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A team of Chinese scientists has analyzed the association between consumption of various alcoholic beverages and Covid related risks, bringing some exciting news for wine lovers and disappointment for beer fans. The researchers, from Shenzhen Kangning Hospital and Southwest Hospital, reviewed 473,957 subjects with an average age of 69 from the UK Biobank database, including 16,559 Covid-positive individuals. They divided them into groups by drinking status (non-drinker, former drinker, and current drinker) and by frequency of alcohol consumption (less than three times a week, more than three times a week, and never). Existing UK guidelines – less than 14 units...

One Dutch photographer was inspired to take pictures on the beach, where capturing her dogs in action sparked her interest. She later took portraying that interest to another level entirely, photographing huge horses in dynamic shots. Christina Merk’s affection for photography was handed down to her from her father when she was a child. He had a darkroom that first kindled her passion; she would also sometimes pose as her dad’s model. And as a child, she was also very fond of horses and rode them often. “I love nothing more than capturing horses in action,” Merk told The Epoch...

Shares of the blank-check special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) that agreed to merge with former U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Truth Social” venture have outperformed all other SPACs ever…. … …MacDailyNews Note: Apple’s App Store currently hosts a preorder page for the TRUTH Social app which states, verbatim: TRUTH Social is America’s “Big Tent” social media platform that encourages an open, free, and honest global conversation without discriminating against political ideology Follow the TRUTH! What exactly is TRUTH Social’s “Big Tent” approach? Big Tent is a new way to describe “inclusivity” in America. Think of a giant outdoor event tent at...

Republican students at a New Hampshire Ivy League college say the school’s administration deserted them and made false and embarrassing allegations against them in order to avoid bad publicity by canceling an event under heavy protest by the far-left extremist group Antifa. The live event scheduled at Dartmouth College was called “Extremism in America” and was to feature conservative personality Andy Ngo, who has been violently attacked by Antifa in the past. Antifa and its sympathizers made several threats against the event including offering money to anyone who assaulted Ngo. A local group called Dartmouth Anarchists also posted violent insinuation...

The Bible In Paintings 2 Engravings•Facades•Frescoes•Illuminations•Miniatures•Mosaics•Photographs•Reliefs•Sculptures•Tapestries•Windows Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As men moved east-ward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. They said to each other, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth. ”But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. The LORD said, “If as one people speaking the same language they...

Has the situation between Russia and Ukraine been overblown? Several of the players involved in the current standoff seem to think it may have been. We already heard from some European leaders this week that there’s no need to “dramatize” the situation by withdrawing staff from our embassy in Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sent out his own message to the people of his country last night saying that the situation is “under control” and there is “no reason to panic.” And Vladimir Putin continues to insist that he’s not invading anyone, despite having more than 100,000 troops and heavy...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) closed Florida's monoclonal antibody treatment sites on Monday after the federal government abruptly removed the treatments from Emergency Use Authorizations.

Former San Luis Obispo mayor and climate change activist Heidi Harmon attempted to “do the right thing,” and travel to a rally in San Francisco in an electric car. After multiple attempts to find a working charging station in San Jose, Harmon realized charging the car would take up to seven hours and there was no way she could make the rally. Harmon posted multiple videos about her difficulties in traveling in an all-electric vehicle. She discusses calling the police or asking someone to send a helicopter to rescue her. Harmon spearheaded an effort last summer to enact a city...

Joe Biden is a president in denial. As Americans suffer with record-breaking inflation, skyrocketing gas prices and empty store shelves, he claimed in a recent press conference to have done more in his first year than any other president in history. However, he has done more than any other president to run America into the ground. Biden is blind to the domestic disasters created by his socialist policies, and even more so to his inexcusable foreign policy blunders. In just one year, Biden has allowed our country to be outmaneuvered on the world stage by Communist China and Russia, to...

(Charlie Jacobs is the pen name of a California wife and mother of two teenagers. Until recently, she worked part time in a professional capacity, but is now dedicated to educating other parents about how gender ideology can overtake a child.) My husband and I looked to a Catholic school to be an ally in our fight to break our daughter free from the grip of gender confusion. We were naive. Our daughter, now 15, was 13 when she was coached into believing that she was born in the wrong body and could change to be the opposite sex. This...

Nearly 10,000 women traveled from out of state to have an abortion in Illinois in 2020, a roughly 29% increase compared with the previous year, according to the most recent Illinois Department of Public Health data available. State health statistics show 9,686 out-of-state women terminated a pregnancy in Illinois in 2020, comprising about 21% of all 46,243 abortions performed statewide. This was over 2,000 more than the 7,534 women who came here from another state in 2019. State data from 2021 was not available. ...

Have you ever listened to the news, and come across a story that really makes you angry? Some stories just touch a nerve. This recently happened to me, when I learned that expecting parents are being given bad information about the health and wellbeing of their unborn child. Worse, because of misleading test results, it seems some families may be terminating healthy pregnancies. As someone who is an ardent supporter of the National Right to Life and the pro-life movement, you understand why I felt compelled to speak up. At issue are prenatal tests being sold to expecting parents –...

Waterloo, N.Y. — Town councilmembers in the are calling for Supervisor Don Trout to resign after outrage over a meme he posted to Facebook about white supremacy. On January 13, Trout posted a cartoon to Facebook with the "warning signs of white supremacy" including traits like full-time employment, auto insurance and being literate. It led to tension in the community with many people calling the town hall to complain about the post. Monday, Councilman Mike Pfeiffer asked Trout to resign from his position. "We do not believe the Facebook meme reflects the viewpoint of us board members. Whatever the intention...

It was reported yesterday that Iran was 12-18 months away from a nuclear bomb. When that, coupled with the disintegrating credibility of the American security guarantees in the area, occurs Saudi Arabia, Oman, UAE and others will be scrambling for their own independent nuclear deterrent. With hundreds of billions in hand, these nations will find their bombs. Eighteen months ago this was a different place. For the first time in, I’d have to check my Bible, in millennia, Trumpian peace was flourishing in the entire region. In another year, the mullahs would have thrown in the towel. Gone! There’s one...

January 25th, 2021 The conversion of St. Paul Our Lady of Fatima Church, KarachiReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White First readingActs 22:3-16 ©'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?'Paul said to the people, ‘I am a Jew and was born at Tarsus in Cilicia. I was brought up here in this city. I studied under Gamaliel and was taught the exact observance of the Law of our ancestors. In fact, I was as full of duty towards God as you are today. I even persecuted this Way to the death, and sent women as well as men to prison in chains...

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When I came to Washington, D.C., in 1985, Ronald Reagan was president. I was working for the Reagan budget office. We did something we weren't very proud of at the time. We introduced the first $1 trillion budget in American history, which was unthinkable. One trillion dollars. There are 12 zeroes in a trillion. A trillion is a million dollars times a million. The budget deficit hit $200 billion and 6% of our entire GDP. Again, unthinkable. Now, fast forward 37 years later. The budget today is nowhere close to $1 trillion. In 2021, President Joe Biden's first year in...

Neil Young has posted an open letter to his management team and record label demanding that they remove his music from Spotify. “I am doing this because Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines – potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them,” he writes. “Please act on this immediately today and keep me informed of the time schedule.”“I want you to let Spotify know immediately TODAY that I want all my music off their platform,” he continues. “They can have [Joe] Rogan or Young. Not both.” Young is referencing the steady stream of misinformation...

Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky continues to press Dr. Anthony Fauci for answers on the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) gain-of-function research funding. Fox News Digital exclusively obtained Paul’s questions for the record following up on Fauci’s dramatic Jan. 11 testimony to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee. Paul submitted 11 "yes or no" questions for Fauci to answer in a letter to Senate HELP Committee chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., and ranking member Richard Burr, R-N.C, last week. "The American people deserve to know how this pandemic started, to know if the NIH funded dangerous gain-of-function...

WASHINGTON, Friday, Jan. 24. measures of the Committee of Ways and Means, which are, in fact, very nearly the same proposed in his annual report. It is to be regretted that the Bank Committees visited Washington with their advice, and that Mr. CHASE varied his original plans to meet their views. The delay in legislation is owing to this cause alone. Mr. ALLEY's speech in the House yesterday is the most valuable yet made on the currency question, and expresses the principles that will prevail in Congress. NO FOREIGN DISPATCHES. Our Government was not in receipt of its foreign dispatches...