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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Sunday rural and suburban voters should buy electric cars because they burn the most gasoline. “The people who stand to benefit most from owning an EV are often rural residents, who have the longest distances to drive, they often burn the most gas,” Buttigieg said in an interview with MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart. He also argued low-income suburban drivers would benefit from electric vehicles because gas near urban areas was more expensive. “They would gain the most from having that vehicle, but these are the very residents who have not always been connected to electric vehicles...

ORANGE CITY — A pregnant librarian was killed in a road rage incident after she instigated a fight with a motorcyclist, police said. Orange City police said 35-year-old Sara Morales was shot outside her home following an argument with another motorist. Police said Morales intentionally hit the motorcycle Saturday and then fled the scene. Authorities said the motorcyclist and a witness followed her, trying to get her to stop. The motorcyclist told police they called police while following the librarian back to her home. According to police, Morales went inside, returned with a gun and a confrontation occurred in the...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken formally denounced China, Russia, Myanmar, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Eritrea, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Pakistan for "engaging in systematic, ongoing, egregious violations of religious freedom." The specific anti-religious actions noted by Blinken include "discrimination against person espousing beliefs that contradict government policies, banning religious gatherings to worship, censoring dissenting views, and threatening or imprisoning those who resist the government's efforts to reeducate them. In far too many places around the world we continue to see governments harass, arrest, threaten, jail, and kill individuals simply for seeking to live their lives in accordance with their...

It appears “polar bears are being forced to change their eating habits” thanks to global warming, alarmists at Euronews announced Sunday. The article cites video footage of a single polar bear chasing a reindeer into the water and killing it in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, warning that the incident represents “another stark indication of climate change.” “Retreating sea ice leaves bears stranded on land for longer periods,” the article declares, and thus, “with fewer seals and a steadily rising reindeer population in Svalbard” polar bears are obliged to change their diet in favor of reindeer. The video, taken by a research...

FIRST WEEK OF ADVENT MATTHEW 8:5-11 Friends, in our Gospel today a Roman centurion comes to Jesus and says, “Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, suffering dreadfully. . . . I am not worthy to have you enter under my roof; only say the word and my servant will be healed.” Any objective observer would say, “Well, this is ridiculous! What this man is asking is impossible.” He is not only asking that his servant might be cured; he is asking that he be cured at a distance, with simply a word. He’s at the limit of what...

Without any debate or consultation, the NEW ZEALAND communist government have rushed through (i.e. within 24 hours) amendments to the Health Act which includes the following measures:1. Declare (without proof or evidence) a dwelling to be unsanitary and in turn order the destruction of the property and the burning of associated materials;2. Hold citizens in “quarantine” until such time as we have tested negative to infectious disease AND we have undergone preventive treatment (i.e. mandatory vaccines) 3. Prohibit the keeping of animals and crops including the killing of animals (i.e. eliminate animal and vegetable food sources) 4. Close any business...

Fake ‘White Supremacy’ charges are now at a ridiculous level.The co-founder of Speak Georgia, Janelle King, and GOP strategist Malik Abdul discuss the media's spin on the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Jussie Smollett's trial began Monday nearly three years after the former "Empire" actor reported he was the victim of a racist, homophobic attack in Chicago. The actor is facing charges for what authorities say was a fake attack. Smollett told police he was walking home early in the morning back in January of 2019 when two men recognized him and began hurling racial and homophobic slurs at him.

Parag Agrawal, Twitter’s chief technology officer, will take over from Jack Dorsey at the helm, the company said Monday. This followed the resignation of Dorsey, the co-founder and long reigning CEO. His resignation was first reported by CNBC. Twitter shares were up around 2% on the news. Dorsey, 45, was serving as both the CEO of Twitter and Square, his digital payments company. Dorsey will remain a member of the Board until his term expires at the 2022 meeting of stockholders, the company said. Salesforce President and COO Bret Taylor will become the Chairman of the Board, replacing Patrick Pichette,...

When hospital officials canceled his kidney transplant, Mike Ganim’s surgery date was just five days away. He had already undergone a preoperative appointment and taken medical leave from work for the long-awaited, lifesaving operation. His close-knit family had created videos for him and for the woman who was giving him her kidney, stitching together tearful well-wishes and thank-yous from dozens of loved ones. But on Oct. 8, the Cleveland Clinic phoned Ganim to say a newly enacted policy required organ transplant donors and recipients be vaccinated against the coronavirus. The Eastlake, Ohio, man had gotten the vaccine — as a...

A 21-year-old Kansas state lawmaker was arrested on Saturday for the second time in a month, prompting more calls for his resignation or ouster from office. State Rep. Aaron Coleman (D), who represents Kansas City, Kansas, in the state legislature, was arrested by a state trooper at around 1 a.m. on Saturday on suspicion that he was driving while intoxicated, according to The Associated Press. He was detained on Interstate 70 near Lawrence and taken to the Douglas County Jail. He was released after posting bond, according to the AP.

[A]rchaeologists have found a total of some 900 rock carvings, or "petroglyphs," at Al Jassasiya. They are mostly enigmatic cup marks arranged in various patterns, including rows and rosettes, but also eye-catching representations of sailing ships, usually seen from above but also depicted in linear profile, among other symbols and signs. Of all the documented single figures and compositions, more than a third consist of cup marks in various configurations, shapes and sizes. The most prominent pattern involves two parallel rows of seven holes, leading some to believe that these were used to play mancala, a board game popular in...

A Temple University political science major months from graduation was shot and killed off-campus in North Philadelphia Sunday afternoon after he returned from Thanksgiving break, and police are still searching for the gunman. Samuel Sean Collington, 21, of Prospect Park, Pennsylvania, was shot twice in the chest outside his college apartment in the 2200 block of North Park Avenue at 1:32 p.m. His mother, Molly Collington, said her son had just returned to North Philadelphia from his home in Delaware County with clean laundry following the long holiday weekend.

When Yad Vashem exhibits were redone, a telling photo was not returned to the prominent position it had had before. Why not? ... a notorious Nazi SS general, a leading Muslim cleric and the father of a nation - all in one. This person is Haj Amin al Husseini. Husseini was the powerful patriarch of the leading Arab clan in Palestine in the first half of the twentieth century. He used his political power and religious influence for his life's motif - the murder of Jews. ... in 1929, there was no Zionist "apartheid occupation”, no "occupied territories" nor "settlers";...

The Chinese province of Henan is building a surveillance system with face-scanning technology that can detect journalists and other "people of concern". Documents seen by BBC News describe a system that classifies journalists into a "traffic-light" system - green, amber and red. Journalists in the "red" category would be "dealt with accordingly", they say.

Brothers & Sisters, we are in court hearing #15 today. Husband was awarded custody of his children just over a year ago. Children's mother is furious and is attacking, persecuting and using to court system to harass and harm us. Please pray for us in the Name of Jesus for protection and wisdom, and to bind satanic attack and wiles through demonic spirits. We give thanks for the coming victory in God's plan at the end of the day.

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The NBA said on Sunday that the two fans who The Los Angeles Lakers’ LeBron James had ejected from a game last week had allegedly violated the league’s code of conduct for fans. “NBA spokesman Mike Bass on the two courtside fans at Pacers-Lakers who were removed from seats: ‘The fans were ejected for violating the NBA Fan Code of Conduct,’” Shams Charania, NBA analyst for The Atlantic, tweeted. “Sources said the two fans made inappropriate comments and gestures toward Lakers star LeBron James. No lifetime ban or further consequence is expected.”

Many on the right are breathlessly talking about Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona as if she’s the next Ronald Reagan, fawning all over her, commenting on how beautiful she is and how they’d like to see her on a vice presidential ticket for president. It’s true she’s provided crucial assistance blocking radical leftist bills or watering them down. But overall, her voting record isn’t that much different than most Democrats. In 2018, when she first ran for the U.S. Senate, her lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union in the House of Representatives was 13. It’s only gone up...

First, let me get this out of the way: My posts are NOT for everyone! Last night a friend called and yelled at me, saying I have bad motives for posting some of the things I do. I didn’t have this answer then, but it came to me now. There’s a simple way to see if what I say is true–focus on the actual content and not what you think my motives are. Or, ask yourself if I have a history of lying to you. If I don’t, then perhaps what I say has credibility. Is that fair? But if...