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An Adams County man is dead after police say he broke into an older couple’s home and attacked them, resulting in the homeowner shooting him. The man was identified as Steven David Shaffer, who first got on state police’s radar when residents in the 800 block of Green Springs Road, Berwick Township, reported that a man was trying to get into homes and banging on the windows of vehicles around 11:22 a.m., state police Lt. Mark Maygar said in a Wednesday press conference. Shaffer then went to the next block and entered the home of a married couple in their...

The public should have every reason to distrust this vax pass system, and every reason to distrust the people behind it. The COVID-19 digital vax pass is the Panzer tank of the next wave of the global public health Blitzkrieg. If a person complies and gets their COVID-19 shots, they get a personal QR code. They can show this code on their smart phone to participate in society. This plan is being rolled out around the world and has spread from Israel to Europe to Australia, and now has been established in the most strategic U.S. cities including Washington D.C.,...

Have you ever felt like you’ve woken up to a world in which up is down, wrong is right, and it takes immense courage just to say things that are obviously true? It’s not your imagination. You’re not in the Twilight Zone. You’re in a new reality, a harsh new upside-down world in which the American flag is the symbol of oppression, freedom is slavery to the socialist state, men make better and stronger women than actual women, the media colludes to cover up truth, and every day sees your freedom to speak and even think what you want hunted...

Through December 21, 2021, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reported a total of 5,779 unruly passenger incidents this year. Of these incidents, the FAA has launched 1,054 investigations, which is approximately a 600% increase from the annual average of the previous twenty-five years. Historically, factors such as overcrowding, cancellations, and narrow seats cause in-flight incidents. However, this year, the mask mandate, which the FAA instituted on February 1, has been the major factor causing the massive increase in incidents. Despite a multitude of studies showing the ineffectiveness of masks and the potential negative health effects, some airlines are now increasing...

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What started out as accusations of cattle rustling in Arizona has risen to accusations of money laundering, which has become so contentious there are now multiple defamation lawsuits. The cowboys accused of illegal activity, including theft, have filed lawsuits against other cowboys who they believed spread information about their alleged involvement. But the accused state that they did not disseminate the information, it was the accusers’ own associates who did so. Now the situation has gotten so contentious no one dares to investigate the allegations of cattle theft and money laundering, and no one will talk on the record. It...

Few verses are more popular at Christmas than Luke 2:14: “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward man.” It’s a heart-warming verse that Christmas cards and decorations have simplified, for decades, to mean “Peace on Earth.” It’s also the one that Linus quoted in A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) in his classic “drop the mic” moment during a speech after Charlie Brown yelled in frustration: “Isn’t there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?!” Charlie Brown was decrying Scrooge-like commercialism. Boy, were those the good old days when that was all we had...

Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday he was “stunned” to see some members of a crowd of Trump supporters boo the former president for getting a coronavirus booster shot. Dr. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, said the footage left him “dismayed.” “I was stunned by that, I mean, given the fact of how popular [former President Trump] is with that group that they would boo him, which tells me how recalcitrant they are about being told what they should do,” Dr. Fauci said on ABC’s ” This Week.” “I think his continuing to say...

A Tesla Model S owner in Finland decided to blow up his electric car with dynamite after it needed a battery replacement, which Tesla said was going to cost $22,000. That sounds like a reasonable solution to an expensive battery replacement. To be fair, they did remove the non-functioning battery pack and other expensive parts, like the electric motor, before blowing up the car. Electrek’s Take Obviously, I don’t support this as a solution, but I definitely feel for early Model S owners in his situation. One thing to keep in mind for EV naysayers that like to use this...

Defense attorneys for five men accused of plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-Mich.) are seeking a dismissal of the indictment, citing "egregious overreaching" by federal officials, who they say invented a conspiracy and entrapped the men. If convicted in the alleged extremist kidnapping conspiracy, the five men – ​​Adam Fox, 38, Barry Croft, 46, Kaleb Franks, 27, Daniel Harris, 24, and Brandon Caserta, 33 – face up to life in prison. "When the government was faced with evidence showing that the defendants had no interest in a kidnapping plot, it refused to accept failure and continued to push its...

Leaving California for Texas is such a conformist thing to do these days, but I did for a short vacation to America. In Houston, I went into an H.E.B. and was talking about California to someone who was giving away free samples of beef – having conversations with random people is a huge difference from LA – and I had to reassure the guy I was going home. He seemed relieved. I’ve been coming to Texas intermittently for about 30 years, and it’s never seemed more crowded. The place is packed – the roads, the stores, the airport. Back home...

Bishop Desmond Tutu, the South African bishop known for his fight to end apartheid is being universally lauded. I do not share that sentiment. While I will certainly acknowledge that he was a warrior against one of the great evils of his time, I believe that, on the scales of goodness, he squandered that moral virtue by being an ardent advocate of anti-Semitism and an enemy to Israel. Over the years, I’ve found philo-Semitism and anti-Semitism to be very good yardsticks of both nations and people. Regarding the former, it’s no coincidence that, throughout history, those nations that thrive are,...

The prophets of the Bible are individuals chosen by God to speak for God. Many mentions of prophets are made in the Bible. In fact, a section of the Old Testament is devoted to a collection of books by them. Their names, and quotes, appear all over the New Testament and are the subject of sermons to this day. What they all had in common was a heart for God, an anointing to hear from Him, and the faithfulness to impart his message to others. “For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke...

Assuming we can discount the explanation that a sitting United States publicly acknowledged that, yes, in fact he should go blank himself, Joe Biden’s recent Santa-related mishap may mean far more than we think. Though a perennial also-ran comfortable with being the corrupt tool of those around him -- family, staffers, donors, etc. -- Biden used to be able to combine his unparalleled skills as a profane gaffe machine with at least some semblance of situational awareness (“At least use the other credit card, Hunter, for God’s sake!” etc.). Now it appears that even that glimmer of cognition has left...

Jean-Marc Vallée, the Quebecois director of films including "Dallas Buyers Club" and TV projects such as "Big Little Lies," died at his cabin outside Quebec City, Canada. He was 58...The cause of death was not immediately known.

Thirty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, a significant majority of Russians continue to feel nostalgia for their country’s communist past, according to a recent survey from the country’s leading independent polling agency. In the Levada Center’s poll, published on Friday, 63 percent of Russian respondents expressed regret over the breakup of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1991. The sentiment was strongest among Russians aged 55 and older, 84 percent of whom described the dissolution as a tragic event. By contrast, a mere 28 percent of respondents said that they did not regret the demise...

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Sunday that his country plans to double the number of settlers living in the Golan Heights. The plan was approved by the Israeli Cabinet on Sunday, Bennett’s office said. The move comes nearly three years after the United States, under former President Donald Trump, recognized Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan, which Israel captured from Syria more than five decades ago. Trump’s declaration was condemned by the rest of the international community as the annexation is not widely recognized. […] Israel conquered the Golan Heights in 1967 and 14 years later, in 1981, annexed the...

A Chicago city employee went to cash her paycheck at the bank last week but it wouldn’t clear. She tried to deposit it the day after it was issued but it bounced.Lori Lightfoot is too busy pushing vaccine mandates on Chicagoans than facing the surging crime rate or paying her employees.

Four young international soccer stars died this week after suffering a sudden heart attack.Croatian footballer Marin Cacic, Oman international player Mukhaled Al-Raqadi, Egyptian goalkeeper Ahmed Amin, and Algerian football player Sofiane Loukar all died this week, the COVID world reported.On December 22, Oman international player Mukhaled Al-Raqadi, aged 29, tragically died after collapsing during a warm-up ahead of a domestic match with Al-Suwaiq.Al-Raqadi was rushed to the nearest hospital by ambulance. The reason for his death was a heart attack, Oman observer reported.Mukhaled Al-Raqadi of Oman’s Muscat FC died after he collapsed while warming up before his team’s match yesterday....

Carlos Tejada, a New York Times Deputy Asia Editor, has died at the age of 49. He suffered a heart attack less than a day after posting to social media that he had received a Moderna booster vaccination. Tejada, who worked in part on the paper’s COVID-19 coverage, was married with two children. He had worked at the Wall Street Journal prior to moving to the Times, where he worked for almost five years. According to Tejada’s own Instagram page, he was grateful to receive the mRNA/LNP booster while in Seoul, South Korea. Tejada originally received the Johnson & Johnson...