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Critical race theory at it again Cigna — one of the country's largest heath insurance providers — has reportedly encouraged hiring managers to avoid hiring white males at the company. What are the details? According to a Friday report from the Washington Examiner, employees at the company have been "asked not to consider white men in hiring decisions." Citing leaked training documents and chat logs, the outlet noted that Cigna employees are also expected to undergo "racist and discriminatory" sensitivity training on topics such as "white privilege," "gender privilege," and "religious privilege." "Chat logs between an employee and a hiring...

The White House on Tuesday confirmed the United States and Iraq next month would hold strategic talks on relations between the two countries and the remaining U.S. troops in Iraq. “We look forward to renewing our Strategic Dialogue with the Government of Iraq over the month of April,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters. Psaki said the two countries would... “further clarify that coalition forces are in Iraq solely for the purpose of training and advising Iraqi forces to ensure that ISIS cannot reconstitute.”... The Associated Press first reported Tuesday that Iraq has sent a formal request to...

The word “controversial” is not applied by these scribes to H.R. 1. There are no polls cited to see where the voters land. For example, a recent survey by the Polling Company found 77 percent of respondents agree voters should be required to show a photo ID when they vote. A McLaughlin and Associates poll found 81 percent support. H.R. 1 scraps that. The McLaughlin poll also found 85 percent support for requiring signature verification for any mail-in voting. H.R. 1 would insure states could not enforce any witness signature or notarization requirement for mail-in voters. The Times vaguely mentions...

Do you believe in UFOs? Decades ago, if you answered yes to such a question many would have considered you to be a nutjob. But at this point UFOs are not a “conspiracy theory” any longer. In fact, even the U.S. government is admitting that they exist, and in just a few weeks we may learn a whole lot more about what the U.S. government really knows about this phenomenon. When President Trump signed a 2.3 trillion dollar COVID relief bill last December, it contained a provision which requires all U.S. intelligence agencies to submit an unclassified report to Congress...

In this article, I am going to share some things with you that defy “rational explanation”. As our society has become increasingly obsessed with the occult, experts that deal with cases of demonic possession report that they have seen a huge surge in demand in recent years. Many of those that reach out for help are absolutely desperate, because often the torment caused by the demons is almost unbearable. Unfortunately, the movies, television shows, books and video games that draw so many of our young people to the world of the occult just keep getting even darker and even more...

Radio host and gun rights activist Dana Loesch on Tuesday slammed Sen. Dick Durbin's (D-IL) claims that there are various "background check loopholes" that Americans are skirting. Durbin has repeatedly pushed false information about how background checks occur, particularly as it relates to online sales. "There's no such thing as an 'internet loophole.' Let me correct any, any, any misinformation that is being promoted by an actual sitting lawmaker that should know this law because he's been there longer than I think I've been alive, in this position," she said. "It's not like Amazon. You don't go on the internet...

The number of tents at the park has swelled in recent months...Near the intersection of Glendale Boulevard and Park Avenue, at one corner of the park, a crowd of people was gathering around 7 a.m. Wednesday to stop officials from forcing homeless individuals out. O’Farrell has said he plans to close the park but did not say when, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday. A source with direct knowledge of the process told the newspaper the city plans to fence off the park and clear it of the homeless encampment on Thursday. However, the Times reported the source spoke on...

According to an OnMessage Inc. poll, former Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA) leads the Republican Senate primary in a hypothetical match-up. The survey found the former representative would start at the front of the Republican field. When the survey asked, “if the election were held today and the candidates were Doug Collins and Kelly Loeffler, for whom would you vote?” 55 percent said Collins was their top choice, giving him a double-digit lead over Loeffler, with 36 percent of the vote.

The Boston Globe editorial team and "How to be an Antiracist" author Ibram X. Kendi are joining forces to create a news outlet dedicated to reframing the national conversation on race. What are the details? "The Emancipator," as it will be called, is the brain child of Kendi and Boston Globe editorial page editor Bina Venkataraman. The two reportedly met last summer as nationwide protests raged on following the death of George Floyd to discuss how to take advantage of ongoing conversations about race. Then last week they announced the plans. The publication is to be styled after historic abolitionist...

Damn white rednecks in Texas, with their racism and whatnot! Just look at what they’re doing to members of Austin’s black and Hispanic community: In rapidly gentrifying Austin newly arrived white residents have been calling the cops on Black and Latino car clubs that have gathered in local parks for decades, labeling them a “toxic display of masculinity.”

Last week, Christie’s sold a digital collage of images called “Everydays: The First 5000 Days” for US$69.3 million dollars. This week, Elon Musk said he’s selling a tweet of his as an NFT, which contains a song about NFTs. The bidding on Musk’s tweet has already topped $1 million and millions more are pouring into the market — he has since tweeted, “Actually, doesn’t feel quite right selling this. Will pass.” And sites like NBA Top Shot (where you can buy, sell and trade digital NBA cards) have individual cards selling for over US$200,000. It might sound ridiculous but the...

@RandPaul ICYMI this morning I joined the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The idea that we can eradicate an ideology or pacify a populace full of discontent is foolhardy and naive at best. Video...

This morning I was watching the news about the reports of unidentified flying objects over military bases and it got me thinking. We have a two story home and I have been having chest pains after climbing the stairs, unlike someone we know who fell three times trying to buy a stairway to heaven, we decided to buy a stair lift. We ordered one but it has not arrived yet. When I was about to marry, my mother refused to help me to buy my own wedding dress, so I was married wearing a borrowed dress. Later, my sweet husband...

University of Tennessee-Knoxville administrators are staying silent on the status of a lecturer who took two weeks away from the school in February after writing a phrase used by rapper Tupac Shakur on a whiteboard. In early February, Melissa Hargrove, a lecturer on race and anthropology in the Africana Studies department, wrote the acronym for “Never Ignorant Getting Goals Accomplished,” a quote used by the hip-hop artist, on a whiteboard during class.

During Wednesday’s CNN “New Day,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) sounded off on his recent back and forth with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) over the “theater” used by both sides of the aisle in reaction to the Boulder, CO shooting. Blumenthal said the GOP is engaging in “theater” by “offering thoughts and prayers and then blocking real action that can save lives” as they push back on stricter gun laws. He emphasized the need for “federal action” to prevent future gun violence.

NOTE: Title of Thread has been truncated. Connor Reed, 25, from Wales, fell ill while working in Wuhan, China, last year Said he got sick in November, weeks before first coronavirus case was logged He also believed that local officials in China initially tried to cover up the disease A British man who is believed to be among the first people in the world to catch coronavirus has revealed he fell sick in November last year - weeks before the first official case was logged. Connor Reed, a 25-year-old teacher from Wales who was living in Wuhan when the outbreak...

Despite a low-risk pandemic situation in the area, the Guangzhou Vocational University of Science and Technology, in southern China’s Guangdong province, prolonged its COVID-19 restrictions on campus. Discontent from locked-up students simmered until it reached a critical point. At noon on Mar. 17, at least 300 Guangzhou university students launched a surprise charge on the guarded school gate and stormed off campus. Student Lin Fang (alias), told the Chinese-language Epoch Times it looked like a prison escape scene from a movie. “It happened during break time. As guards were allowing a vehicle to exit, the crowds saw an opportunity and...

Mexican President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador blamed President Joe Biden’s immigration policies for the crisis at the southern border during a Tuesday press conference. “Expectations were created that with the Government of President Biden there would be better treatment of migrants,” Lopez Obrador said. “And this has caused Central American migrants, and also from our country, wanting to cross the border thinking that it is easier to do so.” AMLO: “Expectations were created that with the Government of President Biden there would be a better treatment of migrants. And this has caused Central American migrants, and also from our country,...

Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) slammed the lack of bipartisanship by the Democrats as they push to increase taxes, end the Senate filibuster, grant statehood to Washington, D.C., and more. McConnell, noting the split majority in the Senate and the “narrow” Democratic House majority, said on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom” that Democrats “misread the election.” He said it was “not a mandate to turn America into Bernie Sanders’ view of what America ought to be.”

According to China’s own data, the original hot spot for COVID-19 infections occurred in a residential area in the four miles between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Biological Preparations Institute of the China Biology Technology Group Corporation. Both of those institutions have been associated with China’s biological warfare program and, prior to and since the onset of the pandemic, they have collaborated on vaccine development. For months after the start of the pandemic in December 2019, China flooded the scientific literature with subtle and sometimes not so subtle messages supporting its narrative that COVID-19 is a naturally-occurring disease...