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A Hollow Kind of Freedom If you haven’t figured it out yet, you are the final check in our Constitution’s checks and balances. Get up, there’s work to do!Earlier this month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted a pre-dawn raid on the home of James O’Keefe, the founder of the investigative journalism organization Project Veritas. The FBI was reportedly searching for a diary allegedly stolen from Ashley Biden, daughter of Joe Biden. The diary, which up until that point had not been authenticated, reportedly contained allegations of sexual improprieties within, and among, the Biden family. Project Veritas had received the...

At some point in the coming days the penny will drop, and we’ll all be seized of the implications attending to the ongoing disaster on Canada’s west coast. First the rain, then the wind, and soon, everything will be freezing. For starters, if you think the Canadian economy is beset by global “supply chain” bottlenecks now, you just wait. The Port of Vancouver, North Fraser, Fraser-Surrey Docks and Deltaport are now cut off from the rest of Canada, by road and by rail. Both CN Rail and CP Rail are assessing the extent of the damage to their rail lines...

Source: Townhall MediaAccording to the media, Kyle Rittenhouse was a white supremacist. According to the media, Kyle Rittenhouse was an active shooter. According to the media, Kyle Rittenhouse was a murderer. In reality, he was none of these. Kyle Rittenhouse was a 17-year-old young man who went to Kenosha, Wisconsin, in order to protect businesses and administer medical aid to those who needed it. He was chased down by Joseph Rosenbaum, a 36-year-old convicted child molester; he shot Rosenbaum when Rosenbaum grabbed for his gun. He was then chased down by Anthony Huber, 26, a man convicted of two felony...

It’s chirp, peep and cheep day around here so I need to get my ducks in a row. Some people (liberals, mostly) would consider this a row.It’s also pizza day around here, as I’ve discovered that Raj is much happier if he gets a pizza fix once a week. We can forego Taco Tuesday but Pizza Wednesday is sacred. I might even get him a Pizza!Pizza!™ today as he’s been very busy getting the MOTI list updated with all the new requests. If it were up to me you’d be waiting for the new list until after the New Year;...

The Centers for Disease Control, or CDC, once was a federal agency that nearly everyone respected. That no longer is the case. Now there are many reasons why the CDC should be widely disrespected. With over 10,000 Americans dying weekly from COVID-19, the CDC is not protecting public health. Its latest debacle is how it changed the definition of "vaccine." Just imagine this: The entire push for COVID "vaccines" was based on a lie – they did not meet the official CDC definition of a vaccine. Through deception, the government could coerce the entire population to get the shot. Calling...

Americans may be grappling with how to put food on the table amid a sharp rise in the cost of everyday goods — but you’d never know it from the tab President Biden has racked up on their dime. Biden’s choice of regular weekend and a few midweek trips home to Delaware have cost nearly $3 million in security alone, Secret Service expense records shared with The Post show. Biden’s security detail spent $1.96 million on 16 trips to his Delaware homes this year, the records indicate. Another nine trips aren’t yet counted and likely push the total to $3...

Congress is not hiding their desire to eliminate guns from law abiding gun owners and they are doing it by submitting and passing bills into law that will shred the power of our Second Amendment. Our forefathers thought so highly of the right of citizens to own guns to protect themselves but ultimately to protect themselves from a government that had become too powerful, controlling and basically, out of control that they included protection of that right in our Bill of Rights. It is quite clear that the foresight these incredibly brilliant men had was prescient. It is also quite...

Amid a national lockdown of the unvaccinated, police in Austria are patrolling stores and stopping cars to check the vaccination status of citizens and residents. An Austrian television news report showed officers stopping shoppers at a retail outlet and ordering them to display on their smartphones verification that they had been vaccinated for COVID-19. Reacting to a spike in COVID cases and ICU patients, Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg said Sunday that people who are unvaccinated can leave their homes only for "essential reasons" such as shopping for food. "In reality we have told one third of the population: You will...

While running for president in 2020, Joe Biden accused then-President Trump of turning the Department of Justice (DOJ) into his “own private law firm.” On another occasion during the campaign, Biden labeled the Trump administration, “the most corrupt administration in modern American history.” At the same time, Biden vowed that if he won the presidency, he would ensure the DOJ would be “totally independent” and he would “not direct them who to prosecute, what to prosecute, how to prosecute,” nor would he “inject” his personal opinion into what cases the DOJ pursues. That was then. This is now. Over the...

November 17, 2021 Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, Religious on Wednesday of week 33 in Ordinary Time St. Elizabeth of Hungary Catholic Church Pflugerville, TX Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White.Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading2 Maccabees 7:1,20-31 ©The creator of the world will give you back both breath and lifeThere were seven brothers who were arrested with their mother. The king tried to force them to taste pig’s flesh, which the Law forbids, by torturing them with whips and scourges. But the mother was especially admirable and worthy of honourable remembrance, for she...

President Biden may be secretly plotting to replace Vice President Kamala Harris, Fox News reports. There’s a lot of conjecture right now about the future of Vice President Harris and her lagging poll numbers,” congressional correspondent Chad Pergram said. According to a USA Today/Suffolk University poll, a majority of voters — 51 percent — disapprove of her job performance while just 28 percent approve. “As you know, I appreciate congressional process and mechanics. So I got a message recently from someone who knows Capitol Hill very well and they suggested I should familiarize myself with the process to confirm a...

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Since 2014, state and local governments have filed thousands of lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies they blame for causing the "opioid crisis" by exaggerating the benefits and minimizing the risks of prescription pain medication. The theory underlying these cases is pretty straightforward: Drug manufacturers lied, and people died. Two recent rulings -- one by a California judge, the other by the Oklahoma Supreme Court -- show how misleading this widely accepted narrative is. Both decisions recognize that undertreatment of pain is a real problem, and that bona fide patients rarely become addicted to prescription opioids, let alone die as a result....

The growing concern is that China and Russia see resident Biden’s weakness as a singular opportunity – best in decades – to double-team America, achieving regional goals with synchronized action while America stumbles. Warnings signs are everywhere. If leadership is not asserted, deterrence will fall away. China has been ramping up military pressure on Taiwan in ways unseen for decades, if ever. Mainland Communist leadership is aggressively threatening Taiwan, diplomatically, economically, and militarily, testing whether Biden will make Taiwan’s defense a clear priority or not. So far, little indication. China is methodically penetrating Taiwan’s maritime and air space with military...

Country says it can no longer be ‘rice first’ as it urges farmers in Mekong Delta to change planting techniques or consider alternatives. Mekong Delta, Vietnam – At the United Nations COP26 summit in Scotland, Vietnam’s Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh joined 109 countries in pledging to reduce methane emissions by 30 percent by 2030. To meet the commitment, the Southeast Asian nation will need to look at rice – one of the country’s key exports and a staple food – but also the second biggest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions among foodstuffs after beef. The heart of Vietnam’s rice...

FORTRESS MONROE, Friday, Nov. 15. The United States steam-frigate San Jacinto, Capt. WILKES, arrived in the Roadstead at 12 1/2 P.M., having on board the rebel Commissioners, SLIDELL and MASON. They were taken from the English mail steamer on the 8th instant off Bermuda. Lieut. FAIRFAX and thirty-five armed men went from the San Jacinto with five officers, who boarded the steamer and picked out the Commissioners. Messrs. SLIDELL and MASON made feeble resistance, but were induced to leave with Lieut. FAIRFAX. The captain of the steamer raved and swore, called the United States officers "piratical Yankees," and other abusive...

Rep. Nancy Mace, a first-year Republican from South Carolina, introduced a bill on Monday that proposes to end the federal prohibition on cannabis.

By now you must have noticed how many of the big news stories that have political significance to the left, and are hyped for months or years (or even decades) on end throughout the mainstream media, turn out to be false. Donald Trump colluded with the Russians to hack and steal the 2016 election. Kyle Rittenhouse is a white supremacist vigilante who went to Kenosha to make trouble. There is no such thing as Critical Race Theory taught in K-12 schools. “Climate change” is an existential crisis that can be easily solved at little cost by building wind turbines and...

<p>Twelve hours isn’t nearly enough time to properly riot, silly!</p><p>You need at least a weekend for sufficient criminality, I mean, those Molotov cocktails don’t construct themselves.</p><p>Sometimes you need weeks to get all the rage out of your system, like in Minneapolis, or even months like those slowpokes in Seattle. To paraphrase Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, the former mayor of Baltimore, anarchists need sufficient time in which to destroy.</p>

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