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I like to check Drudge once a week or so, just to see what’s going on in the now enemy camp of progressive reportáge. Today is classic, here’s a screenshot:along with the linked stories:EUROPE'S LOCKDOWN FURY... DUTCH POLICE OPEN FIRE...Thousands rally in Australia...Crisis pits vaccinated against unvaccinated...FIGHT INTENSIFIES: HOW MANY SHOTS WILL BE REQUIRED?Business Owners Face Wary Workers...DISNEY puts policy on hold for employees...UPDATE: Death Toll Higher Than Last Year...Well dang, whoever thought the elitists’ plan to stomp on our face forever could backfire? But imagine that - the Euros don’t want a return to fascism after all, no matter...

Author’s Note: Interested readers can find all previous volumes of this series here. News Flash: The first 56 volumes are compiled into a book titled “Bible Study For Those Who Don’t Read The Bible.” More details at the end. Now back to our regular programming.Thanks for joining us today. We begin our Thanksgiving-themed Bible study with a memorable quote from my deceased sister, Andrea: “I love Thanksgiving because all you have to do is show up and eat.” Yes, true, but now her baby sister will embellish:“I love Thanksgiving to God because all you have to do is show up,...

You’ve heard the saying, “If you don’t like the heat, then get out of the kitchen.” Well, that only works if you’re not called to be in the kitchen. For those of us who are called to be there, it would be better to say, “Get used to the heat and get in the kitchen.” When it comes to the conflicts and controversies of our day, if we love God and we love our neighbor, do we really have a choice? On a daily basis, often from many different sides, I get blasted for positions I take in writing or...

The Talk Shows November 21st, 2021 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchored by Chris Wallass. Guest anchor Bret Baier: Former Gov. Chris Christie (R-N.J.); Brian Deese, the National Economic Council. Virginia Ali, Ben’s Chili Bowl (hmmm... Is that what they found in Biden’s colon?). Panel of Wallass idiots: Jason Riley; Susan Page, USA Today; Harold Ford Jr. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Chuck U. Toad: Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg; Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.); Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.). Panel: Kristen Soltis Anderson (“The Trendline”); Kelly O’Donnell; Rev. Al Sharpton; Betsy...

Senator Forest-Niesing was double vaccinated for COVID but suffered from an autoimmune condition that affected her lungs, according to a statement from her office on Tuesday. Her staff also said they were unsure how she contracted the virus....

Kyle Rittenhouse is not a hero for his actions on the night of August 25, 2020. Those events are a tragedy all around. The taking of human life, even when done in self-defense and against a less-than-stellar citizen, should never be treated lightly. Kyle Rittenhouse may, however, be a hero of a different sort, one whose heroism falls more under the domain of the First Amendment than the Second. By taking the stand and testifying at his trial, Rittenhouse showed the world the falsity of the narratives that had been set up around him, and in doing so did a...

....I resided in the great city of London. I was there when Imperial College terrorized the world with a projected 3.5-percent infection fatality rate for COVID-19, after which the British prime minister, followed by a hapless American president and leaders around the world, decided to lock healthy people in their homes indefinitely. I was there when the archbishop of Canterbury and the Catholic bishops of Britain pleaded with the government to close the churches. I was there when the Church of England forbade its priests to answer the urgent call of the NHS for additional volunteer chaplains to minister to...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemEzekiel 1Ezekiel’s Inaugural Vision 1 In my thirtieth year, in the fourth month on the fifth day, while I was among the exiles by the Kebar River, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God. 2 On the fifth of the month—it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin— 3 the word of the Lord came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, by the Kebar River in the land of the Babylonians.[a] There the hand of the Lord was on him. 4 I looked, and I saw a...

The Biden administration has made it clear they oppose the potential of stablecoins. But proponents view these private digital tokens, which are backed by reserve assets such as the U.S. dollar and short-term debt (e.g., commercial paper), as serving a key function to ensuring that all Americans have access to financial services. Pervasive opposition to digital tokens in the Biden administration could terminate future opportunities for providing capital to Americans that currently lack access to financing and bank deposits. Overregulation will stifle innovative financing products that could help provide capital for the unbanked and underbanked, or individuals who lack sufficient...

Shantell Jones gave birth in an ambulance parked on the side of a Connecticut highway. Even though she lived six blocks away from a hospital, the emergency vehicle had to drive to another one about 30 minutes away. The closer medical center, Windham Hospital, discontinued labor and delivery services last year and is working to permanently cease childbirth services after “years of declining births and recruitment challenges,” its operator, Hartford HealthCare, has said. But medical and public health experts say the step could potentially put pregnant women at risk if they don't have immediate access to medical attention. Losing obstetrics...

Some hypothetical scenarios in the wake of recent news. What's going on with COVID these past weeks? Here are a few news items: November 17, 2021: The United Kingdom has a very high vaccination rate against COVID-19. Yet, reports indicate that it currently has more coronavirus cases than it did even during last January’s peak when virtually no one was vaccinated. Maine sports the highest vaccinated population in the United States. It currently has more cases—and as many hospitalized-- as last winter’s peak when very few were vaccinated. Gibraltar is the most fully vaccinated place on Earth, with literally 100%...

A new poll found that most white women without a college degree think that President Joe Biden didn't "legitimately" win the 2020 election over Donald Trump. The Economist/YouGov poll, which was conducted between November 14 and November 16, asked respondents whether Biden "legitimately won the election, or not?" Of the 1,500 Americans surveyed for that study, 51 percent of white women who don't have college degrees said that Biden didn't legitimately defeat Trump in 2020, while 29 percent of white women with college degrees shared the same response.

Wokeism is the product of an educational system that has lost its way. Universities have become the de facto farm system for progressives. A deadly virus that threatens our way of life is spreading rapidly across the land. It is not COVID-19, but wokeism, and academia is its mothership. Wokeism is the product of an educational system that has lost its way. Universities have become the de facto farm system for progressives. The indoctrination process begins with suppressing the free exchange of ideas. Citing the risk of violence, university administrators have banned certain (predominantly conservative) speakers from campus because they...

Finding happiness in struggle is the most important struggle in life. As with anybody who has ever shared an opinion not sanctioned by our leftist ruling class, I often come across some mind-controlled foot soldier for Marxism online, trashing something I've written and using the same limited vocabulary of vulgarities to tell me why I should do something profane to myself. Oh, well! Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. Sometimes I get called a "damn hillbilly," and I think, "Well, thank you." If Americans — wherever they now live — could reach deep...

This is the Great Vaccine Mandate Scam. resident Joe Biden is using the vaccine mandate (and vaccine passport to come) as a Trojan horse. In other words, it looks like he's trying to protect America and save lives, when in reality he's using this vaccine mandate as a cover story to destroy the U.S. economy, capitalism and the great American middle class, all at once. This is a communist takeover of the U.S. by a small minority at the top who have rigged elections and are now busy hijacking the country, as if they have some powerful mandate. They don't....

Source: Townhall MediaRemember when the Mueller Report was released? It was a disaster for left-wing media-types who’d spent years assuring their audiences Mueller would “nail” President Trump on Russian collusion. Mueller found nothing, destroying a piece of the bond any TV personality needs with their audience. Ratings on MSNBC and CNN dipped, because who would trust someone who’d spent years lying to you? But the dip was temporary, like an abused spouse with no self-esteem, the audience came back, eager to be lied to again. And lied to they were. “Kyle Rittenhouse is a white supremacist!” they cried, “He murdered...

Defining terms is always a good place to begin a conversation and Victor Davis Hanson’s The Dying Citizen. How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America (Basic Books) weaves a rich definition of citizenship into his discussion of the current threats to this profoundly Western idea. The idea of citizenship originated in the 5th-century B.C. Greek city states, the concept being nourished by the likes of one Alkidamas, who wrote, “Nature has made no man a slave.” This was in profound contrast to the rigid stratification that most all societies then and most non-western societies still...

I don't believe in Santa Claus, but I'm not going to sue somebody for singing a Ho-Ho-Ho song in December. I don't agree with Darwin, but I didn't go out and hire a lawyer when my high school teacher taught his theory of evolution. Neither life, liberty, nor your pursuit of happiness will be endangered because someone says a 30 second prayer before a football game. What's the big deal? It's not like somebody is up there reading the entire book of Acts. They're just talking to a God they believe in and asking him to grant safety to the...

Many people, even some notable commentators, are hailing the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict as a triumph for American justice. In reality, though, the teen rightly prevailed, being found not guilty on all five charges brought against him. But he did not get a fair trial. Not guilty verdict was not enough YouTube screengrab I’m not the first to point out that Rittenhouse never should have been charged in the first place. Anyone with eyes could see from the video footage of that fateful August 25 eve that he was under withering attack and acted in self-defense. Anyone who can read could...

For 85 minutes on Friday, we held our breath as America’s-not-Sweetheart Kamala Harris was acting president while Joe Biden was anesthetized for a colonoscopy. Near in time, a 12-member panel of jurors in Kenosha, Wisconsin ignored threats shouted on the courtroom steps to find Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty of all the charges against him. The judge and defense counsel bravely labored on, ignoring the many death threats against them. Kyle was brave to defend himself during the riot and at the trial where the prosecution engaged in numerous unethical acts, not the least of which was charging him with crimes...