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A powerful video is going viral this week showing a fifth grade teacher from Virginia break down in tears resigning right on the spot, citing discrimination, and denouncing the school board’s “highly politicized agendas.” Teacher Resigns Over Politicized Agenda Laura Morris explained to the school board why the ‘equity trainings’ and political dogma gave her no choice but to resign. She also spoke out against teachers being asked to report on their colleagues if they criticized the teaching program.

* New research indicates the hard limit on human life is 150 years. * The main factor limiting our lifespan is a loss of the ability to bounce back after a setback, called "physiological resilience." * Even without major health issues, like cancer, your body will eventually run out of energy to help recover from even minor challenges. =========================================================================================== Even if you somehow manage to make it through decades of old age without a single major health issue—evading cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and so on—scientists say there's a ceiling on how long you can extend your life, throwing cold water...

Group warns in letter that lockdown laws violate fundamental rights.. Police in Switzerland have threatened to stop enforcing COVID-19 rules over fears that the measures are disproportionately undermining the fundamental rights of citizens. A group representing police officers in the Alpine country wrote a letter to the Swiss Federation of Police Officers (FSFP) warning of potential insubordination within the force over the enforcement of draconian laws. “If the measures were to conflict with the general opinion of the population, disproportionately limiting their fundamental rights, many police officers would no longer be willing to apply them,” the group wrote in the...

If inflation remains at the roughly 5 percent a year at which it is currently running and if pensioners continue to receive negligible interest returns on their savings, the purchasing power of their hard-earned savings will decline by close to 5 percent a year. Similarly, wage earners whose wages are not indexed to inflation, find that their wages are eroded year after year by inflation in much the same way as if the government had imposed a tax on their incomes. As if to underline this point, today’s inflation numbers revealed that over the last twelve months wages declined by...

After a historic year of homicides in the state of Wisconsin, state legislators are now proposing policies that are dangerous to youth, families, and our communities. In 2019 alone, there was one firearm related death every 15 hours in the state of Wisconsin 一 amounting to more than 600 deaths. To make matters worse, violent crime continued to rise in 2021. Both urban and rural communities have been impacted; 70% of the firearm-related deaths were caused by suicide. Despite the violence, Republican lawmakers are circulating legislation that aims to lower the age to conceal and carry a firearm to 18...

A drug used to treat certain advanced breast cancers may offer a new treatment option for a deadly blood cancer known as myelofibrosis, new research from UVA Cancer Center suggests. The drug, palbociclib, may be able to prevent the scarring of bone marrow that existing treatments for myelofibrosis cannot. This scarring disrupts the marrow's production of blood cells and causes severe anemia that leaves patients weak and fatigued. The scarring also reduces the number of platelets in the blood, making clotting difficult, and often causes an enlarged spleen. "Current therapies only provide symptomatic relief without offering significant improvement of bone...

cup of joe is about to get even more expensive as a severe Brazilian frost compounded by surging freight costs could push the price of coffee beans even higher in the coming weeks. According to Reuters, the worst frost to hit Brazil – the world’s largest coffee producer - since 1994 has sent the price of green coffee beans to the highest level seen in almost seven years, which will cause consumers to feel the pinch when they purchase roasted beans or ground coffee in supermarkets. The damage was so severe that farmers may need to replant trees that could...

A resurfaced video from 2019 shows the moment a middle school chorus dining at a restaurant stopped to sing the national anthem to a Navy veteran sitting with his wife nearby, leaving everyone in tears. KMBC tweeted video of the impromptu performance that took place on Veterans Day in November 2019.

Does It Really Matter if Bugnini Was a You-Know-What?I once wrote an article for Rorate Caeli entitled “Conservative Fragility.” I have noticed in recent weeks the extent to which conservative Catholics are sounding jittery, short-tempered, dismissive, and intolerant towards traditionally-minded Catholics who refuse to embrace the papally-bestowed role of scapegoat for the abrogation of Summorum Pontificum.One such person in particular—no need for a name, since my point is not about a name but a phenomenon—heatedly makes fun of anyone who mentions that Bugnini probably or certainly was a Freemason, mockingly referring to “Viganò’s flying monkeys” and other such sarcastic turns...

“Revenge is a dish best served cold” is a phrase embedded in the English language, but it would seem that most people prefer to strike right away without any plotting, a new study reveals. Despite the Hollywood depiction of people savoring sweet revenge after months or years of plotting, a team from Virginia Commonwealth University says people would rather choose to retaliate straight away. Across six experiments, 58 percent of participants preferred to take immediate revenge, even if it meant dealing a lesser blow to an enemy. Teaching them a lesson Most of the 1,500 volunteers also chose to take...

MSNBC anchor Joy Reid said Tuesday on her show “The ReidOut” that the resignation of Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) is evidence that Democrats hold their members accountable while Republicans do not do the same. Reid said, “With Cuomo’s departure, in two weeks, Kathy Hochul will be the first woman to serve as governor of New York State. She had already been on the record calling Cuomo’s behavior ‘repulsive and unlawful.’

@ggreenwaldWhat has happened is what some tried to warn would happen but it's worse than most of us realized: When people like Alex Jones and Milo started getting de-personed from the internet, most cheered. In 4 short years, we're now at the point where almost no dissent is allowed. Just look at the number of liberals cheering and justifying YouTube's suspension of Rand Paul for his comments on masks -- ones echoed by Biden's own former COVID adviser -- and you'll see why this faction is completely authoritarian. They crave corporate speech policing. There was always an authoritarian strain in...

Don’t listen to Bernie Sanders, America’s crazy uncle who said taxes will not increase for households making under $400,000 per year. Aside from the obvious expansion of Federal government control over the economy, the Senate’s budget resolution did NOTHING to fix the bankrupt Social Security program. This budget resolution fails to tackle the nation’s most important fiscal challenges, while likely making future reforms to forestall a crisis even more difficult. Any meaningful fiscal reform must tackle the unsustainable entitlement programs, including Medicare and Social Security. Without reforms, the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will be depleted in 2027 and the...

Someone show me a peer reviewed study that proves any mask, other than a N95 respirator, is effective against any virus.

The National Security Agency has awarded a secret cloud computing contract worth up to $10 billion to Amazon Web Services, Nextgov has learned. The contract is already being challenged. Tech giant Microsoft filed a bid protest on July 21 with the Government Accountability Office two weeks after being notified by the NSA that it had selected AWS for the contract. The contract’s code name is “WildandStormy,” according to protest filings, and it represents the second multibillion-dollar cloud contract the U.S. intelligence community—made up of 17 agencies, including the NSA—has awarded in the past year. In November, the CIA awarded its...

California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) melted down during an interview with the Sacramento Bee editorial board. The besieged governor lost his cool after reporters pointed out how bad things have gotten in California under his leadership (and full Democrat control) related to crime, homelessness, high taxes and unemployment. The California dream is more like a mirage’ one reporter pointed out to Newsom. Newsom went on whiny, unhinged rant at the end of the interview, slamming his hand on the desk nearly 60 times, finger-wagging and arms flailing.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged all pregnant women Wednesday to get the COVID-19 vaccine as hospitals in hot spots around the U.S. see disturbing numbers of unvaccinated mothers-to-be seriously ill with the virus. Expectant women run a higher risk of severe illness and pregnancy complications from the coronavirus, including perhaps miscarriages and stillbirths. But their vaccination rates are low, with only about 23% having received at least one dose, according to CDC data. “The vaccines are safe and effective, and it has never been more urgent to increase vaccinations as we face the highly transmissible delta variant...

Material scientists in China experimenting with carbon in its many forms have conjured up a form of glass so hard that it can scratch the surface of a diamond. As reported by the South China Morning Post, the transparent material is also incredibly strong and has the ability to act as a semi-conductor, opening up some exciting possibilities in the realm of photovoltaics. Called AM-III, the new material has some parallels with diamonds, both natural and man-made, in that it is formed primarily of carbon atoms. But where diamonds feature an arrangement of atoms and molecules in a perfect lattice...

The Associated Press (AP) found a way to make President Joe Biden look like an American prophet warning about rising energy prices, without mentioning how his anti-oil agenda is contributing to the growing crisis. AP ran a puff story headlined, “Biden administration sounds alarm on rising energy prices.” The lede paragraph was just as ridiculous: “President Joe Biden’s administration is raising alarms at home and abroad about rising energy prices slowing the nation’s recovery from the pandemic-induced recession.” GasBuddy Head of Petroleum Analysis Patrick De Haan argued in April that Biden’s energy plan was contributing to rising gas prices. In...

Vandals have attacked more than 20 vaccination centers and other health facilities, daubing some with Nazi-themed slogans, as the French government steps up its COVID-19 vaccination drive. Anger has been fueled by the introduction of a health pass showing proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID-19 test which is now mandatory for entering restaurants, trains and other public places. Over the past four weekends protesters have marched against the health pass, saying it restricts individual freedom. Since July 12, a total of 22 health facilities have been have attacked defaced, including 15 vaccination centers, five COVID-19 test centers and...