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A private Manhattan elementary school which charges $55,000-a-year tuition is among dozens of schools across the US teaching from children's book that features a shadowy devil figure that offers the reader a 'whiteness contract.' Anti-critical race theory activist Chris Rufo published a list on Thursday of schools and districts across more than a dozen states, including one Native American tribal school, that promotes the book Not My Idea by Anastasia Higginbotham. Rufo says the book, 'traffics in the noxious principles of race essentialism, collective guilt and anti-whiteness.'

Severe weather and flash flooding has hit New York City, leaving motorists stranded in water and subway stations submerged, even as Tropical Storm Elsa prepares to pound the region. As shocking videos emerged showing New Yorkers wading through filthy waist-deep water to catch a train, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez weighed in on Twitter to blame 'fossil fuel execs' and promote her Green New Deal as the solution to severe weather. The thunderstorms that brought large hail to parts of New Jersey and spurred flash flooding in Manhattan are unrelated to Elsa, which hit the DC area on Thursday night as it...

The growing numbers of American parents going up against woke educators and their school board allies are performing an important -- indeed, historic -- service to their country. Future generations will applaud their efforts to prevent color shaming, to promote academic achievement, and to preserve an accurate retelling of history. Ever since Horace Mann established the first state department of education in Massachusetts, the widely accepted purpose of publicly funded schooling has been to nurture confident, capable, and knowledgeable citizens. Not that the fight to maintain this laudable tradition has been easy. For their willingness to oppose far-left ideologues, many...

Today, the emperor is butt naked while impeccably garbed, he is unqualified for his position and the most eminently capable ruler in modern times, and he is utterly stupid while still his generation’s greatest mind. Most of us are familiar with the Hans Christian Anderson folktale “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” Two unscrupulous tailors produce a fine suit of clothing for a powerful emperor claiming that it’s invisible to anyone who is unfit for his office or who is unusually stupid. After being presented with the suit, the naked emperor leads a procession through the town where his new clothes are...

After announcing that the Biden Administration is to begin a door to door vaccination push, the White House Press Secretary used disturbing wording during a briefing, promising to get children vaccinated by sending in “strike forces.” Video...

PHOTO DETAILS / DOWNLOAD HI-RES 1 of 20HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. --Eight Air Commandos received the Distinguished Flying Cross or Air Medal during a ceremony at Hurlburt Field, Florida, June 22, 2021. The Airmen formed the crew of Shadow 71, an AC-130J Ghostrider flight that directly supported American and Afghan forces during an ambush and subsequent firefight, repeatedly engaging multiple enemy positions while simultaneously coordinating a multitude of other support functions in the air. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Victor J. Caputo)HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. --An AC-130J Ghostrider aircrew with the 73rd Special Operations Squadron received multiple medals during a...

Senator under fire for shunning racial diversity in his personal life Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D., R.I.), an alleged champion of racial justice, has come under fire for his ties to Bailey's Beach Club, an exclusive Newport beach club whose members are overwhelmingly white. For whatever reason, the senator prefers to surround himself with members of the white race. Bailey's Beach Club is merely one example. According to a Washington Free Beacon analysis, the senior staff in Whitehouse's Senate office is overwhelmingly white, much like the membership at Bailey's Beach Club, as well as the senator's Newport sailing club that, by...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - After the White House rebuked Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday for saying Missouri would not welcome a federal door-to-door vaccination outreach strategy, the state’s Department of Health and Senior Services appeared to walk back the governor's statements. On Wednesday evening Parson tweeted: “I have directed our health department to tell the federal government that sending government employees or agents door-to-door to compel vaccination would NOT be an effective OR welcome strategy in Missouri!” But late Thursday, the department struck a more conciliatory tone. “We do not have an email or message sent to the federal government...

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Robin DiAngelo's 'Nice Racism' suffers disappointing debut Robin DiAngelo, author of the 2018 smash hit White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, may soon relinquish her title as America's preeminent "antiracist" influencer. DiAngelo's much anticipated second title, Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm, sold just 3,500 copies in its first week of publication and barely made the New York Times bestseller list during what one literary executive described as an "unusually slow" period for book sales. For the sake of comparison, disgraced governor Andrew Cuomo's pandemic memoir, American Crisis, sold nearly...

The Brood X cicadas are done copulating and dying, and now their efforts are bearing fruit. Over the next month or two, trillions of cicadas will hatch – and they’ll be raining down from the trees. But they will be an invisible rain, given that they’re smaller than an ant and will be barely noticeable, biologist Dr. John Lill of George Washington University told WUSA-TV. Before that, they will incubate for six weeks inside the woody branches and twigs where they were laid, in order to escape predators in the soil. “Across their geographic range, trillions will fall out of...

Border patrol agents discovered over 70 undocumented immigrants being held in "stash houses" in Laredo, Texas during a 24-hour period earlier this week. Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents uncovered the first stash house on Monday evening after receiving a tip from the Laredo Police Department, according to a Thursday release from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). After entering the location, agents discovered 40 migrants hailing from Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. More than 30 additional migrants from some of the same countries were discovered in a second stash house on Tuesday afternoon. Stash houses are locations used by...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) — A Franklin County judge admits to WSYX that he’s mandating COVID-19 vaccinations as conditions of probation in his courtroom. Now, some offenders affected are speaking out to say it’s not right. “The whole atmosphere of the courtroom changed,” said criminal offender Sylvaun Latham who was sentenced for a gun and drug charge last week before Common Pleas Court Judge Richard Frye. “Everyone had this look on their face. I broke character and asked (my attorney), ‘Can he do this?’” Out of 20 sentencings Judge Frye conducted last week, three included requirements to get the vaccination within...

Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon and Margaret Thatcher were outstanding environmentalists. But they made great steps forward for conservation without abandoning the essential human need for freedom. Freedom wedded to good government works. Any sort of PC tyranny will always self destruct.

(h/t Cathi)Children are at extremely slim risk of dying from Covid-19, according to some of the most comprehensive studies to date, which indicate the threat might be even lower than previously thought.Some 99.995% of the 469,982 children in England who were infected during the year examined by researchers survived, one study found.In fact, there were fewer deaths among children due to the virus than initially suspected. Among the 61 child deaths linked to a positive Covid-19 test in England, 25 were actually caused by the illness, the study found.The three studies, by researchers in the U.K. reviewing its national health...

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A still-incarcerated convicted murderer made history in the nation’s capital when voters recently elected him to one of the District of Columbia’s Advisory Neighborhood Commissions, which advise the local government on neighborhood issues such as police protection, parking, zoning, liquor licenses, and trash collection. Joel Caston, 44, has been imprisoned for 26 years after a jury convicted him of first-degree murder in the Aug. 14, 1994, ambush slaying of Rafiq Washington, 18. He is expected to be released from the D.C. Central Detention Facility either this or next year. Getting elected while behind bars is difficult, but not impossible. ***...

For more than three decades Frank Luntz, the world-renowned strategist and pollster, served at the heart of the American political establishment. He advised George W. Bush and the Republican Party and was a consultant on hit drama The West Wing, which delivered an idealised view of a Left-wing presidency. He saw both the good and the bad but, throughout those years, he had pride in the American way of doing politics. Today, however, he feels 'embarrassment and shame' for the land of his birth. 'America used to be the 'shining city on the hill',' he says ruefully. 'I always contended...

Older adults who experience tooth loss are at increased risk for cognitive impairment and dementia, and their risk grows with each tooth lost, a study published Thursday by JAMDA: The Journal of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine found. However, older adults with dentures do not share this increased risk, suggesting that timely treatment with implants may protect against cognitive decline, the researchers said. "Our findings underscore the importance of maintaining good oral health and its role in helping to preserve cognitive function," study co-author Bei Wu said in a press release. "It's important to gain a deeper understanding of the...

Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), bought Amazon call options just six weeks before the Pentagon announced it was canceling a multi-billion dollar contract with Microsoft and starting a new one that opened a door for Amazon’s participation. The Biden Pentagon on Tuesday abruptly announced it was canceling its multi-billion JEDI cloud services contract with Microsoft and starting a new one that Amazon could compete for. Amazon had been favored to win the JEDI contract after the idea for a single cloud infrastructure was first conceived in 2017, but it was ultimately awarded to Microsoft in...