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It's now difficult to understand where government ends and academia begins. And they're both leading us into the abyss. "Those who can do; those who can't teach." Most people who were born prior to the socialist infestation and eventual takeover of our education system probably remember that quote. It was written by George Bernard Shaw in 1903, a line from his four-act drama Man and Superman. It has been upsetting teachers and professors ever since, many of whom had a valid complaint about being included among the alleged non-achievers. Many fine teachers throughout history have helped positively shape young minds...

The holstered firearm was inside the purse Det. Brittney Hilton of the Bridge City Police Department was carrying when the accidental discharge occurred. “I picked up my bag, my keys were on top,” she said. “As I walked around my desk, my purse swings out and it shoots out the bottom of my bag.” She heard the sound, but it took a moment for Det. Hilton to realize what happened.

President Joe Biden attempted to reassure Israel of U.S. support on Friday morning, as he met with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett the day after 13 U.S. troops were killed in a terror attack at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. Biden began by discussing the fight against the coronavirus pandemic in the two countries — in contrast with Bennett, who began by offering condolences to the U.S. on the terror attacks in Afghanistan, and then emphasized the importance of preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. But the president added: “We are also going to discuss the threat from Iran...

The authority of our institutions has been degraded through abuse of those institutions by those having charge of them. There were two events over the past week that highlight a growing issue in American society. Following the deaths of 13 servicemen in Afghanistan, a Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, Stuart Scheller, made an online video in which he criticized his military superiors. He was promptly relieved of his military duties, and observers were quick to point out that his actions violated the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Also this past week, the Supreme Court ruled that President Biden's attempt to extend...

Until recently, the practice of medicine was based more on science, less on science fiction. Until recently, the practice of medicine was based more on science, less on science fiction. Even when science fiction acted as foreshadowing, hard evidence was required to turn fiction into non-fiction. We are told to practice evidence-based medicine. However, evidence today has taken a back seat to wishful thinking — or is it an agenda? A refresher on recent issues is required to see how science fiction has increasingly replaced science and where it leads. This science fiction story begins with the 2019 "virus" and...

A group of highly trained US military veterans have been conducting secret rescue missions behind the Biden State Department’s back, rescuing hundreds of Afghan allies from Afghanistan with their heroic efforts. Furious over the terrible situation in they had already sacrificed so much to prevent when they served, the team of retired specialists, including Green Berets and Navy SEALS, risked their lives. They volunteered to travel to Kabul because they were afraid that Joe Biden was abandoning at-risk Afghan elite forces, leaving them to die at the hands of terrorists. They felt it was necessary for someone to step up...

The debacle in Afghanistan is still unfolding, but it is already one of the signal disasters of American history. It’s usually premature to assess contemporary events in history’s light, so it’s a sign of just how bad things are in Kabul that I — a historian — am ready to put it alongside the Bay of Pigs, the Fall of Saigon, the Black Hawk Down incident, and 9/11 itself in the list of era-defining American humiliations. It’s bad enough that it’s happening - what’s worse is that we chose it. And it’s not an aberration for our unmoored American federal...

For the past two weeks, Firlit has been able to speak to her son on the phone and via video calls, but has not seen him in person. A mother from Chicago says a Cook County judge stripped her of her parental rights after learning she was not vaccinated against COVID-19. All parties agree that it is a very unusual and perhaps unprecedented move: A judge at the Daley Center in Chicago has stripped of custody of Rebecca Firlit for refusing to get a vaccination. Firlit and her ex-husband appeared in court through Zoom for a child support hearing involving...

ESPECIALLY now with the Biden administration rapidly sinking.

In his recent $6 trillion budget proposal, President Biden called for increasing government health care spending by 23%. Though well-intended, his budget outlines the wrong way to reform health care: It funnels more spending into inefficient bureaucracies, without fixing the root problems in the health care system. Instead, policymakers should look to promising reforms focused on modernizing outdated rules and bureaucracies to reduce health costs. This is especially urgent today as America is running a record $2 trillion budget deficit and 78% of Americans are concerned about inflation—which is primarily driven by the rise in government spending. Since 2000, government...

Democrats last night sought to distance themselves from Joe Biden as fierce criticism of the President threatened to make him a political liability ahead of congressional elections next year. The party controls both the Senate and House of Representatives by small margins and Republicans believe the President's handling of the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan could help them win back power. One Democratic insider told The Telegraph: “He was right to withdraw but the perception is he's made a serious, serious mistake. How he got himself into this mess is beyond me, and it's done some serious harm to him.” In...

Pray For the Peace of JerusalemPsalm 148 1 Praise the Lord.[a] Praise the Lord from the heavens; praise him in the heights above. 2 Praise him, all his angels; praise him, all his heavenly hosts. 3 Praise him, sun and moon; praise him, all you shining stars. 4 Praise him, you highest heavens and you waters above the skies. 5 Let them praise the name of the Lord, for at his command they were created, 6 and he established them for ever and ever— he issued a decree that will never pass away. 7 Praise the Lord from the earth,...

CHICAGO - A Chicago mother says a Cook County judge has taken away her parental rights after learning that she is not vaccinated against COVID-19. In what all parties agree is a very unusual and perhaps unprecedented step, a judge at Chicago’s Daley Center has stripped Rebecca Firlit of custody because she refuses to get a vaccination shot. "I miss my son more than anything. It's been very difficult. I haven't seen him since August 10th," Firlit told FOX 32 News in an exclusive interview.Snip "You have to understand the father did not even bring this issue before the court....

“Regarding the Yankee invasion of Afghanistan: If 20 to 30 thousand men employ intelligent methods of guerrilla warfare, the war could last 20 years, 'and it lasted 20 years.'” (Recent tweet by Cuba’s puppet “President” Miguel Diaz-Canel, recalling a comment by Fidel Castro from 2/11/2001.) “It took them 20 years with thousands killed and billions of dollars spent to confirm that the U.S. has no right to the destiny of Afghanistan or of any sovereign nation.” (Cuba’s foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez, Aug. 19, 2021.) Yes, by all means the terrorists and terror-sponsors who have ruled Cuba for the past 60...

How three well-educated highly-trained lawyers can achieve appointment and confirmation to the Supreme Court of the United States yet believe the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – a federal public health agency – has any legal authority whatsoever to cancel or modify a private rental contract governed by state contract law is simply beyond comprehension. If one were a cynic, one might be tempted to think politics has infected the high court. In swiftly striking down this federal overreach, six clear-headed rational jurists laid bare the utter absurdity of the Biden administration's legal argument. The majority point out that...

Inequality is almost universally condemned by the intellectual elite. But most of the rest of the world doesn’t think inequality is such a bad thing. According to polling by Gallup, there are 138 million people in the world today who would like to immigrate to the United States. Most of these people are poor. They tend to live in egalitarian surroundings – they and their neighbors are all equally poor. (The country with the highest percentage of would-be immigrants is Liberia.) Yet they want to come to a country with a great deal of inequality, knowing they would start out...

Critical Race Theory (CRT) has been cited as an offshoot of Karl Marx’s theory of class struggle, which was designed to pit one class against another so as to foment worker-led revolutions. It is also widely accepted that the Marxian Frankfurt School in Germany reworked Marx’s “social conflict theory” in the 1950s by adding “race” to their long list of “oppressed” minorities. But historically, the Frankfurt School theorists were latecomers to the racial theory table. They were not the originators of Critical Race Theory. A revolutionary socialist movement had already existed decades before in Germany. These racial justice warriors sought...

16-year-old Ernesto Ramirez died of an enlarged heart five days after the jab, according to his autopsy which showed his heart was double the normal size. This story documents one father's struggle for answers and justice in a culture that shuns and ignores deaths after vaccination.

Is the Biden administration's messy withdrawal from Afghanistan incompetence, or is it exactly as planned? Is there a hidden globalist plan aimed at empowering Islamic governments in the Mideast? If yes, how would empowering the Taliban fit in the larger plan of globalists and believers in the New World Order? Socialists and globalists, whose home today is in the Democrat party, have been speaking about their lofty plans for decades, constantly testing the waters of public opinion and speaking from both sides of their mouths. They insert insane ideas in the American psyche, then quickly deny they really said what...

House Democratic leaders are considering taking a page from a similar budget standoff a decade ago that led to the first-ever U.S. credit downgrade as they look for ways to lift or suspend the statutory debt ceiling amid near-unanimous GOP opposition. The maneuver under consideration is a resolution of disapproval process for suspending the debt limit, according to sources with knowledge of the conversations.... ...Doing so could, in theory, inoculate both Democrats and Republicans against charges that they voted directly for lifting the nation's credit card limit....