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"And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven." "How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray? And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than...

Explanation: A mere 56 million light-years distant toward the southern constellation Fornax, NGC 1365 is an enormous barred spiral galaxy about 200,000 light-years in diameter. That's twice the size of our own barred spiral Milky Way. This sharp image from the James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) reveals stunning details of this magnificent spiral in infrared light. Webb's field of view stretches about 60,000 light-years across NGC 1365, exploring the galaxy's core and bright newborn star clusters. The intricate network of dusty filaments and bubbles is created by young stars along spiral arms winding from the galaxy's central bar....

More than a quarter-century after completing his term of office, James Earl Carter is still to be found in the thick of debates about national policies on a range of issues: nuclear arms, Iraq, North Korea, and, especially, the conflict between Israel and the Arabs. A steady stream of books and articles continues to issue forth from his pen, and he travels the world on self-selected diplomatic missions. No other former President has chosen to play a similar role. But then, Carter’s whole political career has been out of the ordinary. In order to understand the man today, it is...

Used car prices have soared, recording the largest February increase in 14 years, according to reports. The spike in prices comes as inflation continues to drive consumer prices. Wholesale used-vehicle prices increased 4.1 percent from January through the first half of this month, signifying the largest February increase since 2009’s full-month 4.4 percent gain, according to the mid-month Manheim Used Vehicle Value Index from Cox Automotive. This comes just a month after markets were hit with a massive rise in used car prices, according to the Manheim Used Vehicle Value Index. The used vehicle index rose to 234.0, down 7.3...

George Soros wants humans to take control of Earth’s atmosphere to halt “climate change.” This idea could create a global calamity resulting in the deaths of millions of humans and animals. According to Fox News, Soros spoke to the Munich Security Conference Thursday and boasted that he had discovered a process where white clouds are created to reflect sunlight away from warming areas to prevent ice sheets from melting. Ice sheets melting in Greenland in particular, he claimed, could doom human civilization. “Our civilization is in danger of collapsing because of the inexorable advance of climate change,” Soros said. “The...

The total losing position the neocons have put the US intoAlmost impossible to believe how good the US was looking about three years ago, isn't it??

Dominion Voting Systems sued Fox News, and naturally all the coverage shrieks, “OMG FOX KNEW IT WASN’T TRUE BUT LIED!” Actually, I think we all remember Tucker Carlson grilling Sidney Powell, and the fact that the news network scarcely dipped a toe into any investigative work in the area. As their lawyers argued in response to Dominion, Fox’s role was limited to reporting to its viewers the claims and counterclaims surrounding the election. As an aside, the Fox filings you can read in full here and here (it’s 183 pages), also reveal that Dominion’s $1.6bn in claims are 42 times...

Vice President Kamala Harris was forced to switch planes on her return trip from Europe on Saturday due to technical issues on Air Force Two. Harris boarded a C-17 support plane Saturday afternoon following her speech at the Munich Security Conference in Germany. "Due to maintenance difficulties, the VP and the traveling party will depart Munich to Washington, D.C. on a back-up aircraft," a White House official told reporters.

To accept the argument that woke is a racial slur is to assume that black people are synonymous with certain political ideasThe day after the Super Bowl, O’Brien provided advice to her news media colleagues. “So reporters,” she tweeted, “for many people ‘woke’ means Black people. Or more likely — a racist slur. So maybe do a better job in interviews when people talk about ‘wokeness’ mmkay?” O’Brien provided no evidence to back up her claim, yet her message went viral. And it’s not hard to understand why her advice would be popular. If it becomes socially unacceptable to name...

The outspoken atheist declared, 'I shall continue to use every one of the prohibited words'Evolutionary biologist and famed atheist author Richard Dawkins blasted woke culture demanding reform within the scientific community. An organization known as the EBB Language Project was reportedly launched to compile a list of "problematic words" identified by U.S. and Canadian scientists as harmful, suggesting alternate terms to be used instead. "On Tuesday, academics working in ecology and evolutionary biology called for the avoidance of words such as male, female, man, woman, mother, father, alien, invasive, exotic and race," The U.K.-based Telegraph reported. "Instead, they encouraged the...

Biden bragged about paying pensions for Ukrainians, But we hit the debt limit and his Treasury Secretary is taking “extraordinary measures,” Which means Biden is now literally selling investments of US pensions to fund Ukrainian pensions. [CNN Politics and WH.gov referenced at the URL].

A GOP political operative was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Friday for his involvement in transferring illegal campaign contributions from a Russian national to former President Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. A Justice Department release states that Jesse Benton planned with another political adviser to send political contributions from the Russian national, who wanted to meet with and take a picture with Trump, to the campaign. Benton then arranged for the individual to meet with and take a picture with Trump without revealing their nationality to the campaign or Trump, court documents state. The release states Benton had the...

Jimmy Carter receiving hospice care, Carter Center says February 18, 2023 / 3:25 PM / CBS News Former President Jimmy Carter is receiving hospice care at his home, the Carter Center announced Saturday. He made the decision after a series of short hospital stays, the center said in a statement. This is a developing story and will be updated.

Dr. Pierre Kory wrote an article about the 87.5% miscarriage rates reported by Pfizer. Dr. James Thorp wrote a letter to the Exec Dir of ABOG about the issue and they ignored him. Entirely.Steve Kirsch 15 hr ago Executive SummaryPierre Kory wrote an article, Massive Miscarriage Rates Among Vaccinated Pregnant Women Found Buried In The Pfizer Documents on August 20, 2022. He wrote: “So, of the 32 pregnancies they knew the outcome of, 87.5% resulted in the death of the fetus or neonate.”In the comments to Kory’s article, James Thorp mentioned he wrote a letter to the Executive Director of...

The serial entrepreneur says the surge of illegal immigrants at the U.S.'s southern border is an urgent problem that must be tackled. This subject is immigration, considered one of the strengths of the Republican Party, particularly in the South. He just used an article from The New York Post on a recent news conference by Eric Adams, the mayor of New York, to sound the alarm. Adams added that New York was dealing with an "unprecedented influx" of busloads of migrants. He repeated that the city’s shelter system was nearing its "breaking point." At least 16,600 migrants have arrived in...

Confirming next week's planned trip to East Palestine, Ohio, former President Donald Trump took a bow for motivating the Biden administration into action on responding to the toxic fallout from the train derailment earlier this month. "Biden and FEMA said they would not be sending federal aid to East Palestine," Trump wrote on Truth Social on Saturday morning, a statement also posted to his campaign website. "As soon as I announced that I'm going, he announced a team will go. Hopefully he will also be there. This is good news because we got them to 'move.' The people of East...

The Supreme Court returns next week to hear oral arguments on issues ranging from the regulation of Big Tech to President Biden's student loan handout to the Jack Daniel's trademark. The case involving the famous whiskey brand, which will be heard on March 22, involves a battle that pits First Amendment rights against trademark protections. The case arises from a lawsuit brought by Jack Daniel's against VIP Products LLC for marketing and selling spoof dog toys that look like the famous whiskey bottle

“When Russia launched its attack, the West didn’t isolate the conflict but elevated it to a pan-European level,” Orban said. “The war in Ukraine is not a conflict between the armies of good and evil, but between two Slavic countries that are fighting against one another. This is their war, not ours.” Under the slogan “Peace and Security,” Orban’s nearly hour-long address focused largely on the conflict in Ukraine, which is approaching its one-year mark, Feb. 24.

Nebraska on Thursday joined 24 other states in a lawsuit against the Biden administration’s new rule defining so-called Waters of the United States, or WOTUS. The multi-state coalition said the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers rushed to publish the new rule, even though the Supreme Court is expected to issue a key decision on the scope of WOTUS in a few weeks. Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers, in a statement announcing Nebraska’s role in the lawsuit, said the new rule would detrimentally affect farmers who may need to get permission from the EPA and Corps of...

According to the government’s submission, the US Military will face a COVID-19 vaccine lawsuit after asking to relieve Moderna of any liability for patent infringement resulting in the performance of the “1100” contract. The U.S. government claims that a lawsuit alleging that Moderna violated a patent with its COVID-19 vaccine should be brought against it and not Moderna.The government argued that the court ought to permit it to “relieve Moderna of any liability for patent infringement resulting in the performance of the ‘-0100 contract and to transfer to the United States any liability for the manufacture or use of the...