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There are indications that, flush with the success of using a purported emergency to shut down Americans’ civil liberties, Democrats are ready to step up their game. We’ve learned over the last 20 months that, if a government can cause people to panic, people will readily forgo all their freedoms in return for a promise that the government will keep them safe. One man has decided that the COVID panic is a successful trial run for future tyranny based upon the allegedly existential threat of climate change. John Hinderaker, at Power Line, came across an article from Cambridge University Press...

Clark County Today Administrator Heidi Wetzler shares clinical psychology professor Mattias Desmet’s theory about the societal conditions under which a population ends up willingly sacrificing their freedom.

FDIC Chairman Jelena McWilliams announced her resignation Friday in an open letter addressed to President Biden, just weeks 'after' she warned of a "hostile takeover" of the agency by Democrats. McWilliams was appointed to the position in 2018 under former President Trump. Her resignation will be effective Feb. 4. McWilliams wrote in her op-ed. "Never before has a majority of the board attempted to circumvent the chairman to pursue their own agenda.".."This conflict isn’t about bank mergers. If it were, board members would have been willing to work with me and the FDIC staff rather than attempt a hostile takeover...

The Democrat Governor of Guam, Lourdes (Lou) Aflague Leon Guerrero, vetoed legislative bill 73-36, the “Hearing Protection Act” on December 22, 2021. The bill had passed the Senate by a narrow margin on December 15. With only 13 Senators present, the bill passed on a 7 to 6 bipartisan vote. From the americansuppresorassociation.com:Of the 15 member legislature, 13 lawmakers were present for the vote. With Vice Speaker Barnes and Sen. Terlaje absent and excused, only 7 votes were needed for passage. That threshold was met when Senators Tony Ada, Frank Blas Jr., Christopher M. Dueñas, James Moylan, Clynton Ridgell, Telo...

An Ode To Dingy Harry "The House of the Rising Sun" was a song originally written about a house of prostitution, a brothel if you will... A Nobel Laureate penned these words in the 1970's they seem to encapsulate what we deal with in the present: "adulterers in churches" "pornography in the schools" "gangsters in power" "lawbreakers making rules"... Day 656 of the Dictatorship of COVID-19, Day 656 of America and the World held hostage to COVID shots Get Your Dead Baby Boosters And Dog Torture Jabs I worked in the mainstream media years ago heck I was known as...

An FBI that seems to rely on creating crimes that ensnare ordinary folks is allegedly set to go after the big fish. In one of the more unbelievable statements from someone working in the American government, FBI Director Christopher Wray has allegedly sworn that his agency will bring down the bad guys named in Ghislaine Maxwell’s little black book. Those pedophiles are toast, right? Well, I have my doubts. To the extent that the FBI has seemed to take it upon itself to be a protector and enforcer for the Democrat party, the only way I see it following up...

Official recognition that the vaccines are not "perfectly safe." The rollout of this new policy by Australia’s federal government has been fairly quiet. It was first announced November 17, 2021. Claims made through the Federal Government’s no-fault indemnity scheme for COVID-19 vaccination will be assessed from mid-December, the Department of Health (DoH) has confirmed. A couple of weeks ago, the Australian federal Department of Health announced: The Australian Government is developing a claims scheme to reimburse people who suffer a moderate to significant impact following an adverse reaction to an approved COVID-19 vaccine. (snip) The Australian Government is implementing a...

The new Netflix film Don’t Look Up is a star-studded allegory about climate change. The world faces a clear and imminent threat, and the question the movie poses is: Will we be able to overcome the narrow self-interests of politicians, the business community, and individual nations to defeat the threat we collectively face? Will too many people around the world be too gullible and passive to demand the right actions from their leaders? In the case of the film, it does not give away too much to suggest that doing the right thing is a challenge. The film is not...

MEET YOUR FUTURE HOUSE INTEL CHAIR — Minority Leader KEVIN MCCARTHY named Rep. MIKE TURNER (R-Ohio) as new ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, a prominent national security post that ensures he’ll be the leading contender to replace Rep. ADAM SCHIFF as panel chair if the GOP flips the House. Turner replaces Rep. DEVIN NUNES, who’s leaving to become CEO of Trump Media & Technology Group. Turner, elected in 2002 after serving as mayor of one of our hometowns (Dayton!), is considered more of a pragmatist than his predecessor. He’s tacked to the center for much of his career,...

Since George Washington’s day, there’s been a constant tension in America over centralized banking and the control of American wealth. “We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications. . .[for] their promises of discretion for almost forty years. . . [t]he work is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a World Government. . . The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.” David Rockefeller to the Trilateral Commission, 1991. This statement, made thirty years ago,...

ransomnote: Alex Berensen featured a 'walkback' tweet from an MD that was so convoluted that some readers used the comments section to work out what the doctor was saying. I found the comments below the tweet novel - decoding participants settled on a somewhat profane term to apply to this kind of backside-covering doubletalk, and it's the first time I'd heard the Exalted One referred to as "Fauci the Fear Turkey". I'll put one or two comments deciphering what the doctor might have been saying, and leave the rest behind out of respect for the board owner's request for 'family...

A few days before Christmas, I got a message from a friend asking what I thought about an article in which “Church leaders” in Jerusalem warned of “radical” groups being responsible for driving Christians from the Holy Land. I hadn’t heard about this so I read the article. Other than an occasional incident by Jewish people who disparage and even might assault a Christian, or vandalizing a church property which is unacceptable and repugnant on all levels, I’d never heard of such organized “radical groups” doing so. What did the “Church leaders” mean? My friend is a respected Christian journalist...

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.”Thanks for joining us this New Year’s weekend as we conclude our two-part study of the Messianic prophecies found in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament.If you missed reading Part One, now would be a good time to catch up and help make Part Two more meaningful. But here is a quick recap: We discussed what Jesus said about the ancient Hebrew Scriptures relevant to His identity and the...

As usual, the liberal-biased, fake news, mainstream media is lying and misrepresenting again. It was only days ago that I published my nationally syndicated (by Creators Syndicate) newspaper column titled, "Celebrate the Trump Christmas Miracle." In that column, I celebrated the greatest political comeback perhaps in history. Trump is back, winning in the polls, beating President Joe Biden. He's more popular and respected than Biden (or the pope) in polls. A majority of voters even agrees there was massive fraud in the 2020 election -- including 41 o percent Democrats. Trump has truly made both a political and financial comeback...

The ability to learn from experience is what separates us from the animals, or at least some of us from some of them. If 2021 is going to have any value to us as a species, we need to take the lessons available and apply them to 2022 and beyond. Some of us won’t, liberals seem incapable, and some people are just so damn stupid that no amount of teachable moments will ever make a dent in their heads. Luckily, the Venn diagram of those liberals who can’t learn and those who won’t is just a circle, and the remaining...

The battle that Israel is currently engaged in against Iran has been referred to as “the war between wars.” This is a misnomer. Israel is currently engaged in a war against Iran and has been for several years. This war is mainly fought in Syria, sometimes in Gaza or Lebanon, and sometimes even inside Iran. On the other side, Iran prefers to fight against Israel indirectly through their numerous proxies. They prefer that Lebanese or Palestinians die rather than Iranians. Wars sometime are fought openly on the battlefield, military force against military force. But often they are fought with local...

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. George Orwell, Politics and the English LanguageRep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, a member of the progressive “squad,” recently accused those who disagree with student debt cancellation of "policy violence." That is, to disagree with the left now is “violence.” This kind of linguistic legislation by the left is now common. Words mean whatever they want them to mean in order to achieve their far-left goals. Pressley’s statement is also an implied threat. Since violence is justified in response to violence, Pressley is letting American’s know...

What an awful year this was. I sincerely hope the coming year is better. Here are a few loose ends that need clearing up as that dreadful year drops off into memory. The first priority is to hold public health authorities responsible for the mess they made. Professor Glenn Reynolds has my vote for holding them accountable. They lied to us, manipulated us for political purposes, and completely betrayed our trust. He summarizes their acts and argues: “It’s time for a rigorous investigation -- perhaps a Truth and Reconciliation Commission with subpoena power -- to get to the bottom of...

In the ancient Church and up until rather recently, one genuflected at the two references to the Incarnation during the Mass: during the Creed and in the Last Gospel (John 1). Why was this done? It was explained to me that the mystery of the Incarnation is so deep, one can only fall in silent reverence.There are many paradoxes and seeming impossibilities in the Incarnation. They cannot be fully solved, so they claim our reverence. We genuflected in the past, and today we bow at the mention of the Incarnation in the Creed, for it is a deep mystery.As we...

January 2nd, 2021 2nd Sunday of Christmas St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Jacksonville, Florida Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White First readingEcclesiasticus 24:1-2,8-12 ©From eternity, in the beginning, God created wisdomWisdom speaks her own praises, in the midst of her people she glories in herself.She opens her mouth in the assembly of the Most High, she glories in herself in the presence of the Mighty One;‘Then the creator of all things instructed me, and he who created me fixed a place for my tent.He said, “Pitch your tent in Jacob, make Israel your inheritance.”From eternity, in the beginning, he created me, and...