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Pasta makes everything better. This we know. But in the ancient villages of Sardinia, where the art of handmade pasta is practically a sacred ritual, there are ancestral, mouth-watering secrets that even the finest fettuccine can’t hold a candle to. We’re talking about the most beautiful and intricate shapes you’ve never seen; braided, stretched, twisted and crocheted using mesmerising bygone techniques. Did you know there’s only three women who still make one of the rarest pasta on earth? These are the disappearing recipes of Italian elders, passed down for generations by Sardinian and Italian women (and maybe a few men...

In a surprising move this week, the Philadelphia Democratic City Committee chose to not endorse Larry Krasner’s reelection campaign effort. This came amid criticism over his handling of the city’s growing violence.The Democratic district attorney has faced harsh criticism for his left-leaning stance on social justice issues like gun control and police violence, despite the city being a hotspot for left-wing activism. ...He is also being blamed for the sharp rise in crime throughout the city and for cutting deals with Philly attorneys to lessen sentences for high profile criminals.

Photo: Shawn Rocco/Duke Health via AP. In this Wednesday, March 24, 2021 image from video provided by Duke Health, Alejandra Gerardo, 9, looks up to her mom, Dr. Susanna Naggie, as she gets the first of two Pfizer COVID-19 vaccinations during a clinical trial for children at Duke Health in Durham, N.C. In the U.S. and abroad, researchers are beginning to test younger and younger kids, to make sure the shots are safe and work for each age. Associated Press Created: March 26, 2021 10:20 AM The 9-year-old twins didn’t flinch as each received test doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine...

It’s just the flu, bro. I assume that the future of Coronavirus will fall somewhere between these two extremes: 1. It will be endemic due to mutations and it will appear primarily in the winter months, and 2. It will slowly fizzle out as herd immunity is approached due to previous infections and vaccinations. Regardless of which one of the above scenarios happens, the media response will be just as intense. Infrequent cases and deaths just means the media can do a more in depth analysis of each person who catch the virus - each story will be painted as...

A pandemic experiment in criminal justice reform takes hold in one of America's most violent cities.A year ago, as the coronavirus began to spread across Maryland, Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby stopped prosecuting drug possession, prostitution, minor traffic violations and other low-level offenses, a move aimed at curbing Covid-19's spread behind bars.That shift — repeated by prosecutors in many other cities — didn’t just reduce jail populations. In Baltimore, nearly all categories of crime have since declined, confirming to Mosby what she and criminal justice experts have argued for years: Crackdowns on quality-of-life crimes are not necessary for stopping more...

Biden sacrificing Harris on border.

Passover began last night. Jews have celebrated this holiday annually since the Biblical Exodus when Moses, with God’s help, liberated the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt. For American Jews, last year was a Passover unlike any other and this year’s Passover is beginning to carry ominous overtones of past Passovers in times and places very threatening both to Jews and to all craving individual liberty. In 2020, for the first time ever in America, Jews were unable to gather for Passover – but they coped. They gathered with family and friends via Zoom, coming together to repeat the ancient...

Sunday 28 March 2021 Palm Sunday Catedral Basílica Notre-Dame – Ottawa, Canada This gospel is read at the procession with palms before Mass:EITHER:GospelMark 11:1-10 ©Blessings on him who comes in the name of the Lord.When they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples, and said to them, ‘Go into the village opposite you, and immediately as you enter it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat; untie it and bring it. If any one says to you, “Why are you doing this?”...

Two weeks ago, I wrote of the Department of Justice’s overreach respecting some of the hundreds of January 6 defendants. On Friday the D.C. Circuit clipped the department’s wings. I expect more such losses as time goes on and the Department must actually present evidence in contested trials. The ploy of keeping in D.C. jails without bail some of the protestors who engaged in no specific violent acts at the Capitol until their cases can be heard was very obviously designed to compel them to plea bargain so they could return home to their families and jobs, and the three-judge...

In light of Palm Sunday, The Passover, the crucifixion and the shedding of Jesus' blood, we wanted to share with you the biblical definition and ETERNAL TRUTH of what TRUE LOVE is and what it produces in RIGHTEOUSNESS (Jer. 31:3, John 3:16;13:34-35; 14:21-23; 15:9, Rom. 5:8; 8:26-39, Gal. 5:19-21, 1 John 2:9-17; 4:7, 10-12, 16-19; 2 John 1:6)! ONLY in the PERFECT RIGHTEOUS LOVE of Jesus Christ is there TRUE and TOTAL deliverance and liberation from the horrific ravishings of the flesh and its control, power, and tyranny! ONLY in the PERFECT RIGHTEOUS LOVE of Jesus Christ is there TRUE...

ROBESON COUNTY, N.C. (WPDE) — The shooting happened on Interstate 95 in Robeson County near the weigh station just north of the city limits of Lumberton. Eberly, 47 of Manheim, Pennsylvania, was shot through the passenger door of her vehicle on the way to Hilton Head for vacation. Investigators learned a road rage encounter allegedly developed. The victim's vehicle reportedly came close to the suspect's vehicle during a merge into a lane. The suspect's vehicle then came alongside Eberly's passenger side and the suspect rolled down his window, fired multiple shots into the passenger door, and one struck Julie Eberly,...

There’s an old saying in a debate that those who define the terms usually win the argument. That truism has been playing out on the political stage now for at least half a century, as the Right consistently concedes the language to the Left. If it seems like we’re always losing the argument, perhaps that’s because we’re always playing on their home field. Of course, it’s true that language evolves naturally over time. Think of the word “hood,” which once referred only to a head covering. Now it’s also applied to the front of a car—the part that covers the...

Many in America today are playing the "Christian" role while refusing to believe God's Word and the TRUE Gospel message (Matt. 7:13-23, Acts 4:12, Rom. 6:23, 10:2-4, 1 Cor. 15:1-4, Eph. 2:8-9). No day throughout the year is as revealing as Palm Sunday! The very people who DO NOT want to hear the TRUE Gospel message all year long and despise the Bible will be getting their palms today and playing the hypocrite! For these will welcome Jesus gladly in their time schedule for an hour on Palm Sunday, a few days later on Good Wednesday; shout, " CRUCIFY HIM!...

Roland Martin Got Served By A 21 Year Old Conservative Lion

There have been four modern revolutions of consequence: America (1775), France (1789), Russia (1917), and China (1949). Only one led to freedom. The Left is intent on making it zero. We have been witnesses to the gradual suicide of our culture, self-government, and freedom, which is happening at an accelerated rate.Ideas have consequences. Our western culture and popular worldview has been influenced by reductionists, materialists, and relativists like Friedrich Nietzsche, Bertrand Russell, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci and Charles Darwin. Their ideas bore within themselves the seeds of their own destruction but not without cost to countless millions. The...

After a city council vote Wednesday, Atlantic City will repaint the Black Lives Matter tribute which confused drivers on the street. Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small said the 2020 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard street mural honoring Black Lives Matter would be repainted smaller, due to driver confusion caused by its massive yellow lettering. “It was an oversight on our part, and when we realized it, we fixed it,” Small said Thursday. During the Wednesday night meeting, Acting Police Chief James Sarkos told the council the mural violated state Department of Transportation regulations, forcing them to close the street to...

The left knows this too and, through the artifice of forced “anti-racist” training, it is deliberately driving a wedge between Americans. Friendship and affection have to be given freely. You can’t force someone to like you, just as you can’t be forced to like another person or even a group of people. Any attempt at this type of coercion will likely produce the opposite result. Progressives want to use the power of government to codify favoritism and then manufacture kinship. That’s hardly a recipe for success. Nevertheless, they seem determined to force the issue until the country is so polarized...

The Talk Shows March 28th, 2021 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchored by Chris Wallass: White House Press Secretary Jen Pissaki; Sen. Linda Graham (R-S.C.); Fan cutouts for NCAA Final Four: Taylor Gaussoin and Joe DiPietro, Perk Social. Panel: Josh Holmes; Shannon Bream; Harold Ford Jr. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Chuck U. Toad: Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.); Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.); Rep. Judy Chu (D-Monterey Park). Panel: Peter Baker, the New York Times; Al Cardenas; Heather McGhee; Vicky Nguyen. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: Dr. Anthony Fauci,...

If you’re counting on Joe Manchin to save the Republic… – Well, you might want to think again. For all his bluster and fake media coverage about being some sort of “moderate” Democrat, West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin has always been nothing but a reliable, down-the-line leftwinger who operates in what I like to call the Lloyd Bentsen mode of being a senator. You might remember Lloyd Bentsen, the long-time Texas senator who ran for the vice presidency in 1988 as Michael Dukakis’s running mate. During his 22 years in the senate from 1971 through 1993, Bentsen was the quintessential...

he University of Oxford is considering scrapping sheet music for being 'too colonial' after staff raised concerns about the 'complicity in white supremacy' in music curriculums. Professors are set to reform their music courses to move away from the classic repertoire, which includes the likes of Beethoven and Mozart, in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement. University staff have argued that the current curriculum focuses on 'white European music from the slave period', according to The Telegraph.