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On the fifth anniversary of the Ark Encounter, which features a 510-foot-long wooden Noah’s ark, founder Ken Ham has announced the expansion of the Bible-themed attraction in Kentucky by building a Tower of Babel attraction on the park’s grounds. “Next year, we will start fundraising for a Tower of Babel attraction that we hope to open in three or four years, where among other things we will help people understand what genetics research and the Bible say about the origin of all the people groups around the world,” Ham, the CEO and founder of the Ark Encounter and Creation Museum,...

You crazy white supremacist conspiracy wackadoo! How dare you suggest President Pee-pants and the Democrats cheated in the 2020 election? Democracy ruled the day and the people have spoken. #TinFoilHatWe’ve heard it all, again and again. “There is no evidence of election fraud.” Actually there is evidence. Enough evidence to spark audits across the country. Just because Rachel Maddow won’t talk about evidence doesn’t mean it isn’t real.OpticsOptics are not evidence but it can help us sniff, sniff, sniff in the right direction. Where there is smoke, there is usually fire. Let’s look at some of the peculiar things we...

Thrill-seeking billionaire Richard Branson has reached space aboard his own winged rocket ship in his boldest adventure yet. The feat vaults the nearly 71-year-old Branson past fellow billionaire and rival Jeff Bezos, who is planning to fly to space in a craft of his own nine days from now. With about 500 people watching, including Branson’s wife, children and grandchildren, a twin-fuselage aircraft with his space plane attached underneath took off in the first stage of the flight. Aboard were Branson and five crewmates from his Virgin Galactic space-tourism company.

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Appearing on Tiffany Cross's MSNBC show today to discuss the problem of portions of the population who refuse to be vaccinated against Covid, Dr. Chris Pernell decried "people unfortunately who have become susceptible to the conspiracy theories." But ironically, Pernell floated a paranoid conspiracy theory of her own: that anti-vaxxers are white supremacists who are targeting communities of color. She seemed to be saying that the white supremacists are encouraging POC to refuse vaccination so that they'll contract the potentially fatal disease. Now that's paranoid.Said Pernell: "I don’t have any tolerance for the anti-vaxxer movement. And I don’t have any...

.....The Michigan Senate Oversight Committee might be more properly referred to as the "Sightless" Committee. What did they fail to see or address? Let's examine just three areas. In Antrim County, they dismissed the need for a full forensic audit and noted that a risk-limited audit had already been completed that had demonstrated no widespread irregularities or fraud. Were they aware that Professor Phillip Stark, who created the risk-limited audit as the gold standard for audits, resigned from Verified Voting because of concerns that this type of audit was inadequate in the evaluation of an election? A risk-limited audit can...

Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Mark 6:7-13 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus sends the Twelve on their mission to announce the nearness of the kingdom. I want to say a few things about our embracing our mission and being equipped for it. What do you need for your mission? You need a keen sense of God as the absolute center of your life. In a word, you require the spiritual gifts of piety and fear of the Lord. I realize that these terms can sound fussy and puritanical, but they are actually naming something strong and essential. You need fear...

Twitter has long influenced the national conversation and media and entertainment types have embraced the social media platform as a way to keep a finger on the pulse of America, but OutKick founder and radio host Clay Travis claims that model failed ESPN and hit back at recent comments from former ESPN personality Jemele Hill. Travis appeared on Fox News host Brian Kilmeade’s radio show Saturday to address comments made by Hill on the podcast Le Batard And Friends, for a segment called “An Honest Conversation About ESPN, Rachel Nichols & Maria Taylor.”

Joshua Jered posted the video with the caption: "Running over a nonviolent protester should be illegal. Law statement: ”the driver must be ’exercising due care,’ and the person in the roadway must be there to protest and be purposefully blocking the vehicles." The jury found the woman, Jennifer Watson, not guilty of assault, but did give her a misdemeanor reckless driving charge, as Fox News reported: Watson’s defense team argued she was fearful during the May 2020 protest in Denver, saying, "she was surrounded by people who began kicking and hitting her car and taunting and yelling at her."

The family of slain Israeli terror victim Yehuda Guetta is slamming President Joe Biden after the U.S. criticized Israel last week for demolishing the mansion of terrorist Muntassir Shalabi, a Palestinian terrorist who also holds U.S. citizenship. Shalabi killed Guetta, 19, and wounded two others when he carried out a drive-by shooting on a group of Israeli teenagers at the Tapuach junction . He owns a large mansion near Ramallah. Shalabi was arrested three days after the attack at a hideout in the Palestinian village of Silwad. Three of Shalabi’s children live in the mansion, and another four live in...

Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that Republicans should be “careful” about their claims on the January 6 Capitol riot. Anchor Chuck Todd said, “House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy has a decision to make on the members, what Republicans to appoint…Do you think he’s going to appoint folks whose job it is to highjack this committee or at least not be unhelpful to this committee? Where is he going to fall on this?” Kinzinger said, “I think he’s going to find people not controversial, besides like maybe Jim Jorden, and that they’ll act to be...

When Ron DeSantis, Florida’s conservative Republican governor and likely presidential candidate, said recently we need to put on the “full armor of God,” the media looked at him like he was crazy—or from another planet. But his supporters gave him a standing ovation. As secular liberals, most of the press have no familiarity with the phrase, its origins, theology, or importance. They are bigots against religion and unschooled in what used to be the norms of American life, churches, and culture. The press and nearly our entire elite ruling class, in academia, sports, politics, media, business, and culture are biblically...

“You know,” Rep. Chip Roy is telling RealClearPolitics after balking at the administration’s latest COVID vaccine push and after all but telling President Biden to pound sand, “my dad had polio.” It is a surprising start to the interview given that, about an hour earlier, the congressman tweeted a black-and-white image of a syringe. Federal health officials continue to have a hard time getting all Americans vaccinated against the coronavirus, and Biden had promised to send people “door-to-door" to get doses to the vulnerable. For Roy, that is when the president went too far. Hence, the cartoon syringe, a play...

July 11, 2021 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time Abbey of Montecassino Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingAmos 7:12-15 ©'Go, shepherd, and prophesy to my people Israel'Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, said to Amos, ‘Go away, seer;’ get back to the land of Judah; earn your bread there, do your prophesying there. We want no more prophesying in Bethel; this is the royal sanctuary, the national temple.’ ‘I was no prophet, neither did I belong to any of the brotherhoods of prophets,’ Amos replied to Amaziah ‘I was a shepherd, and looked after sycamores: but it was the Lord who took...

We previously reported on the troubling expansion of satellite offices of the Capitol Police being planned across the country. Unlike other federal government-related police which are subject to FOIA and part of the executive branch, the Capitol Police are under the control of Congress and not subject to FOIA. So, basically you have a police force controlled by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spreading out across the country. I’m not a conspiracy fan, but you don’t have to be to find that problematic. Now, there’s more that is setting off the alarm bells in my head. Not only will they be...

It’s being kind to call the last year and a quarter of public school – basically everything since March of 2020 – a disaster. Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers, is determined to forget everything about it. Much like the kids who forget everything they’ve ever learned over summer break – if they learned it at all in this last year – Randi Weingarten has blanked about how her teachers’ union helped keep schools closed, then bent the ear of the CDC to push schools into either staying closed or meeting extraordinarily high distancing and masking requirements...

A cruise on one of the first vessels to restart operations in Alaska is ending early after two passengers and a crew member tested positive for COVID-19. Small-ship specialist American Cruise Lines‘ 170-passenger American Constellation is returning to its home port of Juneau, Alaska, four days ahead of schedule after the positive cases were discovered on Friday. The ship was visiting the small Alaska town of Petersburg at the time. “American Cruise Lines has implemented its COVID-19 response plan in Alaska and is coordinating with state and local health officials following the detection of COVID-19 on board,” the line said...

We who believe have been translated from a kingdom of darkness into a kingdom of light! Jesus said “come and let us reason together, though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow”. Jesus took our sins away from us and put them behind His back where He remembers them no more. There are some who think they are kings and can take away the freedoms we own. Jesus only takes away from us what is not good for our souls to fly free. He replaces our old nature with a new nature and the Holy Spirit...

Six minute clip of an American television series and the original British one it was based on about mad scientist types who unleash a pandemic on the world so as to be able to unleash a vaccine that sterilizes people because they believe the Earth should only have about 500 million people.

According to a report from The Tampa Free Press this month, there are now 1,930 counties – roughly sixty-one percent of total counties in the United States – that are considered safe spaces for firearms owners, and more than half of those (1,137 in total) have passed Second Amendment Sanctuary laws. Many of the other aforementioned counties are in the twenty-one states that have adopted Constitutional Carry laws, which allow gun owners to carry a concealed weapon without a permit.