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On Friday, the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) announced its first-ever chief diversity and inclusion officer, Richard Torres-Estrada, and the announcement prompted a backlash from social media users questioning the hiring decision.In an Instagram post, SOCOM said, “On Monday, March 1, 2021, USSOCOM welcomed its first-ever Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Mr. Richard Torres-Estrada. Mr. Torres-Estrada has nearly two decades worth of experience working diversity and inclusion programs and activities in federal agencies. Mr. Torres-Estrada’s arrival corresponds with the publication of the USSOCOM D&I Strategic Plan, which will guide the enterprise-wide effort to institutionalize and sustain D&I. We look forward...

It boggles my mind to see the American National Anthem replaced in Prince William County, Virginia, by the recitation of the Equity Code, a Marxist creation by the woke revolutionaries As more brick-and-mortar stores are filing for bankruptcy, desperate to keep their stores open, merchandise variety is dwindling, and shopping experiences become more and more unpleasant. Grocery stores could not keep their shelves stocked in 2020, in part due to food hoarding driven by ginned-up fear, government forced closures, and wholesalers and packing plants shuttering due to mandated closings and flu-infected employees.

Keeping the public schools closed is mean, cruel, inhumane, and evil, and it has nothing to do with COVID-19By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)March 26, 2021Please take a lot at all these things, and please note the date on each one.All of these things, taken together in context, proves that keeping the public schools closed has nothing to do with COVID-19.Keeping the public schools closed is mean, cruel, inhumane, and evil.May 28, 2020Reopening schools in Denmark did not worsen outbreak, data showshttps://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-05-28/opening-schools-in-denmark-did-not-worsen-outbreak-data-showsMay 29, 2020Denmark, Finland say they saw no increase in coronavirus after schools re-openedhttps://justthenews.com/world/europe/denmark-finland-say-they-saw-no-increase-coronavirus-after-schools-re-openedJuly 13 , 2020German...

“I knew my life would never, ever, ever be the same,” said Eric Coomer, 50, in an interview with Yahoo Finance earlier this week. The director of product strategy and security for Dominion Voting Systems—now on paid leave—Coomer was recalling a nationally televised press conference in mid-November when Trump Campaign lawyers Rudolph Giuliani and Sidney Powell denounced him individually, by name, as having helped rig the 2020 presidential election. In the most in-depth print interview he has given since going into hiding that month, Coomer describes below what it’s like to be public enemy No. 1 to the conspiracy theorists...

Dear Quentin, I live in Utah, and I have been seeing a married man for almost six years. No, I’m not ashamed. Although we both care greatly for each other, our relationship started as and remains a mutually beneficial one: money for me, companionship for him. He has been my sole source of income for the last 5 years, paying every single expense I have, and he is happy to do so because he loves me and I provide an escape from his miserable home life (his words). He’s been married a long time, and his only child is grown....

Surviving against all odds in an already Covid-ravaged 2021, the privilege of being in business now relies on a business operator’s willingness to declare—publicly declare—that the outcome of the 2020 election was legit. In order to survive, business operators must ‘cry uncle’ to former federal prosecutor, now NBC News and MSNBC analyst Glenn Kirschner, or make ready to sink their own ships into deep and murky waters. In other words, repeat in public that the fractious 2020 election was not only legitimate but positively kosher—or join America’s woefully long unemployment lines.

Large pockets of first responders, front-line health workers, and other public-facing employees are so far refusing COVID-19 vaccination by the thousands in Massachusetts, prompting calls for state government and private employers to make getting shots a condition of hiring. Already, the president of one of the largest senior care operators in the state, Hebrew SeniorLife, has said its facilities plan to require COVID vaccines for new employees later this spring when shots are more widely available. And Attorney General Maura Healey earlier this week suggested that public safety employees, such as State Police and prison workers, should be expected to...

Boulder shooter Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, no white supremacist he, just may have carried out his murderous grocery store massacre in retaliation for U.S. activities in the Middle East, including Joe Biden’s bombing of Syria little more than a month into his presidency. If so, he would be the latest in a line of Islamic terrorists who have tried to wreak revenge for our war on terror by slaughtering innocent Americans. On Feb. 25, a moth into his presidency, the Biden administration wagged the og and bombed Syru, conducting an airstrike that reportedly killed 22 Iran-backed fighters in an apparent...

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi might as well have declared, “I am the Congress” with her latest remarks about the Iowa House seat that’s become another ‘stop the steal’ story for the 2020 cycle. She pretty much said she has the right to seat or unseat members of the House of Representatives regardless of the election result. The empress has spoken. Also, a tad creepy, huh? Iowa’s second congressional district race ended with Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks winning by literally a handful of votes. She was certified. She was seated, but her Democratic opponents, Rita Hart, wants the certification overturned...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—At Biden's first press conference today, most of the questions were thoughtful and pointed, with reporters asking things like "Why are you so amazing?" and "We demand you tell us your secret to being so incredible!" But one reporter went further than the others. The reporter, a new CNN recruit, Ronald Crump, jumped up and asked, "Mr. Biden, why are you a total loser?" "Hey, come on, Jack!" Biden replied. "That's just uncalled for." "What's uncalled for is how much of a sad, pathetic, no-good failure you are!" Crump replied, twirling his mustache. "Come on up here, pal, and...

If ever there were a politician with a bad habit of bragging, it's Joe Biden. This is the guy who once bragged to a voter: "I think I have a much higher IQ than you." Who during the 2020 campaign challenged another voter to a push-up contest. And who bragged that back in high school, he would have taken Trump "behind the gym and beat the hell out of him." So it was strange that Joe Scarborough would suggest, discussing Biden's long-delayed press conference of yesterday, that unlike Trump at his first presser, Biden didn't brag. Let's compare statements made...

A former counterintelligence officer who now is the director of investigations and research for Judicial Watch says the chaos of the 2020 presidential election "is precisely how elections are stolen." "The further we get from the November 2020 election, the more we will see documented evidence of voting irregularities, manipulations and gamesmanship," writes Chris Farrell in a column for the Gatestone Institute. Those problems need to be addressed before the November 2022 elections, he said, pointing to unresolved issues in Georgia, Wisconsin and Maricopa County, Arizona, in particular. "We must use every legal tool available to us ... to ensure...

The Biden administration continues its soft approach to China even as Beijing becomes increasingly aggressive. One America’s Hans Hubbard reports.

Quid pro Joe is back! Joe Biden on Friday announced he is nominating Democrat Senator Joe Manchin’s wife, Gayle Manchin, for federal co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission. Joe Biden made this announcement as debate over the filibuster has reached a boiling point. The filibuster requires 60 votes to pass most legislation in the Senate. Getting rid of the filibuster would allow the Democrats to ram through far-left, extreme measures with a simple majority. Senator Manchin, a key “moderate” West Virginia Democrat has said he will “never” change his mind on the filibuster. It looks like Joe Biden is trying...

Biden detailed his first conversation with Chinese President Xi Jinping in which he made his intentions very clear that America is unwilling to have a direct confrontation with the increasingly hostile state. “I made it clear to him, again what I’ve told him in person on several occasions, that we’re not looking for confrontation,” he stated. “Although, we know there will be steep, steep competition.”

Italian bishops plan synodal path to overcome ‘stale’ structuresThis week the Italian bishops set to work on the initial preparations of their upcoming “synodal journey,” which was explicitly asked for by Pope Francis.At the close of their spring plenary assembly, the Italian Bishops Conference (CEI) said the coronavirus pandemic is an ideal time to hold their own national synod, assessing not only the challenges the country faces in the current crisis, but the state of the Church.“For the bishops, it is time to abandon those superstructures known to be stale and repetitive, to recover the sense of verification and the...

(CNN)The man charged with killing 10 people in a Boulder grocery store passed a background check and purchased the weapon used in the slaughter, a Colorado gun shop owner said Friday. The suspected gunman, Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, purchased a Ruger AR-556 on March 16 -- days before the shootings, a senior law enforcement source told CNN on condition of anonymity.

After weeks of whining, the White House press corps got its first official Biden presidential news conference on Thursday.... Asked how “hard” he would work for his policy goals, he responded that “all my focus” so far has been on covid-19 and the economic recovery, but he promised he would get to other issues such as guns, immigration, climate change and voting rights. On immigration, he made clear that crowded facilities at the southern border are not the result of a policy change from his administration... “It happens every single solitary year,” Biden noted. In his lengthy responses to questions...

When People said Nick's Famous Roast Beef in Beverly had the best roast beef sandwich in the state, the Internet chimed in. Nick's, critics argued in more colorful language than I'm allowed to use here, didn't even serve its "super" on an onion bun, and its three-way was missing the mayo that is standard on the most common order of the sandwich. Origin Story: According to legend, a couple from Revere called off their wedding at the very last minute. We don't know the name of the bride and groom, which of them got cold feet or why. What we...

BOSTON (CBS) – It’s no secret that the great white sharks return to Outer Cape Cod every summer to feast on the seals that live there and for years now, scientists have been tagging and tracking the sharks, to learn about their behavior. Now, a consortium of scientists have compiled data that gave them some new insight into the sharks’ patterns. One aspect: the sharks come into very shallow water, and stay for a greater time than most people suspected.