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Dear friends, we just recently - due to the Hurricane Isaias - lost electric power in our town and man was it dark at night! Dark in our room, dark in our house, dark in our neighborhood, dark in our city! It was DARK and what a neat experience to experience which had many great spiritual truths to apply to our setting! All the things we take for granted every day were gone and only DARKNESS remained! When the lights are absolutely extinguished one can feel the deep gross darkness and cannot see one's hand before their face. Have you...

Dubbed the American Jobs Plan, the White House said the “once-in-a-century capital investment” in U.S. infrastructure will create “millions” of good-paying jobs and position America to “out-compete” China by spending about 1% of GDP per year over the course of 8 years. [snip] In order to pay for this legislation, Biden also proposed what he has called the Made in America Tax Plan, which would raise the corporate tax rate to 28% from 21%. It would also increase the minimum tax on multinational corporations to 21% and “calculate it on a country-by-country basis so it hits profits in tax havens,”...

Is it better for a 3-year-old child to spend more time with a government employee or a mother? resident Joe Biden is pushing for a federal program to put preschool children in the hands of the former -- theoretically, as a benefit to the latter. What about summer vacations? Should children have them? Or is it better to keep them in school 12 months a year? Cynthia Marten, superintendent of the San Diego Unified School District, took the latter position at a Senate confirmation hearing last week. She is Biden's nominee to be deputy secretary of Education. Democratic Sen. Tim...

How many times must our Swamp Lords tell us before we finally understand? Questioning the legitimacy of the 2020 election will not be tolerated, and doing so is an unequivocal attack upon our "democracy" — whatever that is. (I believe it's now defined as a system for Democratic Party operatives to use unverified and untraceable mail-in ballots to rig elections in their favor while hiding behind fatuous allegations that state deadlines, photo identification, signature verification, or any other security method used to filter out fraudulent ballots is actually a product of white supremacy. In fact, I'm pretty sure the Democrats'...

Wandering wolf OR-93 crossed into San Benito County over the weekend after traversing the Central Valley and crossing Interstate 5 in what wolf biologists are calling a remarkable journey.The Central Coast can now call itself home to a Gray Wolf at least for now. Wandering wolf OR-93 crossed into San Benito County over the weekend after traversing the Central Valley and crossing Interstate 5 in what wolf biologists are calling a remarkable journey. The rolling hills and farmland of San Benito County are hardly wolf country, which raises the questions about what OR-93 is after and how he long he...

US joins 13 countries in raising 'concerns' with data in WHO team's virus report The U.S. and 13 other countries on Tuesday released a statement raising "concerns" with a report from a World Health Organization (WHO)-convened team into the origins of coronavirus, saying it lacked full access to the information it needed. "We voice our shared concerns that the international expert study on the source of the SARS-CoV-2 virus was significantly delayed and lacked access to complete, original data and samples," the countries said in a joint statement. There have long been questions raised about the independence of the WHO-convened...

A 7-year-old boy from Brasher Falls has been charged with rape. SNIP We spoke with a New York City attorney, who is with a group that handles youth defense cases. “Instinctually, it shouldn’t happen that a 7 year old - I don’t think you even could really realize what you’re doing at 7 years old. So I think it’s absurd to charge a 7 year old with rape. They’d have to prove he actually physically committed this act, which to me it almost seems to be an impossibility,” said Anthony Martone, Queens Defenders, felony youth defense unit director.

Hunter Biden’s forthcoming memoir reveals that text messages on an iPad tipped off his wife to his affair with his late brother Beau’s widow, according to a report Tuesday. In “Beautiful Things,” President Biden’s son says that Kathleen Biden — with whom he has three grown daughters — finally decided to divorce him when she found the device and learned about his relationship with sister-in-law Hallie Biden, a publishing insider told the Sun. SNIP “She’d tried for years to help him beat his addiction to crack cocaine and booze. But then she found out he was sleeping with his brother’s...

SNIP The lawmaker told The Times he suspects somebody is trying to extort him and his family for $25 million. “I have a suspicion that someone is trying to recategorize my generosity to ex-girlfriends as something more untoward,” he told the newspaper. He added in a series of tweets Tuesday night that he and his family have been working with the feds in an investigation that involves a former DOJ official seeking to extort him. “My father has even been wearing a wire at the FBI’s direction to catch these criminals. The planted leak to the FBI tonight was intended...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Psalm 20Psalm 20[a] For the director of music. A psalm of David. 1 May the Lord answer you when you are in distress; may the name of the God of Jacob protect you. 2 May he send you help from the sanctuary and grant you support from Zion. 3 May he remember all your sacrifices and accept your burnt offerings.[b] 4 May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed. 5 May we shout for joy over your victory and lift up our banners in the name of...

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...