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Zero Tolerance for Homosexuality. South Sudan Just Told the Pope “No”His January 24 interview with the Associated Press has made no small mess for Pope Francis, ahead of his February 3 arrival in Juba, South Sudan, the second stop, after Congo, on his upcoming trip to Africa.In the interview, the pope said plain and simple that “homosexuality is not a crime,” and therefore “it is unjust” that “more than 50 countries” should condemn and punish it, including “ten or twelve, more or less,” even with the death penalty.And therefore, he went on to say, the bishops of these countries must...

Thanks to the latest release of the “Twitter Files,” we now know without a doubt that the entire “Russia disinformation” racket was a massive disinformation campaign to undermine US elections and perhaps even push “regime change” inside the United States after Donald Trump was elected president in 2016.

* The Arab-Palestinian Alkam Khairy carried out Synagogue Massacre Shabbat evening - he waited outside the synagogue to slaughter and when people ran away, he chased after them.* Many celebrations erupted among masses of racist Arabs.* Terrorist's father from hell praised him, that he was a devout Muslim and this is for him a joy like his wedding.* While worldwide condemnation poured in, Abu Mazen blamed ... Israel, and his Fatah actually hailed the massacre.___________GND @GND_arabic Tweeted:Jan 27, 2023.https://twitter.com/GND_arabic/status/1619068069141446656The Israeli citizen Abdelrahem Haj Yahya shares a story with a bemused smile and an impression (due to the attack): "This is...

The Arizona chapter of Americans Against Mail In Voting has launched a campaign to recall Democrat Gov. Katie Hobbs, citing 2022 election discrepancies resulting in a questionable outcome. "The AAMV umbrella was born on November 8, 2022 after witnessing hundreds of election discrepancies nationwide," Executive Director Zachery Tyler told Just the News. "These irregularities and seemingly intentional interferences have come at the cost of the American people's faith and trust in our election process." Arizona GOP gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake lost last year's election to then-Secretary of State Katie Hobbs but has since alleged that rampant voting irregularities in Maricopa...

Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1pogU_5TYYSTORY: Israel is saving its main freshwater reservoir from the effects of climate change. The Sea of Galilee was being lost to droughts. So Israel built a chain of desalination plants along its Meditteranean coast. They turn seawater into freshwater, to refill the lake when water levels get low. “With this environment of climate changes, you don’t know what to expect next year and the year afterward. We are standing now in the late January and with very little rainfalls during this winter in Israel, arid winter basically with no rainfall. And we are no longer depending on...

On Monday, pro-life activist Mark Houck was found not guilty of federal charges alleging he violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act over an incident outside an abortion clinic in Philadelphia in October 2021. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the FACE prohibits violent, threatening, damaging, and obstructive conduct intended to injure, intimidate, or interfere with the right to seek, obtain or provide reproductive health services. As Townhall reported, Houck, 48, was accused of shoving a Planned Parenthood abortion escort named Bruce Love in 2021. As a result, Houck was charged with two counts of violating...

When the blood-covered body of a young woman was found last August in a parked Mercedes in Ingolstadt, southern Germany, reports initially identified the victim as Sharaban K, a Munich-based 23-year-old beautician with Iraqi roots. Even though some members of Sharaban K’s family had identified the body, an autopsy report the next day raised questions over its identity. The victim was eventually named as Khadidja O, an Algerian beauty blogger from Heilbronn in the neighbouring state of Baden-Württemberg, also 23. With long black straight hair, a similar complexion and heavy makeup, the two women looked “strikingly alike”, police said, leading...

Mark Houck, 48, faced 11 years in prison for allegedly violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act ------------------ A jury has reportedly acquitted Pennsylvania pro-life activist who was accused of allegedly pushing a Planned Parenthood escort during a clash outside an abortion clinic, Life News reported. Mark Houck, 48, faced charges that he violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, which makes it a federal crime to use force with the intent to injure, intimidate and interfere with anyone because that person produces reproductive health care. He pleaded not guilty. The charge stems from...

American professional freestyle skier and former world champion Kyle Smaine died after getting caught in an avalanche in Japan Sunday, his newlywed wife has confirmed. The 31-year-old Lake Tahoe, California-based pro skier was one of five foreign nationals from the US and Austria who were swept in the avalanche while back-country skiing in the central prefecture of Nagano, Japan, around 2:30 p.m. local time Sunday. Shortly before his death, Smaine shared a video on Instagram showing him skiing during a marketing trip to Japan. The deadly avalanche took place on the eastern slope of Mount Hakuba, Nagano police said. Smaine...

What exactly is causing the egg shortage? Many people are reporting that there are issues with the commercial chicken feed, speculating that it has even prevented their hens from laying eggs. The rising egg prices in America have affected millions of homes. The cost of eggs in California has risen 550% in the last month, going from roughly $1.34 a dozen to $7.37. The state blamed it on an outbreak of bird flu, but others are not so convinced. In fact, several people have come out to say that their chickens did not produce eggs for months – until they...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Saying gun owners don’t need a government permission slip to protect their God-given rights, Florida’s House speaker proposed legislation Monday to eliminate concealed weapons permits, a move Democrats argue would make a state with a history of horrific mass shootings less safe. Republican leaders, including Gov. Ron DeSantis, have expressed support for the idea, so the bill should not have a problem passing in a legislature with a GOP a super-majority.

Nasyrova is accused of going to her friend’s home in Forest Hills, Queens in August 2016 and handing over the cheesecake, which had been laced with the powerful Russian tranquilizer Phenazepan. Prosecutors said Tsvyk immediately fell ill after eating the dessert and that her last memory before passing out was Nasyrova sitting beside her. The Russian native then allegedly stole her lookalike friend’s passport, cash and other property – and tried to make it look like a suicide attempt by scattering pills around the victim’s lingerie-clad body. But among her few slip-ups was leaving her DNA on the cheesecake container,...

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong co-authored an amicus brief with more than a dozen states urging the 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to reverse a decision that banned New York from barring guns from churches.

Reports of Mark Twain's Steyn's death are greatly exaggerated. For his first on-camera appearance in two months, please click above. ~Aside from anything else, Mark is fully committed to staying alive at least long enough to be buried at sea during this year's Mark Steyn Cruise. He may eschew his traditional leap over the orchestra pit for the Steyn Show finale, but rest assured, his terrific line-up of guests - including Eva Vlaardingerbroek, Mister Snerdley and Michele Bachmann - stand ready to pick up the choreographic slack. This is our first post-Covid cruise and you won't want to miss it:...

A Georgia school district and sheriff's office are investigating a student assault on a teacher caught on video Thursday at Heritage High School in Conyers, the Rockdale Citizen reported. What are the details?The attack was recorded from at least two angles and posted to social media. The first video shows a female student hollering in a female teacher's face inside a classroom: “I don’t give a f*** if you’re an adult or not! You’re not gonna talk to me like that, you dumbass bitch!” The teacher tells the student, "Get outta my face, baby." The Citizen reported that the student...

“Clean and sober is one of the biggest damn mistakes this country ever made…We all need to self medicate periodically” - Gavin Newsom, explaining his plan to self medicate California out of our addiction epidemic.

Ambitious media frauds Stephen Glass and Jayson Blair crippled the reputations of the New Republic and New York Times, respectively, by slipping years of invented news stories into their pages. Thanks to the Twitter Files, we can welcome a new member to their infamous club: Hamilton 68. If one goes by volume alone, this oft-cited neoliberal think-tank that spawned hundreds of fraudulent headlines and TV news segments may go down as the single greatest case of media fabulism in American history. Virtually every major news organization in America is implicated, including NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, The New York...

The Pyrenees mountain range has divided Spain and France for centuries, with Spain on the south side, and France on the north. But why is there one strange little blob of Spain over on the French side? I visited the historic enclave of Llivia and discovered the spectacularly pedantic reason behind its existence...How A Spectacular Piece Of Pedantry Created An International EnclaveThe Tim Traveller | 306K subscribers | 427,474 views | January 25, 2022

The war in Ukraine is poised to become even more violent this year with a major Russian offensive expected and more advanced Western-made weapons pouring in to bolster Ukrainian forces. Along these lines, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg recently warned that the war has entered a "decisive phase." This new stage of the war could bring the fight to a territory vital to Russia's military capabilities in Ukraine and cherished by Russian President Vladimir Putin: Crimea. The Black Sea peninsula, which was invaded by Russian forces and illegally annexed by Putin in 2014, served as a launchpad for Russia's invasion last...

A few months ago, I wrote about a group of vegans (aka domestic food terrorists) who protested at a Starbucks. They encased their feet in concrete at a Nashville Starbucks because Starbucks was up-charging for almond milk. Vegans were outraged that their oat/almond milk costs more than milk from an actual cow. So, in a genius move, they encased their own feet in wet cement — apparently not caring that wet cement and human flesh mix like oil and water.