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Olive oil holds a rarefied spot in the food world — rich-tasting yet healthy, and able to be used in a wide variety of dishes and cuisines. It’s also something with plenty of history on its side — which is to say that people have been making use of olive oil for, literally, thousands of years. And if you’re looking for evidence of that, you can find it on wall paintings dating back to ancient Egypt, which illustrate the techniques used to make said oil many years ago.But why stop there? If beer can be brewed according to an ancient...

The Bible In Paintings 2 ENCOURAGEMENT FOR APPRECIATING AND APPLYING GOD'S MESSAGE 1st KINGS CHAPTER 8 Then King Solomon summoned into his presence at Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark of the LORD’s covenant from Zion, the City of David. When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the priests took up the ark, and they brought up the ark of the LORD and the Tent of Meeting and all the sacred furnishings in it. The priests and Levites carried them up,...

If any of the January 6 Commission’s hearings are again scheduled to take place in prime time, it’s entirely possible that the networks will take a “hard pass” next time: 🚨🚨 Dems BS 1/6 hearings BOMB in the ratings! 8pm ET ABC Attack on the Capitol 0.5 4.477 NBC January 6th Hearings 0.4 3.296 CBC Capitol Assault Hearings 0.3 3.335 9pm ET ABC AOC 0.6 4.233 NBC Jan 6 0.4 3.331 CBS CAH 0.3 3.139 – @burackbobby_ @JoeConchaTV — Cable News Watch (@CableNewsWatch) June 10, 2022 The Hill’s Joe Concha adds some context: Context: The evening newscasts on CBS, NBC...

Some conservatives have overestimated SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s value for promising to bring free speech back to Twitter. He’s far from their friend or ally. First, he took billions worth of government subsidies, supported disastrous climate change policies, and began funding out-of-state abortion funding through Tesla.. Now, in light of the horrific shootings in Philadelphia, Buffalo, and Texas, Mr. Musk wants the government to, "at a minimum," require a special permit for assault rifle ownership or "any semi-automatic gun with supersonic ammo and a large magazine." Yes, Elon's advocating that Big Brother violate every Americans' Second Amendment right,...

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is leading Republicans who are demanding Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen testify before the Senate's small business panel as inflation reaches historic heights. Paul, who serves as the ranking member on the Senate Small Business Committee, led a letter to Yellen Thursday, signed by the Republican members of the panel, asking that the secretary fulfill her legal requirement to testify, especially as rising inflation is greatly impacting Americans nationwide. The letter was sent the day before new inflation numbers were released by the Labor Department Friday, revealing that the consumer price index, a broad measure of the...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China's capital Beijing is facing an "explosive" COVID-19 outbreak connected to a bar, a government spokesman warned on Saturday, as the commercial hub of Shanghai began mass testing to contain a jump in cases tied to a popular beauty salon. The warning followed a renewed tightening of COVID curbs in Beijing since Thursday, with at least two districts - including its most populous, Chaoyang - closing certain entertainment venues after a flare-up in a busy neighbourhood known for its nightlife, shopping and streets of embassies. While China's infection rate is low by global standards, President Xi Jinping has...

Father Michael Pfleger says increasing the purchasing age for an assault weapon is not the answer to America’s gun problem. "Assault weapons are weapons of war," he said. "In this country, they should not be for sale." According to Chicago police, more than 400 assault weapons have been seized by officers so far this year. In an effort to get more weapons off the street, Saint Sabina is offering up to $200 for assault weapons at a gun turn-in event this Saturday.

Swedish archaeologists in cooperation with the antiquities department have excavated two burial tombs at the site of Dromolaxia-Vyzakia that they believe belonged to two rich families judging by the nature of the finds, they said on Friday.This large Late Bronze Age city, which flourished between 1630 and 1150 BC, is situated along the shores of the Larnaca Salt Lake near the mosque of Hala Sultan Tekke.Both tombs contained material from the outgoing 15th and the 14th centuries BC, which chronologically corresponds to the Late Cypriot IIA-B period, the Late Helladic IIIA1-2 and the famous Egyptian 18th Dynasty. One of the...

VIDEOWith surging inflation rising to the highest rates in 40 years, guess who is NOT taking responsibility for that?

Today gun control advocates will gather in Washington, DC, and 300 other smaller, local venues for the annual March for Our Lives. These people want to restrict the right to keep and bear arms and end what they call “gun glorification,” or “the belief embedded in our culture that power and safety are derived from guns.” Many are simply horrified by the violence dominating the 24-hour news cycle – as we all should be – while others are anti-gun with or without horrific events like the Uvalde massacre. Noble as their intentions may be, however, they’re misinformed. Despite what’s posted...

A federal judge in Missouri on Monday pushed a lawsuit filed by two Georgia election workers against The Gateway Pundit back to a Missouri circuit court for additional proceedings. Plaintiffs Ruby Freeman and Wandrea Moss filed the case against James Hoft, Joseph Hoft, and TGP Communications LLC (the business which operates The Gateway Pundit) in December 2021. The suit alleges two counts of defamation (one involving Freeman, the other involving Moss) and one count of intentional infliction of emotional distress. It seeks nominal damages, compensatory damages (including general, actual, consequential, and special damages), punitive damages, attorneys’ fees, and costs, but...

Go vote! Primary for special election to replace Congressman Don Young, who died.

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Would-be assassin Nicholas Roske failed to carry out his mission of assassinating Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. This isn’t surprising: the sort of person who acts on incitement from the likes of Chuck Schumer is more or less deranged, and more or less incompetent. Yet there are more where Roske came from, and one of them may succeed.What do the Democrats think about attempted assassinations of Supreme Court justices? To my knowledge, neither Schumer nor Joe Biden’s handlers have commented. I surmise that the Democrats are hoping for one or more assassinations to take place before Biden is hustled out...

Thousands of COVID-19 testing booths have popped up on sidewalks across Beijing and other Chinese cities in the latest twist to the country’s "zero-COVID" strategy. Lines form every day, rain or shine, even where the spread of the virus has largely stopped. Some people need to go to work. Others want to shop. All are effectively compelled to get tested by a requirement to show a negative test result to enter office buildings, malls and other public places. Liu Lele, who works for a live-streaming company, has no problem getting tested regularly but said the daytime operating hours don’t always...

Forget Ukraine, coronavirus, corporate greed and “supply chain issues”, when it comes to inflation the climate crisis is the real, lasting, worry, according to a new book, and one that’s only likely to get worse. Climatenomics, by former White House reporter and director of Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2) Bob Keefe, is a narrative account of how the climate crisis is fundamentally altering not just the US but global economies. Within its pages, Keefe lays out what he sees as the false choice between creating jobs and driving economic growth and protecting the planet, and how “supply chain disruptions” has become a...

May 2022 brought two more in what seems like an endless series of mass shootings: On May 14, a gunman in Buffalo killed 10 people at a supermarket; and only a few days later on May 24 another gunman killed 19 students and 2 teachers at a school in Uvalde, Texas. As is usual with these things, gun control advocates promptly seized the opportunity to demand that politicians “do something” about the gun violence. The “something” to be done as always consists of enacting more gun control statutes, on top of those that already exist. But do additional gun control...

As we eagerly await the decision Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court has updated its calendar to set two new decision days — on Monday and Wednesday of next week. While the Supreme Court typically waits until the very last day it’s in session to release its biggest decisions, there had been some speculation that the leak of Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion in Dobbs might spur the Court to release its decision sooner rather than later. So far, however, Chief Justice John Roberts has sought to convey a business-as-usual approach, and with about 30 other cases...

When Stacey Abrams ran for governor of Georgia in 2018, she was relatively unknown. By 2020, though, her work in Georgia and for Democrats across the country made her a household name, in time for a second run. Abrams ran unopposed in this year’s Democratic primaries. Now, she faces current Gov. Brian Kemp (R), whom she lost to by a narrow margin in 2018, in another contentious race. But this time, Abrams has an army of newly registered voters behind her. In 2020, Abrams and a team of grassroots organizations registered more than 800,000 new voters, turning Georgia blue for...

With gasoline now above $5 a gallon nationwide, the Bidenistas are doubling down on telling everyone that they should drive electric cars—forgetting that the price of electricity is certain to soar in coming months because the price of natural gas (our number one source of electric power now) has tripled in the last year. Or the CDC will announce that the real problem is that we’re all suffering from a new pandemic known as Carownervirus. Symptoms include panic and anxiety in gas stations.