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I’m so old I remember the tired old feminist gibe about it taking 2 men to replace a woman. Perhaps that was a bit of hyperbole, given that it’s sometimes the other way round.Daily MailTen million dollars, wow! Now that sounds like hyperbole. The damages seem high I know, but then, Donald Trump was still in office when they fired him. Ten months into Joe Biden sized inflation that sounds about right, doesn’t it? These are the stickers Raj made for me. I’ve found them quite useful.Way to go David and David’s attorneys! Even if there were valid reasons for...

Back before the COVID-19 pandemic started, the year 2019 saw anti-government demonstrations in Paris, Manila, La Paz, Port-au-Prince, Bogotá, Prague, Quito , Beirut, Hong Kong, London, Baghdad, Barcelona, Budapest, Santiago, New Delhi, Jakarta, Buenos Aires and more, earning the title “the year of the protest.” It was also a year of resurgent labor activity in the United States. After decades of declining union participation, the country saw 25 major work stoppages involving 425,500 workers, the highest number since 2001. The economic discontent that propelled both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders to popularity had been building for many years. As a...

After 23 students were arrested in the span of three days for fighting at a Louisiana high school last month, Michael La’Fitte II’s 16-year-old daughter was scared to go to school. “My kid was visibly shaken,” said La’Fitte, 40. “Her classmates felt the same way.” He reached out to other parents of students at Southwood High School in Shreveport, La., and organized an urgent meeting on a Sunday afternoon “to see what we could do to mitigate the issues on campus,” he said. The parents hatched a plan. A group of five fathers came up with a concept called “Dads...

Comrades must recognize "reality" now — so it goes here in the United States. The jailing of the Jan. 6 riot defendants is not just an obvious miscarriage of justice, given the length of time they've spent in detention without trial. It's also turning into something that's full Soviet. Here's the latest from one Judge Amy B. Jackson, who, after denying release at least once to one guy, went ahead and let him out. He's a Buffalo, New York-based defendant named Thomas Sibnick, who's recanted: WASHINGTON — A federal judge reversed her bond decision Tuesday for a Capitol riot defendant...

To paraphrase President Reagan, there is no easy solution — only a simple one. The position of the left is well known by now: your speech is violence; their violence is speech. Moreover, even your silence is violence. If you disagree with them on any point, then you are not merely mistaken; you are evil. And if you are evil, you must be shouted down and silenced. Worse yet, you must be punished, made to be an example, lest others neglect to fear the power of the left. These are the hallmarks of a terrorist philosophy. Such a philosophy not...

WASHINGTON, Sunday, Oct. 27, 1861. A VARIETY OF RUMORS. The city has been full of rumors again to-day Among them stories that Gen. McCLELLAN has resigned, and that his resignation will be accepted; that a court of inquiry is to be ordered on the late movement toward Leesburgh, to ascertain upon whose authority it was ordered, and who was responsible for its result. Then again, it is stated that the fleet congregated at Fortress Monroe has tried its hand on Norfolk, and has captured that great reservoir of artillery. Few place any reliance on the first of these reports, and...

Fourteen thousand migrants from Haiti recently crossed the Texas border illegally, with only a minority of them deported back to Haiti. Other Haitians are crossing the trackless “Darien gap” in Central America. They too will soon be in our country, most of them to stay. There are already more than 700,000 Haitian immigrants in the United States, legal and illegal, and 30,000 more were apprehended in recent months at the U.S. border with Mexico according to the Migration Policy Institute. The Haitians show that immigration is out of control because the border is open. Migrants from anywhere can cross illegally...

Two teenagers were shot to death after forcing their way into a North Carolina home, officials said. The Fayetteville Police Department said officers were responding to a home break-in at about 5 p.m. Saturday when a resident reported shooting two people who had gotten inside. Both teens were pronounced dead at the scene, including a 17-year-old whose name wasn’t released because of his age. The other was identified as 19-year-old Hunter Markham, officers said in a news release. Someone who lived at the home was also shot, though police didn’t say how. He was taken to Cape Fear Valley Medical...

As retrospection becomes ever more clear, knowledge of the impact of the Trump presidency has been taking form. As retrospection becomes ever more clear, knowledge of the impact of the Trump presidency has been taking form — especially when compared to the bunglers who came next. Perhaps most importantly, and without obvious intent, he managed to bring out the worst in his enemies. The U.S. will never be the same again. For starters, let's look at Adam Schiff and Gerald Nadler. Once just off-the-rack hack politicians, now they're cartoons...of sleaze-ball villains. Trump, somehow, made them go w-a-a-a-y too far in...

October 28, 2021 Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles Sts. Simon and Jude Cathedral, Phoenix Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red.First readingEphesians 2:19-22 ©In Christ you are no longer aliens, but citizens like usYou are no longer aliens or foreign visitors: you are citizens like all the saints, and part of God’s household. You are part of a building that has the apostles and prophets for its foundations, and Christ Jesus himself for its main cornerstone. As every structure is aligned on him, all grow into one holy temple in the Lord; and you too, in him, are being built into a...

Some 500 scholars, including the prominent linguist and Israel critic Noam Chomsky, accused a Scottish university of curbing free speech after a student publication apologized for a 2017 essay it said promoted “an unfounded anti-Semitic theory.” The essay, published in the University of Glasgow’s eSharp magazine in 2017, was titled “Advocating Occupation: Outsourcing Zionist Propaganda in the UK.” Its author, Jane Jackman, wrote that, “Whilst initially strengthening ties with the Jewish Diaspora, Israel’s longer-term objective was to conscript and resource a cohort of grassroots Zionist supporters to carry the Israeli narrative into the broader sphere of society.” ......

It is evident that both official and nonofficial organizations have been responding too readily to noisy and aggressive minorities. It is dispiriting that the virus of negative depictions of past history, peoples and cultures continues, often in incomprehensible fashion, in this era of identity politics. Too many political and cultural institutions are stampeding to gratify any articulate minority. The virus is mutating in spite of evidence that should negate it. False depictions abound. Charles Darwin did not travel to the Galapagos Islands for colonialist reasons. Dr. Seuss did not produce books for harmful content or to glorify racism. The goblins...

A hospital in Lewiston, Maine has closed its neonatal intensive care unit and has plans to reduce ICU beds by 50 percent as well as medical surgical beds by 40 percent. This isn’t because the hospital is overrun with COVID-19 patients but because, at the end of this month, unvaccinated hospital staff will be terminated. The result will be restricted access to care and longer wait times. In a word: rationing. The term “rationing” seems like something that only happens during times of war. But in reality, medical resources are often rationed when demand outpaces supply. Policymakers would be wise...

President Biden plans to announce Thursday a revised framework for his social spending plan that he expects will gain the support of all Democrats, according to multiple people with knowledge of the situation, marking a potential breakthrough moment after months of lengthy negotiations and stalled talks.The White House plans to detail specific policies it expects to pass Congress after weeks of whittling down Biden’s agenda, according to one of the people. Democrats on Capitol Hill were preparing written details of the revamped for proposal for release on Thursday, according to the second person. The people spoke on the condition of...

Paul Pelosi owns up to $1 million of Tesla call options House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband hit pay dirt on Monday as Tesla's valuation rose to $1 trillion. The news comes as Pelosi spearheads legislation that doles out tens of billions of dollars in subsidies to the electric vehicle industry, including Tesla, with provisions to build charging stations for cars and incentivize electric car purchases through tax credits. The financial dealings of Pelosi's husband, Paul, came under scrutiny earlier this year when he purchased as much as $1 million of Tesla call options, one of the largest transactions of Tesla...

For years, progressives mocked anyone who warned that the Democratic Party's move leftward would produce government officials who might push actual socialist policies once in office. I'll admit that for a variety of reasons I never found this extreme version of the slippery-slope argument convincing. Yes, both sides have embraced big government policies, and the recent "America First" approach embraced by Republicans in recent years should alarm us. Still, with the Biden administration's nomination of Cornell University Law School professor Saule Omarova to become Comptroller of the Currency, I wonder if I was too fast to dismiss the possibility. Consider...

(Reuters) - An estimated 30 million to 50 million doses of Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine made early this year sits idle in Emergent BioSolutions Inc's plant in Baltimore awaiting a green light from U.S. regulators to ship, two sources familiar with the matter said. The exact number of doses sitting idle cannot be determined, the source said, because Emergent only makes raw vaccine substance and does not fill vials with finished product. The FDA in April halted operations at Emergent's production facility after J&J's vaccine was found to be contaminated with material from AstraZeneca's (AZN.L) COVID-19 shots, which were...

The FDA advisory panel that voted 17-0 on Wednesday to recommended Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for children 5-11, despite acknowledging the lack of safety data and a 99.998% survival rate from infection, included a half-dozen members with ties to the pharmaceutical giant. Among the members were a former vice president of Pfizer Vaccines, a recent Pfizer consultant, a recent Pfizer research grant recipient, the mentor of a current top Pfizer vaccine executive, the operator of a center that distributes Pfizer vaccines and the chairman of a Pfizer data group, reported the National File.

Republican leaders are getting on board with Donald Trump’s growing list of Senate endorsements after months of hand-wringing over the former president’s picks. Despite early concerns that Trump could tip the scales toward untested primary candidates who could jeopardize the GOP’s mission to recapture control of the Senate next year, many Republicans are now expressing ease – even excitement – about the former president’s endorsements. “Six months ago, I would have told you that he should stay out of it, just let the primaries play out,” one Republican consultant who has worked on Senate campaigns said. “I don’t see a...

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