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RALEIGH, N.C. — The state is tracking roughly $81 billion in federal pandemic stimulus spending – so much that it started a new office last year to keep up with everything. Lots of this federal money was spent last year, on stimulus checks that went direct to families, forgivable loans to keep businesses afloat, virus testing, vaccine research and a $10 billion boost to unemployment checks that, at one time or another, went out to nearly a million people. But there are billions left, and that money will be spent over a span of years. Among other things, the state...

MADISON, WI — The American Dream feels more and more like just that– something people can only dream about. According to the Realtors Association of South Central Wisconsin, the average price of a home in Dane County right now is $345,000. Those who work in the housing market industry don’t expect prices to go down anytime soon. John Thompson, President of Thompson Kane & Company, Inc., said on every home that goes up for sale, “We see multiple offers. Twenty, thirty offers per house.” Thompson said one of the most extreme measures he’s seen a home buyer take recently was...

WTH??? Notice the Biden Admin using the word tribes more and more. That's not a dog whistle for divisiveness, it's a bullhorn. This is one sick administration we have.

Vatican to host interreligious climate conference ahead of UN summitThe Vatican will welcome about 40 leaders of ‘world religions’ and ten ‘leading scientists’ to set out their vision for combating ‘climate change’ both on moral grounds and following the scientific ‘consensus.’June 22, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — The Vatican will host an interreligious “Faith and Science” event in October in preparation for the COP26 climate conference that will take place one month later, with world leaders meeting in Glasgow November 1–12 at the invitation of the U.N. to agree on how to tackle “climate change.”The Holy See presented its support for the...

Abbott and Costello once delivered a comedy routine entitled, “Who’s on First?” that identified various players on a baseball team and the positions they fielded. My team is called America and these are my players. First Base. Who. Joe Biden is currently playing first base. Joe is an enigma wrapped in a riddle. He falls up the stairs boarding Air Force One, gets confused, angry and lapses into fits of speaking mumbo jumbo. Joe can’t string thoughts together without a teleprompter, and his sign language interpreter dude looks like he’s having a stroke most of the time. Rough gig. Who...

The first person to be sentenced in connection with the riot at the Capitol — a 49-year-old woman from Indiana — will serve no time in prison after reaching an agreement with the government and pleading guilty on Wednesday to a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge. At an unusual hearing where she admitted guilt and was immediately sentenced by a judge, the woman, Anna Morgan-Lloyd, expressed remorse for her role in the attack of Jan. 6. She apologized to the court, her family and the “American people,” saying it was wrong to have entered the Capitol even though she hurt no...

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., on Wednesday introduced legislation to hire 100,000 new police officers across the U.S. and boost optimism among police and communities. The bill would provide federal grants to locales to boost new police hires; increase penalties for assaulting federal officers by 50%; develop programs to protect the private information judges, prosecutors, and law enforcement officials; extend concealed carry rights to federal judges and prosecutors; increase service programs for federal officers; and more. "It's absolutely vital that we keep American families safe. That is the bottom line, and right now, too many Americans aren't. Why aren't they? Because...

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I know I speak for many a believer who feels a burden for a loved one, neighbor/colleague/friend to come to the fullness of faith in Christ. The dynamics at work in the spiritual lives of children and adults are different for obvious reasons...Simply by virtue of adults having had more life experience, more ideas to consider, etc... So for those of you who are willing, can you summarize what made you ultimately decide to be a Christian? And if there were any individuals who played a role, how so? And vice versa: what or who may have contributed to your...

Ah optics, the only thing Joe Bidens’ asterisk administration seems concerned with. This shouldn’t surprise us given who his mentor was- but now, the cake has at last truly been taken. Kamala Harris is finally visiting the border- and being given a steady round of applause by the legacy media for doing so, even if three months belatedly. There’s only one glaring problem. Kamala will be visiting El Paso, which is one thousand miles away from the main border crisis and the locations of some of the most overrun border facilities, which happen to be in the same region I...

Privacy-focused web browser Brave has launched a beta version of its Brave search engine in an attempt to create a privacy-focused alternative to Google. Brave is basing its search engine on its own index of websites, unlike rival DuckDuckGo which is based on the Bing search index, making it vulnerable to Microsoft’s censorship efforts. ZDNet reports that privacy-focused web browser Brave has launched a beta version of its Brave search engine in an attempt to create a privacy-focused alternative to Google. Brave acquired the search engine Tailcat in March and aims to challenge Google by approaching online search with a...

In two separate articles in the Annals of Neurology, clinicians in India and England report cases of a rare neurological disorder called Guillain-Barre? syndrome after individuals were vaccinated against COVID-19.Both reports describe an unusual variant of Guillain-Barre? syndrome characterized by prominent facial weakness. Seven cases were reported from a regional medical center in Kerala, India, where approximately 1.2 million people were vaccinated with the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. Four cases were reported from Nottingham, England, in an area in which approximately 700,000 people received the same vaccine. All eleven cases were among people who had received that vaccine 10-22 days earlier.The...

(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update) (Vaccinations slow - Cases, Hospitalizations and Deaths very low and slightly declining - CDC panel finds 'likely' link between rare mild heart inflammation in adolescents and mRNA COVID-19 vaccine (12.6 cases per million) - warning to be added to label) Total Vaccine Doses Delivered: 378,882,200 (21,434,300 J&J) Administered: 319,872,053 (12,090,161 J&J) People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 177,948,892 Fully Vaccinated: 150,787,303

13 Republicans so far co-sponsoring MTG's bill to fire Bats N.D. Belfry Fauci.

Can starchy snacks harm heart health? New research published today found eating starchy snacks high in white potato or other starches after any meal was associated at least a 50% increased risk of mortality and a 44-57% increased risk of CVD-related death. Conversely, eating fruits, vegetables or dairy at specific meals is associated with a reduced risk of death from cardiovascular disease, cancer or any cause. According to their findings: Eating a Western lunch (typically containing refined grains, cheese, cured meat) was associated with a 44% increased risk of CVD death; Eating a fruit-based lunch was associated with a 34%...

She does not perch herself on a lofty place looking down at We the People hurling wordy explanations our way. She does however speak as a well-rounded and well-educated woman who leaves nothing unsaid about the division caused by manufactured race issues. Dr. Carol Swain is a superb educator who has lived life from the lowest ebb to the highest flow. She can tell us from life experiences just how radical Critical Race Theory (CRT) is but beyond that she tells us the whole truth about 'systemic racism' as a successful black woman in America. Read in her open letter...

John McAfee, the pioneer creator of popular computer antivirus software, has died behind bars in a Spanish prison. He was 75. McAfee was found dead on Wednesday afternoon in his cell in Brians 2 Prison in Barcelona, with officials saying that the early investigation points to a suicide, the Catalan justice department said, confirming an earlier report from El Mundo newspaper. It came just hours after a Spanish court approved McAfee's extradition to the United States, where he is wanted on tax-related criminal charges that carry a prison sentence of up to 30 years. McAfee had been held in Spanish...

President Biden on Wednesday spoke at the funeral of former Republican Sen. John Warner of Virginia, saying he showed that bipartisanship is possible “in the battle for the soul of America.” Biden said Warner’s decision to endorse him last year “gave me confidence, not about winning but about being able to do the job.” “In the battle for the soul of America today, John Warner is a reminder of what we can do when we come together as one nation,” Biden said. Warner, the sixth husband of actress Elizabeth Taylor, was a World War II and Korean War veteran and...

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is taking aim at Democrats’ handling of China policy, arguing that the Biden administration needs to take a stronger position to hold the Communist nation accountable for its role in the COVID-19 pandemic and its humanitarian abuses. The California Republican charged that Democrats have failed to work across the aisle, noting they opted out of the GOP’s China task force, which was initially slated to be bipartisan last year, while highlighting his eight-point plan to address the matter.

Iranian president's chief of staff Mahmoud Vaezi told reporters Wednesday he condemned the seizures.TEHRAN — The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday seized 36 Iranian-linked news website domains, accusing them of spreading disinformation, amid continued tensions between Tehran and Washington.The Justice Department said 33 of the seized websites, owned by a U.S.-based company, were used by the Iranian Islamic Radio and Television Union (IRTVU), which it said was among components of the Iranian government targeting the United States with disinformation campaigns and malign influence operations.Three other seized websites were operated by one of the main Iran-aligned Iraqi militia groups, Kata’ib Hizballah,...