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Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem3 John1 The elder, To my dear friend Gaius, whom I love in the truth. 2 Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well. 3 It gave me great joy when some believers came and testified about your faithfulness to the truth, telling how you continue to walk in it. 4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth. 5 Dear friend, you are faithful in what you are...

CNN is in the midst of a "sorry state of affairs" as the network faces looming leadership changes, struggling ratings and "the embarrassing launch of a suboptimal product," according to a former producer as watchdogs ponder if the new regime can restore the network's reputation. It’s a much-publicized period of transition for CNN, as parent company WarnerMedia will finally close a long-planned merger with Discovery in the next few weeks. Former CNN boss Jeff Zucker is long gone after being forced to step aside and his replacement, Chris Licht, isn’t expected to overtake control of the network until at least...

Deconstructing the reality dysphoria dialogue. The satirical Babylon Bee recently selected Rachel Levine as its “first annual Man of the Year.” “Levine,” the Bee explained, “is the U.S. assistant secretary for health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where he proudly serves as the first man in that position to dress like a western cultural stereotype of a woman. He is also an admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. What a boss!” Since announcing the award, the Bee added, “we’ve been told that Levine actually identifies as a woman. We have still chosen to...

Spanish opinion polling suggests that the centre-right People’s Party (PP) and the populist VOX party could form an absolute majority in the Spanish parliament as the ruling Social Democratic Workers Party (PSOE) falters. Polling data from an IMOP-Insights survey suggested that the ruling PSOE of current Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez could lose as many as eleven seats in the parliament if an election were called, while VOX could significantly increase its current seat count of 52 to 80 and form a 177-seat majority with the PP in the 350-seat chamber....

The suspect in the brutal murder of a Florida couple has been identified as an illegal immigrant from Haiti .....whom state prosecutors had released from custody following 'previous arrests', according to the governor’s office. Jean Macean was taken into custody March 10 and charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the stabbing deaths of Terry and Brenda Aultman. The couple was biking home late March 6 from a Daytona Beach Bike Week event when they were attacked by the suspect. Daytona Beach Police Chief Jakari Young said the murders were “one of the most vicious attacks I’ve ever seen...

DENVER – A federal jury’s $14 million award to Denver protesters hit with pepper balls and a bag filled with lead during 2020 demonstrations over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis could resonate nationwide as courts weigh more than two dozen similar lawsuits. The jury found police used excessive force against protesters, violating their constitutional rights, and ordered the city of Denver to pay 12 who sued. Nationwide, there are at least 29 pending lawsuits challenging law enforcement use of force during the 2020 protests, according to a search of the University of Michigan’s Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse....

The CEOs of three major oil companies have refused to testify in a hearing aimed at stabilizing U.S. gas prices..drawing the ire of Democrats...House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Raul Grijalva of Arizona took aim at the chief executives of.... EOG Resources, Devon Energy Corporation, and Occidental Petroleum.... for declining to appear at the committee's hearing, which had been scheduled for April 5. Due to their refusal to appear, the Democrat said, the hearing “will not go forward.” House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone also ordered a similar hearing, scheduled for April, and has ordered testimony from representatives of...

(UPI) — A New York judge on Thursday blocked the state’s new congressional map from taking effect, saying it represented an unconstitutional gerrymander that would benefit Democrats. State Supreme Court Judge Patrick McAllister of Steuben County ordered New York lawmakers to draw a new map that would receive bipartisan support or the court will “retain a neutral expert at State expense to prepare said maps.” Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, signed the Congressional map that would have given Democrats an advantage for 22 of the state’s 26 congressional seats in February. In his ruling, McAllister said the Democratic-controlled legislature violated...

Is the January 6 Committee itself actually a criminal conspiracy? Vox, the left-leaning “news explainer” site, published an article on Wednesday that accidentally makes the case that the January 6 Committee is knowingly violating the law while trying to show that Donald Trump knowingly violated the law. Congress has subpoena power to seek documents and testimony for legislative purposes, not for criminal prosecution. Those who were awake during fifth-grade social studies know there’s such a thing as “separation of powers.” Congress makes the law. Another branch, the judiciary, interprets it in disputed cases. But someone else, the executive, enforces it....

The Department of Justice on Thursday announced the arrest of 60-year-old Mark Robert Unkenholz of Hanover, Maryland An NSA engineer specializing in encryption technology, between February 14, 2018, and June 1, 2020, ...Unkenholz on 13 occasions emailed classified information to a friend who was employed outside NSA. Like all NSA affiliates, Unkenholz held a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) security clearance, and he used this access to email classified information via personal, unclassified emails..... This is a gross violation of security policies and federal law. The friend is identified only as "R.F." in the DOJ indictment, she apparently worked for...

The Ohio 9th District Court of Appeals has just issued a decision in the Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College case. For those of you new to the case, Gibson’s Bakery was a 5th generation family business in Oberlin, Ohio, near the Oberlin College campus. It served baked goods to the public and also to the student dining service, as well as operating a general convenience store. As with many other small businesses, student shoplifting was epidemic, as we covered, Student journalist: Shoplifting at Gibson’s Bakery was part of Oberlin College’s “Culture of Theft” A store clerk, a member of the...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles City Council is scheduled to vote Wednesday on whether to end a requirement that many indoor businesses and large outdoor events verify that customers have been vaccinated against COVID-19. The motion proposed by council President Nury Martinez would make vaccination verifications voluntary at such establishments as restaurants, bars, gyms and personal care businesses. The measure needs at least 12 votes to pass to meet the council’s “urgency” threshold and so it could go into effect quickly. A simple majority would also approve the measure, but it wouldn’t go into effect for several weeks...

It is the apology that drives cancel culture, because it encourages more acts of electronic subjugation, re-education, and humiliation. Ah, the cancel culture apology -- for the Twitterati who have foisted this nightmare upon the world, the apology is the goal, the dopamine fix they need to get through the day, to prove to themselves that they have a proper place in the world, and that they are always right. In other words, the apology is the automatically dispensed food pellet micenized humans crave. It is the apology that drives cancel culture, because it encourages more acts of electronic subjugation,...

Two rescued koalas treated for a life-threatening disease will be released back into the wild by Queensland researchers as part of a project to help protect the threatened species and improve genetic diversity. The Living Koala Genome Bank project aims to address the increasing threat of local koala extinction due to habitat loss and disease. Dreamworld Wildlife Foundation General Manager and University of Queensland Adjunct Associate Professor Al Mucci said he was pleased to see successful results from the conservation effort. “Two animals have been cleaned, treated for chlamydia infection and vaccinated, and will be released back into the wild...

Where has pandering to the freaks and sickos gotten us? On April 10, 1899, while serving as the governor of New York, Theodore Roosevelt gave a speech titled “The Strenuous Life.” Roosevelt correctly identified and spoke on an objective truth: “To pander to depravity inevitably means to increase the depravity. It is a dreadful thing that public sentiment should condone misconduct in a public man; but this is no excuse for the public man, if by his conduct he still further degrades public sentiment. There can be no meddling with the laws of righteousness, of decency, of morality.” Now, in...

Germany is experiencing the highest level of inflation since the country was reunified in 1990 after the fall of the Berlin Wall and economic growth projections have been cut in half amid the ongoing war in Ukraine. On Thursday, Germany’s federal statistics agency Destatis revealed that inflation has risen by 7.3 per cent over this time last year, up from 5.1 per cent in February.

The legislature has cooked up a plan to arrest anyone who makes politicians or certain groups feel 'uncomfortable.' Vermont’s social justice legislators have launched a transparent and illegal assault against free speech liberties. Vermont’s Senate has amended the state’s assault statute mightily. S.265 seeks to heighten penalties for threatening with the intent to terrify, intimidate, or unlawfully influence the conduct of a candidate for public office, public servant, election official, or public employee in any decision, opinion, recommendation, vote, or other exercise of discretion taken in capacity as a candidate for public office, public servant, election official, or public employee,...

A CBS News executive told staff earlier this month that the network was hiring more Republicans as analysts because he believed there would "likely" be a Democratic wipeout in the 2022 midterm elections, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a leaked recording it obtained. Neeraj Khemlani, a CBS News copresident, made the remark just before the announcement that the network had hired Mick Mulvaney, who briefly served as President Donald Trump's chief of staff, as an analyst. The decision sparked internal backlash, The Post reported. In February 2020, Mulvaney accused journalists of exaggerating the impact of the coronavirus to...

It seems as though Ukraine is getting more supplies from the UK and other nations, as they have now pledged a new round of supplies, and some of the supplies appear to be of a higher price tag. Meanwhile across all fronts in Ukraine the counterattacks have made massive progress in pushing the Russians back and liberating the Ukrainian villages once occupied by the invaders. Join me as we discuss the past 24 hours of events, and see if there is anything we can take from it.

After almost a century, in the former Christian basilica - then museum - of Saint (Hagia) Sophia, which was converted into a mosque by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will once again hear the Islamic prayer for Ramadan. The tarawih, which every devout Muslim recites every night in the holy month of fasting and prayer, will be celebrated inside the building, as confirmed yesterday by the country's highest religious office. The powerful Ali Erbas, head of the Diyanet, already leading the first Islamic Eid prayer in the disputed place of worship, said that "thank God for the first time in...