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Vincent Termini Jr. was panicking. As the Christmas season, the busiest time of year for his family’s famous South Philadelphia bakery, got underway, a large piece of equipment in their main bakery had seized. It just stopped. This wasn’t just any machine. The “dough breaker” is an 80-year-old piece of specialty equipment straight from Italy that’s a critical component in the process of making cannoli, by-far the most popular item at Termini Bros. during the holidays. That key step in the process meant production of cannoli was halted the Monday after Thanksgiving, mere weeks before Christmas Eve, when the bakery...

In a lawsuit filed on Thursday, former Georgia Sen. David Perdue contends that Fulton County “circumvented the majority vote of the people and thereby affected the outcome of the Election on 11/3.” “In the State of Georgia, clearly unlawful counterfeit absentee ballots were counted,” Perdue said. There are “thousands of images of ballots being scanned and tabulated two and three times” The lawsuit seeks to inspect absentee ballots in Fulton County.

MSNBC “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski on Monday asked how President Joe Biden and Democrats can move forward to any election until former President Donald Trump and his “weak cult followers” are investigated for their roles in the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Brzezinski emphasized that the riot and attempts to overturn and steal the election are threats to our democracy “that we still face right now.”

Gov. Tom Wolf announced Monday that the Pa. Department of Health’s acting secretary is leaving the administration. Keara Klinepeter, executive deputy secretary with the department, will step into the acting health secretary role when Alison Beam resigns at the end of the year. The announcement of Beam’s departure comes days after the state Supreme Court struck down the school mask mandate she issued in August. “I am proud to have worked with Acting Secretary Beam over the past several years, and the commonwealth has been fortunate to have had the benefit of her leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic – especially...

A straight-A college student was fatally struck by a driver suspected of street racing in Los Angeles, cops and distraught relatives said. Arian Rahbar, a 21-year-old junior at the University of Southern California, was killed Saturday afternoon while strolling along a marked crosswalk across Jefferson Boulevard, the Los Angeles Times reported. Rahbar, who had just gotten some food, was sent airborne when he was hit in the south Los Angeles roadway by a Dodge Challenger Hellcat, whose driver had been racing a man in an Infiniti G37, LAPD South Traffic Division Det. Ryan Moreno told the newspaper.

Do you recognize Communism when you see it? It's being brought in to the United States and I fear the younger generation will not recognize it and accept it. An inch at a time... brick by brick... we are being controlled... we are being programmed to accept one mandate ... then another.. and we lose our freedoms with ever communistic act. The democrats are good at control. They do not like conservatives and Christians.. we are not so easily controlled. They have had free reign to do whatever they want and to continue to dig deeper into our freedoms. Do...

Neurologists in the United States think they have finally figured out why people with asthma seem to develop fewer brain tumors. The findings could one day help us develop better treatments for both conditions. The curious connection between asthma and brain tumors first began popping up in global epidemiological research about 15 years ago, but without a proper mechanism linking the lung condition to the brain condition, some experts have dismissed the findings as random. A new study now suggests the relationship may be real after all. In 2015, neurologists published a study noting some children genetically prone to tumors...

A few weeks ago, we celebrated Thanksgiving, with gratitude for our many blessings, although these are becoming scarcer over the past two years. At the same time, we received news of a new COVID variant. It seems the world is on some type of Chinese gift registry where we receive quarterly presents, starting with the original Chinese coronavirus, followed every few months by a new variant and subsequent lockdowns, restrictions, and mandates.This coronavirus is acting more like a herpes virus, the one that gives us cold sores that seem to come and go on their own cycle. But these COVID...

The slow and often comical decline of Official Conservatism™ starting somewhere in the Bush years has offered many insights into what has gone wrong since the middle of the last century. It is as if the tide is slowing going out, revealing many things that had previously been hidden under the waterline. Or, as Warren Buffett would say it, the tide has gone out and we now see who was swimming naked. An example of this phenomenon is a piece by New York Times columnist David Brooks in The Atlantic in which he bemoans the state of conservatism. This is...

SPANAWAY, WA – In what he states was a self-defense situation, a Washington man opened fire against a pair of armed home intruders, killing one. Jerahme Smith - screenshot, local media report On Thursday, December 9, 2021, according to Pierce County Sheriff’s Department (PCSD) spokesperson Darren Moss, rental home resident Jerahme Smith, 31, called 911 at approximately 4:20 am to notify police of a home burglary and a shooting. Smith later told Fox 13 that he and his sister were in the house when two suspects kicked in the back door. 'I have the right to protect myself:' Washington man...

Thank goodness the public understands at least some of the horror that would be unleashed on us if Biden's Build Back Bankrupt plan were to become law. One of the worst features of the bill is that it would sic hordes of new and inexperienced IRS auditors on middle America, not the billionaires that Democrat propaganda would have believe are going to be forced to "pay their fair share."These new agents would be under pressure to prove their worth by shaking down businesses that have done their best to comply with the complex and often difficult to understand IRS regulations,...

It looks as though the CNN plan to make itself less of a less of a joke by replacing its circus clowns is moving into action. The network has new owners and has signaled that it intends to return to a straight news organization as it once was, back when it was popular. Here's their first affirmation of it.According to Fox News:"Fox News Sunday" anchor Chris Wallace announced his resignation from Fox News after 18 years on Sunday and teased "a new adventure.""After 18 years — this is my final Fox News Sunday," Wallace said on his final airing Sunday....

As states across the Midwest and South pick up the pieces after a spate of tornadoes believed to have killed dozens of people, the top US emergency management official warned Sunday that such cataclysms will be the “new normal.” “The effects we are seeing of climate change are the crisis of our generation,” FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell told CNN’s “State of the Union.” Criswell added that while it was “not unusual” for tornadoes to strike in December, “at this magnitude, I don’t think we have ever seen one this late in the year.” “Even the severity and the amount of...

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, a so-called Republican who is known for being anti-Trump, is in deep trouble according to a new GOP poll. Many are speculating that former Georgia GOP Senator David Perdue will be mounting a campaign to challenge Brian Kemp in the Republican primary for governor in 2022. The GOP poll obtained by the Washington Examiner indicates that, with former President Donald Trump‘s endorsement, Perdue would beat Brian Kemp in the primary 41% to 34%, with Democrat-turned-Republican Vernon Jones receiving 11 percent of the vote. If Jones was taken out of the race, the poll shows Perdue leading...

CHICAGO -- Chicago weekend violence has left 27 people shot, four fatally, police said. A man was fatally shot Saturday morning while standing on the porch of his friend's house in Palmer Square on the Northwest Side, police said. Suraj Mahadeva, 26, was found with a gunshot wound to his head by his friend who heard a loud sound about 3:25 a.m.. A man was found fatally shot Sunday afternoon in South Shore on the Far South Side. The man, 40, was found shot to death about 3:35 p.m. near a gangway of a residence in the 7500-block of South...

MEXICO CITY — Vicente Fernández, an iconic and beloved singer of regional Mexican music who was awarded three Grammys and nine Latin Grammys and inspired a new generation of performers, including his son Alejandro Fernández, died on Sunday. He was 81. Fernández was known for hits such as “El Rey,” and “Lástima que seas ajena,” his command of the ranchera genre and his dark and elegant mariachi suits with their matching wide-brimmed sombreros.

Questions about her husband's current mental fitness are "ridiculous," Jill Biden says in an interview

From the CO2 Coalition – December 12, 2021 President Joe Biden wasted no time in politicizing the recent tornado tragedy that claimed nearly 100 lives in Kentucky, Illinois, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Missouri. Speaking less than 24 hours after the devastation of communities and lives, Biden linked the storms to man-made climate change. “All I know is that the intensity of the weather across the board has some impacts as a consequence of the warming of the planet and climate change,” Biden said. “The fact is that we all know everything is more intense when the climate is warming. Everything. And...

A Christmas Story House, now restored to its movie splendor, is open year round to the public for tours and overnight stays. Directly across the street from the House is A Christmas Story Museum, which features original props, costumes and memorabilia from the film, as well as hundreds of rare behind-the-scenes photos. Among the props and costumes are the toys from the Higbee’s window, Randy’s snowsuit, the chalkboard from Miss Shields’ classroom and the family car. After reliving A Christmas Story at Ralphie’s house don’t forget to visit the museum gift shop for your own Major Award Leg Lamp and...

President Biden is signing an executive order on Monday intended to cut back on the bureaucracy around government services for the public such as renewing their passports, applying for loans or changing their name. The order, which Biden will sign on Monday afternoon on camera, affects 36 "customer experience improvement commitments" across 17 federal agencies. The order targets various government services dealing with travel, retirement, business, health and updating personal information, according to a White House fact sheet. For example, the order will call for a streamlined enrollment experience for retirees looking to enroll in Social Security, and it will...