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Student Suicides Peak When School Is In Session May. 4, 2020 Dr. Jay L. Wile Suicides among children increase when they are in school. One factor might be the peer group to which school exposes students, which can be incredibly cruel. (image from stockunlimited.com) In response to a Harvard Law Professor’s evidence-free assertion that there should be a presumptive ban on homeschooling, Ideological Diversity (a student group at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government) hosted an online conference entitled “The Disinformation Campaign Against Homeschooling.” You can watch it here. I attended the conference, and it lived up to the...

Several Florida abortion facilities have recently closed, including a longtime National Abortion Federation (NAF) facility in South Florida owned by an abortionist once accused of forcing an abortion on his pregnant wife. Florida’s Agency for Healthcare Administration (ACHA), which licenses abortion facilities in the state, shows that the All Women’s Clinic (AWC) in Ft. Lauderdale, owned by abortionist Theodor Lehrer, has closed as of April 12, 2019. State records also indicate that the abortion facility was last inspected in 2018. A phone call made by Live Action News independently verified that a recorded message left by the abortion facility states,...

Fossils and stone tools show that hominins made it to Wallacean islands at least one million years ago, including the famous 'Hobbit,' or Homo floresiensis, on the island of Flores. When our own species arrived 45,000 years ago (or perhaps earlier), it is thought to have quickly developed the specialized use of marine habitats, as evidenced by one of the world's earliest fish hooks found in the region..." This new paper uses stable carbon isotopes measured from fossil human teeth to directly reconstruct the long-term diets of past populations. Although this method has been used to study the diets and...

Nearly 4 million viewers watched the Fox News virtual town hall with President Trump, which was broadcast from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., on Sunday night. It was the second most-watched town hall in cable news history. The town hall, entitled "America Together: Returning to Work," focused on COVID-19 and the reopening of the U.S. economy. Trump took viewer-submitted questions during the two-hour event moderated by anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum. According to Nielsen Media Research, Fox News finished first in the 7-9 p.m. time slot, averaging 3.82 million viewers. CNN was second with 1.17 million viewers, while...

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that some retail stores across the state can reopen with modifications as early as Friday amid growing pressure to ease the stay-at-home order that has cratered the California economy. "We are entering into the next phase this week," Newsom said at his Monday news conference. "This is a very positive sign and it's happened only for one reason: The data says it can happen." Under the new guidelines, the governor said bookstores, music stores, toy stores, florists, sporting goods retailers and others can reopen for pickup as early as Friday. He said more detailed...

The coronavirus pandemic is changing how the world sees China and has sparked “outrageous behaviour” towards Australia, say experts. The behaviour of China’s diplomat in Australia this past week has been described as “outrageous” as experts contemplate whether it’s time to rethink the relationship between the two countries. Lowy Institute executive director Michael Fullilove told Q&A on Monday night that the behaviour of Chinese diplomats in the past week had “focused a lot of minds in Australia and around the world about the kind of country we are dealing with”. China lashed out at Prime Minister Scott Morrison last week,...

What should the U.S. Citizens and/or U.S. Government do if the facts of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) is proven to be released from China by accident or on purpose?

The Scourge of Abortion in New Mexican Catholic Culture—an Introduction Albuquerque, New Mexico’s Dr. Curtis Boyd, is a cult hero to some. To others he is the devil incarnate. Boyd is an abortionist. He performs third-trimester, and even partial-birth, abortions as it is legal within the Albuquerque city limits. Tragically, when the issue was submitted as a referendum to the citizenry of this predominantly Hispanic and Catholic city, ashamedly, it passed. I am told by Elisa Martinez, Executive Director of the New Mexico Alliance for Life, that Boyd’s very modest and unspectacular-looking clinic in the center of town will often...

California will move into Stage 2 of the state's reopening plan by the end of this week, Governor Gavin Newsom announced during a press conference Monday. "On Friday I said we were days not weeks from announcing modifications to the stay-at-home order, and today we are announcing our efforts to update the stay-at-home guidelines and begin the process of moving to Stage 2," he said. The new guidelines for Stage 2 — which allow for the return of retail, manufacturing, and other "low-risk" businesses — will be released Thursday, and businesses can start reopening Friday if new physical-distancing measures are...

RUSH: You know, these are the people to whom there is no longer any curiosity. Whenever any accredited so-called expert anywhere says, they just accept it without any questioning, without any curiosity. They are the least curious among us, the American journalist community. There’s a story here… I saved this. I printed this out. This is from… Let’s see…. (muttering) It’s a CNN story? I think it’s CNN. It’s the Hollywood Reporter. Hollywood Reporter. They went out and talked to a bunch of media people. “Four More ‘Exhausting’ Years? Trump Reporters Mull Covering a Second Term — ‘I don’t know...

The Department of Justice announced it will aid a Virginia church suing Gov. Ralph Northam after a pastor was threatened with jail time or a $2,500 fine for hosting a 16-person church service on Palm Sunday. According to Northam’s shelter-in-place restrictions, churches cannot hold services with more than 10 people. The DOJ filed a Statement of Interest in a Virginia federal court citing freedom of religion in support of Lighthouse Fellowship Church, a congregation in Chincoteague Island, Virginia. According to the DOJ’s statement, the congregation serves, among others, recovering drug addicts and former prostitutes.

Liberate Idaho Posted onFriday, May 1, 2020 by Douglas Wilson Remarks on the steps of the Capitol in Boise/May 1, 2020 Introduction It is a great privilege to be here, and a high honor to be able to address you all, and so I thank the organizers of this event. In the kindness of God, I have spoken to many assemblies, congregations, and conferences. I have spoken to small groups and to large ones. I have spoken in numerous states, and in many different countries. But I do have to say, in all honesty, that I have never spoken to...

WASHINGTON - The secretary of the Senate has declined Joe Biden’s request to release any potential documents pertaining to an allegation of sexual assault against him from a former Senate staffer, citing confidentiality requirements under the law. Biden made the request Friday after delivering his first public comments responding to the allegation from former staffer Tara Reade that he sexually assaulted her in the basement of a Capitol Hill office building in the spring of 1993. Biden has denied the allegation. In response, the secretary of the Senate told Biden’s legal counsel in an email that after reviewing the Government...

The far-Left anti-Trump propaganda organ masquerading as a news source and operating under the name the Washington Post on Thursday published an inspiring op-ed entitled “As American Muslims fast this Ramadan, maybe the rest of America should consider joining in.” The Post’s articles exhorting people to keep the Lenten fast or the Yom Kippur fast have not yet been published, but I’m sure that they will be when the appropriate times for them roll around again. Won’t they?

Comcast Corp’s NBCUniversal announced a management shuffle on Monday, consolidating the entertainment and sports division under Mark Lazarus, chairman of TV and streaming. As part of the management changes, news group head Andy Lack will step down and leave the company at the end of the month. Telemundo head Cesar Conde will now oversee the news group, which includes NBC News, MSNBC and CNBC.

Biden’s remarks were not anti-Semitic. They were very, very philo-Semitic. The thrust of his largely unscripted monologue is that Jews have contributed enormously to the United States. That’s obviously a standard spiel for praising any ethnic group, but Biden took care to emphasize that Jews have not just contributed their share to the United States, but far more: The Jewish people have contributed greatly to America. No group has had such an outsized influence per capita as all of you standing before you, and all of those who went before me and all of those who went before you …...

Protesters jammed Beacon Street in front of the Massachusetts State House today chanting “End the shut down now,” and calling on the governor to remove restrictions on businesses and individuals in response to the coronavrus pandemic. The crowd, standing shoulder-to-shoulder, spilled into Beacon Street prompting cops to shut down vehicle traffic in the area. “The country is being shut down and its really hurting a lot of people and causing more devastation than we realize,” said Stoneham resident Susan Dawson. “Businesses, people are losing their livelihood.”

The U.S. Navy Blue Angels will fly above North Texas on Wednesday to honor health care workers and first responders on the front line of the fight against COVID-19. U.S. Rep. Kay Granger (TX-12) made the announcement Monday morning on her website, saying the flyover will occur over Fort Worth at 11 a.m. and last roughly 35 minutes. “I’m proud to partner with the Navy to bring the Blue Angels to Fort Worth, showcasing our community’s deep appreciation to the brave doctors, nurses, first responders, and essential workers on the frontlines of our nation’s fight against the coronavirus,” Granger said...

Guest Piece by Karen Kataline Recently, a local talk show host asked a “get ‘em calling” question, “Who do you believe about the coronavirus?” If the question was designed to be frustrating, it certainly was. Do people choose to believe someone and then stop asking questions? I hope not. As we’ve seen, the esteemed scientists we were supposed to believe were spectacularly wrong –again and again. Unfortunately, the talk radio host’s question is moot since those who don’t believe the narrative are being forced along with everyone else to comply with orders from politicians they elected and bureaucrats they didn’t....