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A man known as Italy’s Robinson Crusoe who has lived alone on a Mediterranean island for more than 30 years after running into difficulties in the sea has said he is finally surrendering to pressure from authorities to leave and will be moving to a small apartment. Mauro Morandi, 81, stumbled across Budelli, an island off Sardinia known for its pink-sanded beach, in 1989 after his catamaran broke down on the way to the south Pacific. In a fortuitous twist of fate, Morandi discovered that the island’s caretaker was about to retire, and so he abandoned the sailing trip, sold...

Why should leftists bother to make recycling work when their real objective is reached merely by appearing to practice it? Recycling is a leftist sacrament. It fulfills emotional needs for Democrats. They suffer deep-seated guilt from participating in a materialistic culture that they think results in widespread environmental harm. For them recycling serves as a kind of visible penance. Unfortunately, recycling leads to unintended consequences. A recent article in the Eureka, California Times-Standard began as follows: “The CRV situation in Humboldt County is a losing situation for everyone. Three major recycling centers in the county have halted all buyback programs...

The natives remain restless. Over at Simon and Schuster a strident minority of the firm’s 1500+ employees have demanded – DEMANDED! – that the publishing house reject and/or cancel any book deals with former Trump administration people.Hundreds of Simon & Schuster Employees Demand No Book Deals for Authors Tied to Trump Admin https://t.co/wKuGPRBxDb— Yashar Ali (@yashar) April 26, 2021If you consider it preemptive book burning it all makes sense.And it is certainly in line with the Left’s new cancellation policy of anyone who has not accepted their chosen leaders as infallible and their drivel as gospel. For behold: I bring...

SPECIAL DISPATCH FROM WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Saturday, April 27. I arrived here this evening, after a tedious trip via Annapolis. Everything is going on well. Troops are arriving rapidly, though unable to get hold of cars enough to bring them all the way from Annapolis. The regiments all march to the Junction, eighteen miles, where they take the train for this city. A small train brings the baggage and supplies to the Junction. One Regiment is kept constantly at the Junction -- each succeeding one relieving its predecessor, in order to keep possession of the road. Guards are stationed all along...

Seriously, how many of you have ever worn one of these useless masks that do nothing whatsoever to slow the spread of this or any other virus when you have been outdoors? If you have been doing that, well, you have my deepest sympathies, because all you have been doing is demonstrating for your masters in the government that they can control you at the snap of a finger. They’ve all been laughing at you while you’ve done it – even the Little Menace to Society Anthony Fauci.

The Islamic State in Sinai recently executed another Christian on video. In a clip recorded before the execution, the slain Copt, Nabil H. Salama, 62, "confessed" to his crime: building the only church in Bir al-Abd in Sinai — a church that was supposedly "cooperating with the Egyptian army's and intelligence's war on the Islamic State." Although Salama offered this "confession" only after being tortured — after his front teeth were busted out of his mouth — the charge that Coptic churches are actively and nefariously working to undermine the Islamic order is as widespread among Egypt's Islamists as it...

The number of container ships stuck at anchor off Los Angeles and Long Beach is down to around 20 per day, from 30 a few months ago. Does this mean the capacity crunch in the trans-Pacific market is finally easing? Absolutely not, warned Nerijus Poskus, vice president of global ocean at freight forwarder Flexport. “It’s not getting better. It’s getting worse,” he told American Shipper in an interview on Monday. “What I’m seeing is unprecedented. We are seeing a tsunami of freight,” he reported. “For the month of May, everything on the trans-Pacific is basically sold out. We had one...

“Do not be deceived: ‘Bad company corrupts good morals.’ Become sober-minded as you ought, and stop sinning; for some have no knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame” (1 Corinthians 15:33-34). Trusting in the fact of Christ’s resurrection and looking forward to our own rising from the dead ought to stimulate us toward sanctification. Like any essential teaching of Scripture, the doctrine of the Resurrection can be studied and discussed from an academic standpoint only. When that happens, we usually acquire a factual understanding of the topic and perhaps some appreciation of how the doctrine supports our faith—but...

Our peace and contentment always depend upon our resignation into God’s hands, no matter what our circumstance. The psalmist writes, “Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart” (Psalm 37:4). If you’ve fully resigned yourself into God’s hands, then you’re able to endure any and all hardships. Your Father’s desire is for you to be able to go about your daily business without fear or anxiety, totally trusting in his care. And your resignation to him has a very practical effect in your life. The more resigned you are to God’s care...

The newest generation, the children of Millennials, has been dubbed Generation Alpha -- and they’re coming up fast. What ideas are they bringing with them? For starters, they are “estimated to be the most gender-fluid and anti-sexist generation yet,” according to gender studies professor Dr. Kyl Myers. Myers and her husband, Brent, represent a small but growing group of parents who are seeking to hasten this upcoming “gender revolution” by raising their own kids as gender-neutral. Their child, Zoomer, is an example of what some are calling theybies -- a combination of “they” and “babies,” referring to children whose parents...

“Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things” (Proverbs 28:5).

Hamilton’s LGBTQ Advisory Committee claimed in a report that snow on the city’s sidewalks is a “disability justice” issue which adversely impacts the city’s LGBTQ community. The letter of support was presented to city council on Tuesday in response to a prior decision by the Hamilton’s Public Works Committee to not expand the portion of sidewalks cleared by the city following winter squalls. On April 19, the Public Works Committee voted down a motion by Coun. Nrinder Nann to vastly increase the area the city was responsible for. According to Nann’s motion, the city would have to clear an additional...

Is it really any different than how Twitter, Facebook, Google, YouTube, Instagram, et. al., police their platforms? Or how social media mobs in the west currently conduct preposterously biased witch hunts. China’s Communist government has launched a new app that urges citizens to report anyone expressing “mistaken opinions” on the Internet. The new platform will also target anyone who criticizes the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), disputes the official CCP version of the country’s history, or traffics in “misinformation.” The new website and app was recently unveiled by an arm of the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), and authorities called...

Here is one woman’s tale of going to war with aggressively woke employees who were attempting a coup against her organization. Now that leftist activists, especially those espousing Critical Race Theory (CRT), have successfully overtaken big corporations, they’re setting their sights on smaller organizations. For every business owner, that’s a terrifying thought. However, a woman named Grace, who runs a Christian-themed organization that helps train mental health professionals around the world, created a Twitter thread explaining both how CRT and other socialist activism began pervading her company and how she and her husband fought back against it. It’s an illuminating...

One of the most perplexing things happening in this country has to be how millions of people who hated Donald J. Trump with every fiber of their being trusts him on this one thing: the vaccine! I mean, it may make sense if the vaccinated population were selling their soul to the devil (according to Trump haters) to defeat death itself. But they aren’t. This author has been a nurse over 40 years and have never seen such blind faith or exuberance in experimenting with a serum/vaccine. I suppose in the 1980s if President Reagan had suddenly announced that a...

It’s just the flu, bro. https://www.wxyz.com/news/coronavirus/mask-mandate-for-kids-ages-2-4-in-michigan-now-in-effect Michigan mask mandate now also applies to 2-4 year olds. To help those in Michigan learn how to be more compliant citizens I post an excerpt below: “Here are ways parents can help make the transition a little easier. * Use child-friendly language. Keep it simple and compare it to something they already do, like wearing shoes when they go outside * Model mask-wearing. If your toddler sees you do it, they're more likely to also * Practice through play. Have your child put a mask on their favorite doll or stuffed animal *...

It is indeed rare, if not unprecedented, to see a highly diverse group of organizations such as the conservative Alliance Defending Freedom, the liberal American Civil Liberties Union, the libertarian Cato Institute and the Reason Foundation on the same page as the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund on the same issue. But it is happening as the U.S. Senate takes up police reform. The issue is a legal doctrine known as qualified immunity. These diverse organizations all agree that qualified immunity is bad law and should end. The discussion is particularly high-powered today because it stands at the center...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Psalm 48Psalm 48[a] A song. A psalm of the Sons of Korah. 1 Great is the Lord, and most worthy of praise, in the city of our God, his holy mountain. 2 Beautiful in its loftiness, the joy of the whole earth, like the heights of Zaphon[b] is Mount Zion, the city of the Great King. 3 God is in her citadels; he has shown himself to be her fortress. 4 When the kings joined forces, when they advanced together, 5 they saw her and were astounded; they fled in terror. 6 Trembling seized...

When Democrats get caught in a political pickle, they can count on the borrowed authority of "journalists" and "fact-checkers" to bail them out. Take failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams' pressuring corporations to put a financial squeeze on Georgia. She began a March 31 op-ed in USA Today by writing: "Boycotts work. The focused power of No, trained on corporate actors used to being told Yes, can yield transformative results. As a Black person, a Southerner, an American, I respect and defend the right to boycott -- and the advancement of civil rights has relied heavily on economic boycotts." On...