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Remembering John Paul II's angry outburst during World Pride 2000The Vatican has not changed one iota of its formal teaching on the immorality of homosexual acts.But the Bishop of Rome's attitude towards gays and lesbians has taken a 180 degree turn since the election of Pope Francis in 2013.With just a few words -- "Who am I to judge?" -- the first pope to be born in the New World added another verse to "Born This Way", the 2011 hit single by Lady Gaga!And since Francis made that now-famous remark, doctrinal hardliners within the Church and other social conservatives (and...

The weekend long binge of the bizarre starts at 12p ET | 9a PT on July 4, on the Decades cable channel.

Jason Richey, 49, a native of Aliquippa, Beaver County, and partner of Pittsburgh’s K&L Gates law firm, has entered the 2022 GOP Pennsylvania gubernatorial race to succeed the current Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, who is in his second and final term. Richey has never held public office before. He told The Epoch Times, “We need to have a political outsider like myself, who has had 25 years of law experience. [I am known] as an expert in state law. I’ve spent my time representing energy construction, in addition to doing state law issues in 40 different states and finding...

A motorcyclist was shot dead in the middle of a Texas highway after exchanging gunfire with a driver of a SUV during a road rage incident last Friday. The motorcyclist - JaDerek Gray, 19 - allegedly pointed a gun at a SUV driver who cut him off on Interstate 35 in Forth Worth before the driver pulled his own gun and shot Gray multiple times, Fox 4 reported. Police told Fox 4 they believe Gray also fired but didn't hit anyone and police believe the SUV driver acted in self-defense.

A team of scientists is reportedly working to obtain the sharpest pictures ever taken of the Cascadia subduction zone – a fault line that runs for seven hundred miles off the coast of the Pacific Northwest. The subduction zone, which has been the site of some of North America's largest earthquakes and the Earth's past "megathrust" earthquakes, has been strangely quiet, with almost no seismic activity detected. To investigate Cascadia's Oregon and British Columbia portion and the reason for this lull, Columbia University led a team of researchers – including students – from the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics,...

Who killed Ashli Babbitt? What do we know about the Killer?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are now investigating the death of a 13-year-old Michigan boy, Jacob Clynick, who died a few days after receiving his second dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Martha Sharan, a public affairs officer for the CDC's COVID-19 vaccine task force, wrote in a statement to Newsweek that, "CDC is aware of a 13-year-old boy in Michigan who died after receiving a COVID-19 vaccination. This case is currently under investigation and until the investigation is complete, it is premature to assign a specific cause of death."

So this weekend, the 70's station on Sirius is playing the Top 70 summer songs from each year of the 1970s (which is ten, in case you are counting). They are digging up some real gems. They are on 1970 right now and one of the songs was Westbound #9 by a band called The Flaming Ember. Now I remember that song very well from that year. I was just 7 years old and not even interested in girls yet. My main thing was reading the Happy Hollisters book series by Jerry West that I got from the library as...

Right Side Broadcasting Network has been announced that it has been banned from broadcasting on YouTube for seven days, just hours before a Trump rally that it planned to cover. Also, many of the channel’s videos of President Donald Trump’s events and rallies have been deleted from its popular channel. YouTube deleted videos that had several million views. Footage of Trump at the first “Save America” rally in Ohio last week was deleted, as well as footage of his speech at the North Carolina GOP Convention. YouTube says the videos violate its “Community Guidelines” of “spam, deceptive practices and scams,”...

Mary Robertson, an American businesswoman who lived in London in 1980, hired a young woman to be her nanny. She had no clue that her nanny would later be known as Princess Diana. Back in 2017, Inside Edition interviewed Mary Robertson about Lady Diana Spencer's time working for her and what she labeled as the late Princess' "happiest year of her life." At that point, the People's Princess made only $5 an hour taking care of Mary's toddler son, Patrick, and handling several other activities, including doing their laundry, picking up a bunch of toys and washing the dishes. One...

“NEA New Hampshire has always advocated for vaccinations to be available, but it really is being left up to the educator or the parents of the child to decide whether they want to get the vaccination or not,” chapter president Megan Tuttle said. It is one of many ideas that will be debated at the yearly NEA meeting, delegates from across the country are meeting virtually this week. The New Hampshire NEA represents 17,000 educators and staff in the state. They said they will continue to support Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines on masking, social distancing and safe...

We just had some Major Announcements about ARM Development that changes Intels X86 future! Here's what we found out! (spoiler alert -- they have met the enemy and it is them)

The Leftist takeover of our schools has gotten so bad that students are now getting expelled, not for what THEY did, but because their mothers criticized teaching them Critical Race Theory. Three students were expelled from a private academy in Ohio after their mothers organized a campaign against their children being taught “Critical Race Theory.” The school refused to re-enroll the students, claiming that their mothers had broken their contract by organizing a public protest against the institution. The moms say that the academy is aiming to “indoctrinate” students with left-wing ideologies and that their children are being unfairly punished...

Britain will not give Covid vaccines to children yet because No10's advisors want more data on risks before expanding the rollout. Experts on the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation are understood to have raised 'serious ethical concerns' about inoculating children because of the tiny risk they face of becoming seriously ill. Meanwhile, one of the Government's senior scientific advisers today warned of the ethical dilemma posed by vaccinating children — who face a one-in-a-million risk of dying from coronavirus. SAGE's Professor Calum Semple, an expert in outbreak medicine at the University of Liverpool, said he is against vaccinating the...

This song was played on Top 40 radio constantly during the summer of 1970. I was just 7 years old at the time. I always thought it was a woman singing this song until a few years ago I learned it was a guy. Anyway, it was a great song and a little slice of pop music from the summer of 1970. Over a half century ago. I am now so old! Ronnie Dyson died back in 1990 which is over 30 years ago at this point.

According to the ISTH guidelines, once a case of vaccine-induced clotting and low platelets has been confirmed, doctors should continue with non-heparin anticoagulants, as well as consider giving high-dose intravenous immunoglobulin, which has also been recommended by doctors at Germany's Greifswald University to help counteract the rare but potentially deadly side-effects. The EMA has maintained that overall benefits of both J&J's and AstraZeneca's vaccines outweigh any risks posed by them, though some countries have either limited those who receive these particular shots to older age groups, or, in the case of Denmark and Norway, halted the shots completely. read more...

U.S. District Judge Douglas Cole issued a permanent injunction against a provision in the Biden’s Administration’s “American Rescue Plan” that bans states from cutting taxes. Cole called the ban “an unconstitutional usurpation of state sovereignty.” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen labeled the ruling “dangerous. First, tax cuts cause inflation. Neither judges nor state governments are qualified to unilaterally inflict this hardship on the country. Only the federal government has the expertise and scope of authority to do so. Second, no state has standing to challenge this law until we actually withhold federal aid. The fact is, Judge Cole has gone out...

As American troops left their main military base in Afghanistan on Friday, marking a symbolic end to the longest war in U.S. history, locals living in the shadow of the base and in nearby Kabul were left ruing the past and bracing for what comes next. Violence has been raging throughout Afghanistan in the weeks since President Joe Biden announced troops would withdraw unconditionally by Sept. 11. With peace talks in Qatar stuttering, and roughly a quarter of the country’s districts having fallen to the Taliban in recent weeks according to one study, many are concerned that chaos looms. Malek...

Gwen Berry is facing new scrutiny after Internet sleuths unearthed a slew of controversial tweets from the Olympian — including some a decade old in which the athlete joked about rape. “I’m about to rape my lunch,” she said in one tweet from October 2012. [Shout out] to all the females that’s gon get drunk, get recked by 4 dudes, then cry rape this weekend,” she added in another from the same year. SNIP In others postings, Berry mocked and made disparaging comments about Asians, Mexican and white people. “Mexicans just don’t care about ppl,” she said in Nov. 2012.

Newly released records show the top Republicans in Arizona’s largest county dodged calls from Donald Trump and his allies in the aftermath of the 2020 election, as the then-president sought to prevent the certification of Joe Biden’s victory in key battleground states. The records — including voicemails and text messages — shed light on another state where Trump, his attorneys and others mounted a behind-the-scenes pressure campaign on Republican officials overseeing elections. Days before Congress certified Biden’s win on Jan. 6, Trump pressed Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to find enough votes to overturn Biden’s win there. Trump tried...