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Trevor Loudon on how the Republicans are being the Stupid Party again, particularly with enabling people like Tulsi Gabberd. Interesting interview...

The Snake Island soldiers who reportedly told a Russian warship to "go f--- yourself" were captured alive by Russia after initial reports indicated the service members died in the attack, the Ukrainian Navy confirmed Monday. Ukraine's military lost contact with the 13 marines and border guards on Zmiinyi Island, or "Snake" Island, after a Russian attack, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said each of them would be posthumously awarded the title of "Hero of Ukraine." The Russian attack decimated the island’s infrastructure. The crew of a Ukrainian Sapphire civilian ship sent to the island to aid the victims were also...

Zelensky told Axios in a statement on Monday that his country “needs the West to impose a no-fly zone,” a significant escalation potentially tantamount to an act of war. “The sanctions are heading in the right direction. In addition to disconnecting the Russian Central Bank from SWIFT and providing more Stingers and anti-tank weapons, we need the West to impose a no-fly zone over significant parts of Ukraine,” Zelensky said in a statement to Axios. “Ukraine can beat the aggressor. We are proving this to the world. But our allies must also do their part,” he added. On Monday, White...

What follows is this correspondent’s view of what happened at the Indiana Senate Judiciary Committee hearing and vote on February 23, 2022. The hearing was on HB 1077, Constitutional Carry. There were about eight hours of testimony at the hearing. This correspondent did not watch all of it. The impressions gained by watching a couple of hours of the hearing, and the votes, have been supplemented with comments from the Indiana Gun Owners Forum, where members watched most of the hearing and votes. The Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Liz Brown (R) was openly hostile to the bill. The...

Col. Douglas Macgregor (Facts): Ukraine is corrupt. Russia about 3 or 4 places above them in corruption. Ukraine is NOT the liberal, shining democracy everyone says it is. Zelinskyy jailed his own journalists & political oppositions.

Maricopa County, Arizona, officials admitted after the 2020 presidential election that there were some 25,000 ballots counted with mismatched signatures that weren't reviewed, or in the language of the election industry, "cured." Actually, the number was more than 200,000. That's according to a study of the county's mail ballots that year that was commissioned by the Arizona State Senate, explains a new report from Just the News.

Russia's ambassador in Washington on Monday described the US expulsion of 12 UN staff as a "hostile move". "This is a hostile move against our country," Anatoly Antonov said on Facebook, adding that Moscow was "deeply disappointed" and "totally rejected" the US claims. A spokeswoman for the US mission to the UN said those ordered to leave had "abused their privileges of residency in the United States by engaging in espionage activities that are adverse to our national security". But Antonov said Washington had once again failed to "fulfil its obligations to ensure normal conditions for the working of foreign...

Well, I was wrong. Putin has gone much further than I thought he would. A consequence of EU and NATO expansion, which came to a head in 2014. It made no sense to poke the Russian bear with a stick. These are dark days for Europe.

A second round of talks aimed at ending Russia's attack on Ukraine is set to take place after the first meeting ended without resolution. The first set of talks, which were held in Belarus on Monday afternoon, ended with Kyiv slamming Russia' destructive processes'. A member of the Ukrainian delegation today said the discussions, which took five hours, were difficult and the Russian side was biased. Presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said on Twitter: 'The Russian side, unfortunately, still has a very biased view of the destructive processes it has launched.' Russian officials, meanwhile, said: 'We have identified certain points from...

1:49 PM · Feb 25, 2022·Twitter Web AppTranscript of Riccardo Bosi's warning ["No consent. No consent. No consent"]Q is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation.Q describes this awakening as follows: "The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding 'mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media)...

I’m a sucker for a vintage cookbook, and apparently so is Brian Theis, recipe developer, Instagram maven, and author of The Infinite Feast: How to Host the Ones You Love. This new cookbook has a spectacularly retro vibe, with midcentury-style illustrations and graphic design, and food photography that evokes the finest images in the Good Housekeeping oeuvre. The concept itself is rather retro, offering menus for fun, quasi-kitschy theme parties throughout the year. And, as you’d expect from a lifelong student of Creole food who calls New Orleans home, Theis’ recipes for a Mardi Gras jamboree are dynamite. Though Theis...

EIGHTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME MARK 10:17-27 Friends, in today’s Gospel, a rich young man asks Jesus what he must do to inherit eternal life. There is something absolutely right about the young man, something spiritually alive, and that is his deep desire to share in everlasting life. He knows what he wants, and he knows where to find it. Jesus responds to his wonderful question by enumerating many of the commandments. The young man takes this in and replies, “Teacher, all of these I have observed from my youth.” So Jesus looks at him with love and says, “Go,...

Fox Business host Stuart Varney highlighted President Joe Biden’s culpability on inflation, and liberal media efforts to shield him from responsibility by shifting blame to the Russia-Ukraine war.

For the first time, more than half of Finns are in favour of their country joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)

Explanation: You don't have to look through a telescope to know where it's pointing. Allowing the telescope to project its image onto a large surface can be useful because it dilutes the intense brightness of very bright sources. Such dilution is useful for looking at the Sun, for example during a solar eclipse. In the featured single-exposure image, though, it is a too-bright full moon that is projected. This February full moon occurred two weeks ago and is called the Snow Moon by some northern cultures. The projecting instrument is the main 62-centimeter telescope at the Saint-Véran Observatory high in...

Orlando police have released body cam footage of an officer being attacked Thursday in the area of North John Young Parkway and West Harwood Street. Advertisement But police say they're still puzzled as to why it happened. They are still determining whether the suspect's attack was intentional or if he was suffering from a mental illness. "I think there's a lot more questions than answers when it comes to situations like this," Orlando police Chief Orlando Rolon said. The video shows 33-year-old James Mossetty facing down the officer who was working as a school crossing guard at the intersection. Orlando...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States announced Monday it is expelling 12 members of the Russian Mission at the United Nations, accusing them of being “intelligence operatives” engaged in espionage. The Biden administration's action came on the fifth day of Russia's invasion of neighboring Ukraine, which has sparked condemnation from the United States and dozens of other countries. The U.S. Mission to the United Nations said in a statement that the Russian diplomats “have abused their privileges of residency in the United States by engaging in espionage activities that are adverse to our national security.” Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia...

Was reading my e-Sword computer Bible and saw this: The Man of Lawlessness2 Thessalonians 2:1 Now we request you, brethren, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, 2 Thessalonians 2:2 that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit or a message or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. 2 Thessalonians 2:3 Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man...

Italian Bishops: The More Anti-Catholic the BetterFather Alberto Maggi, 76, an alleged biblical scholar, claimed that “hell does not exist," “Jesus never wrought miracles,” and “Christ never resurrected Lazarus.”Maggi is one of the faces of TV2000, the official broadcaster of the Italian Bishops. He is loved by apostates, secularists, oligarchs, and regime media activists.About Christ’s cursing of the fig tree, Maggi says, “Either Jesus was misguided, or the evangelist made him look bad or there is something else."For Maggi, “nobody” is condemned for all eternity. In other words, Hitler, Stalin, abortion workers, and child abusers are all happy in heaven.According...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urges the European Union to grant his country immediate membership, as Russia's assault against the pro-Western country enters its fifth day.