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What do you call a country whose prime minister chairs Russia’s six-nation military alliance, hosts a permanent Russian military base, holds a bilateral mutual defense pact with Russia, and whose customs and tariff policy is subsumed within Russia’s Eurasian Economic Union trade zone? The answer is, surely, “Russia’s ally.” Today, Armenia, the nation in question, is more under the control of the Kremlin than at any point since the collapse of the Soviet Union to which it once belonged. But it’s not what Armenians want. Who would? Still, the United States allowed this to happen to a Christian nation whose...

The FDA briefing document is preposterous junk science and it must be withdrawn immediatelyWhere to even begin with the FDA’s preposterous risk-benefit analysis of Pfizer’s mRNA COVID-19 “vaccine” in children ages 5 to 11?Let’s start with my bona fides. I have a year of undergraduate statistics at one of the best liberal arts colleges in America (Swarthmore). I have a year of graduate statistics at the masters program rated #1 for policy analysis (UC Berkeley). And I have a Ph.D. in political economy from one of the top universities in the world (University of Sydney). My research focus is on...

Embarrassing moment for prosecutor who appears to try to draw connection between Call of Duty and real-world killing During a bizarre exchange during the murder trial of teenager Kyle Rittenhouse, Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger asked the defendant if he chose his AR-15 because it “resembled the type of weapons used in first-person shooter video games” like “Call of Duty,” and collectively accused all gamers of trying to “pretty much trying to shoot everyone who comes at you.” BINGER: “You thought [the AR-15 rifle] resembled the types of weapons that are used in first person shooter video games, correct?” Covfefe...

Senior Trump-era Department of Justice officials made a flurry of calls on Jan. 6, including two calls between the acting attorney general and then-Vice President Mike Pence, and late afternoon calls from the White House main line, according to newly released call logs. The logs, released as part of a public records suit filed by the group American Oversight, detail a frantic timeline of calls between DOJ officials and Congressional leadership, law enforcement and military officials — with a call from the White House line not coming until shortly before 4 p.m. the day of the attack.

Weeks after the only In-N-Out Burger in San Francisco was closed down by health officials for failing to follow, COVID-19 protocols, it is unclear whether or not the burger chain will adhere to the latest vaccine mandate set out by the city of Los Angeles.

Our fellow Americans are finally waking up.

Here in the capital city of France, so many people here have a tough time believing that the version of President John F. Kennedy's assassination set in stone by the Warren Commission -- the one concluding that assassin Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone when he fired a bullet with a debatable trajectory into a sitting American president from the sixth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository 58 years ago. All you really need to know about French skepticism of official government narratives is that this is the country whose citizens still vividly recall the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine...

You know the way the world is going because you're happy it's happening. Out with the old ways of doing things -- going to work at an office, for example -- and in with doing your own thing. All the time, anywhere. I sense McDonald's understands this. It seems to have realized that people coming to work at its restaurants, greeting you as they take your order at the drive-thru and then quickly cooking your food is an outmoded concept. Instead, how about machines doing it all faster than humans ever could? Well, here's a little announcement the global burger...

California governor Gavin Newsom had an adverse reaction to getting the Covid booster and a flu shot within days of each other, leaving him with muscle weakness and fatigue, claim sources in the family's inner circle. The governor was last seen in public on October 27, after receiving a COVID-19 booster shot in Oakland. He had gotten a flu shot on October 22. Newsom finally appeared in a photo attending Ivy Getty's star-studded wedding this past weekend after disappearing from the public eye for nearly two weeks.

President Joe Biden’s soaring food costs are impacting the hungry at local food banks across the nation. Food banks, which run off the generosity of American workers in local communities, are having difficulty feeding the hungry due to increased food prices since Biden became president and took over the levers of the supply chain. Breitbart News reported Tuesday that food costs increased almost one percent last month and 5.3 percent in the last year.

A week and a half before the 2020 election, National File broke the story after a Project Veritas whistleblower provided a digital copy of Ashley Biden’s diary to journalist Patrick Howley. Today, the FBI searched two addresses in New York related to Project Veritas in an apparent attempt to gain information about how the diary was acquired, admitting that Ashley Biden reported the diary stolen in the process when the story was then broken by the New York Times. The Project Veritas whistleblower told National File that the diary was found at an address where Ashley Biden used to stay.

Whoopi Goldberg told her co-host Wednesday on ABC’s “The View” that Dr. Anthony Fauci is the “sexist Doctor” while discussing “People Magazine” naming actor Paul Rudd the “Sexist Man Alive.” Goldberg said, “So apparently, People Magazine has announced their Sexiest Man Alive of 2021, Actor Paul Rudd, now he says plenty of people are more deserving than him but adds that he can’t wait to be invited to some of those sexy dinners with Clooney and Pitt and Michael B. Jordan.

This was the sound of the case against Kyle Rittenhouse disintegrating: Rittenhouse defense attorney: "It wasn’t until you pointed your gun at him—advanced on him—that he fired, right?”Person Shot by Rittenhouse: "Correct." [snip] And, much as it must have hurt them to do so, the Morning Joe crew had to admit the undeniable today: that Grosskreutz's admission was devastating to the prosecution.Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

The first Capitol riot defendant to plead guilty to assaulting an officer has been sentenced to 41 months in prison, the harshest sentence yet imposed for the attack. Judge Royce Lamberth sentenced ex-MMA fighter Scott Fairlamb to approximately three and a half years in prison and three years probation for assaulting an officer while he was part of the violent mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6 in support of former President Trump.

Her first live feed allegedly showed her taking two Canada Goose jackets from Nordstrom. She later posted the footage to a YouTube account that had her name on it, according to prosecutors. Another video, also posted to Rochon’s Facebook and YouTube accounts, showed her taking inventory from the Sunglass Hut and putting it in the back seat of “her looting car,” Assistant State’s Attorney James Murphy said. One Twitter user was even kind enough to credit Rochon when they Tweeted her video: Judge Vincent Gaughan sentenced her to two concurrent 17-month sentences. That time was offset by the 445 days...

Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) blasted President Joe Biden for his withdrawal of U.S. troops out of Afghanistan. Graham said Biden “doesn’t understand the nature of the war on terrorism,” adding that he was the “most incompetent president in my lifetime.” He said that giving the Taliban, which took over Afghanistan as a result of the bother withdrawal, aid “would be the ultimate betrayal” of those harmed by the Taliban.

“If you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth” (James 3:14). A wise person lives for God and others, not for self. Having characterized spiritual wisdom in the preceding verse, James begins to analyze worldly wisdom in verse 14. Worldly wisdom is not of God. It has no relationship to Him, is not obedient to Him, and has no knowledge of His truth. What is the motive of someone who lives according to worldly wisdom? “Bitter jealousy and selfish ambition.” The Greek word translated “bitter” also means “harsh”...

Many Christians talk about intimacy with the Lord, walking with him, knowing him, having fellowship with him; but we can’t have true communion with God unless we receive into our hearts the full revelation of his love, grace and mercy. Communion with God consists of two things: 1. Receiving the love of the Father 2. Loving him in return You can spend hours each day in prayer, telling the Lord how much you love him, but that isn’t communion. If you haven’t received his love, you haven’t had communion with him. You simply can’t share intimacy with the Lord unless...

Memorial of Saint Leo the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church Luke 17:11-19 Friends, today’s Gospel recounts the Lord’s healing of ten lepers, only one of whom comes back to give thanks. Leprosy frightened people in ancient times, just as contagious and mysterious diseases frighten people today. But, more than this, leprosy rendered someone unclean and therefore incapable of engaging in the act of worship. It is not accidental that the person responsible for examining the patient in ancient Israel was the priest. The priest’s job was to monitor the whole process of Israelite worship, very much including who...

Lynsi Snyder-Ellingson, the famously private owner of In-N-Out Burger, had a call with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis this week after the company's high-profile spat with Bay Area health departments over proof-of-vaccination requirements. DeSantis press secretary Christina Pushaw said that Snyder-Ellingson and the governor had a "productive conversation" on Monday about In-N-Out possibly expanding to Florida. DeSantis, whose hands-off approach to the pandemic has made him a serious 2024 presidential candidate, is one of the country's most visible proof-of-vaccination opponents. Florida law currently bars companies or government entities from requiring proof of vaccination from customers. In-N-Out entered the national discourse over...