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With Democrats in control of Congress and the White House, aided and abetted by a relentlessly partisan (and deceitful) media, the left is on the march. They're going to usher in a new order, by hook or by crook. They are dismantling the foundation of this country as fast as they can, and what's going to be left once they're done "building back better" is going to be devoid of decency, much less anything else of value. The left favors poverty over prosperity, incompetence over skill, ignorance over experience, theft over commerce, arsonists over property owners, predators over children and...

Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time Luke 21:20-28 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus uses apocalyptic language from the prophet Daniel: “On earth nations will be in dismay, perplexed by the roaring of the sea and the waves. People will die of fright in anticipation of what is coming upon the world, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.” I realize how strange and distant all of this can sound, but there is a spiritual point of enormous significance behind all of...

Thanksgiving is a time for reflecting on all those things for which we are grateful. It seems particularly important now at the end of the second year featuring a pandemic and unprecedented restrictions. This past year also brought many abuses of government powers with long-lasting consequences. Americans' discontent is incredibly high, and some scholars worry that for the first time in over 150 years, we could be heading toward an epic slip downward. Despite all these problems, if one takes a moment to think about it, the goodness and charity of people remain in such abundance that gratitude is warranted....

Two men who teach criminal justice are speaking out about use of the word “looting” to describe the crime spree by groups breaking in o luxury retailers in California to steal merchandize – claiming the term is a racist. “Looting is a term that we typically use when people of color or urban dwellers are doing something,” Lorenzo Boyd, a professor of criminal justice & community policing at the University of New Haven and a former police office, told ABC 7. “We tend not to use that term for other people when they do the exact same thing,’ Boyd said....

Charlie is joined on this Thanksgiving special by James Golden, aka Bo Snerdley, Rush Limbaugh's longtime right-hand, call screener, and dear friend to reflect back on the legacy of Rush Limbaugh, and specifically what he taught us about being grateful, kind, gentlemanly, and winsome as recounted in his new book "Rush on the Radio." Famous for his holiday specials, James reflects on the history lesson Rush passionately taught us every Thanksgiving about the "old dead white men" that first settled these teaming and untamed shores of America and worked to carve out a better life for themselves and their posterity....

Today’s Liberals have no interest in debates where facts can be challenged. They are driven by their emotions. We live in a world of facts. They live in a world of feelings. Stoking their emotional endorphins is all they really care about. If it sounds good and makes them feel good, they’re for it. Results and facts be damned. Some have attempted to explain the divide with the left brain-right brain theory. Liberals are driven by their emotion. Conservatives are defined by logic and facts. Notice how often our friend on the Left talk of fairness. It’s as if they...

We are going to have hot dogs for Thanksgiving, today. Thanks to Biden we saved 16 cents!

For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends. - Ralph Waldo EmersonI have so much to be thankful for it’s hard to know where to start. So I will start with you - the MOTI who gather here. We are like family whose members don’t always agree and some might even squabble but are nevertheless connected by a deep common bond. Unlike real families our bond isn’t blood but rather the shared values and principles that our country was founded on...

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Newport News shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls reverses their position on the vaccine mandate and claims they misinterpreted the federal requirement. After further consultations with the federal government, the shipbuilder now says the vaccine mandate doesn’t apply. “This recent information is different from what we understood to be the government’s and the Navy’s intent,” the company said. Huntington Ingalls previously said all of its 25,000 workers would need to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as a “condition of continued employment” due to the vaccine mandate for federal workers and contractors. [Media Link] However, Newport News Shipbuilding President Jennifer Boykin said in a...

“I think everyone wants to know if he’s had the COVID vaccine?”.. After another professional football player collapsed on the pitch and was rushed to hospital in England this week, one former pro who was commenting on the incident questioned whether the player had been recently vaccinated, prompting the live feed to be suddenly cut. Sheffield United player John Fleck, who is 30 years old, suddenly collapsed away from play and had to be taken off on a stretcher after receiving lengthy treatment and being given an oxygen mask. Fleck was kept in hospital overnight and discharged after the health...

One of my favorite candidates in the 2020 race for the Democratic nomination has just announced that he is running for high office once again in 2022. He is Beto O'Rourke, and he is one of the great innovators in recent American politics. Of course, he is one of the great losers in recent American politics, too, having lost in 2018 to Sen. Ted Cruz and, two years later, having lost in his run for the Democratic presidential nomination. He bowed out of the race before it began. How many millions of dollars he cost his backers I would not...

Another Thanksgiving song for FReepers.

A Thanksgiving Song for Freepers, their friends and family.

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<p>SACRAMENTO (CBS / AP) - California Gov. Gavin Newsom has left the state with his family for a trip to Mexico during Thanksgiving.</p><p>The Governor’s Office announced the trip on Monday hours after Newsom held a news conference at a vaccine clinic in San Francisco. In his visit to the Bay Area, Newsom also reacted to multiple smash-and-grab robberies and looting in the Bay Area in recent days, calling for the thieves to be prosecuted.</p>

In Ohio, the Constitutional Carry bill, HB227 is moving forward. It passed the House Oversight Committee on October 28. On November 17, it passed the House, 60 to 32. From dayton247now.com: “The Second Amendment gives us the right to bear arms. I am proudly pro-Second Amendment and this bill is pro-Second Amendment,” said Senator Niraj Antani, a co-sponsor of the bill.The bill would also make the mandatory eight hours of training optional.“People should get training, but it doesn’t have to be required. The Constitution does not require training in order to have your constitutional rights,” Senator Antani said.Dayton 24/7 Now’s...

During and after the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, the white 18-year-old accused of murdering two white men and injuring another, one could hardly keep track of the insanity based on falsehoods recklessly peddled by media and politicians. In Chicago, the Rev. Jesse Jackson marched in the front line of a group of protesters where some chanted, "When black lives are under attack, what do we do?" Black lives under attack? Rittenhouse is white, as were the two men he shot dead and the man he injured. In September 2020, presidential candidate Joe Biden posted a video that included a picture...

For all intents and purposes, today’s science is steeped in politically charged leftist manipulation, propaganda, and skullduggery. Science is a noble human endeavor with the goal of discovering, examining, testing, explaining, harnessing, and preserving physical nature for the benefit and advancement of humankind. Moreover, the virtuous pursuits of science serve to augment our understanding of the previously unknown. In its purest application, science is never truly settled. Science is not suited to reach concrete conclusions on the how, when, where, or why of the cosmic mysteries of the material universe, its creation, or Creator. For science, in its historically accepted...

‘Squid Game’ smuggler set to die by firing squad in North Korea: report A smuggler who sold copies of Netflix’s smash hit series “Squid Game” in North Korea has been sentenced to death by firing squad, according to a report. The man allegedly smuggled copies of the Korean-language show on USB drives from China into North Korea, where seven high school students were caught watching the footage, sources told Radio Free Asia. A student who bought one of the flash drives received a life sentence, while six others who watched the footage have been sentenced to five years of hard...