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With any war movie, the safe audience bet typically favors the immediate, graphic horrors of battle. That way, when you see a title such as “Hacksaw Ridge,” you know a director (in that case Mel Gibson) will be operating with a cinematic license to slaughter. Espionage makes for subtler, trickier storytelling. “Operation Mincemeat,” now purring along, confidently, on Netflix, takes as its subject a singular feat of deception cooked up by British intelligence in 1943. How decisively the operation turned the Allied tide against Nazi Germany is up for historical debate. But the men and women of MI5 assuredly helped...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Being married for 82 years, Cleovis and Arwilda Whiteside were presented with a certificate from the governor. A silver platter with details of their marriage, a Bible, as well as other gifts to symbolize their long-lasting union. "Tried to live a life pleasing unto God and to our church and to our members. To everybody."

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis: Christians wanting to go backward ‘does so much harm to the church.’VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Wanting to go back to the way things were in the past is not Christian, Pope Francis said.There is a difference between wanting to go back in time and drawing inspiration from one’s roots in order to move forward with Christ, he said.Looking back to find inspiration is good because “without roots we cannot progress,” he said. “But to go in reverse is to go back in order to have a form of defense, a safety measure that saves us from...

Below is my column in the Hill on the leaking of the draft opinion on abortion from the Supreme Court. While lionizing the leaker, media and political figures have ratcheted up their rhetoric to “burn down the Court” or to pack it with reliable liberal votes. Because these pundits disagree with the constitutional interpretation, they are now suggesting that the entire institution is illegitimate. Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick wrote “we need to be focusing on the legitimacy of the court itself” while CNN’s chief political analyst Gloria Borger suggested that the Supreme Court Justices were “just a bunch of politicians in...

Executive summaryA simple survey of my readers provided some extremely compelling evidence that 1) the US government has killed over 500,000 previously healthy Americans and 2) that the vaccine actually caused the deaths. It took me around 30 minutes to create the survey and 11 hours to wait for highly statistically significant results. I was able to accomplish something in less than 12 hours that the CDC has been unable to accomplish in 18 months: prove causality. We see both dose dependency and enormous changes in ACM deaths pre- vs. post-vaccine. We satisfy all five Bradford-Hill criteria applicable to vaccines.We...

The daughter of one of the country's top doctors who became a voice for nurses struggling during the Covid pandemic has died suddenly in her sleep. Australian Medical Association South Australia president Michelle Atchison revealed on Twitter her 26-year-old daughter Caillin had died on Wednesday. 'The light in our life has gone out. My beautiful and only daughter died yesterday,' Dr Atchison wrote on Thursday. 'She never woke up. 'It was so utterly unexpected and my husband and my hearts are shattered. I really don't know what to do.' Dr Atchison had become a public spokesperson for nurses and hospital...

People's Convoy live morning meeting.

Americans are now entering uncharted, revolutionary territory. They may witness things over the next five months that once would have seemed unimaginable. Until the Ukrainian conflict, we had never witnessed a major land war inside Europe directly involving a nuclear power. In desperation, Russia’s impaired and unhinged leader, Russian President Vladimir Putin, now talks trash about the likelihood of nuclear war. A 79-year-old President Joe Biden bellows back that his war-losing nuclear adversary is a murderer, a war criminal, and a butcher who should be removed from power. After a year of politicizing the U.S. military and its self-induced catastrophe...

The band is getting back together.A sequel is in the works to the 1984 rock mockumentary "This Is Spinal Tap," with director Rob Reiner returning alongside stars Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer.The movie package will launch sales at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. It will be released on March, 19 2024, tied to the 40th anniversary of the original.The sequel will be in the style of Martin Scorsese’s "The Last Waltz," the legendary concert documentary that followed the farewell tour of the Canadian American rock group The Band."Spinal Tap 2" will also feature real-life musicians in the film....

A teacher and coach at Livingstone Academy were arrested for presenting pornographic photographs and sexually touching a student, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office. After the grandmother of a juvenile student alleged her granddaughter had been inappropriately handled by a teacher at the school, Livingstone Academy contacted HCSO. Detectives identified the culprit, Matthew Hike, 33, via their investigation. Hike had also shared multiple sexual photographs with the child, according to detectives. Hike faces charges of Lewd or Lascivious Molestation (x5) as well as Selling or Distributing Obscene Material to a Minor (x3). “Those adults placed in positions of trust...

Gregg Phillips, who was a top investigator in the film, told the audience at the “2000 Mules” virtual premiere that FOX’s lawyers are keeping the film off of the channel. And Dinesh D’Souza later added that FOX News would not allow Catherine Engelbrecht to mention the name of her film in her interview with Tucker Carlson. .......... Snip......... Then on Saturday FOX News published a fraudulent list of 5 good things Joe Biden accomplished since coming into office. The list by FOX News contributor Leslie Marshall includes 5 straight lies. 1.) Infrastructure — Marshall includes this in her list. Congress...

The Left sets up an alternative reality and then creates narratives to support it. It usually involves catchy phrases like 'The Big Lie' to describe their election theft. I figure with the brilliant minds that pursue these threads we could come up with some narrative phrases of our own. That involves a few areas ripe for targeting: 1) Joe Biden stole the Presidency. He does not deserve the title of President. What then do we call him? 2) The RATs keep calling their J6 Wrap Up Smear Operation an 'Insurrection'. What should the patriotic side call it? 3) The RATs...

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A California coastal panel on Thursday rejected a long-standing proposal to build a $1.4 billion seawater desalination plant to turn Pacific Ocean water into drinking water as the state grapples with persistent drought that is expected to worsen in coming years with climate change. The state’s Coastal Commission voted unanimously to deny a permit for Poseidon Water to build a plant to produce 50 million gallons of water a day in Huntington Beach, southeast of Los Angeles. Poseidon said it was disappointed in the decision. “California continues to face a punishing drought, with no end...

Kharkiv's mayor tells the BBC that Ukrainian forces have pushed Russian troops "far out" from Ukraine's second city. "Now it is calm and people are gradually coming back to the city," Mayor Ihor Terekhov says The comments came after a respected military think tank said Ukraine has "likely won the battle" for Kharkiv

India this morning has banned all wheat exports for 2022. India is a large producer of wheat but not a large exporter of wheat, according to this article with the war in Ukraine and the global price of wheat exploding, India was looking to export a large amount of wheat to capitalize on the price increase, all that stopped today. I don't want to read too much into this issue, if you look at Sri Lanka, they are in near civil war over food security, we don't have baby formula, it will be interesting to what happens on the summer...

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher criticized the Department of Homeland Security’s Disinformation Governance Board and argued that the agency’s definition of disinformation could be applied to former President Barack Obama’s promise that people who liked their doctor could keep it and wondered, “who do you think the truth czar is going to be in 2025?”

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher argued that Democrats have moved away from their former position of “safe, legal, and rare” on abortion and argued that “No one should be pro-abortion.” Maher began by stating that due to polarization on the issue there will be a division among states like before the Civil War and there will be some states “where you’re a free woman” and others “where it’s a Dred Scott situation.” And “a lot of these states, it’s going to be a race to the bottom to see who can get the harshest treatment...

Friday on FNC’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson opened his program by criticizing President Joe Biden’s response to the baby formula shortage plaguing the country. Carlson shared with viewers statistics showing stores around the country with no supply and the White House’s response of indifference and scorn

CINCINNATI, Tuesday, May 13. The Commercial has the following Southern news: The Memphis Avalanche, of the 6th inst., says that the telegraphic news from Richmond is painfully significant. Gen. MCCLELLAN seems to have been preparing the same fate for Richmond that Gen. BUTLER and Commodore PORTER got up for New-Orleans. The Avalanche, of the same date, says of affairs in New-Orleans, that Mayor MONROE and all the Aldermen have been arrested for refusing to take the oath of allegiance to the United States and sent to prison. Great distress prevails in the city. Food of all kinds is extremely scarce....

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher criticized the Biden White House for its stance on the protests taking place outside the private homes of Supreme Court justices and stated that there is an official government position on these protests, which is, “It’s wrong. It’s intimidation. It’s against the law.” Maher said, “[C]ertainly, the Press [Secretary] at the White House is down with this. Jen Psaki said — asked about this, these are people who are demonstrating outside the houses of the Supreme Court justices, she said, ‘I don’t have an official U.S. government position on where...