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Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Luke 6:27-38 Friends, our Gospel today is taken from Jesus’ Sermon on the Plain in Luke. It is one of the more puzzling texts in the New Testament. It speaks of loving our enemies—not tolerating them, or vaguely accepting them, but loving them. When you hate your enemy, you confirm him as your enemy. But when you love him in response to his hatred, you confuse and confound him, taking away the very energy that feeds his hatred. There is a form of oriental martial arts called aikido. The idea of aikido is to absorb...

While admitting that "7.5% inflation is concerning," Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen insisted that "it's not all bad. Things would be worse without it." "I can understand how the average consumer might be worried that rising prices will negatively impact their standard of living, but the erosion of the purchasing power of the US dollar also has its benefits. To most ordinary people the government seems an all-powerful master of its situation. What they don't realize is that the government is the biggest debtor in the nation." "The declining purchasing power of dollars means that we can pay back our debt...

It has been obvious since early 2020 that there has been an organized cult outreach that has permeated the world as a whole. It’s possible that this formed out of a gigantic error, rooted in a sudden ignorance of cell biology and long experience of public health. It is also possible that a seasonal respiratory virus was deployed by some people as an opportunity to seize power for some other purpose. Follow the money and influence trails and the latter conclusion is hard to dismiss. The clues were there early. Even before the WHO declared a pandemic in March 2020...

When the mayor of Washington, D.C., announced changes to the city’s mask mandate last week, spit hit the fan. As of March 1, District residents will need to cover up in order to attend school, go to a library, or ride in a taxi. But gyms, sports arenas, concert venues, and houses of worship—you know, all the places where people like to breathe hard or sing and shout in close proximity—will be facial free-for-alls. If the goal of mask policies is to reduce transmission of the coronavirus as much as possible, then D.C.’s new rules are difficult to reason out....

The New York Times Editorial Board has taken a stance in support of Canadian truckers' right to protest, saying that peaceful demonstrations are a vital part of democracy. The left-leaning Times Editorial Board said that the demonstration in Ottawa 'ranks as a nuisance' and ought to be tolerated in the name of free speech. 'Allowing nonviolent, even if disruptive, protest is an important tool for maintaining social cohesion in a polarized society,' the board's opinion piece stated. 'We disagree with the protesters' cause, but they have a right to be noisy and even disruptive,' the board wrote. 'Protests are a...

Watch Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft lift off atop an Antares rocket from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia to deliver cargo to the International Space Station. The Cygnus bears the name S.S. Piers Sellers, in honor of the late NASA astronaut and climate researcher, and will transport research, crew supplies, and hardware to the orbiting laboratory. Onboard science includes:• A study that examines the effects of a drug on breast and prostate cancer cells• A new combustion facility• An investigation on skin aging in microgravity • New hydrogen sensors that will be tested for the space station’s oxygen generation system•...

Political writer Peter Schweizer’s latest book reportedly accuses 20 current and former GOP members of having essentially sold out to China. Released late last month, “Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win” has attracted attention thus far mainly for its bombshells about President Joe Biden and his extremely wealthy family. But also contained within the book is a treasure trove of bombshells about elected Republicans, ranging from current Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell to former President George H.W. Bush. Regarding McConnell, Schweizer reportedly writes that the Senate leader and his wife both “enjoy some of the deepest and...

I thought that with Nazis in the news with what is going on in Canada and some comparing the World Economic Forum to the Germain party, this would be a good time to see if any FREEPERS viewed this thing from the History Channel. I think it is still streaming on Amazon. It is quite jaw-dropping and adds additional evidence to the rumors about many top Nazis relocating to South America. It adds evidence of poison gas factories and infrastructure projects like hydroelectric power plant construction. I was surprised this information was not more well known.

US headline inflation exceeded 7% in 2021. But rent increases put the Consumer Price Index to shame, soaring an average of 13.5%. And within that already-brutally-high average, there were some absolutely astounding outliers. Phoenix rents soared 25.3%, followed by Tampa, Miami, Orlando, Las Vegas, and Austin, all of which exceeded 20%. That means an Austin barista could receive a 10% salary bump and have most of it wiped out just by an increase in their rent. Add in the soaring costs of food and gasoline, and our hypothetical worker is actually losing ground despite their double-digit pay raise. A confluence...

It is truly a miserable time for many Americans as demonstrated by the Misery Index (inflation rate + unemployment rate). But rather than using the CPI YoY measure at 7.5%, I am using the FLEXIBLE CPI YoY to compute the misery index. And is it ever miserable! In January, the CORE flexible CPI YoY + U-3 unemployment rate hit a modern high at 22.99%. Or at least since 1967. Like the movie “50 Shades of Gray,” we have 50 shades of inflation. Examples? How about hardwood? Producer Price Index for hardwood is up 30.8% YoY. How about diesel fuel prices?...

DC should cut ties with shady Black Lives Matter organization Whatever good intentions there may have originally been behind Black Lives Matter, the organization has devolved into a scam. It is far past time for Washington to remove its slogan from outside the White House. Founded in 2013 after Trayvon Martin was shot while assaulting a policeman, BLM was little more than a hashtag and a website until George Floyd’s murder in May 2020. That's when the money spigot erupted. Corporations and celebrities became desperate to have their brands linked with BLM and sent tens of millions of dollars to...

MSNBC contributor and former Watergate lawyer Jill Wine-Banks said on this week’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show” that former President Donald Trump taking documents to his Mar-a-Lago property could cause him to be banned from holding office. Capehart asked, “The National Archives confirmed that classified national security documents were among the items in the 15 boxes of White House records Trump brought with him to Mar-a-Lago.”

Being the Writer of My own Story. We had a friend in high school whose nickname was “Crash”. A few years after high school, after we were married, we visited our hometown and had the pleasure of taking him to the hospital after he crashed his dirt bike and split his nose open. Again, a few years later, after a stint in the Air Force, he became a private pilot and at a church/fly-in breakfast at the local airfield, he invited me to go flying with him. When I was being carried on the wind in his little plane I...

Two U.S. agencies have been quietly studying neurological problems that have appeared in people who have had COVID-19 vaccines, The Epoch Times has found. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) have been conducting separate research projects into post-vaccination neurological issues, which have manifested with symptoms like facial paralysis and brain fog and have been linked in some cases with the vaccines, according to emails reviewed by The Epoch Times. One attempt to gain understanding of a problem that experts around the world are struggling to understand is being carried out by Dr. Janet Woodcock,...

Today is the 60th Anniversary of John Gleens first US orbital Space flight. A proud American moment.

The U.S. has intelligence that Russian commanders have received orders to proceed with an invasion of Ukraine, with commanders on the ground making specific plans for how they would maneuver in their sector of the battlefield, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reported on "Face the Nation" Sunday.

"This is one battle in a larger war for our freedoms. This is not a white flag of surrender by any means, at all... Time to regroup and revaluate what's next for us."

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Canada delivered military aid to Ukraine on Feb. 19, amid tensions in Donbas and new warnings about upcoming Russian invasion. The delivery includes sniper rifles, automatic rifles, machine guns, night vision and surveillance devices.

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) said on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” that if special counsel John Durham’s allegations in his recent legal filings were true, it is worse the Nixon-era Watergate scandal. Cruz said, “We have to see what the facts are, the allegations, what he filed in federal court, is deeply concerning. What he alleged as a federal prosecutor, a special prosecutor, is that a lawyer for the Hillary Clinton campaign conspired with a big tech executive to monitor and spy on Donald Trump, to spy on him at his home, to spy on him at his...