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MEMORIAL OF SAINT LUCY, VIRGIN AND MARTYR MATTHEW 21:23-27 Friends, in today’s Gospel, the chief priests and elders question Jesus: "By what authority are you doing these things? And who gave you this authority?" The Greek word used for "authority" is most enlightening: exousia. It means, literally, "from the being of." Jesus speaks with the very exousia of God, and therefore, his words effect what they say. He says, "Lazarus, come out!" (John 11:43), and the dead man comes out of the tomb. He rebukes the wind and says to the sea, "Be still!" (Mark 4:39), and there is calm....

Britain’s Health Secretary Sajid Javid has revealed that the double-vaccinated will no longer be entitled to Covid passes “once all adults have had a reasonable chance to get their booster jab”. Without parliamentary intervention, the Boris Johnson administration will soon require people in England to show a negative lateral flow test in order to enter nightclubs and, with a Covid pass exemption for those who have been vaccinated not just once, but twice. However, even the double-vaccinated will soon lose this exemption, Javid told the House of Commons on Monday, with the double-vaccinated being treated the same as the wholly...

The analysis exposed the inherently gimmicky nature of using permanent tax increases to pass temporary increases in spending.In the second installment of news the Biden administration didn’t want to hear about Friday (the first being the record-breaking inflation report), the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released an analysis of making permanent the programs in Democrats’ Build Back Bankrupt spending spree. Democrats immediately claimed the bill they want to pass through Congress doesn’t resemble the CBO’s parameters in the slightest. In that case, Republicans should respond by bringing a legislative proposal resembling those parameters to the Senate floor, and forcing Democrats to...

Have you heard a better summary of our current insanity? https://twitter.com/SebGorka/status/1470218510269878273

Vice President Kamala Harris promoted government spending on charging stations for electric vehicles on Monday, demonstrating the use of a car charger herself. The vice president visited a car charging maintenance facility in Prince George’s County, Maryland outside of Washington, DC, to promote the use of electric vehicles. During her visit, she asked if she could plug in one of the electric cars to see how it worked. After plugging it in, she commented on the difference between an electric charger and a gas pump. “There’s no sound or fume,” she said, standing by the car holding the plug into...

Nobody in America thinks the Biden clown show is funny. Nobody’s laughing. The numbers for Joe Biden in a recent Wall Street Journal poll are devastating. Only 27 percent of America believe the Biden regime is on the right track. However, a massive 63% of Americans believe the Biden sham administration is on the wrong track. It’s really no surprise this is the case with the clowns Biden/Obama picked for this administration, a bunch of Obama flunkies who didn’t know what was going on under Obama as well. After stealing the 2020 Election, the reputation and approval of this corrupt...

STORY AT-A-GLANCEDr. Joseph Ladapo was appointed Florida surgeon general and secretary of the Florida Department of Health by Gov. Ron DeSantis September 21, 2021Ladapo has now issued a statewide public service announcement in support of commonsense COVID prevention strategies such as optimizing your vitamin D, staying active, eating nutrient-dense foods and boosting your immune system with supplements such as vitamin C, quercetin and zincFlorida Health even highlights emerging treatments such as fluvoxamine and inhaled budesonide. Importantly, Florida Health now states that “Physicians should use their clinical judgment when recommending treatment options for patients’ individualized health care needs. This may include...

President Joe Biden is facing significant skepticism from the American public, with his job approval rating lagging across a range of major issues, including new lows for his handling of crime, gun violence and the economic recovery, a new ABC/Ipsos poll finds.

A Mississippi doctor said he was fired for attempting to treat COVID-19 patients with ivermectin, which is approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat parasites, although the hospital in question said he was not an employee but instead was an independent contractor.Dr. John Witcher, an emergency room physician at the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Yazoo City, said was “told not to come back” after taking several COVID-19 patients off Remdesivir, which is approved by the FDA to treat the virus, and allowed them to use ivermectin.“I was very surprised that I was basically told to not come...

President Biden announced Monday that he will go to Kentucky to survey the aftermath of devastating tornadoes that left dozens dead and thousands without electricity and other utilities. The White House press office said Biden will visit the Army installation at Fort Campbell, Ky., for a briefing on the storm before visiting Mayfield and Dawson Springs to inspect the damage.

"... This is a bright 3.5 inch LCD display that's high resolution. It charges with the USBc. It connects with your TV with a dock over HDMI and it plays a bunch of games, but specifically Game Boy games, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, and with adapters Sega Game Gear, Neo Geo Pocket, and Atari Lynx. It doesn't play DS games, just letting you know. ...it's really fun to revisit and if you're a collector and you love the idea of getting these games I don't think there is a nicer dedicated piece of hardware right now that can...

"A spurious concept designed to inhibit criticism of jihad terror could soon be funded by your tax dollars. Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) and Jan Schakowsky (D-Lightfootland) have determined to take action against “Islamophobia,” and their initiative is gaining traction. The House Foreign Affairs Committee on Friday approved their bill calling for a State Department “Islamophobia monitor,” and now it will go to the full House for further consideration. The idea that Pelosi’s House would reject such a bill is virtually inconceivable. ..."

Vice President Kamala Harris addressed both her growing army of critics and sinking approval ratings in an interview published Sunday by citing the burdens of high office, claiming “there is nothing about this job that is supposed to be easy.” The San Francisco Chronicle aired the vice president’s observations from an exchange conducted last week. In the report Harris chose to simply ignore her many failures since achieving office while carping that her critics simply do not understand the difficulties involved in discharging her duties. “There is nothing about this job that is supposed to be easy,” Harris pleaded. “If...

This week a Wisconsin Committee on Campaigns and Elections hearing revealed that the November 2020 general elections saw over 100,000 ballots cast by persons who have been registered to vote for more than 100 years. US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) cited this as evidence for passing the "For the People Act." "Not every state has been as diligent as Wisconsin in protecting the right to vote," she pointed out. "Many states impose onerous conditions requiring voters to show photo IDs, limiting voting to one ballot per person and to the few months surrounding the official election day, insisting that...

Unsurprisingly, these same media elites are desperately afraid of President Donald Trump. And they appear even more afraid than they were when they relentlessly defamed Trump and tried to run him out of office with a hoax collusion conspiracy and a tempest in a teapot over a routine phone call. A Trump return to the White House on January 20, 2025, would represent a massive repudiation of those who have arrogated to themselves the authority to tell us what to think.

Illustration of the double pulsar PSR J0737−3039A/B. (Michael Kramer/MPIfRA) Two pulsars locked in close binary orbit have once again validated predictions made by Einstein's theory of general relativity. Over 16 years, an international team of astronomers has observed the pulsar pair, named PSR J0737−3039A/B, finding that the relativistic effects can be measured in the timing of their pulses – just as predicted and expected. This is the first time these effects have been observed. "We studied a system of compact stars that is an unrivalled laboratory to test gravity theories in the presence of very strong gravitational fields," says astronomer...

It’s beginning to look a lot like Brandon… Video at link

Vice President Kamala Harris in recent days has reset her White House office with civil rights era art, new couches, and wall paint. Upon reports of tremendous infighting among staffers and claims the vice president is an abusive boss, Harris has put time into overhauling her office with new decorations that speak to a fresh start.

The abrupt disappearance of a live feed showing Taiwan’s digital minister occurred because the White House panicked over a map showing Taiwan in a different color than China, Reuters claimed on Monday. Audrey Tang, formally a “minister without portfolio” in the Taiwanese government, was speaking during President Joe Biden’s “Summit for Democracy,” a series of video addresses from some of the world’s states. Biden included the island nation of Taiwan despite the fact that the American government does not recognize Taiwan’s sovereignty as doing so would immediately sever all diplomatic ties with communist China. Taiwan is a free, democratic sovereign...

This is insane (video in link below)! Night view in Roma, TX showing the Biden Border Invasion and our National Guard troops being used to attack the press rather than the invaders!Special thanks to cameraman Jeffrey Rainforth. https://twitter.com/BenBergquam/status/1469724353088610307