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If undercover FBI operatives encouraged what happened on January 6, maybe it's not such an admirable institution after all. Do you remember how conservatives went out of their way to separate rank-and-file FBI agents from the corrupt actions of Jim Comey, Andrew McCabe, Bill Priestap, James Baker, James Rybicki, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, and others as more evidence came to light revealing that the top brass at the bureau had worked to create an "insurance policy" that could be used to overthrow President Trump from office? Writers and television pundits would always couch any criticism of the bureau in some...

HONG KONG (AP) — Like many in Hong Kong, Jason Chan had no immediate plans to get vaccinated against COVID-19. For the finance professional, there seemed to be no pressing need, with travel restrictions still in place and no major outbreak at home. But Chan had a change of heart when he heard that one of the city’s property developers was offering a lucky draw with a grand prize of a one-bedroom condominium. The day the draw was announced, he went online and made a booking to get vaccinated. “It’s a chance to win a free apartment,” he reasoned. He...

CHICAGO (CBS) — A balloon release was held Wednesday night for the victims of a mass shooting in Chicago, but it was also about releasing pain – as the repeated mass shootings cause lasting damage. There were two mass shootings in 24 hours this week – one in Englewood that left four people dead and four more injured, and another in West Garfield Park that wounded five people. Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the city is safe and police have a handle and a clear strategy to combat gun violence. But as CBS 2’s Charlie De Mar reported Wednesday night, the...

The US Education Department on Wednesday expanded its interpretation of federal sex protections to include transgender and gay students, a move that reverses Trump-era policy and stands against proposals in many states to bar transgender girls from school sports. In a new policy directive, the department said discrimination based on a student’s sexual orientation or gender identity will be treated as a violation of Title IX, the 1972 federal law that protects against sex discrimination in education. … The policy is not likely to bring immediate, sweeping change but carries the possibility of federal sanctions against schools and colleges that...

The hyperpartisanship of the last five years has posed a threat to national security by dividing the American people and distorting how foreign policy is discussed. The “resistance” mounted by the Democrats against President Donald Trump even on issues of longstanding common concern, such as trade policy and infrastructure, was carried into foreign policy even when differences had to be contrived, a case in point being the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The Democrats have tried to make the alliance into a partisan issue when in fact it is an example of the kind of continuity needed to keep the U.S....

Conservative House leader Gerard Deltell moved a motion Wednesday calling for PHAC to be found in contempt of Parliament and its president, Iain Stewart, to be summoned before the bar of the House to be admonished by the Speaker... Rota ruled that the Trudeau government has not complied with an order, passed by the Commons earlier this month, to produce the documents. As such, he said there’s a prima facie case that it has breached MPs’ privileges... Deltell’s motion was debated at length Wednesday and will be put to a vote Thursday. If it passes — which seems likely given...

Colorado baker who won a partial victory at the U.S. Supreme Court in 2018 for refusing to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple violated the state’s anti-discrimination law by refusing to make a birthday cake for a transgender woman, a state judge has ruled. In Tuesday’s ruling, Denver District Judge A. Bruce Jones said Autumn Scardina was denied a cake that was blue on the outside and pink on the inside to celebrate her gender transition on her birthday because of her transgender status in violation of the law. While Jack Phillips said he could not make the...

I am a scientist, living in a beautiful little town that is home to a fine university with a good medical school and a football program that teeters toward excellence. These two programs have many traits in common and some marked differences. Together, they make a useful paradigm to explore and understand two unfolding events, one of which is tragic and the other almost comical. The football program seeks and recruits the best players from the best high school programs. Recruits have been assessed for their mental toughness, speed, agility, and pure brute strength. They have been supported by a...

Instead of workshops on social justice topics, Montessori organizations should feature seminars on the value and role of the individual in eliminating racism. Unfortunately, some Montessori organizations are caving in to the social justice movement.[1] Two major Montessori organizations, Association Montessori International/USA (AMI/USA) and the American Montessori Society (AMS) have supported or sponsored conferences that featured workshops or lectures on understanding structural racism, diversity, anti-bias, LGBT students, and much more. These conferences were put on by an organization called Montessori for Social Justice. The website for the AMI/USA conference in 2018 states that Montessori for Social Justice is "dedicated to...

“It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it” is one of comedian George Carlin’s more memorable lines and provides a succinct summation of the US federal government. The “Big Club” is the establishment, deep state, cabal, elites, ruling class, or whatever you want to call those in power. Looking at politicians, it is clear who is in the big club and who is not. Most Democrats are in the big club, with few exceptions such as Bernie Sanders or members of The Squad. They may serve as useful idiots to further the Democrat agenda but will never get close...

Was watching Pluto TV (America's Voice) and suddenly appeared Kay Jeweler's latest commercial depicting a homosexual, interracial male couple lip wrestling. Get woke go broke. Won't be buying from Kay Jewelers anymore. You can't find the commercial on youtube, yet, or so it seems.

It’s a sad truth that we live in an age that is Beyond Satire (that’s “BS” for short). Americans of a certain age will recall a Twilight Zone episode called “It’s A Good Life.” In it, six-year-old Anthony Fremont (Billy Mumy) turns 40-something birthday celebrant Dan Holis (Don Keefer) into a jack-in-the-box and “wishes” him into the cornfield. Little Anthony was a monster -- a mind-reading, music-hating brat with supernatural powers. He used his special gift on anyone who dared to think thoughts he didn’t like. All Dan wanted to do was listen to his Perry Como album, a birthday...

The amount of heat Earth traps has roughly doubled since 2005, contributing to more rapidly warming oceans, air and land, according to new research from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. "The magnitude of the increase is unprecedented," said Norman Loeb, a NASA scientist and lead author of the study, which was published this week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. "The Earth is warming faster than expected." Using satellite data, researchers measured what is known as Earth's energy imbalance - the difference between how much energy the planet absorbs from the sun, and how much it's able...

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Community Gathers for March to ‘Stop Silence Against Gun Violence' in Miami-Dade

The family of a promising Ugandan activist who was thought to be the “future Oprah” is gearing up to sue the US National Park Service for what is believed to be more than $270 million after she was decapitated in a freak accident in Utah’s Arches National Park, Yahoo! News reports. Human rights activist Esther Nakajjigo, 25, saw her promise as a future Oprah extinguished when on June 13, 2020, she died in the park after a traffic control gate slammed into her rental car. Strong winds apparently blew a metal pole from an unlatched gate into the car and...

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) on Wednesday called on Congress to increase funding for high-speed rail in the infrastructure package. President Biden's $2.3 trillion infrastructure proposal invests $80 billion in rail projects, but industry experts say that money will mostly be spent on updating existing Amtrak lines rather than building new high-speed railways. Biden's plan includes far more funding for roads, bridges and electric cars than public transit. "Rail is climate infrastructure," Ocasio-Cortez said at a press conference Wednesday. "For every buck that we're going to put into a car and a...

“Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished” (Proverbs 17:5).

President Biden’s face-to-face meeting Wednesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Switzerland was a “disaster” that showed the American leader “has no idea who Putin is,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said Wednesday. “Here’s what Biden doesn’t understand: Putin could give a damn on what you think about him,” Graham told “Fox News Primetime”. “The only thing he’s going to respond to is when you threaten his power, and I saw nothing coming out of the summit threatening Putin’s power.” [cut] Biden’s summit with Putin only made the US seem weaker Graham went on to blast Biden’s claim to reporters that...

President Biden called Vladimir Putin’s comparison of Russian opposition protests to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot "ridiculous." "I think that's a ridiculous comparison," Biden said in a news conference following his Geneva meeting with the Russian president on Wednesday. "It’s one thing for literally criminals to break through ... go into the Capitol, kill a police officer and be held accountable," Biden said. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick died soon after the riot. His death was ruled as a result of natural causes, but the medical examiner ruled that the riot played a role in his condition. Biden said it...