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“The commander of the officials said to Daniel, ‘I am afraid of my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink; for why should he see your faces looking more haggard than the youths who are your own age? Then you would make me forfeit my head to the king.’ But Daniel said to the overseer whom the commander of the officials had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, ‘Please test your servants for ten days, and let us be given some vegetables to eat and water to drink. Then let our appearance be observed in...

The Washington Post's publisher accused the Biden DOJ of "unprecedented" assault on the media. Fred Ryan described an "escalation" in attacks on the First Amendment since Trump left office. The publisher of The Washington Post accused the US Department of Justice of an "unprecedented assault on American news organizations" under President Joe Biden. Fred Ryan said that government action against media outlets had worsened since President Donald Trump left office, despite Biden officials taking a much less combative approach to the news media in public. Ryan noted in an opinion article that Biden had criticized the Trump administration for using...

Many majority Democrat cities have fallen victim to progressive prosecutors. Rather than drive down crime, improve public safety, and promote common sense tough-on-crime policies, these zealots campaign on platforms of structural racism, outcome equity, and restorative justice. In these cities, such performances have in fact become a requirement for the office of district attorney (DA). Aspiring DAs must protest the disproportionate prosecution of minorities without examining the underlying causes; they must clamor for the elimination of cash bail in the name of racial fairness; and they must recommend sentence reduction or alternatives to incarceration to mitigate “past injustices.” Committed to...

The unmasking of Dr. Anthony Fauci is the straw that I think will break the back of the camel of an evil cabal. The unmasking of Dr. Anthony Fauci is the straw that I think will break the back of the camel of an evil cabal. Everyone in the United States was directly and personally affected by the fraud and cover-up that obscured the origins of COVID-19 in the laboratory of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, imposed unnecessary lockdowns, and denied effective therapies to those infected with the virus. It brought home to Americans the untrustworthiness of the ruling class...

Senator Rand Paul told Sean Hannity Friday that he is receiving death threats almost every day for daring to question the authority of Dr Anthony Fauci, as well as highlighting evidence that the coronavirus could have leaked from a Wuhan lab. “This week, I’ve had five death threats just for being outspoken on it,” Paul said, adding “I don’t know what the world’s coming to, you can’t ask honest, difficult questions that in the end have proved out that Dr. Fauci was not being honest with us.” Paul continued “As a repercussion, my family had white powder sent to our...

Paul Ryan (I know, sorry for bringing him up) delivered a speech at the Reagan Presidential Library at the end of May in which he sought to reassert himself as a leader of the Republican Party. His shtick was the same spit wash that Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney, and George Bush have tried rubbing on the Republican electorate time and again since Biden's official installation. We're better than this reality TV outsider who hijacked the party. Boo to populism; yay to True Conservatism, Inc.! This is serious, people; we're at a 'crossroads' here.I'll tell ya, he sold me. If we...

Physicists Observe New Phase in Quantum Condensate of Light Apr 2, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro Physicists at the University of Bonn have experimentally observed a new, previously unknown phase in the photon Bose-Einstein condensate. The Bose-Einstein condensate is a gas of atoms so dense and cold that their matter waves lose their individuality and condense into a ‘superatom wave.’ It was predicted in the 1920s by Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein and was eventually created in the lab in the 1990s at the University of Colorado Boulder, MIT and Rice University using laser cooling and evaporative cooling techniques....

The viral video isn’t just a record of a single ugly episode; instead, it tells where our society is heading on its current trajectory. On Friday, a very disturbing video emerged and instantly went viral. It showed a young Amazon driver viciously punch an older woman who had been unhappy with a slow delivery. While the video is shocking on its own, it’s also a loudly clanging warning about the dangers of Critical Race Theory (“CRT”), especially when allied with other leftist doctrines commonly taught to the young, including the claim that words are violence. As CRT expands throughout America,...

It’s been a rough past few weeks for ‘America’s doctor.’ The COVID-19 pandemic - Dr. Anthony Fauci’s raison d'etre - is winding down, the whole country is perusing his FOIA’d emails, and some are even discussing whether his possible role in the gain of function research that may have started this whole mess in the first place could warrant criminal charges. Of course, given the sorry state of affairs in America today, it’s highly unlikely anything like that would ever happen, especially under a Biden administration ‘Justice’ Department. It’s also unlikely that anything short of an on-camera puppy-slaying would cause...

Three people are dead, including a state corrections officer, and at least another five are injured following a shooting that took place outside a Kendall business as a graduation party was ending.

June 7 , 2021Monday of Week 10; St. Joseph's Cathedral, Tianjian, China Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First reading2 Corinthians 1:1-7 ©God comforts us so that we can console othersFrom Paul, appointed by God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and from Timothy, one of the brothers, to the church of God at Corinth and to all the saints in the whole of Achaia. Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, a gentle Father and the God of all consolation, who...

The great progressive dream is to dispense with rule by us mere citizens in favor of a government staffed by technocratic, disinterested experts who selflessly apply the principles of science (social science and real science) to create a better, more efficient, effective, and impactful society. Of course, the progressive advocates of expertocracy assume that those experts will share their coastal, urban and blue perspectives, mores, and values – funny how that works. And it has been working, for them at least. We normals are now expected to defer and submit to the commands of unelected functionaries bossing us around for...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago weekend violence has least at least 55 people shot, five fatally, since 6 p.m. on Friday, police said. Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown will hold a morning press conference Monday as the violence soars all across the city. The latest shooting took place minutes before midnight in the 3100-block of South Lake Shore Drive. Someone fired shots from a passing car hitting another car. That driver lost control and crashed into a tree. Police said no one was injured. Also Sunday night, an 11-year-old girl was shot in the back in the West Pullman neighborhood around...

Love him or hate him, Donald Trump is a great man. "Jesus said, 'I among you am as one who serves' (Luke 22:27). And he also said, 'Whoever wishes to become great among you must be your servant' (Mark 10:44). By the way, it is dreadful to see this recommended as only another technique for succeeding in leadership. He was telling us who the great person is." —Dallas Willard, The Great Omission When we turn our gaze from first-century Judea to Washington, D.C., it becomes difficult to find any great people. The "seventeen intelligence agencies" that supposedly found a link...

The leader of Nigerian militant Islamist group Boko Haram is dead, according to reports. News agency Reuters said it had heard an audio recording made by Boko Haram's rivals The Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP), which said Abubakar Shekau died around 18 May. He died after detonating an explosive device, according to a person on the recording who identified himself as ISWAP leader Abu Musab al Barnawi. Al Barnawi said his fighters had sought the warlord on orders of Islamic State leadership, chasing him and offering him the chance to repent and join them. "Shekau preferred to be humiliated...

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, argued on "Sunday Morning Futures" that "it now is clear" that Facebook was "utilizing their monopoly position to censor on behalf of the government" regarding information related to COVID-19 and its origins. Cruz made the comment reacting to Facebook saying on May 26 that it would no longer ban posts suggesting COVID-19 is man-made amid mounting calls from President Biden and other officials for further investigation into the pandemic’s origins. The announcement marked a reversal for the social media giant. In February, Facebook said it would remove posts claiming the virus was man-made or manufactured "following...

Did leftists learn nothing from the adventures of Wile E. Coyote forever trying to catch the Roadrunner but always failing? New York prosecutors under District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. have convened a grand jury to investigate The Trump Organization (“TTO”) owned by former President Trump and his family (replacing the one already convened in 2018). There is nothing to stop an indictment of Trump, other than remembering what happened to the Duke Lacrosse player prosecutor. But the deep state’s attempt to arrest and indict Trump will fail. It is starting to look as if the endless adrenaline high is the...

Texas Democrats scored a stunning victory in the nationwide legislative battle over voting rights last weekend when they walked out en masse to prevent state House Republicans from passing yet another sweeping package of voting restrictions. But even that episode underscored a reality facing voting rights groups and their Democratic allies: Right now, Republican state legislatures are broadly winning their war against voting access and American democracy. And stopping them is going to take far more drastic action than many Democrats — especially Democrats in Washington — have been willing to consider.

As you likely know by now, GOP conventions are going on in many states. President Trump just spoke at the North Carolina GOP Convention on Saturday. Well, something awesome took place at the Georgia GOP convention that I know you’ll love. Traitor and RINO Brian Kemp, who allowed the entire Georgia 2020 race to be stolen away, was booed off the stage…and even better, Pro-Trump Vernon Jones, who recently switched from Democrat to Republican, received a standing ovation. That’s how it should be…every single RINO should be treated exactly like this until they’re voted out of office. From Mitt Romney...

A British Muslim author has said that certain British towns have “no-go zones” for white people and that school children are attacked by Muslim children for “being white”, in an investigation into mosques in the United Kingdom. Ed Husain, a professor in the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, warned that many Muslims in Britain are living in “another universe” in which Taliban-esque cultural norms are enforced. In his upcoming book, Among The Mosques: A Journey Across Muslim Britain, Husain documented his experiences after “turning up unannounced” for Friday prayers at mosques throughout the country. The author revealed...