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During a portion of an interview with NBC on Thursday, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky criticized Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) for telling a group of students that them wearing masks was theater. At an event on Wednesday, DeSantis told a group of students, “You do not have to wear those masks. I mean, please take them off. Honestly, it’s not doing anything, and we’ve got to stop with this COVID theater. So, if you want to wear it, fine. But this is ridiculous.”

[Catholic/Orthodox Caucus] In honor of Ukraine and of Cardinal Josyf Slipyj, at the 130th anniversary of his birth (1892-2022) — by Roberto de Mattei There are men who embody the deepest virtues and values of a people. Such was Cardinal Josyf Slipyj, major archbishop of Halych and Lviv of the Ukrainians, the 130th anniversary of whose birth is being celebrated just as his homeland is experiencing an enormous new tragedy. ​Born on February 17 1892 in Zazdrist, western Ukraine, at the age of nineteen Josyf Slipyj entered the seminary of Lviv, where he was ordained a priest on September...

If you have been monitoring the coverage of the conflict in Ukraine, it is amply clear that a narrative is being pushed. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is being compared to Winston Churchill during World War II; he is leading his people during perilous times to become an inspiring figure. He refused a safe passage offer from the U.S. with the quip: “I need ammunition, not a ride”. He streams videos from the deserted streets of Ukraine and posts photos with his cabinet. Photos of Zelenskyy surface in military gear on the battlefront. To sum it up, Zelensky is being portrayed as...

Russia's attack on Ukraine has prompted a lot of noble and industrious responses from foreigners around the world -- from the warm welcome that ordinary Polish and Romanian citizens have extended to fleeing Ukrainian refugees, to the Pittsburgh professor who raised $800,000 in day to help Ukraine with humanitarian needs, to gourmet chef José Andrés's World Central Kitchen operation to cook for and feed Ukrainian refugees, to the Animal Food Bank's effort which is delivering relief to pet owners, to Project Hope, which is shipping medical supplies to Ukraine, to the millions of people around the world who have peacefully...

What are they doing? The Biden White House is going to ask Kamala Harris to back into the game again? Bench this woman, please. For the sake of our intelligence and human civilization, just put her back into the cardboard box from whence she came. She has failed on the border. She failed in boosting COVID vaccination rates. Harris is a walking failure, who bleeds staff and fosters a toxic work environment. She doesn’t do the work and she doesn’t read the briefings her staff prepare for her, so she doesn’t look like an idiot. She botched the talking points...

As World War III looms in Europe, we must put narrow partisan differences aside and tap the brain power of the greatest minds among us. It is time for the Biden White House to call upon ... Jared! Speaking of the best and the brightest, our foreign policy mandarins must have felt like it was Christmas Day when a senile dementia patient became president. Finally! No meddling politicians to get in the way of our beautifully designed plans worked out at the Council on Foreign Relations. Although Joseph R. Biden is technically, in a strictly legal sense, "president," it's progressives...

Putin vs. Ukraine: New Weapons Target Your Electronics, Not You Putin’s recent warning about “consequences that you have never experienced” could refer to EMPs that target the computer-based systems that keep us all alive todayOn February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his military to strike Ukraine. He also made a public statement that included a dangerous warning:Whoever tries to interfere with us, and even more so, to create threats for our country, for our people, should know that Russia’s response will be immediate and will lead you to such consequences that you have never experienced in your history....

CLEARWATER, Fla. (WFLA) — A Clearwater man is looking to take legal action against an ex-girlfriend after she allegedly threw his dog from his eight-story condo, according to his attorneys. A release from Carey Leisure & Neal said that Eric Adeson was at his condo in Clearwater Beach over the weekend when his ex visited him at 11 a.m. Sunday. Police later identified the ex as Shelley Nicole Vaughn. The attorneys allege that Vaughn was drunk and began arguing with Adeson, throwing his belongings off the balcony. After he asked her several times to leave, Vaughn allegedly picked up his...

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BRUSSELS, March 4 (Reuters) - NATO allies rejected Ukraine's demand for no-fly zones on Friday, saying they were increasing support but that stepping in directly would lead to a broader, even more brutal European war so far limited to Russia's assault on its neighbour. Ukraine, a former Soviet republic that wants to join the European Union and Western military alliance NATO, is not a currently a member of either. "We are not part of this conflict, and we have a responsibility to ensure it does not escalate and spread beyond Ukraine," NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told a news conference.

While we are all praying for peace & for the people of Ukraine, this is irresponsible, dangerous & unhinged.We need leaders with calm minds & steady wisdom.Not blood thirsty warmongering politicians trying to tweet tough by demanding assassinations.Americans don’t want war. https://t.co/l2hqiUbZGv— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) March 4, 2022

Tennesseans were outraged when a patients rights caption bill failed on Tuesday before they had a chance to speak. Doctors and citizens from all over Tennessee traveled to the Nashville Capitol, packing the Health Subcommittee room and hallways, to testify on behalf of the bill sponsored by Representative Todd Warner (R-Lewisburg-D92). The Healthcare Recipient Rights Act would ensure that patients are allowed visitation by family members and advocates in the case of inability to make one’s own medical decisions. In addition, it requires informed consent for treatments that are authorized for emergency use only. Warner was promised by Health Subcommittee...

California mom Sherri Papini who claimed she was kidnapped for 22 days by two Hispanic women in 2016 in a story that shocked and puzzled America, has now been arrested for making it all up six years later. On Thursday prosecutors charged 'supermom' Papini, 39, for lying to federal agents about being kidnapped and defrauding the state's victim compensation board of $30,000. The mother-of-two was found on Thanksgiving Day in 2016 after weeks of searching in California and several nearby states 22 days after she disappeared while jogging on November 2. She was found tied up, with a broken nose,...

A violent reaction to a potent cannabis edible in 2020 has sent a remorseful London man to jail. Kristopher Mitchell, 42, told Ontario Court in Brantford he is ashamed of his behaviour after he consumed a “gummy” with 24 times the amount of THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, the principal psychoactive constituent of cannabis, than can be sold legally in a store. He pleaded guilty to robbery, impaired operation of a vehicle causing bodily harm, flight from police, assault and resisting arrest. Assistant Crown attorney Michael Dean said Mitchell “wreaked havoc on a portion of the community. “He violently confronted a complete...

Hello FRers. Please pray for my husband today. Suddenly a health issue seems to have appeared and he is alone (sort of) far away. Nurse friend said he needed to go to ER, so he is going. She is concerned over even heart attack, but also some concern over spleen or kidney.

It appears our trepidation was in orderI checked the headlines this morning: there is nothing that requires your attention. Certainly nothing you can do anything about. Therefore I suggest you light a candle, read a book,or write a book……even if it never gets published.Carve out a bit of solitude that allows the world to slip by until such time as you are ready to be in it again. When from our better selves we have too long Been parted by the hurrying world, and droop, Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, How gracious, how benign is solitude. William...

On 4 March 2022, a lonely, spent rocket booster will smack into the surface of the Moon at nearly 6,000 mph (9,656 km/h). Once the dust has settled, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will move into position to get an up-close view of the smoldering crater and hopefully shed some light on the mysterious physics of planetary impacts. As a planetary scientist who studies the Moon, I view this unplanned impact as an exciting opportunity. The Moon has been a steadfast witness to Solar System history, its heavily cratered surface recording innumerable collisions over the last 4 billion years. However, scientists...

Today’s jobs report is a mixed-bag. According to the Feburary Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report … The good: 678k jobs were added. The bad: Month-over-month wage earning experienced 0% growth (although YoY growth declined to 5.1%). The ugly: inflation is still at 40 years highs of 7.5%. Meaning that REAL wage growth is -2.4%. Here is the jobs report summary. Of course, the leading sector for job creation was … leisure and hospitality with 179k added. Food services and drinking places (aka, bars) added 124k jobs. Energy prices are way up … again … which will fuel more price...

The Bible In Paintings 2 ENCOURAGEMENT FOR APPRECIATING AND APPLYING GOD'S MESSAGE E X O D U SCHAPTER 14 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites to encamp by the sea. And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will pursue them. But I will gain glory for myself through Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD.” So the Israelites did this. Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds and said, “What have we done? We have let the Israelites go and have lost their services!” So he took...

<p>Narrative fail.</p><p>However, the attack had actually targeted the nearby television tower and the memorial was not damaged.</p><p>The memorial was “not harmed and no bomb, missile or artillery shell hit the site itself,” Ynet News reported.</p><p>The Holocaust memorial hoax was also promoted by Fox News reporter Jennifer Griffin, who also circulated the fabricated story that Russia was using “mobile crematoriums” to hide war crimes.</p>