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Conservatives have watched, with varying degrees of horror, as leftists have, in recent years, embraced radical ideas and schemes such as: court-packing, abolishing the filibuster, lockdowns/mandates, censorship on an industrial scale, cancel culture, critical race theory, abolishing the police, open borders, runaway spending, the stigmatization of dissent as “insurrection”, “white supremacy”, “fascism”, and more. Left-wingers have talked openly, and sometimes gleefully, about how richly we, their conservative enemies, deserve slow and painful deaths – and, when in a feisty mood, how they would quite like to be the agents of our demise.Much of the time, we on the right are...

Once again, the crazy greens have overridden public needs, along with the bureaucrats of the Biden administration. If you had any doubt that California’s present shortage of available water for farming in the Central Valley is a political not a climate problem, Anthony Watts will disabuse you of the notion. If you’ve any doubt that the this administration puts the desires of the crazy greens over the public interest, the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board puts that to rest. California’s Historic Flood-Drought Weather Per Watts, since 1861, before the industrial revolution, California has recorded periods of heavy rainfall and truly...

The Biden administration has blacklisted and sanctioned dozens of Chinese government research institutes and private-sector tech firms, accusing them of weaponizing technology for use at home and abroad, the U.S. departments of Commerce and Treasury announced Thursday. In particular, the U.S. warned that these entities were working as part of a broader Chinese government strategy to develop and deploy biotechnology, including "brain-control weaponry," for possible offensive use and as part of its crackdown on Uighurs and other Muslim ethnic minorities -- a campaign that the U.S. has determined constitutes genocide. "The scientific pursuit of biotechnology and medical innovation can save...

What came to be known in the last century as “humanism” was, in reality, nothing new. It actually has an ancient lineage. Indeed, since the human race first appeared, there have basically been only two “religions”—two existential philosophies that have informed people’s beliefs and behaviors. Each has had multiple variations, to be sure, but still, in the end, there are just two: People can either believe in and worship the Creator, or they can reject that idea and worship themselves, individually and collectively. The latter belief is essentially the original sin, attributable to Adam and Eve as well as to...

LONDON, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc was marketing a collection of President Xi Jinping's speeches and writings on its Chinese website about two years ago, when Beijing delivered an edict, according to two people familiar with the incident. The American e-commerce giant must stop allowing any customer ratings and reviews in China. A negative review of Xi's book prompted the demand, one of the people said. "I think the issue was anything under five stars," the highest rating in Amazon's five-point system, said the other person. Ratings and reviews are a crucial part of Amazon's e-commerce business, a major...

Author’s Note: Interested readers can find all previous volumes of this series here. News Flash: The first 56 volumes are compiled into a book titled “Bible Study For Those Who Don’t Read The Bible.”Welcome to the final study of Advent Season culminating in the “advent” (arrival) of Yeshua — a Jewish infant with the anglicized name of Jesus. Our three-part series began with Vol. 90 — the conception and birth story of John the Baptist. Then, last week in Vol. 91, we studied Joseph, the earthly father of Jesus, and learned that Joseph had no biblical quotes, and thus, “no...

A new coronavirus wave is reaching Israel and every family has to be prepared, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett warned while opening the weekly cabinet meeting. “Omicron is already in the country, that is - there are already infections within the community, and we are already seeing an increase in the coefficient of infection, it began,” Bennett said. “Every family needs to be prepared. Each person should make sure that they themselves are vaccinated with three shots and that their children are vaccinated.” The ministers were set to discuss additional measures to delay the spread of the variant in Israel, including...

She is positively certifiable.

Israel is set to consider adding a slew of countries including the United States to its so-called red list of high-risk destinations Israelis are banned from flying to, as health authorities continue to monitor the effects of the omicron variant. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett supports expanding restrictions on international travel and on commerce in hopes of increasing vaccination rates. At this stage, he does not intend to fully shut down international travel. The cabinet will be discussing the possibility of adding the U.S. Canada, Portugal, Turkey, Germany, Hungary, Morocco and Belgium to the list when it convenes on Sunday. Earlier...

Senate Democrats are mulling a long-shot bid to get immigration reform to President Biden's desk as they struggle to make good on years of campaign promises. The guidance from parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, who this week rejected Democrats' third immigration proposal, is fueling conversations within the Senate Democratic caucus about trying to circumvent the non-partisan, unelected Senate referee. Democrats haven't landed on a strategy on how to get immigration legislation into Biden's massive climate and social spending package, which is in limbo until at least January. But they are leaving the door open to either trying to override MacDonough's guidance, which...

Guess what? There's no hiding it anymore. This is a communist takeover of the USA. I've been making this case three hours a day on my nationally syndicated radio show since the day Joe Biden took over as president. Well, the proof is in. Nothing proves my case like the story of Democratic United States Sen. Richard Blumenthal. You're not gonna believe this one. It's all out in the open now. A United States senator thought it was fine and dandy to publicly cavort with the communist enemies of America. Should that surprise you? It doesn't surprise me. I believe...

Progressives love rewriting history. From the 1619 Project to renaming roads and melting of statues, if they can protect their party by wiping clean or reassigning their past, they’re all for it. But underneath it all, below what they let the world see, is one simple truth: The Democratic Party was, is, and will always be, the party of racism. They created segregation and, as Democrat Governor George Wallace famously said, “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.” Progressives publicly renounced their openly racist past as fellow progressive Adolf Hitler exposed what was always the endgame for eugenics, but their beliefs...

The first time I heard “Omicron” I thought it was a new Transformer villain. Before you laugh, I have a sneaking suspicion that COVID variants are named with an eye to creating alarm. Delta Force is a Special Forces unit involved in counter-terrorism, rescuing hostages, and reconnaissance missions against high-value targets. Delta Force is scary by design. The name Delta seems a good fit for a COVID variant that our government hopes to scare us with so they can exercise control over our lives. I thought Omicron was a new Deception bent on destroying the human race. Considering that the...

I opened YouTube one morning recently, as usual, to hear another excellent homily by a hugely popular young Catholic priest from Canada. The title of this episode revealed that the latest COVID madness of requiring vaccine passports for attendance at Mass had just come to Quebec. And yet, as I heard the priest begin his rebuttal to this astonishing overreach, my heart sank. This young priest made the grave error, as have nearly all of the clergy and Church hierarchy since the beginning of the pandemic, of first assuming that the spiritual mission and heavenly government of the Church must...

HONOLULU, Hawaii (AP) — U.S. Air Force Special Air Mission 50601 departed from Joint Base Andrews on the night of Dec. 9 with an ambitious journey ahead — an eight-day, around-the-world trip with America’s top diplomat, Secretary of State Antony Blinken. But the diplomatic mission to Britain, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand would soon be upended by the global surge in coronavirus cases. At least three members of the traveling party tested positive for COVID-19 and forced the abrupt cancellation of the last stop and a frantic re-calculation of the remaining itinerary. The Air Force confirmed on Saturday that at least...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia sent a pair of nuclear-capable long-range bombers to patrol the skies over Belarus on Saturday, a mission intended to underline close defense ties between the two allies amid tensions with the West. The Russian Defense Ministry said the two Tu-22M3 strategic strike bombers practiced “performing joint tasks with the Belarusian air force and air defense.” Su-30 fighter jets that Russia has supplied to Belarus escorted the bombers. Saturday’s four-hour patrol marked Russia’s third such mission in Belarus since last month... ...The Belarusian leader wouldn’t elaborate on what kind of Russian weapons Belarus would be willing to...

The 8th annual Islamic Arts Festival took place over the weekend in Spring, just thirty miles north of Houston, which is home to an estimated 200,000 Muslims. This year, over 6,000 people personally visited the event during its two-day run — over 1,000 of them were non-Muslims. Khawaja Azimuddin, a member of the Islamic Art Society’s board, said creating the festival eight years ago was a way to show American Muslims in a positive light. “The original thought behind organizing the festival was to promote something positive within the Muslim community in the country,” he said. “Quite often Americans hear...

Film producer Ali Akbar sparked the controversy by becoming Ramasimhan – the name he chose for himself. He said that Ramasimhan was a man who was killed when he stood close to his culture and therefore that name was appropriate for him. Following disgraceful reactions to the news of the death of General Bipin Rawat, Ali Akbar deactivated his Facebook account. He was also affected by the fact that no religious leader called out such reactions and decided to convert. He made his announcement through a new account. He also said that he would not force his daughters to change...

Two rockets were fired in the direction of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Saturday, with one of them shot down by the U.S. military and the other missing the embassy compound, Fox News has confirmed.... ...No group had yet claimed responsibility for the rocket fire, the report said. The incident came ahead of an end-of-year deadline set by Iranian-backed militias for the U.S. to withdraw its forces from Iraq, according to the Post. On Dec. 9, the top U.S. commander for the Middle East said the U.S. would keep the current 2,500 troops in Iraq for the foreseeable future...