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I still think frequently about the fact that a pandemic came & created an undeniable moral imperative for solidarity -- for acting together, on one another's behalf -- and it caused an eruption of fury among conservatives that is still raging.

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was mocked on social media after many of his outlandish predictions for 2023 failed to come true. In a series of tweets on X, formerly Twitter, Medvedev predicted on December 26, 2022, that the U.K. would rejoin the EU, which would eventually collapse, and France would go to war with Germany again. Civil war in the U.S. was also in the cards, Medvedev said. The deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia and ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin also said: "Oil price will rise to $150 a barrel," parts of western Ukraine would...

The NYPD’s controversial settlement agreement in the wake of the 2020 Black Lives Matter demonstrations is “troubling” and has made officers “hesitant” when responding to large, out-of-control marches, Mayor Eric Adams warned Tuesday — as the Big Apple has been rocked by fiery anti-Israel protests. The department agreed to abandon “kettling” — the crowd-control tactic of herding and confining protesters to a small area before making arrests — as part of a settlement announced in September resolving several federal lawsuits claiming officers used excessive force during the George Floyd demonstrations. But as the city is besieged by angry pro-Palestinian protests...

Former President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Tuesday with a message about his ongoing election case in Washington, D.C.: "I am entitled to IMMUNITY." "I wasn't campaigning, the Election was over," Trump wrote. "I was doing my duty as President to expose and further investigate a Rigged and Stolen Election. It was my obligation to do so, and the proof found is voluminous and irrefutable. "Therefore, among other reasons, of course I am entitled to IMMUNITY. ADDITIONALLY, I DID NOTHING WRONG. Stop the Witch Hunt NOW!"

Houthi rebels in Yemen launched a barrage of drones and missiles on Tuesday morning, with the onslaught lasting 10 hours The strikes were heading north but were intercepted by the USS Laboon and F/A-18 Super Hornets from the Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group The Laboon, in addition to destroyers Carney and Mason, have all taken down drones in recent weeks and provided help to commercial vessels ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Houthi rebels supported by Iran launched a barrage of drones and missiles north towards Israel on Tuesday, with the onslaught blocked by a U.S. Navy destroyer and F/A-18 Super Hornets. U.S. Central Command said...

The only thing more uplifting than watching several prominent liberals drift rightward is the cluelessness of those on the left as to why it’s happening. This drift is obvious enough, since it includes journalists once heralded by the left such as Matt Taibbi (who won a Young America’s Foundation award) and Glenn Greenwald, and Democratic politicians, including Tulsi Gabbard, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (whose speech at a Daily Caller award ceremony drew many loud cheers from the conservative audience), and Sen. John Fetterman (who recently declared that “I am not a progressive”). Celebrities such as Russell Brand, David Chappelle, and...

Franconia [Virginia] Police District – Officers from our Franconia Police District have arrested two men involved in a complex fraud ring involving altered gift cards. On December 20, officers assigned to the Springfield Town Center were alerted by Target’s Asset Protection for two men who were altering gift cards in their store and had done the same thing earlier in the day at a Target store in Manassas. Officers saw the two men stocking the shelves with gift cards and detained them. They were found to be in possession of altered Target gift cards. The cards are suspected of being...

Michigan's Supreme Court is keeping former President Donald Trump on the state's primary election ballot. The court said Wednesday it will not hear an appeal of a lower court's ruling from groups seeking to keep Trump from appearing on the ballot. The state's high court said in an order that the application by parties to appeal a Dec. 14 Michigan appeals court judgment was considered, but denied "because we are not persuaded that the questions presented should be reviewed by this court."

Daily Readings from the USCCBOn the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene ran and went to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them, “They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we do not know where they put him.” So Peter and the other disciple went out and came to the tomb. John 20:1–3It’s interesting that Saint John refers to himself as the disciple “whom Jesus loved.” Of course, Jesus loved all people. He loved all of the disciples. But in John’s Gospel, this unique title of the beloved disciple is given...

VIDEO AT LINK............... AUTAUGA COUNTY, Ala. (WSFA) - An electric vehicle crashed and caught fire Monday night in Autauga County. According to the Pine Level Fire Department, units were called to a traffic accident with a vehicle fire around 11:15 p.m. At the scene, firefighters found a Tesla Model Y in flames. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency was already on the scene and had closed the interstate. The driver was uninjured and had escaped the vehicle before the fire department arrived, officials say. ALEA identified the driver as 33-year-old Michael Sherrill, a Georgia resident. Sherrill was arrested and taken to...

On Tuesday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) stated that there has to be a “tight” definition of what constitutes a humanitarian crisis to bypass the normal immigration process under humanitarian parole because there are “criminals that are coming over and then have done something horrific.” Co-host Sara Sidner asked, “I do want to ask you about one specific thing, because I know that the Republicans have been really sort of going after this one thing, saying this is the hangup, this is the big hangup, and it has to do with humanitarian parole, where the United...

Authorities are investigating a Christmas Day swatting attempt at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s residence in Rome, Georgia, but the Republican congresswoman says enough isn’t being done to catch the offenders. A swatting call is a dangerous prank in which the perpetrator reports a severe crime to police to lure swat teams to the victim’s home in a forceful law enforcement response. “I was just swatted. This is like the 8th time. On Christmas with my family here. My local police are the GREATEST and shouldn’t have to deal with this,” Greene wrote in a post on X. As Greene has...

A Chicago suburb is mourning the loss of a high school freshman who died Sunday after suffering a stroke during swim practice ... James Oliver, a 14-year-old student at Geneva High School, collapsed at West Chicago High School on Dec. 8, and suffered an AVM stroke and brain hemorrhage, school officials told parents ... He died on Sunday night after weeks in the hospital. The teen’s sudden death has left the community stunned. “He just brought me so much joy, as he did many other people,” swim coach Jennifer Heyer-Olson

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Claudine Gay shows why you shouldn't hire a person based solely on sex and raceOn October 7, the Palestinian army broke its 15th ceasefire, invaded Israel, raped and slaughtered hundreds, took hostages, and then stole back to Gaza City which is a cover for the 300 miles of tunnels and fortifications below ground which Palestinians use to launch terrorist attacks on Israel. The UN said nothing, instead it waited until Israel’s inevitable response so it could condemn Israel because the UN has become the Nazis it was formed to fight. The reaction in the United States was heartening but also...

VIDEO(Note: My commentary on this video originally recorded on December 25, 2023.) On Christmas Eve the YouTube CENSORS gave me their Christmas "gift" of a Community Guidelines strike. There was NO explanation as to the reason for the strike. Normally I can quickly figure out the reasons for such strikes even though they are quite stupid. However, in this case I can't see how my video in any way could trigger them to give my DUmmie FUnnies channel a strike. Therefore I present that video to you in its entirety for you to figure out what could have disturbed them...

POWELL NOTES FED DISCUSSED TIMING OF RATE CUTS AT FOMC … With core inflation still twice as high as the Fed’s 2% targe, perhaps the relaxed sense of dovishness coming out of the last FOMCdeserves some scrutiny and historical perspective. According to a recent report from BoA’s Jared Woodard who heads the bank’s Research Investment Committee, the “Fed’s cuts next year could reignite structural inflationary forces” (which we warned of earlier this month as there are multiple “parts of the economy proving robust, even impervious, to rate hikes: record government deficits; high household savings, rising wages & record home prices;...

Sometimes you have to destroy democracy to save democracy.“What we are seeing right now is the all-out assault on democracy,” Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold claimed in 2021. “Everything we do every single day to ensure the American people can elect, freely choose their election officials,” the chair of the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State held forth in 2022. “We believe that democracy literally is on the ballot.” In 2023, democracy is no longer on the ballot in Colorado because Griswold, who had spent every single year warning about an “assault on democracy”, launched an actual assault on...

On Wednesday, the Michigan Supreme Court rejected an appeal in the case of removing 2024 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump from the state’s ballot through the 14th Amendment The court upheld a Michigan Court of Appeals ruling from earlier in the month, which rejected a similar appeal filed by watchdog group Free Speech For People on behalf of Michigan voters seeking to remove Trump from the ballot for the events of January 6, 2021, according to ABC News.

Search... Delta Airlines Employee Surprises Angry Trans Customer by Pushing Back on 'It's MA'AM' Routine Couc The days leading up to Christmas are some of the most tiring for customer service workers in most industries, with customers desperate to get whatever business they need to get done before the holiday hits tending to be not as reasonable as they might otherwise me. This is doubly true for workers in the airline industry, where hordes of travelers descend on them at their airport kiosks trying to get home for the holidays; although Christmas may bring out the best in people in...