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Who Ray Epps is, is well known. What Ray Epps is and what he was doing in Washington, DC, on January 6, has become something of a mystery, but the biggest mystery of all is, "what the hell is up with the Democrats and Ray Epps?"

KRASNOILSK, Ukraine (AP) — Dressed as goats, bears, oxen and cranes, many Ukrainians ring in the new year in the colorful rituals of the Malanka holiday. Malanka, which draws on pagan folk tales, marks the new year according to the Julian calendar, meaning it falls on Jan. 13-14. In the festivities, celebrants go from house to house, where the dwellers offer them food.

I worked at one of the Big Four accounting firms until two years ago when I retired early. I could see what was coming when they began to push a new program called D&I – Diversity and Inclusiveness. For those of you who have not endured this, it is an intriguing blend of CRT laced heavily with an attempt to implement quotas in the workplace. Many companies have hired high priced talent to head up their D&I programs. Mandatory training is the initial thrust of these efforts. You are forced to sit down and talk about your racial and sexual...

Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem1 Corinthians 2God’s Wisdom Revealed by the Spirit 6 We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7 No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen,...

Conservatives are beginning to catch on to the fact that leftists (including the FBI) are setting up strawman ‘conservatives’ the left can then destroy. One of the unpleasant realities that became patently clear during 2021 is that leftist operatives, whether inside or outside of the government, have a new tactic to discredit conservativism: They pretend to be conservatives, either to entrap conservatives or to falsely expose them as bad people. The latest example of this kind of fakery is a video that was recently “leaked,” and that purports to show members of the “Patriot Front,” an allegedly conservative organization, revealing...

As reported by Josh Shepherd on the Roys Report, “Brady ‘Phanatik’ Goodwin, founding member of Grammy-nominated Christian hip-hop group, The Cross Movement, and in recent years an apologetics teacher, stated Monday in a video posted online that he has renounced his Christian faith.” As he stated in his Facebook video, “I sent a letter to my church withdrawing my membership and saying that I am denouncing the Christian faith that I have believed, professed, proclaimed, and defended for the last 30 years of my life.” In Goodwin’s video, which is delivered with candor and pain and graciousness, he explains how...

The Talk Shows January 23rd, 2022 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Guest anchor Shannon Bream: Gov. Kristi Noem (R-S.D.); former Trump Administration Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Panel: Return of the Wallass idiots: Marc Thiessen; Julie Pace, Associated Pressitudes; Mohamad Elleithee. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Chuck U. Toad: ; Secretary of State Antony Blinken; Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.); Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.). Panel: Peter Baker, New York Slimes; former Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.); Symone Sanders, chief spokesperson and senior advisor for Vice President Kamala Harris; Kristen Welker, co-chief White...

While largely established to forge "friendly relations among nations," the U.N. has been anything but friendly toward the Jewish state: Israel. In fact, the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) has long afforded a platform and impunity for those promoting Israel's destruction and the ethnic cleansing of Jews from their homeland. In 1974, the UNGA hosted the then-chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Yasser Arafat, who infamously referenced his "freedom fighter's gun" during his speech. At that time the PLO was an "internationally recognized terrorist organization" with its charter stating that "[a]rmed struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine." Some...

Last week Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, walked into the British Parliament and made the most consequential statement by a political leader since the fall of the Berlin Wall. This is what Johnson said in part, to the cheers of the assembled parliamentarians: “Next week mandatory [vaccine] certification will end… We will end the compulsory use of Covid status certification in England… From now, the government is no longer asking people to work from home and people should now speak to their employers about arrangements for returning to the office… [T]he government will no longer mandate...

For quite some time, Congress has ceded its constitutional power to legislate to the unelected administrative state -- at least when Democrats are both the congressional majority and hold the White House. Now, having ignored its true function, it seeks to expand its mandate to judicial powers. The Select Committee set up by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to investigate the January 6 riot has obviously determined that its mandate does not require a legislative purpose: It will act as a judicial branch, albeit one with no constitutional limits whatsoever. You won’t see much about this in the corporate media. You have...

A rare spinal cord condition could be amongst the vaccine’s adverse side effects, according to an EU drug regulatory authority. The committee even, who reviewed the data over a three day conference, made a suggestion addressing vaccine manufacturers to add a warning and spread awareness.A change to the product information has been indicated by the European Union’s drug regulator, for COVID-19 vaccines from AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson, recommends to include a warning of a rare spinal cord condition called transverse myelitis.Transverse Myelitis is a rare condition that involves inflammation of one or both sides of the spinal cord. Symptoms...

Another rich and powerful interest is begging Washington for special privileges under the guise of helping the little guy. This isn’t all that new. We saw this in the aftermath of the 2008 recession when the big banks argued for greater financial regulations that would have limited their future competition to “protect the interests of everyday Americans.” Or so they said. This is akin to some of the wealthiest individuals and American companies who are selling economically questionable “green” energy initiatives…that just happen to pad their bottom line. And now, we’re seeing it again from the super-wealthy record labels, shamelessly...

Thanks for joining us today, and a special welcome to first-time readers.If you are blessed with close friends, you love them dearly and know the feeling is reciprocal. Love of friends is rooted in God’s love – the creator of love. He loves us, we love Him, and we shower our friends with that God-given emotion. Having a friend(s) means we are engaged in a relationship where we positively and sometimes negatively influence each other while negotiating life’s ups and downs. Unfortunately, close friends can also turn into ruthless enemies, which is heartbreaking. As we know, life is complicated, ever-changing,...

In this installment of our weekly Sunday Six conversation, PF Whalen and Parker Beauregard of The Blue State Conservative name six companies that continue to mandate COVID vaccines for employees despite the Supreme Court ruling on January 13th which put a commonsensical ending to the Biden Administration’s ridiculous policy. #6: United Airlines Parker: You and I each write about a major airline that is mandating the jab for its employees. Indeed, many adopted some of the earliest requirements of any large industry. Despite the Supreme Court ruling, United Airlines insists on maintaining its vaccine mandate policy because, as its CEO...

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Liberals love to accuse conservatives of provoking violence with their rhetoric. But on her MSNBC show on Saturday morning, MSNBC host Tiffany Cross not only described current political disagreements as a "war," but she exhorted her fellow liberals: "everybody needs to pick up a weapon and get involved." "Pick up a weapon and get involved?" Imagine if a conservative politician or pundit had said that! There would be immediate calls for the offender to resign or be fired, and perhaps to be prosecuted on charges of inciting violence. Donald Trump was impeached over the January 6 riot without ever having...

Governors, traditionally insulated from national politics, are one of the last bastions of Republican elected leaders able to maneuver around former President Donald Trump. But maybe not for long. Trump is stepping up his involvement in gubernatorial primaries, looking to make an example of critics in his own party and elevate allies ahead of a potential 2024 presidential run — just as some elected before the former president's takeover of the GOP are hitting their term limits. The result could be unelectable candidates in otherwise winnable races and the purging of some of the few Republican elected leaders who didn't...

I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that this is evil. Look around. What Democrats believe in is not "politics as usual," it's not "liberalism," it's not "progressive," it's not even "socialist lite." It's pure evil. It's the kind of evil we used to fight wars over. It's a combination of communism, fascism, Nazism and the slavery of the Confederate South. Yes, Democrats are the new Confederates. First, before I define the evil that Democrats represent, let me start with an explanation. Understand I'm not talking about today's American South. I love the South. If it...

Defamed widow for being in DC on 1/6, calls her an insurrectionist, even though she didn't take part in riot. Previously gave her $5K for baby, husband killed in Afghanistan.

If you watched Joe Biden’s press conference this week, his first in one day shy of the number of years he’s been alive (78 days), you were likely not thrilled. When the best thing sycophants in the left-wing media can say about the event is “He stood for 2 hours!” you know it was more of a testament to the quality of his adult diaper than a declaration of a winning performance. But the truth is no one named Biden is capable of giving a winning performance. They are not smart people, and they are not good people. The Biden...