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Days before the twenty-sixth Conference of Parties in Glasgow, Scotland.Pope Francis and resident Biden met in Rome to discuss “efforts grounded in respect for fundamental human dignity,” including “tackling the climate crisis and caring for the poor.” They should have read Climate Change: The Facts 2017before they met, especially my chapter critiquing His Holiness’s energy and climate “ethics.” Their horse-blindered focus on “manmade climate change” ignores skyrocketing energy prices; the sporadic, unpredictable nature of wind and solar power; the wildly exaggerated human influences on climate and weather; and the fact that many times more people die in cold weather than...

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When Granholm started giggling in response to a question about soaring gas prices, she revealed something chilling about the Biden administration. A short video is circulating showing Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm’s response to being asked about rising gas prices. Granholm starts giggling and says “That is hilarious.” Most thought she was laughing at people’s suffering but, in a way, her response was worse than that because she was really laughing about the fact that she and Biden do not plan to improve the situation for ordinary Americans. Rising gas prices are a huge problem. Not only do they make...

It is way past time to call out those who use false allegations of racism to obtain power and exert political leverage as perpetuating the worst kind of evil. For many years, it was common for pundits to remark, "The difference between Republicans and Democrats is that Republicans think Democrats are wrong and misguided, while Democrats believe that Republicans are evil." This didn't particularly bother Republicans because they saw the Democrats' charge as an absurd point of view, not to be taken too seriously. After all, most Republicans believe in limiting the powers of government, a colorblind society that rewards...

Internal Democratic tensions over cultural change, equity and “wokeness” are boiling over after the party’s dismal showing in this week’s elections. Progressives and centrists are in a pitched battle over how best to grapple with huge debates that have been roiling the nation in recent years. Those debates touch on some of the rawest topics in American life: race, gender and sexuality, as well as policing, criminal justice and education. To the centrists, progressives are pushing and prodding the party out of the mainstream of American opinion, risking further electoral calamity. The left, they argue, is too glib, and too...

"Love is love." "Science is science." Homes and offices in Washington, D.C. must display every politically correct lawn sign there is. Could it be these signs give a sense of belonging, the kind that used to be provided by organized religion? And what does "Love is love" and "Science is science" really mean? This was the gist of remarks made by Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez at a recent conference in Madrid. He was asked to speak about some of the movements that seem to be playing a role that religion might otherwise do -- "social justice," "wokeness," "identity politics,"...

As a teacher, union membership has always been more of an expectation than a suggestion—and I’ve been a dues-paying, card-carrying member of my union since I started teaching 25 years ago. Despite years of disagreeing with the union’s overt politics, I maintained my membership. Until last month, when I finally said “enough is enough” and terminated my relationship with my union. The glaring weaknesses in our education system have been on full display over the past two years, and while some of these problems are only just becoming apparent to the general public, unfortunately, we teachers have been cognizant of...

It was a Friday in the late spring of 2016, and I was scrambling to figure out what I was going to teach my students during first period. I was in the heart of coaching through a rugby season, and exams were fast approaching — needless to say I was a busy teacher/coach. My first period class was a geography class, and I could tell that my students were visibly sluggish, and the advent of warm and sunny weather — something that always seems miraculous in Canada — beckoned their attention toward the window. As an experienced teacher, I decided...

"Just to be clear with what Osha is doing: they're clearly not doing science, because they reject immunity through prior infection. They reject the Israel study, and all the very strong studies that have come out that show people who have recovered from Covid have strong protection. They totally cast that aside and they make no accommodation or acknowledgement of that in any way, shape or form." "Those individuals who have gone through a normal vaccination series for COVID—you will be determined to be unvaccinated very soon…They’re gonna to tell you: ‘You have to get a booster, otherwise you could...

resident Joe Biden took to the phones for last-minute calls to key House members as Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed through two critical votes late Friday on the Democratic agenda: the president's $1.75 trillion "Build Back Better" social spending and climate policy package and the separate $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan. The final vote on the infrastructure plan, already passed by the Senate, passed 228-206, with 13 Republicans joining Democrats and six Democrats voting against. The bill will now be sent to Biden's desk for signature. In the end, it took 87 days following the passage of the bill in the...

How people talk about political issues in America has declined in the post-WW II era. Journalist Edward R. Murrow said that Winston Churchill “mobilized the English language and sent it into battle” in WWII with his memorable speeches in Parliament and broadcasts to the English people when England stood alone against the Nazi onslaught. The only comparable figure in American politics since 1945 has been Ronald Reagan. He changed how people thought of the Cold War when he stood in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in April 1987 and said, “General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if...

Environmental activist Greta Thunberg is in Glasgow, where the COP26 summit is taking place. The 18-year-old is one of the world's best known climate campaigners. What has she said about COP26? Greta Thunberg has called the climate summit a "failure" and a "PR exercise". She told a youth protest in Glasgow that world leaders had had "26 COPs, they have had decades of blah, blah, blah - and where has that got us?". She has also criticised goals for cutting emissions which cause global warming, saying: "We don't just need goals for just 2030 or 2050. We, above all, need...

In a soon-to-be released report, called “TCF Timeline - The 2020 General Election in Detroit,” from Michigan Citizens for Election Integrity, author Phillip O’Halloran meticulously details the disturbing events at the absentee voter counting boards at the TCF Center in Detroit during the 2020 election, which can only be characterized as 'fraud.' It's the story of a whistleblower, Jessy Jacob, who worked in ballot-counting and was appalled at what she saw. Her story briefly was told in some of the press but not truly heard by the public given the pushback by mainstream media which claimed there was no fraud...

Mollie Hemingway has written a blockbuster book about all the strands of deception and falsehoods that converged to take down Donald Trump on Nov. 3 and 4 and beyond (and before), in her book: Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech and the Democrats Seized Our Elections (Regnery, 2021). I twice asked two Barnes and Noble stores in two weeks whether they had it in stock, and each time -- no. So I finally had to order it online. It has ten chapters, plus a prologue and an epilogue. The total number of endnotes is 1,243 (I added them up), many...

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) said Thursday on MSNBC that Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin won because he followed in the footsteps of former President Donald Trump by “lying to people.” Gillibrand said, “As for the election, I think Virginia was a tough case. I think the Republican candidate lied a lot to the people, to the voters, and really, really, really said things that I think weren’t true. I think parents are worried about their kids. I think parents are worried about schools, and they’re still worried about COVID.” Guest host Chris Jansing said, “But he did tap into something....

November 6th, 2021Feast of St. Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist St. John the Baptist church, Beloit, Kansas Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White First readingRomans 16:3-9,16,22-27 ©The mystery kept secret for endless ages must be broadcast everywhereMy greetings to Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, who risked death to save my life: I am not the only one to owe them a debt of gratitude, all the churches among the pagans do as well. My greetings also to the church that meets at their house. Greetings to my friend Epaenetus, the first of Asia’s gifts to Christ;...

A Florida girl may have to repeat second grade after she was suspended more than 30 times for refusing to comply with the district’s face mask mandate. The recalcitrant student in Palm Beach County was described by her mom, Bailey Lashells, as a typical child who enjoys arts and crafts, drawing and making jewelry ... She said her daughter “has been steadfast” in her decision to “do everything she can for every child going through these lawless mandates.” The 7-year-old student has since been slapped with a total of 36 days of suspensions and multiple in-school disciplinary actions. 7-year-old Fiona...

NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered previously unknown organic molecules, ammonia and benzoic acid, on Mars that could be possible indicators of ancient life. The findings stem from a new technique used by the American space agency in 2017 when the rover's drill stopped working, but the team re-routed Curiosity to place dirt samples into cups pre-filled with a chemical mixture instead of the typical empty containers. The molecules are not biosignatures, evidence of past or present life, but according Maëva Millan, a postdoctoral fellow at NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center, they are good indicators of the presence of biosignatures.... The dirt...

The Biden administration in just the past year alone stockpiled the records of more than 54 million U.S. gun owners and is poised to drastically alter gun regulations to ensure that information on Americans who own firearms ultimately ends up in the federal government's hands, according to internal Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The ATF in fiscal year 2021 processed 54.7 million out-of-business records, according to an internal ATF document obtained by the Gun Owners of America, a firearms advocacy group, and provided exclusively to the Free Beacon. When a licensed gun store...

I HAVE had a bellyful of COP26. Hypocrisy and harangues dispensed by teenagers, billionaires, royalty, and corporate lobbyists, make a bilious mix. Another week to go. How much more of this phoney righteousness are we expected to swallow? The crack troops of the new world order, individuals who are probably right in thinking that they run the world, arrive in 400 jets to give us our orders in the name of stopping a climate apocalypse. Every measure they suggest will make ordinary people worse off. You won’t drive a car. You won’t go on holiday. Your house will be cold,...