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How it started:That would be with The Great Self-esteem Movement of the 70’s-80s, in which teachers and parents began to pour unconditional praise on children and to shelter them from adverse consequences and criticism. Accordingly, all of the children were above average. Indeed between the late 60s and 2004, the proportion of first year university students claiming an A average in high school rose from 18% to 48%, despite the fact that SAT scores had actually fallen. At best the participation trophy era created a generation of narcissistic underachievers. At worst it created a batch of nincompoops.How it ended:Incompetent nincompoopery...

Taliban spokesperson Dr Suhail Shaheen said: "It's a red line. President Biden announced that on 31 August they would withdraw all their military forces. So if they extend it that means they are extending occupation while there is no need for that." He added: "If the US or UK were to seek additional time to continue evacuations - the answer is no. Or there would be consequences.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Connie Hamzy, immortalized in a No. 1 rock ‘n’ roll hit by Grand Funk Railroad in 1973, died after a brief illness, KARK-TV reported. She was 66. Hamzy was the subject in the opening verses of Grand Funk Railroad’s hit, “We’re An American Band,” which spent 17 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100”S. "Sweet, sweet Connie, doin’ her act/She had the whole show and that’s a natural fact,” sang drummer Don Brewer, who also wrote the song. “I was determined to become a famous groupie,” Hamzy told KTHV in 2019. “I really was. Beginning in the...

A rightwing protest in Portland on Sunday has culminated in a gunfight, when antifascist demonstrators returned fire at a man who shot at them with a handgun in a downtown street.

Monday, August 23, 2021 Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time Matthew 23:13-22 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus launches a blistering attack on the scribes and Pharisees. The Son teaches, heals, preaches to, and forgives those who feel far from the mercy of God. He is the hand that the Father stretches out to sinners and to those who are lost. And by the same token, he is the judge of a sinful world. When the light of God’s forgiving love appears, the shadows of sin become all the deeper and more obvious. In light of him, there is nowhere to hide....

Moderna, Inc., (Nasdaq: MRNA) a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation for mRNA-1345, its investigational single-dose mRNA vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in adults older than 60 years of age. “We are pursuing an mRNA RSV vaccine to protect the most vulnerable populations – young children and older adults,” said Stéphane Bancel, Chief Executive Officer of Moderna. “We are studying mRNA-1345 in these populations in an ongoing clinical trial and we look forward to sharing data when available. The Fast Track...

VIDEOPerhaps the best campaign commercial for "Yes On Recall" in California was made by Governor Gavin Newsom. He provided a list of excellent reasons to recall him and even some reasons you might not have considered such as the ability to appoint people to fill to vacant county boards of supervisors seats around the state.The good news for the Yes On Recall campaign is that they don't have to spend money to produce an effective campaign commercial. Gavin Newsom has already done the heavy lifting for them on that score in this video.

America is in shock over the Taliban’s swift and complete takeover in Afghanistan. President Joe Biden incoherently attempted to justify this failure after trillions of American dollars have been spent to avoid it. While we grieve the loss of human life associated with the Taliban’s victory, we cannot help but note the clear contrast this situation provides to the morally upright values our nation was founded upon. It is time that our woke politicians, corporate leaders and religious figures acknowledge this difference. We must end the disgraceful defamation of America as an oppressive nation. The Taliban is a brutal regime...

The Biden administration is at odds with Israel over the best way to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett intends to present US President Joe Biden with a plan to halt a nuclear Iran when the two hold their first meeting together in the White House later this week. “We will present an orderly plan that we have formulated in the past two months to curb the Iranians, both in the nuclear sphere and vis-à-vis regional aggression,” Bennett told the government at its weekly meeting on Sunday. -----Snip “We inherited a not-so-simple situation. Iran is...

The government's decades-long mission to terrify the public from owning firearms is the most dangerous delusion forced on the American people. SNIP At the end of July, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives sent a letter to Rare Breed Trigger notifying the Florida company that the ATF had classified its FRT-15 trigger, a drop-in trigger for an AR-15 rifle that speeds up the rate of fire, as a machine gun under the National Firearms Act and demanding that the company cease all sales. Rare Breed is fighting the ATF's action, but that hasn't reduced the federal agency's power...

WASHINGTON, Thursday, Aug. 22. The steamer Yankee arrived last evening. She comes for repairs, and will leave to-morrow. Her officers report eleven steamers and four cutters at Aquia Creek. Everything there is quiet. The report that the rebels had erected batteries on the Maryland side, below Aquia Creek, is untrue. The Columbia arrived with Government stores to-day, bringing with her a sloop called the Eagle, seized below. Col. ABRAHAM DURYEE is here from Baltimore. Gen. SCOTT favors his appointment as a Brigadier-General. He has been acting as such for some time, and with great efficiency. Trustworthy intelligence from Northwestern Virginia...

The Supreme Court on Monday released the schedule for the justices’ November argument session, which begins on Nov. 1 and runs through Nov. 10. The justices will hear oral arguments in nine cases over six days, including the argument in one of the highest-profile cases of the term so far, the challenge to a New York law that requires anyone who wants to carry a gun in the state to show a good reason for doing so. That case, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, will be argued on Wednesday, Nov. 3. The court did not indicate...

Portland, Oregon descended into violence on Sunday, as intense clashes broke out between Antifa and Proud Boys. One man was arrested for firing a gun at demonstrators, a car was broken into, and an ambulance truck was flipped. Luckily, no injuries have been reported. Portland has become a magnet for Antifa rioters given the city’s liberal stance. Portland police arrested a man, later identified as 65-year-old Dennis G. Anderson, on Sunday afternoon after he allegedly opened fire with a handgun. Footage filmed close to Southwest 3rd Avenue and Southwest Alder Street, where Anderson was arrested, showed a man firing a...

WATCH: President Biden laughs when told new CBS/YouGov poll shows a majority of Americans don't believe he is "competent, focused, or effective in the job." pic.twitter.com/rDAW3CEgKl— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) August 22, 2021

After more than seven months of the worst presidency in American history, Joe Biden must leave the White House. He has been a complete and total disaster. Almost every Trump voter understood that Biden would be an unmitigated failure as president. His 50-year career as a politician clearly showed that he was an admitted plagiarist and a serial liar who was wrong on almost every foreign and domestic issue. He limped into the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination due to the worry that his major opponent, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT). was too much of a socialist. Ironically, Biden is now...

The science behind the danger of experimental vaccination. After being promised that mRNA vaccines were game-changers that would safely and effectively end the pandemic, a new wave of uncertainty has descended upon the world with the rise of the Delta variant. Vaccinated people are falling ill with breakthrough infections of Delta. We first started hearing about the Delta variant of Covid-19 in March 2021. At that time, breakthrough infections among the fully vaccinated were rare. Five months later, large numbers of vaccinated people are coming down with breakthrough infections. Provincetown, Massachusetts, had an outbreak after the Fourth of July where...

A man, who calls himself the "vaccine police," entered a Walmart in Springfield, Missouri to put staff "on public notice," telling pharmacists they could be "executed" if they carry out COVID-19 vaccine shots, according to reports. The man identified as Christopher Key, an anti-vaxxer from Alabama, live-streamed the confrontation on Facebook last week, on August 16, according to the Springfield News-Leader. The video shows Key and a handful of supporters praying in the parking lot of the supercenter before entering. During the prayer, a person could be heard saying: "Thank you, Lord Jesus, for waking up Springfield" and "help us...

The World Health Organization (WHO) warned Monday that more than 500 tonnes of medical supplies due for delivery in Afghanistan are stuck outside of the country due to chaos at Kabul airport. Aid officials say the supplies, including surgical equipment and malnutrition kits, are needed to help hundreds of thousands of people displaced by recent violence. Thousands of people have left the country in recent days, but commercial flights have ceased. "While the eyes of the world now are on the people being evacuated and the planes leaving, we need to get supplies in to help those who are left...

For decades, American foreign policy has been committed to a failed political and military philosophy. In Afghanistan, America is experiencing its own Dunkirk, but without rescue boats or a Churchill on the horizon. While pundits, pooh-bahs, and political prophets presently are in finger-pointing mode over the debacle, one lesson is apparent. For decades, American foreign policy has been committed to a failed political and military philosophy. Afghanistan is the symbolic and real indicator of the total collapse of the liberal/left Weltanschauung. During America's twenty years' war and occupation of Afghanistan and well before that enterprise, somewhere along the way, the...

Ivermectin, a potentially dangerous and unproven medication to help COVID-19 patients, is being widely dispensed despite warnings, as the nation is in the grips of the delta variant surge. Internal data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reviewed by ABC News, estimates a 19-fold increase of the anti-parasite medicine being distributed during the first week of August. That distribution is despite multiple warnings from public health departments given the lack of evidence ivermectin works to treat COVID and the substantial risk of seizures or coma if used incorrectly. Ivermectin is not authorized by the Food and Drug Administration...