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The James Webb Space Telescope team is working on a communication issue between the observatory and the launch vehicle system. This will delay the launch date to no earlier than Friday, December 24. It was scheduled to launch on December 22. NASA will provide more information about the new launch date no later than Friday, December 17.

Back in college, I knew people who called themselves Marxists. They read long volumes of dense and nearly impenetrable prose expounding the theory in great detail, and thought it was all highly sophisticated. My observation was that it boiled down to nothing more complex than blaming all the problems of the world on the evil actions of a cabal of bad guys, who however hadn’t done anything specific that was illegal or even unethical that you could put your finger on. In classic economic Marxism the bad guys were the capitalists, who had somehow hoarded all the money to themselves...

In the history of our planet, we have never seen a cash, profit, luxury, or a stealing-power-from-the-people machine-like COVID-19. The testing, vaccines, and now boosters are making hundreds of billions of dollars for a – relative to the world population – handful of people. For that very reason, it’s perfectly logical to assume that some of those who are directly or indirectly raking in multiple lifetimes of incomes in days, weeks, or months thanks only to the appearance of the virus and the panic deliberately created around it, would be thrilled to have certain doctors, scientists, and politicians “discover” the...

Did you know…1980 and 2021 are as far apart as 1980 and 1939.Railway Impression IV – Marta ZamarskaIn 1939 Germany invades Poland. World War II begins. The Great Depression continues.The Wizard of Oz debuts.A Railway Impression I - Marta Zamarskain 1980 the Soviets’ invasion of Afghanistan continues - for another 10 more years - without victory.The Iranian hostages, taken the previous November, are held for another 12 months.Inflation and stagflation continues in the US.CNN debuts.Watching 3 Trains Pass - Mark EdwardsPerspective: it’s a fascinating thing.“Everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance. Everybody thinks it’s true” – Paul...

Thanks to leftists, we are doing lasting harm to our children: we are making them into weaklings. It is an insidious form of child abuse, done in plain sight. We are denying them the most important trait necessary for living happy, successful, and meaningful lives: courage. Life is difficult. It's impossible to sail through life on smooth seas. Loss, frustration, heartbreak, struggle, disappointment, and suffering happen to everyone. We see widespread panic on college campuses these days about "micro-aggressions." Students openly admit they can't tolerate things that even they grant are micro. At our local university (Humboldt State), students are...

“Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith” (Proverbs 15:16).

Strategic Misdirection: An Alternate Framework for Understanding Russia’s Play in Ukraine Executive Summary Russian President Vladimir Putin is amassing a military force on and near Ukraine’s borders large enough to conduct a full-scale invasion. Western intelligence agencies have reportedly intercepted Russian military plans to do so by early February. Visible Russian military activities and these plans so clearly support preparations for an invasion that it seems obvious that Putin really might invade if his demands are not met. Putin is rarely so obvious, however, and a massive Russian invasion of Ukraine would mark a fundamental transformation of the approach he...

Most people are not used or have no idea what real violence is like. We have many a snowflake that believes violence is when you tell them to go flock themselves for butting in in your life. They cy a river demanding reparations because they suffer PTSD and unrepairable damages for 2 words according to them. This is real violence. The people in the video who ended horizontally, do not come back from its consequences. The only positive thing you could say, they were equally scum as the assholes that shot them. Donut Operator has a full deconstruction and explanation...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, have held a video meeting, as friction persists in both countries’ relations with the West. In their opening remarks at the virtual summit on Wednesday, Putin and Xi hailed relations between Russia and China, with the Russian leader declaring them “a proper example of interstate cooperation in the 21st century”. “A new model of cooperation has been formed between our countries, based among other things on such principles as not interfering in internal affairs [of each other], respect for each other’s interests, determination to turn the shared border into a...

As Christmas approaches, the network "news" divisions have showered the Bidens with gifts. NBC late-night host Jimmy Fallon gave resident Joe Biden a free platform for 16 minutes on Dec. 10, and hailed him as a "classy guy" who brought "class back" to the White House. Two days later, CBS reporter Rita Braver gushed for 10 minutes over Biden and his wife, Jill -- or "Dr. B," as Braver called her -- on "Sunday Morning." ou didn't even have to win the presidency to be handed a shiny platter of publicity. On "Sunday Today," NBC's Willie Geist offered 12 minutes...

December 15th, 2021 St. Michael's Cathedral, Qingdao, People's Republic of China Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red First readingIsaiah 45:6-8,18,21-25 ©I, the Lord, shall create deliveranceApart from me, all is nothing.I am the Lord, unrivalled,I form the light and create the dark.I make good fortune and create calamity,it is I, the Lord, who do all this.Send victory like a dew, you heavens,and let the clouds rain it down.Let the earth openfor salvation to spring up.Let deliverance, too, bud forthwhich I, the Lord, shall create.Yes, thus says the Lord,creator of the heavens,who is God,who formed the earth and made it,who set it...

Nikki Haley, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, has served up a kind of Christmas present to the nation in the form of a new comprehensive policy book, issued by her organization Stand for America, serving up conservative solutions for our nation's many challenges -- domestic and foreign. Conservatives get a bad rap that they just say "no." That they're against everything but never clear what they are for. Haley is one conservative that cannot be accused of not having a broad vision and not being forthcoming in sharing it. It's all here in "American Strength: Conservative Solutions Worth...

resident Joe Biden and Capitol Hill Democrats are racing to pass their massive social spending bill, known as Build Back Better, before Christmas. Maybe they'll succeed, and maybe they won't -- a lot depends on whether Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin hops on board. But no one should have any illusions about what BBB, the final piece in the Democrats' COVID-year spending orgy, costs. After a lot of deceptive claims from Democrats, we finally have an answer. Biden has claimed, falsely, that the bill is "fully paid for." But last month, the Congressional Budget Office released an analysis saying BBB would...

Chinese companies listed on Wall Street will likely to be cut off from U.S. capital markets in the next three years as tensions between Beijing and Washington persist, says one global asset management firm. “I think for a lot of Chinese companies listed in U.S. markets, it’s essentially game over,” David Loevinger, managing director for emerging markets sovereign research at TCW Group, told CNBC Wednesday. “This is an issue that’s been hanging out there for 20 years — we haven’t been able to solve it.” TCW Group had $265.8 billion in assets under management as of Sept. 30, 2021, according...

Almost all the Democrat policy proposals involve transferring more power and money from the rest of the country to the extremely powerful federal government. Almost all the Democrat policy proposals involve transferring more power and money from the rest of the country to the extremely powerful federal government. While the Dems seek to destroy the millions of jobs related to oil, natural gas, and coal they seek to make more people dependent on the government. Democrats claim they care deeply about wealth and income inequality, yet they seek to transfer more wealth and income to the extremely wealthy DC area...

Whether it’s hospitals, the media, the FDA, or the Post Office, all seem desperate to stop Americans from having the Right to Try a potentially life-saving drug. Ivermectin is a drug so beneficial to humankind that its inventor won the Nobel Prize. It’s so safe that the CDC recommends that most refugees entering the U.S. from countries with common parasitical infections be given it prophylactically. Medical trials and empirical experiments strongly indicate that, when it’s given early after a COVID diagnosis, people quickly recover. However, Democrats, in healthcare, the media, and government, are determined to ensure that no Americans have...

COVID-19 deaths are up. Politicians tell us to wear masks and get vaccinated. Amid the fear, I'm surprised that we haven't heard more about two drugs that could make COVID-19 much less of a threat. In blind tests, Pfizer's Paxlovid was found to reduce the risk of hospitalization and death by 89%! It was so effective that Pfizer was advised to stop the tests. "They halted the clinical trials!" exclaims Michael Cannon, director of health policy at the Cato Institute in my new video. "They decided it would be unethical (not to give the drug to people in the control...

Tucker makes a scathing attack on the January 6 committee’s Soviet-style show trial and he reserves special, and deserved, contempt for Liz Cheney. Tucker Carlson was on fire Tuesday night, for he launched a scathing attack on the grotesque show trial taking place in the House of Representatives, ostensibly to expose the “truth” about the “insurrection” on January 6 but, in reality, to destroy political enemies and preempt Trump’s effort to regain the White House in 2024. To frame the attack, Tucker lit into Liz Cheney, and a more deserving target it’s hard to imagine. The monologue opens with Tucker...

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Democratic governors were already barreling straight into a perilous midterm election. But a building winter Covid surge is putting many of them in a greater bind. The party’s defeat last month in Virginia — and closer-than-expected victory in New Jersey — has many Democrats searching for an off-ramp to the pandemic that allows them to sell a brighter future to voters next November. But, at the same time, attendees here at the Democratic Governors Association’s winter meeting were nodding to voters’ frustrations with the enduring pandemic and its accompanying hardships, a potentially more contagious variant is emerging, and some blue...