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Gov. J.B. Pritzker issued his 37th COVID-19 disaster proclamation. Illinois is one of only 10 states living under an emergency order. Gov. J.B. Pritzker has issued his 37th COVID-19 disaster proclamation, extending his emergency powers through Jan. 5. When it ends, Pritzker will have held emergency powers for 1,029 of 1,452 days in office, or 70% of his term. None of Illinois’ neighboring states remain under emergency orders. Illinois is one of just 10 states nationwide still being ruled through emergency powers, with eight of the 10 led by Democratic governors. ... New York was once the epicenter of COVID...

The National Institutes of Health is directing people to an absolutely absurd paper published in the journal Advances in Health Sciences Education. I have no idea how prominent the journal is, but I have a decent idea of the prominence of the NIH. A government agency under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, they essentially determine medical education in this country. The NIH actually invited these authors to lay out their theories of medical education. The paper is scary as hell. Not quite Canadian medical murder scary, but very very scary nonetheless. Why so frightening? Well, our NIH...

A New York Federal court on Monday released more documents regarding Ghislaine Maxwell’s defamation lawsuit filed by Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre. Most of the documents as you would expect were heavily redacted when it comes to revealing names of the wealthy elite who were Epstein’s associates but what did come to light was a deposition by Epstein victim Sarah Ransome. In Ransome’s deposition she claimed that Epstein did make blackmail sex tapes of his elite friends and would go on to state she even has copies of the tapes. The Daily Mail shared this excerpt of the deposition: ‘When my...

Catholic Charities Is Not Exempt from Unemployment Compensation Statute In Catholic Charities Bureau, Inc. v. State of Wisconsin Labor and Industry Review Commission, (WI App., Dec. 13, 2022), a Wisconsin state appellate court held that Catholic Charities and its sub-entities are not exempt from the Wisconsin Unemployment Compensation Act as organizations "operated primarily for religious purposes." It emphasized that the statute should be "liberally construed to effect unemployment compensation coverage for workers who are economically dependent upon others in respect to their wage-earning status." The court said that it must look to the work of Catholic Charities, not the...

“‘The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field; and this is smaller than all other seeds, but when it is full grown, it is larger than the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches’” (Matthew 13:31–32). A further lesson from this parable is that God’s kingdom will grow to become a blessing to the rest of the world. The tree that develops from the mustard seed symbolizes the kingdom, which in this age is Christ’s true church. The...

We have become so preoccupied in proving God that we have not prepared our hearts for the great tests of life whereby God proves man. Could it be that the great trial you are now facing, the burden you now carry, is actually God at work proving you? We see an amazing thing in 2 Chronicles 32:31: God left a great king for a season to prove him. “God withdrew from him, in order to test him, that he might know all that was in his heart” (2 Chronicles 32:31, NKJV). God proved an entire nation to find out what...

Seven months before he shot President Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald tried to kill Major General Edwin Walker Seven months before Lee Harvey Oswald shot President John F. Kennedy, he took his Mannlicher-Carcano rifle to Major General Edwin Walker‘s house, stood by the fence, aimed towards the window, and shot at him. Walker was a stark anti-communist voice and an increasingly strident critic of the Kennedy’s, whose strong political stances had him pushed out of the army in 1961. In an excerpt, published at the Daily Beast, from a new book, Dallas 1963, Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis tell the...

Parents in Boston are calling for mask mandates to return in schools amid fears over rising staff and pupil absences. A group of parents and school nurses gathered outside Boston Public Schools on Wednesday waving signs that called for 'universal masking after the break'. They have also launched a petition that around 200 parents have signed. Suleika Soto — who led the protests and has two daughters in elementary school — accused education chiefs of 'leaving the community vulnerable to further sickness and deaths' by making no plans to bring back masks after the holidays.

Retiring anti-Trump Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger of Illinois used the occasion of his farewell address from Congress to slam his fellow Republicans for sheltering “the ignorant, the racist.”Mr Kinzinger, whose popularity with his own party members tanked due to his service on the House Select Committee on the January 6 attack, decided not to run for re-election to his House seat. He and Rep Liz Cheney are the only two Republicans on the committee, and neither will be returning to Congress next year after she lost a primary challenge to a pro-Donald Trump challenger.In his speech, Mr Kinzinger did not...

Clip video for Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses using some of their other videos and live performances.

Stocks sank early Friday, pacing toward a second-straight weekly loss, as more downbeat news on the U.S. economy accelerated a move lower. Near 10:10 a.m. ET, the S&P 500 and Dow were off 1.2%, while the Nasdaq fell 0.8%. Earlier in the session, the Nasdaq had moved into positive territory. The latest leg lower for stocks followed preliminary readings on economic activity in the U.S. this month from S&P Global, which showed a further deterioration in activity to start December. "Business conditions are worsening as 2022 draws to a close, with a steep fall in the PMI indicative of GDP...

Jacqueline Kennedy's oral history reveals husband's disdain for Lyndon Johnson. President John F. Kennedy was so "worried for the country" about the prospect that Vice President Lyndon Johnson might succeed him as president that he'd begun having private conversations about who should become the Democratic Party's standard-bearer in 1968, Jacqueline Kennedy recalled in a series of oral-history interviews recorded in early 1964. She said her husband believed strongly that Johnson shouldn't become president and, in the months before his death in November 1963, he'd begun talking to his brother, Robert Kennedy, about ways to maneuver around Johnson in 1968. "Bobby...

The unnamed passenger, 36, went overboard on the MSC Meraviglia Thursday morning and her remains were recovered by the US Coast Guard roughly 18 miles from Port Canaveral, Fla., according to NBC’s WESH 2. The ship had been returning to the Sunshine State from Ocean Cay in the Bahamas when tragedy stuck, the outlet reported. The Coast Guard quickly launched a search by boat and helicopter but authorities soon learned the woman had suffered fatal injuries. A worker on the cruise ship allegedly told a passenger that the woman had jumped, according to TMZ, which had not verified the comment...

Podesta’s net worth has skyrocketed since his time in the Obama administration, financial disclosures show ... John Podesta, the powerful Democrat consultant who Joe Biden tapped to oversee a multibillion-dollar climate investment fund, discussed those investments with an environmental group that had him on the payroll just months before, according to a new financial disclosure. Galvanize Climate Solutions, a green energy investment firm founded by billionaire Tom Steyer, participated in an Oct. 31 meeting with Podesta and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to discuss how to best use the $369 billion in federal funds. Galvanize paid Podesta $84,000 in advisory fees...

How could any sane person prepare himself for such a time as this? Tonje Gjevjon, a Norwegian artist and lesbian, was recently informed that she was being investigated by the police for engaging in "hate speech" because of a Facebook post she made stating that men can't be lesbians. Gjevjon could spend up to three years in prison for stating an obvious, immutable truth. Gjevjon wrote, "It's just as impossible for men to become lesbian as it is for men to become pregnant. Men are men regardless of their sexual fetishes." Daring to question or criticize the trans community will...

The pushback against ESG steps into high gear with hearing at the Texas Senate Committee on State Affairs.Originally tweeted by Will Hild (@WillHild) on December 15, 2022..@SenBryanHughes starts off the Texas Senate Committee on State Affairs ESG hearing by laying out how the ESG agenda poses a threat to both the security of American families and our overall national security: ... The first witness, @bmbrigham, told the story of how Wall Street’s ESG scam has affected him and his business personally, outlining how @CreditSuisse ( $CS ) indicated that if he didn’t tweet out various points praising the green energy...

I nominate The Mule as Prince of Our Democracy, for Person of the year in 2022. The Mule can legally vote 100 times or 200 times more than you or I can vote. He or she can show up at a voting facility or a drop box with that many ballots, and legally deposit that many votes. You or I, the commoner citizen only get one vote. How can this be happening? Maybe the Mule is on good terms with nursing home operators. Mules have been know to collect votes there, where in one state 92 nursing homes had 100%...

[Catholic Caucus] Paglia And His Academy Attack the Entire Sexual MoralThe Pontifical Academy against Life run by Archbishop Paglia is propagating a “radical paradigm shift” [= apostasy] that rejects the Church’s condemnation of contraception, Monsignor Livio Melina stated at a conference of Catholic Jurists in Rome (December 8-10).Melina was a co-worker with Cardinal Ratzinger at the CDF and then professor and president of the John Paul II Institute. Because he is an outstanding moral theologian, Francis dismissed him in 2019.The hijacked academy opposes the Church’s condemnation of contraception as “intrinsically evil” and labels this rebellion as “theological progress,” Melina explains.The...

On Wednesday, a 20-year-old student at Winston-Salem State University, an HBCU in North Carolina, was arrested in her classroom after an argument with her professor over an essay. The video of her arrest has since gone viral and created significant controversy, with many suggesting the arrest was unnecessary and racially motivated. In the video, the student being arrested, Leilla Hamoud, is screaming as the police – one white officer and one black officer – try to handcuff her, saying they are hurting her. However, it appears she is the one fighting against them and making it much more difficult than...

As of Friday morning, the site selling the non-fungible tokens (NFTs) says they are sold out, and links to purchase the digital cards are no longer available. OpenSea Data, which tracks the sales and markets for NFTs, indicated there were 45,000 of the Trump cards initially made available for purchase for $99 each. The Trump digital cards were the top trending item on the site as of Friday morning.