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Most critics agree that George Orwell's 1984 is a supremely great novel. But is it suitable for teenagers? After all, this book is a grim portrayal of a totalitarian dystopia, and for many readers, it is a traumatic experience. Several years ago, I argued that 1984 is too deep, dark, and unpleasant for high school students. Let's protect them. Now the political atmosphere has shifted wildly. High school students praise socialism and even communism as if they know all about them. These kids don't need to be protected; they need to be educated. I believe that Orwell wrote his beautiful...

Posted on February 25, 2020February 25, 2020 by Msgr. Charles Pope The Urgent Theme of Ash Wednesday There is a great sense of urgency in the readings for Ash Wednesday. It is as if some great event is looming that could be awesome, but only if the warning is heeded. Consider this selection from the first reading (Joel 2:12-18):“Even now,” says the LORD, “Return to me with your whole heart, with fasting, and weeping, and mourning; Rend your hearts, not your garments, and return to the LORD, your God.”Sound the trumpet in Zion! Proclaim a fast, call an assembly;...

Senate Democrats plan to seek $8.5 billion in new federal funding to battle the coronavirus outbreak after condemning President Trump’s $2.5 billion request as inadequate. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer “is preparing a detailed Senate request” for the money, a top aide told the Washington Examiner. “Expect Schumer’s request to be finalized this morning and sent to appropriators,” the aide said. Democrats on Tuesday dismissed the Trump administration's $2.5 billion emergency funding request as far too low to prepare the nation to combat the virus in an adequate manner, given its spread in several countries. Democrats point out Congress appropriated...

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The University of Nebraska Medical Center and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases plan to conduct a clinical trial of Gilead’s experimental drug for the novel coronavirus as deaths from the outbreak lurched toward 3,000. The drug, remdesivir, has been tested on 761 patients suffering from COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the outbreak. China’s Intellectual Property Administration said Tuesday it would release results of the trial April 27. Remdesivir was used in the first case of COVID-19 in the U.S. Moderna Inc. (MRNA) Monday shipped a drug – mRNA-1273 – to the National Institute of Allergy...

OMAHA, Neb. — Hope for treating the novel coronavirus could be on the horizon, as the first U.S. study of a drug to treat the illness is underway. So far, there is no cure or vaccine for the virus, which has infected more than 80,000 people and killed over 2,700 worldwide in the past few months. News of the drug testing came Tuesday, just as a federal health official warned that the virus will eventually start spreading in U.S. communities. A clinical trial to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the antiviral drug remdesivir in adults diagnosed with coronavirus started...

Missouri R party chair and former state rep abandoned her district (MO 99) to become chair, then her candidate, a nice lady, lost to a Soros leftist. Party shirks responsibility. Josh Hawley is talking a good job, but he is responsible for the meltdown here - he essentially supported the corrupt leftist attack against Greitens. Now a young white leftist female who is running for governor has launched a scandal against Hawley just as Greitens is publicly cleared. Then the governor (Parson) announces this is his last race. How damn exciting these MO Repubicans are! What fighters. This makes me...

The liberal billionaire owner of Bloomberg News has spent less than one percent of his total net worth and has still topped a half-billion dollars in spending in an attempt to buy his way into the White House. 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg has now spent an enormous $509,512,884 on “all media types,” according to Advertising Analytics Feb. 24. That’s still not even one percent of Bloomberg’s entire current net worth at $59.4 billion, according to Forbes Magazine’s real-time net worth tracker. In addition, Bloomberg spent $15,059,000 on liberal outside spending groups this cycle.

President Trump announced Wednesday that he would be holding a 6 p.m. ET news conference to discuss the coronavirus, which is rapidly spreading around the world and triggering fears of a pandemic. The president also bashed the media and Democrats for allegedly overhyping the threat. "Low Ratings Fake News MSDNC (Comcast) & @CNN are doing everything possible to make the Caronavirus [sic] look as bad as possible, including panicking markets, if possible," Trump said, referencing dives in the U.S. stock market both Monday and Tuesday which were triggered by fears about coronavirus. "Likewise their incompetent Do Nothing Democrat comrades are...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration can withhold millions of dollars in law enforcement grants to force states to cooperate with U.S. immigration enforcement, a federal appeals court in New York ruled Wednesday in a decision that conflicted with three other federal appeals courts.

When Mike Bloomberg held a rally this month at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, the signs of his wealth and influence were everywhere. Former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, long a paid adviser to one of Bloomberg's charitable programs and now to his campaign, warmed up the crowd with chants of 'Mike will get it done!' That followed a performance of the Nick Jonas song 'Jealous' by an a capella group from the University of Pennsylvania, where Bloomberg has funded public health research. 'Bloomberg interns' have worked at the National Constitution Center and other Philadelphia cultural sites thanks to his...

by Joe Callen The Trump administration stunned Democrat lawmakers and immigration advocacy groups Wednesday, announcing it will waive federal contracting laws to greatly speed up construction of a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. The Department of Homeland Security said waiving procurement regulations will allow 377 miles of new wall to be built far more quickly in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. The 10 waived laws include requirements for having open competition, justifying selections and receiving all bonding from a contractor before any work can begin. By one estimate, the time to complete this huge section of wall could...

Brazilian authorities said on Feb. 26 that tests confirmed the first case of the new coronavirus in the country. The 61-year-old man, who lives in Sao Paulo, traveled to Italy earlier this month. The confirmed case is the first in Latin America. Previously, only the United States and Canada had confirmed cases in the Americas. Brazil’s Ministry of Health said that the first test, which was done at Albert Einstein Hospital, came back positive. A counterproof conducted at the Adolfo Lutz Institute confirmed the infection. The patient is in good condition and is at home with his family, authorities said...

A German teenager dubbed the “anti-Greta” – climate sceptics’ answer to the schoolgirl activist Greta Thunberg – is set to address the biggest annual gathering of US grassroots conservatives. Naomi Seibt, 19, who styles herself as a “climate sceptic” or “climate realist”, will this week address the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) near Washington, joining speakers including Donald Trump and Vice-President Mike Pence. Seibt is in the pay of the Heartland Institute, a thinktank closely allied with the White House that denies established science showing humans are heating the planet with dangerous consequences. CPAC will be the biggest stage yet...

Fox News analyst Judge Napolitano vented his frustration about Monday's "secret" hearing in the Roger Stone trial, claiming the presiding judge is biased against President Trump's associate. Napolitano blasted Attorney General William Barr for allowing D.C. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson to place a gag rule on Stone and hold a brief with regard to allegations that a juror and the judge herself were biased against Stone from the outset of the trial. "No one should be happy about secrecy whether you like Stone or dislike him — whether you like the president or you dislike him," said Napolitano...

Rev. Al Sharpton is reminding black voters in South Carolina that civil rights leaders faced the same political flak for being alleged socialists that Bernie Sanders, a democratic socialist, faces today. Sharpton, who hosted a half-dozen Democratic presidential hopefuls Wednesday morning at a ministers’ breakfast sponsored by his National Action Network, made his observation before introducing Sanders.Noting that Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was also criticized as a socialist while fighting for voting rights and other critical issues to the black community, Sharpton urged attendees to research that history. …

Network cites damage to 'our reputation for fairness and impartiality' Veteran ABC News correspondent David Wright was suspended Wednesday after he was caught in a Project Veritas undercover sting declaring that he was a socialist and referring to President Trump as “this f**ing president.” In a statement, an ABC spokesperson also said that Mr. Wright, who has worked for the network since 2000, would no longer cover political stories upon his return.

A Palestinian rocket attack missed a Jewish school in the Israeli city of Sderot on Monday afternoon but damaged its adjacent playground in a scenario all too common in that region. The school is located near the Gaza Strip, where violence against Israelis is ongoing. This attack came just hours after Democratic presidential frontrunner and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders cited "bigotry" as the reason he would not attend the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's conference next week.

Just how committed is Michael Bloomberg to winning the Democratic primary? Enough to have his adviser Tim OÂ’Brien drop this bombshell on a stunned Alisyn Camerota this morning on CNNÂ’s New Day. Just as Camerota made an argument that Democrats might not want to go full tilt against Bernie Sanders if heÂ’s likely to end up the nominee against Donald Trump, OÂ’Brien promised that Team Bloomberg would hammer Sanders with everything they have. And itÂ’s remarkable how much information a news-media mogul can find, isnÂ’t it? Such as advice for parents of toddlers to allow them to run naked and...

Student leaders, university officials and a history professor responded to another racial slur being used in an OU classroom Tuesday. Two weeks ago, a journalism professor compared using the phrase "OK Boomer" to the “N-Word.” Read Also: OU Journalism Professor To Step Down From Teaching Undergraduate Class For Rest Of Semester This week the university said a history professor gave a warning before using the word multiple times. “We are tired of the press conferences,” Black Emergency Response Team (BERT) student leader Miles Francisco said. “We are tired of the meetings and we are tired of the town halls we...