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In Matthew 24 Jesus uses a parable to teach about being ready for his return: “Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect. Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season? Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find so doing. Assuredly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all his goods. But if that evil servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his...

As if our never-ending war on drugs hasn't already done enough damage (1), children are now in the cross-hairs. Counterfeit tablets of Adderall, a drug typically used to treat ADHD, containing high doses of pure methamphetamine are being seized in the Northeast, primarily in New Hampshire. Since children and teens primarily use Adderall, the manufacture of "Meth Adderall" pills is especially ghoulish. Feel free to blame the DEA for this latest debacle (2). The agency is responsible for the passage of a 2006 law that required the decongestant drug Sudafed to be labeled a controlled substance because its active ingredient,...

Cardinal Brandmüller: Mass Ban In St Peter VOIDThe chapter of St Peter's Basilica, not the Vatican's Secretariat of State, is legally responsible for Saint Peter's, writes Cardinal Walter Brandmüller in Die-Tagespost.de (March 24).But the canons of the chapter are NOT the senders but the addressees of the document. Brandmüller calls this a case of usurpation of authority and a violation of rights. He considers the document “void.”Brandmüller also calls it pastorally irresponsible to deny pilgrim groups the opportunity of Mass in St Peter.The ban on Mass in force since 22 March. Since then, Brandmüller has not been to St Peter's...

Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-VT) recently introduced an estate tax plan that specifically lists the wealthiest Americans amid a large push by the Biden administration for tax hikes largely affecting corporations and high-income Americans. "The fairest way to reduce wealth inequality, invest in the disappearing middle class, and preserve our democracy is to enact a progressive estate tax on the inherited wealth of multi-millionaires and billionaires," the proposal stated. The “For the 99.5% Act” from Sanders would raise $430 billion over 10 years, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation, and would only affect the top 0.5% of...

Ron Johnson is under attack from a press that’s abandoned honesty and fairness. “Yellow journalism” means a sensationalized press. Perhaps it is time to introduce “blue journalism”—the new media practice of abandoning standards to work seamlessly with the progressive left against any opposition. A case study is the attempted political assassination of Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson. The press has never liked most Republicans... ... The paper’s “fact checkers” assailed his “misleading data” and “unscientific take.” What’s this all about? From the Times story, it amounts to this: Mr. Johnson has refused to brand everyone present in Washington on Jan. 6...

Chicago is famous for many things: tall buildings, great universities, a history of organized crime, and deep-dish pizza. The two goliaths in this game are Giordano's and Lou Malnati's. I'm no deep-dish expert, but I had my share of the dense, cheesy pie during my college years in the Chicago area. Deep-dish was the pizza of choice at most gatherings, unfortunately for me as I am lactose-intolerant. Aside from the fact that deep-dish always made me feel sick, I remembered thinking Giordano's was slightly better than Lou Malnati's. But that might have just been because people ate it more. In...

[Catholic Caucus] Announcing the Publication of Defending the Faith Against Present HeresiesEdited by John R.T. Lamont and Claudio Pierantoni (no strangers to regular readers of Rorate Caeli), and with a Foreword by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, Defending the Faith consists of three parts: Part I, the definitive edition of the Dubia of the Four Cardinals; Part II, the definitive editions of five major documents of critique that have been issued since the release of the Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia, namely, the Theological Censures of “Amoris Laetitia,” the Filial Correction concerning the Propagation of Heresies, the Open Letter of April...

The 2000 bomb plot was one of several attempts on Sheikh Hasina's life in a wave of violence by Islamic extremists Fourteen jihadists were sentenced to death in Bangladesh on Tuesday for attempting to assassinate Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina more than two decades ago, a prosecutor said. The 2000 bomb plot was one of several attempts on Hasina's life in a wave of violence by Islamic extremists who were angry at her secular stance at the time. Since then, a major crackdown against homegrown Islamist groups has seen more than 100 extremists killed in raids by police and more than...

The European database of suspected drug reaction reports, EudraVigilance, is now tracking reports of injuries and deaths following the experimental COVID-19 “vaccines.”Here is what EudraVigilance states about their database:This website was launched by the European Medicines Agency in 2012 to provide public access to reports of suspected side effects (also known as suspected adverse drug reactions). These reports are submitted electronically to EudraVigilance by national medicines regulatory authorities and by pharmaceutical companies that hold marketing authorisations (licences) for the medicines.EudraVigilance is a system designed for collecting reports of suspected side effects. These reports are used for evaluating the benefits and...

Where are the fact-checkers protecting us from fake news and misinformation? Nancy Pelosi has made an outrageous claim, asserting an authority that she doesn’t have, to pick and choose who gets seated in the House. In 2020, Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks narrowly defeated Democrat candidate Rita Hart in November by six votes in an election where over 400,000 ballots were cast. Her victory was certified by the state, and she was provisionally seated by Congress. But the Democrats’ razor-thin majority in the House has Nancy Pelosi trying desperately to pad her majority any way she can, even if that means stealing...

Eli Lilly and Company's experimental intravenous drug donanemab could slow the cognitive decline of patients with Alzheimer's disease, according to early clinical trial results, published in The New England Journal of Medicine on Saturday. The study included 257 patients with early symptomatic Alzheimer's disease; 131 received donanemab, while 126 received a placebo. The researchers found donanemab slowed the decline of cognition and daily function in Alzheimer's patients by 32% after 76 weeks, compared to those who received a placebo. Taken over 18 months, that 32% slowing of decline could be noticeably impactful for Alzheimer's patients, noted Maria Carrillo, chief science...

Not a single reporter questioned President Joe Biden during his first solo press conference for the administration's flip-flopping on its massive tax hike proposal. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said during a March 17 press briefing that “families” with household incomes totaling over $400,000 will see their taxes increase. The statement contradicted Biden’s indication that individuals — not families — would see taxes increased during an interview with ABC News that aired the same day: “Yes, anybody making more than $400,000 will see a small to a significant tax increase. If you make less than $400,000, you won’t see...

On Thursday, a video dropped on YouTube that laid out Elon Musk’s statements about Full Self Driving over the last 5 years, compared to what the company has actually been able to achieve and deliver. The 12 minute video laid out a blatantly obvious case for Full Self Driving to be, as one FinTwit user described it, “one of the biggest bait and switch scams in history”. Noted Tesla short seller Montana Skeptic called the video “a truly superb 12-minute YouTube presentation on [Tesla’s] full self-driving promises,” noting that “almost every word spoken or written is by [Elon Musk], his...

Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX), the former White House physician for former Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, slammed President Joe Biden on Thursday following the first press conference of his presidency, saying that, in his judgment, the 78-year-old president “struggled.” “This ‘Press Brief’ was EMBARRASSING!” Jackson wrote on Twitter. “Not only for Biden, but for the liberal press corps as well. He struggled to make it through, despite the fact that he followed a strict order of reporters to call on and was reading what appeared to be prepared answers from the podium.” “Could you imagine what the press would...

VIDEOJoe Biden channeled his inner Captain Pike for his first press conference.

An Acheulean handaxe. (Didier Descouens/CC BY-SA 4.0) ================================================================== Figuring out when the earliest human species first developed and used stone tools is an important task for anthropologists, since it was such an important evolutionary step. Remarkably, the projected date of early stone technology just got pushed back by tens of thousands of years. Using a recently introduced type of statistical analysis, researchers estimated the proportion of stone tool artifacts that might be lying undiscovered based on what has been dug up so far. In turn, this gives us clues about how old the tool remnants we don't yet know about...

SPONSORED: GLOBAL LENSES UAE TheHill.com Biden nominates Manchin's wife to co-chair Appalachian Regional Commission BY MORGAN CHALFANT - 03/26/21 09:58 AM EDT 318 29 Just In... 63 percent approve of COVID-19 relief bill: poll NEWS — 2M 53S AGO Georgia's restrictive new voting law hit with legal challenge STATE WATCH — 8M 45S AGO Trickle-down economics is down and out under Biden OPINION — 17M 15S AGO At least six dead as tornadoes rip through Southern states STATE WATCH — 21M 6S AGO VIEW ALL President Biden is nominating Gayle Manchin, Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-W.Va.) wife, to be co-chair of...

Dr. Robert Redfield, the former director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said recently he believes the novel coronavirus originated inside a lab in Wuhan, China and “escaped,” and was potentially spreading as early as September 2019. “If I was to guess, this virus started transmitting somewhere in September, October in Wuhan,” the virologist told CNN in a clip that aired Friday. “That’s my own feelings. And only opinion. I’m allowed to have opinions now.” Though a World Health Organization team performing an investigation into the origins of the virus in Wuhan had called a lab-related incident...

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I hope you enjoyed your popcorn, folks. 78-year-old President Joe Biden temporarily left the basement, and it sure wasn’t pretty. On Thursday, Biden delivered the first press conference in all of the 64 days of his presidency. In one hour, the president spoke to a 25 reporter-capped press pool about the ongoing migrant crisis at the southern border, gun control in the wake of the Atlanta and Colorado shootings, relations with China, the filibuster, running for president in 2024, and other topics. The president side-stepped on nearly every topic, more focused on concluding the presser as soon as possible than...