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Chicago woman charged with felony for allegedly vandalizing memorial for slain cop Illinois police have arrested a 26-year-old woman accused of defacing a memorial for Chicago Police Officer Ella French – who died in a shootout with suspects last year. Anna Kochakian allegedly tore down a photo of French placed at the memorial just days after her murder, crumpled it up and threw it in a trash can on a Chicago “L” platform, state police said Wednesday. It wasn’t until this week that police obtained a warrant for her arrest on a felony charge of defacement of a police memorial....

There are reasons aplenty to think the current nominee to head the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Dr. Robert Califf, is the wrong man for the job. His coziness with Big Pharma which has lavished him with consulting fees, his official approvals on chemical abortion, and his apparent willingness to indulge any enthusiasm from the public health intelligentsia are sparking broad antipathy. Outside the Beltway, there’s another major complaint – Califf’s obstinate, boneheaded opposition to nicotine vaping. More than ten million Americans are vapers, by all estimates, most of them in a laudable effort to quit cigarettes. And they...

Sarah Bloom Raskin, President Joe Biden’s latest Federal Reserve nominee, is a revolving-door lobbyist who used her access to get special treatment from the Fed for a company on whose board she sat. She thus made more than a million dollars for herself. The company involved is called Reserve Trust. Reserve Trust is explicitly not a bank but a “fintech trust company” that serves as an intermediary between businesses, allowing one company to pay another company directly without having to work through a bank. Unlike competing payment systems, Reserve Trust has direct access to the Federal Reserve “Master Account,” a...

From a driveway in the Snoqualmie Valley, buddies Jeff Kissick and Gavin Pendleton – former U.S. Marines, now married with five school-age kids between them – were out to prove a point. Part chemically-burned tongue-in-cheek and part serious, the men say their experiment was designed to show the relative efficacies of a military gas mask, a KN95 mask and the more common paper or cloth masks most students in Washington state use in school. That’s why they staged their own scientific experiment complete with a military-grade gas mask, canopied tent and one can of honest-to-goodness bear spray. Before videotaping their...

Source: Townhall MediaOnce in TV journalism there were people called assignment editors and news directors. Among their responsibilities was to instruct reporters and camera crews which stories they were to cover that day. Their choices were based on several factors that included what they regarded as news, viewer interest (i.e., ratings) and much more subtly, their own biases. When I began my journalism career as a reporter, there were only three broadcast networks and local TV and radio stations. The radio stations played music and reported local news. The news was what these gatekeepers said it was. When the broadcast...

With the midterm elections in sight, President Biden and fellow Democrats in Congress and governors' mansions nationwide are completing a 180 on their COVID-19 response, abandoning the president's promise to "shut down" the virus as Americans say they want to "get on with their lives." In the process, Democrats have begun to lift key COVID-19 restrictions and return to normal life — the same approach, long embraced by red states, that they once rebuked as cruel and dangerous. Yet Biden and his Democratic allies are now taking credit for ending the pandemic while adopting these same policies. On Wednesday, New...

In 1943, American psychologist Abraham Maslow wrote a paper titled “A Theory of Human Motivation,” in which he outlined what is now known as Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. According to Maslow, there are five basic levels of human need. First and foremost, Maslow identified “physiological needs,” which forms the first stage of Maslow’s hierarchy. In this foundational level, Maslow describes the most fundamental needs for human survival, such as food, water, sleep, shelter, etc. The second stage, after one’s most basic necessities are met, is typically referred to as “safety needs.” By this, Maslow is referring to basic security and...

An estimated 25 million Soviet citizens perished in the titanic conflict with Nazi Germany between June 1941 and May 1945. Overcoming massive defeats and colossal losses over the first 18 months of the war, the Red Army was able to reorganize and rebuild to form a juggernaut that marched all the way to Berlin. But the Soviet Union was never alone: Months before the United States formally entered the war, it had already begun providing massive military and economic assistance to its Soviet ally through the Lend-Lease program.

Canadian girl crosses border with NO Vax, NO test, NO app, and is free to enter. #irnieracingnews I Feb 9, 2022 #freedomconvoy #usaboarder 4:49 total "Adventures in border crossing with Jazzy"

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemEphesians 6The Armor of God 10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 13 Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your...

Pope Francis Rebukes EWTN as Work of the Devil: What would Mother Angelica Say? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYX9uNNXUnI&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR1_LlRlPIYlC2MMAYRjrIcaFYqjfIL79KTBu2w9RXu1wHghukmO7o9on4A Dr Taylor Marshall Streamed live on Sep 22, 2021 In this video Dr Taylor Marshall says: “In a meeting with Jesuits in Slovakia, Pope Francis said: “There is, for example, a large Catholic television channel that has no hesitation in continually speaking ill of the Pope .... I personally deserve attacks and insults because I am a sinner, but the Church does not deserve them. They are the work of the devil." (Note: When pasting this document into Free Republic, it seems that most of...

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FORTRESS MONROE, Saturday, Feb. 8. A flag of truce from Craney Island, to-day, brought over several ladies, to go North. A lady passenger by the flag of truce reports that Gen. HUGER to-day informed her that he had received a dispatch from Roanoke Island, to the effect that the National forces had advanced to Roanoke Island and had been twice repulsed. The attack commenced at 7 o'clock, yesterday morning, and the fight was still going on when the latest news was received. NORFOLK, Saturday, Feb. 8. A messenger, arrived to-day from Roanoke Island, reports that four Federal steamers were off...

Pushing back on recent pro-worker populism on the Right, the American Enterprise Institute's Michael Strain writes that "workers need a growth-and-participation agenda." The addition of the word "participation" to traditional pro-growth ideas is especially important today. Millions of pages of study and commentary have rightly made the case that economic growth lifts all boats. But while necessary, economic growth without the removal of existing government barriers to work and entrepreneurship won't be sufficient. It can't cure the participation crisis that traps many workers and lower-income Americans. In addition to the money we make through our jobs, most of us find...

Why do so many of our politicians run interference for criminal aliens rather than protect our own citizens? uper Bowl Sunday and the week preceding it has become a time of excitement and amped-up expectations. In the last few years, however, Super Bowl Sunday has also become a grim anniversary. It will be four years ago this month that Edwin Jackson had his life snuffed out in a completely preventable tragedy. On February 4, 2018, the morning of Super Bowl LII, Jackson, a rising 26-year-old linebacker with the Indianapolis Colts, was killed along with his Uber driver Jeffrey Monroe in...

The transition from tracking terrorism to chasing thought crime has a major advantage. It exonerates U.S. counterterrorism officials from the meddlesome job of catching actual terrorists. he Department of Homeland Security, which under the Biden Administration routinely lets watch-listed terrorists cross the southern border unmolested, and which approved entry to the United States for Colleyville Synagogue hostage-taker Malik Faisal Akram despite his being known to British authorities as a terror risk, has taken upon its broad bureaucratic shoulders an even more challenging job. Stopping the flow of MDM. MDM isn’t the latest flavor of fentanyl, produced by the Communist Chinese...

10 February 2022 Saint Scholastica, Virgin on Thursday of week 5 in Ordinary Time St. Scholastica Monastery Chapel, Chicago Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White.Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading1 Kings 11:4-13 ©For the sake of my servant David, I will leave you one tribeWhen Solomon grew old his wives swayed his heart to other gods; and his heart was not wholly with the Lord his God as his father David’s had been. Solomon became a follower of Astarte, the goddess of the Sidonians, and of Milcom, the Ammonite abomination. He did what...

In recent days and weeks, the national media has attempted to create a feud between Trump and DeSantis, trying to foment discord between the two politicians. It’s a game as old as the hills: pitting two people against one another for whatever reason. It can be done in jest as it was when I was a young army dentist stationed in Da Nang, RVN, in the early seventies. We had a mischievous dental assistant named Miss Cong (no relation to the elusive enemy, Viet Cong.) One day, Cong approached me and told me that she didn’t care what Miss Liu...

The American government is extremely unlikely to do it. But there may be another entity that will. It is a safe assumption that few Americans know about the December 6, 2021 filing with the International Criminal Court (ICC) accusing 16 high-ranking individuals of genocide and other related crimes against humanity due to their actions during the COVID-19 pandemic. The ICC filing is on behalf of the people of the United Kingdom (U.K.) who have suffered nearly 160,000 COVID-19 deaths and serious adverse reactions to mandated experimental vaccines. Among the accused 16 individuals are Dr. Anthony Fauci; Dr. Peter Daszak; Bill...

When President Donald Trump, in October 2019, ordered a successful takedown of top Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Democrats and even the anti-Trump media celebrated the death of the terror leader. But top leaders of the Democratic party still chastised Trump for failing to notify top congressional Democrats of the impending strike. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement: "The House must be briefed on this raid, which the Russians but not top congressional leadership were notified of in advance, and on the administration's overall strategy in the region. Our military and allies deserve strong,...