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The founder of the Black Lives Matter chapter in Memphis has been sentenced to prison for six years for illegally registering to vote in Tennessee, prosecutors said.Pamela Moses, the 44-year-old activist, was ordered to spend six years and one day behind bars Monday for registering to vote despite felony convictions in 2015 that made her ineligible to do so, Shelby County District Attorney General. Amy Weirich said.

As many as 55 federal departments and agencies have created 57 rule changes to keep track of employees or applicants who have sought exemptions of various kinds, including exemptions to COVID-19 vaccine mandates, a Christian conservative lobbying group reports. While some rules are limited to vaccine exemptions, others track all exemptions, such as an employee or applicant seeking accommodation from working on the Sabbath or Sunday, reports Liberty Counsel Action, the lobbying arm of the nonprofit legal organization that specializes in religious freedom cases. Some rules even track visitors to their buildings or events. For example, the Treasury Department’s Office...

CALIFORNIA TEACHER CAUGHT ON VIDEO YELLING AT STUDENT FOR SUPPORTING HIS COP DAD WITH THIN BLUE LINE MASK: 'THAT’S THE NEW CONFEDERACY FLAG!' Posted by Paul Sacca | Feb 3, 2022 | The Blaze A California substitute teacher was caught on video berating a student over the "Thin Blue Line" face mask the eighth-grader was wearing. The 13-year-old said he wears the Thin Blue Line mask to honor his police officer father. The intense confrontation happened on Monday at Lyman Gilmore Middle School in Grass Valley, California. That's where the unnamed substitute teacher got into a shouting match about Lucas...

How would you describe the scent of winter? Unlike spring, summer and fall, which have strongly defined aromas (flowers in bloom, beaches, decaying leaves), the current season is marked by the scent of nothing. Nothing’s growing. Nothing’s dying. It’s a kind of olfactory pause. But snow has a scent, and researchers say that scent depends on what’s in the ground and the air. And as both the atmosphere and the land are getting warmer, the scent of snow is getting stronger. How would you describe the scent of winter? Unlike spring, summer and fall, which have strongly defined aromas (flowers...

African Pachamama: Priest DefrockedAneho Bishop Isaac Jogues Gaglo, Togo, laicised Father Joseph Bassitome (pictured) for joining a pagan African religion.Gaglo writes in a February 2 message that he summoned Bassitome after learning that he was invoking pagan deities and indulging in "syncretistic and scandalous" practices.Bassitome admitted having joined a group called "African Renaissance." The bishop ordered him to leave the group and spend a period of time in a monastery in the mountains. But Bassitome refused and asked to be defrocked. Had he adored Pachamama, Francis would have made him a Cardinal.In Western dioceses, priests proclaiming the pagan homosex religion...

A 20-year old man convicted of setting a fire at a high school during the Black Lives Matter riots in 2020 in Minnesota received probation and was fined $34,000. Judge David S. Doty, appointed by Ronald Reagan, didn’t comment on why he only gave a terrorist probation, but court documents show that he was constrained by the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984. Mohamed Hussein Abdi pled guilty to conspiracy to commit arson, according to court documents obtained by Fox News. From New York Post: Abdi was arrested in June 2020, a month after he entered the high school through a...

After everything that could be done was tried at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, we had to acknowledge that James, my 11-year-old grandson was gone. Trying to adjust to this terrible reality has been difficult beyond imagination for my son Liam. Everyone else is devastated but Liam is finding it very hard to even begin to heal. My daughter-in-law Jessica has helped him, as have his two daughters Amanda and Abbey. But, they all need continued prayers to beseech Our Lord to send soothing graces to the whole family. There is no telling how long they will need prayers, or...

You’ve heard the saying, here comes the cavalry, but when was the last time you saw that happen? Coutts Border crossing between Alberta and Montana has as (what looks like) hundreds on horseback arrived to support protesting truckers. This video is over three minutes of riders on horseback clomping past the camera. It’s an impressive show of support. According to reports, a deal was underway to move the protest away from the border, but that fell apart. The truckers are not leaving, and they’ve been joined by other groups who oppose the mandates. It’s been over a week. The premier...

[Catholic Caucus] German Synod Will Concoct Homosex-“Blessing"The German Synod voted on Saturday (161 yes, 34 no, 11 abstentions) to concoct a rite of "blessing" for homosexuals and adulterers and to allow these groups to do paid work for the Church.Some examples of anti-Catholic polemics during the Synod where sin was presented as "love":- Birgit Mock, Vice-President of the lay body Zentralkomitee deutscher Katholiken (pictured in the green jacket): "With the [homosex] blessing, we want to explore something in Germany that can then also radiate out into the universal Church."- Munich’s Cardinal Marx on a future "re-evaluation" of homosexuality in the...

In the beginning GoFundMe sounded like a wonderful thing. It offered an opportunity for people to take their personal financial difficulties public and hopefully encourage others to make donations that would help them and, in many cases, it was a success. Then little by little the demon inside appeared. It has gone full woke. It now decapitates anything against Critical Race Theory and anything questioning vaccines in the guise of suppressing "misinformation." Now it has turned on the protest by Canadian truckers. A GoFundMe account had been established in support of the Canadian truckers who are supporting mandatory vaccination. Demanding...

The German National Socialist Party, A.K.A. the Nazis, loved making things out of the leather made from the skin of their Jewish and Deplorable victims so it is a proud tradition of socialism/communism. Nike produces many of its sneakers in China and it would be unethical to just harvest the organs from the murder camp victims and just throw away the skin. Nike using the skin would be very "green" which, inthe minds of the typical Watermelon Marxist, trumps all other morality.

The unelected gatekeepers of our national morals, the censors at NBC Universal, have deemed any criticism of the Chinese Communists during the Olympic Games to be a sacrilege and have forbidden it. The network is refusing to run an ad critical of the Chinese Communist government’s human rights record. Only happy faces of smiling athletes are allowed to be seen. No Uyghur detention centers. No clinics where forced sterilization of Uyghur women is performed. No factories where Uyghur slave laborers toil. NBA player-activist Enes Kanter Freedom of the NBA's Boston Celtics is featured in the spot. Kanter is one of...

Last week, Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) suffered a stroke and underwent brain surgery. He is currently hospitalized in Albuquerque. He is expected to return to the U.S. Senate in four to six weeks, assuming there are no further medical complications. However, during his absence, Democrats no longer have a majority in the Senate—Republicans have a 50-49 majority. This means that until Luján returns, a united GOP can block the Democrats’ agenda and there’s nothing the Democrats could do about it. This is actually a big deal. In addition to blocking the Democrats’ legislative agenda, Luján’s absence could potentially impact...

ROUND 4 OF THE '50S TOURNAMENT OF CHART-TOPPERS II COMMENCES! ROUND 4 – SWEET 16 Votes due: Sunday, Feb 13 @ 12:00 pm Eastern. 16 songs, 8 pairs, 8 winners! Vote for your favorite in each pair listed. (You may abstain from any pairs, but please don't overdo it!) Any ties will be broken via Billboard annual ranking, then back to Round 1 ranking (seed), then Round 1 point total, then Round 1 vote count. Past Rounds: Rounds 1A and 1B: 1A, 1B Round 2: 2 Round 3: 3

Germany, as we well know with its Russian gas capers, is a highly industrialized society in need of a lot of energy. Fine and dandy. But how they get it presents increasingly bad options. They got rid of their nuclear power in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown after a big earthquake in Japan, (despite Germany not being in a quake zone), driving themselves to dependency on foreign suppliers. That's presented problems for them what with Russia filling that role, so their other recourse has been the one Joe Biden is touting for America: Green energy -- like...

How would you feel about paying $5 each month for the ability to lock and unlock your car from a distance through an app? What about a $25-per-month charge for advanced cruise control or $10 to access heated seats? What if those charges continued long after your car was paid off? As vehicles become increasingly connected to the internet, car companies aim to rake in billions by having customers pay monthly or annual subscriptions to access certain features. Not content with the relatively low-margin business of building and selling cars, automakers are eager to pull down Silicon Valley-style profits. But...

LEBANON COUNTY, Pa. — After a series of videos were released on social media accusing a Lebanon County restaurant of acting as a conduit to coordinate distribution of Ivermectin, an alternative, non-FDA approved treatment for COVID-19, officials have confirmed they are investigating the allegations. Taste of Sicily, owned by Christine Mason's mother, Silvana Drill, and operated by restaurant manager Mike Magano, have used their Facebook page throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to pronounce their views, and to show that they wouldn't abide by some of the COVID-19 restrictions Gov. Tom Wolf put into place for restaurants during 2020. Drill told FOX43...

A substitute teacher in California berated a 13-year-old student for wearing a pro-police mask, claiming the face covering was the new version of the Confederate flag, video shows. Lucas Lillar was wearing the mask featuring a thin blue line in support of law enforcement when he was confronted by the educator last Monday in his math class at Lyman Gilmore Middle School in Grass Valley, Fox News reported. “That’s not the American flag, that’s the new Confederacy flag,” the teacher could be heard saying in the video.

Let’s see how The Federal Reserve will handles its bloated balance sheet, particularly with a midterm election around the corner. What a difference 25 years makes. Worried that inflation was about to turn higher, the Federal Reserve in February 1994 began raising interest rates, taking the federal funds rate from 3% to 6% a year later. As it turned out, those worries were unfounded: The U.S. consumer price index barely budged, finishing the year at 2.7%, right where it had started. Some central banks say that rate hikes are coming, but their extraordinary reluctance to deal with actual inflation means...

This is part 1 of an exclusive Fringe Finance interview with shipping analyst (and friend of mine) J Mintzmyer, where we discuss the state of the supply chain in the country, the developments with Canadian truckers, logistics, the effects of Covid and what shipping names he likes for 2022. J is a renowned maritime shipping analyst and investor who directs the Value Investor’s Edge (“VIE”) research platform on Seeking Alpha. You can follow him on Twitter @mintzmyer. J is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, is regularly quoted in trade journals, and hosts a popular podcast featuring shipping industry executives....