I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 2 Timothy 4:7 At the age of 103, a woman named Man Kaur competed as India’s oldest female athlete during the 2019 World Masters Athletic Championship in Poland. Remarkably, Kaur won gold in four events (javelin throw, shot put,…
History
Thoughts for today
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Opinion
GROSS PBS EPISODE CALLED PARENTS ‘BRAINWASHED’ FOR STANDING UP AGAINST DRAG SHOWS FOR KIDS
Original Post A segment on Tuesday’s PBS NewsHour featured an LGBT activist who has been defending drag shows against conservative efforts to limit their ability to engage youngsters. Let’s just say that PBS has taken a sharp left into bizarro territory in its efforts to justify having youngsters at adult-themed drag acts. As she set…
History
Thought for Today
“After viewing the video of the Texas Church shooting I am left with a few thoughts. One, six seconds from start to finish was accomplished only because People were armed and trained and in attendance. the Police were not in attendance and as such were not able to provide defense of life. We are each…
History
December 31st in History
December 31 is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. It is widely known as New Year’s Eve since the following day is New Year’s Day. It is the last day of the year. The following day is January 1 of the following year. You have 358 shopping days…
History, People
Gandhi’s note to Hitler suggesting peace, a child’s advice for poorly President Nixon to eat his greens and classic Steve Martin humour for a fan: Some of the greatest letters you will ever read
By Ted Thornhill As Adolf Hitler pulled the world ever closer to conflict in 1939, Mohandas Gandhi wrote him a personal letter, urging him to pull back from the brink ‘for the sake of humanity’. The German dictator never received the letter because it was intercepted by the British government – but it’s been published…
History, Opinion
Vichy France as Counter-Revolutionary State
by Adi | Faith & Heritage In a previous piece I noted how resistance against tyranny is a demand of the counter-revolutionary worldview. I argued that the use of political violence was not intrinsically at odds with the counter-revolutionary position. In this piece I would like to emphasise how this can by exemplified with a concrete…
History
American Minute “Isn’t God upon the Ocean, Just the Same as on the Land?”-James T. Field, The Atlantic Monthly
James T. Fields was born DECEMBER 31, 1817. His father was a sea captain and died before Fields was three. James T. Fields became the editor of The Atlantic Monthly, 1862-1870, where he became friends with the most notable writers of his day, including: – William Wordsworth, – William Makepeace Thackeray, – Charles Dickens, – Nathaniel Hawthorne, – Herman…
History
“Until We Meet Again”
In 1788, poet Robert Burns published an ancient Scottish folk song “Auld Lang Syne,” (meaning “in days of old gone by”). A similar poem was written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1881, titled “Auf Wiedersehen” (meaning “until we meet again”). Longfellow dedicated it to the memory of his friend James T. Fields. The poem alluded to the Bible verse in Hebrews 11 “By faith … women received…
History, National News
A short history lesson…..
A short history lesson: In 732 AD the Muslim Army which was moving on Paris was defeated and turned back at Tours, France, by Charles Martell. …in 1571 AD the Muslim Army/ Navy was defeated by the Italians and Austrians as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to attack southern Europe in the Battle of…
Religion
Amy Grant receives Kennedy Center Honors, will host same-sex wedding
Contemporary Christian singer Amy Grant, left, reacts as she is recognized by President Joe Biden during the Kennedy Center honorees reception at the White House in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022. The 2022 Kennedy Center Honorees are from left, Amy Grant, Bono, Gladys Knight, and The Edge. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) JIM DENISON, PHD In…
National News
Year in Review: ‘Conspiracy Theories’ That Turned Out To Be True
BY KATHLEEN J. ANDERSON | Political Insider It’s the holidays, and soon we will be ringing in another year. Some of us will ring in the new year at lavish parties, while others will ring it in like my family, with two little ones passing out around ten and a husband passing out not long after….
Opinion
BIGFOOT DNA
There is a firm called GenBank that has stored the DNA of every known living Human and animal life on this planet, which allows biologists to determine the identity of animals and Humans when the DNA is in a determinable state. A number of hairs allegedly retrieved after Bigfoot sightings have been analyzed. The hairs…
People
Legendary journalist Barbara Walters dead at age 93
By Sophia Melissa Caraballo Piñeiro Barbara Walters — the pioneering journalist who broke countless barriers in her 50-year career — died Friday. She was 93. “Barbara Walters passed away peacefully in her home surrounded by loved ones. She lived her life with no regrets. She was a trailblazer not only for female journalists but for all women,” Cindi…
National News
Idaho murders: 28-year-old grad student arrested in Pennsylvania
A 28-year-old graduate student was arrested Friday morning in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains in connection with the November murders of four University of Idaho students, police said, but many details of the case still remain a mystery. The suspect, Bryan Kohberger, is a graduate student at Washington State University, located less than 10 miles away from the…
People
Benedict XVI, first pope to resign in 600 years, dies at 95
NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the shy German theologian who tried to reawaken Christianity in a secularized Europe but will forever be remembered as the first pontiff in 600 years to resign from the job, died Saturday. He was 95. Benedict stunned the world on Feb. 11, 2013, when he…
State News
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People
Quote for the Week from Carl Cannon
As 2022 comes to a close, many of us can’t help but hope that the New Year will bring more sunshine on our shoulders, to borrow imagery from a singer/songwriter who would have turned 79 this week. Although christened Henry John Deutschendorf Jr., the world knew him as John Denver. While starring in movies, making…
National News
Catholic NGOs Receive Billions in Government Funding to Provide Illegals Housing, Food, Healthcare, Financial Assistance and More
America, Land of the Free—Freebies for illegals Gateway Pundit Guest post by Elizabeth Yore The numbers of illegals crossing over the southern border into America are staggering. In the second year of the Biden Administration, FY 2022, (ending Sept. 30, 2022) 2.7 million illegals crossed into the U.S. according to Customs and Border Patrol. (In just 12…