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As the social media giants continue to crack down on those who violate their trans-activist talking points (see here and here), another perspective has been raised from an unexpected source. I’m talking about a powerful, deeply moving article posted in Newsweek and titled, “We Need Balance When It Comes To Gender Dysphoric Kids. I Would Know.”The author of the op-ed is Scott Newgent, self-described as “a 48-year-old transgender man.” What Newgent has written is courageous, deeply revealing, poignant, and accurate. Perhaps others will now heed these urgent warnings, since those of us on the conservative Christian side who have been...

The myth of Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York, Master of Pandemics, Destroyer of Trump, Boyfriend of America didn't create itself: It was the creation of U.S. media.The week isn’t even over and already New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has threatened a Democrat colleague, attacked nurses and nursing home staff, lashed out at the federal government, and attacked his “critics” for spreading “disinformation” and “conspiracy theories” about that time he literally conspired to hide easily avoidable deaths he caused. Things aren’t looking good for him.This, we’re told by his new enemies in corporate media, is what Democratic accountability looks like....

The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, met virtually Wednesday to discuss legislation that would establish a commission looking into reparations for black Americans. First introduced in 1989 by the late Rep. John Conyers, H.R. 40 was reintroduced in January by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee with the support of 162 Democrats. Republicans chose two black witnesses to speak against the bill, Salem radio host Larry Elder and former NFL legend Herschel Walker. Elder used his five minutes to completely dismantle the arguments presented in the hearing and focused on how black people have historically survived...

The Microsoft co-founder, who has invested millions into coronavirus vaccine research, said that all five companies currently deploying their vaccines in the US are already considering boosters to mitigate the threat posed by the new variants. Gates himself is funding multiple studies in South Africa to test the efficacy of vaccines from the likes of AstraZeneca, which he says “in particular has a challenge,” with the new variants, as well as the jabs from Johnson & Johnson and Novavax, which he describes as “slightly less effective, but still effective” against the mutations. He also proposed that a potential highly “tuned...

Freedom of speech died yesterday. Its first name was Rush. And that’s not an overstatement. If you’re under 40, whether you liked or disliked Rush Limbaugh, he was part of the infrastructure of the Earth you have always known. He was an institution. Elemental in a way few mortals ever become in this life. If you disagreed with him, he was a thorn in your side for decades. If you were a fan, there’s as big a hole in your life right now as there is in your day. But if you’re over 40, you have a much greater appreciation...

Here is a song I put together w/ a buddy about winter weather... https://soundcloud.com/user-481365338/winter-hester-hartke-with-vocal-demo-1

GORILLA Glue girl Tessica Brown has found herself in another sticky situation - as her GoFundMe has been locked and is under investigation. Brown is unable to withdraw the money, which she intends to donate to charity, after people have alleged the account is fraudulent. A GoFundMe was set up for the mother to help with the cost of wigs and medical bills that reached over $23,000 after she originally asked for $1,500. After Brown underwent a free operation by Dr. Michael Obeng to remove the Gorilla Glue from her hair, she pledged to give the donations to charity. But...

TAMPA (WFLA) — A Florida lawmaker has requested Gov. Ron DeSantis order the state’s flags lowered to half-staff in honor of the passing of Rush Limbaugh. Limbaugh was a Palm Beach, Florida resident. The request was made by Republican Rep. Anthony Sabatini, who has served in the Florida House of Representatives since 2018 and represents the state’s 32nd House district in part of Lake County. Today I sent a letter to Governor DeSantis requesting the lowering of Florida’s flags to half-staff in honor of the passing of a great Floridian—Rush Limbaugh. Rush was a relentless champion of America and of...

Congressman Bennie Thompson, the Democratic lawmaker who filed a lawsuit with the NAACP against former President Trump and Rudy Giuliani, said he is eager to get to court and wants to put Trump out of business. “Donald Trump has to go away. If he doesn’t, we will put him out of business,” Thompson, the chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, told CBSN. The lawsuit accuses Trump and Rudy and others of violating the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871. That law prohibits two or more people from conspiring to “prevent, by force, intimidation, or threat,” any office-holder from doing...

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OAKLAND, Calif. - Private security guards are being deployed in Oakland Chinatown after a rash of robberies and assaults. The guards hit the streets Tuesday, less than 24 hours after a store owner tried to intervene in a robbery attempt, and opened fire.

A man in his 30s with no underlying health conditions was offered a Covid vaccine after an NHS error mistakenly listed him as just 6.2cm in height. Liam Thorp was told he qualified for the jab because his measurements gave him a body mass index of 28,000. He told BBC Radio 5 Live: "I've put on a few pounds in lockdown but I was surprised to have made it to clinically, morbidly-obese. "It really made me rethink what I was going to do for pancake night." NHS Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group said occasional errors could happen. Dr Fiona Lemmens admitted...

<p>In reality, failures in natural gas, coal and nuclear energy systems were responsible for nearly twice as many outages as frozen wind turbines and solar panels, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which operates the state’s power grid, said in a press conference Tuesday.</p>

The weakness and stupidity of America’s right has allowed false narratives to cement in the minds of the public. It’s killing our freedoms. It’s killing our jobs. It’s killing our families.Did you know that you can see The Great Wall of China from outer space? Is that not absolutely incredible? I heard this cool little fact from a friend some time ago and began telling everyone I knew about this cool trivia nugget.What really blew me away was how almost everyone I told had already heard this and agreed with me that it is a very cool fact. A man-made...

Climate deniers are using a spell of unusually cold weather in Europe to incorrectly argue that CO2 emissions are not warming the planet. As Germans shiver through double-digit negative temperatures and more than 80 centimeters (30 inches) of snow in parts of the country, climate science deniers have taken to social media to argue that global warming is a hoax. Their claim — which has been repeatedly debunked by climate scientists — is that extremely cold weather shows that carbon dioxide emissions are not warming the Earth. In fact, the effects of global warming may even have favored the extremely...

Andrew Cuomo could be in real trouble, finally. – I know it’s hard to believe that any Democrat public official in this country could ever be in real trouble, given the devoted efforts of the entirety of the corrupt national news media to provide cover for them. Least of all, Andrew Cuomo, who the media has virtually deified during the COVID pandemic, pretending that his utterly disastrous responses to the virus was somehow a role model for other governors to emulate. But he really could be in trouble now, mainly because even his fellow Democrats in New York are beginning...

At least two hospitals in Austin, Texas were left without water and heat on Tuesday night — forcing patients and staff to transport human waste in trash bags and refrain from showering or even washing their hands. The dire situation, happening amid a historic winter storm that has caused widespread power outages in the state, forced evacuations at both St. David’s South Austin Medical Center and Dell Children’s Medical Center, according to local reports.

I thought we needed a spot to note our memories of Rush Limbaugh. Do you have a favorite monologue or moment to share? I began listening to his radio show during the Clarence Thomas hearings. My husband, also a freeper, listened sooner. It took a little time for me to overcome Rush's bravado, but then I was hooked. My favorite monologue was about his cat. I know, this was probably one of his few apolitical monologues. I was driving through southern Connecticut on a trip, and I was in hysterics as Rush described his cat waking him up at 5:30...

“We all have our time machines, don’t we? Those that take us back are memories…And those that carry us forward, are dreams.” – H.G. Wells, The Time Machine One last thought about Rush: he always said that people always remember when they first heard him on the air. Ze’ev Chafets, author of the wonderful bio Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One, and I share the same “first time” story: For Zev Chafets, it was in a car in Detroit, driving down Woodward Avenue. Limbaugh's braggadocio, the outrageous satire, the slaughtering of liberal sacred cows performed with the verve of a...

Sometime late last year, the U.S. Navy tested one of Northrop Grumman’s remotely piloted helicopters for use as an anti-submarine warfare platform, USNI News reported. During the evaluation, the Fire Scout drone dropped miniaturized sonobuoys into the water, essentially small acoustic devices that listen for enemy movement underwater.