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Capitol Hill staffers have been anonymously airing their frustrations about pay so low they sometimes qualify for public aid and members of Congress whose masks come off behind the scenes on the account 'Dear White Staffers.' The account, which brands itself as 'Congressional BIPOC s**tposters on Capitol Hill,' shares salacious stories of members who mistreat their staff, amid a campaign to unionize that has attracted the approval of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Asked about the account in her weekly news conference, Pelosi initially declined. Later asked again about staffers' push to unionize, the speaker said: 'Well,...

SHE HAD THE RECEIPTS: Last year the Prince William County School Superintendent claimed “her hands were tied” by then-governor Northam's mask mandate for students...WATCH Virginia mom Merianne Jensen call out the hypocrisy https://twitter.com/DailySignal/status/1489316251897942019

A few years ago, Spanish prison authorities were rather baffled after a prisoner who had been declared dead by three separate doctors woke up in the morgue – just hours before his own autopsy was set to commence. The prisoner, then-29-year-old Gonzalo Montoya Jiménez, was found unresponsive in his cell during a morning roll call on 7 January 2018 and had been transferred to a hospital mortuary in a body bag when pathologists heard something strange. Snoring. Coming from inside the bag. Jiménez, who was serving time for robbery in the maximum security wing of Asturias Central Penitentiary in northwest...

Flavor your food with ‘flavanols’ to burn excess fat, new study suggests. Dietary intake of flavan-3-ols, type of dietary polyphenolics, could help prevent obesity by sympathetic nervous system-induced browning of fat tissue. In cold conditions, brown adipose tissue (BAT) or brown fat generates heat to keep the body warm. Compared with white adipose tissue, BAT has more mitochondria­—subcellular organelles associated with energy production—which allows it to burn calories and produce heat by activating the mitochondrial uncoupling protein 1 (Ucp-1). The stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) after cold exposure, exercise, and calorie restriction is well known to induce fat...

Does Fauci Bear Any Responsibility? He Says NoWith millions of Americans getting infected and over 800,000 reported COVID-19 deaths, most people now realize that Washington’s pandemic policies failed. Lockdowns just postponed the inevitable while causing enormous collateral damage on cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, tuberculosis, mental health, education and much else.So, the blame game is in full swing. At a recent Senate hearing, Dr. Anthony Fauci did not even attempt to defend his policies. Instead, he insisted that: “Everything that I have said has been in support of the CDC guidelines.”Dr. Fauci, as director of the National Institute of Allergy and...

When it came to reacting to Nancy Pelosi warning US Olympians not to protest China's human rights abuses, there was a striking contrast today between members of the Morning Joe cast and its panelists At least during the first segment, co-host Mika Brzezinski never commented on Pelosi's warning, other than to utter a "wow" at the end of the clip of the Speaker's remarks. And Willie Geist said that Pelosi "sounds genuinely concerned about the physical safety of these athletes." Geist claimed, "that's not a defense of it," but it sure sounded like one. Most surprising was "MSNBC Republican" and...

On Friday, the Republican National Committee overwhelmingly voted to formally censure GOP Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois for their involvement with the House select panel investigating January 6. The vote took place at the RNC's annual winter meeting taking place this year in Salt Lake City, Utah. The resolution cleared an RNC committee vote Thursday. RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel reportedly worked with Trump ally David Bossie to draw up the resolution. "We’ve had two members engage in a Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens who engaged in legitimate political discourse. This has gone beyond their original intent....

EXCLUSIVE: The head of the largest NGO along the border, Catholic Charities of RGV explains they are getting reimbursed with taxpayer dollars & they do buy some plane tickets for migrants. She says they help migrants continue their journey otherwise they are left on the streets. pic.twitter.com/ftQ9QLRB3N — Ali Bradley (@AliBradleyTV) February 4, 2022

A farmer who wrecked a car parked on his land with a tractor has been cleared of criminal damage after he successfully used the 400-year-old legal principle that “an Englishman’s home is his castle”. Robert Hooper, 57, became an internet sensation in June last year, when a video of him using the spikes on his telehandler to flip a £16,000 Vauxhall Corsa went viral on social media. The hill farmer from Upper Teesdale said he had been forced to take action after he came under attack from a "strutting and agitated" shirtless youth, who had refused to move the car...

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds announced on Thursday that she will allow the “public health disaster emergency proclamation” to expire on February 15, 2022.The emergency proclamation was first issued on March 17, 2020, to authorize health mitigation measures during the early state of the COVID-19 pandemic.“We cannot continue to suspend duly enacted laws and treat COVID-19 as a public health emergency indefinitely. After two years, it’s no longer feasible or necessary. The flu and other infectious illnesses are part of our everyday lives, and coronavirus can be managed similarly,” stated Gov. Reynolds. “State agencies will now manage COVID-19 as part of...

Most autistic characters have been played onscreen by neurotypical actors. A new series bucks the trend, starring three leads who are on the spectrum.

NBA superstar Shaquille O’Neal has weighed in on the COVID vaccine mandate debate—and it’s one where he might be targeted for cancellation like Joe Rogan. Why? Well, he spoke his mind. He’s pro-vaccine too. He took it. He’s not against the vaccine, but he is against forcing people to take something they don’t want. O’Neal, a four-time champion, three-time NBA Finals MVP, and 15-time all-star made his position clear on his podcast (via Fox News): But it’s just, people don’t want to take it, and you shouldn’t be forced to take something you don’t want," he [Shaq] said. O’Neal and...

We are renewing a challenge to the CMS vaccine mandate in court so Tennessee health care workers have the right to private health care decisions. - Governor Bill Lee

[Premier Kenney] promised “a firm date to end the REP and do it in the very near future.” That still won’t please the large and impatient anti-passport crew in his caucus. They’ve reached peak anger over the program and want it to vanish immediately, especially with more demonstrations and blockades threatening over the weekend.... During an earlier virtual caucus meeting on Monday, MLAs were asked if they agreed with ending the passport requirement at once. Not one person disagreed, according to people who were on the meeting. I won’t name sources because revealing details of caucus meetings is grounds for...

Alberta’s ruling United Conservative Party has denied that members have been negotiating with an anti-coronavirus restriction trucker border blockade, but nevertheless noted that vaccine passports could end in the province within days.United Conservative Party (UCP) caucus chair Nathan Neudorf dismissed claims that rural UCP members of the Alberta legislative assembly (MLAs) had negotiated a deal with the trucker blockade at the border town of Coutts to end the coronavirus restrictions in the province in exchange for opening the border.“Reports have surfaced that the United Conservative rural caucus has negotiated an agreement to temporarily end the Coutts blockade pending the...

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FOURTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME MARK 6:14-29 Friends, today’s Gospel is a prelude to Jesus feeding the multitude in the desert. There is a darkness at the beginning of this famous account. We hear that John the Baptist has just been murdered; later, we hear that Jesus has withdrawn into a remote and deserted place, fearing probably that the same fate might be his. His charisma and reputation are such that thousands come seeking him out, even in this out-of-the-way and dangerous locale. There are many overtones and undertones for the biblically minded reader. For example, there’s the prophet who...

The Bible tells us that Jesus makes intercession for us: “Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them” (Hebrews 7:25, NKJV). What do the scriptures mean by this? I believe this subject is so deep, majestic and beyond human understanding that I tremble even to address it. Through prayer and trust in the Holy Spirit’s guidance, I’m beginning to grasp just a little of this incredible subject. Recently, I’ve prayed very simply, “Lord, how does your intercession in heaven affect my life?...

Interior of a building destroyed in the aftermath of a counter-terrorism mission conducted by the U.S. Special Operations Forces is seen in Atmeh, Syria, February 3, 2022. Mohamed Al-Daher/Handout via REUTERS ========================================================================= WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (Reuters) - U.S. forces rehearsed the helicopter raid over and over, hoping to capture Islamic State's leader on the third floor of a residential building in a Syrian town on the Turkish border, where he was holed up with his family. But before they could reach him, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Quraishi detonated a suicide bomb, triggering a large explosion that blew mangled bodies -- including...

“Now as Jesus was walking by the Sea of Galilee, He saw two brothers . . . and He said to them, ‘Follow Me.’ . . . Going on from there He saw two other brothers . . . and He called them” (Matthew 4:18–19, 21). Every believer who would be a soul winner must emulate the key principles Jesus exemplified as the model evangelist—not only in this one occasion but throughout His earthly ministry. Think about the following six, and seek to implement them as you witness for Him. First, Jesus was always available. He never refused a genuine...