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For Clarence Thomas, any chance he might become chief justice has long since passed. But at 72, he is coming into his own. For circumstances have now made it as plausible to speak of the Thomas court as the Roberts court. The trigger was the replacement of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg with Justice Amy Coney Barrett. This move gave conservatives a 6-3 majority, depriving Chief Justice John Roberts of the ability to swing decisions to the liberal side—unless he manages to bring Brett Kavanaugh along with him. *** Today the changes on the court have left Justice Thomas uniquely empowered....

When federal health officials recently announced that fully vaccinated people no longer have to wear masks in most situations, Jaz Johnson was among those who kept hers on. Johnson, 46, of Kansas City, Missouri, has received both doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, but she has no desire to go maskless. [cut] In addition to helping keep her and her family healthy, masks have offered Johnson something else: the chance to hide emotions, such as contempt when someone is standing too close to her in a checkout line, or boredom when a relative tells the same story for the tenth time....

My congresscritter, Scott Perry, introduced a bill today to defund the ChiCom Wuhan lab. This is an interview on Newsmax. Note for sensitive viewers, Gen. Perry used the "L" word during the interview. He calls FauxChi a liar and provides proof. It is refreshing to hear such word, unlike other that use euphemisms like, "Fauchi is playing word games."No folks. He is lying is ass off. He authorized grants to the Wuhan lab. Additional moneys were filtered through other organizations to fund gain of function research.FauxChi should rot in jail the rest of his life.

​John Cena was on the receiving end of a piledriver Tuesday from American Twitter users after his “pathetic” apology to China for referring to Taiwan as a country during a promotional spot for his new movie “F9.” SNIP Cena, speaking Mandarin, went on Chinese social media site Weibo Tuesday to apologize for calling Taiwan a country during a promotional interview for “F9,” the latest installment for the “Fast and Furious” franchise, earlier this month. SNIP “I made one mistake. I have to say something very, very, very important now. I love and respect China and Chinese people. I’m very, very...

Joe Biden’s Department of Justice, and its leader, Attorney General Merrick Garland, just made a decision that has made some Democrats furious. The department announced on Monday that it was going to partially appeal a court decision that called for a memorandum penned by former Attorney General Bill Barr -- which said that President Donald Trump did not obstruct justice during the Russia investigation -- to be released.

“Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men: For better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen” (Proverbs 25:6-7).

George Floyd Square very quiet again now. But a fellow reporter just had her phone smashed because she took photos of a storefront hit by a bullet.

Acts17Apologetics 597K subscribers A popular atheist meme claims that there are no Christians on Star Trek "because it's the future." But are there really no Christians on Star Trek? David Wood discusses the episode "Bread and Circuses," where Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, and Dr. McCoy are captured by twentieth-century Romans, forced to fight in televised gladiator contests, and introduced to a strange, but familiar, religion.

Teen plans to sue LI school district for refusing to publish her George Floyd poem A Long Island teen plans to sue her predominantly white school district for $2 million — for refusing to publish her poem about the police-custody death of George Floyd in its literary magazine. Administrators at Port Jefferson’s Vandermeulen High School in Suffolk County banned 10th-grader Ruby Ray’s sonnet “in order to please, protect, promote, placate and defend white racism in Respondents’ school and community, and white racism in general,” alleges the notice of claim filed Tuesday by her family, who are white.

Meghan McCain told her co-hosts Tuesday on ABC’s “The View” that “racism is still a big problem in this country.” McCain said, “Well, the last year since George Floyd’s murder has been, you know, paradigm-shifting in the sense that we were all, because of the circumstances of the pandemic, we were isolated and alone and able to confront, you know, the issues of egregious police brutality and the killing of unarmed Black men, whether you liked it or not. I sometimes think, when the crimes happen or the injustice happens, people want to tune out or ignore it because it’s...

During an interview aired on Monday’s “PBS NewsHour,” Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said that while his organization called out former President Donald Trump for his language, “none of the people committing” recent antisemitic attacks “were wearing MAGA hats,” rather, “we have people waving Palestinian flags and then beating Jewish people.”Correspondent William Brangham asked, “So, what do you attribute this to? I remember, back during the Trump administration, you were quick to point out instances where you thought [there was] political language that fomented antisemitism. Do you see political leaders now who are exacerbating this?” Greenblatt responded, “Well, let’s be...

a group of six to eight Palestinian men confronted him and his friend during their walk around New York City on Thursday night.

Apple: Employees Call for Company to Officially Support Palestine — Muslim employees of Big Tech company Apple are publicly demanding that the company formally declare the state of Israel to be guilty of “illegal occupation,” and express solidarity with the Palestinian people... Enemy Within — Leaked State Department Memo Indicates Official Support for BLM Agenda — U.S. “Diplomatic and Consular posts” are being encouraged to display shows of support for Black Lives Matter on Tuesday, May 25 - BLM Supports Terrorists SD Support BLMPompeo Outraged Biden Admin Scientists Downplaying Wuhan Lab Leak Theory — "I made remarks over a year...

Bystanders at the Minneapolis intersection where George Floyd died ducked for cover Tuesday as gunshots rang out nearby, taking shelter briefly. No immediate injuries were reported. An Associated Press journalist shooting video at 38th and Chicago reported hearing as many as 30 gunshots about a block east of the intersection, and said a storefront window appeared to have been broken by a gunshot. “Very quickly things got back to normal,” Philip Crowther, the AP journalist, said. “People here who spend a significant amount of time, the organizers, were running around asking, ‘Does anyone need a medic?’ It seems like there...

At least one person was injured in a shooting that occurred near the George Floyd memorial site in Minneapolis on the same day as the anniversary of his death, authorities said Tuesday. The victim was taken to Abbot Northwestern Hospital before being transported to Hennepin County Medical Center for injuries that were not life threatening, Minneapolis police said. The shooting occurred shortly after 10 a.m. on Tuesday at the 3800 block of Elliot Avenue, Minneapolis Police said in a statement. The suspected shooter was last seen driving away from the scene, according to police. No other details, including a motive...

In explaining his shift away from Maoist economics, Deng Xiao Ping, chairman of the CCP, described his market-oriented changes as “socialism with Chinese characteristics.” Today, American businesses, as well as the media and academic establishments that serve them, increasingly embrace “Chinese capitalism with American characteristics.” A convergence between the world’s two superpowers is taking place. In the U.S, as property and power further consolidate, the “diffusion of power,” so critical to democracy, erodes and autocracy develops naturally. Only players at the highest level possess the heft and the motivation to influence policy. This powerful front consists of a new alliance...

Two Facebook Insiders have come forward with internal company documents detailing a plan to curb “vaccine hesitancy” (VH) on a global scale. The stated goal of this feature is to “drastically reduce user exposure” to VH comments. Another aim of the program is to force a “decrease in other engagement of VH comments including create, likes, reports [and] replies.” It was such a shocking revelation, that it moved not just one -- but two whistleblowers to come forward to Project Veritas, so the public could be made aware of this plan to stifle free speech. One Facebook whistleblower said the...

Gunshots were heard near the intersection named after George Floyd in Minneapolis on the first anniversary of his murder. Video from the scene posted on Twitter by Associated Press journalist Phillip Crowther captured the shots, and the AP later reported the gunfire. Crowther said people were sheltering in place at the intersection.

The Biden Administration’s shock-and-awe statism—trillions of dollars in additional federal spending for COVID relief, infrastructure, and economic opportunity—is not being devised from scratch. According to the Los Angeles Times, Democrats in the White House and Congress are treating California as both a “de facto policy think tank” and an “inspiration.” Former governor Gray Davis told the paper that Vice President Kamala Harris, the first California Democrat elected to national office, will be “sharing ideas, innovations, and breakthroughs from California that might help solve problems on the national level.” The more you know about California’s recent governance, however, the less enthused...

Oh, and FaceBook ranks users in "tiers" according to how pro-vaccine they are. "Tier 1" is "direct discouragement," which means something as innocuous as saying "I'm holding off on getting the vaccine." "Tier 2" means that you're "indirectly discouraging" getting vaccinated, not by saying "Don't get vaccinated," but by sharing a report on, say, side effects from the vaccine. The whistleblower says that if the public accepts this program, they'll be rolling it out to suppress content about "everything." Anything the left claims "causes harm," which is, at this point, everything, including simply saying that "women have vaginas," which is...