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(pdf) Bipartisan Select Committee on the strategic competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party. Strategic Production Response Act (pdf) Protecting America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve from China Act (pdf) Prosecutors Need to Prosecute Act (pdf) Tough-on-crime resolution (pdf) Border Safety and Security Act (pdf) Illegal Alien NICS Alert Act (pdf) No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act (pdf) resolution (pdf) that would condemn attacks on pro-life facilities, groups, and churches

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Globalist authority disappears the moment ordinary people recognize the illusion of power as mere delusion. The system's too powerful! You can't beat a "big brother" police State! The globalists control all the money and have all the leverage! I've heard every reason under the sun why individual liberty will continue to lose out to the rapidly advancing technocratic surveillance structure extinguishing Western freedoms today. I say, "So what?" The bigger they come, the harder they fall. Our whole human story is a repeating pattern in which power accumulates, empires emerge, power corrupts, divisions grow, and empires come crashing down. Anyone...

Until Trump and his MAGA movement showed Americans what America was and could be again, the GOP elites chose to feed at the Democrat’s feet under the table of their free droppings. After Trump, the GOP elites, like those few still in the Senate that voted for the $1.7 Trillion Omnibus Spending Bill, continued the GOP’s treasured tradition of “go along to get along!” Do we accept that GOP leadership is rotten to its core or just off course? By what standard did Senatorial Republicans abandon their duty to stop government growth, limit spending and stop providing more funds to...

Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God Luke 2:16-21 Friends, today we celebrate the Blessed Virgin Mary as the Mother of God.St. Irenaeus says that, throughout the history of salvation, God was trying on humanity, gradually suiting divinity and humanity to one another—preparing for the Incarnation. All of that preparation was a prelude to the Israelite girl who would say yes to the invitation to be the Mother of God.To say that Mary is the Mother of God is to insist on the density of the claim that God truly became human. As Fulton J. Sheen commented,...

The Illinois Supreme Court on New Year's Eve delayed implementation of cashless bail across the state, which was set to go into effect Sunday, New Year's Day. No cash bail, part of the Pretrial Fairness Act, was included in the controversial SAFE-T Act passed by the Democratic-controlled legislature and signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker in early 2021. Dozens of states' attorneys, sheriffs and counties challenged the constitutionality of the cashless bail provision in lawsuits across Illinois. The lawsuits were consolidated, and a Kankakee County judge sided with plaintiffs this week. But the judge's ruling only halted implementation in the 64...

The Biden administration is to blame for soaring asylum cases that have created a record years-long backlog in U.S. immigration courts, according to President Joe Biden's own former Border Patrol chief. "Several factors have contributed to this backlog, but the massive increase that we're seeing today can be directly attributed to the Biden administration's border and immigration policies," said Rodney Scott, who headed the Border Patrol in both the Trump and Biden administrations. "When the Biden administration went against the recommendations of experienced career border security professionals, terminated the Migrant Protection Protocols, canceled the Asylum Cooperative Agreements, and lowered the...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemMatthew 23Whose Son Is the Messiah? 41 While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, 42 “What do you think about the Messiah? Whose son is he?” “The son of David,” they replied. 43 He said to them, “How is it then that David, speaking by the Spirit, calls him ‘Lord’? For he says, 44 “‘The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet.”’[e]45 If then David calls him ‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?” 46 No one could say a word in...

Bitcoin miners had a rough 2022, showing “how to not build a mining business,” However, industry experts don’t see 2023 as any better, unless markets improve significantly. high energy prices, increasing competition for Bitcoin blocks and a bear market hit miners, knocking out those with high leverage. The sector was shaken by bankruptcies and loan defaults, and next year will likely bring even more pain. lots of money was spent over the last year to boost hashrate ... but those investments didn’t pay off, as companies loaded up on debt to finance the growth only to see the economics of...

“Someone said things aren’t getting worse. The veil over society is being removed.” So begins the narration on a recently uploaded YouTube video titled, “The Veil over Society Got Removed for a Moment.” Currently pushing over 170,000 views in five days, it’s a stream-of-consciousness exploration of society during the pandemic. The video begins, (without quoting Shakespeare), by proposing that, “All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” It then segues into a straightforward review of the Stanford Prison Experiment. Funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research in 1971, it was a real social experiment...

‘It has been significantly overwhelming,’ Denver says they cannot sustain migrant influx much longer by: Gabby Easterwood Dec 31, 2022 Denver, Co. (KDVR) – The City and County of Denver says to their resources to respond to the steady flow of migrants coming in is completely at capacity. The city shared new numbers from Friday night: 110 new migrants arrived overnight, bringing the total to 3,037 since Dec. 9. “It has been significantly overwhelming for not only our staff but our overall system here in Denver.” said Mikayla Ortega, the communication manager with Denver’s Office of Emergency Management. Donors, volunteers...

CINCINNATI, Wednesday, Dec. 31. The Enquirer has advices from Nashville, stating that ROSECRANS' army had moved on the enemy, driving them before him with considerable heavy skirmishing. The Federals are in high spirits and anxious for a fight. On Monday ROSECRANS' advance was in sight of Murfreesboro, with the enemy in full view, drawn up in line of battle. A battle was expected on Tuesday. A DISPATCH FROM THE ARMY. CINCINNATI, Wednesday, Dec. 31. The following is a special dispatch to the Commercial: A general engagement is imminent. Our army is sweeping down all the roads to Murfreesboro. Heavy artillery...

The big news in political lies at the moment comes from a guy named George Santos. Santos has been newly-elected to Congress from New York’s 3rd District, a competitive seat covering parts of Queens and Nassau Counties. Although the districts got re-drawn for this election, most of Santos’s district was previously held by Democrats, Tom Suozzi and Steve Israel, for the last decade. So Santos became part of the mini-wave of Republican pickups that will lead to the takeover of Congress by a thin margin come January 3. On December 19, several weeks after the election, the New York Times...

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The Talk Shows Jan 1st, 2023 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: guest-anchored by Gillian Turner: Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas) and Michael Allen (Not sure if this is the Leftist Axios reporter and Politico founder or the professional golfer!). Panel: Charlie Hurt, Catherine Lucey and Richard Fowler. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Chuck U. Toad: with a special edition called “Democracy Disrupted: How Social Media Is Shaping Our Politics”: Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.); Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.); Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen. Panel: Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Carlos Curbelo, Jeh...

The composer of Jerusalem has been effectively ‘cancelled’ by the Royal College of Music (RCM) because his views on race a century ago are unacceptably offensive to today’s woke students, The Mail on Sunday understands. Sir Hubert Parry is celebrated for his music to the words of the poet William Blake, and is a favourite of King Charles. Three rooms at the elite college of which he was a director for almost a quarter of a century have long borne his name.

(Photos and image at link.)A powerful transmitter in remote Alaska sent long wavelength radio signals into space Tuesday with the purpose of bouncing them off an asteroid to learn about its interior.The asteroid, 2010 XC15, is estimated to be about 500 feet across and is passing by Earth at two lunar distances, which is twice the distance between the Earth and the moon. Results of Tuesday’s experiment at the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program research facility at Gakona could aid efforts to defend Earth from larger asteroids that could cause significant damage.“We will be analyzing the data over the next...

Shortly after midnight, in the early morning of December 13, 2022, the owner of a 2022 Dodge Charger Hellcat was parking the vehicle in a driveway in Eastpoint, Michigan, a part of the Detroit metroplex. He was approached by more than one suspect in an apparent carjacking attempt. From Eastpoint Police and Fire Department:On December 13, 2022, at approximately 12:30 am, Eastpointe Police Officers were dispatched to the area of the 23 thousand block of Hayes on an attempt carjacking and shots fired complaint. The suspects approached the victim while he was parking his vehicle (2022 Dodge Charger Hellcat) in...

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In 2020, we knew very little about the novel virus that was to become known for causing COVID-19. Now, as we enter 2023, a search of Google Scholar produces around 5 million results containing the term. So how will the pandemic be felt in 2023? This question is in some ways impossible to answer, given a number of unknowns. In early 2020, the scientific community was focused on determining key parameters that could be used to make projections as to the severity and extent of the spread of the virus. Now, the complex interplay of COVID-19 variants, vaccination and natural...