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Elon Musk took the Studio 8H stage over the weekend for his Saturday Night Live hosting debut and, as many expected, there was a lot of cryptocurrency talk. The controversial tech mogul had fans and critics debating the choice to tap him as a host in the lead-up to Saturday’s episode. However, one of the biggest questions was whether or not he’d mention Dogecoin, the satirical cryptocurrency that has skyrocketed in the wake of his repeated online endorsements. As it turns out, Dogecoin — and cryptocurrency in general — actually played a prominent role in the episode. Apart from a...

Thanks for joining our Bible study. The headline teases a miraculous occurrence on the “road to Damascus” that changed the world. Later, the phrase was incorporated into our language. Here is the background.A Jewish scholar named Saul was persecuting Jewish followers of Jesus Christ. But Jesus intervened (as only He can). He unleashed His heavenly power on Saul, who converted to believing that Jesus was Lord. Saul, who was renamed “Paul,” traveled extensively in the name of Jesus, enduring suffering, hardship, and martyrdom.Paul’s prolific writings formed much of the New Testament. His impact on Christianity evolving into the world’s largest...

U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- On 27 April, 2021, the Senate Judiciary subcommittee failed to vote on Open Carry with Training, HB3094. An activist had written, in 2018, the Judiciary committee is where gun reform bills go to die. He seemed to be prescient, from long experience.Then the unexpected happened.The Senate voted to recall HB3094 from the Judiciary committee. A recall vote for a bill is not common, but it happens.This correspondent spoke with Senator Rex Rice, a strong proponent of Constitutional Carry in the South Carolina legislature. He had predicted the subcommittee would approve of HB3094, but if it did not, there...

Why so many people plead guilty to the phony sin of racism. “Yes, I am a white woman, and yes, I have white privilege — too many privileges to count and many of which I do not consciously know,” wrote Christina Wyman in Detroit Free Press last year. Ms. Wyman – who is an adjunct professor at Michigan State University – is one of many white Americans whom we have watched in the course of the last twelve months lamenting, kneeling and beating their chest in public acts of contrition over the allegedly inherent racism of American society. One cannot...

The Talk Shows May 9th, 2021 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchored by Chris Wallass: Michael McConnell, Facebook Oversight Board. Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.). Former FCC chair Newton Minow. Panel: Karl Rove; Susan Page, USA Today; Jonathan Swan, Axios.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Chuck U. Toad: Dr. Anthony Fauci, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.); Gov. Larry Hogan (R-Md.). Panel: Cornell Belcher; Hallie Jackson; Danielle Pletka; Jake Sherman. Or simply stated, another easily forgotten group of Never-Trumpers and Leftists slinging anti-American balderdash. FACE THE NATION...

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You are not permitted to think that mass genetic engineering by Messenger RNA (mRNA--both the Pfizer-BioNTech and the Moderna COVID-19 use it), is the wedge end of a vast, pre-planned policy of population reduction, from nearly 10 billion down to less than a billion, by devoted adherents of the Pan Gaia religion who fervently believe that severe population reduction is necessary to save the planet. Any more than you are permitted to think that the Wuhan virus was the product of a Chinese program of military research to develop an ethnically selective biological warfare agent. Or that the Christian religion,...

If you have been keeping an eye on the election audit taking place right now in Maricopa County, Arizona, then you also know that Democrats, news propagandists, and "concerned" NeverTrump Republicans are beginning to sound more and more like trapped rats squeaking in fear. An army of lawyers — many of the same political operatives who manipulated the November election by contravening existing election laws and flooding battleground states with uncontrolled and unverified mail-in ballots — are begging state and federal courts to stop the audit midcourse and petitioning Arizona's Democrat secretary of state and Merrick Garland's Department of Justice...

Let me put this in terms even Democrats can understand. Let's say a white police officer killed a black man who did nothing wrong. Unlike George Floyd, this man had not committed any crime, did not resist arrest, didn't have fentanyl in his system and had no record of violent crime. Assume this poor guy was a law-abiding, taxpaying, churchgoing American and that the cop killed him for the crime of "driving while black." How do the police react? They say the shooting was righteous. They refuse to investigate. There is bodycam footage, but they refuse to release it. And...

Almost 40 years ago, brand-loyal consumers were willing to help Coke when it made a big mistake but Coke’s latest mistake isn’t getting the same response. By the time the Cola Wars really heated up in the 1980s, Coca-Cola had perennially enjoyed the upper hand over Pepsi in a rivalry that dated to the dawn of the twentieth century. In 1975, however, Coke began to feel threatened by Pepsi, due to a marketing ploy -- “the Pepsi Challenge.” It was a blind taste test to show that “more people preferred Pepsi over Coke.” Interestingly, this wasn’t just a gimmick. Internal...

You have to have spent a lot of time in school to be as dumb as the experts on everything including economics, energy policy, and even vote fraud. My grandpa once told me, ”All my grandchildren were born smart. The longer they go to school, the dumber they get.” I thought he was teasing, but now that I’m his age, I see his point: You have to have spent a lot of time in school to be as dumb as the experts on everything including economics, energy policy, and even vote fraud. (and I’m not even getting into academia’s participation...

South Africa's new King of the Zulus's opublic unveiling ended in chaos as he was whisked away by bodyguards as questions continue over whether he is the rightful heir to the throne. The controversy over the next king, a largely ceremonial role but one with great significance for South Africa and its 12 million Zulu people, has arisen after the death in March of King Goodwill Zwelithini, who had reigned since 1968. Zwelithini apparently named one of his six wives, Queen Mantfombi Shiyiwe Dlamini Zulu, as the 'regent of the Zulu kingdom' in his will.

I have spent the decade of my late-teens to late-twenties in the trenches of our culture’s battle over abortion, and I see clearly that the crisis of abortion was rooted in another crisis: one of love and family. Is it any wonder that, for many, pregnancy is faced with fear and the temptation to abort when there is no stable, loving marriage, and no home to joyfully welcome that new life into? While I recognized that we had to awaken the individual to the value of human life in order to end abortion, I also knew that we had to...

Imagine General Dwight Eisenhower on June 6, 1944, speaking to the troops and after saying, “You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hope and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you,” he tosses in a, “But not Italians, or Irish, and certainly not any of you from California because Californians suck. I hope they get shot. When the bullets start flying, use those people as human shields.” How would that go over? Not well. Would you follow that guy into...

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An "out of control" Chinese rocket has landed in the Indian Ocean, China says. The rocket, called Long March 5B, was launched from Wenchang Space Launch Centre on 29 April to carry Tianhe - the first module of China's future space station - into orbit. It re-entered the atmosphere at 3.24am UK time, with the bulk of its components destroyed at that point, according to Chinese state media. The point of impact was somewhere southwest of India and Sri Lanka, they added. While the timing of the landing had been pinpointed quite closely, the possible landing site had been unclear...

Israel shared three cell phone numbers used by Qasem Soleimani with U.S. intelligence in the hours before American drones unleashed Hellfire missiles on the Iranian general last year, Yahoo News reported Saturday. The revelation sheds new light on the role that Israel played in the killing of Soleimani, who the State Department says was responsible for hundreds of U.S. troop deaths as the head of the Revolutionary Guard's elite Quds Force. The drone strike occurred shortly after midnight on Jan. 2, 2020, as Soleimani and his entourage were leaving Baghdad's international airport. As three Delta Force sniper teams monitored Soleimani...

The Blanchester Public Schools board of education voted Monday night to relax its masking rules, directly contradicting the Ohio Department of Health’s masking requirements for educational settings. The Ohio Education Association, a statewide teachers union, has questions, according to the report from our news partner, WCPO-TV. “Why this? Why now?” said OEA president Scott DiMauro on Tuesday. “Why not continue to follow the state and the CDC and the medical community’s clear guidance?” ...Board member Jeremy Kaehler disagreed and voted in favor the policy change. “What we’ve been hearing is, people are fed up,” he said. “They’re sick of the...

Reps. Matt Gaetz (Fla.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.) on Friday argued that they were "ahead" of their Republican colleagues in an effort to oust Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyo.) from her role in GOP leadership. Cheney, the House Republican Conference chairwoman, is facing a vote next week on whether she should keep her position. The vote is shaping up to be a loyalty test to former President Trump, whom Cheney has vocally criticized. Gaetz and Greene, who have put themselves forward as some of Trump's most ardent defenders in Congress, spoke during an event Friday at The Villages in Florida,...

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