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Dr. Dre & Co. took the weight of the hip-hop culture on the Super Bowl stage, shouldered the pressure from skeptics and delivered a strong halftime show to prove that edgy rap can work at the world’s biggest sporting events. All it took was hip-hop’s most controversial figures — and one knee taken by music’s most prominent white rapper. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, Eminem and Kendrick Lamar were headliners along with 50 Cent as a special guest at the Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday. Their collective performance is one of the best since Beyoncé and Bruno Mars’...

14 February 2022Saints Cyril, monk, and Methodius, Bishop on Monday of week 6 in Ordinary Time Saints Cyril & Methodius Catholic Church, Shiner, Texas Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White.Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingJames 1:1-11 ©Your faith is put to the test so that your patience may make you completeFrom James, servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. Greetings to the twelve tribes of the Dispersion. My brothers, you will always have your trials but, when they come, try to treat them as a happy privilege; you understand that your...

CHICAGO -- Ten people have been shot, three fatally, in Chicago gun violence over the weekend, police said. Two men were killed in separate attacks Saturday evening in Chicago Lawn on the Southwest Side. About 6:40 p.m., a 45-year-old man was in an alley in the 5900-block of South Washtenaw Avenue when someone shot him in the back of the head. A 16-year-old girl was wounded Saturday night in a shooting in Gresham on the South Side. The girl was walking on the sidewalk about 11:05 p.m. in the 8400-block of South Gilbert Court when a male she knew fired...

VIDEOShe backstabbed President Trump in 2021 and somehow thought people would be stupid enough to forget that a year later when she crawled in front of Trump Tower and begged for votes. Sorry, Nancy Mace, but your destiny is to end up a pathetic ONE TERMER in Congress.

Clinton, 74, is being accused of hiring a tech term to infiltrate servers at Trump Tower and the White House during the 2016 campaign. According to a recently-released filing, the aim was to try and smear Trump by linking him to Russia. Clinton's campaign repeatedly accused Trump of using a secret server to communicate with Russians, although the claim has never been proven. A growing chorus of Democrats believe 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton should be questioned by special advisor John Durham for her alleged role in the Russian secret server scandal in a poll conducted before bombshell revelations that...

For those who, like me, value freedom, the valiant protest in which the Canadian truckers are engaged is inspiring. We’ve also been thrilled to see the thousands of Canadians who turned out to support the truckers. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s response (running away, name-calling, huge threats) is beginning to disgust people across the political spectrum. Polls show, however, that even though a bare majority of Canadians dislike mandates, most of them are still inert. In the conservative blogosphere, writers have made no secret of how much Trudeau repulses them. Douglas Murray sums up the feelings of lots of people...

Two harrowing examples show the stark differences between COVID treatment in red and blue states. There is no lack of stark contrast between the way conservative/red states and liberal/blue states have handled the COVID crisis over the past two years. I live in Massachusetts, Land o' Warren, home to the biggest destructively phony RINO of all time, Governor Charlie Baker, surrounded by über-liberal Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Bernieland. It is CNN/MSNBC-style groupthink around here, to the point where the daily headlines and news stories seem like caricatures of themselves, as if no one could actually believe the stuff they're saying....

The position of President of the United States is the most important and stressful job in the world. The person occupying this position serves as Commander-in-Chief of our military forces and can lead the country into war. The President also has access to the codes to launch nuclear weapons and end civilization on earth. The President is extremely powerful and can issue executive orders that impact the economic and psychological well-being of our 330 million citizens, as well as people around the world. In the last year, our country has been plunged into the depths of an economic crisis, as...

Leading up to Super Bowl 56, most of the negative attention surrounding the halftime show was about Snoop Dogg for his recent anti-police song. But it ended up being two of the other performers — Dr. Dre and Eminem — who ruffled some feathers and reportedly bucked the NFL during the halftime show. In the final song of the performance, Dr. Dre repeated an anti-police lyric in his song “Still D.R.E.” “Still f—- with the beats, still not loving police,” reads the lyric in Dr. Dre’s hit 1999 single. Dr. Dre did not say the expletive during the halftime show,...

For those eager to be on the wrong side of freedom, well, best to look both ways before crossing the street. For two years, Western governments have embraced COVID-1984 totalitarianism, and now a group of minutemen truckers are having their say. It is a recurring theme throughout history that the fight for freedom doesn't really begin until the light of its flame is nearly extinguished. Then something almost magical happens: the human need for liberty ignites and starts spreading out of control. Everywhere around us today, Big Tech and Big Government are building monuments to a future of technocratic authoritarianism...

In the movie 300, a fictional version of the very real Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C., Sparta’s King Leonidas found himself in a conundrum. It’s the same conundrum that Americans and the truckers in Canada are facing, today. Xerxes, king of Persia, sent messengers to Sparta to force him into a Faustian bargain: “If you value your lives or your complete annihilation, listen to me,” the messenger said. “Xerxes conquers and controls everything he rests his eyes upon. He leads an army so massive, it shakes the ground with its march – so vast, it drinks the rivers dry....

The billions who have been lured and coerced to participate in this experiment have not been honestly advised of the truth of the situation, i.e., that that the Covid vaccines have not undergone proper trialing and testing and that their safety profile could not be established. From the closing weeks of 2020 through February 1, 2022, more than sixty percent of the world’s population was injected with Covid-19 vaccines. This means that in a period of less than fourteen months more than 4.7 billion people received at least one Covid shot. Tens of millions received as many as four doses....

...The vagueness of the demands makes it easy to both ridicule the protests and the protesters, and to also point attention at the many bad actors eager to mobilize the ennui and growing paranoia of a two-year pandemic for their own nefarious causes — including the usual suspects of neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers and Confederate flag wavers and whatnot

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The idea that “diversity, equity, and inclusion are necessities in U.S. military” is maybe the stupidest thing ever asserted by the Biden regime, which is saying something. You sit back and look at a pronouncement like this, which was apparently written and disseminated on purpose, and you really have to marvel. If the Pentagon had reincarnated the greatest failures in all of military history to work together to come up with something so transcendently dumb that it would have made Varro, the dumbass Roman consul who decided “Yeah, Cannae is just the place to show that uppity Hannibal fellow what...

Happy Valentine’s DayThis prayer thread is dedicated to the Freedom Convoy.When the righteous increase, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan. Proverbs 29:2 Please join in prayer to lift those who peacefully protest government abuse of power. There will be no daily reminder. Prayer warriors are encouraged to keep this thread going as the Spirit leads you.

Joe Biden is clearly not a student of recent history. Most specifically, he needs to revisit the lessons learned from the start of the Second World War in Europe. If he doesn’t wake up and smell the coffee, he may be as guilty of starting the Third World War as was British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, the leading advocate of the “appeasement” of Germany’s militaristic supreme leader. The parallels between 1939 and 2022 are stunning, and if we fail to learn from recent history, we absolutely will be forced to re-live it. On Sept. 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland without...

Over the past year, the Biden administration has achieved an ignominious consistency of scandal and incompetence. There are not one but two concurrent scandals involving the now-former director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and Biden's top science adviser Eric Lander. The first scandal is related to conflict of interest. Politico.com. reported that Lander had significant investments in one of the vaccine makers while he actively promoted COVID-19 vaccination in his official capacity. Under the White House’s ethics agreement signed by Lander, he had 90 days to sell off his stocks after his appointment on May 28,...

Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan said that Donald Trump was 'right on target' to suggest Hillary Clinton's operatives should be executed after the former president accused her campaign of treason. [cut] Jordan added that the 'spying' was 'worse than [we] thought.'

<p>Is the rest of America thrilled that Biden is in the White House? Was such optimism due Biden’s election, or was this just a sense of relief that the tweeting orange man was on his way out the door?</p><p>Joe Biden was never a force of intellect, statesmanship, or wisdom, during his decades in the U.S. Senate, eight years as vice president, or his first year in the Oval Office. A recent example is how Biden, who now wants a black female on the U.S. Supreme Court, blocked the first black woman nominee to the court, Janice Rogers Brown in 2003, an inconvenient fact the corporate media and Biden’s dwindling supporters choose to gloss over.</p>