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Oral Roberts University upset Florida in the second round of the NCAA Men's Basketbal Tournament on Sunday night, 81-78, and became the first No. 15 seed to make it to the Sweet 16 since 2013. Kevin Obanor’s 28 points and Max Abmas’ 26 points helped the Golden Eagles push past the No. 7 Gators. Obanor added 11 rebounds and four rebounds while Abmas had seven assists to his credit.

In America today, it is way too tempting to spend all our time attacking or celebrating the presidents we support. People seem to either hate Donald Trump or hate Joe Biden. We are locked into attacking or promoting presidents, not the principles or program priorities we believe will ensure the future for this amazing country. Yes, "Elections have consequences," but because we vote for presidents over principles, we don't often know what Presidents will do until they get elected. Whomever Republicans put up for election in 2024, and even for House and Senate seats in 2022, it's imperative that they...

Violent clashes at a demonstration which saw police attacked and vehicles set alight have been condemned as "shameful" and "unacceptable". Protesters clashed with officers as thousands turned out for the Kill the Bill march in Bristol on Sunday. Twenty officers were injured - two seriously and one with a punctured lung. Seven people have been arrested. Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees said the scenes "made people dealing with inequality in the city less safe". Avon and Somerset Police Chief Constable Andy Marsh said the protest had been "hijacked by extremists", by "people who were determined to commit criminal damage". "There was...

And yet, as I write this, about 3000 teenagers from our besieged border are talking up residence about a half hour down the road, at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in downtown Dallas. The border crisis is now a very local story for me, and your town may be next. In an arrangement hatched between the federal government and Dallas city officials, an enormous exhibit space at the convention center will be home to a massive population of teenage boys for a period we are told will not exceed 90 days. That’s about all we have been told. We...

It might not occur to you, because you are not a bizarre wierdo, but a lot of people really love the pandemic. Not just the little fascist gnome who changes his #science advice more often than a Wellesley girl changes her preferences during her sophomore year experimental phase, and not just the fascist pols who get off on exploiting their emergency powers to boss people around, but even some regular people. The masks, the paranoia, the constant talk about vaccines – some people love this stuff. This is their Woodstock. And they never want it to end. Why would anyone...

White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci "is not being honest with the American public" about when to wear masks, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told "Tucker Carlson Tonight" Friday. Paul joined host Tucker Carlson one day after the senator challenged Fauci to present hard evidence that people should wear face masks even after receiving the coronavirus vaccine. At one point, Paul called Fauci's double-masking "theater", which visibly annoyed the immunologist. "Here we go again with the 'theater'," Fauci fumed. "Let's get down to the facts." Paul told Carlson Friday that Fauci presented "no scientific evidence" to make the case...

The Biden administration seems oblivious to the rapid and dangerous deterioration of U.S.-Russia relations. Putin was already vexed over a host of other incidents. On January 26, Biden criticized Nord Stream 2 for "making Europe dependent on Russia for its energy." On February 19, in his speech at the Munich Security Conference, Biden accused Moscow of working to weaken NATO and the E.U. and promised to "resist these attempts." Then there is Biden's move to see new sanctions leveled against Russia over the poisoning of Alexei Navalny. There are also numerous economic issues. In a deal sealed in August 2020...

Joy Reid might be gone from MSNBC's weekend-morning time slot, but her successor on the weekends, Tiffany Cross, is keeping alive Reid's tradition [documented here] of insulting Republican and conservative guests. [snip] Toward the end of the segment, after Republican Chuck DeVore yet again made the factual case about voter fraud, citing recent local elections in Texas and New Jersey that had been overturned because of obvious, documented fraud, Cross shot back: "It's a pet peeve when people spit in my face and try to convince me it's raining. This is voter suppression by no other name. That's very obvious...

It’s just the flu, bro. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-03-09/florida-vs-california-who-had-better-covid-response An older article but it has a must read quote. The LA Times tries to explain away the similarity in coronavirus death rates between California, who locked down, and Florida, who didn’t lock down. The must read quote: “The shrinking difference in the death rates is likely the product of California’s higher levels of poverty, density, overcrowding and climate that make it particularly susceptible to coronavirus spread, experts say.” They manage to tie it to poverty in California. There is zero evidence that poverty leads to more coronavirus deaths. This is a disease of...

The negative consequences of President Joe Biden’s immigration initiatives have not only captured the attention of Americans but foreign nations as well. Mexico, in particular, has voiced its concerns and taken matters into its own hands. According to Reuters, the Mexican government has expressed unease over President Biden’s immigration policies. Since the 46th president took office, America’s southern neighbor has experienced large numbers of U.S.-bound Central American migrants crossings its borders to take advantage of the Biden administration’s loosened asylum policies. Unsurprisingly, Mexico is feeling the adverse effects of being used as a transit nation. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez...

March 22 is the birthday of the iconic writer Louis L’Amour, a man whose name became synonymous with the American frontier and whose novels promoted old-fashioned patriotism and morality. America sorely misses his kind. L’Amour was born in Jamestown, North Dakota, a farm town, in 1908. He was largely self-educated. As a youth, L’Amour spent many hours at the town library studying history and science and imbibing the fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson, Jack London, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. This inculcated in him a love of reading. He read 100 to 120 books a year and accumulated a personal library...

In a totalitarian effort at hiding the truth, the Biden administration has blocked the press. Veteran photojournalist John Moore raised the alarm on Twitter over the weekend: “I respectfully ask US Customs and Border Protection to stop blocking media access to their border operations,” he wrote. “I have freely photographed Customs and Border Protection under Bush, Obama and Trump....... but now — zero access is granted to media." (Due to Biden's paranoia over letting Americans see the unfolding ofthe gargantuan crisi Biden's misbegotten policies created.) (Under the Democrat-controlled Biden) ..... There’s more press freedom in Mexico than in the United...

Since 1984, Dr. Anthony Fauci has served as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. During that period, his salary has steadily increased. The latest federal government payroll study indicated that Fauci earned $417,608 in 2019. His salary exceeded that not only of the president of the United States, but also of every other person in our federal government with over 4 million employees. Clearly, he is not only overrated, but also overpaid. It is high time the highest paid federal government employee, Dr. Anthony Fauci, be fired. Fauci is irritating for a number of reasons. He...

During the debate over the Covid relief bill Sen. Durbin (D-IL) stated that "Undocumented immigrants do not have Social Security numbers, and they do not qualify for stimulus relief checks." This is incorrect; we estimate that there are 2.65 million illegal immigrants who have Social Security numbers...illegal immigrants could receive an estimated $4.38 billion in cash payments from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.

The size of the Army is expected to be reduced by about 10,000 soldiers as part of a move towards robots, drones, and cyber warfare.

March 22 2021 Feast of St. Nicholas Owen of Oxford Catholic Church of St. Aloysius Gonzaga, Oxford, UK Lectionary 251First readingDaniel 13:1-9,15-17,19-30,33-62 ©Susannah and the eldersIn Babylon there lived a man named Joakim. He had married Susanna daughter of Hilkiah, a woman of great beauty; and she was God-fearing, because her parents were worthy people and had instructed their daughter in the Law of Moses. Joakim was a very rich man, and had a garden attached to his house; the Jews would often visit him since he was held in greater respect than any other man. Two elderly men had...

Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego of Arizona, a Marine Corps veteran, last week called on Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough to withdraw benefits from active-duty service members, veterans, or military retirees who participated in the deadly January 6 Capitol riot. "The behavior of these individuals is not representative of the large population of American veterans, the vast majority of whom served honorably and are appalled by the thought of insurrection in the country they served," he wrote in a letter. "Yet, many of the veterans and service members who attacked their own government actively and enthusiastically enjoy benefits not available to...

This morning on Maria Bartiromo’s television program, congressman Jeff Van Drew shared details of death threats from a New Jersey journalist to himself and his family. The reporter works for the Ocean City Sentinel and writes syndicated articles which are carried in numerous outlets.WATCH: (video at link)

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