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It is once again with great regret that I take issue with my friend of more than 40 years, George Will. From my perspective of unambiguous admiration and personal liking for him, I am distressed that on the subject of President Trump, he seems to have taken complete leave of his senses. Last week, he said on television that the events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 should be seared into the minds of Americans as 9/11 was, as the two are equally profound assaults on the country. Let us examine that statement. On September 11, 2001, four airliners...

Only one Pennsylvania county is demonstrating substantial spread of COVID-19, Gov. Tom Wolf’s office said Tuesday. Wyoming County is the only county in the commonwealth with high transmission of the coronavirus, according to Wolf’s office. The number of counties with high transmission has dropped dramatically in recent weeks. Last week, five counties showed substantial spread of the coronavirus, Wolf’s office said. Just three weeks ago, 40 of the state’s 67 counties were still showing substantial transmission. The percentage of positive COVID-19 tests dropped to 3.8% for the week of May 21-27, down from 4.5% the previous week. It’s the sixth...

A series of laws and procedures promulgated by now-retired Pope Benedict XVI and, especially, by Pope Francis to protect children, promote the investigation of allegations of clerical sexual abuse and punish offenders are included in a heavily revised section of the Code of Canon Law. "Book VI: Penal Sanctions in the Church,"... ...the revision addresses a host of issues that have come up in the life of the church since St. John Paul II promulgated the code in 1983. The descriptions of crimes of sexual abuse, including child pornography, are more explicit, and the required actions of a bishop or...

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What would you give to have a college professor begin a course in the following way: Welcome to Political Science 101. You may have heard I do things a bit differently from your other professors, but you should know that my way was the “normal” way till … around five years ago. I’ve simply returned this course to “normal,” as opposed to the “new normal” — that is not lightyears close to “normal.” You will first notice that a return to “normal” connotes a return to meritocracy. In this world, grades (regardless of one’s race, ethnicity, gender, national origin or...

CNN's Brianna Keilar describes herself on Twitter as an "anchor." The more honest description would be "left-wing activist." Keilar twice fretted to her Democrat-consultant guests that President Biden isn't doing enough. As Keilar first put it to Hilary Rosen: "Is Biden doing enough to combat the war on voting rights? Because clearly, some folks do not think so." Moments later, Keilar expressed the same concern to Bernie bro Chuck Rocha: "I wonder, Chuck, what you think in the near term if Biden waits too long to combat this assault on voting rights because he’s looking at his legislative priorities the...

President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas officially ended the “Remain in Mexico” program, which sought to cut asylum fraud by preventing the release of migrants into the United States. Immediately after taking office, Biden suspended the Remain in Mexico program, nearly two years after it was implemented by the Trump administration to reduce asylum fraud. Days later, Biden instructed top DHS officials to strategize a plan that would release at least 25,600 migrants enrolled in the program into the U.S. interior. On Tuesday, Mayorkas announced the official end of Remain in Mexico, despite its highly...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is intending to press U.S. President Joe Biden on human rights violations that are being perpetrated against Trump supporters who attended the mostly-peaceful protest at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has pointed out in recent weeks how U.S. authorities are violating human rights of their dissidents, which is a criticism frequently leveled against the Kremlin by Washington D.C. elites. “We are ready to talk, we have no taboo topics. We will discuss whatever we think is necessary. We will be ready to answer the questions that the American side will...

Male teachers across Spain have joined a unique movement to fight stereotypical gender norms and promote tolerance in the country after a boy was expelled from school last year for wearing a skirt. Male teachers across the country are now wearing skirts to classes as a form of protest to fight the gender norms, according to a Metro.co.uk report.

SIX SECONDS to switch out a fribble bearing while we all contemplated suicide !THANK YOU, JOHN.

June is Pride Month and an illegal flag displayed outside of Pennsylvania Capitol on Tuesday marked the occasion. Lt. Gov. John Fetterman chose to mark the beginning of this month celebrating LGBTQ culture and rights by once again, displaying a Pride flag on the balcony of his state Capitol office, despite knowing a law exists prohibiting it. A law passed in 2020 bars the display of any flag other than the American, Pennsylvania or POW/MIA flags on the exterior of the Pennsylvania Capitol. ”The LGBTQIA+ flags that I fly from my office are technically breaking a law,” he said in...

New York City recorded zero reports of coronavirus deaths on Monday, signaling that the U.S. is moving closer to ending the pandemic. The Big Apple also recorded an .83 percent positivity rate, which is the lowest level since virus testing began. “You know the phrase, what have you done for me lately?” New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) stated. “I’ll tell you what vaccinations have done for us. We have the lowest positivity rate we’ve ever had since this crisis began because people got vaccinated. It couldn’t be clearer. Let’s keep going.”

A former Black Lives Matter leader in Minnesota who quit after 18 months says he learned the 'ugly truth' about the organization's stance on family and education after working on the inside. Rashad Turner, who founded the local BLM chapter in St. Paul in 2015, released a video last week titled 'The Truth Revealed about BLM'. In the video, the 35-year-old said he eventually came to the realization that BLM had 'little concern for rebuilding black families'.

According to a bombshell new report from the Associated Press, President Joe Biden and his Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are considering bringing back illegal aliens who were previously deported. The stunning revelation would most likely funded with your tax payer dollars. The Biden administration is being pressured by open borders activists and the National Immigrant Justice Center who want Biden to issue an executive order, creating a separate branch within the DHS allowing illegal aliens the ability to request their return back in to the States. Check out what the the AP reported: The plan asks the government to...

Caught in yet another violation of the restrictions she has imposed on the people of Michigan, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) has utilized her execute authority to issue a pardon to herself. "As the highest ruling authority in the state I should be immune from prosecution for violating my own directives, I am issuing myself a pardon so we can quell unwarranted criticism from my political enemies." The pardon means that she, unlike so many other residents of the state, will not have to pay a fine or serve time in jail for her offense. Marlena Pavlos-Hackney, a restaurant owner who...

Melanie Stansbury (D) and Mark Moores (R) will face off to replace forrmer Rep. Deb Haaland (D), who was sworn in as U.S. interior secretary in March.

A cyberattack on JBS SA, the largest meat producer globally, has forced the shutdown of some of world’s largest slaughterhouses, and there are signs that the closures are spreading. JBS’s five biggest beef plants in the U.S. -- which altogether handle 22,500 cattle a day -- have halted processing following a weekend attack on the company’s computer networks, according to JBS posts on Facebook, labor unions and employees. Those outages alone have wiped out nearly a fifth of America’s production. Slaughter operations across Australia were also down, according to a trade group. One of Canada’s largest beef plants was idled...

‘Cognitive clock’ may enable assessment of risk for memory and thinking problems. How old is your brain compared to your chronological age? A new measure of brain health developed by researchers at Rush University Medical Center may offer a novel approach to identifying individuals at risk of memory and thinking problems, according to research results published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association on June 1, 2021. Dubbed the “cognitive clock” by the researchers, the tool is a measure of brain health based on cognitive performance. It may be used in the future to predict the likelihood...

Democrats and much of the media are pushing to make permanent the extraordinary, pandemic-driven measures to relax voting rules during the 2020 elections – warning anew of racist voter “suppression” otherwise. Yet democracies in Europe and elsewhere tell a different story – of the benefits of stricter voter ID requirements after hard lessons learned. A database on voting rules worldwide complied by the Crime Prevention Research Center, which I run, shows that election integrity measures are widely accepted globally, and have often been adopted by countries after they've experienced fraud under looser voting regimes. Of 47 nations surveyed in Europe...

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