over the would-be seat of her late husband, Luke Letlow, who died of COVID-19 complications days before he could be sworn in. She will be the first Republican woman to represent Louisiana in Congress, and will boost the number of Republican women currently serving in the house to a record 31. "This is an incredible moment and it is truly hard to put into words," Letlow said in a statement Saturday night. "What was born out of the terrible tragedy of losing my...

SWAT Teams and several local law enforcement officers are moving in to get a massive crowd of Spring Breakers under control after they refused to abide by an 8 pm curfew set by the city of Miami as part of a state of emergency declared by Miami’s Mayor Dan Gelber. 100 Percent Fed Up reports – The iconic Clevelander, a popular restaurant and bar in South Beach Miami has announced that they will be closed until at least March 24, due to the “increased violence” by Spring Breakers: According to Local 10 – “The situation has gotten bad enough that...

Wokester fanatics have turned up in many epochs of history, and all went the same way. Wokeness is an offshoot of Christianity. So historian Tom Holland argues in Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind (2019). If he had followed his argument to its logical conclusion he would have arrived at the same conclusion I did -- that woke progressivism will crash and burn. This is because the adherents of woke progressivism find it impossible to live up to their utopian expectations. Sooner or later the cognitive dissonance of living in a state of self-contradiction will become translated into a...

It’s just the flu, bro. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3943851/posts China is to only issue visas to travelers who have a vaccine that was made in China. This is their right to do this. But know that this (and all of the other coronavirus tyranny around the world) is a result of global panic exceeding the threshold that inspires ill-advised government intervention. The people with a vested interest in Coronavirus panic, and panic in general, are: 1.”experts”, 2.businesses with the right niche, 3.leftist politicians, 4.media. This is a difficult problem to solve. One idea is to give a greater voice to the smaller number...

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) is still frustrated by how COVID-19 relief bill negotiations went down, The Wall Street Journal reports. Specifically, Collins is not pleased about what she considers to have been a brusque dismissal when she and a group of other Republican senators sat down with President Biden in early February to try to reach consensus on a package. The senator, who has built a moderate reputation over the years, told the Journal that she's confused as to why the Biden administration, which ultimately saw its $1.9 trillion stimulus pass through Congress without Republican support in either chamber, "would...

Spring breakers invading Miami Beach have become so uncontrollable that authorities imposed a curfew on Saturday and declared a state of emergency as SWAT teams were seen moving in to clear people out. ... But this year the volume is clearly higher than in previous years, said Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber, who's expressed concern about the lack of coronavirus restrictions - like wearing a mask - in Florida. ... For the next 72 hours, visitors will have to leave streets and restaurants will close their doors at 8pm in the main tourist areas of South Beach, the epicenter of...