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If COVID-19 mass distribution becomes the new rage here in France among the double-jabbed, French Prime Minister Jean Castex just might be in the running for poster boy. Last weekend, some of us watched the big rugby match between France and the New Zealand All-Blacks, which aired live on TV from the Stade de France in Paris. It was impossible not to notice that the venue, which can only be accessed by those with a "health pass" QR code attesting to either a full course of jabs (which is currently two jabs, but will soon be three for certain demographics)...

A group of House Republicans has issued a truly terrifying warning that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) could be laying the groundwork for a backdoor federal gun registry.Republican Rep. Michael Cloud of Texas sent a letter to acting ATF Director Marvin Richardson that was signed by 51 of his colleagues. Fox News reported that in the letter, the Republicans expressed the fears that they have about a proposed rule by the agency that they think could eventually lead to a backdoor gun registry around Congress’ prohibition.The rule in question, which was proposed recently, removes a 20-year...

Our Heritage Stories. In our family, after a savory thanksgiving feast when everyone is full, we sit in front of the fire and I tell a story about our heritage. I have Scottish ancestry and I told a story about how a distant relative, a the Maine woodsman, married an Indian princess. This year I have a new story to add to our heritage collection. This fall we installed a wood stove in our recently built “cabin room” addition. My husband had just made the hearth/fire proof floor out on the back deck and covered it up in black plastic...

Truck drivers say they understand commuters’ frustrations this morning but say their voices must be heard as they made their way to the center of Dublin. The protestors began arriving at Leinster House to voice their concerns about rising fuels prices and the cost this is having on their businesses. Lorries are currently parked at Merrion Square and on Dawson Street, while Kildare Street has been closed off by Gardaí. There were disruptions on routes into and around the city earlier this morning, and now in the Kildare Street area, as trucks start to park up near the Dáil. Gardaí...

Rus McLaughlin admits that he was mistaken when he said the people shot by Kyle Rittenhouse were blackScreenshot of original tweet, from this link: https://ifunny.co/picture/how-are-people-this-stupid-2-rus-mclaughlin-the-fix-FNIgKl969And here’s his tweet where he admits that he was mistaken:https://twitter.com/rusmclaughlin/status/1461810564993277962Yep. I removed a factually inaccurate tweet. Mea culpa.— Rus McLaughlin (@rusmclaughlin) November 19, 2021

All last week the scuttlebutt in the media and in Washington was that President Biden was leaning toward appointing progressive favorite Lael Brainard to replace the “dangerous” (in Lizzie Warren’s words) Jerome Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve, because Brainard pledged to make the Fed a full partner in pushing the climate and “anti-racist” agenda by pressuring financial institutions not to make loans to any fossil fuel companies. Never mind that the legal authority for this kind of thumb-on-the-scale of capital allocation cannot be found in any statute governing the Fed, but who needs statutory authority when you have...

For all the Left’s ongoing hoopla about the dire necessity for “common sense gun control,” nothing currently being proposed makes any more sense than measures already tried and failed. The American public has seen and heard it all before, and is even less interested in buying into it today than in years past. But the Left keeps trying. Their latest gambit is to attack ammunition purchases. Earlier this month, Democrats in the Florida legislature filed a bill they call “Jamie’s Law,” named after a victim in the 2018 school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” that former President Donald Trump supporters feared “civil rights and human rights, the cultural changes.” Clinton said, “I do think that we are facing a crisis of democracy, a crisis of legitimacy, a crisis that really goes to the heart of what the future of our country and many others around the world will be. So I spend my time trying to figure out what we can do about it. I am not ever going to give up because there’s just too much at stake.”

THE GREAT WHITE- THRONE JUDGMENT. REVELATION 20 New International Version, emphases added Abrdgd: the complete text is in YOUR Bible Resources to CLICK: To read REVELATION 20 in full To hear MAX McLEAN reading it To hear a DRAMATIZATION of it To read J-F-B's COMMENTARY on it BIBLE TIMELINE 95 A.D. REVELATIONChapter 20, Verses 11-15 Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books...

New Zealand's borders will remain closed to most international travelers over the next five months as the country takes precautions to fight the coronavirus. Government officials reportedly made the announcement on Wednesday during a news conference "A phased approach to reconnecting with the world is the safest approach to ensure risk is carefully managed," New Zealand's COVID-19 response minister, Chris Hipkins, said, according to Reuters. "This reduces any potential impacts on vulnerable communities and the New Zealand health system."

Committee admits error in subpoena letter to Bernard Kerik, whose lawyer asks for more time to address Trump attorney-client privilege issues ============================================================================ The Democrat-led congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riots handed Republican critics a political cudgel, admitting it made a false accusation against witness Bernard Kerik while subpoenaing him. But the backpedal Tuesday — prompted by an investigative report in Just the News — portends a larger battle over how much the former NYPD commissioner can cooperate with the congressional investigation as his lawyer raises concerns that some of Kerik's work on election integrity issues prior to the...

Hundreds of Google employees have signed and circulated a manifesto calling on the Big Tech giant to retract its COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Google has asked its more than 150,000 US employees to report their vaccination status to the company by Dec. 3 whether they plan to work in the office or not, CNBC reported, citing internal company documents. And all Google employees who work either directly or indirectly with government contractors are required to be vaccinated, in line with the Biden administration’s federal mandate for contractors. However, the manifesto opposing the mandate has been signed by at least 600 Google...

The Iranian regime is not only covering up its nuclear weapons ambitions. For more than three decades, the extremist theocracy has tried to cover up one of its greatest crimes against humanity. In 1988, in what became known as the 1988 massacre, Tehran began the systematic killing of thousands of dissidents and opposition activists. Ultimately, an estimated 30,000 people lost their lives in the brutal massacre. But a court in Sweden is now ending the regime's cover-up. In November 2019, Swedish authorities arrested a man, Hamid Noury, believed to have been involved in the 1988 massacre. On July 27, 2021,...

President Joe Biden appeared to have a “Ron Burgundy” moment on Tuesday while reading a speech about gas prices off a Teleprompter. Biden was compared to the fictional newscaster from the movie “Anchorman” when he recited the words “end of quote” after referencing a statement from the CEO of Walmart. “And, by the way, you may have heard the CEO of Walmart yesterday on the steps we’ve taken. He said, and I quote, ‘The combination of private enterprise and government working together has been really successful,'” Biden said in the speech.

Speaking to Fox News host Tucker Carlson Monday night, 18-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse revealed his original attorneys, Lin Wood and John Pierce, stranded him in jail while raising millions of dollars off of his cause. "Lin Wood was raising money on my behalf, and he held me in jail for 87 days, disrespected my wishes, put me on media interviews which I should never have done. Which he said, 'Oh, you're going to go talk to the Washington Post,' which was not a good idea. Along with John Pierce, they said I was safer in jail instead of at home with...

When an Antifa protester used an axe to violently crash through Republican North Dakota U.S. Senator John Hoeven’s office window, the attacker recently received a sentence of merely probation, a small fine, and a return to him of his axe. His attack was captured on video and there was no doubt about his guilt. But when a peaceful man engages in a pro-Trump rally inside the Capitol on January 6, and makes every apology imaginable afterward to the sentencing court, he receives a shocking 41-month prison sentence. He has also been held in jail all year without ever receiving a...

Image via GoFundMe According to an update on a GoFundMe page, 8-year-old Jackson Sparks died Tuesday afternoon from head injuries he sustained during the Waukesha Christmas parade attack. Jackson’s cousin Alyssa posted, “This afternoon, our dear Jackson has sadly succumbed to his injuries and passed away.” The GoFundMe account was set up earlier this week after Jackson and his 12-year-old brother Tucker were both seriously injured after Darrell E. Brooks intentionally plowed his SUV through the Waukesha Christmas parade on Sunday. Related: Waukesha Parade Tragedy: What We Know So Far, Suspect and Victims Confirmed The young brothers were two of...

There are two men who are currently receiving more scorn from the left than anyone else. The first is the perpetual top of the list as Trump Derangement Syndrome has continued unabated even a year after the election was stolen from him. The other man at the top of the progressive-hate-list is Kyle Rittenhouse, a rightly exonerated and free man who leftists wish was currently behind bars or dead. Bring the two of them together, take a picture, and show it to anyone on the left. If they don’t faint immediately, their heads will explode within seconds. Guess who stopped...

The Australian Prime Minister has deployed 28 Australian Defense Force soldiers and several army trucks to the region.Two Northern Territory communities in Australia, Binjari and Rockhole, have imposed strict lockdowns after nine new positive coronavirus cases were registered. The military has been called in to bring positive cases and close contacts to a quarantine center.On Sunday, Chief Minister of the Northern Territory Michael Gunner said that a 78-year-old woman was treated at the Royal Darwin Hospital. The area’s remaining eight cases and 38 close contacts have been transferred to the Howard Springs quarantine center.Currently, there are two mandatory supervised quarantine...

"I stand by what the jury has concluded," resident Joe Biden told reporters on Friday after Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of all the charges he faced for shooting three people, two fatally, during an August 2020 protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin. "The jury system works, and we have to abide by it." Later that day, by contrast, Biden said the verdict left him "feeling angry and concerned." The president's confusing attempt to straddle anger and acceptance reflected a sharp division of opinion about the outcome of Rittenhouse's trial -- a clash that was based mainly on legally irrelevant considerations. The unrest...