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Who says they are even driving?

The other story (unsubstantiated afaik) is that the Ayatollah exchanged a lot of money into crypto, and then deposited it in accounts that can't be traced. The problem is that he is missing and hasn't been seen or heard from in days. The best possible news is that he is dead, having been killed dur...

And it now appears that the Ayatollah has fled the country and is in China. This is essentially a wholesale surrender of the country to the opposition.

I have to admit, I never heard of him. Since the amount of time I've spent reading the National Catholic Distorter is few and far between, it's not surprising. RIP! I first noticed him in Pope Benedict's first year when he filed a report disputing his own paper's own position that Benedict was an e...

Allen was a fair-minded journalist and one of the greats. May he rest in peace. And he was for years the only good reporter from the National Catholic Reporter, where their level of commentary was to respond to the Vatican report which declared the ordination to the diaconate was “impossible” by sa...

According to polls that Western nations have taken of Iran in the last 10 years, only about 20% of the population believes in Islam. 40% consider themselves Christian or Zoroastrian, and another 40% consider themselves atheists. Given that this is a counntry where one can be killed for expressing th...

I had heard a story this past weekend that China was going to give the ayatollah sanctuary. Then never heard anything more. I don't know which stories are accurate, and which are inflated. Don't you remember how, after Saddam was toppled in 2003, CNN admitted that they had been lying for years abou...

This is day 25 of a revolution against the Mullahs; they have taken Tehran, the capital, and nearly every day, they are taking another city. In every city they take, they burn down all the government buildings and all the mosques. This is not just a revolt against the Mullahs; this is a revolt again...

I have no idea where this "Trump is going to invade Greenland" idea came from; Trump has not only never suggested it, but has repeatedly said the exact opposite, that he wants to acquire it by negotiation.

And by the way, the news today is that a tentative agreement has been reached.

The word "angel" means "messenger". The job of a messenger is only to send a message from one person to another and does not speak for himself. Gabriel was reporting, not doing,

Surely it is only because of God's call that we can Hail Mary at all, right?

And technically, it isn't us who are hailing Mary; we are merely echoing the greeting of the angel.

I think you are trying to find a theological difference where there isn't one, assuming your claim is correct.

The most common answer is that the Egyptian magician's staffs were always snakes, but they had been hypnotized into being stiff until being thrown down.

I have no idea if that is even a credible natural explanation.

I am happy to report that I am in complete agreement with Doom. I often say that no person should graduate from college without successfully completing Econ 101, Econ 102, and Stat 101. In addition to what Doom said, I often point out that the most important step in descriptive statistics is to def...

The states with the highest taxes on alcohol have the highest average. But this just goes to show how useless the "average" is as a statistic. The total amount of money I have spent on alcohol in the last 15 years is $0. As I used to tell my students in the Statistics classes I taught, if ...

I do not know anything about this unfortunately

"When a true genius appears in the world, you will know him by this sign, that all the dunces are in confederacy against him," Jonahthan Swift The Democrats Russia China Iran That is quite a confederacy of dunces that has ariesn to oppose Trump In the meantime in Venenzula, they have alrea...

This is why the correct response to AI is not to ban or fear it, but regulate it and set ethical boundaries about its proper and improper use. Granted, no law is going to make people do anything, and any ethical boundaries can be ignored, but we can build the next generation of AI with the ethical b...

The last refuge of the scoundrel is to claim "racism"

Minnesota has 6 times as many daycare centers as Los Angeles, even though the population of Minnesota is only twice the population of Los Angeles

in the Early Church, midnight was the only Christmas Mass; if you couldn't make it, you didn't attend Christmas Mass at all. Source? I'm not having much success verifying this. In fact, it depends on what is meant by "early" since Christmas, as a festival distinct from Epiphany, took seve...