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Amid a nationwide movement to remove statues, symbols, and words in the name of inclusion, Campus Reform rounded up recent examples of words that have been banned on college campuses.1. MSU eliminates the terms 'foreign' and 'alien'Michigan State University announced it would no longer use the terms “foreign” and “alien” in order to create a more inclusive environment. In October, Provost Teresa Woodruff addressed the Associated Students of MSU general assembly to announce the new “non-pejorative” language. Woodruff stated that moving forward, international students should be referred to as “non-domestic” or “international” to help “create a culture of not us...

The courtship between Apple and Hyundai's Kia to build an Apple car seems to be progressing nicely. According to a report by CNBC, the two companies are close to finalizing a deal that would have Kia building an electric, autonomous Apple vehicle at a Kia assembly plant in West Point, Georgia. According to CNBC's sources, the deal hinges on Apple being in control of both the software and hardware of the vehicle. In other words, it would not be a Kia or Hyundai with Apple technology but would instead be an Apple vehicle that’s built by the Korean automaker in...

Now that former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has stepped down, the company has appointed his successor. The new person to helm the e-commerce company could signal how it will handle issues related to online speech in the future.Andy Jassy, who previously headed Amazon Web Services (AWS), will replace Bezos later this year. You might remember him from such hits as “Let’s Deplatform Parler Because We Don’t Like Conservatives Expressing Their Ideas Online.”That’s right. Jassy led the department responsible for blacklisting Parler in January under the guise of protecting public safety. Shortly after the assault on the U.S. Capitol building on...

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to retain Rep. Liz Cheney as their No. 3 leader, rebuffing a rebellion by hard-right conservatives angry after she voted last month to impeach then-President Donald Trump. The secret 145-61 vote came the same day that Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy ridiculed Democrats for slating a House vote Thursday on removing Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia from her committees. McCarthy’s comment was a signal that he was dismissing bipartisan demands that Greene be punished for her promotion online and embrace of racist and violent views and bizarre conspiracy theories.

Yesterday, Redstate’s Nick Arama wrote on Joe Biden re-opening a facility to house the children of illegal immigrants and other unaccompanied minors that make it across the border. This was in stark contrast to previous pronouncements that he was going to shutter them and release everyone.And while it may be a good thing that Biden isn’t going completely insane on immigration just yet (though he’s canceled the wall and other enforcement measures), the hypocrisy we are now seeing in response to this is just too much to ignore.Remember when “kids in cages” was a rallying cry of the left and...

Cowboys for Trump founder appeals ruling that would keep him locked up pending trial Cowboys for Trump founder appeals ruling that would keep him locked up pending trial KOB Web Staff Created: February 03, 2021 03:51 PM ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.- Otero County Commission Couy Griffin is appealing a judge's decision to keep him in federal custody pending trial. The Cowboys for Trump founder is charged with knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds during the riots at the U.S. Capitol. Griffin wants to be released on the "standard conditions recommended by Pretrial Services, or such other conditions as...

Our Troops Rock! Thank you for all you do! For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! ~ Hall of Heroes ~ The Four Chaplains Info from here. The Four Chaplains, also sometimes referred to as the "Immortal Chaplains" or the "Dorchester Chaplains" were four United States Army chaplains who gave their lives to save other civilian and military personnel as the troop ship USAT Dorchester sank on February 3, 1943, during World War II. They helped other...

Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday took aim at the country’s largest technology companies, which he characterized as a group of "monopoly communications platforms" based on the way they have grown to regulate public discourse. "These platforms have changed from neutral platforms that provided Americans with the freedom to speak, to enforcers of preferred narratives," DeSantis said during a press conference. "Consequently, these platforms have played an increasingly decisive role in elections and have negatively impacted Americans who dissent from orthodoxies favored by the big tech cartel." DeSantis targeted tech companies over content moderation, which he equated to political...

Magnetars are a rare type of rotating neutron star with some of the most powerful magnetic fields in the Universe. Astronomers have detected only thirty of these objects in and around the Milky Way—most of them detected by X-ray telescopes following a high-energy outburst. However, a handful of these magnetars have also been seen to emit radio pulses similar to pulsars—the less magnetic cousins of magnetars that produce beams of radio waves from their magnetic poles. Tracking how the pulses from these ‘radio-loud’ magnetars change over time offers a unique window into their evolution and geometry. In March 2020, a...

A 35-year-old has married herself in an intimate ceremony in front of family and friends, after breaking up with her long-term boyfriend. Life and business coach Meg Taylor Morrison, from Atlanta, Georgia, had always wanted to get married on Halloween 2020, but after she split from her partner just four months before that date, her dreams of tying the knot on All Hallow's Eve were dashed. That is until she learned about self-marriage ceremonies - and decided that she didn't want to wait for the perfect partner to come along before hosting her perfect wedding ceremony. Like most brides-to-be, Meg...

TORONTO — Canada on Wednesday declared the Proud Boys a terrorist entity, adding the far-right group to a list that includes al-Qaida, ISIS and al-Shabab in an effort to crack down on “ideologically motivated violent extremism,” described by the country’s public safety minister as the “most significant threat to domestic security.” The announcement by Public Safety Minister Bill Blair came less than a month after Proud Boys allegedly joined the violent mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol after attending a rally by then-President Donald Trump in the hope of overturning the presidential election. Five people, including a Capitol Police officer,...

When it comes to domestic extremists such as those who stormed the Capitol, a longtime CIA officer argues that the U.S. should treat them as an insurgency. That means using counterinsurgency tactics — similar in some ways to those used in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Robert Grenier served as the CIA's station chief for Pakistan and Afghanistan in 2001. He went on to become the CIA's Iraq mission manager and then director of the CIA Counterterrorism Center from 2004 to 2006. "We may be witnessing the dawn of a sustained wave of violent insurgency within our own country,...

Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington said he has “the utmost respect” for cops — while taking a shot at anti-police protesters. The 66-year-old “Malcolm X” actor said he’s had a first-hand look at the value of police work, after playing law enforcement in several roles throughout his career. “I have the utmost respect for what they do, for what our soldiers do, (people) that sacrifice their lives. I just don’t care for people who put those kind of people down,” Washington told Yahoo! Entertainment. “If it weren’t for them, we would not have the freedom to complain about what they...

The Arizona Senate is set to pass a contempt resolution finding that the Maricopa County Board has failed to comply with a subpoena demanding access to elections equipment and ballots cast in the November election, with the potential threat of arrest alluded to in the sure-to-pass resolution.The Associated Press reported Wednesday:The Senate introduced the resolution Wednesday afternoon. Timing on a full Senate vote is unclear, but all 16 Republican senators are listed as sponsors, meaning it is virtually certain to pass.If the resolution is enacted, the five members of the county board could be arrested for failing to comply. It...

"Facebook didn’t respond to a request for comment. The social media giant took many punitive actions against Trump in the lead-up to the November 2020 election and eventually banned him from its website, insisting he was encouraging rather than condemning the actions of his followers. Facebook appeared to take no action against Biden, notwithstanding the Democrat issuing a number of misleading posts before and after the election."

... In Kinzinger’s case, it seems some of his own family members are among those who feel angry and betrayed. They told him so in no uncertain terms, sending his office a certified letter disowning him and, in a bizarre twist, claiming he is possessed by the devil. ...

Pope Francis: Dismantling MarriageIn the context of this article by the excellent Phil Lawler, Dr. Peter Kwasniewski offers the following comment:Not long ago, I was involved in a fairly intense discussion of whether Pope Francis is an evil man. One side said "yes, absolutely, you can see that from his years-long patterns of equivocation, ambiguity, and deception, his personnel selections and promotions, his attitude of contempt for tradition, his arrogance, insults, etc." The other side said "no, we don't know enough about his internal state, his knowledge, his capacities, to be able to make such a claim. All we can...

Gov. Tom Wolf picked the big lumber off his policy bat rack Wednesday, unveiling a $37.8 billion state budget proposal that calls for the kind of sweeping change that he started his tenure in office with six years ago. Wolf proposed a major tax reform that also - and unfortunately for the governor and his allies - can be accurately described by his Republican critics as the single-biggest income tax increase ever seen in Pennsylvania, even though it would only ask the top one-third of state wage earners to pay more, according to the administration’s numbers. Gov. Wolf proposes Pa.’s...

ATLANTA — There’s a new effort to remove Confederate monuments and memorials from public land across Georgia, including Stone Mountain. Channel 2′s Richard Elliot is at the State Capitol, where two new pieces of legislation were introduced Wednesday morning. There are legal protections that Confederate monuments and memorials have under current Georgia laws.

ATLANTA — The House Rules Committee voted Wednesday evening to advance a resolution that would strip Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from all of her committee assignments. Greene represents Georgia’s 14th Congressional District. The North Georgia congresswoman has been facing backlash over the last couple of weeks after Facebook posts and past comments have come to light showing support of conspiracy theories surrounding school shootings and the 9/11 attacks.