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Neanderthals could talk, and it wasn’t the “Ooga Booga” you were expecting Homo sapiens have a preconceived notion of our Neanderthal ancestors as being so primitive that the only way they could communicate was by beating their chests and grunting now that we don’t live in caves and beat things with clubs. Neanderthal skull. According to scientists who recently discovered some shocking facts about how Neanderthals communicated, this couldn’t be further from the truth. They most certainly had some sort of a language. The ear structures in Neanderthal skulls showed that they were capable of picking up on the wavelengths...

We are all ORU now. In a riff on a well-known quote from economist Milton Friedman and by Richard Nixon, Christian colleges now all feel some measure of connection to ORU. Oral Roberts University (ORU), founded and named after the famous healing evangelist, is experiencing a Cinderella season in men’s basketball and has now reached the mythical “sweet 16” of the NCAA March Madness following victories over a succession of schools including Florida and Ohio State. Pandemic effects notwithstanding, all Christian colleges are rooting for ORU and its success. We are all ORU now.Sadly, the national spotlight has brought attention...

It’s just the flu, bro. https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/nose-only-covid-19-masks-mexican-researchers-restaurants The nose-only mask is designed so that people can more safely eat at restaurants. This product is, of course, only for those people who have lost their minds. - https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/africas-second-coronavirus-wave-was-much-worse-than-the-first/ar-BB1eVWWQ Microsoft very concerned about the Coronavirus in Africa (which has largely been unaffected by Coronavirus deaths). From the article; “...African leaders need to double down on public health measures and work to improve their testing capacities.” And in the small print below: “Microsoft and partners may be compensated if you purchase something through recommended links in this article.” The real compensation for Microsoft/Bill Gates...

Sensors and satellites across the globe have picked up signals that cannot be explained and many of these phenomena have been kept from the public. Ratcliffe claimed intelligence agencies have quieted the information, hoping to publicize the sightings when there are proper explanations that are accessible and understandable to the public. A more detailed report will be released in accordance with the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, which was passed by the Senate in 2020. The bill shockingly demanded that the director of national intelligence "Submit a report within 180 days of the date of enactment of the...

Actress Sharon Stone characterized cancel culture as the “stupidest thing” she has ever seen. Stone gave her thoughts on cancel culture during Thursday’s episode of the SiriusXM show “Just Jenny.” WATCH: Link“I think cancel culture is the stupidest thing I have ever seen happen,” Stone told host Jenny Hutt. “I think when people say things that they feel and mean, and it’s offensive to you, it’s a brilliant opportunity for everyone to learn and grow and understand each other.” “We all come from different ages, different cultures, different backgrounds, different things, and have had different experiences, different traumas, different upbringings,...

The U.S. military has a new Chief of “Diversity and Inclusion,” and he looks and speaks and does social media exactly as you’d expect. – Tucker Carlson went off on Biden’s woke military leadership again last night, and it was glorious. Carlson’s topic this time was the appointment of one Richard Torres-Estrada to be the Chief of Diversity & Inclusion of America’s Special Forces. I swear I am not making this stuff up. Check it out: As you might expect, Mr. Torres-what’shisname is your classic woke social justice warrior, not the kind of actual warrior you might hope would be...

Our Chinese friends are eating our lunch, and we seem to constantly be looking for ways to make it easier for them to do so. The flagellants are practitioners of an extreme form of mortification of their own flesh by whipping it with various instruments. It was most notably a fourteenth-century movement within the Catholic Church. It served as a sort of self-inflicted penance for the practitioners-penance for sins actual and imagined. There is a Chinese word, baizou (pronounced "bye-tsaw"), which refers insultingly to educated western people who advocate for peace and equality only to satisfy their own feelings of...

Hate crimes narratives are necessary to keep the eyes of aggrieved members of their respective minority groups on the prize: payback against whites. When I heard about the Atlanta Asian massage parlor shootings last week, my immediate thought was, Here come more hate crime lies, at the exploitative expense of the dead. There's no evidence that the alleged killer was motivated by anti-Asian animus. SNIP The Aggrieved Victim Industrial ComplexLet's be honest: most don't care about numbers, evidence, data, math, and contextually correct facts. Most zealously embrace their opinions, because no one has to ever defend his opinion. Hence why...

Would you believe me if I told you there are laws on the books in states like Tennessee that limit health care facility expansion and create barriers to entry for new startups to gain access to the marketplace? Certificate of need (CON) laws are outdated laws that require health care facilities to prove to the state government that there is need in the marketplace before they are able to proceed with an expansion, or even enter into the marketplace to begin with. The high costs of CON and time-consuming paperwork to apply for CON licensure are outrageous. The minimum cost...

Spring Breakers partied into the weekend in Miami despite officials putting a curfew in place to stop crowds from gathering on the boardwalk. Worries about renewed Covid-19 outbreaks prompted Miami officials to enact a nighttime curfew following an infusion of rowdy 'spring breakers' that have frustrated locals. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said she was concerned the number of new positive cases were growing along with hospitalizations because it could be a sign of a surge approaching.

Multiple people have been shot and wounded and at least two are dead after a chaotic night in Virginia Beach. Virginia Beach Police Chief Paul Neudigate said that the incidents unfolded at least three separate crime scenes, and police were working to determine whether and how the events were connected. 'What you can see is we have a very chaotic incident. A very chaotic night in the beach. Many crime scenes,' Neudigate said at a press conference after 1am on Saturday.

The far-left intelligentsia in academia and the media have been calling for a so-called "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" to move beyond America's atrocities. Depending on which Doctor of Ethnic Studies or Doctor of Anthropologic Studies or Doctor of Gender Studies (you get the idea) you read, the atrocities range from the events of January 6 in Washington to the entire Trump presidency to the Jim Crow era to the very founding of our nation and the introduction of enslaved Africans on the shores of North America. Now, maybe it's just me, but whenever a government entity embarks on the nearly...

Over the course of recent decades our country has endured an assault on its institutions, its traditions, and its good and decent people. This relentless assault has driven the country into a grave crisis, causing it to pass through a great gate of history. This crisis will be momentous, consequential, and we will be profoundly changed by it. Our nation has experienced similar existential crises before in the American Revolution, the Civil War and the Great Depression/World War II. Each of these crucibles brought about wide-ranging transformations. As events have accelerated in the past several years, there appears to be...

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San Francisco is investing in its arts community. Starting in May, 130 local artists in the city will receive $1,000 per month in cash, with no strings attached. The pilot program in universal basic income is scheduled to last for six months, according to The San Francisco Chronicle. The artists will be selected from those “whose artistic practice is rooted in a historically marginalized community.”

(Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Friday revived a philosophy professor’s lawsuit against a public university in southern Ohio that reprimanded him for refusing to address a transgender student by her preferred pronouns. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Nicholas Meriwether can try to prove Shawnee State University violated his First Amendment free speech and religious rights by mandating pronouns that he said did not reflect “biological reality” and contradicted his devout Christian beliefs.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of Republican state officials on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow them to take over the defense of a hardline immigration rule issued by former President Donald Trump’s administration that barred immigrants likely to require government benefits from obtaining legal permanent residency. The 14 Republican state attorneys general, led by Ken Paxton of Texas, asked the justices to put on hold an Illinois-based federal judge’s decision that threw out the so-called “public charge” rule nationwide. The administration of President Joe Biden, who took office in January, decided to drop the government’s legal defense...

A federal judge overseeing the criminal case against political donor Ed Buck Wednesday denied a defense motion to suppress a deputy’s declaration that she saw a substance appearing to be methamphetamine along with drug paraphernalia in plain view at Buck’s apartment when she was called to the scene of a man’s overdose death. Buck, 66, is accused of giving drugs to the man who died at his West Hollywood apartment after allegedly being lured across state lines for prostitution. He faces nine felony counts in Los Angeles federal court, plus state charges of running a drug den. The federal case...

Two Texas sheriffs refused requests from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to help transport migrants into the country, saying they could not allocate limited local resources to support undocumented immigrants. CBP reportedly asked Brooks County Sheriff Urbino "Benny" Martinez and Nueces County Sheriff John Hooper for support transporting migrants into the country amid a surge of arrivals at the U.S.-Mexico border. "We just don't have any resources," Martinez told Newsweek...Martinez said his town of Falfurrias lacks a bus depot, a hospital, COVID-19 testing infrastructure and social service organizations, all of which are needed to support the migrants.