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It is Tuesday of Holy Week. Jesus likely arises early, as did all the ancients. Days both ended and started early, at dusk and dawn, prior to the advent of electric lighting. They leave Bethany and head back to Jerusalem. Perhaps a few converts can be made before the transcendent events of the Passion begin.It is only a couple of miles, mostly downhill, to Jerusalem. As they come down the steep hill they see the fig tree Jesus had cursed the day before.As they were walking back in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered from its roots....

A Long Island woman tested positive for COVID-19 Tuesday — more than a month after receiving her second dose of the Moderna vaccine meant to protect against the virus, a report said. Melanie Rosen, who works as a secretary in the Hewlett-Woodmere school district, told PIX-11 she thought that getting the jab meant it was safe to resume normal activities without wearing a mask. She started experiencing symptoms shortly after attending a wake — unmasked — for a friend’s father who had passed away.

Women on both sides of the aisle deserve recognition for their accomplishments – their contributions to this country. But to many in the media, it seems, only women with a particular ideology count. In other words, Democratic, liberal, or progressive women. March marks Women’s History Month, which is intended to celebrate women from all walks of life. But some in the media, from entertainment magazines to major news outlets, appeared to erase Republican and conservative women from their stories – stories recognizing this women’s month. Outlets including People and NBC News recognized Democrats including Vice President Kamala Harris and Rep....

Conrad, who was fairly confident he had the votes he needed to win, entered the race for the chairmanship of the Uinta County Republican Party earlier this month. Then state party leadership intervened. Uinta County Republican Party chair candidate Jon Conrad. According to Conrad and a complaint filed jointly with the Wyoming Secretary of State and the Wyoming Attorney General’s Office, the recently ousted county party leadership — backed by the Wyoming Republican Party — illegally allowed four members of the executive committee who had lost their precinct seats last August, including Allred and both Williams’, to vote in the...

MISSION, Texas - A temporary Border Patrol facility in Donna, Texas, that is meant to hold a maximum of 250 people was holding more than 5,700 people Monday, putting it at 22 times over the legal limit, according to two government officials with firsthand knowledge of the numbers. The extreme overcrowding, which is of added concern because of the coronavirus pandemic, comes as the Biden administration struggles with a border crisis that has seen it take twice as many migrant children into custody as were held during the peak in 2019 during the Trump administration. Rep. Beth Van Duyne, a...

The libertine left and its publicists in the "objective media" have a funny way of writing their lobbying campaigns against troubling traditions such as the "gender binary." It goes like this: 1. Push the revolution from the fringes by testing the supposedly outdated cultural boundaries -- say, the idea of putting trans girls in girls' sports. 2. Define the conservative reaction as a "culture war" -- as if the left didn't start the fight. A case in point was a March 30 front-page New York Times article by Jeremy W. Peters headlined "Transgender Girls in Sports Are New G.O.P. Culture...

Attorney General Jeff Landry, state Sen. Sharon Hewitt and U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise are among those spearheading the effort to move to closed primaries, where Democrats and Republicans would hold separate contests to decide who each party would send to a general election. The move is backed by Republican activists who believe closing the primaries will lead to more ideological conservatives winning office. It's also supported by some Democrats who want their party's registered voters to have the last word in choosing Democratic candidates. But Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser, along with several other more moderate Republicans, oppose the move. Among...

The Archbishop of Canterbury has rejected the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's claim that he married them at a secret ceremony before their Windsor Castle wedding. Breaking his silence on what the couple told Oprah Winfrey three weeks ago, Justin Welby said he signed Harry and Meghan's wedding certificate on the day millions watched them marry. The legal wedding was on Saturday, May 19, 2018 at St George's Chapel, he said. In her interview, Meghan raised eyebrows when she told Miss Winfrey that she and Harry were married 'just the two of us in our backyard with the Archbishop of...

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Executive order requires agencies to boost registration efforts President Joe Biden put controversial former national security adviser Susan Rice in charge of directing hundreds of federal agencies and departments to expand access to mail-in voting. Biden signed an executive order in March that put Rice, now the assistant to the president for domestic policy, in charge of soliciting strategies from federal agencies to produce "relevant information" on expanded voting registration procedures. Federal agencies must submit to Rice "a strategic plan outlining the ways identified under this review that the agency can promote voter registration and voter participation" within 200 days...

Before his election in 2019, Chesa Boudin worked as a translator for communist dictator Hugo Chávez CBS parent company Viacom's stock has plummeted more than 50 percent in the past week, perhaps due to the underwhelming quality of its journalism. Earlier this week, the company's paid streaming service, Paramount+, aired a special 60 Minutes segment on Chesa Boudin, the radical left-wing district attorney of crime-ravaged San Francisco. Wesley Lowery, the former Washington Post employee best known for spending several minutes in jail after getting arrested in a McDonald's, conducted the interviews for the piece. The controversial journalist was part of...

In early March, President Joe Biden met with a group of seven historians in the East Room of the White House. One topic of conversation: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal. "He'd like to be [FDR]," Axios' Mike Allen reported in an inside account of the meeting. "Biden's presidency has already been transformative, and he has many more giant plans teed up that could make Biden's New Deal the biggest change to governance in our lifetimes." That's a bit over the top -- we don't know what is to come, but in its first 70 days Biden's presidency has...

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Rep. Louie Gohmert will have $5,000 deducted from his pay because the House Ethics Committee has not agreed to the Texas Republican's appeal of a fine for failing to engage in a security screening prior to entering the House floor. In his appeal of the fine imposed by the House sergeant-at arms Gohmert said that he had gone through the security screening process prior to entering the chamber, but then departed and reentered the chamber after going to use the bathroom beside the Speaker's Lobby. "During the weeks that the metal detectors have been in place, I have entered the...

EXCLUSIVE: Unaccompanied child migrants housed at the San Diego Convention Center have an alarmingly high COVID-19 infections rate – but local teachers will be providing them in-person instruction before their own students. Hundreds of migrant girls have been housed at the facility as the Biden administration is trying to figure out how to handle a crisis of unaccompanied children flocking to the southern border. Of more than 700 unaccompanied girls transferred to the center, at least 82 have tested positive for the virus as of Tuesday afternoon, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services told Fox News Tuesday evening....

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Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) defended himself after news broke on Tuesday of a Department of Justice (DOJ) probe reportedly investigating whether the lawmaker had sexual relations with a teenager, claiming he was the victim of “an organized criminal extortion” involving a former DOJ official. “Over the past several weeks my family and I have been victims of an organized criminal extortion involving a former DOJ official seeking $25 million while threatening to smear my name,” Gaetz said in a series of tweets on Tuesday. “We have been cooperating with federal authorities in this matter and my father has even been...

SHIAWASSEE COUNTY, MI -- The Owosso barber who became a figurehead for those opposed to executive orders issued by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer nearly a year ago, is facing a $9,000 fine for giving unlicensed hair cuts on the steps of the state’s Capitol and sanitation and equipment violations. Individual fines of $4,500 were ordered against both Karl W. Manke, 77, and his barbershop, Karl Manke Main St. Barber & Beauty Shop -- totaling $9,000 -- to be paid to the state of Michigan within 90 days following a Michigan Board of Barber Examiners’ Monday, March 29 review, according to the...

Authorities have arrested a man who viciously attacked an Asian American woman near New York City’s Times Square. Police on Wednesday charged 38-year-old Brandon Elliot with assault and hate crime charges after officers blanketed the midtown Manhattan neighborhood with wanted posters and offered a $2,500 reward for information leading to the whereabouts of the man seen on surveillance video Monday brutalizing the woman as she walked to church. Elliot is on lifetime parole after he was released from prison in 2019, according to an NYPD spokesperson. He was convicted of murdering his own mother back in 2002. The court date...

Around this time of year it is common to see people sharing memes claiming that Easter is really an ancient pre-Christian pagan holiday that was hijacked by Christians. I wrote an article all the way back in April 2017 debunking some of the more general claims that you often hear about various Easter traditions such as the Easter bunny and painting Easter eggs. This year, though, I want to specifically debunk the popular claim that Easter originated as a festival of the ancient Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar.This is a claim that has circulated ever since the middle of the nineteenth century....