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Fighting Woke Tyrants The opposition has not fought back effectively. It has not been resourceful enough and has even failed to exercise those limited powers at its disposal to keep the enemy in check. “A small but determined and vicious minority is bullying people,” observes Instapundit Glenn H. Reynolds in the New York Post. “Woke tyrants are riding high” and “62 percent of Americans self-censor their political expression.” Reynolds notes that “corporations, universities, and government rush to placate that minuscule slice of the population trashing large chunks of our culture.” This is a power grab that supposedly could “never happen...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is ridding Florida public schools of Critical Race Theory.During an official education announcement this week from Naples, DeSantis blasted the indoctrination curriculum as hateful and anti-American. "Let me be clear, there is no room in our classrooms for things like Critical Race Theory. Teaching kids to hate their country & to hate each other is not worth one red cent of taxpayer money," DeSantis said. "We will invest in actual, solid, true curriculum and we will be a leader in the development and implementation of a world class civics education." Gov. Desantis Blasting The Teaching Of...

ATLANTA (WGCL) -- Surveillance footage captured the terrifying moment before two violent attackers ambushed a young woman as she got back into her car at local gas station in Atlanta. The footage showed two suspects appearing to hid and take cover near the back of 23-year-old Jhanae Askew's vehicle while she was inside a Chevron gas station. “I honestly thought any second was going to be my last,” said Askew.

Dozens of 2,000-year-old fragments from scrolls containing portions of the books of Nahum and Zechariah have been unearthed in Israel, an extremely rare discovery in the Judean Desert. The Israel Antiquities Authority announced the discovery of the uncovered fragments on Tuesday. They are the first of such discoveries in approximately 60 years. The Dead Sea Scrolls are fragments of religious manuscripts that were originally found in the Judaean Desert decades ago. The newly discovered fragments are Greek translations of the two minor prophets. Despite most of the fragments being in Greek, the name of God is written in Hebrew. The...

Adm. Michael Gilday has refused to pull anti-white books from the U.S. Navy reading list, reports Fox News, despite pressure from House Republicans.Adm. Michael Gilday has refused to pull anti-white books from the U.S. Navy reading list, reports Fox News, despite pressure from House Republicans. Several members of Congress, most of them veterans, sent Gilday a letter objecting to the inclusion of these extremist works on the military’s recommended list. Gilday essentially told these elected officials who oversee his service to take a hike, saying that adding the racially divisive works was the result of military leadership’s attempts “to identify...

President Joe Biden must apologize and take back “boorish” allegations that Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin is a killer, a top Russian official said, a day after Moscow recalled its ambassador in protest. Biden’s remark is a “watershed” in relations and “unacceptable in any circumstances,” Konstantin Kosachyov, deputy speaker of Russia’s upper house of parliament, wrote on Facebook Thursday. Moscow’s initial reaction — recalling its U.S. ambassador — “won’t be the last, unless there is an explanation and an apology from the American side.”

This could become a new beat. ‘Who the hell are you, Doctor Fauci?’ is the name. Biden’s de facto COVID czar appears to think that a) we have to listen to every word he says, and b) he has enforcement of law concerning his COVID guidelines. He doesn’t. He’s not an elected official. He’s a bureaucrat whose advice should be disregarded on a daily basis. Why? He’s been wrong more times than not and after three strikes you’re out. Actually, I’m being kind here; he’s had several strikeouts. He’s a man who likes to hear himself talk—that’s it. He’s a...

The Biden administration is trying to hide the border crisis, issuing an unofficial gag order on Border Patrol agents and withholding information.On Wednesday, NBC News reported the Biden administration has imposed what amounts to a media blackout at the southwest border amid a worsening crisis.Border Patrol agents, including sector chiefs and press officers, are under an unofficial gag order not to answer questions from the press, according to four current and two former Customs and Border Protection officials who spoke to NBC News on condition of anonymity.Federal officials along the border, they say, have been verbally instructed—there is no official...

Priest presides over ‘marriage’ ceremony of man and transgender ‘woman’Salesian priest Father Fabián Colman joined a 54-year-old man and a 46-year-old man who believes himself to be a woman, in order to perform a 'marriage' ceremony in Argentina.USHUAIA, Argentina, March 17, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – A Catholic priest in Argentina has performed a Catholic “marriage” ceremony for two homosexuals, one of whom is a transgender “woman.”On February 6, Salesian priest Father Fabián Colman joined Pablo López Silva, aged 54, and Victoria Castro, a 46-year-old male who believes himself to be a woman, in order to perform a “marriage” ceremony in the...

Editor’s Note: In the wake of the January 6 Capitol riot, the Biden administration ordered the U.S. Navy to stand down its global operations and subject all members to what it characterizes as training to recognize and combat”extremism.” The piece below was written by an active duty military member who has about 20 years of service. This member has been deployed overseas in the war on terrorism multiple times. The piece describes the Navy’s “extremism stand-down,” what it includes, and what it leaves out. Ted Mahan is not the member’s real name. Recently, my Navy unit held an “extremism stand-down”...

Child Suicide is Becoming an ‘International Epidemic’ Amid Restricted Pandemic Life, Doctors Warn The damage we’re inflicting on children is too devastating to be waved away in the name of public health—it’s quickly becoming an emergency in its own right. Billions of people across the globe continue to live under COVID-19 lockdowns or heavily-restricted life. And for almost all of us, life amid the pandemic in 2020 was an isolating and difficult year. Yet doctors are warning that children in particular are experiencing grave mental health consequences as a result of the lockdowns—leading to an “international epidemic” of child suicide....

CNN is losing around a million viewers on average each night since President Donald Trump left office - and is down nearly 50% in the key 24-54 age group, a report said on Thursday. The cable news channel had averaged 2.5 million prime-time viewers each night from November 4 through Inauguration Day on January 20, according to a Fox News analysis of Nielsen data. But data shows the network averaged only 1.6 million total prime-time viewers from January 21, the day after the inauguration of President Joe Biden, through March 15, according to the report. CNN's overall prime-time viewership, from...

div class="article_body">In my sleepy suburban town, fourteen miles east of Oakland, California the COVID fallout to small businesses and restaurants had been nothing less than complete devastation. Dozens of empty storefronts stand as grim tombstones to ruined families, laid off employees, and bankrupt wholesalers and suppliers.I read news snippets that COVID case are receding and COVID deaths are on the decline. But what are the real numbers in Contra Costa county? To put it mildly, the county government stats are carefully designed to misdirect and scare the casual reader. “Seven day rolling averages” and “cases per 100,000 folks for the...

A former celebrity mechanic has launched an entire suite of new social media platforms after his wife was banned from Facebook for supporting Donald Trump. ..... “We decided to create a new platform as opposed to joining an existing one because even the more conservative leaning existing platforms shadow ban. Some of the things I was trying to post didn’t show up for days or weeks. It was then that I knew something was wrong and I needed to start my own product if I wanted to truly express how I felt online. These platforms also capture and sell your...

A new opinion editorial published by the Scientific American, co-authored by physics professor Ian Durham of St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, argued that the term "quantum supremacy" should be abandoned because it shares a word with the term "white supremacy." Durham wrote that given the lack of diversity in physics and computing, the use of "'quantum supremacy' can come across as adding insult to injury." The piece suggested the use of "quantum primacy" instead.

The University of Iowa held a virtual “anti-racist workshop,” where attendees heard from a handful of speakers on how to combat racism through creative writing. The panel hosted a variety of speakers, the main purpose of which was to understand that “writing course curricula neglect the impact of writers of color;” and that English classes have “centered and celebrated works that haven’t addressed the realities, histories, or cultures of communities of color and other minoritized and marginalized peoples.” Students listened to guest speakers such as Felicia Chavez, an alumna of the university’s non-fiction writing program. When speaking about how to...

You can find the most amazing things—from valuable artifacts to kitschy treasures—when you’re dumpster diving. But sometimes, trash trawling yields an heirloom that’s truly priceless—like the personal history of a hero. U.S. Navy veteran Donald Helfer flew in 28 missions over enemy territory during WWII and was decorated for his bravery. Along with the Navy Flying Cross and a Bronze Star, Helfer even received a stirring letter from Harry Truman in which the President expressed his gratitude for helping “bring about the total defeat of the enemy” and offering the “heartfelt thanks of a grateful Nation.” But Helfer was never...

Much is made of China's dominance in the rare earth elements (REE). Currently, China controls over 90% of the refined or processed market for REEs. Most advanced technologies, including weapon systems, depend on REEs, and adequate substitutes do not exist. On the surface, China's monopolistic control over refined REEs induces a severe case of the vapors among U.S. national security analysts. But how extensive and stable is China's control of the REE market? If China's market control is neither extensive nor stable, perhaps doing nothing or policies that target China's Achilles heel would be the U.S.'s best course of action....

FORT BENNING, GA—Billions of dollars of military equipment were destroyed today after several women were asked to park the tanks, even though women are really bad at parallel parking. "Whoops, that was a mistake," said Staff Sergeant Darrel Cruthers, who gave the order. "I told Specialist Casey, Specialist Smith, and Corporal Bradley to carefully park the tanks along the curb over there, but I forgot that was a bad idea due to them all being women. Lesson learned I guess." According to witnesses, the three women kept moving forward and back again and again while scuffing up the curb and...

It’s savory. It’s smoky goodness. It’s relatively healthy. It’s flexible. Its quality has stood the test of time. And it’s a product recognized far and wide, from sea to shining sea. It’s the perfect lunch meat. But the best thing about Lebanon bologna is its place of origin. They’ve been making Lebanon bologna in these parts for nearly 120 years. But while times have changed – right down to the smoked meat industry itself – the secret to Lebanon bologna’s success is that it hasn’t. Lebanon bologna has never been broken, so no one’s ever fixed it. Read More: The...