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Source: Photo by Salena ZitoNEW CASTLE, Pennsylvania -- For over 100 years, the sprawling Shenango China plant warmly greeted just about every person who entered this Lawrence County city. Its 30 acres of multipane windows reflected off the Shenango River when they entered the city. It was one of the largest dinnerware manufacturers in the country. China made here was hailed for its craftsmanship. It graced middle-class family tables and the state dining rooms of Presidents Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower and Lyndon Johnson. The plant was a place where skilled artisans and union labor workers made a good...

cachinnation Also found in: Thesaurus, Medical . Related to cachinnation: cachinnating, cachinnator cach·in·nate (kăk′ə-nāt′) intr.v. cach·in·nat·ed, cach·in·nat·ing, cach·in·nates To laugh hard, loudly, or convulsively; guffaw. [Latin cachinnāre, cachinnāt-, of imitative origin.] cach′in·na′tion n. cach′in·na′tor n. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. cachinnation (ˌkækɪˈneɪʃən) n 1. raucous laughter 2. (Psychiatry) psychiatry inappropriate laughter, sometimes found in schizophrenia Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011,...

Video footage posted online shows a Virginia high school teacher appearing to berate a student for not acknowledging the race of two girls seen in a presentation slide. The video, taken from a lecture at a Loudoun County Public School in Ashburn and posted on YouTube, shows a slide with two girls – one, a redheaded white girl, the other, a Black girl – standing back-to-back with the caption, “What is race?”

“He who plants and he who waters are one; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. For we are God’s fellow-workers” (1 Corinthians 3:8-9). Humble teamwork in ministry gives God all the glory and promotes humility. Paul’s agricultural illustration of planting and watering makes it clear that the ministry works best in a team concept and that all credit for results must go to God. Paul (the one planting) and Apollos (the one watering) had done their God-appointed work faithfully and well, but they had to wait on the Lord for whatever was accomplished. Paul...

Conservatives often speak of Judeo-Christian values and how the current civil war in the United States and the rest of the West is essentially a battle between those values and the left, which rejects Judeo-Christian values. They are right. But they rarely explain what Judeo-Christian values are. Yet, without an explanation, mentioning Judeo-Christian values is useless. So, let me do that now. First, a word about the term. Some Jews and Christians find the term confusing, if not objectionable, since Judaism and Christianity have different theologies. But no one speaks of Judeo-Christian theology, only of Judeo-Christian values. Judeo-Christian values are...

Biden intends to mandate Covid vaccine “passports” for every American. Why? It is becoming increasingly clear that part of the global left’s master plan to institute absolute control over the world’s population is to mandate their still-experimental vaccines for all of us even though Covid is a very treatable disease from which nearly 98.5% of those afflicted recover. Given that fact, there are many millions of people who will not willingly submit to any medically intrusive procedure without doing their own research. SNIP Those of us old enough to remember some of the most egregious “scientific” experiments on people (Tuskeegee,...

The Constitution wasn’t set up as a talisman, its very presence sufficient to thwart the evil of ambitious men and women. It is a tool, bequeathed to us with the presumption that we would learn how to use it properly and fulfill our destiny. The late Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin used to tell a story of imprisonment, based perhaps on his own. He said that once behind bars, the prisoner thinks of nothing but freedom, of escaping. Because of this, cruelly sophisticated jailers introduce water into the cell. Now, the enslaved puts freedom off for the moment, seeking first...

I have no idea who said it, it’s been attributed to a lot of people, but I love the saying, “If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room.” It’s funny because it’s true. It’s important for the same reason. Throughout my career in policy and politics I have been lucky to work and become friends with some really smart people (make no mistake, there were a lot of dumb ones too). As they have moved on to other jobs, they still write some brilliant columns that do what all good columns do: make you think.One...

FEMA said the COVID-19 funeral assistance program will be implemented starting in April and applications will be accepted at that time. They are currently working to establish a phone number where applications can be filed. To qualify, applicants must meet certain conditions.The death must have occurred in the United States, including the U.S. territories and the District of Columbia, and the death certificate must indicate that the death was attributed to COVID-19, FEMA said.The applicant must be a U.S. citizen, non-citizen national, or a qualified alien who incurred funeral expenses after January 20, 2020.According to FEMA, the individual who died...

I’m having a problem deciding whether the Biden administration is stupid or evil or just flat-out afraid of us Commoners. And then I realized that it’s all three. Here’s why. Our liberal friends never imagined that a Trump could happen. Nothing in their world prepared them for him. So what happens when you are confronted by something completely unexpected? You stop dead in your tracks. That is one of the basic themes in Jordan B. Peterson’s oeuvre. As he writes in Beyond Order. 12 More Rules for Life: Many herbivores, comparatively defenseless, facing imminent and brutal death, freeze in place,...

VIDEOMany people are scratching their heads over the drama queen antics of CDC Director Rochelle Walensky. However it all makes sense when you realize that she was actually auditioning for a role in a William Castle movie. The film will be quite frightening so should you need medical attention while watching it, a CDC nurse will be standing by in the lobby to administer emergency treatment.

hmmmm, Interesting statement. Of course I'm sure it was not his intention, cough...cough, but that's a thumbs up from AOC and Cameltoe.

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski has drawn a 2022 Republican opponent who’s signed on key Trumpworld figures to help guide her campaign. Kelly Tshibaka, the state commissioner of administration, announced Monday that she would step down from her state job and challenge Murkowski, a vocal critic of Donald Trump whom the former president has vowed to oppose in next year’s midterm elections.

Paris's deputy mayor has prompted fury by calling to ban white people from discussions of racism. Left-wing deputy mayor Audrey Pulvar, 49, said white people should 'be asked to keep quiet and be silent spectators' during discussions around racism attended by black and ethnic minority people. She explained: 'People who suffer discrimination for the same reasons and in the same way feel the need to meet among themselves to discuss it.'

Parents and male students were left 'mortified' after their school forced them to stand in assembly and apologise to their female classmates for sexual assaults committed by males. Brauer College in the south-western Victorian town of Warrnambool held an assembly on Wednesday where boys were told to stand up in a symbolic gesture of apology to girls and women. The move has since sparked outrage among parents of the school who say their children were made to feel ashamed about something they had no control over and didn't understand.

An Asian woman on her way to church was attacked by a black man in Midtown Manhattan in broad daylight on Monday - while a couple of security guards from a nearby building did nothing to stop it. Surveillance camera footage from inside the building where at least two guards were on duty captures the moment a man randomly kicks the woman to the ground before viciously stomping on her head and face at least three times. Despite the attack being both vocal by the suspect and the victim screaming, nobody came to her aide despite her being kicked in...

The US Navy's training on 'extremism' says staff can advocate for Black Lives Matter (BLM) while at work but service members are not allowed to discuss 'politically partisan issues', training slides reveal. The Navy described BLM as a 'public policy issue' in the slides and advocating for the organisation was allowed as long as the behavior is lawful. But they stated that advocacy would be prohibited if it was 'politically partisan in nature'.

Take 2 hours, 15 minutes of your time today to watch this documentary by Retired DC Police Homicide Detective Mitch Credle. It details how we lived during 1988-1999 when over 4500 were murdered in the Nation's Capital. Testimony from residents, criminals, then-youth caught up in drugs & law enforcement from those days. Heart-wrenching.

March 30 2021 Tuesday of the Holy Week Saint Louis Catholic Church, Beirut, Lebanon Lectionary 257First readingIsaiah 49:1-6 ©I will make you the light of the nations so that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earthIslands, listen to me,pay attention, remotest peoples.The Lord called me before I was born,from my mother’s womb he pronounced my name.He made my mouth a sharp sword,and hid me in the shadow of his hand.He made me into a sharpened arrow,and concealed me in his quiver.He said to me, ‘You are my servant (Israel)in whom I shall be glorified’;while I was thinking,...

Cher is the latest Hollywood celebrity to explode over Georgia’s new voter integrity law, claiming inaccurately that the law takes away voting rights of black Americans. She also lashed out at Republican lawmakers, calling them “evil” and “bigots.” In an emotional tweet on Sunday, the actress and pop star accused Republicans of stripping the voting rights of black people and depriving them of “racial and economic equity.” Cher wrote that Republican politicians are “infected” with a “deadly pandemic of their own making.” They are “evil, soulless, bigots” and “don’t care.” LinkOn Thursday, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) signed into law...