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May 6, 2021 -- A 68-year-old woman with COVID-19, who has been in intensive care in an Illinois hospital for a month, started receiving the controversial drug ivermectin (Stromectol) this week after her family sued the hospital to have someone administer it, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune. Nurije Fype's daughter, Desareta, filed suit against Elmhurst Hospital, part of Edward-Elmhurst Health, asking that her mother receive the treatment, which is approved as an anti-parasite drug but not approved for the treatment of COVID-19. Desareta Fype has been granted temporary guardianship of her mother.The FDA has warned against ivermectin's...

Traditionis Custodes at 30 Days: A Retrospective and a ProspectiveAs we approach the month’s mind marker of Traditionis Custodes, and with the benefit of literally hundreds of articles produced, including my own reflection here at CWR within 48 hours of the promulgation of the document, we are in a good position to see how we got where we did and where we might do well to head in the months going forward. Let’s consider the situation from several complementary angles.Pope FrancisCommentators across the spectrum have noted that the document is a potpourri of jumbled theology, canon law, history, sociology and...

A Utah high school chemistry teacher is no longer an employee of the Alpine School District after she was recorded spouting off to her students about unvaccinated Americans, her views about politics, and her hatred for Donald Trump. Utah Public Radio (UPR) reported Thursday the teacher, Leah Kinyon, had initially been placed on administrative leave following an investigation into a student’s recording of her comments, but is now no longer an employee of the school district. “It is unknown if Kinyon resigned or was fired from her position,” UPR reported.

Henri formed in the mid-Atlantic. After initially following a loopy southward and westward track, Henri is forecast to move northward toward New England. Mash the graphics below to enlarge. All links and images are self-updating. GOES Satellite Floater NHC Public Advisories NHC Forecast Discussions Buoy Info Tropical Tidbits by Levi Cowan NWS Radar

CULLMAN, Ala. (WAFF) - Former President Donald Trump will be visiting Cullman this weekend, it’s his first trip to Alabama in four years. It’s at York Family Farms, the same venue where Rock the South was held the previous weekend, but the Trump rally will likely be even bigger. Alabama Republican Party Chairman John Wahl says he’s expecting a massive crowd of more than 20,000 people, but there’s really no way to know how many there will actually be. Wahl says with it being an outside venue, they can pretty much fit as many people who can make it. With...

Afghanistan under Biden was not a withdrawal, it was a surrender. Will he apologize for the greatest tactical mistake in history, pulling the Military out before our citizens? Leaving Americans behind for death is an unforgivable dereliction of duty, which will go down in infamy. https://gab.com/realdonaldtrump

MEMORIAL OF SAINT BERNARD MATTHEW 22:34-40 Friends, our Gospel for today puts us on very holy ground, since it features the Word of God himself telling us what stands at the heart of the law. The Pharisees pose, as a kind of game, the following question: “Which commandment in the law is the greatest?” It was a favorite exercise of the rabbis to seek out the “canon within the canon,” the law that somehow clarified the whole of the law. Jesus gives his famous answer: “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul,...

President Joe Biden’s job approval rating is underwater less than a week after the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul, a Reuters/Ipsos survey released Friday revealed. The survey, taken August 18-19, 2021, among 1,002 adults, asked respondents, “Overall, do you approve or disapprove of the way Joe Biden is handling his job as President?” 46% approve, 49% disapprove Opinions are sharply divided on party lines, as 81 percent of Democrats approve of Biden’s job performance, compared to 11 percent of Republicans and 42 percent of independents:

KENOSHA, Wis. — A new video obtained by prosecutors purportedly shows a man believed to be Kyle Rittenhouse threatening to shoot a man before deadly unrest in Kenosha. Kenosha County prosecutors said the evidence shows Rittenhouse is predisposed to using deadly force. It was part of a motion filed this week as prosecutors prepare to try Rittenhouse for shooting three people during the Jacob Blake protests a year ago.

On Friday morning Senator Jake Corman released a statement lambasting Senator Mastriano and appointing Cris Dush to lead fake audit. Corman Issues Statement on Forensic Investigation of Recent Elections, Mastriano Obstruction Posted on Aug 20, 2021 HARRISBURG – Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman (R-Bellefonte) issued the following statement today regarding the review of recent elections and some of the issues that have prevented an election audit in Pennsylvania thus far: “It is deeply disappointing that Senator Mastriano has retreated from conducting a forensic investigation of the election in Pennsylvania, and it is discouraging to realize that he was only...

ESPN’s flagship woke talk program, First Take, is reportedly anticipating a major split. Media reports say Max Kellerman will be removed from the program he co-hosts with Stephen A. Smith and re-surface on an ESPN radio program. Kellerman has been a shining example of woke derangement syndrome during his five years on the program.

For therapeutic use: what is needed for ivermectin to fight Covid? Any sources would be appreciated as well.

Doing what the media won’t: Fact-checking Biden’s address on AfghanistanI’m relying on the White House release of Presidentish Joe Biden’s remarks.Shall we get right to it?CLAIM: “My national security team and I have been closely monitoring the situation on the ground in Afghanistan and moving quickly to execute the plans we had put in place to respond to every constituency, including — and contingency — including the rapid collapse we’re seeing now.”REALITY: Biden Scrapped Trump’s Afghanistan Rescue Plan. “Raheem Kassam revealed on Wednesday that under President Donald Trump, Mike Pompeo’s State Department had ordered the creation of a ‘Contingency and...

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) on Thursday defended his statewide school mask mandate amid surges of COVID-19 cases caused by the highly contagious delta variant, saying that sending unmasked children too young to be vaccinated into a classroom is like “holding the world's largest chickenpox party.” Beshear, who has previously made the chickenpox comparison in advocating for mask requirements, told CNN's Kate Bolduan that he believes he did the “right” thing by signing the executive order last week. "Sending unmasked, unvaccinated kids into a poorly ventilated classroom is like holding the world's largest chickenpox party, except instead of chickenpox it...

President Biden said on Friday that his administration is focused on getting Americans out of Afghanistan by Aug. 31, but said that he was also committed to trying to evacuate as many Afghan translators and others who assisted the U.S. government — a goal he said was “equally important, almost” to evacuating Americans. Taking reporters’ questions for the first time since Aug. 10, Biden said he believed that the U.S. could accomplish its mission of evacuating Americans and others by an Aug. 31 deadline, but that “we’re going to make that judgment as we go.” He also said the U.S....

The Taliban is already banning two female presenters at state-run Radio Television Afghanistan from coming to work work, according to the Washington Post and the Committee to Protect Journalists. The Taliban, despite its public commitments to allowing women in public life, has a long track record of hostility to a free press and to women serving in public-facing roles. The group has ramped up its attacks on the media in recent months, and its retaking of Afghanistan is already rolling back much of the progress of the last 20 years on press freedom and women's equality in the country. One...

"Jovan Pulitzer surprised us all once again and likely scared the hell out of any election fraudsters in the process. In a video he released Wednesday on Twitter, Jovan explained that identifying markings are in fact on the ballots and are exactly what they were looking for during the audit! He explained it wasn’t bamboo paper as audit detractors claimed, and it wasn’t secret “watermarks” either. It was, however, a secret printer identifying protocol established years ago by the Secret Service to help catch counterfeiters. "

Preelection concerns that President Joe Biden wasn’t physically or mentally up for his new job at age 78, the oldest-ever chief executive, are now settling in as the public sees him slow-walking, refusing to consider questions at press conferences, and seemingly befuddled with the crisis in Afghanistan. Not only has his average approval rating fallen below 50%, the lowest of his presidency, but a new survey has found that in addition to likely voters believing that Biden is not all there, they believe that aides are doing his job. In the survey, Rasmussen Reports said 52% of respondents said they...

It didn't take long for the eunuchs at PBS to embrace the Taliban propaganda. Fresh off kicking Joe Biden's ass, the Taliban used the left wing press as its muse to spread a message of hope. Now Taliban representatives are being welcomed from Beijing to Moscow, where Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov last month called them “reasonable people.” The group has a social-media presence and responsive media team that is saying all the right things: It wants an inclusive government, it won’t take revenge on political opponents, diplomats are safe and investors won’t have trouble: “No one should worry about...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Friday said "significant progress" has been made in getting Americans and allies out of Afghanistan as the White House continued to grapple with fallout from the chaotic mass evacuation. The remarks were to cap a week that brought the biggest foreign policy crisis of Biden’s presidency, as thousands of Americans and Afghans who aided U.S. efforts remain trapped in the country. The crisis abroad threatens to upend Biden’s wider agenda, with criticism coming from allies in Congress, foreign leaders and top national security officials from the Obama administration. Biden has remained defiant in his...