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Republicans concerned trial delayed to appease Tehran during nuclear talks The Biden administration has for the third time delayed the trial of an accused Iranian spy, renewing concerns that the high-profile case is being used as a bargaining chip in nuclear negotiations with Tehran. The Justice Department confirmed to the Washington Free Beacon on Tuesday that the trial for Kaveh Lotfollah Afrasiabi would again be delayed. The Iranian citizen and U.S. permanent resident was charged last year with acting as an unregistered foreign agent for the Iranian regime. The trial, which was scheduled to move ahead in January, was postponed...

Okay, this is getting stupid, and more than the usual stupid. The GOP is, as usual, failing to sack-up and take the fight to the Democrats. Those saps always whine about the voters pushing anti-establishment candidates in primaries, and this is exactly why. It’s time to divide up congressional districts. Where Democrats can, they are gutting the GOP. That’s how it’s done. But too often, the GOP is offering a limp, clammy hand across the aisle where it should be throwing a fist in a right cross. Oregon is now 5-1 Democrat. In California, several GOP seats are gone because...

@josepalay Spanish former police chief admits that the Spanish secret services (CNI) were behind the jihadist attacks in Barcelona, August 2017. Their intention was ‘to scare Catalonia just before the independence referendum.’ 16 people from various nationalities were killed.

All large organizations suffer from the occasional presence of bad actors. The FBI is no exception. But it managed to retain a good relationship with the public in spite of its flaws, because it was still solving rather than creating crimes. But something fundamentally changed in the last five years. The Comey clown car arrived in the center ring and unloaded under the spotlight. As the public watched the comedy of James "The Cardinal" Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, and Lisa Page, searching for phantom Russian colluders under the bed, while actual Russian colluders cheered them on, we knew we...

Depending on how it’s prepared, asparagus provides -- at a minimum -- iron, vitamins C, and B-6, potassium, fiber, and a trace of magnesium and calcium as well. But asparagus can be tricky to prepare, and it can be expensive. So, what is a health-conscious family to do? Well, let’s say the government decided to step in. A president might say, on some random Monday, “I hereby declare that, effective this coming Saturday, every American person -- male, female, and gender-bewildered -- is entitled to eight free servings of asparagus every month.” But… how to accomplish it? We have over...

There is a tectonic shift underway in the medico-scientific establishment: they are starting to walk back boosters. The first indication of this dramatic change of attitude came from the United Kingdom last week. On January 7, Reuters ran a wire titled UK Says 4th COVID Jabs Not Needed for Now As Booster Effect Lasts. That piece featured the following sentence in its opening paragraph: “there is no need for now for people to have a fourth shot, British health officials said on Friday.” Three days later, the UK Mirror published a piece titled What Is 'Living With Covid'? Boris Johnson...

January 13th, 2021 Memorial of St. Hilary, Bishop and DoctorThursday of Week One in Ordinary Time St. Hilary Church, ChicagoReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First reading1 Samuel 4:1-11 ©Israel is defeated and the ark of God is capturedIt happened at that time that the Philistines mustered to fight Israel and Israel went out to meet them in battle, encamping near Ebenezer while the Philistines were encamped at Aphek. The Philistines drew up their battle line against Israel, the battle was hotly engaged, and Israel was defeated by the Philistines and about four thousand of their army were killed on the...

The U.S. Army is facing difficulties finding enough recruits and hopes increased bonuses will lure them. The Army for the first time is offering a maximum enlistment bonus of $50,000 to highly-skilled recruits who join for six years. Maj. Gen. Kevin Vereen, head of Army’s Recruiting Command,said difficulties stem from schools shuttering during the pandemic and a competitive job market. “We are still living the implications of 2020 and the onset of COVID, when the school systems shut down. We want to promote the value of serving your country. But we also know it’s all about compensation, too.” The recruiting...

A Pilot Mountain woman who took her 14-year-old son into the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, is challenging the sentence she received last week - three-months in federal prison followed by three years of probation. Virginia Marie Spencer, 38, pleaded guilty on Sept. 9, 2021, to a misdemeanor charge of parading, demonstrating or picketing in a federal building. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly sentenced Spencer after a hearing on Jan. 7. Allen H. Orenberg, Spencer’s attorney, filed a motion Tuesday, asking Kollar-Kotelly to enter an order correcting her sentence. He also asks the judge to delay the sentence...

"Campus culture is on the move. In August of 2020, I offered “NYU Student Group Petitions for Black-Only Housing So They ‘Can Feel Included.’” For an idea of the societal distance we’ve since traveled, take a look at St. Louis’s Washington University. As posted via an op-ed in independent school newspaper Student Life, a group of prominent attendees is ready to take housing equilibrium to the next level. Ranen Miao — president of WU’s student body — lays out the feelings of nearly 50 co-signed enrolees. Per the piece, nine houses on campus are occupied by “fraternity men, who are...

""They are coming for our children," the father warns. A mother in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada is asking police for help after her ex-husband allegedly took off with their 7-year-old daughter in order to prevent the child from being subjected to the experimental Covid jab. Mariecar Jackson wanted to vaccinate the young girl, but the child’s father, Michael Jackson, did not want to. In mid-November, when the girl was scheduled to visit her mother, the father didn’t show and instead appeared on a show called Live With Laura Lynn to explain his situation. “Even if there’s a one in a million...

"Tuesday, Florida lawmakers filed a new bill that would ban abortions in the state after 15 weeks of pregnancy. On the first day of the Florida’s yearly legislative session, Republican Sen. Kelli Stargel and Rep. Erin Grall filed the new legislation, the Associated Press reported. ..."

"Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott says the federal government has no business issuing federal dollars to fund political campaigns and their attack ads. The Democrats' pending voting overhaul legislation would authorize a federal commission to oversee the distribution of $25 credits to qualified voters, who would be able to donate the funds to candidates for public office. The bill, titled the "Freedom to Vote Act," also includes a 6-1 matching program for candidates meeting specified fundraising criteria. These programs are part of the Democrats' effort to require public financing of campaigns. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders argue...

"Tucker Carlson talks the possibility of a Hillary Clinton 2024 presidential run."

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Army, for the first time, is offering a maximum enlistment bonus of $50,000 to highly skilled recruits who join for six years, The Associated Press has learned, as the service struggles to lure soldiers into certain critical jobs during the continuing pandemic.... ...Vereen said the Army is doing more to address those types of concerns. Last fall the Army significantly increased the option to enlist for two years, expanding it to a total of 84 different career fields. And some will be able to choose where they will initially be assigned — a benefit Army...

[13:50 video clip] "...Dr. Fauci, do you really think its appropriate to use your $420,000 salary to attack scientists that disagree with you? ..."

(Click link for a most beautiful song) Let us who mystically represent the Cherubim and who sing the thrice-holy hymn to the life creating trinity Lay aside all earthly cares

Democrats are doing their best to advance President Biden's $2 trillion "Build Back Better" agenda. The bill is being heralded as an engine of economic mobility for American families, and includes things like paid family leave and universal pre-K, which would be firsts for America. In making the case for these programs, progressives often draw on the Danish welfare state for inspiration, with its low levels of income inequality and high levels of mobility in income across generations... Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a staunch supporter of Build Back Better, regularly points to Denmark as the model welfare state. But Sanders...

I have avoided the series for so long, thinking that it was just more Millennial crap.. But I started binging about a week ago.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A new lawsuit accused an ammunition supplier Wednesday of creating dangerous conditions on a movie set where a gun held by actor Alec Baldwin killed a cinematographer, by including live ammunition in a box that was supposed to include only dummy rounds. The lawsuit was filed in New Mexico state district court by Hannah Gutierrez Reed, the armorer who oversaw firearms, ammunition and related training on the set of “Rust” along with two colleagues. Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins died on Oct. 21 from a gunshot wound during a “Rust” rehearsal at a ranch on the outskirts...