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On Friday’s edition of NBC’s “Now Tonight,” White House Council of Economic Advisers member Jared Bernstein argued that America’s government debt doesn’t weaken the country. Host Jake Ward asked, “For those of us at home, the idea of having debt sounds like a very, very bad thing. … What I want to ask you here is, is [Speaker Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA)] right, does our debt as a nation make us weak?”

A man serving between 50 years and life in the Wyoming prisons system for murdering a man and confining and sexually assaulting a woman is suing the director of the Wyoming Department of Corrections and certain staffers for taking away his PlayStation and not giving it back. John Hereford, 34, is an inmate at the Wyoming State Penitentiary in Rawlins, according to a legal complaint filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for Wyoming. Started With A Shakedown Hereford alleges that he was subject to an “all facilities shakedown” search the evening of June 15, 2021. A detention staffer told...

by Ukrainian officials as a harbinger of a renewed Russian attempt to seize ground in Ukraine. The new assault is expected to focus on the south and southeast of the country – territories that Russian President Vladimir Putin claims to have annexed to the Russian Federation – although a renewed effort to capture Kyiv could also be part of the plan. A senior Ukrainian security official told The Globe and Mail that Russia’s larger army, and its larger pool of potential conscripts, means the invaders could continue to press forward in the eastern Donbas region – where much of the...

The Biden administration has failed to comply with the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into President Joe Biden’s mishandling of top secret documents after promising the “highest standards of transparency” in United States history. In a letter issued by the president on February 4, 2021, Biden vowed the highest standards of transparency would be “revitalized” and implemented within his administration.

CHICO — A Chico woman has filed a federal lawsuit against the Chico Unified School District in a matter regarding her daughter and the alleged attempts by a district employee to “facilitate” the daughter’s gender transition. Aurora Regino, whose daughter attended a CUSD elementary school, filed the lawsuit in the Eastern District of California. The suit names CUSD Superintendent Kelly Staley as a defendant, along with school board members Caitlin Dalby, Matt Tennis, Tom Lando, Eileen Robinson and Rebecca Konkin, even though Konkin was just elected to the board in November. All six are named as defendants in their official...

“Enriched in All Speech and Knowledge” (1 Corinthians 1:1-9; John 1:29-42a) Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. That’s how I start every sermon I preach, with those words. Where did I get that idea? From St. Paul. That’s how he starts his epistles, with those same words: “Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.” For example, that’s how Paul begins his epistle to the Corinthians, as you heard. With those words, the apostle Paul is conferring a blessing on his hearers as he begins to...

17-year-old scolded for crying over transgender woman’s penis at YMCA A California teen cried as she recalled seeing “a naked man” in her local YMCA, telling the city council in her San Diego suburb she’d been traumatized by the experience with the person she described as a trans woman. Rebecca Philips, 17, said she was changing after swimming one day last month at the Santee YMCA when she spotted a naked trans woman in the changing rooms. “As I was showering after my workout I saw a naked male in the women’s locker room,’ she told the Santee City Council....

Because heat can affect the structure and immunoreactivity of peanuts, researchers recently tested whether a therapy using sequential doses of boiled peanuts followed by roasted peanuts may help children overcome peanut allergies. Their open label, phase 2, single arm clinical trial, generated promising results. For the trial, 70 children aged 6–18 years old with peanut allergies received 12-hour boiled peanuts for 12 weeks, 2-hour boiled peanuts for 20 weeks, and roasted peanuts for 20 weeks, to a target maintenance dose of 12 roasted peanuts daily. Fifty-six of the 70 (80%) participants became desensitized to peanuts. Treatment-related adverse events were reported...

Vaccinated people around the world are now dying of “sudden cardiac events” according to the latest data we have from the CDC. Just comb through the data published by the Ethical Skeptic on Twitter if you don’t believe me. Fauci has been pulled from retirement to control the narrative on Damar Hamlin. He’s NOT Damar’s doctor-who earlier this week stated that he did NOT know what caused the cardiac arrest. Fauci was put back in front of a camera for propaganda purposes only

Underwear giant Victoria's Secret has been shaken by controversy because of its politically correct campaigns with obese feminists. Now the Swedish business has gone bankrupt, reports Ecommerce. The company Amarla Retail AB, which runs the Swedish company, has been hit with significant loss figures lately according to Ehandel. The stores in the Mall of Scandinavia, the Galleria in Stockholm and Femman in Gothenburg will be open for a while. Bankruptcy manager Lars Lundberg says the plan is to "try to keep the stores open and maintain sales as before, but now under the hat of the bankruptcy estate".

Nihilism, or meaninglessness and non-belief in one's own soul, is the logical assumption if the transcendent God of life and creation does not exist. Nihilism is spiritual, moral, and intellectual suicide, yet for the last two hundred years, Enlightenment atheist humanists — rationalists, materialists, positivists, pantheists, Transhumanists, and their modern occult Luciferian counterparts such as occult New Agers — have been moving the West and America closer and closer to Buddha's denial of the soul.

Kathy Chung may be a key figure in the mishandling of classified documents from Joe Biden’s two terms as vice president. As his executive assistant at the time, she was reportedly involved in packing up the documents he removed from government offices when his term as VP ended. Via NBC: Kathy Chung, who was Biden’s executive assistant while he was vice president and helped pack up his vice presidential office in January 2017, is among those who have been interviewed, according to the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing inquiry. Chung currently serves as...

There was a time in American when a man walking around naked in a girl’s locker room at the YMCA, flashing his penis to teens and pre-teens would be lucky to get arrested because otherwise he’d likely get beaten to a pulp by fathers doing what fathers SHOULD do in such a situation. But in America in 2023, a man pretending to be a woman has more protections and better rights than the young girls he scars for the sake of inclusivity. To be more accurate, in Democrat hellholes like Commiefornia, such things are part of everyday life. Thankfully, there...

THE BIG PROBLEM WITH THE JOE BIDEN DOCUMENTS STORY. This could be the shortest newsletter ever. The biggest problem with the Joe Biden documents story is this: We know only what Joe Biden's lawyers have told us. And the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the case will make the problem worse. Now, some elaboration. The initial fact that Biden, after his term as vice president ended, kept some classified documents in his possession was revealed by a team of Biden lawyers. In making a public statement, they noted that the discovery of the classified documents, on Nov. 2,...

The Illinois chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union slammed Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot for trying to recruit student volunteers for her reelection campaign through an “inappropriately coercive” pitch to teachers. Lightfoot’s team sent an email to Chicago Public Schools teachers Wednesday, urging them to offer class credit to their students in exchange for their helping out on the campaign. “We’re simply looking for enthusiastic, curious and hard-working young people eager to help Mayor Lightfoot win this spring,” the email, obtained by WTTW News, read. The campaign claimed to the outlet that the pitch was also intended to cultivate civic...

A third batch of classified documents was found at President Biden's residence in Wilmington, Delaware, the president's attorneys announced Saturday. Special Counsel to the president Richard Sauber disclosed in a statement that five additional pages of documents with classified markings were found at Biden's home Thursday evening, making a total of six classified documents retrieved from there.

14 January 2023Saturday of week 1 in Ordinary Time St Kentigern's Parish Church, Crosthwaite, Scotland Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingHebrews 4:12-16 ©Let us be confident in approaching the throne of graceThe word of God is something alive and active: it cuts like any double-edged sword but more finely: it can slip through the place where the soul is divided from the spirit, or joints from the marrow; it can judge the secret emotions and thoughts. No created thing can hide from him; everything is uncovered and open to the eyes of the one to whom we must...

A high school in Maryland issued an apology Friday after an employee accidentally sent sexually explicit photos to the entire student body, according to school officials. Principal Taryn Washington at Dr. Henry A. Wise Jr. High School in Prince George's County sent a letter to students' families Friday informing them of the incident, stating the employee "inadvertently" sent an email to all students containing the photos. Washington said school administrators immediately tried to retract the email, but the photos were seen by many people and were shared with others. "I am asking that all students, as responsible online citizens, not...

“Within the past few days, you had a 16-year-old girl in Nevada playing flag football just drop dead from a cardio-related health problem. … It’s almost impossible to ignore what’s happening,” said Federalist Staff Writer Shawn Fleetwood during an interview on Salem News. “It’s amazing how the same people who told us not to question the lockdowns, the mask mandates, [and] vaccine mandates are now telling us that we can’t even ask questions about Damar Hamlin or these other young athletes that are just dropping from heart-related issues.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for President Joe Biden found more classified documents at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, than previously known, the White House acknowledged Saturday. White House lawyer Richard Sauber said in a statement that a total of six pages of classified documents were found during a search of Biden’s private library. The White House had said previously that only a single page was found there. The latest disclosure is in addition to the discovery of documents found in December in Biden’s garage and in November at his former offices at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, from his...