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In case it wasn’t obvious, the Western mind is damaged goods. Many observers would say that this is a recent state of affairs, but in truth it’s something that has been slowly building for centuries. It started with the broad acceptance of Cartesian dualism, the conceptual separation of the mind from the body that developed as an over-mechanised response to the scientific discoveries of men like Copernicus and Kepler. This “analytical mindset,” in the original sense of analysis as “the resolution of something complex into simple elements,” destroyed the manifold intricacy of organic traditional society as it was conceptually applied...

A "Climate Justice" rally hosted in Albany by the left-wing organization NY Renews on Tuesday was billed as "a day to remember" by organizers who hoped to "flood the streets of Albany to demand $15 billion for climate, jobs, and justice." But what may be remembered, rather than what appeared to be far less than a "flood" of climate alarmists, is one sign that was present at the gathering. Yes, that is "climate change" depicted as a plane headed for the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, which stood in lower Manhattan until they were destroyed by Muslim extremist...

Since the start of 2020, shares of Novavax (NASDAQ: NVAX) have soared by more than 1,600%, making the S&P 500's 30% returns during that period look minuscule. And the main reason for all that bullishness has been the COVID-19 vaccine the company has been developing, which could lead to billions in revenue for the business. The company only recently filed for an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of its vaccine, and if it obtains it, shares of the stock could once again go soaring. Is approval imminent for Novavax, and is now a good time to buy shares of the healthcare...

Earlier this week, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul spoke at an event in Wyoming in support of Rep. Liz Cheney’s challenger Harriet Hageman. Paul says Cheney’s vote for the Jan. 6 Committee is even worse than her vote for impeachment and that the Committee is an “abomination” that should be disbanded. “I think It’s time we send Liz Cheney back to her home in Virginia. […] Arguably her vote for Jan. 6 committee and her vote to use this enormous and abusive subpoena power on her fellow Republican congressman is arguably even worse than her vote on impeachment.” “This isn’t sort...

Although the HHS has not yet revealed how much advertising money was spent on each media platform, it has become clear that the Biden administration paid hundreds of media outlets taxpayer money to run ads promoting COVID jabs. This reports puts everything into perspective as for the last two years, mainstream media outlets have been bought by the US government to propagate COVID vaccine propaganda.As part of a “comprehensive media campaign,” the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) sponsored hundreds of American media companies to produce advertising pushing COVID vaccines.Documents acquired by conservative news organization The Blaze, who...

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 Joe Biden canceled the Keystone Pipeline on his first day in office. Since then, he’s put a moratorium on numerous American oil and gas projects. The result, naturally, has been less production of inexpensive American oil and gas, more importation of expensive foreign oil and gas, and less abundance of both. This has produced ever-increasing prices at the pump and in your utility bills.The oddity is that all this political posturing is premised on the absurdity that burning American oil and gas produces greenhouse gas emissions, but burning foreign oil and gas does not. I shouldn’t say this is...

A new Quinnipiac poll released Monday revealed a sharp partisan divide in how Americans would react if invaded by a foreign power. The pollster asked Americans what they would do if they found themselves in the same position as the average Ukrainian right now, subjected to a violent invasion by a hostile country: stay and fight for their home, or abandon it and flee the country. Fifty-five percent of respondents in total said they would stay and fight, while 38% said they’d flee. @NoahCRothman “A majority (55 percent) say they would stay and fight, while 38 percent say they would...

Why has American Christianity grown so weak? It’s because of sin, and especially one in particular. Not the sin you’re probably thinking of, though. It’s one you may never have thought was sin. There’s nothing even slightly hidden about this instruction in the Bible. It’s the most frequently taught theme in the whole New Testament. It’s in the Great Commandment. Disobedience to it earned one group the most stinging rebuke in all the New Testament epistles. The Church as a whole is disobeying it right and left, yet totally oblivious to it. What is this long-forgotten sin? Intellectual laziness. It’s...

FIRST WEEK OF LENT LUKE 11:29-32 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus tells the crowd that they will receive no sign except the sign of Jonah, which was a prophetic code for his death and Resurrection. Everything Jesus said and did, in one way or another, is an anticipation of his Resurrection. The God of Israel, the God of Jesus Christ, is a God of life, a God of the living. He hates death and the ways of death. He hates sin, which brings about spiritual death; he hates physical illness, which brings about bodily death; he hates corruption, which brings...

February 26, 2022 6:42am Updated Bear chases music star Alok while snowboarding Authorities in Chester County arrested a woman who fatally stabbed a 21-year-old student at Lincoln University on February 16. Nydira Smith was charged with fatally stabbing Jawine Evans, 21, in the neck at a dormitory hall on campus, according to Fox29. The suspect also stabbed two other students — Eric Dickerson, 22, and Clifton Walker, 22. Smith was the sister of a student at Lincoln University who was involved in the fight with all three students stabbed. Footage of the incident was obtained by detectives. “We believe it...

President Joe Biden plans to sign an executive order on Wednesday to study the concept of a “digital dollar” currency to compete with Bitcoin. “We’re placing the highest urgency on the effort to assess the potential benefits and the risks of a digital dollar on payment systems, on financial stability, on national security, on the implications for human rights, and financial inclusion,” a senior administration official told reporters in a briefing call on Tuesday. A digital dollar would be easier for the federal government of the United States to control than cash but make it more susceptible to inflation and...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) expressed his frustration on Wednesday after the Washington, D.C., government dropped charges against a Florida man accused of punching a police officer who was protecting Paul in 2020. "Surprise, surprise. DC government drops charges against the thug who attacked and injured a DC policeman (a policeman who protected Kelley and I from an angry mob)," Paul wrote on Twitter. "And people wonder why violence is consuming our cities." According to D.C. court records, the government gave notice of nolle prosequi on Jan. 27, effectively dropping the charges. Nolle prosequi is a Latin legal term that refers...

For years, Russia has been calling on Western nations to investigate cases of human rights abuse, illegal killings, and war crimes committed by the Ukrainian authorities that came to power after the 2014 coup. Moscow pointed out that many of them were committed by neo-Nazis against Russians or Russian-speaking people. Here is what Vladimir Putin meant by Russia’s Special DeNazification Operation in Ukraine.On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the commencement of a special operation to safeguard the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR), describing the objectives as “demilitarizing and denazification” of Ukraine. Subsequently, his spokesperson clarified...

David Bennett died on Tuesday after his condition began to deteriorate several days ago, the medical center said. He was given palliative care and was able to communicate with his family during his final hours, according to the news release. Bennett had terminal heart disease, and had received a transplant on January 7. Bennett was deemed ineligible for a conventional heart transplant or an artificial heart pump after reviews of his medical records, and the pig heart was the only available option, the medical center said at the time. Revivicor, a regenerative medicine company based in Virginia, had provided the...

A detailed list of the destroyed and captured vehicles and equipment of both sides can be seen below. This list is constantly updated as additional footage becomes available.

Under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, eligible borrowers were promised that their student loan debt would be canceled after they pay on the debt over the course of 10 years. Since it was established nearly 15 years ago, only a small portion of people who qualified for the program was granted forgiveness prior to 2021, the news outlet noted. Over 90 percent of applicants to the program have been rejected. The Biden administration widened eligibility requirements for the program temporarily last year after borrowers complained that they discovered they were ineligible for the program after they had already repaid...

A maternity hospital in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol has been decimated in a 'direct hit' by Russian rockets leaving children buried in the rubble, President Zelensky has said, in what he described as an 'atrocity.' Zelensky posted a video showing the badly damaged hospital buildings, filmed inside a destroyed ward room with its windows blown out and ceiling partially collapsed. More footage showed a car park covered in rubble and the smouldering wrecks of vehicles as injured families evacuated into the freezing air while snow fell. 'Direct strike of Russian troops at the maternity hospital. People, children are under...

The Director of the Information and Press Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Maria Vladimirovna Zakharova, told the United States on Wednesday, “We have found your biological weapons!” “There was statement made by the Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, leave no doubt, will not give Washington to be silent this time. Their attempts, while spilling blood, to find biological and chemical weapons throughout the world. We have found your own products. We have found your biological material. As it turns out it was all happening in Ukraine,” RT, Russia state-affiliated media reported. Russia now...

[18%-34% per annum median home price increases] And that market, Longmont, was no slouch either with a 17.9% increase, from $509,000 in February 2021 to $600,000 in 2022. The data, compiled by Information and Real Estate Services LLC based in Loveland, also showed that Longmont had only 47 active listings during the month, compared with 78 in the same month a year ago. Forty-one homes were sold in February 2022 with an average time on the market of 23 days. The Loveland/Berthoud area topped the charts during February with a 33.8% increase in median sales price for single-family residential homes,...