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Rhode Island Democrats have introduced a bill that would double the state income tax for residents who have unvaccinated children.Yes, really.State Senator Samuel Bell (D) submitted the punitive bill last month, which orders all Rhode Island residents and taxpayers over 16 years old to receive the COVID-19 injection and boosters mandated by the state’s director of the department of health.Anybody who violates that order “shall owe twice the amount of personal income taxes” to the state.This act would mandate all residents sixteen (16) years or older to be vaccinated against COVID-19. If a resident is under sixteen (16) years of...

For years now, through controversy after controversy, House Minority Leader KEVIN MCCARTHY has bent over backward to stay in former President DONALD TRUMP’s good graces, all to serve one major purpose: He wants to be speaker someday. That hope may have just blown up on the launchpad. On Thursday night, NYT’s Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns delivered an absolute stunner of a scoop: an audio recording of a phone call on Jan. 10, 2021, in which McCarthy is heard clearly and unambiguously saying that Trump should resign. Listen for yourself What happens on the tape: McCarthy essentially conspires with Rep....

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy was caught in a big lie on Thursday. The California Republican denied a New York Times report that he told GOP leaders he would advise former President Donald Trump to resign after the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, calling it “totally false and wrong.” Just hours later, however, New York Times reporters Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin released audio of McCarthy saying exactly that during a phone call with Republican leaders on Jan. 10, 2021. On MSNBC, the Times journalists said there was a lot more where that came from. Now, McCarthy’s critics...

Cdl. Parolin bars Cdl. Burke as Italy lifts draconian Green Pass restrictions VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Pope Francis' second-in-command, Cdl. Pietro Parolin, personally intervened to bar Cdl. Raymond Burke from entering Vatican offices over Burke's conscientious objection to the abortion-tainted COVID-19 vaccine. Sources at the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints told Church Militant that Burke, a member of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, was recently stopped at the entrance to the building because he did not possess a Green Pass. The Green Pass, issued by Italy and the Vatican, shows that the holder has been...

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern stood by her government’s relationship with Beijing, saying that there was still a need to “work together” in areas of mutual interest, despite its “growing assertiveness” in the region. “China is a very important trading partner for us, but it’s also a mature relationship for us,” Ardern told the BBC. “Where there are areas we can work together, we will—but there will always be areas in which we will not necessarily agree and when those areas arise, we are very forthright and clear on our position.” Ardern questioned the need for the Solomon Islands...

This week, U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle struck down the Biden administration's mask mandate for airplanes and other public transportation methods. Videos posted on social media showed airplane passengers cheering when told that the now tiresome face mask was no longer needed in the airport or on the plane. YouTube screen grabWe have been masked up on public transportation for more than two years, with little scientific rationale for this new practice. It's the first time public health officials have recommended, then required, masking to prevent transmission of a respiratory virus. In fact, the CDC and WHO, early in...

Expert: The CCP Fears Sanctions A senior Chinese business finance columnist, Chen Siyu, told The Epoch Times that Western sanctions against Russia struck fear into the CCP. And that Beijing will incur massive technological and economic losses if its overseas assets are confiscated by the United States and other western countries. Thus, it is rapidly selling overseas assets and returning CNOOC to domestic IPOs. Chen said the CCP has been stealing Western technologies through its “Thousand Talents Program (TTP)” and “Made in China 2025 Initiative (MIC 2025)” to cut corners in its R&D and overtake Western technological advancements. TTP is...

A Russian oligarch who allegedly paid First Son Hunter Biden $3.5 million has not been sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department amid the war in Ukraine, prompting House Republicans to launch a probe. On Thursday, GOP lawmakers, led by House Oversight and Reform Committee member Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen demanding to know why Elena Baturina was not targeted by the sanctions. “​If​ ​the United States is avoiding sanctioning certain Russian oligarchs because of concerns they may attempt to influence American policy by exploiting Hunter Biden’s connection with his father​ – the President...

It’s only mid-April, summer hasn’t arrived, and yet, electric vehicles are already on fire. On March 28, an XPeng G3 caught on fire in Longhua District, Shenzhen, in which the entire vehicle burned down to its skeleton. On April 5, an Aiways U5 caught on fire at a charging station in Jinjiang District, Chengdu. In the past year, the news of electric vehicles catching on fire is not uncommon. And yet, the sales of electric cars have reached a new high. BYD even announced that it would discontinue the production of fossil-fuel vehicles. The Chinese media reported only 86 electric...

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April 22nd 2022 Easter Friday St. Stephen's basilica, Budapest Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White First readingActs 4:1-12 ©The name of Jesus Christ is the only one by which we can be savedWhile Peter and John were talking to the people the priests came up to them, accompanied by the captain of the Temple and the Sadducees. They were extremely annoyed at their teaching the people the doctrine of the resurrection from the dead by proclaiming the resurrection of Jesus. They arrested them, but as it was already late, they held them till the next day. But many of those who...

The culture war over Disney reached new heights Thursday, as Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and Florida Gov. Ron De Santis traded barbs over the company's future in the Sunshine State. Earlier this week, Polis voiced disagreement over DeSantis' support for legislation that would strip Disney of its special status as a self-governing area, which was ultimately passed Thursday by the Florida House. Polis then accused DeSantis of using socialist tactics to control the private sector, and invited Disney to ditch the Sunshine State and move to Colorado. 'Florida's authoritarian socialist attacks on the private sector are driving businesses away,'...

@RSBNetwork President Trump: "We cannot have men participate in women's sports... The swimmers that are getting absolutely clobbered are afraid to say anything because they think it's politically incorrect. So I'm the king of being politically incorrect, and I'll tell you it's not right."

A mother and father from Hiram, Georgia, have been charged with murdering their four-week-old infant, who doctors said “had a quantity of alcohol in its system that was well over four times the legal limit for an adult,” according to authorities. In a release, the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) announced it arrested Sydnei Dunn, 24, and Maquis Colvin, 25, on April 14, and both were charged with malice murder, a felony; second-degree murder, a felony; first-degree cruelty to children, a felony; and reckless conduct, a misdemeanor. Colvin faces additional charges of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon...

Ellie Smith @elliekaysmith PSA if you’re going to tweet something snarky about CNN+, hundreds of journalists and technicians who did nothing but work their tails off just had the rug pulled out from under them. So be kind. Kristi Noem @KristiNoem Now you know how the Keystone XL Pipeline workers feel.

Video footage appearing to show Sun whipping two Rwandan men as they were tied to a tree circulated online last August. Rwandan authorities subsequently investigated the video’s content and confirmed that the incident took place in Rwanda’s Western Province at a Chinese-managed mine. The Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB) arrested Sun and two other employees of the mine accused of participating in the torture, an engineer named Alexis Renzaho and a security guard Leonidas Nsanzimana, sometime last year before prosecuting them for their crimes. Rwanda’s Gihango Primary Court remanded the three men in September 2021. The group then appealed to the...

A new study finds that no- and low-calorie drinks offer weight and metabolic benefits nearly identical to water's.