WASHINGTON: Lady Gaga will sing the national anthem at Joe Biden's inauguration and Jennifer Lopez will give a musical performance on the West Front of the US Capitol when Biden is sworn in as the nation's 46th president next Wednesday. The announcement of their participation comes one day after word that Tom Hanks will host a 90-minute primetime TV special celebrating Biden's inauguration. Other performers include Justin Timberlake, Jon Bon Jovi, Demi Lovato and Ant Clemons.At the swearing-in ceremony, the Rev. Leo O'Donovan, a former Georgetown University president, will give the invocation and the Pledge of Allegiance will be led by Andrea Hall, a firefighter from Georgia.There will be a poetry reading from Amanda Gorman, the first national youth poet laureate, and the benediction will be given by Rev. Silvester Beaman of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Wilmington, Delaware.
Twenty-twenty is the Year of the Woman. For real this time. Amy Coney Barrett is the first-ever female originalist justice to sit on the Supreme Court. A record number of conservative women were just elected to the House and Senate. These are strong, smart women who care about both their country and their families. When we look at the lives and views of these women, the false choice feminism has presented is exposed. For decades, feminists have only celebrated one type of woman: she is liberal and pro-choice. Subscribers, click here to read the full magazine. Not a subscriber? Click here to become a Patriot member today and receive access to The American Spectator in print and online! Look no further than the contrast between the mainstream media’s praise for Sen. Kamala Harris’s vice-presidential nomination versus their response to Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court appointment. Harris was lauded for shattering the glass ceiling and making little girls’ dreams come true; Barrett was smeared and turned into a caricature. But conservative women are ready to reclaim feminism for what its founders intended. No more shall we choose between career and family, between empowerment and conservatism, between freedom
MADRID (REUTERS) - Schools in Madrid were shut, some supermarkets ran out of fresh produce and few cars except emergency service vehicles were on the city streets on Monday (Jan 11) after a huge snow storm hit the Spanish capital and several regions over the weekend. Most flights and trains, including the high-speed link to Barcelona, have resumed operations, however. While many people enjoyed the rare snowfall by skiing in the centre of Madrid and holding mass snowball fights, a further cold spell was set to turn the snow into ice this week and authorities rushed to clear more streets. They said, though, that it could take one or two weeks to complete, and on Monday snow ploughs only managed to clear a single lane on some avenues because of fallen trees blocking their path. Residents of Madrid, which saw its heaviest snowfall in at least 50 years, helped police open paths through deep banks of snow using plywood boards or trays, and poured salt on the underlying ice. With blocks of melting snow occasionally falling from rooftops, police have cordoned off some pavements, and residents took to walking in the middle of the road.
