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JESUS' TRIAL BEFORE ANNAS . JOHN 18 New International Version ©1984, emphases added Abrdgd: the complete text is in your Bible . Resources to CLICK: To read JOHN 18 in full To hear MAX McLEAN reading it To hear a DRAMATIZATION of it To see an ANIMATION of Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John Harmony of the Gospels 30 A.D. Bible Timeline JOHN 18:13-14, 19-24 Then the detachment of soldiers with its commander and the Jewish officials arrested Jesus. They bound him and brought him first to Annas, who was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest that year. Caiaphas...

Still life with lemonsHighlights from Alabama last night: “We don’t need more woke generals, we need more Pattons.”“President Biden was going on vacation while Afghanistan was going to hell.”Kabal burns as Joe…well who knows what Joe was doing“He surrendered our airbase, he surrendered our weapons, he surrendered our embassy,” “I told the Taliban, if anyone ever double crosses the U.S. of America it will be the last thing they ever do.” “Vietnam looks like a Masterclass in strategy compared to Joe Biden’s catastrophe.” It’s hard not to agree with Former British Colonel Richard Justin Kemp, CBE who told Mark...

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Daily Mail columnist Peter Hitchens has been slammed for writing an article in which he appears to compare left-wing British people with the actual Taliban. Yes, really. In his column, he slammed people for caring about Afghan refugees but not “deprived” British “young men” and said that Britain has “our own liberal Taliban”. He wrote: “Young men live under our own Taliban, the fierce stone-faced Left-wing doctrinaires who in the past 50 years have created huge zones of misery in what was once a pretty happy society.” He then appeared to argue that women entering the workplace rather than being...

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PHILADELPHIA—Messenger-RNA (mRNA) vaccines against the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 provoke a swift and strong response by the immune system’s T cells—the heavy armor of the immune system—according to a study from researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Although recent studies of vaccines tend to focus on the antibody response, the T-cell response is also an important and potentially more durable source of protection—yet little has been reported so far on the T-cell response to COVID-19 vaccines. In the new study, which appears in the journal Immunity, the Penn Medicine researchers analyzed the T-cell responses...

Freedom is the reason why America is the greatest country on earth. Freedom is perhaps the biggest reason why immigrants come to the United States. And yet Arnold Schwarzenegger ... attacked freedom while pushing for masks and vaccines... As a freedom-loving immigrant and an American citizen, I found Schwarzenegger’s words to be condescending, hypocritical and hurtful. Freedom is bestowed by God and was enshrined in the United States Constitution by America’s Founding Fathers. No issue — public health or otherwise — must prevent law-abiding Americans from making decisions about their own lives. Freedom is the foundation of American society ......

Aryana Sayeed describes the horrors of getting on a plane in Kabul, appeals for the millions left behind. Answers questions.

Hydroxychloroquine vs Ivermectin vs Quercetin All three are zinc ionophores. All three on the recommended list by Dr Zalenko and others for COVID prophylaxis or early COVID treatment. First two require prescription, quercetin does not. All three are safe for the vast majority of individuals. No comparative studies for efficacy. Thoughts on which is better or best?

In tears, Rameen* said that his life has felt like a "nightmare" ever since Kabul fell to the Taliban on Sunday. "I just hope that somebody comes and wakes me up from this bad dream," the 37-year-old gay Afghan told Insider during a phone call. Rameen, who works for the United Nations, once enjoyed Afghanistan's vibrant "underground" gay scene. Even though homosexuality was illegal, he said he felt relatively safe making his weekly visit to a clandestine karaoke bar in Kabul to sing and dance with other members of the country's hidden LGBTQ communities. "It was fantastic and so much...

"Which is better? Even asking the question bordered on heresy a year ago, when catching Covid for the first time could be deadly, especially for the elderly or people already in poor health. Now, we're no longer starting with zero immunity as the overwhelming majority of people have either been vaccinated or have already caught the virus"

A harrowing report from outside the airport in Kabul shows that the situation in Afghanistan has gotten so dangerous, tense and time-sensitive that even battle-hardened troops said they have never seen anything like it. ... “Every day the scene outside the British evacuation camp changes, every day it seems to get worse and this day there is a new sense of desperation,” .. “Collectively I think the thousands queuing outside in burning temperatures know that the clock is ticking on how long this airlift will go on for.” ... Most of them will remain,.. ... “Beyond the containers and beyond...

US Vice President Kamala Harris landed in Singapore on Sunday to kick off her week-long tour of Asia, escaping DC as President Joe Biden faces the biggest crisis of his administration. Harris plans to meet with US sailors aboard the USS Tulsa in a visit to Changi Naval Base on Monday, making her the highest ranking official to address troops in person as the disastrous evacuation of Afghanistan plays out. The Taliban's stunning return to power a week ago, and desperate scenes of thousands trying to flee Kabul, have cast another grim shadow over the United States' status as a...

First, for the purposes of this column, as a conservative commentator writing for a conservative publication, I intend to focus specifically on the Left’s biases and how those warp their thinking, explaining why they believe so many things that are patently absurd. That’s not to say we conservatives don’t also have biases. Of course we do. Everyone does. It’s part of the human condition. I have just observed that conservatives in general tend to be more rational, analytical, and introspective. (Remember that, for the Left, logic and reason are tools of white supremacy.) Thus, conservatives are more likely than leftists...

As the evacuation of Kabul descends further into pandemonium and desperation, President Joe Biden is considering activating the Civil Reserve Air Fleet to augment the struggling effort. The Pentagon said Saturday the United States has evacuated just 17,000 people, including 2,500 Americans, from Kabul in the past week, including 3,800 in the past day. It means the US has surged more American troops into the Kabul airport than the number of US citizens it has extracted from the country since the Taliban swept into power on August 14.

The Pentagon appears to be inching toward expanding its rescue mission in Afghanistan outside of the walls of Hamid Karzai International Airport, as the situation grows dire for US citizens now unable to reach the airport. The US Embassy in Kabul on Saturday issued an alert warning citizens not to attempt to reach the airport on their own, where four people were killed in a crushing stampede. It came as Taliban leader Abdul Ghani Baradar arrived in Kabul and fears grew of Islamic State cells operating freely in the country. A senior US official said that small groups of Americans...

In a typical year, freight trains in the United States move about 1.7 billion tons on over 140,000 miles of track. The massive tonnage hauled by freight rail every year means that most American consumers own goods transported on freight trains. Yet, despite the importance of freight rail to American consumers and the broader economy, the Biden administration has proposed several potential changes that could undermine the profitability of freight rail companies and enhance government control of the industry. Given the importance of freight rail, any government intervention could have catastrophic effects for consumers. Policymakers only need to look at...

Only hours after Minnesota GOP operative Anton Lazarro posted online DNA evidence that allegedly shows Rep. Ilhan Omar was once married to her brother, the FBI busted him. The test results stated there is a 99.999998 percent chance that Omar and her second husband, Ahmed Elmi, now her ex-husband, are siblings, according to an analysis by British company Endeavor DNA Laboratories. But before Lazarro could share the results with the media, he was arrested Thursday on underage sex-trafficking charges and jailed pending a court hearing Monday. His website, IlhanOmarDNA.com, containing the DNA test results, was online briefly before it was...

resident Joe Biden has nominated some terribly polarizing candidates for crucial posts in his administration. Time and again, President Biden and his Democrat allies in the Senate have had to ram through – largely on part-line votes – nominees accused by GOP lawmakers of being radically partisan including the head of policy at DoD, Colin Kahl, and the third-highest official at the Justice Department, Vanita Gupta. True-to-form, President Biden has nominated a disastrous nominee to lead civil rights at the Department of Education in Catherine Lhamon. As with his calamitous nomination of Neera Tanden to head OM – a choice...

Railroad Tracks The U.S. Standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England, and English expatriates designed the U.S. Railroads. Why did the English build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used. Why did 'they' use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tram ways used the same jigs and tools that they had used for building wagons,...