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Buckshot Roulette is taking the gaming world by storm‚ and as is the case with most breakout indie hits‚ many people are wondering if there’s an unblocked version of the game that they can play at school or work. Thankfully‚ there’s an easy way to make that work. Can You Play Buckshot Roulette on a Blocked Network? There are multiple websites out there claiming to offer an unblocked version of Buckshot Roulette that you can play in your browser‚ but these are all scams. They either host completely unrelated browser games or are just fronts for malware. To play Buckshot Roulette on any PC‚ you have to download it. The browser method just doesn’t work. Related: Every item in Buckshot Roulette explained Because the game has to be downloaded and can be played offline‚ you can bypass any network and play it unblocked without much hassle. If you can’t download it on your laptop at school or work‚ just download it on a PC that can ...

Terraria is known for its abundance of content and insane creative potential. It’s hard to play Terraria without getting overwhelmed at some point with the sheer vastness of it. Well‚ if you wanted to expand on that‚ then let me show you some of the best mods for the game. The best Terraria mods out there Like the game‚ the modding community for Terraria is huge. It is simply impossible to have a list that fully encompasses every single of the best mods for the game‚ so take this list as more of a highlight. Also make note that what’s generally considered the best mod for Terraria might not be to your taste‚ so make sure to dip your toes in the waters of other mods‚ too. This list is curated from player discourse and my own vast experience with the game. It covers mods that adds even more insanity‚ to an improved quality of life. So extreme is this list that I’m not going to rank it‚ as the mods improve the game in such different ways that they...

This year‚ 2024‚ marks the 60th anniversary of the signing into law of the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act. Soon we observe the national day set aside to note and honor the leader of the movement that led to that act becoming law: the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We must ask how‚ after 60 years‚ with vast changes in the world‚ with developments in technology unimaginable 60 years ago‚ that we remain obsessed with race. How is it that claims of racism‚ injustice‚ and unfairness persist like nothing happened? Indeed‚ data suggest that black Americans‚ on average‚ still lag economically. The Federal Reserve recently published its Survey of Consumer Finances showing that average black family income is 43% that of white families. In 1989‚ it was 42%. Average black household net worth now is 15.6% that of white households. In 1989‚ it was 17.8%. The deterioration of traditional religious values in the country has taken a toll on all American families‚ but proportionally more on black families. Per the Department of Justice‚ Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention‚ in 2022‚ 43% of black children lived in a two-parent home—down 26.5% from 1970. Among white children‚ 75.6% lived in a two-parent home‚ down 15.5% from 1970. America today is a far different country than the one where King led the civil rights movement. The language that King used to lead and animate his movement was the language of the Bible. He spoke as a pastor. But in 1965‚ according to Gallup‚ 70% of Americans said religion is “very important” in their life. In 2023‚ 45% of Americans say religion is “very important” in their life. In the last speech of his life‚ in Memphis‚ Tennessee‚ King in 1968 spoke about “injustice‚” that “we are God’s children.” King spoke about not being afraid of death‚ saying‚ “I just want to do God’s will.” He then spoke those famous words that he’d been “to the mountain top” and that he’d seen “the promised land.” “I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.” Can anyone imagine a leader of a major political or social movement today speaking this way? Over these 60 years since the Civil Rights Act became law‚ courts took the Bible and prayer out of public schools‚ legalized abortion‚ and changed our legal understanding of what defines marriage. The godless socialism of DEI—diversity‚ equity‚ inclusion—has replaced good and evil as our perspective on social justice. As we have purged religion and replaced it with politics‚ we have lost the core of a religious world view. There is good and evil‚ and the Creator gave free choice and personal responsibility to choose to each individual. Without this‚ the freedom we allegedly care so much about has little meaning. Government has become our new religion. In 1964‚ federal spending took 17.3% of our gross demestic product. Today‚ it takes 24.4%. In 1964‚ gross federal debt equaled 46.2% of our GDP. Today it equals 119.8%. It is an unfortunate quirk of history that the civil rights movement‚ led by a black Christian pastor‚ reached its peak at the moment when Americans decided to start banishing the Bible from our culture. A movement informed by good and evil and personal responsibility has been replaced by politics‚ interest groups‚ and victimhood. The community most hurt by the purge of personal responsibility that defines individual freedom is the one that started out the weakest and the greatest victim of our moral failures. Without a new birth of faith‚ we for sure will not have a new birth of freedom in America. The whole nation and our future are in danger. And the weakest‚ those whom the socialists claim to care the most about‚ will suffer the most. COPYRIGHT 2024 CREATORS.COM The Daily Signal publishes a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Heritage Foundation. Have an opinion about this article? To sound off‚ please email letters@DailySignal.com and we’ll consider publishing your edited remarks in our regular “We Hear You” feature. Remember to include the URL or headline of the article plus your name and town and/or state. The post A Nation Dr. King Wouldn’t Recognize appeared first on The Daily Signal.

For the third consecutive year‚ the Biden administration’s Department of State has left Nigeria off of its list of “Countries of Particular Concern‚” a list that catalogs the countries around the world that have perpetrated or tolerated “particularly severe violations of religious freedom.” The move comes despite the fact that Nigeria leads the world in the number of Christians that have been killed for publicly practicing their faith. The latest in a series of seemingly unending atrocities committed by Islamist terrorists in the most populous nation in Africa happened on Christmas Eve‚ when gunmen attacked as many as 20 villages in the central Plateau region of Nigeria‚ killing as many as 160 and wounding hundreds more. Islamist Fulani herdsman carried out the attack‚ burning whole villages to the ground and executing dozens with machetes. According to a report from Open Doors‚ 5‚621 Christians were killed around the globe in 2023. Distressingly‚ 90% of those deaths occurred in Nigeria alone. Since 2009‚ when the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram began its campaign of violence‚ approximately 52‚250 Nigerians have been killed for their Christian faith‚ far and away the largest number of Christians killed in any country in the world. In 2020‚ during the Trump administration‚ in response to the rising anti-Christian violence in Nigeria‚ then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo placed Nigeria on the list of “Countries of Particular Concern” (CPC) for the first time. The CPC list was inaugurated in 1998 as part of the International Religious Freedom Act‚ which gave the president the ability to declare countries that were egregiously guilty of perpetrating or allowing religious freedom violations as a CPC. That designation was designed to be accompanied by diplomatic and economic penalties. Perennial entries on the list have included countries such as North Korea‚ China and Iran. But in 2021‚ under the Biden administration‚ Secretary of State Antony Blinken removed Nigeria from the CPC list without explanation. Notably‚ as observed by the Family Research Council’s Arielle Del Turco‚ “the removal of Nigeria’s CPC status came one day before Blinken went to Nigeria to visit with state leaders‚ including President Muhammadu Buhari.” The following year‚ despite the killing of approximately 5‚068 Nigerian Christians and the abduction of over 3‚000 more‚ Biden’s State Department again left the country off of the CPC list. The pattern continued for the 2023 list. “The Biden administration is where religious freedom goes to die‚” FRC President and former U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) Chairman Tony Perkins wrote on Jan. 4 following the release of the list. “Unfortunately‚ thousands of people are dying‚ too.” Numerous other religious freedom experts have expressed grave alarm at Nigeria’s removal. Abraham Cooper and Frederick A. Davie‚ current chairman and vice chairman of the bipartisan USCIRF‚ stated‚ “Days before Christmas‚ hundreds of Christians were killed in Nigeria‚ along with their pastor. This is just the latest example of deadly violence against religious communities in Nigeria that even the State Department has condemned. … USCIRF rejects the State Department’s decision to omit Nigeria … as [a] CPC.” USCIRF‚ along with religious freedom advocacy group ADF International‚ have since called for a congressional investigation of the Biden administration’s State Department for the omission. “The United States should increase pressure on Nigeria for the blatant violations of religious freedom occurring in the country‚” Sean Nelson‚ legal counsel for ADF International‚ argued. “More Christians are being killed in Nigeria for their faith than in all other countries combined.” Del Turco‚ the FRC’s director of the Center for Religious Liberty‚ expressed further outrage at Nigeria’s absence on the CPC list. “It is reprehensible that the State Department refused to name Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern on religious freedom‚” she told The Washington Stand. “More innocent Christians are killed in Nigeria than anywhere else in the world. Haw many more lives have to be lost and how much more suffering has to occur before the Biden administration will condemn religious persecution there? The failure to call Nigeria a Country of Particular Concern is dishonoring to the vulnerable Christians who are suffering there.” Del Turco continued‚ “The U.S. is somewhat unique in that Congress legally established a foreign policy apparatus to advance religious freedom around the world‚ and that includes Country of Particular Concern designations. However‚ if U.S. leaders are too cowardly to add countries to the list that clearly fit the criteria‚ then it doesn’t do any good.” Originally published at WashingtonStand.com The Daily Signal publishes a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Heritage Foundation. Have an opinion about this article? To sound off‚ please email letters@DailySignal.com‚ and we’ll consider publishing your edited remarks in our regular “We Hear You” feature. Remember to include the URL or headline of the article plus your name and town and/or state. The post Despite 5‚000 Killings in 2023‚ Biden’s State Dept. Leaves Nigeria Off Religious Freedom Watch List for 3rd Year appeared first on The Daily Signal.