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t was 11 degrees when Nicolas Petit and his team of 12 dogs roared into the checkpoint at Nikolai a little before 7 a.m. Tuesday, the sky beginning to stain with a slow orange sunrise over the south fork of the upper Kuskokwim River. Then, he did something unusual this early in the race: he declared he’d be taking his mandatory 24-hour rest, just 263 miles into the nearly 1,000-mile race route. Wiley mushers will sometimes “declare” they are taking their 24 at a checkpoint to start the clock, then change their minds and head up the trail to take...

"Dr. Deborah Birx confirmed was in fact gain-of-function, contrary to statements by Dr. Fauci.” We have a good idea from today’s Covid hearings why Dr. Anthony Fauci cashed in his Big Pharma royalties and road off into the sunset before the Republicans took over the House. The House's Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic held hearings today that eviscerated Fauci’s numerous lies on SARS-CoV-2 origins. Subcommittee Chair Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) led off the hearings with a sober fact-sheet that laid the nation’s former top Covid doc’s numerous lies to waste. (Read and/or watch the video above.) “The truth is we...

In case you missed it, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — colloquially known in liberal circles as Ron DeFascist — is on a mission to ban books from school libraries. Totally innocuous books that are totally fine for young kids to read, especially at school. What a monster! Why does he hate books? And education? And children? We’re being facetious, of course. Ron DeSantis doesn’t hate books. Or education. Or children. What he does have a problem with is young kids being exposed to sexually explicit material with schools’ blessing and no regard for parents’ wishes or children’s welfare. His office...

While the official Party Line from the federal government is that the covid vaccines are safe and effective, recent studies have cast doubt on that assertion. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has called these studies misinformation or, at best, "anecdotal." However, an examination of Medicare's enormous database for its elderly patients shows that (1) the "warp speed" vaccines are making it more likely that the elderly will die prematurely, not less likely; (2) the risk of death remains elevated for an unknown period of time after you get the shot; and (3) the CDC lied to the...

Charges for aiding and abetting the murder of thousands of Hungarians during the Nazi occupation of Hungary during World War II are being prepared by Hungarian prosecutors against 92-year-old Hungarian-American businessman George Soros. According to a source at the prosecutor’s office in Budapest, Hungary, Soros is expected to be charged with “knowingly and willfully” aiding and abetting the murder of Jewish Hungarians in Budapest from September 1942 to January 1943. The government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been working to bring historical crimes committed by Hungarian Nazi collaborators to justice, and it is believed that Soros has been using...

In the Middle Ages, the Roman alphabet and runes lived side by side. A new doctoral thesis challenges the notion that runes represent more of an oral and less of a learned form of written language....Johan Bollaert, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies... has investigated written language used in public inscriptions in Norway from the 1100s to the 1500s. Last autumn, he defended his doctoral thesis "Visuality and Literacy in the Medieval Epigraphy of Norway."The assumption that runes represent a more oral tradition is based on the idea that runic inscriptions are contextually bound and are...

Around 40 landowners are suing tribal leaders with the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa to reopen four roads that have been blocked by barricades for a month. The landowners filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. They're asking the court to require the roads be immediately reopened and that they remain open for public use. "(T)he Defendants took the law into their own hands and illegally barricaded public roadways, despite the fact that they must be 'open and available to public use' under federal law," the complaint states....

(Last Updated On: March 1, 2023) NATIONAL PEANUT CLUSTER DAY March 8th is National Peanut Cluster Day! Melted chocolate mixed with peanuts makes a perfect combination for sweet and salty deliciousness! #PeanutClusterDay Two things had to happen for peanut clusters to even exist. First, a method had to be invented for the cocoa bean to be processed and transformed into what we know as chocolate. That process wasn’t widely used until about the late 1890s and just about the same time the second extraordinary thing happened; agriculture found a way to grow the peanut and bring it to the public...

An image search of bidEn's inauguration will depict a mostly-sunny day. If the pic focuses on the oath, there will be full sun, with sharp shadows. If the pic focuses on sky, mostly clear. However, video of DC around noon that day is cloudy with snow flurries. The link is a 4 min bitchute vid from a press vantagepoint on a roof across the street, with lots of MSM and patriot mixed media. Here is one of many 'sunny' pictures of the swearing in that captures the sky particularly well:

Sen. Ed Markey’s (D-Mass.) office is set to become the first in the Senate to unionize, after the Massachusetts Democrat was asked for formal recognition on Wednesday. “Today we are unionizing the United States Senate,” the Congressional Workers Union said in a tweet. “100% of @SenMarkey staffers have come forward and requested voluntary recognition. Once recognized, this Office will be the first ever unionized United States Senate office!” Markey voiced his support for the staffers’ effort in a Twitter post on Wednesday. “I applaud these workers who are exercising their right to organize, a fundamental exercise in democracy,” the senator...

On this date in 1734, Judith Defour (or Dufour; she was also known as Judith Leeford) was hanged at Tyburn, and afterwards anatomized. Defour’s four companions in death were (male) robbers, highwaymen and housebreakers, feared but commonplace scourges of London’s propertied. Defour was a different type of terror to panic the moral sense of a metropolis that daily outgrew its denizens’ comprehensions: she throttled her two-year-old daughter “and sold the Coat and Stay for a Shilling, and the Petticoat and Stockings for a Groat. We parted the Money, and join’d for a Quartern of Gin.” Gin — short for Geneva,...

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — What proved to be a successful pilot program over the summer, Target stores are pleased to roll out their new ‘Democrat only’ self-checkout lines nationwide. The large retail store boasts the new line will be a handy way for loyal Democrats to simply sprint out of the building without the tedious and racist process of paying for items. Target has confirmed the move will be revenue neutral, as all non-democrat shoppers will receive massive price hikes on all products. “We think this is the wokest thing any corporation has ever done, so that means it’s the smartest...

Violent riots and economically damaging activist actions broke out in France on Tuesday as the country saw one of its biggest mass mobilisations of protesters in years in response to President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the pension age from 62 to 64 years old. Millions of people took part in protests across 200 towns and cities in France on Tuesday, with the organising CGT union claiming that up to 3.5 million people flooded out onto the streets, while the French Interior Ministry put the number at around 1.28 million. The protests and accompanying trade union strikes were the sixth...

Activist and author Gloria Steinem said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that gender equality will not be achieved until men are raising children as much as women are. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked, “Gloria, you have been pointing out for decades while women can and do work full-time in the paid labor force, it is still often expected they continue to work full-time in the unpaid labor force. As you look at where we are and think about what now needs to happen to move this agenda forward, what are you hoping to convey to this audience and...

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Nebraska we are one step closer to the passage of Permitless Carry and ending the unconstitutional registry schemes of socialist-controlled cities that have lorded over the rural areas of the state for far too long.By demonstrating a willingness to be flexible in the fight and with single-minded persistence, Sen. Brewer pushed L.B. 77 through the first floor debate with a vote of 36-12! Please send a message expressing your appreciation to Sen. Brewer and his staff for their tireless efforts in defence of liberty!As we have witnessed over the last few sessions, the fight was not without its memorable moments…...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Cancels TLM at FUSBishop Jeffrey Monforton of the Diocese of Steubenville, Ohio, ordered an immediate end to the Latin Mass on Franciscan University’s (FUS) campus.Why? FUS was already in compliance with Traditionis Custodes. The TLM was being offered only once a month, and the FUS chapel is NOT a parochial church. So why is the TLM being canceled, and why is the bishop pretending to be "just following orders"?It's not as if he doesn't already have plenty of problems in his dwindling diocese: Vocations are drying up, there's been a 45% decline in Mass attendance over the...

Controversial Brooklyn Bishop Lamor Whitehead fabricated bank records in an attempt to finance his million-dollar New Jersey mansion, federal prosecutors charged in a new indictment Wednesday. To get a mortgage approved for the sprawling Paramus estate, Whitehead, 44, altered bank records to make it appear that an LLC he controlled had an average balance of more than $2 million — when it actually had less than $10, the feds allege. The embattled church leader — who made headlines in 2022 when he was robbed at gunpoint of more than $1 million in jewels in front of his congregation — also...

Viganò Exposes Vatican Plan to Oust Traditional Nuns (Part 2)Some clarifications to restore the truth about the situation of the Monastery “Maria Tempio dello Spirito Santo” of PienzaPart IICanonical ProvisionsThis second part of my intervention in defense of the Nuns of Pienza, after the first part dedicated to the sequence of events (here) and a third part (soon to be published) regarding the initiatives that ought to be undertaken, addresses the canonical measures adopted by the Holy See with the collaboration of the Diocese of Chiusi-Pienza-Montepulciano and the Picena Federation of the Benedictine Order. These observations are based on...

Gigi Sohn — President Joe Biden's nominee for commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission — withdrew her name from consideration on Tuesday, the White House confirmed, after three successive unsuccessful nominating attempts by Biden. Sohn's decision ended some 16 months of attempts to secure enough support, and came just hours after U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) announced that he "cannot support her nomination" and urged Biden "to put forth a nominee who can bring us together, not drive us apart." Biden first nominated Sohn in October 2021, but her initial bid to be FCC commissioner stalled after she testified before...