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FORTRESS MONROE, Tuesday, March 4, Via BALTIMORE, Wednesday, March 5. Col. CORCORAN will come up from Richmond on Friday. JOHN MINOR BOTTS was arrested a day or two since on his farm by order of JEFF. DAVIS. Union sentiments are chalked over the walls at Richmond. BALTIMORE, Wednesday, March 5. A letter from Fortress Monroe, published in the American, of this city, says that yesterday's Richmond Dispatch announces that the steamer Nashville came direct from Southampton to the North Carolina coast, and approached the blockading vessel with the Union flag flying. The Nashville went directly up under the guns of...

Sen. Dick Durbin (D., Ill.) will be in the news a lot this month. Beginning March 21, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee will preside over the confirmation hearings for President Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson. Mainstream media outlets have already started praising Durbin for his "historic" role in the confirmation of the High Court's first black female justice, and it's only going to get worse. Last month, the Washington Post published a lengthy profile of Durbin highlighting the career politician's determination to "make history." He could not have asked for a friendlier (as in whitewashed)...

Russia is still engaged in its invasion of Ukraine. And the US continues to import crude oil from Russia. In fact, US crude oil imports from Russia soared under Biden only to decline again in December 2021. On the sovereign bond and currency front, the 5.25% coupon Russian international sovereign bond has crashed to 22.494. And the Ruble/USD cross has crashed as well. Sberbank Bank 5 1/8% corporate bond has crashed to 25. The Russian blue-chip stock market (OTOB Russian Traded Index CRTX) has crashed by over 50% since the invasion of Ukraine. Russia’s Credit Default Swap (CDS) 5Y has...

Russian forces are firing rockets at a physics institute in the city of Kharkiv that contains nuclear material and a reactor which could lead to a 'large-scale ecological disaster' if hit, according to Ukraine's national security service. The service said on Facebook on Sunday that the Russians were firing at the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology from Grad launchers. Missiles fired from Grad launchers do not have precise targeting, raising concern that one could damage the reactor and release deadly radiation across Europe. The science institute houses the Neutron Source nuclear research facility and contains 37 nuclear fuel cells...

Musk's tweet calling for more fossil fuel production was retweeted roughly 20,000 times in 30 minutes Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk called on the United States to increase its domestic oil output in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, while also acknowledging that his electric car company would be negatively affected by that move. "Hate to say it, but we need to increase oil & gas output immediately," Musk tweeted Friday. "Extraordinary times demand extraordinary measures."

What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Romans 8:31-37 The big claim is Putin is insane for attacking Ukraine while ignoring our own Crazy Clown show. If you were to set them side by side minus the senility and you would have to judge the Puppet President far more irrational, then Vlad. How do you get to a position where you are buying...

Watch live here: https://wepatriot.org/peoplesconvoy/live/ The convoy has updated their plans. They are in Hagerstown Maryland about 1 hour from DC right now . They will be circling the 495 beltway around DC at minimum legal speeds TWICE then returning to Hagerstown speedway for the night. They will NOT BE STOPPING or impeding traffic. They will NOT be going into DC. The convoy will repeat this slow roll encircling of DC every day until their demands - an end to national COVID emergency. President poopy pants has stated he will veto any bill ending national emergency. See the organizer's interview detailing...

The United States is suffering from a border crisis, historic inflation, high gas prices, and a labor shortage, among other things, and Russia is invading Ukraine and is threatening a nuclear World War III… Yet, according to Kamala Harris, it’s time to start worrying about preferred pronouns. This is not a joke. Well… it is, actually… but, Kamala Harris really does think that now is the time to start pushing LGBTQ issues. On Thursday, Harris tweeted, “Let’s send the Equality Act to President Biden’s desk. We must increase protections for LGBTQ+ Americans across the country. The onslaught of state bills...

NASCAR legend Richard Childress is hellbent on helping the people of Ukraine. All eyes are on Ukraine as the nation attempts to repel a Russian invasion being carried out by Vladimir Putin’s forces. Well, help is on the way thanks to Childress. According to Jenna Fryer, the former racer and current team owner told reporters in a recent call that he’s sending a million rounds of ammo through Ammo Inc. to Ukraine. Furthermore, he pointed out that the situation in Ukraine is a great reminder of why the Second Amendment is so important in America. “This should be a wakeup...

World War I had no good guys and no winners. France rightly sought the return of the provinces Germany had annexed in 1870. Russia rightly feared that German influence would sever its industrial centers and tax base in the Western parts of it its empire; England feared that Germany would encroach on its overseas empire; Germany feared that Russia’s railroad system would overcome its advantage in mobility and firepower. None of them wanted a war, but each of them decided that it was better to fight in 1914 than fight later at a disadvantage. Historian Christopher Clark in his 2013...

A Spanish journalist arrested on suspicion of spying for Russia recently worked for Voice of America, the United States government's international media organization. Pablo Gonzalez was arrested at the Poland-Ukraine border earlier this week on charges that he was secretly working for Russia’s military intelligence service, the GRU. Gonzalez, a Spanish national born in Russia, was identified as a freelance reporter for the Spanish outlets El Sixto and Publico. He has also worked as a freelance reporter for Voice of America (VOA) since at least 2020. Gonzalez helped produce a VOA segment from inside Ukraine last month, according to a...

At the beginning of Lent, the Church reads to us the account of Jesus doing spiritual combat with the devil in the wilderness, reminding us that Lent is a time of warfare. Through our Lenten practices of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, we do battle with the power of the devil in our lives, and with God’s grace, defeat him decisively. 1. The First Reading is Deuteronomy 26:4-10: Moses spoke to the people, saying: “The priest shall receive the basket from you and shall set it in front of the altar of the LORD, your God. Then you shall declare before...

Did the mainstream media watch the same State of the Union address everybody else saw the other night? For instance, why were there no mentions in any Democrat party organs (which is all of them) of what was perhaps Dementia Joe Biden’s finest rhetorical flourish, a panegyric to the brave warriors of the land where Hunter used to get his $83,333 a month wired from. “A pound of Ukrainian people proud proud people pound for pound ready to fight with every inch of earnegy that they have.” Move over, Winston Churchill! Forget blood sweat and tears. From now on, students...

WASHINGTON -- "I personally think he's unhinged. I really worry about his acuity and balance right now." Former U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper gave this assessment of Russian President Vladimir Putin on CNN this week. As Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues to escalate and threats of nuclear conflict enter the picture, understanding Putin's mental state has become a matter of growing urgency for Western intelligence agencies -- a difficult task, as the ex-KGB agent is a "hard target" for espionage, and notoriously difficult to read. "Putin appears isolated and reliant on a small coterie of advisers who have...

"Equity" is defined as being fair and impartial. "Rank and file" are the ordinary members of an organization or business as opposed to its senior leaders. The number of U.S. workers reached a high of 165 million in early 2020, at the start of the COVID pandemic. If you tally the number of CEOs, add the estimated people who report directly to those CEOs, plus the directors of the organizations these senior leaders manage one, can estimate that the top brass represent less than 3% of the total workforce. So how have the other 97%, the rank and file, the...

<p>The main obstacles to Valeria Kolosova escaping from Ukraine are her passport and ID card, which identify the 24-year-old transgender woman as a man - meaning she must stay to fight the invading Russian forces.</p><p>Kolosova left her hometown of Kyiv on Sunday and took a shared ride to the western city of Lviv, hoping to cross into Poland. But she is too scared to attempt the journey.</p>

A bulletin shouts, 'Joe Biden has announced his immediate resignation' -- 'Kamala Harris has been sworn in as the 47th President of the United States' What's your first thought?

One Quebec restaurant is making a statement about Russia's war in Ukraine by taking the word "poutine" off its menu. Le Roy Jucep in Drummondville swapped out the popular Canadian dish's name, which bears a similar name to Russian President Vladimir Putin, with the words "la frite fromage sauce," or "fries cheese gravy." “This evening, the Jucep team has chosen to temporarily remove the word ‘p**tine’ from its trademark in order to express, in its own way, its deep dismay at the situation in Ukraine,” the restaurant wrote in a since-deleted Facebook post on Friday, as reported by the MTL...

Several Russian banks said on Sunday they would soon start issuing cards using the Chinese UnionPay card operator's system coupled with Russia's own Mir network, after Visa and MasterCard said they were suspending operations in Russia. Announcements regarding the switch to UnionPay came on Sunday from Sberbank (SBER.MM), Russia's biggest lender, as well as Alfa Bank and Tinkoff.

It has become clear in the past few years that many people have lost the ability to determine truth from lies, propaganda from fact. And even good from evil. And now it appears many of us may soon lose our ability to recognize reality. Or live in it. Mark Zuckerberg recently told tech podcaster Lex Friedman, "A lot of people think that the metaverse is about a place, but one definition of this is it’s about a time when basically immersive digital worlds become the primary way that we live our lives and spend our time." He added, "I think...