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Oral Roberts University's basketball team has advanced to the Sweet Sixteen with stunning wins over No. 2 seed Ohio State and No.7 Florida. ORU is only the second 15 seed in NCAA tournament history to get so far. ORU Coach Paul Mills put things in perspective and brought in the gospel message at the same time. "In 100 years, none of us will be here. And what our guys need to understand is we're really not that important. And you need to know that," Mills said in a press conference. "A 120 million people gather every Sunday and a 180...

Oral Roberts University is the Cinderella Story of this year’s March Madness. However, it’s not sitting well with an some journalists and other woke warriors who don’t want the Christian school getting the spotlight or winning a culture war. They want this Cinderella Story to be cancelled and banned.

Pizza ovens allow you to create restaurant-quality pizza and experiment with new toppings from the comfort of your home. Unlike ordinary ovens, wood-fired and gas-powered pizza ovens can reach extreme temperatures to achieve the signature pizzeria taste and expertly melted cheese. These pizza ovens are designed for outdoor use, while electric models are suitable for use inside the home.

Pepsi and Peeps are collaborating to make a marshmallow cola. With Easter around the corner, the two companies on Thursday debuted a pack of 7.5-oz. cans in pink, yellow, and blue. According to People.com, the bubbly beverage does indeed taste like the popular sugar-coated treats “with a flavor that’s vaguely reminiscent of Lucky Charms.” Yay? “After what has been a very difficult year, many consumers are looking for new things to smile about,” said Pepsi’s marketing vice president, Todd Kaplan, in a statement. “So, to celebrate the start of springtime, Pepsi collaborated with PEEPS to develop a limited batch...

Dominion Voting Systems sued FOX News on Friday for $1.6 billion in a defamation lawsuit. Back in November FOX News host Dana Perino urged Dominion Voting Systems to sue Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell. ....snip.... The AP reported: Dominion Voting Systems filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News on Friday, arguing the cable news giant falsely claimed in an effort to boost faltering ratings that the voting company had rigged the 2020 election. The lawsuit is part of a growing body of legal action filed by the voting company and other targets of misleading, false and bizarre claims...

A worker at an Atlanta grocery store heard 'clicking sounds,' and it sounded to him like someone was loading weapons inside a restroom stall, he told police. Then he saw an an 'AR-15-style rifle' leaning against the wall.

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Cardinals Rebut St. Peter's 'Private' Mass BanDubia Cdl. Brandmüller warns of unprecedented abuse of papal powerVATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Cardinal Walter Brandmüller, who asked Pope Francis to clarify the "grave disorientation and great confusion" in the apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia, is contesting the ban on "private" Masses at St. Peter's Basilica as "null and void."Tour guide Butorac posting a picture of Cdl. Konrad's Mass Brandmüller noted that the order of the Vatican Secretariat of State, prohibiting a lone priest from celebrating Mass at the basilica's side altars had resulted in "general astonishment, incomprehension and anger in the Vatican.""This is a...

Globalist elite Prince Harry announced he’d be joining the neoliberal think tank Aspen Institute to preside over a thorough inquiry into American “misinformation” on Thursday, with the royal drawing criticism across both sides of the Atlantic for his embrace of left-wing politics and professional victimhood. The global elite has been appointed a commissioner on the Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder, presiding over a six-month study into supposed “misinformation” with fourteen other commissioners. “As I’ve said, the experience of today’s digital world has us inundated with an avalanche of misinformation, affecting our ability as individuals as well as societies to...

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Thursday condemned a sweeping elections bill signed into law by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R), calling the legislation “despicable” and vowing to take action against it. “Since 2012—the GA GOP has closed more than 200 polling places,” Schumer tweeted. “Voters in mostly Black precincts now wait 8X LONGER to vote than voters in mostly white precincts. Now the GOP makes it a crime to give water to people standing in long lines THEY CREATED.” The top Democrat vowed: “We will act.” The controversial law, passed by a party-line vote just hours earlier by...

Mike Lindell, CEO of the company MyPillow, made headlines after being canceled on social media for supporting Donald Trump. His popular Made in America products were dropped by numerous retailers, including Walmart, Kohl’s, and Amazon. A change.org petition was even created to pressure the country’s biggest retail chains to stop selling MyPillow items. Media bias and social-media Internet mobs have worked to tarnish Lindell’s reputation and his livelihood. The left-leaning platform, Twitter, has been known to censor speech and was the center of much of Lindell’s struggles. Instead of working to get back onto platforms that have supported political bias...

Asheville’s Vance Monument is coming down. At Asheville City Council’s meeting of March 23, members voted 6-1 to demolish the 75-foot obelisk named after Confederate Gov. Zebulon Vance. “I’ve come to realize that the Vance Monument no longer reflects, and probably never reflected, the values of our community,” Mayor Esther Manheimersaid. “I’m looking forward to the day we can have a centerpiece in our city that reflects Asheville today. And I’m proud to be part of the Council that will make this change.” That change comes at a price: A $114,500 bid to remove the monument was awarded to Asheville...

Use of a novel electrolyte could allow advanced metal electrodes and higher voltages, boosting capacity and cycle life. Lithium-ion batteries have made possible the lightweight electronic devices whose portability we now take for granted, as well as the rapid expansion of electric vehicle production. But researchers around the world are continuing to push limits to achieve ever-greater energy densities — the amount of energy that can be stored in a given mass of material — in order to improve the performance of existing devices and potentially enable new applications such as long-range drones and robots. One promising approach is the...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has been speaking out against endless wars while advocating for U.S. troops in Afghanistan to come home. One America's John Hines has more from Washington. Video...

If we fall, we’ll get back up again. If we tear it down, we’ll rebuild, bigger and better. That’s what we tell ourselves. That’s what we believe. That isn’t necessarily what happens, as the ruined cities and collapsed civilizations scattered around the world demonstrate. Where does this belief come from? And how does it affect societies, both in the real world and in science fiction? Background: The Generational Cycle Theory The “Fourth Turning” theory suggests that societies go in cycles, typically over four generations.

Convicted spy laments US Jews see themselves as more American than Jewish, suggests he’d counsel Jew working in American security apparatus to spy for Israel even nowJonathan Pollard, the convicted spy for Israel whose story haunted the American Jewish community’s relations with the US government for decades, is unrepentant.“The bottom line on this charge of dual loyalty is, I’m sorry, we’re Jews, and if we’re Jews, we will always have dual loyalty,” Pollard said in an interview published Thursday in Israel Hayom, his first extensive remarks since his release from prison in 2015.Pollard recalled how much of the Jewish leadership...

The dirt track spectacle hearkens back to the origins of NASCAR — moonshine runners attempting to outrun the law in rural Appalachia.Stock car racing is about to get very dirty. On Sunday, NASCAR’s Cup series will race on a dirt track created at the famed Bristol Motor Speedway.While the sport’s truck series ran one dirt race a year from 2013 to 2019 (lockdowns canceled last year’s event), Sunday’s feature represents the first time the sport’s premier series has raced on dirt since September 1970 — a race won by stock car racing’s “king,” Richard Petty.Bristol TransformedThe race this coming weekend,...

President Trump responded to claims made against him by Joe Biden during the latter’s first press conference in two months, calling the entire sorry spectacle ‘ridiculous’. Biden bumbled through the event, often losing his train of thought even though he had a binder full of prepared answers and pictures to help him identify the reporters. He even randomly wandered away from the microphone at points. Appearing on Fox News, Trump said “The whole thing was ridiculous. You know it and so do I.” He noted that every question was a softball, calling it “a different world,” from when he was...

panegyrist noun [ C ] formal US/ˌpæn.əˈdʒɪr.ɪst/ UK/ˌpæn.əˈdʒɪr.ɪst/ someone who writes or gives speeches about someone or something that praise them or it very much and do not mention anything bad : EXAMPLES: The panegyrists are right. She was a woman whose character and career people should admire. He became famous as a court panegyrist and as a powerful satirist. More examples Their American and European panegyrists see their movement as the dawn of a new age. Professional poets, chroniclers and panegyrists would recite the Lord's glories. Constantine's military skill and building projects soon gave the panegyrist the opportunity to...

“Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to Him with her sons, bowing down, and making a request of Him. And He said to her, ‘What do you wish?’ She said to Him, ‘Command that in Your kingdom these two sons of mine may sit, one on Your right and one on Your left’” (Matthew 20:2-21). Use of the power play in our personal dealings is incompatible with scriptural humility. One of the most common tactics people use to get ahead is to draw upon the influence of family and friends. Even professing believers have not hesitated to...