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Like a snowball that’s turned into an avalanche, the restoration of the rights and liberties millions of Americans, particularly those in blue states, lost over the past 14 months seems to be unstoppable at this point. Indeed, the precipitous fall of Covidstan has happened quicker and in more places than any of us could have possibly predicted even three weeks ago. We’ve got a long way to go, particularly with schools, workplaces, and public transportation, but I never imagined that restrictions and mask mandates would end in places like New York, Connecticut, and Virginia anytime before 2022, but thankfully, here...

It's hard to call a path well-worn when something passes by only once every 3,967 years. But it turns out that type of long-period comet can still be tied to a specific meteor shower, as scientists have done with Comet C/2002 Y1 Juels-Holvorcem and the UY Lyncids shower. Comet C/2002 Y1 Juels-Holvorcem most recently made a close approach of the sun in 2003 — which means its last such visit was around 2,000 B.C., when Egypt's Great Pyramids were just a few hundred years old, and its next pass of the sun won't occur until nearly the year 6,000. Looking...

Overturning a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled that a previously deported illegal alien isn’t excused on appeal from the legal requirement of demonstrating that he had previously exhausted all administrative remedies and was improperly deprived of judicial review. The high court’s opinion in the case, United States v. Palomar-Santiago, court file 20-437, was written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Refugio Palomar-Santiago, a Mexican national, was granted permanent resident status in 1990. He lost that status in 1991 following a driving under the influence (DUI) conviction in California state court, which, at the time, was deemed...

(CNSNews.com) – Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday acknowledged that Iran funds terrorist proxies across the Middle East, but confirmed that the Biden administration is looking to lift sanctions against the regime in Tehran anyway. In doing so, he echoed the arguments put forward by the Obama administration to the effect that Iran would be even more dangerous without a nuclear deal – thereby justifying an agreement that freed up billions of dollars for the terror-sponsoring regime. On ABC’s “This Week,” host George Stephanopoulos noted that 42 Republican senators have urged President Biden to halt diplomatic talks in Vienna...

60 Minutes has aired an interview episode about young kids who regret their transition surgeries. Video...

The US State Department sent out a letter this week approving displays of the Black Lives Matter flag this Tuesday on the Anniversary of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Moscow, May 24, Interfax - The Russian Foreign Ministry called the US State Department's assessment of the country's policy on religious freedom" biased and non-objective". "We would like to stress again: protection of religious rights is one of absolute state priorities for us. Russia has always been a multiconfessional state and today it shows to the world an example of it," the Russian Foreign Ministry's Ambassador-at-Large Gennady Askaldovich said in a comment posted on the Foreign Ministry's website. US State Department has recently published its report on religious freedom and it as well refers to Russia. Speaking about the document...

A young teen girl is now experiencing shocking medical symptoms after taking the Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine. Video...

Barcelona Archdiocese will place most parishes into larger pastoral communities amid declining church attendance and secularizationBarcelona Archdiocese will combine most parishes into larger pastoral communities amid falling church attendance and secularization. A statement on the archdiocesan website said most Spanish dioceses were facing the same process. It said three to six parishes would be grouped together, resulting in 48 pastoral communities. "The intention of an eventual diocesan reorganization is better distribution of pastoral resources, to obtain maximum pastoral efficiency and adequate support for the resulting pastoral units," said the May 18 statement. "The aim is to reinforce common work and...

SAN DIEGO — A governing body for high school sports in San Diego has imposed sanctions on a private Catholic high school’s football program whose players were accused of posting racist photos of a rival team from a mostly Latino public high school. The San Diego City Conference placed Cathedral Catholic High’s football coach on a two-game suspension and placed the team on probation for two years after investigating two social media posts, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune. On the day Cathedral Catholic and Lincoln High played each other in April, players and coaches at Lincoln High learned a...

The archbishop's guidelines also state that only priests or laity who have been vaccinated can distribute Holy Communion on the tongue.SANTA FE, New Mexico, May 20, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – New Mexico’s Archbishop ordered in new “liturgical restriction” guidelines released yesterday that only vaccinated people can sing in church choirs and only priests or laity who have been vaccinated can distribute Holy Communion on the tongue. “Singing is allowed by choirs only, whose members are to all have been fully vaccinated,” state the Archdiocese of Santa Fe’s May 19 guidelines that were promulgated by Archbishop John C. Wester. Regarding Communion on...

EXCLUSIVE: The FBI is investigating a suspicious package, filled with white powder and bearing an image threatening violence, that arrived at Republican Sen. Rand Paul's home in Kentucky Monday. On the outside of the envelope was a picture of a bruised and bandaged Paul with a gun to his head and a threat printed beneath it: "I’ll finish what your neighbor started you motherf------" A copy of the image was obtained by Fox News.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. says he is the victim of a death threat and suspicious substance in a package that was sent to his home in Kentucky. The letter contained a photoshopped image of the Senator with a gun to his head, with the message: “I’ll finish what your neighbor started, you motherfu***r” The message is apparently referencing a 2017 incident where Paul’s neighbor, Rene Boucher, attacked the Kentucky Republican during a fight about yard work. “I take these threats immensely seriously,” Paul said in a statement Monday. “I have been targeted multiple times now, it is reprehensible that Twitter...

Um, huh? Wha? What the heck?

Tucker Carlson: “...the government of Thailand contacted the CDC and Tony Fauci’s office to say that its intel service had picked up biological anomalies around the lab in Wuhan” on 11/19/2019—which is around the time that the Chinese researchers at the lab became very sick.

Last summer, Amazon announced a $10 million donation for “organizations supporting justice and equity,” including a donation directly to the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation. At the time, BLM Global Network was sponsored by Thousand Currents, a non-profit whose vice-chairman is Susan Rosenberg, a convicted left-wing terrorist. It’s a major oversight for Amazon, the self-anointed arbiter of domestic terrorism.Amazon’s ties to Rosenberg are fully exposed in Breaking the News: Exposing the Establishment Media’s Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption, my new book revealing the secret ties between the establishment media, Big Tech, and the activist left.Rosenberg, a former member of...

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is moving to end a local police program in Bristol County, Massachusetts, that has helped take illegal alien child rapists, attempted murderers, assailants, carjackers, and others off the streets. Last week, Mayorkas announced he was directing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency to end its 287(g) agreement with Bristol County, Massachusetts, as well as terminating DHS use of detention facilities in Massachusetts and Georgia — both of which hold criminal illegal aliens. The 287(g) program allows local police agencies to sign into agreements with ICE to seamlessly identify criminal illegal aliens...

John Lennon's son Sean slaps back at PC culture. Reflects briefly on his mixed race heritage.

(WHDH) — A school cafeteria worker is facing criminal charges after she invited teenage boys to “sleepovers” at her home, where she served them alcoholic beverages and played pornographic movies, authorities announced Tuesday. Dawn Marie Baye, 38, of Chauvin, Louisiana, was arrested on the morning of April 30 on charges including 10 counts of contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile and eight counts of indecent behavior with a juvenile, according to the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office launched an investigation into Baye on April 21 after receiving a complaint from a concerned parent of one of the...