Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Why do we celebrate the New Year on January 1 when, for most of recorded history, we held the New Year to start in March? What role did the Catholic and Anglican celebrations of Christmas play in the creation of our modern New Year’s Eve celebration on Dec. 31? Answers
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The common thread here is that America’s liberty and sanity are at risk — but we can still laugh as we head into 2023, a year we hope is better than the ones that came before.
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6th Day of Christmas, The Feast of the Holy Family The Feast of the Holy Family is unusually celebrated on the Sunday in between Dec. 25, Christmas, and Jan. 1, the Solemnity of Mary. Only if, as in this year, there is no Sunday during that period is the Feast celebrated
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On the 5th Day of Christmas Feast of St. Thomas a’ Becket, a memorial One of the overarching issues of the Medieval world was where the authority of the Papacy ended and the authority of kings began. It was a dispute that that led to the martyrdom of Thomas a’
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Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, is a delightful parody of the life of Al Yankovic. I watched this movie last night. It is great humor done without a whiff of woke politics. Daniel Radcliffe shines as Weird Al, as does Evan Rachel Wood as Madonna. Weird Al has been delighting
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Today is the 4th Day of Christmas on which is celebrated the Feast of the Holy Innocents The story of the massacre of the innocents is told in the Gospels at Matthew 2:16-18. Herod the Great, installed by the Romans as the Governor of Galilee, had a reputation for ruthlessness
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The video below, apparently real, shows the logical endpoint of the melding of 3rd-Wave Feminism and Post-Modernism Third Wave Feminism, taught in all the womyn’s studies programs in our Ivory Towers, holds that there are no actual differences between the genders. Post-modernism, being taught in every victim’s studies program in
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Our nation is being altered by regulations with the force of law and created without any vote by our elected representatives. How can this happen in the United States . . .: From Instapundit: CRISIS BY DESIGN: The EPA’s Latest Regulation Could Devastate The Trucking Industry. “The EPA’s rule, which is more
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The 3rd Day of Christmas is the Feast of St. John the Evangelist & the day for Blessing of the Wine. Today celebrates the Feast of St. John The Evangelist. And in relation thereto, today is the day to bring your bottle(s) of wine to the Church for the priest’s
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Today marks the single most important battle in our nation’s history, George Washington’s decisive victory over the Hessians at the Battle of Trenton on Dec. 26, 1776 saved the American Revolution from certain failure. General It is impossible to overstate the importance of the Continental Army’s stunning victory this day
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The 2nd Day of Christmas and the Feast of St. Stephen, the first Christian to be martyred for his faith in God and Jesus Christ The Feast of St. Stephen, The First Martyr of the Church Stephen was one of several people whom Peter and the apostles appointed as the
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A Merry 1st Day of Christmas and a Happy Last Day of Hannukah to you and your families from Bookie and Wolfie, this being the Christian World’s 1,696th celebration of the Birth of Jesus Christ, & the Jewish World’s 2,187th celebration of Hannukah. They go well together. Luke 2:11-12: For
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First, Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah. Second, this year, you must decide to be happy because everything else is verkakte. “Verkakte” is a Yiddish word that, quite literally, means crappy. But still, winners never quit, and quitters never win — and we are not quitters. We’ll keep meming, laughing, organizing,
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From @Chef Gruel The Perfect Prime Rib Guide (A Thread): A MUST READ TWEET FOR RIB ROASTERS I have gotten hundreds of messages asking about cooking a rib roast, so here we go, if you read anything today, let it be this post: Recipe Continues Below *This applies both bone-in
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I sent the following to Lindsey Graham today. I will post his response here as an update if and when I receive one. To: Senator Lindsey Graham (R?-SC) Re: A Huge Lump of Coal in our SC Stocking As one of your constituents, I have strongly supported many of the
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