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4 February 2022 Friday of week 4 in Ordinary Time Corsini Chapel - Basilica of St John Lateran - Rome Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingEcclesiasticus 47:2-13 ©David sang out of love for his MakerAs the fat is set apart from the communion sacrifice, so David was chosen out of all the sons of Israel.He played with lions as though with kids, and with bears as though with lambs of the flock.While still a boy, did he not slay the giant, and relieve the people of their shame,by putting out a hand to sling a stone which brought down the...

Joe Biden made a series of bogus claims about guns during a visit to New York City on Thursday to address skyrocketing crime rates in the city. His visit came one one day after the massive funeral for the second of two NYPD cops who were gunned down last month. A group of protesters carrying the anti-Biden message “Let’s Go Brandon” and chanting “no vaccine mandate!” greeted Biden as he arrived at One Police Plaza just after 1 p.m., the New York Post reported.

Over the last two years the deaths of actors, actress, celebrities, the rich and famous have been overshadowed by life under Covid-19 restrictions. For this reason, it is worth noting who among the well known are, in fact, still alive. Angela Landsbury, star of theater, movies, known for her lead role on the televsion series "Murder She Wrote", and the oldest living Academy Award Winner at 96 years young, is still very much alive.A spokesperson for Keith Richards said he has no comment at this time.

Whoopi Goldberg, suspended for two weeks by ABC for her comments about the Holocaust, had an opinion. She, like many people these days, is unable to properly contextualize history or see it outside her own contemporary leftist worldview. But Goldberg is a talk show host with no power. No one is really "hurt" by her words. She should be able to express herself without fear of losing her job. As should Joe Rogan and Ilya Shapiro. That said, the slap on the wrist, probably intended to keep Goldberg out of the public eye to weather the storm, is also performative....

WASHINGTON. Monday, Feb. 3. Yesterday afternoon a flag of truce from Gen. JOHNSTON reached the outposts of Gen. McDOWELL'S Division. The dispatches were brought by Col. HARRISON, of the Second Virginia Cavalry. He was permitted to proceed no further. The scaled communication was brought to headquarters here by Capt. DRONILLARD. The contents have not yet transpired. Much speculation is indulged in in regard to the flag of truce. A conference of an hour was held to-day at the War Department, the President, Mr. SEWARD and Gen. MCCLELLAN being present. The public have it that there is some connection between this...

A refrain we’re seeing from convoy participants and supporters is that this protest is 'non-violent.' That song and dance is all too familiar to the many women across the country who have experienced domestic abuse.

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Speaking in Conroe, Texas, last weekend, former President Donald Trump accused his successor of allowing millions of migrants to enter the country illegally across our Southern border. "The most important border ... for us is not Ukraine's border but America's border," thundered Trump. "Before Joe Biden sends any troops to defend a border in Europe, he should be sending troops to defend our border right here in Texas." Thus did Trump not only frame a compelling issue for the fall election; he has framed an issue that touches on one of the great and deepening divides of our time. Which...

As the creepy porn lawyer faces fines and jail time, questions about his operation—and who was financing it—linger. id Hillary Clinton or the Democratic National Committee ever pay Michael Avenatti? The question isn’t exactly new. It was at least hinted at as early as May 10, 2018. That day, Mark Penn, a former advisor to President Bill Clinton, published an op-ed in The Hill newspaper. At the time, the news was filled with the rantings of Avenatti, who gained his fame and notoriety representing former porn star Stormy Daniels. Daniels was claiming she was paid to cover up an affair...

The only power the tyrant has is the power we grant him when we comply. s a caravan of Canadian truckers, composed of thousands and stretching 45 miles, made its way to the Canadian capital of Ottawa in protest of leftist tyranny, the propagandist media moved swiftly to downplay the size and scope of it all. A USA Today “fact checker” wrote: “Canada truck convoy not an official Guinness World record.” SNIP So while USA Today’s “fact check” was technically true, it was nothing more than a desperate, pedantic effort to dismiss the overwhelming size and significance of the freedom...

Source: Libs of Tik Tok“I’m going to throw up. My stomach is literally twisting. God please help us!” That was the response of a viewer on my YouTube channel after watching video clips of two professors advocating adult-child sex – including coercive sex. Wanting to throw up is a very natural reaction. To be sure, I’ve heard these arguments before. In fact, one of the most sickening chapters to write in my 2011 book, A Queer Thing Happened to America was the chapter quoting pedophile advocates. NAMBLA (the North American Man Boy Love Association) has more advocates than we could...

The Biden administration has an established pattern of secrecy when it comes to its immigration policies, and it’s not just about the ghost flights. Is the Biden administration quietly importing large numbers of illegal aliens through midnight flights? That would be a reasonable conclusion based on recent reports about the Biden administration’s resettlement process. The White House is being accused of chartering flights for hundreds of “mostly minor-age” illegal aliens to Pennsylvania, according to a report. The “ghost flights” allegedly took place over the course of three weeks during the month of September, and concluded shortly after the Christmas holiday....

Trump was accused of stoking tensions, being "un-American" in sharp contrast to Biden press coverage. The mainstream media is crediting President Biden for directing the U.S. raid that killed the leader of Islamic State (ISIS) on Wednesday night, in sharp contrast to how the press panned then-President Trump after he ordered operations to kill the leaders of two U.S.-designated terrorist organizations in 2019 and 2020. "Last night at my direction, U.S. military forces in northwest Syria successfully undertook a counterterrorism operation to protect the American people and our allies, and to make the world a safer place," Biden said Thursday....

When the history of this American era is written, the top headline will not be about election controversies or critical race theory or even COVID-19. This will be known most of all as the era when America sold out its future generations. This week, America's national debt surpassed $30 trillion for the first time, a full $7 trillion increase from just two years ago. How did this happen, and who's to blame? President Bill Clinton was no deficit hawk, but with a Republican Congress keeping him largely in line and with the dot-com boom providing record government revenues, Clinton gets...

With the Biden administration pushing hard to force a war with Russia, it was a rare pleasure to see Matt Lee nail Ned Price for refusing to give a straight answer. The same media types who were horrified at the thought of the Gulf War even though it was ostensibly to increase America’s security, are all in for the Biden administration’s frantic effort to get America involved in a winter land war against Russia that will confer no benefit whatsoever on America. That’s why it was strange and wonderful to watch the Associated Press’s Matt Lee nail Ned Price, the...

A North Carolina school board doubles down on student indoctrination. On January 31, 2022 the Orange County NC School Board held a special meeting, reviewing the books Out of Darkness, Gender Queer, and Lawn Boy. The board voted unanimously to keep these books in the public-school libraries. The board then waived procedure stating the status of the material as indefinitely approved, unable to be challenged after two years per the stated policy. Parents needed to be punished for raising concerns! Towards the end of the meeting, board member Sarah Smylie, inferred that parental concern is a “distraction” from real work....

SALT LAKE CITY – Republican officials meeting in Utah advanced a watered-down resolution Thursday that would formally censure GOP Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for their perceived disloyalty to former President Donald Trump but not seek to expel them from the party. The resolution's passage through a subcommittee followed hours of hand-wringing over language that initially would have called on the House Republican Conference to oust Cheney and Kinzinger, the only Republicans on the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol. The censure resolution is expected to be voted on Friday by all 168 Republican National...

Our Canadian brothers and sisters to the north are known universally for maple syrup, hockey, and an unwavering politeness. But what used to be an endearing quality common to the peoples of the great North is now proving to be their cultural undoing. The same can be said for our easygoing Aussie counterparts. Until recently, we were all under the impression that Australians were just a sort of crazier version of Americans. Similar in temperament and values and most notably in their love of freedom. But just look at what has happened to their country in an incredibly short period...

A German artist has created a cube supposedly made from pure gold and plopped it in the middle of Manhattan's largest greenspace - in a wild publicity stunt to draw attention to a new cryptocoin that was launched at the same time. Reportedly made from pure, 24-carat, 999.9 fine gold and weighing 410 pounds, Niclas Castello took more than 4,500 hours to create it. The cube has a hollow core. If the gold is real, the entire artwork would be valued at $11.7 million, going by the current price of the precious metal of $1,788 per ounce. A security team...

United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer announced his retirement last week. (Or, more accurately, his announcement was leaked by resident Joe Biden's Chief of Staff Ron Klain, months before Breyer planned to announce it himself.) Breyer is part of the Court's liberal faction, so his replacement, named by a Democrat president, is unlikely to change the outcome of cases. Even so, Biden wasted no time proclaiming that he intended to make good on a campaign promise to appoint the first Black female Supreme Court justice. The last person who should be bragging about his commitment to advancing the cause...