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A University of Georgia professor has adopted a “stress reduction policy” that will allow students to select their own grades if they “feel unduly stressed” by the ones they earned. According to online course syllabi for two of Dr. Richard Watson’s fall business courses, he has introduced the policy because “emotional reactions to stressful situations can have profound consequences for all involved.”

A University of Washington student wants the school to consider establishing a Somali studies program in order to create a more welcoming environment for Somali students, and which will ensure her presence on campus doesn’t feel like “a full-time public-relations job.”

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Investigator George Webb just did a live streaming video, and I wanted to catch up with what he is doing. I have been following George a long time, and I believe in him. I know he has had some bad press, but I believe he is legitimate. He talks about Imran Awan and Debbie Wasserman Schultz calling Lawyer Jared Beck trying to scare him into dropping the DNC lawsuit. He talks about how the Awan Brothers have been treated like Royalty here by the Government and the DNC. He says that Imran Awan had a stolen car company, house loan...

Does Kathleen Parker know what she wants? Indeed, according to her Aug. 2 op-ed, “Who can save us from ourselves?,” Ms. Parker seeks a leader who is well-read and erudite. The American Library Association apparently did not consider Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton a “head-nodding yes woman” when it invited her to give the closing keynote at its annual conference in June. Her speech showed her to be one of the “thinkiest” people to run for the presidency since her husband and Barack Obama. Listening to one of Ms. Clinton’s speeches from beginning to end leaves no doubt about where...

With some New Orleans neighborhoods seeing 8 to 10 inches of rain falling in just a few hours Saturday (Aug. 5), the rainfall overwhelmed the ability of the Sewerage & Water Board's 24 pump stations to keep up, though all were operating, city officials said Sunday. And they warned that additional thunderstorms could again overwhelm the city's pumping capacity on Sunday and Monday. The biggest threat for additional heavy rain is likely Monday afternoon, based on a morning briefing by National Weather Service forecasters, said Aaron Miller, the city's director of homeland security and emergency preparedness, at a Sunday morning...

Perhaps one James Woods said it best on Twitter (@realjameswoods) over the weekend: "I've never witnessed such hatred for a man who is willing to work for free to make his beloved country a better place. It is pathological." Mr. Woods did not exaggerate. The last time the United States saw such a wholesale refusal to accept the result of a national election – and to overturn it – the year was 1861. As the Trump administration moves past its 200th day in office, we have arrived at a moment of extreme clarity. It is even – even by the...

Following the circulation of an internal memo criticizing Google’s restrictive PC workplace environment, employees have freaked out, calling for the memo’s author to be fired. A software engineer at Google published a ten-page memo where he criticized “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,” resulting in controversy amongst employees within the Google+ internal social network. The author argues within the memo that women are underrepresented in tech fields not because of discrimination, but because of inherent psychological differences between men and women, echoing a similar argument made by former Breitbart senior editor Milo Yiannopoulos in 2016. When discussing Google’s educational guidelines for young...

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Climate activists in shock at Gore sequel bombing at box office: 'This was not supposed to happen' 'Al Gore Gets Ripped Off Again' 'He should have demanded a recount.' Gore fans reduced to blaming the distributor. 'A botched strategy by Paramount Pictures effectively sabotaged the nationwide release' of Gore's sequel. “Sadly, the box-office under-performance of An Inconvenient Sequel will be seized upon by climate-change deniers as ‘proof’ that Americans don’t really care about this issue,” Tucker wrote. According to Deadline Hollywood, Gore’s sequel “grossed $900K, averaging $5,000 (per screen). That brought its cume (cumulative) over seven figures, landing at $1,052,000....

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem The Ark of the Covenant, The Tabernacle, and The Temple 1 Samuel 5 The Ark in Ashdod and Ekron 5 After the Philistines had captured the ark of God, they took it from Ebenezer to Ashdod. 2 Then they carried the ark into Dagon’s temple and set it beside Dagon. 3 When the people of Ashdod rose early the next day, there was Dagon, fallen on his face on the ground before the ark of the Lord! They took Dagon and put him back in his place. 4 But the following morning when they rose, there was...

The First Amendment gets in the way of many “progressive” goals and you often hear them say, “Sure I’m in favor of free speech, but…..” There are so many possible “buts” to complete that sentence that the First Amendment would by now just be lifeless words on parchment if it weren’t for vigilant defenders. One of those “progressive” goals is to make politics more fair by taking out private funding as much as possible. Recently the city of Seattle, fresh from curing poverty with its $15 per hour minimum wage, decided to clean up politics with what it terms its...

Getting Unbound: A Reflection on Deliverance Ministry Msgr. Charles Pope • August 6, 2017 • There is wide interest today in the topic of exorcism. The publication in 2010 of Matt Baglio’s The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist and the subsequent movie and interviews with Fr. Gary Thomas have sparked some of this interest. Prior to this, books such as An Exorcist Tells His Story, by Fr. Gabriele Amorth, had paved the way.Frankly, another reason for the interest is that as our world becomes more secular, families disintegrate; the outright celebration of sinful practices spreads and there...

A robbery attempt in Detroit backfired when a teenager picked the wrong man to mess with and quickly learned he wasn't the only person armed. Darius Summers is a mild-mannered musician in Detroit who just turned 61 years old this week. He also recently received his license to carry a concealed weapon. "I'd never been through this," Summers said. "Never shot a gun before. All this is new to me." On Sunday morning near his home on Detroit's west side, Summers was at a gas station. "I just wanted some coffee, so I walked down here," Summers said. He said...

“Here” is Castel Volturno, one of Italy’s most infamous municipalities, once earmarked by the Camorra, the main Mafia syndicate of Campania and Naples, to become a lavish Italian resort to rival the French Riviera. The ambition was never realized — it wasn’t advanced by the Camorra’s waste companies also dumping toxic waste in the countryside between the cities of Naples and Caserta, earning the area the nickname “Death Triangle.” What remains of the Camorra’s French Riviera vision is a bedraggled, squalid coastal town, 30 kilometers north of Naples, where many houses built illegally were sold to bamboozled working-class families who...

A San Francisco day camp for transgender and gender fluid children as young as four is spearheading education a and awareness of gender expansion. Rainbow Day Camp in El Cerrito, California, accepts children between the ages of four and 12. At check-in every day, children choose which pronouns they wish to be referred to with for the day or they can choose to be considered neither male nor female.

When it comes to voting rights, any obstacles outrage liberals; even free government-issued IDs are viewed as disenfranchising poor and disproportionately black people. But when it comes to the right to own a gun for self-defense, liberals don't hesitate to pile on fees, ID requirements, expensive training and onerous background checks. That's too bad, because many law-abiding citizens in crime-ridden neighborhoods really do need a gun for self-defense. Since poor, urban blacks are the most likely victims of violent crime, there is little doubt that they stand to benefit the most from owning guns. Research, including my own, has demonstrated...

U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) filled the Ritz Carlton banquet hall on Thursday, June 22 for the 81st annual St. Louis County NAACP Freedom Fund Leadership Dinner. Waters, a Kinloch native, received a Margaret Bush Wilson Lifetime Achievement Award, along with former Missouri Governor Bob Holden. John Gaskin, III, Freedom Fund dinner chair, said that Waters has led the way in “opposing the oppressive and the discriminatory practices and language of both candidate and President Donald J. Trump.”

MANILA, Aug 7 (Reuters) - North Korea is ready to give the United States a "severe lesson" with its strategic nuclear force if it takes military action against it, and will not put its nuclear programme or its missiles on the negotiating table, it said in a statement to a regional meeting on Monday. In a transcript of a statement by Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho, which was distributed to media in Manila, Pyongyang called new U.N. sanctions "fabricated" and warned there would be "strong follow-up measures" and acts of justice.It said the resolution showed the United Nations had abused its...