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MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace said Tuesday on her show “Deadline” that she was a “groupie” of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci. Wallace said, “Can I just be super blunt? Is everyone going to get it? Everyone I know has COVID right now.”

President Joe Biden’s new puppy, Commander, got his moment under the flashing lights of the Washington press corps — and some time frolicking on the beach — on Tuesday. Biden and first lady Jill Biden took the German shepherd on a walk near their second home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. SNIP Commander is the third German shepherd Biden has welcomed to the White House. Champ died in June at age 13. The other dog, Major, 3, now lives with family friends in Delaware after behaving aggressively while living at the White House.

And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria. And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass’s head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver. And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king. And he said, If the Lord do not help thee, whence shall I help thee?...

Explanation: What's happened to the Sun? Sometimes it looks like the Sun is being viewed through a giant lens. In the featured video, however, there are actually millions of tiny lenses: ice crystals. Water may freeze in the atmosphere into small, flat, six-sided, ice crystals. As these crystals flutter to the ground, much time is spent with their faces flat and parallel to the ground. An observer may find themselves in the same plane as many of the falling ice crystals near sunrise or sunset. During this alignment, each crystal can act like a miniature lens, refracting sunlight into our...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Cupich’s Chicago Template: The Vatican-endorsed Litmus Test No doubt many readers have seen the article from Vatican News featuring the latest directives from the current occupant of the See of Chicago. It should surprise no one that he goes even further than the infamous Responsa ad Dubia from the CDW, which in turn went further in key respects than the Vicariate of Rome’s document, which in turn went further than Traditionis Custodes. At this point we are seeing a third layer of unwarranted and indefensible extrapolation, with increasingly obvious violations of canon law and liturgical rubrics...

The San Francisco Chronicle reported: On Monday, the UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab, located northwest of Lake Tahoe at Donner Pass, recorded 38.9 inches of snowfall over the previous 24 hours — bringing the monthly total to 193.7 inches so far for December. The previous December record was in 1970, with 179 inches of snow. … “We smashed the snowfall record for December, which is crazy because it didn’t start snowing until about three weeks ago, and we didn’t have any snow for six weeks prior to that,” [OpenSnow forecaster Brian] Allegretto said. After receiving huge early-season snow dumps...

The Boston Globe has published a collection of essays entitled, “Editing the Constitution.” What does the Boston Globe have in mind? Besides the introduction to the collection, written by Abdallah Fayad, there are 13 essays proposing changes. Check them out for yourself, and see what you think. Let’s consider two of the essays — the one on immigration and the one on the First and Second Amendments.

UPDATED – Archdiocese of Chicago drops the axe on more than the Traditional Latin MassThere is no way… NO WAY… that this wasn’t all coordinated.At vaticannews.va:Originally Published on: Dec 27, 2021What could one expect from Cupich? Really? We knew that he would, eventually, issue something the cruelty of which would be exceeded only by its overreach.The document is HERE.I am not going to obliterate my buoyant yuletide spirit by mucking around with this for a long time. It is an interconvertible truth that when it is necessary to respond to and to refute bad things like this, it takes ten...

Moscow Patriarchate Signs Death Certificate for Conciliar Ecumenism The number two of the Russian Orthodox Church reacted, on December 12, 2021, on the Rossiya-24 channel, to the remarks made, on December 6, by Pope Francis on the plane back from Greece to Rome.The Sovereign Pontiff then declared: “I am ready to go to Moscow… My meeting with Patriarch Kirill is on the horizon.”Without confirming or denying the prospect of a meeting at the highest level between the Successor of Peter and the head of the Russian Church - which would be the second in the current pontificate - Metropolitan...

The View’s already difficult path to replacing Meghan McCain as its resident conservative co-host was made slightly more difficult when one contender made clear she would not get vaccinated for COVID-19. Fox News contributor Lisa Marie Boothe interviewed with ABC News and The View executives earlier this year, a source close to Boothe told The Daily Beast. Those conservations ended, this person with knowledge of the situation said, after the conservative pundit made clear to the network that she will not get any of the required jabs against the coronavirus. An ABC News source confirmed to The Daily Beast that...

Ulrike Guérot, a German political scientist has effectively shown that the so called anti-vaccination opponents were far better informed than the jabbed ones. This was demonstrated by citing a MAT conducted research which analyzed several tweets of the anti-vaxxers with extreme caution.In Germany, around 70% were vaccinated, 30% were not vaccinated and around 40% out of 70% were chose to get the vaccine not because they put their faith in the media propaganda, but because it was a mandate if they wanted to work and move around without any restrictions.The MAT study showed that those who are not vaccinated not...

In one of his more blatant attempts to impose his will on a Republican politician, Donald Trump endorsed Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy (R) for reelection in 2022 on the condition that he will not support Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s (R-AK) reelection bid next year. Dunleavy is facing a primary challenge from state Rep. Christopher Kurka.

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[Catholic/Orthodox Caucus] “What if Rome no longer wants to be Roman?”: Interview with Martin Mosebach The following interview appeared in the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag in its December 26, 2021 issue. It has been translated for Rorate Caeli.—PAKSince Pope Francis issued a decree in July consistently scaling back the celebration of the old Latin Mass, all hell has broken loose on the international scene of Catholic traditionalists (or “trads”). The writer Martin Mosebach is an icon of the movement, not least thanks to his trad pamphlet Heresy of Formlessness (2002). He receives us for a talk in his...

France has ordered the closure of a mosque in Beauvais, a town north of Paris The mosque will be closed for six months according to regional government It said the imam's sermons were inciting hatred, violence and 'defending jihad'

While talking to RFK Jr. about Jake Tapper, I learned what happened Simpsonwood. It's a fascinating story of corruption 20 years ago. Not much has changed it seems. The CDC is still corrupt.Steve Kirsch17 hr ago 343358 If you read my story about RFK Jr. and how he became an anti-vaxxer, it mentions the Simpsonwood transcripts.There is a book, “Evidence of harm” that talks about what happened there in detail. Some people think the author wasn’t sure who was telling the truth. That’s not true. The book author takes an objective viewpoint, leaving it to the reader to determine who...

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.

This is not a “f*** SF” post. This is a lament of what has been lost, and a wistfulness for what could have been. A year ago I was smirking at the people moving out of the Bay Area. I thought these were fairweather citizens, silly for moving to political train-wrecks like Texas or Florida. Twelve months on, my wife and I find ourselves packing our life into boxes. Not to run towards a place where we feel greater love, but just to leave. The pendulum has swung hard in the last twelve months. I didn’t think this change in...

The estimate dropped from about 73 percent to 23 percent for the week ending Dec. 18, and the agency now says Omicron became dominant the following week. A doctors’ protest over understaffing is causing chaos at Delhi hospitals.

NYPD officers harassed a family and forced them out of a restaurant for not having Covid vaccine papers. New York Governor Kathy Hochul and NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio have imposed vaccine mandates for healthcare workers and public and private school employees. De Blasio also imposed a vaccine passport system for restaurants, gyms, theaters and bars. NYPD officers are now De Blasio’s Gestapo vax passport enforcement arm. TRENDING: PART 2: EXPOSING THE DEEP STATE TIES TO JAN 6: Origin of the Russia Sham – Real Russian Collusion with Robert Eringer People are being murdered and robbed in the streets of...