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In the latest Democrat move to undermine the American system of government, a majority of the New York City council is poised to passed Int. No. 1867 which gives non-citizens the right to vote in municipal elections. Under this law, those who lack citizenship may, if they reside in New York City for only thirty days, vote for mayor, city council, borough presidents, comptroller, and public advocate. They may thus influence what law and policy governs the citizens of New York City. The law is patently unconstitutional, unlawful under immigration law, an assault on citizenship, and ripe for legal challenge....

Second Week of Advent Matthew 11:16-19 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus says, “The Son of Man came eating and drinking and they said, ‘Look, he is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’” The Passover meal was decisively important in salvation history. God commands that his people share a meal to remember their liberation from slavery. This supper provides the context for the deepest theologizing of the Israelite community. Both the bitterness of their slavery and the sweetness of their liberation are acted out in this sacred meal. Jesus’ life and ministry can be interpreted...

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Death threats from angry Trump supporters forced Georgia election worker Ruby Freeman, a 62-year-old grandmother, to flee her home of 20 years. Some messages called for her hanging; one urged people to “hunt” her. Freeman showed hundreds of menacing messages to police and called 911 three times. But a year after Donald Trump and his allies falsely accused Freeman - along with her daughter and co-worker Wandrea “Shaye” Moss - of election fraud, the threats have not been investigated by local police or state authorities, according to a Reuters review of Georgia law enforcement records. Federal agents...

<p>Kristina Lawson, a former mayor of Walnut Creek who was appointed to the board by former Gov. Jerry Brown, said in social media on Wednesday she grew concerned Monday after she noticed the people in a white SUV parked near her home and saw someone flying a drone over her house.</p>

Inflation keeps rising and consumers keep getting hurt. No wonder President Biden’s team sent out a media splash asking them to hype the economic recovery. Real wage growth fell to -1.9% YoY in the latest Consumer Price release. As The Fed keeps its massive foot on the monetary gas pedal. The overall Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 6.8% YoY. The biggest gains in Consumer Prices were for energy with gasoline rising 58.1% YoY. But almost nothing was spared the rod of government policies. The Taylor Rule, what The Fed Funds Target rate SHOULD be, rose to 16.94%. Versus the current...

It was a memorable event but not in the way intended. There stood the Prince of Wales, looking like he’d much rather be in Kent or Devonshire or Cornwall—anywhere but there. The military band played nicely but the honor guard wasn’t up to the usual perfection one expects from a British regimental formation. Things were already beginning to slip. Charles mumbled something about strong ties between countries, the stain of slavery, the strength of the people; exactly what the Foreign Office told him to say. Then he watched his mother’s personal standard hauled down the flagpole as 396 years of...

Former President Trump blasted Benjamin Netanyahu, accusing the former Israeli prime minister of disloyalty while using profanity to criticize the former ally for his congratulatory message to President Biden in the wake of the 2020 election results, according to an Axios report. Trump touted that he helped Netanyahu, now the opposition leader in Israel, in his own election efforts, reversed decades of U.S. policy in Israel's favor, and supported Israel's claim to land that was seized in war, while continuing to incorrectly claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him, reports The Associated Press. "The first person that...

JAMES TISSOT'S VISIONS OF CHRIST. Primary Source: The Life of Our Lord Jesus ChristAs Depicted by Jacques Tissot By SHANE JENKINS301 "The Holy Virgin Receives the Body of Jesus"302 "The Body of Jesus Carried to the Anointing Stone"John 19 303 "The Holy Virgin Kisses the Face of Jesus Before He Is Enshrounded on the Anointing Stone"John 19 304 "Jesus Carried to the Tomb"John 19 305 "Jesus in the Sepulchre"John 19 306 "The Two Marys Watch the Tomb"Mark 15 307 "The Watch over the Tomb"Matthew 27 308 "The Resurrection"Matthew 28 309 "Mary Magdalene and the Holy Women at the Tomb"Mark...

The European Union's counterpart to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in an update Thursday that no deaths have been reported anywhere in the world linked to the omicron variant. "All cases for which there is available information on severity were either asymptomatic or mild," said the report from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. The ECDC reported 1,780 confirmed cases of the omicron variant in 57 countries worldwide. Former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield on Thursday told "Fox & Friends" that omicron could become the dominant variant within weeks. But he confirmed that while...

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CNN anchor Anderson Cooper said Thursday on his show “Anderson Cooper 360” that those who choose not to get vaccinated against COVID-19 are arrogantly shirking their responsibilities to society, which he finds “infuriating.” During a report from a Michigan hospital, a 62-year-old COVID patient named Deborah LaRoche said she will not get vaccinated after her recovery adding, “I should be okay now.”

Two former top Washington DC National Guard officials have slammed the US Army’s internal report on its response to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, claiming the document creates a false narrative about what happened that day. The 20-page report, obtained by Politico, describes multiple conversations between Army officials and then-DC Guard commander Maj. Gen. William Walker as part of its explanation for why the National Guard was unable to respond to the Capitol when their support was initially requested. However, Walker — now the House of Representatives’ Sergeant at Arms — claims some of those communications never happened.

Climate policies promoted and imposed by Team Biden will be lethal for people and planet. They are based on junk science, headline-grabbing scare stories, and computer climate models that create far-fetched “scenarios” claiming fossil fuel use will cause Earth to warm by 4 degrees C (7 F)over the next 80 years, while a warming Arctic will bring colder winters. Those dire predictions are used to justify more taxpayer-funded “research,” like a recent Columbia University “mortality cost of carbon” study that says 83 million people (the population of Germany) “could be killed” this century by those rising planetary temperatures. Therefore we...

North Carolina's highest court on Wednesday pushed back the March election primaries for legislative, congressional and judicial seats to give state courts time to review lawsuits claiming the Republican-controlled legislature illegally gerrymandered some districts. The decision by the state Supreme Court comes after a state Court of Appeals panel initially blocked filing for legislative and congressional candidates on Monday, only to have the decision reversed when the full 15-member intermediate appeals court was asked to weigh in on the matter. Filing began Tuesday for those races instead. Wednesday's order suspends all candidate filing in the state until the litigation is...

Hochul warned new policies could be implemented in response to the uptick in cases and hospitalization, CBS2’s Jenna DeAngelis reported. The governor did not specify her plans. But a big question is whether the state will implement policies like showing vaccination status before entering restaurants, which is already in effect the city.

Backroom deal-making threatened to shake up North Carolina’s Republican Senate primary last week. Now, it’s given way to public brawling. Negative attacks are ratcheting up in the fight for the open seat. A 12-page mailer landed in voters’ mailboxes this week calling former Gov. Pat McCrory “fatally flawed” and criticizing his ethics, while TV ads hammered him as a “Trump-hater, liberal faker” and attacked McCrory for endorsing Mitt Romney for president in 2012. They’re all paid for by the Club for Growth’s super PAC, part of a multimillion dollar effort to back Ted Budd (R-N.C.), who has received former President...

Join together with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession, and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holi-ness. 2 Timothy 2:1-2

Video that has resurfaced after the new Massachusetts US attorney was narrowly confirmed by the US Senate, with Kamala Harris casting the tie-breaking vote, shows President Joe Biden's latest appointee angrily confronting journalists in January 2021 over a road rage incident in which she cut off a white motorist and then appeared to impersonate a police office in a Boston parking lot. Biden tapped Suffolk Country District Attorney Rachael Rollins to lead the US Attorney's Office in Massachusetts in July. On Wednesday she made history as the first black woman to be confirmed in the role by the Senate, when...

Rep. Ilhan Omar is demanding that Congress censure a colleague over offensive remarks. This is a real demand happening right now, and reporters write about her demands without peppering their prose with incredulous exclamation marks. House progressives, in fact, are reportedly planning to introduce a resolution that would strip Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of committee assignments over her stupid and bigoted joke about Omar. "I have had a conversation with the speaker, and I'm very confident that she will take decisive action next week," Omar had the temerity to tell CNN's Jake Tapper Dec. 5. The same congresswoman, who claimed...

December 10, 2021 Friday of the 2nd week of Advent Burgos - San Esteban, altar of Saint Eulalia of Merida Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet.First readingIsaiah 48:17-19 ©If you had been alert to my commandments, your happiness would have been like a riverThus says the Lord, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:I, the Lord, your God, teach you what is good for you,I lead you in the way that you must go.If only you had been alert to my commandments,your happiness would have been like a river,your integrity like the waves of the sea.Your children would have been numbered...