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~Sam Phillips was born one hundred years ago - January 5th 1923, in Florence, Alabama. If you don't know his name, you've certainly been exposed to his legacy - whether you a) are a rock'n'roll fan; or b) stayed in a Holiday Inn last night. This essay is from Mark Steyn's Passing Parade - but, if you're a Mark Steyn Club member and you'd prefer it in audio-book version, you can find that here: On the day Sam Phillips died, the crowd at the world's (alleged) all-time biggest rock concert, in Toronto, booed and threw bottles at teen heartthrob Justin...

With a cold wind blowing, family, friends and neighbors of Karon Blake memorialized the 13-year-old who was shot to death last weekend by a homeowner in D.C.’s Brookland neighborhood. In an emotional display, Blake’s little sister dissolved into tears while speaking. His friend Marco stepped to the microphone, addressing those who came to the evening vigil. “I would have just never expected it to be Karon,” Marco said. “I literally just saw him like two days before the news happened.” The brief ceremony included a number of stories remembering Karon’s humor, intellect and meaning to the small community. ----- Robert...

These could be the catalyst that turns the tide of special interest control of our government...and a way to wake up the hypnotized American public. The majority of Americans have been hypnotized into inaction. First they were panicked by COVID, then shamed or coerced into taking unproven injections, and finally pacified into thinking "politics" is just a meaningless game where both sides are corrupt. Their only choice has been to put their heads down and resign themselves to trying to survive day to day, paying the bills and raising their children. They know that things are horribly wrong with this...

There's a temptation once you've started sorting anything into a genre to start making lists, of the most typical, the most essential, or simply the best. Film noir, a genre whose tangled roots begin somewhere in the early '40s and ends – by general critical acclaim, though your mileage may vary – with Orson Welles' A Touch of Evil in 1958, begs for these kinds of rankings, if only because its hardboiled subject matter tends to attract a male fandom, and everybody knows how much men love lists. If you were making a list of most typical noir films, you'd...

The Deep State tries to climb out from under Biden's pile of top-secret documents. The internet posters are making hay of the news that Joe Biden had classified documents, obtained when he was vice president and some labeled top secret, stored insecurely in his office at the Penn Center at the University of Pennsylvania (funded by the Chinese government), in his home in Delaware, and in his garage at the home where Hunter had resided for some time. I don’t know which post is my favorite but this one by David Burge (Iowahawk) certainly makes my list: “Just got a...

Belarusia's army stepped up its military exercises amid growing fears that a new invasion of Ukraine from the north is imminent. Belarusian and Russian troops have been taking part in joint military exercises for a number of weeks. Last Sunday the Belarusian Defence Ministry announced it was extending its training drills with Putin's army.

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Don't be distracted with the drama about Russia, China and other nations. Don't even be distracted with the drama about Joe Biden and classified documents. Things are broken in the USA, the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand and they need to be fixed there rather than in Russia and China. We must not support any aspect of the World Economic Forum agenda... If The Chamber Of Commerce Is A... If Big Business Is A... Then Kristi Noem and dare I say 98 percent of the Republican politicians in this country assume the position for the... If Pastor Martin Niemöller...

A horrifying video has shown the panicked scenes inside a church after a gunman opened fire on funeralgoers, leaving a seven-year-old girl fighting for her life and injuring five others. The victims were shot as they exited a funeral service for British-Colombian cancer victim Sara Sanchez, 20, and her mother Fresia Calderon, 50, outside St Aloysius church on Phoenix Road opposite Euston railway station in North London about 1.30pm on Saturday. A police source told The Mail on Sunday a man jumped out of the car and started firing into the crowd as white doves - symbols of peace -...

Converting people to another religion is illegal in Nepal, but missionaries are willing to risk prosecution to spread the Christian faith. "Victory to Jesus," Korean pastor Pang Chang-in cries as he blesses a new church in the village of Jharlang, in the foothills of the Himalayas. The congregation of the newly converted raise their hands in prayer. Most are from the indigenous Tamang community, who used to follow the Lama faith, an ancient spiritual practice. In Pang's eyes the Tamang people are "poor financially and spiritually". "So, a miracle takes place and the whole village converts," he says. Missionaries, many...

A pattern is emerging in the liberal media regarding Biden's classified documents problem. In one corner, liberal talking heads bend over backwards to distinguish Biden's case from Trump's Mar-a-Lago documents: apples and oranges! Completely different! False equivalency! But on the other hand, there is acknowledgment that — as unfair as they claim it would be — the docs could be a problem for Biden's 2024 ambitions. Such was the case with Katie Phang and her guests on her MSNBC show Saturday morning. Although Phang suggested that voters would have to be "gullible" to believe Republican "soundbites," she still put the...

...Chavez-DeRemer flipped a Democratic seat in November, helping Republicans win a narrow House majority. She is now among a record 42 Republican women in Congress and one of the first two Latino members of Congress from Oregon. The trail she has blazed is emblematic of the progress that the Republican Party has made in electing women over the past decade – hard-fought milestones reached only after outside groups began playing a larger role in primaries.... ...Helping women get through primaries in safe red seats could become more difficult after a deal reached between two outside groups as part of the...

DC retiree, 76, launches landmark lawsuit against city over 73 year-old neighbor's weed smoke, which she claims is contaminating her home and ruining her life Josefa Ippolito-Shepherd, 76, is suing the District of Columbia over the smell Neighbor Thomas Cackett, 73, smoking has made it hard for her to breathe She's asking the city of Washington to ban smoking in multi-unit buildings 'I have the right to breathe fresh air in my home,' Ippolito-Shepherd said A Washington DC woman is suing her neighbor because says the marijuana smoke coming from his apartment has 'invaded her home' and is ruining her...

Classified documents, Top Secret documents, Confidential documents, Personal documents... The FBI raided Mar-a-lago President Trump's home. Even went through Melania's underwear drawer in their efforts to find documents. Which they found all were located in a centrally controlled location. Not all over the house. Enter this Biden fiasco of classified documents found in uncontrolled locations, locations they should have never under any circumstance been, and at their time in possession of someone who was not authorized to have them beyond his official DC office. OK lots of crimes going on here the smoke signals are like the smoke from 9/11....

@DrAseemMalhotra BREAKING: World eminent Cardiologist Prof.Abdullah Alabdulgader calls for suspension of mRNA jab because of cardiac harm concerns *President of The international congress for advanced cardiac sciences *Founder of Prince Sultan Cardiac Center/Saudi Arabia This is huge 🔥

@ABridgen More evidence that mRNA vaccination of children poses at least 200 times more risk than from contracting Covid 19. We should immediately suspend all mRNA vaccinations and boosters. The mRNA vaccines and not safe, not effective and not necessary.

SAN FRANCISCO – Providing drug users with syringes and pipes for public health purposes keeps addicts "in a state of bondage," a dealer-turned-activist told Fox News. The city has established more than 20 harm reduction centers... "They should restart rethinking their policies here because this harm reduction site, it just doesn't work," Ricci Wynne, a drug abstinence advocate and former drug dealer, told Fox News. The homeless in San Francisco "don't need more syringes, they don't need crack pipes, they don't need tinfoil."....

In November, members of the Arkansas Conference of the United Methodist Church derailed plans by three churches to break away from the denomination, refusing to ratify disaffiliation agreements backed by super-majorities in each congregation. Two of the three -- Jonesboro First United Methodist and Searcy First United Methodist -- have filed suit in an effort to obtain what the conference's Nov. 19 special session withheld. Members of a third, Cabot United Methodist Church, opted instead to walk away from their longtime house of worship and start over. On Christmas, the congregation's longtime pastor, Stephen Dickinson, worshipped for a final time...

A plane with 72 people on board has crashed near an airport in central Nepal and at least 40 bodies have been recovered, officials say. The Yeti Airlines flight from Kathmandu to the tourist town of Pokhara crashed on landing, catching fire. Videos posted on social media show an aircraft flying low over a populated area before spinning sharply. There were 68 passengers on board, including at least 15 foreign nationals, and four crew members.

Noah Brady’s obituary details were not revealed by his family. The famous Tiktok influencer, Noah Brady, also widely known as @pworddestroyer69 has passed away. His relatives confirmed his death. The TikTok influencer committed suicide. He was only 21 years old.