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A man stood atop the Brooklyn Bridge Wednesday with a flag reading, "F*** Biden," initiating chants from protesters. The man led protesters in chanting, "F*** Joe Biden," as the crowd, holding American flags and signs, marched over the bridge during a demonstration against vaccine mandates, a tweet containing a video of the event says. **SNIP** New York Mayor Bill De Blasio has imposed strict vaccine mandates on the city, prompting fierce pushback from residents in some cases. De Blasio has previously pleaded with New Yorkers to comply with his mandate, saying that getting the vaccine will allow people “to enjoy...

OK, I'm an old Gen X-er. I recall the Trifecta of 1980s men's colognes: Drakkar Noir, Polo for Men, and Paco Rabanne. Am I missing anything? My favorite was Drakkar. I practically bathed in the stuff, thinking it would mask my cigarette and weed smoke from my parents (it didn't). Anyhow, a Twitter person I follow seemed genuinely shocked to pass someone wearing Drakkar. This begs the question. Do scents go out of style?

Police investigating a deadly crush that killed eight at a Travis Scott-headlined festival in Houston say a crazed man injected at least one person with opioids during the chaos. Houston Chief of Police Troy Finner made the shocking claim at a press conference Saturday after hours of rumors about the Astroworld Fest tragedy, and Mayor of Houston Sylvester Turner revealed the victims were aged between 14 and 27. 'One of the narratives was that some individual was injecting other people with drugs. We do have a report of a security officer, according to the medical staff that was out and...

The BMJ (British Medical Journal) a prestigious medical journal is reporting on a whistleblower that "tells all" about the shoddy and fake practices of the Pfizer trial that lead to approval of the Pfizer "so called" vaccine by the FDA. Nothing too revealing for Freepers. It was a sham! Let's hear it for "trust the science!"

The national embarrassment in the Oval Office finds new ways to make a mockery of the United States every time he talks to someone. This week, that “someone” happened to be the Duchess of Cornwall. Camilla apparently can’t stop talking about Biden “breaking wind” during a reception on Monday. He is supposed to be committed to reducing emissions – but when President Joe Biden produced a little natural gas of his own at the COP26 summit, it was audible enough to make the Duchess of Cornwall blush. An informed source has told The Mail on Sunday that Camilla was taken...

Well-known Christian pastor Francis Chan is raising questions after comments he made about the history of Holy Communion. The pastor, preaching on the "Body of Christ and Communion," pointed out that the way Catholics view communion, a sacrament evoking Jesus at the Last Supper and part of Mass, hasn't received the same attention and devotion in Protestant churches. Instead, it has been reduced to "just a symbol," Chan complained. Traditionally, Catholics view it as Jesus' literal body and blood, whereas Protestants view it as a symbol. “I didn’t know that for the first 1,500 years of church history, everyone saw...

Garrigou-Lagrange against Lutheran ErrorsFrom The Three Ages of the Interior LifeFr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P.It is all the more important to recall the necessity and the true nature of the interior life, because the true conception of it, as given to us in the Gospel, in the Epistles of St. Paul and in the whole of Tradition, has been partially obscured by many false ideas. In particular it is evident that the notion of the interior life is radically corrupted in the Lutheran theory of justification or conversion. According to this theory, the mortal sins of the convert are not positively...

The Broyles of Tennessee were visiting Yellowstone National Park where they got an unexpected welcome on the park’s entrance road. A herd of bison, estimated to number around 150, sauntered down the highway stopping traffic and engulfing the Broyles’ SUV, all captured on video.

Biden's ATF obtained more than 54 million gun owner records in 2021 alone 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...

New Jersey Democrat President Steve Sweeney was stunningly defeated by a truck driver named Edward Durr in last Tuesday’s elections. However, Sweeney has refused to concede the election. When questioned about why he refuses to concede, the most powerful Democrat in the New Jersey legislature said his campaign just found 12,000 ballots to help him. They don’t even try to hide the corruption anymore.

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemEzra 9:55 Then, at the evening sacrifice, I rose from my self-abasement, with my tunic and cloak torn, and fell on my knees with my hands spread out to the Lord my God_______________________________________________________God Bless America.ML/LTOS

In the lifespan of a sandwich, 40 years is no joke. Between the commemorative NFTs and the early product releases, McDonald’s is celebrating the 40th birthday of the McRib in a big way. And so is Ryan Reynolds, who made a cocktail inspired by the McRib using his own booze, Aviation Gin. The cocktail, rightfully named the Gin Riblet, is made by combining 4 ounces of tomato juice, ½ ounce of barbecue sauce, a squeeze of lemon, and 1½ oz of Aviation American Gin. The drink is definitely a savory sip and probably pairs well with the McRib itself. Other...

Florida has the lowest daily average of coronavirus cases per capita in the United States, according to the New York Times’ coronavirus map and case count. The chart, last updated Saturday, shows the Sunshine State reporting seven new cases per 100,000 — a drop of 28 percent in the last 14 days. Louisiana and Hawaii follow, reporting an average per capita of eight. As it has been for weeks, blue states are continuing to report significantly higher figures. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s (D) Michigan is reporting 49 cases per capita, the daily average standing at 4,925 cases. That reflects a 26...

ON PRAYER The Sacred Scriptures urge us to pray always. That seems impossible at first sight; you can't spend your life on your knees. But people pray in many ways. Physical positions and movements, the lotus position for Buddhists, kneeling and folding hands for many Christian faith groups are prayer. Any attention paid to God is prayer. Whether or not any words are spoken, the actions themselves express awareness of, and communication with, God. As St. Teresa of Avila put it, way back in the 16th century, "For though we are always in the presence of God, it seems...

The number 600 days speaks for itself. Do you realize that you' have been lied to yet? Is this now "Government of the pharmaceutical industry, by the pharmaceutical industry, for the pharmaceutical industry?" How many mandated booster shots of the useless "vaccines" will it take to wake up the remaining COVIDiots?

UPDATE - James O'Keefe just posted a video on Telegram in which he reads a chapter from Orwell's 1984.

The Houston PD's Chief, Troy Finner, just confirmed what we'd been told ... namely, that at least one person had been injected with something via needle -- and there well may have been more. Chief Finner said a security guard working the event felt a prick in his neck by an unknown assailant while he was trying to restrain a citizen -- and he quickly fell unconscious. Finner says the guard was revived by use of NARCAN ... and that medical personnel did, indeed, see something on his neck that indicated he'd been stabbed with a syringe.

President Biden’s much-touted vaccine mandate for businesses with 100 employees or more met a roadblock on Saturday when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Court issued a temporary stay blocking the mandate while considering a permanent injunction. The ruling from a three-judge panel on Saturday resulted from a stay sought by the states of Texas, Utah, Mississippi and South Carolina, as well as several businesses that opposed the Biden plan. The states and businesses filed a petition of review of the agency action, which goes directly to a federal appeals court instead of a one-judge federal district...

Just days before the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s top conference, COVID-19 has spread to more than a dozen provinces in China. In a southern city, there were reports of people panic shopping, while in the northeast province Heilongjiang authorities forced the lockdown of residential neighborhoods. The communist regime’s National Health Commission reported 93 locally transmitted cases in one day on Nov. 3, which is the highest this year. With the largest number of cases, Heihe City in Heilongjiang Province reported 35 cases, and 51 local communities have been shut down. This comes as the ruling CCP’s conclave—the Sixth Plenary...

House intelligence committee ranking member Devin Nunes and House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jim Jordan discuss several topics of concern in/around Washington DC including the recent indictment of Christopher Steele source Igor Danchenko. {Direct Rumble Link} Within the conversation CTH readers get a good look at one of the problems we have discussed exclusively on these pages, the issue of the information silos. Both Nunes and Jordan discuss information from the perspective of their legislative silo, without standing back to consider the issues as they exist in the larger dynamic. Ex. ¹Notice how both congressional advocates discuss Danchenko from the...