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Former “Today” star Katie Couric said that many people “turned a blind eye to inappropriate behavior” by CNN chief Jeff Zucker and network bigwig Allison Gollust, whose romantic relationship led to his resignation. “I worked with Jeff Zucker for many years at NBC and later on my talk show. He was a talented and energetic producer. His resignation took me by surprise,” Couric said in statement through Katie Couric Media. “(Gollust) and her husband and kids had moved into the apartment right above Jeff and Caryn’s — everyone who heard about their cozy arrangement thought it was super strange,” Couric...

Meta Platforms which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, is seeing its stock go into freefall. The shares were more than 22% in lower in premarket trading Thursday. If the shares finish more than 18.96% lower in regular trading in the day ahead, it will be the worst one-day plunge for the stock in the company’s history. While sales came in ahead of estimates, earnings were weaker than expected and the group’s guidance was truly dismal: Revenue is expected to come in between $27 billion and $29 billion in the current quarter. Representing comparatively anemic annual growth of 3% to 11%,...

Between the Biden Administration, Anthony Fauci and the media constantly screaming about the devastating effects of Omicron, I would have expected massive job cuts and a large spike in jobless claims. But alas, the numbers and charts tell a different story. Today, we saw that the Challenger job cuts for January fell further to 76%. Initial jobless claims fell to 236k. And The Federal Reserve is still hyper-stimulating the economy. After listening to Biden spokesperson Jen Psaki preparing us for an end-of-times job report, I was expecting today’s news dump to be terrible. But alas, it just looks like another...

David Stout, a junior at Plainwell High School in Michigan, was suspended for three days last fall as punishment for expressing his religious beliefs in a private conversation with a friend.

The heart of Jerusalem at the end of the Two Witnesses' 1260 day ministry will be totally exposed and identified as rebellious, hard-hearted, unrepentant and described as spiritual Sodom and Egypt (Rev. 11:8); Israel now will be totally ready and ripe for Almighty God's Divine judgment and the prophetic fulfillment of Jacob's Trouble (Deut. 4:30, 31:29, Jer. 30:18, Ezek 39:26, Dan. 9:27, 11: 45, 12:1, 11, Zech 13:8-9, 14:1-2, Matt. 24:15-19, Mark 13:14-19, Luke 21:20-24, Rev. 12, Rev. 13). The same Bible text also points out that this same city - when Almighty God sent His own people His dearly...

Democratic Tennessee state Senator Katrina Robinson said she feels beat up due to her expulsion from the Tennessee Senate on Wednesday in the first instance since at least the Civil War of the Legislature expelling a lawmaker. The GOP-led Senate passed a motion in a 27-5 vote to expel Robinson, according to Nashville's WTVF. In connection to her conviction on federal charges, a Senate ethics committee had previously recommended Robinson's expulsion, which the senator called a "procedural lynching" in a speech on the Senate floor posted to her Facebook page. ​​Robinson had been convicted of wire fraud involving federal grant...

If you think the Biden administration is disengaging from the Middle East and the Gulf region, think again. This week, the White House asked Congress to designate Qatar as a major non-NATO ally, which “opens up a full range of opportunities,” including exercises, operations and Qatar’s “acquisition of capabilities,” according to the Defense Department. Qatar’s status as the world’s top gas exporter makes it a valuable ally. The harder thing to explain is why Biden picks favorites among the energy-rich Gulf monarchies, all of them firmly autocratic. The president has embraced Qatar while keeping Saudi Arabia and the United Arab...

The border crossing between Coutts, Alberta (CA) and Sweet Grass, Montana (USA) continues to be closed despite truckers opening a lane in either direction as a show of good faith. The dynamics in this regional part of the larger Freedom Convoy protests are very interesting. The Alberta protests are in support of the larger trucker protest taking place in Ottawa. Last night, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney (the Robert the Bruce character in the province), disparaged the truckers in the protest group and claimed, without evidence, that violence was taking place in the confrontation between RCMP and the Truckers. It was...

Less than a week after NewsBusters caught her deceptively editing a statement provided to her by Florida Department of Health press secretary Jeremy Redfern, Maddow decided to deceive her viewers one more time before she heads out the door for a month-long hiatus; this time by editing remarks given by Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis. After discussing the recent Nazi demonstrations in Florida, Maddow quickly turned her ire on DeSantis for the false claim that he never condemned the Nazis. "In addition to this rash of Nazi incidents, in addition to the Nazi incidents themselves, kind of a follow-on scandal...

The Bible In Paintings 2 Engravings•Facades•Frescoes•Illuminations•Miniatures•Mosaics•Photographs•Reliefs•Sculptures•Tapestries•WindowsG E N E S I SCHAPTER 21:1-15 Now the LORD was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and THE LORD DID FOR SARAH WHAT HE HAD PROMISED. Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him. Abraham gave the name Isaac to him. Sarah said, “God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.” And she added, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a...

Watchdog groups are sounding the alarm on the law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service, which they say is violating the privacy and civil liberties of the American people by using sophisticated tools to break into hundreds of citizens' cellphones and collect their social media posts. Until now, it's gone largely unpublicized that the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) admitted in its 2020 annual report that it not only employed top-of-the-line technology hundreds of times to hack into mobile phones but also planned to expand its use of the hacking tools in the future. "The Cellebrite Premium and GrayKey...

It’s time for normal Americans to fight the Left’s tyranny. Anyone who is even passingly familiar with Homer’s epic poem The Iliad knows that it is an epic tale of betrayal, war, and retribution. The story describes a 10 year-long siege by a newly United Greece against the city of Troy, whose walls were thought to be impenetrable by any army. Behind these walls hid the cowardly Paris, prince of Troy and son of Trojan king Priam, who snuck off in the dead of night with Helen, the wife of Menelaus, the king of Sparta and the brother of Agamemnon,...

There may be less of them, but you still see a few "Believe Science" signs out while driving. The challenge is that scientific knowledge makes progress when ideas are questioned, debated and explored. When the pandemic began, the public was told we could shut down for two weeks to flatten the curve. Two years later, we have endured a lot more than a two-week shutdown. Schools were moved to remote learning; colleges were shut for months; restaurants were forced to move to takeout only; and everyone who could move from working in an office to working from home did so....

Ilya Shapiro apologized for his “poor choice of words” in a series of tweets about Joe Biden’s potential Supreme Court pick. Here’s what he should have said instead. By now most readers are familiar with the Ilya Shapiro “controversy.” I use sneer quotes because, like virtually every cultural outrage these days, it’s aggressively dumb, clearly a bad-faith hit job perpetrated by deeply unhappy ideological fanatics without hobbies, and the target of the mob’s ire has said something true, if also sloppily, on Twitter. The now-deleted tweets read: Objectively best pick for Biden is Sri Srinivasan, who is solid prog &...

(The Hill) – Two judges on FOX’s “The Masked Singer” walked off the set in protest after it was revealed that former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani was a contestant, Deadline and TMZ reported Wednesday.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The state has now collected more than a half-billion dollars more in revenue this fiscal year than was originally projected. The Justice administration announced Wednesday that revenue collections for January were $146.9 million ahead of estimates putting year-to-date collection totals at $540.8 million above estimates. Collections have topped estimates in each of the fiscal year’s first 7 months. The January surplus total represents the largest surplus amount. Gov. Jim Justice said the state continues to break all-time records. “These numbers just didn’t happen by someone rolling off a pickle truck,” Justice said. “When it comes down to...

COVID-19 narratives promoted by federal regulators and enforced by Big Tech for nearly two years are faltering as more researchers probe questions long deemed too controversial to study. Johns Hopkins University's Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise concluded that lockdown policies "have had little to no public health effects" while imposing "enormous economic and social costs." Researchers conducted a meta-analysis of U.S. and European studies of possible relationships between lockdown policies and COVID "mortality or excess mortality," prompted by two international studies that countered Imperial College London's staggering estimates of COVID deaths without lockdown....

But as Sherlock Holmes once sagely said, when you eliminate all possibilities, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. This weekend I heard Congresswoman Comrade Tlaib’s trial balloon that Biden needs to reinstitute (Obama’s) restrictions on U.S. oil and gas exports. As the sheer insanity of that platform permeated my brain, I took a step back and thought about what this past year of Democrat/Left policy-making has wrought in the energy/financial sector alone. The phrase, cui bono, kept coming to mind on a geopolitical scale. It is certainly the stuff of conspiracy theorists to think that the Democrat/Left is...

, 3 February 2022 Thursday of week 4 in Ordinary Time St. Blaise, Sebaste, the Philippines Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First reading1 Kings 2:1-4,10-12 ©David's dying exhortation to SolomonAs David’s life drew to its close he laid this charge on his son Solomon, ‘I am going the way of all the earth. Be strong and show yourself a man. Observe the injunctions of the Lord your God, following his ways and keeping his laws, his commandments, his customs and his decrees, as it stands written in the Law of Moses, that so you may be successful in all you do...

President Joe Biden's approval rating has dipped heading into the second month of 2022, after making some modest gains in the new year. The president enjoyed a bump in popularity in January, with his approval rating rising to 43.5 percent, but the figure now stands at around 41.8 percent, according to poll tracker FiveThirtyEight. The Biden administration has just entered its second year and in November the Democrats will face crucial midterm elections that will put the spotlight firmly on the president's agenda.