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For the first year ever, Kia leads J.D. Power's annual Vehicle Dependability Study with a score of 145 problems per 100 vehicles. Buick (147) and Hyundai (148) round out the top three. The highest premium brand on the list is Genesis, with a score of 148.

The first Black federal judge in Alabama spoke out against one of President Biden's potential Supreme Court picks in a letter addressed to the commander in chief that was obtained by NBC News. U.W. Clemon, a former chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, urged the president not to consider Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the vacancy. The retired judge said that there are "several exceptionally well-qualified black female aspirants for the Supreme Court" but that he "strongly" believes Jackson should not be considered. Clemon referenced the case Ross v. Lockhead as reasoning for...

Trudeau is the villain fighting an unjust cause. Trudeau is the fascist willing to destroy innocent people’s livelihoods to enforce immoral laws. Trudeau is the gangster ready to commit violence rather than admit he is wrong. If you want to know why Trudeau has been forced into hiding and why he serially melts down into a puddle of fecklessness in public, it’s because he is wrong. It’s that simple. He has no moral ground to stand on, which is why he’s attempted to manufacture it with lies about “racists” and “swastikas.” But in this ongoing civil rights standoff, everyone knows...

Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Luke 6:17, 20-26 Friends, our Gospel for today is Luke’s version of the Beatitudes, less well-known than Matthew’s but actually punchier, more to the point. It all hinges on that decisively important spiritual attitude of detachment—apatheia in the Greek fathers, indifferencia in Ignatius of Loyola. It means that I am unattached to worldly values that become a substitute for the ultimate good of God. How bluntly Luke’s Jesus puts things. Look at Luke’s first Beatitude, a model for all: “Blessed are you who are poor, for the kingdom of God is yours.” What if we...

Former Dolphins coach Brian Flores has taken the bold step of filing a racial discrimination lawsuit against the NFL and three of its teams, the Dolphins, Broncos, and Giants. The head coach of the Washington Commanders appreciates what Flores has done. “First of all, I think what Brian is doing is courageous and it really truly is bringing everything to the forefront and to the light,” Ron Rivera, one of the league’s five current minority coaches, told PFT Live on Friday. “I think it is important because the biggest problem in my opinion that minorities face is that people don’t...

Rebecca Brannon describes herself as an independent photojournalist covering Minnesota politics, protests, and riots. Rebecca has the nerve to do much of her reporting from the inside. If I have the chronology right, Rebecca got inside the “two hour black bloc Antifa protest” on Lake Street in Minneapolis, and the perpetrators are not happy about it. They don’t really want the exposure. Say this for the Star Tribune. The paper’s nonfeasance is appreciated. Indeed, the Star Tribune’s nonfeasance is a critical component of the bizarre hellworld that Minneapolis has become. Below I have compiled Rebecca’s tweets on Friday night’s “protest”...

In a letter, signed by 37 of his Republican colleagues in Congress, Texas Rep. Dr. Ronny Jackson warns that President Biden’s “mental decline and forgetfulness have become more apparent over the past two years,” and urges the 79-year-old to take a cognitive aptitude test (just as former President Trump did). “My colleagues and I are again asking President Biden to immediately undergo a formal cognitive screening exam, such as the Montreal Cognitive Assessment,” Jackson said. “As a former physician to three Presidents of the United States, I know what it takes mentally and physically to execute the duties of Commander-in-Chief...

Buckle your seatbelt. Just when you thought it's all about to end, we have a new prediction from a credible source that Hemorrhagic Fever will be the next pandemic.

Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul urged truckers to 'clog things up' in American cities during a recent interview where he called for a similar protest to Canada's 'Freedom Convoy' to occur in the U.S. 'I'm all for it,' Paul told the Daily Signal on Thursday. 'Civil disobedience is a time-honored tradition in our country, from slavery to civil rights, you name it. Peaceful protest, clog things up, make people think about the mandates.' Paul's comments in his Thursday interview came just after a bulletin from the Department of Homeland Security warned that another convoy could disrupt Sunday evening's Super Bowl...

The podcaster Joe Rogan did not join a mob that forced lawmakers to flee for their lives. He never carried a Confederate flag inside the US Capitol rotunda. No one died trying to stop him from using the n-word. But what Rogan and those that defend him have done since video clips of him using the n-word surfaced on social media is arguably just as dangerous as what a mob did when they stormed the US Capitol on January 6 last year. Rogan breached a civic norm that has held America together since World War II. It's an unspoken agreement...

In late Jan. 2022, the Pres. of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, read that a Rite Aid Store in New York City will soon close because of shoplifting. Bukele responded with a tweet, “Is there a deliberate plan to destroy the United States from within?” The answer to Pres. Bukele’s question is, “Yes, there is a deliberate plan to destroy the U.S. from within.” *Former Pres. Obama announced his intent to fundamentally transform the U.S. *Biden calls it Build Back Better. *The UN calls it “Transforming our World: The 2030 Sustainable Development Goals,” and Biden supports it. *Biden promised to end...

I know most of you won’t be watching the Super Bowl today and that’s fine. But we’ll be watching here at Casa MOTUS. You see, it’s a long tradition – watching as a former Detroit Lion performs magnificently and leads a new team to triumphant victory. This time around it’s former Lion quarterback Matthew Stafford who will, quite possibly, lead the Rams offense to a Super Bowl championship in his first year as their QB. While I don’t relish giving LA officials any reason to celebrate their pathetic city, I’m here to tell you that Matthew Stafford deserves a Super...

In December, JaCari Letchaw’s dog wandered to a neighbor’s house, where it gave birth to puppies. Letchaw says when she tried to retrieve her dog and the puppies, a dispute broke out over who was the rightful owner of the puppies. She walked away, but later that night the Black single mother of five was arrested and eventually sent to Jefferson County’s jail in Birmingham, Alabama. Her bail was set at $60,000 for a first-degree robbery charge. It was far more than she could afford; her most recent job had paid only $14 an hour. The monetary difference meant Letchaw...

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16 (King James Version) Either the CDC and health industry is absolutely incompetent or is maliciously trying to kill as many people as possible. What we have learned from this short history has proved beyond a doubt that our leaders are forcing a vax which does not work against a virus which does not kill more than a tenth of a percent if left untreated. What is a skeptic supposed to suspect other than...

On a mild October night in 1962, a frightened housewife, eight months pregnant, climbed into bed in Yonkers, New York, with her two-year-old daughter. Her husband was at work on the West Coast and not with his family on what she felt certain would be the last night of their lives. Laying down in the dark holding her child, she cried and prayed until sleep overtook her. Morning came and they were both still alive, not incinerated in bed as she had feared after President Kennedy shocked the nation with his televised address on the Cuban missile crisis the night...

VIDEOAccording to this CBC report, Russian agents are probably directing and manipulating the protests in Canada. This was based upon the observations of a cybersecurity expert who had as much evidence of this as the intelligence agencies in 2020 had that the Hunter Biden laptop story was the result of Russian disinformation. Therefore this story must be true... at least according to the CBC.

The world's biodiversity is constantly being threatened by warming temperatures and extreme changes in climate and weather patterns. And while that "doom and gloom" is the typical discourse surrounding how climate change is affecting biodiversity, another interesting aspect of the warming temperatures is how different species have been adapting over the decades, as the warming progresses, experts say. Here are some unusual ways climate change is affecting nature: Higher temperature extremes may increase the risk of outbreaks of tuberculosis in Kalahari meerkats by increasing physiological stress, as well as the movement of males between group, according to a study published...

FORTRESS MONROE, Tuesday, Feb. 11, via BALTIMORE, Wednesday, Feb. 12. By a flag of truce to-day we learn the complete success of the Burnside Expedition at Roanoke Island. The Island was taken possession of, and Commodore LYNCH's fleet completely destroyed. Elizabeth City was attacked on Sunday, and evacuated by the inhabitants. The city was previously burned, but whether by our shells or the inhabitants is not certain. The first news of the defeat arrived at Norfolk on Sunday afternoon, and caused great excitement. The previous news was very satisfactory, stating that Yankees had been allowed to advance for the purpose...

More than half of the funding for the Canadian trucker convoy protesters on some online platforms is coming from the United States, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday. Trudeau said he spoke with U.S. President Joe Biden about the American and “global” influences on the protests against COVID-19 mandates, which have blocked streets in downtown Ottawa and border crossings to the U.S. “We talked about the U.S.-based flooding of the 911 phone lines in Ottawa, the presence of U.S. citizens in the blockades and the impact of foreign money to fund this illegal activity,” Trudeau told reporters. Biden “expressed concern...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemPhilippians 2Imitating Christ’s Humility 2 Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. 3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. 5 In your relationships with one...