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“Leaving a trail of slime behind him-” Start over. “A repugnant, repulsive reptile-” Try again. “What can be said about him that hasn’t already been said about bubonic plague?” Strike that. Man, I’m really having trouble staying on the high road for this Harry Reid obit. It’s pretty much the job of the Senate Majority Leader to be the Bad Cop and hated by the opposition, but there was just something repugnant and unpleasant about late Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who just died at age 82. Certainly Chuck Schumer is no improvement, but still… Democrats probably love him...

Former Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that President Joe Biden was delivering even though he inherited a “mess” from former President Donald Trump. When asked how Biden should combat falling poll numbers, Boxer said, “I think the answer is pretty straightforward with Joe Biden, just keep putting one foot in front of the other, and deliver for the American people.”

Wind gusts have been reported higher than 100 mphColorado wildfires have forced citizens in two cities to evacuate and has produced harrowing videos on social media of residents fleeing the flames.The city of Louisville, which has a population of 21,000, was evacuated after residents in Superior, which has 13,000 residents, were told to leave.Superior is about 20 miles (32 kilometers) northwest of Denver. Louisville is just 4 miles (6 kilometers) northeast of Superior.A nearby portion of U.S. Highway 36 was also shut down because of fire.The blaze northwest of Superior was one of several fires that started in the area...

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky explained that the recent decision to shorten the isolation period for asymptomatic COVID-19 cases was based on what the federal government “thought people would be able to tolerate.” The latest CDC guidelines were released this week, shortening the 10-day isolation period to five days for individuals who are asymptomatic. Walenksy said the move “really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate,” according to her interview with CNN on Wednesday. “We have seen relatively low rates of isolation for all of this pandemic,”...

The Left’s viciousness, cruelty and bigotry was well displayed during 2021. Indeed, it was a year full of Progressive behavior that would have made George Orwell faint and Stalin proud. This writer has gone through all the Roundups for the year and curated those moments of particular mendouchious twatwafflery to remember. Because they really do hate you. January began with the fraudulent Biden inaugural theme of America United. Pedo Joe’s team couldn’t even keep up the pretense at the inauguration itself where the Ruling Class only allowed the Bushes, Clintons and Obamas to attend while Pelosi publicly brayed her intentions...

Amid the latest hand-waving around vaccines and variants, we can't lose sight of the tragedies still playing out in our cities. Following their push to defund the police, silence and amnesia have gripped Democrats in the weeks following the Nov. 21 tragedy, when a man intentionally drove his SUV through the Waukesha Christmas Parade. As families and communities came together to celebrate this sacred holiday, this career criminal senselessly released on low bail caused six deaths and no fewer than 62 injuries. Easily outraged Democrats have devoted little attention to this intentional attack, as well as the ongoing violence still...

Dr. Ron Elfenbein called the pause in some antibody treatments the 'height of bureaucratic arrogance'.. A doctor in Maryland said he had to cancel potentially life-saving monoclonal antibody infusions for about 250 people over the last week after the federal government stopped distributing treatments made by Regeneron and Eli Lilly because they aren't effective against omicron, even though the delta variant, which the drugs are effective at treating, was still dominant at the time. The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response halted the allocation of those two antibody treatments last Thursday amid the rise of omicron, which...

Karl Marx called religion the “opiate of the masses.” If someone believes in God, they believe that there is a higher power than government, and a higher power than their community. If there is a higher power, then that means tyrants and oligarchies are not the ultimate power, even they have to answer to God. And, since fear is the key component in the playbook for controlling the masses, those who have Faith in God fear not, for they know that God not only protects them, but that if they are snuffed out of their life here on Earth by...

link (he) Hundreds of dollars per picture: this is how Arab provocateurs plot against our forces Watch, News 0404, 30/12/2021. The IDF adopted a new tactic - in the If You Will Welcome movement. At the beginning of November, the winds and nets stormed around Ma'on farms. Repeated allegations by extremist organizations about settler violence came from all sides. 0404 received special documentation from the field, prepared by the IDF's operational documentation unit, which reveals the truth: how the Arabs staged attacks and produced provocations to blacken the faces of IDF soldiers. Watch a video that reveals the truth! Yehuda...

"We have to address the fact that we have got to deal with the fact that folks are paying for gas, paying for groceries, and are -- need solutions to it. So let's talk about that," Harris said. "Short-term solution includes what we need to do around the supply chain, right? So, we went to the ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, Savannah, Georgia, and said, 'hey, guys, no more five days a week, eight hours a day; 24/7, let's move the products because people need their product – they need what they need.' We're dealing with it in terms...

Anuradha Mittal, the head of Ben & Jerry’s board of directors and vice president of Ben & Jerry’s Foundation Inc., won this year’s Antisemite of the Year competition, a project of the watchdog StopAntisemitism. “There must be consequences for those who spew hatred and bigotry against the Jewish people and nation,” said StopAntisemitism founder and Executive Director Liora Rez. “Being a finalist in this annual competition is one of those consequences.” Mittal spearheaded Ben & Jerry’s decision to stop selling its ice cream to Jews living in various parts of Israel, a decision that StopAntisemitism said was “clearly not made...

President Joe Biden again spoke with President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, warning Russia not to further invade Ukraine. “President Biden urged Russia to de-escalate tensions with Ukraine. He made clear that the United States and its allies and partners will respond decisively if Russia further invades Ukraine,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement after the call.

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Sometimes the moments of our lives that seem like they should be our brightest can bring us the greatest tribulation and testing trials. Faith, especially at these times, is very demanding. It demands that once we hear God’s Word, we obey it. It doesn’t matter how big our obstacles may be, how impossible our circumstances. We’re to believe God’s Word and act on it. The Lord says, “My promise is all you need.” Like every generation before us, we also wonder, “Lord, why am I faced with this test? It’s beyond my comprehension. You’ve allowed so many things in my...

“[Christ] is before all things, and in Him all things hold together” (Colossians 1:17). The eternal Christ sustains His creation. When the universe began, Christ already existed. The apostle John spoke of Christ’s eternal existence this way: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him; and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being” (John 1:1-3). Christ Himself testified of the same truth when He told the Jews, “Before Abraham was born, I...

Incoming New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he will keep outgoing Mayor Bill de Blasio’s vaccine mandate to visit businesses in place when he is sworn in on New Year’s Eve. "We are going to keep that in place," Adams said in a Thursday press conference when asked about de Blasio’s controversial coronavirus vaccine mandate. "We spoke with our business leaders today to let them know we’re going to keep that in place." Adams continued, "This virus is ever moving. As we continue to look at the evolution of this virus, there will be moments when we can change...

Each year since at least 2013, I think, I've done a "year in review" ahead of the coming year. While my "batting average" (a little humor here) tends to stay a little higher the more general and less specific I stay, I'd like to think I have a decent track record. That is NOT because I am so smart (I'm not), but because the Bible has already told us where events will move toward. Regarding accuracy, I have two particular methods that have contributed to my track record. First, I look at what the Bible has to say about a...

Profile in Cowardice: How Catholic Leaders Botched the Abortion-Linked COVID VaccinesFrom firmly standing against abortion-tainted vaccines, many bishops now favor forcing them on everyone. The letter states:It is critically important that Americans have access to a vaccine that is produced ethically: no American should be forced to choose between being vaccinated against this potentially deadly virus and violating his or her conscience. [Emphasis added]The letter then pointed out that completely ethical alternatives were available:Fortunately, there is no need to use ethically problematic cell lines to produce a COVID vaccine, or any vaccine, as other cell lines or processes that do...

As most ecosystems are built on a foundation of photosynthetic organisms like plants or algae, such dark realms shouldn't have enough food to support a wide variety of life. In such a dark and seemingly inhospitable environment, the team found fragments of living organisms. When they realized that they had found more than they expected, Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand, a sedimentologist with the British Antarctic Survey, recommended sending the seafloor sample to Barnes. The pieces that had been pulled from underneath the ice shelf, when examined with a microscope, were clearly from different animals. All told, Barnes identified 77 different species, far...

The latest figures published by the UK Health Security Agency show that despite the elderly and vulnerable receiving a booster shot in September and October, and the NHS turning into the National Booster Service ever since, the triple/double vaccinated population still accounted for 4 in every 5 Covid-19 deaths in the four weeks up to December 19th 2021.The ‘Covid-19 Vaccine Surveillance Report – Week 51’ was published by the UK Health Security Agency (formerly Public Health England) on Thursday 22nd December 2021, and it shows that the vast majority of Covid-19 cases between November 22nd and December 19th were among...