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A 13-year-old schoolgirl confessed that she lied about a French teacher who was beheaded after showing his class cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, according to the girl's lawyer. Samuel Paty, a secondary school teacher in a town near Paris, was killed last October by a radical Chechen teenager after showing the cartoons to students during a civics class about free speech. The unidentified girl told police that she lied about being in the class and falsely accused Paty of asking Muslim children to leave the class while he showed the pictures. Her father, who has been charged in connection with...

“When you don’t have the data and you don’t have the actual evidence, then you’ve got to make a judgment call.” What? I need to look at that again: “When you don’t have the data and you don’t have the actual evidence, then you’ve got to make a judgment call.” Yes, Anthony Fauci actually said that. On national TV. Well, on CNN, at least. Isn’t that great? Hey now, don’t worry about all those pesky numbers and all that confusing technical jargon. Just trust the guy who knows what he’s talking about because he says he knows what he’s talking...

While the number of fatalities attributed to Covid-19 is carefully tracked by governments, few people have recognized how pandemic-spurred crackdowns have devastated democracy around the world. Emergency proclamations have entitled presidents and other government officials to seize vast new powers previously forbidden to them. Government bureaucrats became a new priesthood that could sanctify unlimited sacrifices merely by invoking dubious statistical extrapolations of future perils. In October, Freedom House issued a report, Democracy under Lockdown – The Impact of COVID-19 on Global Freedom, which warned that since the pandemic started, “the condition of democracy and human rights has worsened in 80...

On December 6, 2016, a high-energy particle called an electron antineutrino hurtled to Earth from outer space at close to the speed of light carrying 6.3 petaelectronvolts (PeV) of energy. Deep inside the ice sheet at the South Pole, it smashed into an electron and produced a particle that quickly decayed into a shower of secondary particles. The interaction was captured by a massive telescope buried in the Antarctic glacier, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. IceCube had seen a Glashow resonance event, a phenomenon predicted by Nobel laureate physicist Sheldon Glashow in 1960. With this detection, scientists provided another confirmation of...

The Wisconsin House of Representatives on Wednesday held a hearing to review election irregularities after newly revealed documents obtained by Wisconsin Spotlight revealed that Democrat activists, funded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, were able to infiltrate the 2020 presidential election in Wisconsin’s five largest cities. In Green Bay, a Democrat activist was actually given keys to the room where absentee ballots were stored before the 2020 presidential election. The city received a total of $1.6 million in grant funding from the Zuckerberg-funded Center for Tech and Civic Life, according to Wisconsin Spotlight. A Democrat operative from New York named Michael...

Let’s stop kidding ourselves. The political frippery over race has nothing to do with race. Black oppression in today’s America is fiction. The growing snarls against “whiteness” come more from Cain-and-Abel stuff: envy, hatred, revenge, arrogance, blame, guilt, and greed. Few groups understand this like the Jews. They’ve been hated by one group or another since Pharaoh enslaved their Hebrew ancestors over 3,500 years ago. But the pharaohs are gone. The Assyrian Empire that destroyed Israel’s northern kingdom in 722 B.C., is gone. The Philistines and Babylonians are gone. Haman, who asked the King of Persia to kill all Jews...

Prosecutors in Alberta are continuing to withdraw tickets issued to residents who had defied COVID-19 public health orders. The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedom, a charity law firm that defends Canadians’ Charter Rights, announced on Tuesday that Alberta provincial Crown prosecutor has dropped three tickets, and a municipal crown prosecutor has revoked one. “Public health officials are not the supreme law of the land—the Constitution is,” said Jay Cameron, litigation director for the Justice Centre. “A significant portion of the arbitrary and confusing public health orders which have so oppressed Canadian society are, on their face, unconstitutional and cannot be...

A year into the pandemic, California and Florida have become common points of contrast as Americans grapple with the horrific human and economic tolls of trying to control COVID-19.

Explanation: Could Queen Calafia's mythical island exist in space? Perhaps not, but by chance the outline of this molecular space cloud echoes the outline of the state of California, USA. Our Sun has its home within the Milky Way's Orion Arm, only about 1,000 light-years from the California Nebula. Also known as NGC 1499, the classic emission nebula is around 100 light-years long. On the featured image, the most prominent glow of the California Nebula is the red light characteristic of hydrogen atoms recombining with long lost electrons, stripped away (ionized) by energetic starlight. The star most likely providing the...

Everything looks the same on either side of the Texas-New Mexico border in the great oil patch of the Permian Basin. There are the pump jacks scattered across the plains, nodding up and down with metronomic regularity. There are the brown highway signs alerting travelers to historical markers tucked away in the nearby scrub. There are the frequent memorials of another sort, to the victims of vehicle accidents. And there are the astonishingly deluxe high school football stadiums. This is, after all, the region that produced “Friday Night Lights.” The city of Hobbs, population just under 40,000, sits on the...

According to the recent lawsuit, the seminar held by Alive Seminars in 2019 “quickly devolved into psychological abuse,” with instructors yelling and belittling attendees. Cellphone use was prohibited, there was no clock in the room, and the doors and windows were covered with black cloth during the seminar... One activity required participants to pretend they were on a sinking ship, where only four would survive. On July 13, the seminar’s third day, Spargifiore was made to strip down to her underwear in front of strangers and coworkers as part of what was billed as a trust-building exercise... ... taking turns...

Majid M. Padellan is the left-leaning political commentator better known as “BrooklynDad_Defiant!” on Twitter. He is known for posting support for the Democratic party and liberal policies. He shares critical commentary on Republicans. Since the riots at the Capitol on January 6, Padellan has used his platform to call for GOP lawmakers such as Rep. Lauren Boebert and Senator Ted Cruz to face repercussions for “stoking” the crowd that day. Padellan has also been known to trigger controversy among Democrats. As Refinery29 pointed out, Padellan called on Senator Bernie Sanders to drop out of the presidential race and was critical...

Trade between the UK and Germany slumped in January amid the economic fallout from Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic in the first month after leaving the EU, according to official figures. Germany’s federal statistics body said imports from the UK fell by more than 56% to €1.6bn (£1.4bn) in January from the same month a year ago, after the end of the Brexit transition period and start of the new trading relationship between Britain and the EU. In a reflection of disruption at the start of the year from new customs checks and border delays, German exports to the UK...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was applauded by some of her fellow GOP lawmakers for a House floor speech decrying a gun control bill.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) observed Wednesday morning universal background checks turn law-abiding citizens into criminals. Moreover, she suggested the process is actually intended to do so. She tweeted: Lauren Boebert Universal background checks on guns are only meant to turn law-abiding citizens into criminals. Boebert’s observation comes on the very day on which the Democrat-run House of Representatives is scheduled to take up Rep. Mike Thompson’s (D-CA) universal background check legislation. And it was just two days ago Boebert suggested her Democrat colleagues should rely on the Constitution rather than gun control. Breitbart News noted Boebert tweeting: “You’re going to...

...But it is avoidance. And the fact is, he should be having news conferences. And by news conferences, I don't mean questions he can ignore as he's led off the stage by first lady Jill Biden, holding his elbow to direct him if he turns the wrong way. And I don't mean Biden reading from a teleprompter. He even has difficulty with that lately. ...Or answering questions about his environment czar, John Kerry, who arrogantly told thousands of workers who lost their jobs due to the Keystone pipeline cancellation that they could find jobs making solar panels. Mr. President, how...

Date And Time Wed, March 10, 2021 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM MST Add to Calendar Location Queen Creek Botanical Gardens 20568 E Riggs Rd Queen Creek, AZ

Many times in my life I have been standing alone. Like this picture. I remember standing alone at the edge of the Grand Canyon when I was hitchhiking through Arizona, wondering which way I would travel. I remember standing alone, looking down at the grave of a dear sweet girl who had my heart when I was but 16. I also remember wondering if she would still be alive had I not gotten off the bus a block early. Or would she now be looking down at my grave all these years later. I remember standing alone inside the tent...

During the 2020 presidential campaign, Texas Democratic Congressman Beto O’Rourke often bellowed on how, if elected president, he wanted to take away your firearms, specifically your “military-style” AR-15 through a mandatory gun buy-back program, something unconstitutional on its face and a direct infringement of the right to keep and bear arms enshrined in the Second Amendment, During the Democratic presidential primary debate on October 15, 2019, the Congressman responded to the question of how he intended to enforce that proposed gun buyback program: Although he hasn’t offered exact specifics on the program, he did share some additional details at the...

Documentary filmmaker and liberal activist Michael Moore said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Live” that white people voted for Republicans because they were “having a hard time” becoming a minority in America due to changing demographics. On the coronavirus stimulus bill passing, Moore said, “I’m just so happy to be in this moment here in the last few minutes and what has happened in Congress. It’s such a historic moment. I think in the next few weeks, people, the average Americans, will see the coming results of this. They are going to feel it. They are going to feel government helping them...