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The Talk Shows December 25th, 2022 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream (host Shannon Bream discusses Democrats’ massive omnibus spending bill along with the major winter storm plaguing holiday travelers): Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York; Musician Michael W. Smith and Morrill Worcester, Founder of Wreaths Across America. Panel: Dana Perino, David Avella and Howard Kurtz. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Chuck U. Toad: 75th-anniversary special featuring clips from the show’s history. Panel: —just another easily forgotten group of angry Leftists slinging anti-American balderdash. It’s not even...

Make Orwell Fiction Again. The Washington state Department of Health recently released a five-part curriculum, and it transcends the typical bounds of the woke agenda so characteristic of the political regressives driving public "education" into the ground. Frank Bergman's headline caught my eye, because the locations of the quotations were quite surreal: "Public School 'Climate' Curriculum: 'Emotions' Should Outweigh 'Rational Thinking.'" From the article: The health department claims the new curriculum aims to help students learn the 'intersections of biological, societal, and environmental issues.' ... In the second phase of the curriculum, 'Climate Change & Pregnancy.' educators and students are...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken probably thought that in his self-appointed role as the world’s policeman, it was his prerogative to check out what is going on among Germany, China and Russia that he wasn’t privy to. However, Blinken’s call to Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday (December 23) turned out to be a fiasco. Most certainly, his intention was to gather details on two high-level exchanges that Chinese President Xi Jinping had on successive days last week – with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and the chairman of the United Russia Party and former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev...

House Republicans have released their own report on the infamous Capitol riot: “Report of Investigation: Security Failures at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.” Thank you to the five congressmen – Jim Banks, Rodney Davis, Jim Jordan, Kelly Armstrong, Troy Nehls -- who directed the preparation of the report, an excellent answer to the much-touted final report by the Democrats’ sham commission of many months. Shortly after the release, my husband sent me an email. In the subject line were the words, “You were right about Pelosi.” After the riot, he had heard me saying repeatedly that I...

And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:) To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child. And so it was, that, while...

The Lower 48 states are beginning to feel a lot like Christmas, as frigid subzero temperatures paired with brutal wind chill have several states with temperatures as cold as the North Pole .... ...The Norwegian Meteorological Institute reported that on Friday, the North Pole was experiencing temperatures of minus-23 degrees Celsius, or minus-9 Fahrenheit. Several states in the U.S. were experiencing temperatures of minus-9 Fahrenheit or lower, meaning they were as cold or colder than the North Pole.

Will we EVER see the back of him? 'Attention-seeker' Fauci, 80, will continue with TV appearances long into his retirement says doctor behind anti-lockdown declaration who thinks COVID-tsar is an 'authoritarian' Dr. Anthony Fauci, 80, is set to retire from NIAID later this month But Fauci critic, Dr. Phil Magness, director of The American Institute for Economic Research said Fauci 'is going to continue to play the media game' Magness was behind the Great Barrington Declaration - anti-lockdown scientific case that Fauci called 'nonsense' Magness countered that Fauci has 'a great contempt for democratic governance.' He added: 'There is a...

The Snowman is a children's picture book without words by English author Raymond Briggs, first published in 1978 by Hamish Hamilton in the U.K., and published by Random House in the U.S. that November. The book was adapted into a 26-minute animated film in 1982 which debuted on British television that 26 December "Walking in the Air" is a song written by Howard Blake for the 1982 animated film of Raymond Briggs' 1978 children's book The Snowman. The song forms the centrepiece of The Snowman, which has become a seasonal perennial on British television

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday he was “100 percent” confident that his forces would destroy the Pentagon’s most advanced air defence system that US President Joe Biden has promised to send to Ukraine. “Of course we will destroy it, 100 percent!” Putin said, referring to the Patriot missile battery in extracts of an interview aired on Russian television.

NETFLIX has so much Christmas content that it's hard to know where to start. Even if you do scroll down and find a Christmas movie genre, it might not be right for you. Netflix actually have a series of not-so secret codes that will instantly transport you to some very specific genres....

Joe Biden declined to take phone calls from children about Santa's whereabouts on Christmas Eve - something the president has traditionally done in recent years. Instead, First Lady Dr. Jill Biden could be seen picking up the phone while sitting in front of a Christmas tree on Christmas Eve. 'It's almost time to set out the cookies and get the reindeers' carrots ready — NORAD Command just said Santa is on his way to your neighborhood!' she tweeted on Saturday evening.

Vice President Kamala Harris gave dozens of migrants the cold shoulder after two busloads were dumped outside her DC residence on Christmas Eve - one of the coldest nights on record. The group stood outside in the freezing 18 degree temperatures with some only wearing T-shirts, CNN reported. Some were given blankets and were placed on another bus headed to a local church. It remains unclear who is responsible for sending the Christmas Eve migrants to the Naval Observatory on Saturday night in dangerously cold temperatures, but Texas Governor Greg Abbott admitted he had sent buses of migrants north, including...

San Francisco's taxpayer-funded open air Christmas market, hoped to be a wholesome holiday outing for families, is in fact a dystopian hellhole besieged by the city's famed drug addicts. At least that's what concerned residents living near the market have revealed to DailyMail.com, with one property owner filming and posting to social media what she's described to be a 'horrible decline' in the area. Her clip shows a homeless person under a blanket just a few yards away from the Winter Wanderland market in the sunken Hallidie Plaza, near City Hall.

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The Ukrainian Carol of the BellsThe composer of the Ukrainian Carol of the bells, Mykola Leontovych, a simple, provincial musician, was killed by the Soviet secret police, after he had given hospitality to the assassin and had shared his bedroom for the night. Longfellow wrote "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" during the Civil War, his son having been wounded; the most dramatic moment is a reference to canons in the south. Longfellow's "The Three Kings" mentions "the myrrh for the body's burying" among the Magi's gifts. Christmas Bells have a sentimental legacy. But Bells are also a sign...

How did people live and die during the harshest months of the year? How did they stay warm? What did they eat? How did they keep themselves entertained in an age before modern day luxuries like electric blankets, double glazing, and Netflix? The onset of the Little Ice Age, between 1300 until about 1870 meant that the long, dark winters of the Late Middle Ages were colder and more dangerous. With starvation and death from illness always threatening to strike, winter was a frightening time. Welcome to Medieval Madness.Surviving Winter in the Middle Ages... | MedievalMadness | 178K subscribers |...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) reflected during her last speaker’s press conference on Thursday on how much power she has enjoyed in that position. “As Speaker of the House, I have awesome power,” said Pelosi. “Now transitioning to a different role, I expect to have strong influence, but not on my Members, just in terms of encouraging more women, for example, to run,” she said. […] “I think my life will be about accountability to the record, the history, and thank you to those who made all of that possible.” …

A grand jury will convene for 12 months to investigate crimes, return indictments, and make presentments into people and entities involved in the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines.Florida's Supreme Court on Thursday approved Gov. Ron DeSantis' request to impanel a grand jury to investigate COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers, their executives, and other medical associations or organizations involved in the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines for potential wrongdoing."A statewide grand jury shall be promptly impaneled for a term of twelve calendar months, to run from the date of impanelment, with jurisdiction throughout the State of Florida, to investigate crime, return indictments, make presentments, and...

“The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue. It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house. As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country” (Proverbs 25:23-25).

*** As China grapples with its first-ever national COVID-19 wave, emergency wards in small cities and towns southwest of Beijing are overwhelmed. Intensive care units are turning away ambulances, relatives of sick people are searching for open beds, and patients are slumped on benches in hospital corridors and lying on floors for a lack of beds. *** Over two days, Associated Press journalists visited five hospitals and two crematoriums in towns and small cities in Baoding and Langfang prefectures, in central Hebei province. ....life in central Hebei’s emergency wards and crematoriums is anything but normal. Even as the young go...