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The San Francisco Unified School District's recent vote to rename schools over the reckoning of historical figures and their flawed legacies has been widely seen as an incompetent, embarrassing mess. The near-unanimous vote on Monday to rename 44 schools by the San Francisco Board of Education came after years of debate. The canceled names include campuses named after former presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln and Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein. And as if spending valuable time (and a lot of money) renaming a third of the schools in the district when every student is still stuck at home...

Poland is bringing a divisive anti-abortion law into force, amid escalating EU doubt on the legality of its court system. The law, banning all terminations except for cases of rape and incest or if the mother’s life was at risk, was to come into effect after Poland’s Constitutional Court confirmed its earlier verdict by publishing a statement of justification on Wednesday (27 January). The original ruling, last October, prompted anti-government protests led by women’s rights activists up and down the Roman Catholic country. Wednesday’s move saw a few thousand people hold a peaceful demonstration in Warsaw city center. […] “It’s...

EXCLUSIVE: Bishop Naumann – US bishops must address scandal of ‘Catholic’ Biden championing abortionBiden’s actions are 'confusing Catholics and non-Catholics regarding the Church’s teaching on the evil of abortion'<KANSAS CITY, Kansas, February 3, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Kansas City Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann told LifeSiteNews in an exclusive interview (read full interview below) that the bishops of the United States have an “obligation” to act when it comes to the country’s president identifying himself as a devout Catholic while working to expand abortion.“The fact that President Biden identifies himself as a devout Catholic, while working to preserve and expand legalized abortion,...

The choice of Joseph Tobin as a mediator in the case is suggestive of what kind of resolution the Vatican may be looking for.February 3, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – The Vatican has tasked pro-LGBT Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark, New Jersey to intervene in the case of an archbishop revoking the Catholic identity of a Jesuit-run high school over its refusal to not renew the contract of a teacher in a same-sex “marriage” only to have the Vatican suspend the archbishop’s decision. Senior Vatican officials close to both the Congregation for Catholic Education and in the Secretariat of State confirmed to...

Pro-lifers urge Argentine governors to defend innocentsBUENOS AIRES, Argentina (ChurchMilitant.com) - A pro-abortion group calling itself Catholic is demanding that a judge be charged with malfeasance after she ruled to suspend Argentina's new federal abortion law. Catholic Women for Choice (Católicas por el Derechos a Decidir, or CDD) claimed that Judge Marta Aucar de Trotti illegally suspended in Chaco province Argentina's new law whose sweeping provisions grant "voluntary interruption of pregnancy." According to the statement by CDD, led by activist Teresa Bosio, a complaint was filed with the prosecutor in the provincial capital of Chaco, which lies near neighboring Paraguay....

Not content simply to restore and rebuild village churches, the Common Cause project of the Russian Orthodox Church is also working to restore prayer in them. Common Cause was founded in 2006 as a project dedicated to restoring and rebuilding wooden churches of the Russian north that were neglected, repurposed, and destroyed during the long years of soviet rule. Work has been carried out on more than 150 churches in 370 trips over the years. And thanks to its “Pascha in Every Church” and “Nativity of Christ in Every Church” initiatives, the Orthodox faithful of remote villages with dilapidated...

The video has been removed, but Michelle Ami Reyes, vice president for the Asian American Christian Collaborative, on Twitter described the video as using Asian culture 'as a prop for slapstick humor.'(RNS) — Saddleback Church pastor Rick Warren has apologized for a children’s Sunday school curriculum video that used Asian culture stereotypes to teach kids about the Bible. The video has been removed, but Michelle Ami Reyes, vice president for the Asian American Christian Collaborative, on Twitter described it as using Asian culture “as a prop for slapstick humor.” The video, she said, blurs and dishonors “distinctions and categories of...

Remember how socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has been telling anyone who will listen about her terrifying, near-death experience during the Capitol riots? And how Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) almost had her "murdered?" It turns out, according Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) and others, that Ocasio-Cortez wasn’t even in the Capitol building during the events of January 6. Ocasio-Cortez was at the Cannon Building, where her office is. “My office is 2 doors down,” Mace wrote in a Tuesday Twitter post. “Insurrectionists never stormed our hallway. Egregious doesn’t even begin to cover it. Is there nothing the MSM won’t politicize?”

As a team of experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) is in Wuhan to investigate the origins of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, city residents expressed concerns that the team would not be able to conduct a full probe given local authorities’ earlier coverup. They also lamented that the team visited a museum exhibit that was a propaganda effort to glorify the Chinese regime’s response to the outbreak. Zhang Hai, whose father died from COVID-19 last year, questioned why foreign journalists were not allowed to cover the WHO team’s itinerary or interview the experts. “Investigating the origins of...

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...