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President-elect Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States under unusual circumstances amid a pandemic and after an attack on the U.S. Capitol, where the events are traditionally hosted, left five people dead.
Both the U.S. Capitol Police and National Guard expect that tens of thousands of protesters could make their way to Washington for the event. Defense officials said the Pentagon has authorized up to 15,000 guardsmen to support law enforcement before and throughout the inauguration, with nearly half that number already deployed. Guardsmen providing security during an inauguration is not unusual, but officials are still determining if individuals will be armed or dressed in riot gear.
The Lewes Public Library will present a new online discussion series, “Lives and the Law,” hosted by lecturer and legal expert Ronald Collins, beginning Jan. 21.
Don t Miss the Importance of Legislative Prayer in the Mowomenment | Opinion Jeremy Dys
, Special Counsel for Litigation and Communications, First Liberty Institute On 1/6/21 at 7:00 AM EST
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) recently made headlines that may follow him for the rest of his political career. As Cleaver ended the traditional invocation before the commencement of the 117th Congress, he proffered a neologism that made satirists everywhere rejoice. In addition to ending his prayer with the ecclesiastical amen, the congressman added awoman in an apparent effort to appear gender-neutral.
Such overt virtue-signaling was silly to many, and was met with near universal eye-rolling. Still, amen is a useful word used by Christian and Jewish worshipers for centuries to end their prayers. It is derived from ancient Hebrew, meaning so be it. That three letters appear in sequence to reflect a word used to identify gender is less the work of the patriarchy t
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