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U.S. senators need to forgo the posh Capitol dining rooms and go food shopping in the shoes of ordinary Americans. Shoppers are panicking at the meat counter, where beef prices are up more than 20%. Nearly everything in the basket costs more. Most pols are clueless about the pain inflation is causing. Retirees are the biggest victims. Inflation is decimating them. With interest rates near zero, retirees are watching the purchasing power of the money they have in the bank literally shrink. They're getting punished for their years of thrift, prudence and self-reliance. For the 65-and-up crowd, it's a double...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemLuke 1Zechariah’s Song 67 His father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied: 68 “Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has come to his people and redeemed them. 69 He has raised up a horn[c] of salvation for us in the house of his servant David 70 (as he said through his holy prophets of long ago), 71 salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us— 72 to show mercy to our ancestors and to remember his holy covenant, 73 the oath he...

In a letter to the Department of Justice last year, an anonymous Democrat whistleblower accused fellow Democrats in Pima County, Arizona of adding approximately 35,000 votes to each of the Democrat candidates in the 2020 election. This information came out Monday, during an “ad hoc” hearing in Tucson, where Arizona State House and Senate members met to discuss election integrity issues in Pima County. During the hearing, experts provided evidence and testimony about the voting irregularities that allegedly took place during the election, including ballots from people not living where they voted, and inflated voter rolls across the Democrat-leaning county....

NFL's 'Inspire Change' program funds groups that want to abolish police, prisons and immigration detention. The National Football League's "Inspire Change" partners, which receive financial backing from the multibillion-dollar league, include multiple groups that have openly advocated for defunding the police, a Fox News Digital review of the program found.

FORTRESS MONROE, Friday, Dec. 13. A telegraphic dispatch to the Norfolk Day Book of this date, received by a flag of truce which was sent from here to-day, announces the burning of Charleston. Whether it was caused by the whites or blacks I am unable as yet to say. FORTRESS MONROE, Friday, Dec. 13. A flag of truce, under command of Capt. MILLWARD, took Mr. EDDEY, of North Carolina, to Crancy Island to-day. A telegraph dispatch to the Norfolk Day Book to-day, from Charleston, S.C., states that a fire broke out in that place on Wednesday night, which was supposed...

Yesterday, Arizona state representative Mark Finchem read an anonymous letter he received that was addressed to criminal division at DOJ, that details a Democrat plan to embed 35,000 fake mail-in votes in Pima County for Joe Biden. An IP address has been obtained for the sender of the email. The letter was supposedly written by a Democrat whistleblower detailing a private meeting he attended with other Arizona Democrat officials. The letter was dated November 10, 2020, and addressed to the Criminal Division of the DOJ. American Greatness did a full writeup: https://amgreatness.com/2021/12/14/az-state-rep-reads-dem-whistleblowers-letter-to-the-doj-about-2020-election-fraud-during-election-integrity-hearing/ TEXT OF LETTER “Please be advised the Pima...

As Congress worked in recent days to increase the legal limit on the federal debt, the Treasury kept that debt artificially frozen at approximately $28.9 trillion, where it stood at the beginning of this week. With that limit lifted, the federal debt will take a jump upward, then keep steadily climbing, constantly increasing the burden on future taxpayers. In 2018, according to the last complete annual report on individual income tax returns published by the Internal Revenue Service, there were 100,424,240 households in the United States that filed what the IRS calls a "taxable return." "The taxable and nontaxable classification...

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...