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November 10, 2021 Saint Leo the Great, Pope, Doctor on Wednesday of week 32 in Ordinary TimeReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White.Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingWisdom 6:1-11 ©Kings, your power is a gift to you from the LordListen, kings, and understand;rulers of remotest lands, take warning;hear this, you who have thousands under your rule,who boast of your hordes of subjects.For power is a gift to you from the Lord,sovereignty is from the Most High;he himself will probe your acts and scrutinise your intentions.If, as administrators of his kingdom, you have not governed...

Parents who never imagined running for office battled to win seats on local school boards last week; they won some, but lost many. Their fiercest opponents were the teachers unions. The media portrayed these school board races as culture wars, but more than anything they were struggles by parents to wrest control of the boards from self-serving unions. For decades, the unions have maintained a tight grip on who gets elected. No wonder school district decisions -- about budgets, masking, COVID closures, curriculum and teacher contracts -- protect teachers first. Never mind what's best for kids. That needs to change....

A Michigan school district was forced to close its doors after several staff members suffered adverse reactions following a Covid booster clinic. The Saginaw Township Community Schools admitted in a Facebook post Monday that a “large number” of faculty members fell ill following booster jabs.

In a new USA Today/Suffolk University poll, resident Joe Biden's approval is down to 38%. Which looks pretty good compared to Vice resident Kamala Harris, whose approval now stands at 28%. Democrats have just been reprimanded by voters, with the upset victory of Republican candidate and political novice Glenn Youngkin in the governor's race in Virginia, an almost upset victory in New Jersey by Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli, who came within 2% of the vote of winning, and revolts in school board elections nationwide, pushing back against critical race theory and COVID-19 government interventions. It's not rocket science that...

The Food And Drug Administration (FDA) approved an emergency use authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children as young as 5 years old despite the fact that its Pfizer-connected advisory committee knew about numerous adverse events that were reported in Pfizer’s clinical trials for children, including adverse events that were determined to be “related” to the clinical vaccine trial.

Al Gore has been pushing the unproven climate change hypothesis ever since he left the Clinton administration, produced the 2006 fantasy movie, “An Inconvenient Truth,” and begged an unwilling massage therapist, “Come on, Baby, Release my Chakra,”...Inconvenient Truth won awards, but then again, so did Andrew Cuomo’s daily COVID briefings. The Gore film was riddled with misconceptions and silly predictions. To make matters worse, Gore himself admitted on the tenth anniversary of the documentary this past May that the film is flawed, although he qualified his concession by insisting that he had underestimated the seriousness of the problem. Now that...

WASHINGTON, Saturday, Nov. 9. It will be gratifying to the country to know that at the present time over 450,000 troops have been mustered in the service of the Government, and by the meeting of Congress, three weeks hence, the half million authorized to be raised by act of July will have been made up. Those wishing to volunteer must decide quickly, or the only chance left them to fight will be in the regular service, which will then, no doubt, experience no difficulty in getting recruits. In respect to the blockade, all the advices received at the State Department...

… you can check out but you can never leave.Via Soviet Men I discovered a three part Youtube series by a presenter called Aussie Cossack about a family fleeing Australia for Russia. There is much that could be said about the family, their attitudes and the experiences that have caused them to reevaluate their comfortable suburban Australian experience and take the drastic step of leaving the country to live in what used to be the namesake for persecution. But times are strange and there is nothing new under the sun. As an Australian who left Australia for ten years,...

The whistleblower said that employees were required to complete the "Knowing Who You Are" training, and then report back to their supervisor to state that they completed it. They said it was required as a condition of employment. The training, though not explicitly stating that it's critical race theory, encompasses many of the race-based tenants it's based on. The course teaches that race and ethnicity are essential to every aspect of life.The training cites a TedX Talk given by Dr. Camara Jones, an activist that helped pioneer the idea of institutionalized racism, and claims that racism is a public health...

What a Shock ! I know you will find this hard to believe, but . . . from a total of 46 US Presidents, Biden is rated as the 6th best. The Texas A&M's Public Relations Office released this statement: "After just 7 months in office, Americans have rated President Biden the 6th best President ever." These are the Details on the Ratings, according to Texas A&M: 1. Reagan, Lincoln, and Trump tied for first, 2. Twenty-three presidents tied for second, 3. Seventeen other presidents tied for third, 4. Jimmy Carter came in fourth, 5. Barack Hussein Obama came in...

No one can be surprised that when Democrats lose elections (and almost lose elections that "weren't supposed to be close"), the liberals blame an infernal "right-wing media machine." That's what Brian Stelter did in his "Reliable Sources" podcast on Nov. 4. Stelter turned to professor Brian Rosenwald, author of "Talk Radio's America: How An Industry Took Over a Political Party That Took Over the United States." What listeners heard was a lot of lame theorizing and very few specifics. To process Democrats losing the governor's race in Virginia, Stelter quoted from leftist Washington Post blogger Greg Sargent that while Republican...

A Nebraska woman will spend the rest of her life behind bars for the horrific abduction, torture, murder, and dismemberment of a female store clerk whom she met on Tinder. A three judge panel on Monday handed down a life sentence to Bailey Boswell, 26, after she was convicted of first-degree murder in the 2017 slaying of Sydney Loofe, prosecutors said.

Alleged Victim Gaige Grosskreutz Implodes, Admits Had Glock Pointed At Kyle When Shot, Lied to Police About ItIf there’s a smoking gun in the Kyle Rittenhouse murder case, it’s going to be the one fired by the prosecutor.At hit his foot, apparently Defense: “When you were standing three to five feet from him with your arms up in the air, he never fired, right?”Grosskreutz: “Correct.”Defense: “It wasn’t until you pointed your gun at him, advanced on him, with your gun — now your hands down — pointed at him, that he fired at you, right?Grosskreutz: “Correct.”There is no government misconduct...

frustrated because what you signed up for was for students to learn. And it just ended up being a conversation about points all the time.” These days, the Alhambra High School English teacher has done away with points entirely. He no longer gives students homework and gives them multiple opportunities to improve essays and classwork. The goal is to base grades on what students are learning, and remove behavior, deadlines and how much work they do from the equation. The changes Moreno embraced are part of a growing trend in which educators are moving away from traditional point-driven grading systems,...

It seems that no American institution is immune to the phenomenon. You have some organization out there that for all you know is just a regular and sensible group of professionals. You don’t pay much attention to what they are up to because, after all, you have your own life to lead. Then one day, for whatever reason, you have occasion to take a look at their latest utterances. And immediately it hits you — Holy Shit!, the Body Snatchers have gotten them too. The people involved seem by their physical appearance to be nearly unchanged, but they have developed...

Republican Governor @BillLeeTN is refusing to sign a bill, which: - Bans COVID-19 vaccine mandates - Clampdown on vaccine passports - Provides doctors with the right to prescribe what is best - Protects workers from vaccine discrimination @seanmdav The Tennessee legislature passed a sweeping bill banning COVID-19 vaccine mandates and protecting individuals from discrimination by government and corporate entities. That was over a week ago. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has thus far refused to sign it.

You must understand how badly corrupted our criminal justice system has become, making it sensible for an innocent man publicly to declare his guilt. My son asked why some of the January 6th protesters are pleading guilty to crimes that they didn’t commit. That made me realize that there are probably many people out there who don’t know how America’s criminal justice system really works today. If you think that you’re innocent until proven guilty, then you’ve been misinformed. That was the old way. Today, in the United States of America, you’re guilty until you can afford to be proven...

U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- Becky Sullivan of NPR makes a startling claim of fact, which is not in evidence from the trial or the criminal complaint.It is especially relevant because it is a claim about a crucial moment in the sequence of events where the apparent first aggressor, Joseph Rosenbaum, attacked Kyle Rittenhouse. Mr. Rosenbaum attempted to grab the barrel of the rifle Rittenhouse had pointed toward the ground between him and Rosenbaum. The relevant testimony is at 2:34:40 in the video of the trial.The rifle is pointed at the ground between Rittenhouse and Rosenbaum. Rosenbaum is first running, then lunging at...

I worry about Iran’s mullahs pursuing their murderous exploits with an arsenal of nuclear weapons, a venture that Barack Obama did everything in his power to facilitate. Obama himself purports to worry about “climate change,” f/k/a “global warming.” Obama traveled to the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow to give one of his seemingly endless speeches yesterday. Obama called out the villains of the “climate change” story including China, Russia, the Trump administration, and the Republican Party. “One of our two major parties has decided not only to sit on the sidelines, but express active hostility toward...