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Nothing is more sacred to American progressives as an Absolute Truth than the contention that the 2020 presidential election was totally fair. But the public isn't buying it -- by a wide margin. Nothing is more sacred to American progressives as an Absolute Truth than the contention that the 2020 presidential election was totally fair. Any dissent is labeled as “the Big Lie,” and that it was corrupt makes you “despicable” in the eyes of the Senate Majority Leader. “Fact-checkers” in the agitprop media insist that there is no evidence of significant fraud, and the social media monopolists enforce discipline...

"He has to get a life." I've cleaned up the actual quote for family newspapers. Disdain would be a kind word to describe the feelings people had for a protester who recently live streamed his time outside a Manhattan Planned Parenthood clinic. A few people crashed his video to let his social media followers know what a loser they think he is. The man walking around talking about the murder of the unborn isn't my style out there, but at least he wasn't pretending there was nothing grave happening on that particular block. The voiceless unborn should be prayed for,...

A flight was delayed out the Los Angeles International Airport on Friday evening after a passenger opened a plane door and jumped out while the aircraft was taxiing before takeoff, according to reports. The incident was reportedly being investigated as a hijacking attempt, though no more details on that allegation were immediately available. It also happened on the same day Vice President Kamala Harris reportedly landed at the same airport en route to her home in L.A.'s Brentwood neighborhood after her visit to El Paso, Texas, earlier in the day. The Texas trip was Harris' first visit to the U.S.-Mexico...

Miles Taylor, a man who was most famous when he was anonymous, threw his name last night into a hat most people were hoping wouldn't open until November 2022. "If [former President Donald] Trump somehow wins the GOP nomination in 2024, I will run against him as an independent. And recruit more conservatives to do the same. We will split the vote and sink him," Taylor tweeted, insisting in a follow-up: "This is not a joke."

June 26 , 2021 St. Peter's Church, Saint Charles, Missouri Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First readingGenesis 18:1-15 ©'Next year your wife Sarah will have a son'The Lord appeared to Abraham at the Oak of Mamre while he was sitting by the entrance of the tent during the hottest part of the day. He looked up, and there he saw three men standing near him. As soon as he saw them he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them, and bowed to the ground. ‘My lord,’ he said ‘I beg you, if I find favour with you,...

"Live not by lies" was the challenge issued by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, upon his departure from the Soviet Union, to individuals still condemned to live behind the Iron Curtain — especially to those who were well aware of the suffocating mendacity that permeated communist societies. Rod Dreher's book gives the same advice to Americans today, especially to Christians who are expected to mouth obvious lies or face social ostracism and economic devastation — punishments administered occasionally by leftist judges and government officials but most frequently by tech giants, woke corporations, and P.C. media sycophants. Dreher was inspired to write his book...

For more than three decades, I played organized baseball -- Little League, Pony, Colt, Thoroughbred, high school, college, semi-pro and scouting teams, and then in a fairly competitive Men’s League (pardon the archaic expression). The national pastime was, assuredly, also my personal pastime, my passion, and my pleasure. Setting aside Major League Baseball’s current self-inflicted infirmity, i.e., its flirtation with progressive politics and pop culture, it saddens me to see the game relinquish its traditional identity as America’s Pastime. Open any newspaper or magazine, click on just about any website, watch a movie or TV show that’s been produced within...

During the last year and half it’s become obvious to anyone whose head is not in the sand that America has been under assault on multiple levels from within. There is no denying that the COVID-19 viral invasion was a catalyst for so much of the disruption of 2020, culminating in election irregularity in November. By spring 2020, normal activities and businesses were largely shut down nationwide by federal and local governments’ response to COVID-19. Antifa and BLM protests and riots in May and June brought the costliest manmade damage to American property in history. Then the cancel culture, already...

“On this day (June 16) was born Ernesto Guevara De la Serna, known as 'Che,' in Rosario, Argentina. Let us remember this person (and quite fondly, the Tweet seems to imply) by watching his historic speech at the UN General Assembly December 1964.” (Tweet from UNESCO en Español, June 16). “If the (Nuclear) missiles had remained in Cuba we would have fired them at the heart of the U.S., INCLUDING NEW YORK CITY!” Che Guevara to Sam Russell of The London Daily Worker, Nov. 1962.) Alas! UNESCO, whose mission statement says in part: “Our purpose is to contribute to peace...

Unwilling to support measures that would suppress crime by focusing on the criminals, President Biden is making another stab at disarming law-abiding gun owners. Statistics show a strong upswing in the criminal use of firearms—over 300 people have been shot to death in Chicago since the start of the year and murders are up by 95% in Los Angeles County compared to the same time period in 2020—since he took over as president. Both Chicago and Los Angeles have strict gun-control laws. "The irrefutable fact is that there are too many guns in the hands of private citizens," Biden said....

We are currently in the midst of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) end of season playoffs. The Los Angeles Clippers are battling the Phoenix Suns for the Western Conference title. The Milwaukee Bucks are battling the Atlanta Hawks for the Eastern Conference title. By early July, the respective conference winners will play each other for the 2020-21 NBA championship.If you watched any NBA games in June, or WNBA games (the women’s professional league) you might have noticed a strange phenomenon. The players wear masks as they enter the court. Once the game commences, the non-starters sit on the sidelines, spaced...

A woman took to TikTok to share a hack she came across on the social media app that helps to clean out blocked sinuses - and viewers were disgusted by the resultsA woman has gone viral after trying out a hack for clearing sinuses – which involves putting a clove of garlic into each nostril. Rozaline Katherine, 29, decided to try out the tip after seeing it on TikTok and her clip has racked up millions of views. In a video that has been viewed more than 4.3 million times, Rozaline can be seen inserting the garlic cloves into her...

Colorado police on Friday explained how a heroic bystander who had just shot and killed a cop-hating gunman was himself fatally struck by a responding officer. Johnny Hurley, 40, was shopping in downtown Arvada, a Denver suburb, when he heard Ronald Troyke ambush and murder Officer Gordon Beesley, who was responding to a call Monday afternoon, officials said. Troyke, 59, then returned to his truck to grab an AR-15, and was holding it when Hurley — who was carrying a concealed weapon — confronted him and shot him dead, Police Chief Link Strate said in a video clip posted Friday....

A potential Covid-19 treatment has become hostage to a larger global fight between populists and anti-populists On December 31st of last year, an 80 year-old Buffalo-area woman named Judith Smentkiewicz fell ill with Covid-19. She was rushed by ambulance to Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital in Williamsville, New York, where she was put on a ventilator. Her son Michael and his wife flew up from Georgia, and were given grim news. Judith, doctors said, had a 20% chance at survival, and even if she made it, she’d be on a ventilator for a month. As December passed into the New Year,...

A man who lived "completely isolated" in the forests of Vietnam with his dad for 41 years had no idea women existed, according to reports. Ho Van Lang's extraordinary story began when he fled civilisation at the end of the Vietnam War in 1972 when a US bomb killed his mum and two siblings. Lang, now 46, his brother Tri and his dad resettled deep in the jungle in the Tay Tra district of Quang Ngai province. The trio lived entirely off the wilderness, eating honey, fruit and forest creatures, building shelters and fending for themselves. Alvaro Cerezo, a photographer...

Emirati grandmaster Salem Salah plays world champion Magnus Carlsen on Saturday, and could win $100,000Emirati chess champion Salem Salah is preparing for a speed chess tournament on Saturday, when he'll come up against the World Champion, Magnus Carlsen. Antonie Robertson / The National It was clear from a young age that Salem Saleh had startling talent, and an extraordinary mind. The Arab chess prodigy started winning professional championships aged only 10, and was named a grandmaster by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) when he was 16, a title currently held by 1,721 other players in the world. As Arab...

Senior government hospital doctor says mixing of shots highly effectiveA booster shot is the most effective protection against Covid-19 for those who have taken two shots of the Sinopharm vaccine, doctors said at the Arab Health trade exhibition in Dubai. Dr Gehad ElGhazali, lead immunologist at the government-run Sheikh Khalifa Medical City in Abu Dhabi, reported a "very strong" response in the body's immune system once a double dose of the Sinopharm vaccine was topped up with a booster shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Although we see antibodies in those who have had the virus, we still do not know...

Anthrax bassist Frank Bello recalled patrolling the streets of New York with a gun, searching for the murderer of his younger brother in 1996. Twenty-three-year-old Anthony Bello was shot three times in the Bronx on March 25 of that year. The case was never solved, although Bello, who was 30 at the time, said he was aware of details he couldn’t discuss. In a recent episode of No F'n Regrets, Bello told Machine Head frontman and show host Robb Flynn that he still struggled to speak of the tragedy 25 years later. “I pray to God none of the people...

Chris Cuomo was pictured wearing socks emblazoned with skulls to the site of the Miami building collapse disaster that has left four people dead. Exclusive DailyMail.com photos show the CNN host wearing the socks on Friday while at the scene where bodies have been pulled from the rubble of the collapsed 12-story Champlain Towers South in Surfside, near Miami Beach. The black crew-length socks show a skull colored with the design of the American flag on the right foot as well as white stars. On the left foot, a patriotic bald eagle is seen – also stylized with the coloring...

Lindsey Graham said Joe Biden made Republicans like look 'f***ing idiots' as GOP outraged ensues after the president tied the bipartisan infrastructure deal to passing his American Families Plan. 'Most Republicans could not have known that. There's no way,' Graham told Politico. 'You look like a f***ing idiot now.' 'I don't mind bipartisanship, but I'm not going to do a suicide mission,' the South Carolina senator added.