Italian priest excommunciated for calling Pope a ‘usurper’; U.S. debt has surpassed $34 trillion dollars ...more

Italian priest excommunciated for calling Pope a ‘usurper’   Delivered with impressive speed by Catholic standards, Guidetti’s excommunication is the latest in a crackdown of papal critics in recent months and is indicative of ongoing divisions in the church over Francis and his papacy.

     Last year, Pope Francis ousted Archbishop Georg Gänswein, private secretary to the late Pope Benedict XVI and widely perceived as a papal opponent, from the Vatican, sending him back to his native Diocese of Freiburg with no official job or position....

...In November, the pope made moves against two prominent American critics, removing Bishop Joseph Strickland from leadership of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, and stripping Cardinal Raymond Burke of his salary and ordering that he pay market rate rent on his Vatican-owned apartment, effectively evicting him.

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Border Is Unmitigated Disaster, 

Catastrophe of Biden's Design: Mike Johnson

Why The Sudden Media Interest In The Biden Border Crisis?   After spending three years largely ignoring the border, the mainstream press is suddenly all over it, with headlines blaring about a “surge,” “crisis” and “call for action.” Why now?

  Last week CNN reported that a “December migrant surge” at the southern border was the “largest in more than two decades.” Several other news outlets used similar language. The New York Times warned that “surging” Mexico border crossings “push U.S. resources to the brink.” In another story,          CNN even described the situation as a “crisis.”

Weirdly, the press is even exaggerating the current “surge.”

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Appeals court blocks Biden from forcing emergency room doctors to perform abortions  An appeals court has rejected the Biden administration’s effort to use a federal law to force emergency room doctors to perform abortions in Texas, upholding a lower court decision.

     A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit unanimously ruled Tuesday to continue an injunction against the Biden administration’s federal guidance requiring emergency room medical staff to perform abortions.

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For the first time in history, U.S. debt has surpassed $34 trillion dollars.   Despite the grim outlook, the Biden regime currently has no specified plan to counter the potential repercussions of the ever-increasing debt burden.

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Active shooting confirmed at Iowa Perry High School on the first day after winter break  A Mercy One Hospital spokesperson confirms that victims from the high school are headed their way. The official could not confirm how many patients they were expecting to receive. Update: Shooter believed dead, multiple law enforcement officials say

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What Hamas Did to the Girls and Women in Gaza...Full horror  Those who are capable of rational thought should, with such accounts as these, understand why Israel cannot possibly allow Hamas to exist as a military threat. This is only part of the story of what was done that day by the Hamas killers: the gang-rapes, the mutilation of bodies, the torture, the murders, and the hilarity exhibited — the joking, the laughing, the giggling — by Hamas killers as they did what they did to these Jewish girls and women. There is much more that has been left out: the rapes and murders of pre-adolescent girls, the slicing off of breasts, the seizure of girls not only by Hamas, but by those “innocent civilians” who accompanied Hamas on its rampage, participated in the torture and slaughter, and took back to Gaza their own female captives, to be used as sex slaves, as some may still be doing. But this is more than enough. The New York Times, so often to be condemned for its reporting on Israel and the Palestinians, this time deserves praise. Image

Report: Hezbollah Terror Tunnel Network Far 'Bigger' and 'Sophisticated' Than Hamas's Network...financed by Iran and built by North Korean mining companies. 

Hezbollah, an even better funded terrorist group than Hamas, poses an even greater threat to Israel. While IDF soldiers and combat engineers risk their lives dismantling Hamas’s vast tunnel network spread across Gaza, Israel faces a much more significant challenge in the north, where the Iran-backed Hezbollah has created more extensive and far more advanced tunnel systems. Hezbollah’s terror tunnel network, financed by Iran, is larger and more sophisticated than what Hamas has managed to create at the cost of billions of dollars in Gaza.

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Claudine Gay 'was the DEI president and that is the deeper problem that I don't think' Harvard is 'ready yet to confront' 

DEI Can Only Exist in a Noncompetitive Environment 

The most significant “A-ha!” moment from le affair Gay is that DEI only “works” in noncompetitive environments such as government and academia. The principles of “diversity” and “equity” implicitly assume that entities and organizations will continue along their current trajectory regardless of who’s in charge. DEI discounts merit, ability, and leadership and assumes as a matter of ideological gospel that “diversity” will more than make up for their loss.

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Oregon High School Postpones ‘Family Friendly’ Drag Show Amid Threats  The event was set to be free but suggested a $15 donation. In part, the proceeds would go to the Trevor Project, which prides itself on mutilating kids. What a great organization to donate to...NOT!

   The event was going to feature a drag queen named “Poison Waters,” who is a gay man that enjoys dressing in women's clothing and dancing in fishnets in front of kids.

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Review Shows COVID-19 Vaccines "Significantly" More Deadly Than Flu Shots: Sen. Ron Johnson  The review was conducted by the senator’s staff and involved a certain level of assumption given that no publicly available data exist regarding how many flu vaccine doses were administered in the United States over the past 10 years.

  Using the number of distributed doses to generate that figure, they found that the number of deaths per million doses of the COVID-19 vaccines (25.5) far exceeded those estimated for the flu vaccine (0.46).

Financial Analyst Ed Dowd says – Disability Claims Among Women Shot Up 55% After Rollout of COVID Vaccines  “We must always consider other external factors that might explain the rise in disabilities, and which are also correlated to the vaccination data,” Dowd said. “This is usually stated as ‘correlation is not causation.’”

      “However, in the absence of other explanatory factors, and strong medical evidence of the vaccines causing injuries and deaths, one must consider the relationship seriously,” he said.

      Kelly said the U.S. is witnessing “just the beginning of the vaccine fallout. Babies, toddlers, and children have now been vaccinated and boosted. I got an email today from a woman whose doctor pushed her to get vaccinated when she was four months pregnant. She miscarried that baby and has since had two more miscarriages. Sadly, I receive emails similar to that all the time.”