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Friends it's Sunday night again and time to relax. Warm up the tubes for another 4 hours of classic radio Americana. Listen LiveInfo *tonight's show will be available at the "Info" link starting tomorrow.

The British Motorcyclists Federation (BMF) reports that all new cars sold in the UK from July will be mandated to be fitted with speed-limiting software. The software, called Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA), is already implemented by some car manufacturers, such as Ford, Mercedes, and Renault, according to the BMF, but will become mandatory for all new cars from July 2022. ISA limits the speed of the car to the prevailing limit on the road the car is currently on; so, if you’re driving in a 30mph zone, it will limit to 30mph. The software can be overridden by the driver,...

The mother of a Texas school shooting victim was told by first responders that her daughter may have survived the massacre if authorities had acted quicker. The fourth-grader, who was among the 19 students killed at Robb Elementary in Uvalde on Tuesday, bled to death after being shot in her kidney. 'Her child had been shot by one bullet through the back through the kidney area,' State Sen. Ronald Gutierrez told CNN Sunday morning. 'The first responder that they eventually talked to said that their child likely bled out. In that span of 30 or 40 minutes extra, that little...

We are now finding out that Uvalde School Police Chief Arredondo is a supporter of DemonRat Beto O’Rourke. The mayor of Uvalde is a DemonRat and I expect the rest of the city government is, too. Since the DemonRats are the party of death, and they have no qualms about ripping a tiny pre-born baby from its mother’s womb, why should we be surprised that they would delay rescuing post-born children from slaughter? The DemonRats do not care if innocent lives are lost, as long as their agenda is furthered. Abortion is not about “a mother’s right to choose” or...

Senate Republicans and Democrats are rebuking claims from President Joe Biden and Treasury Department Secretary Janet Yellen that United States tariffs on Chinese imports have helped spur record inflation for American consumers. Sens. Rob Portman (R-OH), Sherrod Brown (R-OH), Mitt Romney (R-UT), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Mike Braun (R-IN), Robert Casey (D-PA), Rick Scott (R-FL), James Inhofe (R-OK), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) have written a letter to Biden urging him to keep in place U.S. tariffs on billions of dollars worth of China-made products.

Seventh Sunday of Easter John 17:20-26 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus prays for our unity with him and for us to be immersed in God’s love. “I made known to them your name and I will make it known, that the love with which you loved me may be in them and I in them.” We are not simply supplicants or penitents, calling to God from without; we are sons and daughters, friends, calling to him from within. The Paschal Mystery is intelligible only in the light of the doctrine of the Trinity. God so loved the world that he...

Texas oilman Jason Herrick is scrambling to pump more oil, chasing the promise of profit as oil prices soar. But despite his best efforts, he suspects output from his family-owned company will fall this year, for the third year in a row. It's been years since his Pantera Energy has invested in new production, after money dried up when energy prices plunged - famously dropping below zero at one point - early in the pandemic. Now, like many other firms across the US and global economy, he's facing major delays as he hunts for supplies and staff to make the...

Wisconsin Speaker Robin Vos has resisted calls to adequately investigate the 2020 presidential election in Wisconsin. Just like in Georgia and Michigan, a mysterious 143,000 ballot dump at 3:42 AM took place on November 4th giving Joe Biden the lead in the state. Joe Biden went on to “win” by slightly over 20,000 votes. We also know through the Special Counsel that roughly 91 nursing homes in the top five most populated cities had 95% to 100% turnout rates — they were stealing the ballots from elderly Americans. And we also now know that 7% of the dropbox ballots that...

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) invoked Abraham Lincoln and John Lewis during her commencement speech at Brown University on Sunday, calling on graduates to help unify the country. “I urge you to bring this spirit of unity to whatever you do,” Pelosi said. “It’s no secret that you graduate in a country deeply divided socially, politically, culturally. And there’s even more dangerous factions [that] seek to dispense with democracy altogether, but graduates, you are our hope,” she added.

The Associated Press [HERE] and more importantly the U.S. Intel Community outlet, the Washington Post [HERE], are beginning to change direction in their narration of the war in Ukraine.Both sources of information are starting to position Eastern Ukraine as a lost cause, with the Washington Post giving specific examples of conscripted Ukraine fighters who are abandoning the effort in the donbas region. As noted, “after three months of war, this company of 120 men is down to 54 because of deaths, injuries and desertions. The volunteers were civilians before Russia invaded on Feb. 24, and they never expected to be...

A man was randomly stabbed on the Upper East Side in New York City Thursday, and law enforcement is still looking for the suspect. In a video shared by the New York City Police Department (NYPD), the suspect, clad in black and wearing a balaclava mask, hopped off a bicycle before approaching the stranger while carrying a knife, the New York Post reported Sunday.

Great race- Swede Marcus Erickson had a comfortable lead with 6 laps left. Teammate Jimmie Johnson of NASCAR fame has a major accident in turn two (third turn 2 accident today). Red flag comes out at lap 195- five lap sprint to the finish for the Indy 500!!! (Coverage on NBC)

The Road to the Russo-Ukrainian WarThe war in Ukraine will end, one way or another. But just like before the conflict, there is currently no viable plan at the elite level on what should be done after the war ends.On a cool and overcast April afternoon, I am talking with Istvan Herka, the mayor of the Hungarian town of Beregsurány, less than a mile from the Hungarian-Ukrainian border. He explains, through a translator, the effect that the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War has had on his town. As if to prove that the war has been a humanitarian disaster, a minibus carrying...

Local cops have kept guard outside Arredondo’s house around the clock. “I do not understand why the police from Uvalde, Texas, are guarding Pete Arredondo’s home,” Torres said. “He is hiding in his home, requesting the PD patrol the area and guard his home day and night. He should come out and speak up.”

Joshua 1:8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. Jesus picks this up in the new testament in Mark chapter 4 in the parable of the sower where he says in verse 3 "Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow." And in verse 14 he tells us what the seed is where he says, "The sower soweth...

Carnival has temporarily closed two restaurants on all of its ships. Norwegian and Cunard have capped cruise ship capacities and canceled sailings. The cruise industry could be in rocky waters again: Like on-land hospitality companies, cruise lines haven't been immune to worker shortages" amid the Great Resignation. And now, a lack of available cruise workers has begun affecting itineraries and onboard amenities. Not all cruise companies have been as fortunate as Holland America or Royal Caribbean. Guests sailing with Carnival will also be spared from itinerary changes. But this doesn't mean it'll be smooth sailing for the cruise line. Carnival...

Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul Pelosi, was arrested this weekend for DUI ... TMZ has learned. The House Speaker's spouse was arrested just before midnight Saturday night in Napa County, and then booked hours later into jail on two counts -- driving under the influence and driving with a blood alcohol content level of 0.08 or higher ... both misdemeanors.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that the Kremlin is not “serious” about negotiation efforts to end the war — and blasted Russian leader Vladimir Putin as living in an “alternative reality.” Speaking through a translator, Zelensky told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, who interviewed him from Davos, Switzerland, that his early optimism on the negotiations has stalled.

More flights were canceled on Sunday, following thousands of other air travel cancellations and delays at the start of the busy Memorial Day weekend. About 1,065 flights were canceled on Sunday, with 283 of those cancellations in the U.S., according to flight-tracking website FlightAware. More than 7,000 other flights were delayed, including 1,109 in the U.S. On Saturday, more than 1,500 flights were canceled, which followed the cancelation of more than 2,300 flights on Friday. Delta Air Lines canceled 148 flights on Sunday, or about 5 percent of its flights for the day. The airline told The Associated Press on...

Expert on religion and the Constitution Whoopi Goldberg declared that "forbidding abortion-supporting Catholics from receiving communion should be illegal." Her remarks were inspired by Archbishop Salvatore Cordelione's admonition that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi "is not fit to participate in the sacrament of communion. Abortion takes an innocent human life. Anyone who promotes the practice is committing a deadly sin." Pelosi herself defied her Archbishop by sneakily receiving communion at a Washington, DC Catholic church, saying "as long as the Church allows the execution of murderers to receive communion it has no moral authority to bar me from receiving it." She...