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There’s a warning in Cape Cod after a surge in COVID cases were tied to the Fourth of July. Provincetown is telling everyone to take precautions, including wearing masks again. The positivity rate in Provincetown is five times higher than it was just two weeks ago. The Massachusetts state average was also back up on Tuesday to over 1 percent. The crowds keep coming to Commercial Street in Provincetown. Even as the popular tourist spot experiences a midseason COVID spike, Barnstable County health officials said 132 COVID-19 cases were linked to Provincetown between July 1 and July 16. Most of...

After attempts by duplicitous Democrats, a judge has ordered California’s Secretary of State to include conservative pundit Larry Elder on the September ballot to recall Governor Gavin Newsom. This comes after three days of leftist hackery in their attempts to subvert one of the highest profile candidates in the race. Harmeet K. Dhillon reported, “Judge orders California to include Larry Elder on the ballot in California recall election. Says tax returns were never required in the first place for a recall as opposed to a primary election.

Wow! Democrats are Truly Terrified of a Trump Comeback Trump Derangement Syndrome is real. Its to the point that new laws are being constructed to specifically target Donald Trump. Doubt me? Follow this stream of consciousness because maybe I’m the crazy one. Rumors have been circulating that Trump would be interested in being Speaker of the House, something he did not dispel when he talked to conservative radio host Wayne Allen Root. Radio host Wayne Allen Root suggested Trump campaigning for a spot in the House of Representatives before taking on the challenge of winning back the White House in...

Learning to fly is hard enough. Learning to fly in a plane that becomes a glider is just not fair! But see the landing spot he picks out! A student pilot was out on a routine training flight when the engine on the Cessna 150 training plane he was flying started acting up before going dead altogether. Things started going haywire shortly after he called the Concord tower inbound at 2,200 MSL (about 1,500 feet above ground level) nine miles southeast of the airport for a full-stop landing. And before we go, let us just say, “Great job, dude!”

“Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.” – Aristotle "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.” – Benjamin Franklin "Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins. Republics … derive their strength and vigor from a popular examination into the action of the magistrates." – Benjamin Franklin “The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a...

On Friday, a California appeals court struck down part of Senate Bill 219 (enacted in 2017), which required staffers in elder care facilities to use the preferred pronouns of transgender residents or patients. The court ruled that the transgender mandate, codified in Health and Safety Code section 1439.51, violates the free speech rights of elder care staff. The court rejected a challenge to another aspect of the law, however.“Content-based laws are presumptively unconstitutional and are subject to strict scrutiny,” Judge Elena Duarte wrote for herself and two other judges in Taking Offense v. California (2021). “The pronoun provision at issue...

On Wednesday, a federal judge temporarily blocked Arkansas’ law protecting children from experimental transgender “treatments” that often carry lifelong effects, including sterilization. In April, the Arkansas House and Senate voted to override Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s H.B. 1570, the Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act. Experimental “puberty-blocking” drugs and cross-sex hormones may have long-lasting impacts on fertility, so advocates have branded them “chemical castration.” Yet opponents of the law claim that withdrawing “health care” will harm children. U.S. District Judge Jay Moody granted the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) request for a preliminary injunction, preventing the law from going into effect...

A vanity post with comparisons of the USSA to the USSR via Aleksander Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago" and the treatment of disabled Veterans by "family" "courts", an explanation of how disability payments are stolen, and the reasons 'courts' operate without (in addition to above) the law - for money; specifically the Federal government's direct subsidy payments made to court systems under Social Security Sub-title IV-D funding (which actually pays State courts multiples per dollar of support collected).

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ Happy Birthday, Ima! NAVAL STATION MAYPORT, Fla. (July 21, 2021) Ima Black, the widow of Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Delbert D. Black, rides in an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the "Airwolves" of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 40 as it flies over Naval Station Mayport, July 21, 2021, in celebration of her 100th birthday. Ima Black, an honorary Master Chief Petty Officer, is the ship sponsor for the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Delbert D. Black (DDG 119). (U.S. Navy photo by Mass...

The anti-vaccination cult is celebrating the climb in COVID-19 cases in Israel. Social media – and even some more mainstream media – in recent weeks has been swarming with claims that Israel’s more than 1,000 daily cases are proof that the vaccines don’t work or – even worse – that perhaps the vaccines are the catalyst behind the Delta variant. “Most of the new COVID cases in Israel are people who have been fully vaccinated. This has been blamed on the new Delta variant. Well, what if the vaccine generated or somehow enabled the new variant? Wouldn’t that explain this...

@Breaking911 PRES. BIDEN: "The idea that the Democrats or the Biden is hiding people and sucking the blood of children, no I’m serious, that’s the — Now you may not like me and that’s your right..” Clip...

Ruhel Islam, an immigrant who grew up under a Bangladeshi dictatorship, said someone took the stolen van to his new restaurant, Curry In A Hurry, from in front of his home then used the keys left inside the truck to enter the building Monday, taking $500 from the register -snip His first restaurant, called Gandhi Mahal, was located just blocks away from the Minneapolis Police Department’s 3rd Precinct, which was also burned down by rioters last summer. The restaurant caught fire during the demonstrations. Islam and his daughter, Hafsa Islam, went viral on Facebook, writing in a post at the...

It is not a secret that the Chinese Communist Party has been obsessed with collecting DNA from around the world for years. There has been speculation that they wanted it for the sake of their bioweapons program, but limited evidence has escaped their iron grip to make it any more than a conspiracy theory. Now, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and other members of Congress have heard evidence from famous Chinese defector Dr. Li-meng Yan who has direct knowledge of the bioweapons program under Beijing’s control. According to Dr. Li-meng, the CCP is actively developing bioweapons with capabilities far beyond Covid-19....

Explanation: What if you could see, separately, all the colors of the Ring? And of the surrounding stars? There's technology for that. The featured image shows the Ring Nebula (M57) and nearby stars through such technology: in this case, a prism-like diffraction grating. The Ring Nebula is seen only a few times because it emits light, primarily, in only a few colors. The two brightest emitted colors are hydrogen (red) and oxygen (blue), appearing as nearly overlapping images to the left of the image center. The image just to the right of center is the color-combined icon normally seen. Stars,...

“Therefore, I shall always be ready to remind you of these things, even though you already know them, and have been established in the truth which is present with you” (2 Peter 1:12). Remembering where you’ve been is the key to getting where you want to go. The summer of 1980 was a turning point in my ministry. After nearly a dozen years as pastor of Grace Community Church, I took a three-month sabbatical. In my heart I wasn’t sure if I would come back. I felt I had taught my congregation all I knew, and I feared boring them...

They failed miserably The Olympic Committee (IOC) had the perfect solution to a common problem. They came up with the perfect plan to stop athletes from getting in the sheets. Well, this plan was far from “perfect.” In an effort to avoid the spread of COVID-19, the IOC made “anti-sex” beds to Do these even exist? “Anti-sex” beds? In these beds, the mattress sits on flimsy cardboard that is built to support the weight of one person. It was a failure! An Irish gymnast tested the strength of these beds. According to him, the beds are nothing but “fake news.”...

After attempts by duplicitous Democrats, a judge has ordered California’s Secretary of State to include conservative pundit Larry Elder on the September ballot to recall Governor Gavin Newsom. This comes after three days of leftist hackery in their attempts to subvert one of the highest profile candidates in the race. Harmeet K. Dhillon reported, “Judge orders California to include Larry Elder on the ballot in California recall election. Says tax returns were never required in the first place for a recall as opposed to a primary election.

Dr. Kwasniewski on Traditionis Custodes: Worst Papal Document in HistoryGerhard Eger: I am very grateful, Dr. Kwasniewski, that you are willing to take the time to answer my questions. What is your overall assessment of the motu proprio Traditionis Custodes?Dr. Kwasniewski: It is the worst document promulgated by a pope in the history of the Roman Church. Full stop. Why do I say this? Because although popes have changed this or that aspect of the legislation of their predecessors, none has ever tried to stamp out one of the greatest liturgical rites in Christendom by putting its adherents under siege...

Amazon's “The Lord of the Rings” Second Age series has been notoriously secretive...We have been able to verify most of today’s report as currently accurate per sources that are involved with the Production... Men, Elves and Dwarves have their own sequestered production units for the different Free Peoples [this intriguing bit rather suggests the narrative might be constructed across wide time jumps or told from pockets of different historical viewpoints, perhaps even an anthology approach rotating characters from the various Free Peoples all reacting to the same thing, but over what timelines we still do not know. Scripts are only...

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) top administrative official has resigned after the organization became aware of allegations that the priest had visited gay bars and used the hook-up app Grindr. The USCCB said in a statement first shared by the National Catholic Reporter that it had accepted the resignation of Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill, who has served as the group’s general secretary since last fall. Archbishop José Gomez, the USCCB’s president, said in a Tuesday memo to all bishops that it was “with sadness” that Burrill had stepped down from his role, adding that the conference was notified Monday...