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The high of victimhood and the power it bestows is just too much for Palm Beach County School Board members to resist. They fear for their lives over threats that don’t seem to have happened. Like many school boards around the country, the PBC School Board has abused its power since COVID began. When a group of people with a bit of power treat the public like dirt, the people usually respond in kind. Threats of violence are wrong and shouldn’t be tolerated, but calling elected officials names, even vulgar ones, is a time-honored way to deal with politicians.

Freedom loving people in the United States, Canada and worldwide need to learn a valuable lesson about the woke masters of the Internet. Most of these popular social media and crowdfunding sites need to be avoided like the plague. For years, the leftists who control these platforms have clearly shown they do not believe in free speech and are obsessed with removing content from conservatives if it conflicts with the progressive agenda. Whether the topic is the 2020 election or COVID-19, Internet censors are enthusiastic to remove content from conservatives on a variety of platforms. The same censorship does not...

The governing Canadian officials (both political parties) can no longer keep Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in hiding; they have exhausted all possible political justifications including a manufactured “security threat”, and a COVID-19 “diagnosis” that required quarantine. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is going to have to come back to work in Ottawa. As a direct result, to protect the political viability of their King, the pretorian guard must remove the pesky freedom protest groups. Everything takes on an additional sense of urgency, after all, “the Canadian democracy is at stake.” To handle this dynamic, the City of Ottawa officials have just...

A top retired Russian general has warned Vladimir Putin not to go to war with Ukraine, accusing the leader of whipping up an 'artificial' conflict to distract from his domestic problems. Colonel-General Leonid Ivashov, 78, penned an open letter titled 'The Eve of War' in which he blasted Putin's 'criminal policy of provoking a war' despite Russia not facing any 'critical threats'... Ivashov,.. previously served as Putin's chief of military cooperation in the Ministry of Defence. Ivashov said: 'As for external threats, they are certainly present. But, according to our expert assessment, they are not currently critical, directly threatening the...

In a February 5 editorial, "The GOP Censures Liz Cheney," The Wall Street Journal indicated that its ongoing nostalgia for the Bushies still clouds its political judgment. The editorial insisted that the censure by the Republican National Committee of the turncoat representatives Cheney and Kinzinger will be detrimental to GOP chances in the midterm congressional elections, later this year. Why? In a squib highlighting the editorial's main point, the suggestion is that the RNC's censure is "dividing" Republicans and, thereby, will hand the Democrats victory in the congressional midterms. What nonsense. Those "Republicans" in Liz Cheney's corner are, more than...

Friends, today’s Gospel reports Jesus healing many people at Gennesaret. We hear that people brought the sick from all over the region and all of them were cured. "Whatever villages or towns or countryside he entered, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged him that they might touch only the tassel on his cloak; and as many as touched it were healed." It’s hard to deny that Jesus was known as a healer and a miracle worker. And there is also abundant evidence that the performance of miracles was a major reason why the first preachers were taken...

The ongoing controversy involving podcast giant Joe Rogan and his Spotify platform is playing out like a soap opera and shows no sign of abating. Among those weighing in are music legends like Neil Young and Jon Mitchell, actors like Dwayne Johnson (aka “The Rock”) and Sharon Stone, and White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, on behalf of resident Biden himself. What has become clear, though, in this larger debate about free speech and “misinformation” is that Rogan himself does not seem to be an ideologue. In other words, the very popular (and famously foul-mouthed) podcast host, comedian, and UFC...

American truckers are planning the Convoy to DC 2022 after seeing what Canadian Truckers Freedom Convoy has done in Canada and the U.S-Canada border. This Freedom Convoy is tentatively planned for March 2022.The Convoy to DC 2022 will be very similar to the Canadian Truckers Freedom Convoy but the one major difference will be the sheer size. Lets look at the numbers. Canada has between 35,000 - 60,000 owner operators nationwide. The U.S. by contrast has over 350,000 owner operator truck drivers and that number may be considerably higher when considering small carriers and those who refer to themselves as...

In mid-January, the gigantic blowout spending bill going by the Orwellian name of Build Back Better died in the Senate. Over in the progressive precincts of government and the media, where everyone knows that all human wealth and well-being come entirely from government largesse, it was time to prepare for the bad economic news. Surely, with no massive new government blowout spending and with Omicron surging, the January jobs report would be dismal, likely even showing employment declines. Therefore, in the run-up to Friday’s jobs report for January, the White House spin machine was in full tornado mode, blaming the...

WASHINGTON, Thursday, Feb. 6. The opponents of the treasury note legal tender met a Waterloo defeat to-day. The majority in favor of the legal tender clause astonishes even the friends of the measure. Before the hour of the meeting, the fate of the latter provision was deemed doubtful. As soon, however, as a canvass showed a certain majority of 15, the wavering all came into its support as an administration measure. The measure was strengthened also by dispatches from the Cincinnati banks and Gov. SPRAGUE to the Ohio and Rhode Island delegations, urging the indispensability of the legal tender. VALLANDIGHAM,...

In 2013, American virologist Ralph Baric approached Zhengli Shi at a meeting. Shi had detected the genome of a new virus, called SHC014, that was one of the two closest relatives to the original SARS virus, but her team had not been able to culture it in the lab. Baric had developed a way around that problem—a technique for “reverse genetics” in coronaviruses. Not only did it allow him to bring an actual virus to life from its genetic code, but he could mix and match parts of multiple viruses. He wanted to take the “spike” gene from SHC014 and...

OTTAWA – GoFundMe froze more than $10 million raised by a Canadian trucker convoy, prompting outrage from conservatives and calls for an investigation from Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) who declared the truckers “heros.” But the group has already raised another $2 million from GiveSendGo in the last 36 hours with tens of thousands of dollars pouring in every minute. The convoy is also facing a lawsuit from the city of Ottawa over disruption of services and noise even though the convoy arrived in town while Ottawa was in the grips of a provincial lockdown with...

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Dear Ambassador Mr Chris Cooter I hereby write this letter to protest the abuse of Canadian truckers and the freedom convoy by the Canadian Police. As a freedom loving Zimbabwean I have an obligation to challenge you and your government to stop violating the human rights enshrined in Canadian constitution. The Freedom Convoy is not violating the Canadian constitution or laws but it’s Canadians expressing their rights and opposition to Covid-19 mandates.

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has apologized to the company's employees in an internal memo where he said he "strongly" opposes Joe Rogan's use of the 'n-word', but that "silencing Joe isn't the answer." Ek added in the memo to staff obtained by the Hollywood Reporter that "cancelling voices is a slippery slope", and clarified that Rogan himself had decided to delete the 70+ episodes removed from the streaming service on Friday due to the use of 'the n-word' or other offensive content. Many of the other episodes removed from Rogan's massive catalogue were taken down not long after Rogan signed...

Corporations have gone political and seek, or at least profess to seek, change in the world. There are at least three terms to describe the concept of stakeholder capitalism -- corporate wokeness, woke corporatism, and woke capitalism. The last of the three was coined in 2015 by Ross Douthat when writing a piece for the New York Times. He defined it as how companies signal their support for progressive causes in order to maintain their influence in society. Since then the concept has become very popular in the U.S. and worldwide, corporations have gone political and seek, or at least...

Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn't just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards. ~ Theodore Zeldin, Oxford scholar & author Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human. ~ Bryce Courtenay, novelist One way to prevent conversation from being boring is to say the wrong thing. ~ Frank Sheed, Catholic apologist Conversation means being able to...

Online safety used to be focused on preventing actual criminal activity and violence. But when antitrust legislation is used by leftists to create “safe spaces,” we’ve got a problem. Big Tech censorship is back in the news over the demands that Spotify fire Joe Rogan for hosting guests who criticize establishment talking points. Everyone from the Biden Administration to Neil Young wants Rogan silenced. If Spotify refuses to get rid of Rogan, the pro-censorship crowd has other ideas about how to get rid of him. The New York Times’ staff editor Spencer Bokat-Lindell cited the ACLU to argue that the...

What got us here, to this sad and sorry state, is that we were polite for too long. In a misguided sense of misplaced kindness we failed to call it as we saw it. Stupid people, deluded people, and/or malicious people all confronted us with their stupid, deluded and/or malicious nonsense, and instead of telling them to cut the Schiff, we smiled and tolerated it. Now we got dudes setting records in women’s sports, roving bands of mouth thong vigilantes pestering those of us who exercise facial freedom, and communists who have decided that racism is cool as long as...

7 February 2022 Monday of week 5 in Ordinary Time the church of San Frediano in Lucca, Italy Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First reading1 Kings 8:1-7,9-13 ©The Ark of the Covenant is brought into the TempleSolomon called the elders of Israel together in Jerusalem to bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord up from the Citadel of David, which is Zion. All the men of Israel assembled round King Solomon in the month of Ethanim, at the time of the feast (that is, the seventh month), and the priests took up the ark and the Tent of Meeting...