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The backstory is a cretaceous tale, we might say: For years, great behemoths roamed and ruled the earth. But suddenly, an unforeseen change in circumstances laid them low. The behemoths I'm referring to? The rock music titans of the 1970s: The Who, The Eagles, The Rolling Stones, Queen, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Aerosmith, and the like. In an era in which NFL players still took off-season jobs to pay the rent, top TV actors often made little more than scale, and nothing like today's technology industry existed yet, '70s rock stars faced almost no...

Sausage multi-millionaire Pavel Antov, Russia’s “highest-earning elected politician,” was recently in India celebrating his 66th birthday when he reportedly fell to his death from a hotel window. (I hate it when that happens.) In totally unrelated news, Antov had recently criticized Putin’s actions in Ukraine, characterizing air strikes on Kyiv as “terror.” Oddly, Antov perished shortly thereafter and just two days after a close friend of his unexpectedly died “from a heart attack.” Antov had highlighted a Russian missile strike, saying: A girl has been pulled out from under the rubble, the girl's father appears to have died. The mother...

Talk about using people as political pawns. The White House complained Monday about Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s latest busload of migrants dropped off at the vice president’s doorstep on Christmas Eve. But the administration’s response was to use the 100 or so illegal immigrants as an argument for its mass-amnesty legislation, a bill so radical even Speaker Nancy Pelosi wouldn’t bring it up for a vote. Abbott reported Monday that Texas over the past several months had bused nearly 16,000 illegal border-jumpers to the sanctuary cities of Washington, New York, Chicago and Philadelphia. This may sound like a lot but...

This week, leftists and RINOs admitted, under oath, that they changed the print settings, on election morning, so Republican votes would not be tabulated, on the one day most Republicans vote -- and the Maricopa County judge said “…it wasn’t intentional.” A Republican governor candidate who easily won by multiple points was denied her rightful election. Several million Arizona voters were disenfranchised. Not a word from Republican leaders! Wake up, America. Leftists and RINOs have spent the last 40 years transforming election machinery to end your right to vote -- and they are about to finish the job. This week,...

President Biden signed a bill on Tuesday that removes the bust of former Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, who authored the court’s Dred Scott decision, from the Capitol Building. The bill, which passed the House and Senate by voice vote earlier this month, also directs the bust to be replaced with one of Thurgood Marshall, the first Black Supreme Court justice who was known for his civil rights work. Democrats had pushed for the removal for multiple years. The House previously passed a bill to remove Taney’s bust in a 285-120 vote in June 2021, but the Senate did...

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Parents who give their grown children a gym membership at Christmas risk a recriminatory, What are you saying, Mom? So does surprising them with offers to pay for dating coaches and matchmakers. Two years ago, Kelli Kaku’s mother bought her the $797 online course, “Fall in Love by Christmas.” Ms. Kaku, 34 years old, was blindsided. “I was like, ‘I’m trying!’ ” said Ms. Kaku, a seventh-grade teacher who had moved back home to Fresno, Calif., at the time. She agreed to the course, mostly because she didn’t want to waste her mom’s money. Dating coaches say pandemic lockdowns and...

An 80-year-old Norco market owner whose videotaped shooting of a would-be robber in July made national headlines and spawned a get-tough slogan to commemorate the confrontation, died Tuesday, Dec. 27, two months after suffering a stroke. Craig Cope’s death was confirmed by the market, Norco Mayor Kevin Bash and the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office, which is prosecuting the four men charged in the case. “We lost our Craig this morning. I’m sorry I am without words right now but I promised to not leave you in the dark,” an unnamed employee of the Norco Market & Liquor posted on...

Libs of Tik Tok’s Chaya Raichik has been through it. Thanks to the doxxing efforts of the Washington Post’s Taylor Lorenz, Raichik found herself — as well as members of her family — the target of would-be violence and, even more terrifying, death threats. For diligently working to shine a light on disturbing woke liberal behaviors like sexual grooming and sexualization of children, Raichik has had to sleep with one eye open. But apparently there’s a silver lining to what she’s had to deal with, and it’s thanks to Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis. On “Tucker Carlson Today,” Raichik told...

YouTubeThe post-war reconstruction of Ukraine will require a trillion dollars. This was stated by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The amount is unprecedented. As well as the destruction caused by Russia's aggression. Partner countries will be involved in the process of post-war reconstruction of Ukraine, which will be able to take Ukrainian cities and regions under their patronage. Almost two dozen countries have already expressed their desire to help. Among them - France, United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark. What should be the Marshall Plan for modern Ukraine - in the material of our colleagues.

NATIONAL CHOCOLATE CANDY DAY National Chocolate Candy Day offers an opportunity for us to polish off the last of the specialty candies we received as gifts. Celebrated on December 28th, the day points us to the truffles and chocolate oranges tucked into stockings. Check those boxes of candy that may or may not have guides to help us choose cream-filled or ganache. #ChocolateCandyDay The word “chocolate” comes from the word “xocoatl” or “chocolatl.” Mayan “school” means hot or bitter, and the Aztec “atl” means water. Chocolate comes from the seed of the tropical Theobroma cacao tree. Cacao has been cultivated...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a rule Tuesday that will impose stricter nitrogen dioxide emissions standards on new heavy-duty trucks, a move that will substantially hike operating costs for truckers, experts and industry representatives told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

When the global elites of business, finance, banking, and big government convene in Davos next month at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting, Ukraine will be amongst them. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed Wednesday his government will be at the meeting in Switzerland, revealing he also spoke again with BlackRock Inc CEO Larry Fink about financing the postwar rebuilding effort. “Specialists of this company are already helping Ukraine to structure the fund for the reconstruction of our state,” Zelensky, who had a video call with Fink in September, said in his evening address to the nation, according to Bloomberg.

When Pennsylvania’s Department of Human Services announced in 2019 that Polk and White Haven Centers, two large state-operated institutions for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, would close by November 2022—claiming that moving residents to “community-based settings” would better honor their “inherent worth and dignity”—it spelled the end of two campuses that had housed the intellectually and developmentally disabled for more than 50 years. It also sparked a political fight between disability-rights activists, who hailed the closures as a step toward full inclusion for people with disabilities, and many residents and their families, who feared losing what they considered their...

Wednesday 28 December 2022The Holy Innocents, Martyrs Feast Church of the Holy Innocents, New York City Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: A(I).First reading1 John 1:5-2:2 ©The blood of Jesus Christ purifies us all from sinThis is what we have heard from Jesus Christ,and the message that we are announcing to you:God is light; there is no darkness in him at all.If we say that we are in union with Godwhile we are living in darkness,we are lying because we are not living the truth.But if we live our lives in the light,as he is in the light,we are in...

Recruiting across the branches has likely been hampered by COVID vaccine requirements but also the increasingly woke military atmosphere where trans soldiers are give special privileges while Christian soldiers are persecuted, bases host drag shows, and leaders with a history of anti-white statements are hired.

SAN FRANCISCO, Saturday, Dec. 27. By the arrival at this port to-day of the steamship Constitution, from Panama, we have highly important and exciting news. The Constitution reports that the steamship Ariel, from New-York for Aspinwall, was captured on the 7th instant by the pirate Alabama. The Alabama detained the Ariel until the 10th instant, when she allowed her to proceed toward Aspinwall, upon her giving bonds in the sum of two hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars as a ransom. The arms and ammunition on board the Ariel were taken from her, and one hundred and twenty marines, who were...

On Friday, multiple U.S. power companies issued an emergency request to customers to turn down their thermostats due to extreme cold and wind straining the power grid

The Bible In Paintings ~ Encouragement for Appreciating and Applying God's Word ~ JESUS' "PARABLE OF THE SOWER" ֎ Featuring 32 Paintings, 1 Photograph and 5 Windows ֎ L U K E CHAPTER 8* After this, Jesus traveled about from one town and village to another, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. The Twelve were with him, and also some women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases: Mary (called Magdalene) from whom seven demons had come out; Joanna the wife of Cuza, the manager of Herod’s household; Susanna; and many others. These women...

Topline: Last Friday, Congress continued skirting normal budget processes and passed another massive, $1.7 trillion omnibus bill to fund the U.S. government through the end of the fiscal year. The spending smorgasbord clocks in at $1.7 trillion and more than 4,100 pages. Included are $16 billion worth of earmarks – 7,500 member pet projects doled out to legally bribe legislators for their votes. Overall, Democrats earmarked $9.1 billion, Republicans earmarked $6.4 billion, and bipartisan groups of legislators earmarked an additional $476 million. What Are Earmarks? Dubbed the ‘currency of corruption in Congress,’ earmarks allow federal legislators to set aside specific...