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On Palm Sunday, Christians celebrate the arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem to great fanfare and celebration. But for CBS News, Palm Sunday is an occasion to throw wild, tabloidish allegations at the Catholic Church. "Sunday Morning" host Jane Pauley began the program saying: "Today is Palm Sunday, the start of Christianity's Holy Week. Catholic priests take the leading role in their parishes, of course, even as a long-hidden issue within their ranks is coming out of the shadows." Gay reporter Seth Doane explained: "Earlier this month, the Vatican confirmed priests cannot bless same-sex partnerships. But within this closed-off institution, there...

Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion JOHN 18:1–19:42 Friends, our Gospel today is John’s great account of the Passion of Jesus. The ultimate good—God incarnate—appeared, and we collectively responded not with exultation but with murderous violence. On Calvary, the Author of Life was crucified and killed. The Crucifixion is the fullest expression of the divine anger at sin. We are meant to see on that cross, not simply a violent display, but rather our own ugliness. What brought Jesus to the cross? Stupidity, anger, mistrust, institutional injustice, betrayal of friends, denial, unspeakable cruelty, scapegoating, and fear. But in the brutality...

It’s just the flu, bro. Expert says you should wear a mask if you are swimming in the ocean in order to stop the spread of Coronavirus. https://twitter.com/0_politics2/status/1377606041035272202?s=21 - Expert says it is only a matter of time before further Coronavirus restrictions are needed. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/expert-says-it-is-only-a-matter-of-time-before-sask-needs-further-covid-19-restrictions/ar-BB1faPnb - Expert says vaccine is safe for pregnant women. https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/local-news/what-to-expect-covid-19-vaccine-and-pregnancy/ - Above is an array of idiot pronouncements by experts who know nothing.

By The First Thu, Apr 1, 2021 Joe Biden this week continued repeating an outright lie that even The Washington Post has debunked. It all centers on the new voting law in Georgia. During an interview with ESPN, in which Biden said he would support moving the MLB All-Star Game out of Georgia, Biden said that “This is Jim Crow on steroids what they’re doing in Georgia,” he said. “Imagine passing a law saying you cannot provide water or food for someone standing in line to vote. Can’t do that? Come on! Or you’re going to close a polling place...

Vice President Kamala Harris was tasked last week with leading efforts to address migration to the southern border, where the nation is facing what's been described as a "humanitarian crisis" amid a surge in migrants coming to the U.S. Since the beginning of the administration and a week after Biden's announcement, Harris has fielded questions from the media but has yet to hold a formal press conference. Meanwhile, the border crisis captivated the nation's attention and raised a series of concerns about national security and the stability of the U.S. immigration system as a whole. When Biden initially announced her...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14) Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

President Joe Biden conducted a high-level cabinet meeting in front of the White House press pool Thursday… sort of. The Commander-in-Chief read written remarks from his binder before staffers rushed members of the press from the room. By The First Thu, Apr 1, 2021 President Joe Biden conducted a high-level cabinet meeting in front of the White House press pool Thursday… sort of. The Commander-in-Chief read written remarks from his binder before staffers rushed members of the press from the room. VIDEO AT LINK................. “I thank the press for being here, but… I’ll talk to you all later!” concluded Biden....

Did Fauci’s Wuhan lab research “gain of function” for the smallpox virus?

Madeisy and her Mother contacted us last night. Chuck Holton took the call. They provided exact location via GPS. I will not reveal their location other than Nicaragua. They are making fast progress to America. Madeisy (16) is with her brother Miguel (12) and their Mother. According to conversation with Chuck, they have not eaten in two days and last night slept on a floor. We last saw them in Colombia and began tracking from there. They are Haitian and native language is Creole. All three also speak Spanish, having spent the past couple years in South America. We first...

All the media screaming about 'bizarre,' which they leveled at Gaetz, now leaves them with egg all over their faces. Seems the media's rush to judgment on the matter of Rep. Matt Gaetz, a popular conservative Florida Republican, who was smeared in the New York Times as someone in a relationship with a 17-year-old girl, might just leave them with egg all over their faces. Again. There's no doubt about it, the press came down hard on Gaetz, whose defense of himself on the Tucker Carlson show, following the Times hit piece, included describing an extortion plot, was broadly ridiculed...

We have a serious problem in our country with judicial malfeasance issues and it is high time that we finally address it. The data show thousands of judges have been charged with breaking laws or violating oaths without any consequences. Instead, in secret proceedings that see their peers sit in judgment, too many get nothing more than a simple slap on the wrist for egregious misconducts that would seem to warrant disbarment or even jail time. It would be naïve to think that case fixing is not going on in the state and federal courts across the country. The Association...

Democrats are coming up with all sorts of schemes to transfer money from the private sector to the government. Their aim is to have more power and money. They truly do not care how many jobs and businesses they destroy in the process. The newest suggestion is to lower the amount of wealth that can be transferred from one generation to another, from around $11 million currently to one million. It's a horrible idea. This will cause people who inherit small businesses or farms, that have been built up over generations, to liquidate or leverage up to pay the government...

On Thursday, Dan Bongino urged his audience to watch or just listen to a video of Yuri Bezmenov, a KGB defector to Canada, who came to love America and tried to warn Americans about the KGB’s plans. Listen to him is eerie because he spelled out in detail exactly what the Soviet Union was doing – it wasn’t planning to take America done through the military. SNIP An organized thinker, Bezmenov stated the core principles of his talk in the opening minute of the video: But in reality, the main emphasis of the KGB is not in the area of...

Carbon dioxide is persona non grata in leftist circles. Listening to Democrat blathering over CO2, which they exhale copiously with each breath, one would think this gas is poisonous, on par with Sarin or other nerve gases. In reality, CO2 is plant food, and essential for life on planet Earth. One of President Biden’s first executive orders, signed on January 20, aims to “restore science to tackle the climate crisis.” Joe claims, “the policy of my Administration to listen to the science.” Really? His administration can’t decide how many masks we should wear, how far apart we should stand next...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — For nearly a year, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s administration has been facing questions about the work of the five-member state parole board.

The more our team looked at the 2020 election fraud from publicly available records, the more it appeared to have similar characteristics to property casualty insurance fraud. Beginning in November, like many citizens, we witnessed election fraud possibilities any sentient person would investigate. Having backgrounds in fraud detection, particularly in the property casualty insurance business, Medicaid fraud, and cyber fraud, gave us a curiosity that never dissipated. Our interest is 100% in data analysis. That means looking at the actual votes, the addresses, the information about ballots reported to Secretaries of State. While there are all kinds of other fraud,...

Amanda Chase’s candidacy for governor in Virginia this year has confronted the state’s GOP with a dilemma that mirrors the challenge facing the national party: How does it reap the benefits of Trumpism but also reduce the costs? Can it retain voters drawn to the party because of former President Donald Trump and his style of politics, but at the same time push, nudge or maneuver Trump-like candidates like Chase — who are likely to lose winnable elections — out of the way? Virginia Republicans may have found a way to do just that by using a method of voting...

It's coming at the end of April. Can you keep your eye on the ball? The Democrats are running a trick play. On the face of it, the play looks like a Hail Mary, but the outcome of this trick play is already known. To contrast themselves to the evil Donald Trump, who did everything wrong and caused half a million Americans to die, the Democrats must do the opposite. The most obvious "opposite" is the face mask. We're the good and caring people: we wear the masks — unlike those uncaring Trumpists, who don't. So when Joe Biden was...

Something is rotten in Richmond.Scandal has befallen the Virginia Parole Board, and it’s finally coming to light. Recent investigations into the Parole Board—which operates in secret and conceals records from the public—reveal board members violated its rules granting parole to convicted killers serving life sentences. Worse, the five-member board—all Democrats—decided this without informing victims' families and state prosecutors beforehand.Established in 1942, the agency decides how to “grant parole, to deny parole, to detain parole violators, and to revoke parole.” Unsurprisingly, they “serve at the pleasure of the Governor.” That governor, mind you, is Governor Ralph Northam (D-VA). Yes, that guy.Why...

Crime is soaring in cities where police departments have been defunded, reports Fox News. Movements to defund the police have grown since George Floyd died in police custody in Minneapolis. Defunding means reallocating or redirecting funding away from the police department to other government agencies funded by the local municipality. More than 20 major cities have reduced their police budgets in some form, though the scale and circumstances vary. The results have not fared well in Los Angeles, Oakland, New York City, Portland and Austin. Homicides in Oakland, California, have risen 314 percent compared with the same time last year...