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Twisted Sister rocker Dee Snider doesn’t want unvaccinated fans attending his concerts, saying the chance of making him sick with COVID-19 represents “an invasion of my privacy.” In an interview with Heavy Consequence, the 66-year-old Dee Snider expressed his support for vaccine mandates for concerts. He also used an expletive to warn off any fans who aren’t vaccinated. “Your chance of making me sick is an invasion of my privacy, so #### ###,” he said. “If you don’t like it, find your own band. Ted Nugent is out there somewhere. Kid Rock is welcoming you. … You don’t have a...

A minor mission with minimal effectiveness was launched to “strike back” at ISIS-K for the bombing at the airport in Kabul. One ISIS “planner” — basically a middle manager — was killed in the strike which is being dubbed as retaliation for killing 13 Americans. Mainstream media reports and the Pentagon are touting this as a huge blow to the terrorist organization and a demonstration of American power under Joe Biden. No, that is not a quote from a Babylon Bee story. The story from the Associated Press reads like a propaganda piece from Communist China, though touting Biden’s decisive...

The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge, the so-called core personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index, vaulted in the 12 months through July to levels not seen in 30 years. The Commerce Department said in a release Friday that core PCE rose 3.6 percent over the year in July, matching last month’s level, which was an increase from 3.5 percent in May and 3.1 percent in April. The last time the core PCE inflation gauge saw a similar year-over-year vault was in July 1991, while the highest level the measure has hit is 10.2 percent in February 1975, when the economy...

Cancelling Pope Benedict: Reflections on a recent article and the “hermeneutic of rupture” Rorate has received this excellent essay by “A Concerned Priest” and is pleased to share it with our readers. It is one of the best analyses to date of the impossible theological premises on which Pope Francis has enacted his campaign against the survival of the traditional rites of the Church.Professor Martin Madar has written in La Croix (August 9, 2021) a revealing article concerning the larger project represented by Traditionis Custodes. It bears the title “Pope Francis should correct his predecessor on another point.”[0] The...

YES ! NY RISING ! New Yorkers protesting vaccine mandates and passports. Thank you NY ! Fight on !Video of NY protests.

A Taliban special unit called Al Isha is reportedly using American-made biometric equipment and data left behind in Afghanistan to hunt down Afghans who assisted U.S. and coalition forces. Nawazuddin Haqqani, a brigade commander over Al Isha, reportedly said in an interview with Zenger News that the special unit is using hand-held biometric scanners taken from the U.S. military and a U.S. biometric database to identify anyone who worked with NATO or Indian intelligence. “Now that Kabul is taken, operational work has taken a back seat and we’ve turned our focus on counterintelligence,” he reportedly told Zenger News in a...

Prominent Jesuit magazine tells people it is a sin to not take COVID jabThe article's author, Fr. Terrence Klein, ignored expert testimony calling the COVID-19 vaccines 'nnecessary, ineffective and unsafe.' Entitled “Refusing the Covid vaccine is the ultimate sin of omission for Catholics today” and authored by Father Terrence Klein, the article takes aim at Catholics who allegedly “put their focus on protecting liberty rather than life” in their decision to forego vaccines developed, derived, or tested using aborted fetal cell lines.Klein posited that the currently available shots against the novel coronavirus not only “pose no greater threat to health...

Something struck me today that I really hadn’t fully absorbed until now. Oh, I had an idea. We all did. But there’s one revealing aspect that only hit home to me today. We all knew that Joe Biden was in the early stages of – something… some form of senility, dementia, Alzheimer’s, I don’t know – way back in 2019. We could tell at the beginning of the primaries that he was at least in the early stages. The Democratic Party did this to us. Not just the DNC, but Democrat leaders in multiple states, the party bosses, the ones...

The prototype molten-salt nuclear reactor, which runs on liquid thorium rather than uranium, is expected to be safer than traditional reactors because thorium cools and solidifies quickly when exposed to the air, meaning any potential leak would spill much less radiation into the surrounding environment compared with leaks from traditional reactors. The prototype reactor is expected to be completed next month, with the first tests beginning as early as September. As this type of reactor doesn't require water, it will be able to operate in desert regions. The location of the first commercial reactor, slated for construction by 2030, will...

Appearing Thursday on CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront, Obama Defense Secretary Leon Panetta judged that the U.S. military will have to return to Afghanistan to confront ISIS despite President Joe Biden’s withdrawal of U.S. forces from the war-torn country after 20 years of war. (Watch from: 14:55) A transcript is as follows: ERIN BURNETT: So [Biden] is sticking with the August 31st deadline. He’s made it clear that even after that they’ll do whatever they can, but he’s sticking with it. He is not extending it and that it “is what it is,” is what he says. Do you agree with...

An MSNBC intelligence analyst shockingly downplayed the horrific suicide bombings that claimed the lives at least 13 service members in Afghanistan, by telling his nearly 1 million Twitter followers to “DealWithIt.” In a now-deleted tweet dated August 26, 2021, MSNBC intelligence analyst, media pundit on terrorism, and Navy veteran Malcolm Nance wrote: “20 YEARS- FYI there have been terrorist suicide bombers killing civilians nearly DAILY in Afghanistan. “This ain’t new. It’s why we are leaving. “#DealWithIt.”

Schneider: Vatican More Concerned About Trees, Rivers Than Human SoulsThe current Church crisis is worse than the 4th century Arian crisis because it touches all levels of the Church’s life, Bishop Athanasius Schneider told TaylorMarshall.com (Video below).Arianism was a dispute over Christ's Divinity while today's crisis concerns most Church teachings, the liturgy, pastoral life, the papacy, the clergy, and all aspects of the Christian Faith.Even the very first commandment is denied by the claim that "all religions are equal". Schneider observes that "we are destroying the revelation itself” and thus “becoming not only non-Christians but to some extent pagans.” He...

The United States military has carried out a drone strike against an alleged ISIS-K "planner" following a suicide bombing in Kabul that killed 13 American soldiers and at least 70 Afghans. "U.S. military forces conducted an over-the-horizon counterterrorism operation today against an ISIS-K planner," U.S. Central Command Spokesman Captain Bill Urban told Fox News on Friday. "The unmanned airstrike occurred in the Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan. Initial indications are that we killed the target. We know of no civilian casualties."

In a gathering at First Unitarian Church of Dallas, faith leaders with Just Texas announced Wednesday (Aug. 25) that 25 churches had achieved the Reproductive Freedom Congregations designation since first launching the effort in 2016. Another 70 are in process.Clergy members hold hands during the blessing of a Whole Woman's Health clinic in Austin, Texas. Participants included the Rev. Jim Rigby of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Austin, from center left in black; the Rev. Katey Zeh, CEO of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice; and the Rev. Mark Skrabacz, retired from San Gabriel UU Fellowship - Georgetown. Photo courtesy...

ISIS-K “Planner” killed in drone strike. (Kabul bombing planner)

Pope Francis said on Wednesday that hypocrisy within the Church is “particularly detestable.” Speaking at the general audience in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall on Aug. 25, the pope underlined that hypocritical behavior damaged Church unity. “Hypocrisy in the Church is particularly detestable, and unfortunately there is hypocrisy in the Church, and there are many hypocritical Christians and ministers. We should never forget the Lord’s words: ‘Let what you say be simply Yes or No; anything more than this comes from evil,’” he said, quoting Matthew 5:37. “Brothers and sisters, today, let us think about the hypocrisy that Paul condemns,...

I was going to tune into Life, Liberty, and Levin this Sunday night until I heard Mark on his radio show today announce Crenshaw was going to be on the show. After I heard that, nope, not gonna watch it. I thank Crenshaw for his service but I guess he couldn't see (no pun intended) the obvious stolen election. If you wanna watch it, knock yourself out.

CV NEWS FEED // Australian media reports blaming ordinary citizens for the spread of COVID while ignoring draconian lockdowns and violent arrests have alarmed American onlookers, who warn that lockdowns and other mandates pave the way for a police state. “It’s those doing the wrong thing driving our record case numbers,” said the news anchor in a recent 9News Sydney report. “Police and health authorities have issued an urgent appeal” to stop a sick Wentworth Point man who left his apartment without a mask, she said. Police issued an arrest warrant. Health Minister Brad Hazard appears on screen to call...

The computers got it wrong. The losing candidates were declared and certified as the "winners." But they didn't actually receive more votes than their opponents. This time, we happened to find out. As long-time readers of The BRAD BLOG know, there's a reason we routinely slam election officials and media for announcing wholly-unverified computer-reported results of elections before any of the ballots are actually examined by human beings. So called, post-election "random audits" of a tiny number of paper ballots --- where paper ballots exist, where officials even bother to do that much --- are almost always useless, easily gamed,...