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New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard has been named sportswoman of the year by the University of Otago. She was awarded this title by the university based in Dunedin on the South Island of New Zealand at the Blues awards on Tuesday. She is the first transgender winner of the award in its 113 year history celebrating sporting greatness.

Greenfield Police released video Friday of an incident that left an officer in critical condition and a perp dead. They announced that the injured officer is now home and recovering.

A United States Marine corporal who served in Afghanistan during Operation Freedom Sentinel and Operation Southern Vigilance is facing dishonorable discharge for refusing to take the COVID-19 shots as required by the secretary of defense. Having been diagnosed with two heart conditions, arrhythmia and right bundle branch blockage, taking an experimental drug with unknown long-term side effects isn't a medical option for him, he says, especially since the shots have already been proven to cause blood clots and heart inflammation. However, he was informed that the only medical waiver he could receive was if he was diagnosed with congenital heart...

The Weekly Gardening Thread is a weekly gathering of folks that love soil, seeds and plants of all kinds. From complete newbies that are looking to start that first potted plant, to gardeners with some acreage, to Master Gardener level and beyond, we would love to hear from you. If you have specific question about a plant/problem you are having, please remember to state the Growing Zone where you are located. This thread is a non-political respite. No matter what, you won’t be flamed, and the only dumb question is the one that isn’t asked. It is impossible to hijack...

I for one am shocked that Tucker Carlson is still alive. I cannot believe that Tucker Carlson has not "committed suicide" with three bullets to the back of the head. I'm stunned that a drunk hit-and-run driver (who was never found) did not kill Tucker Carlson in a car crash near Carlson's home. And I'm a little startled that child porn wasn't "just found" on Carlson's laptop. In other words, I am very, very surprised that the Deep State has not taken Tucker Carlson out. Maybe the angels are busy protecting him. Maybe it's through God's grace because Tucker is...

Homeschooling numbers have increased over 300% in the last two years, according to federal government Census data. This spike does not include Americans engaged in virtual learning through a public or private school program due to COVID protocols. These are full-time homeschoolers. The United States Census Bureau has been tasked with collecting data through nationwide surveys for over 80 years. The data are intended for use by other government agencies and elected officials for policy decisions. This is the first time the Census Bureau has sought to identify the total number of homeschoolers in America. Previous surveys only marked children...

Some prominent French figures, including President Emmanuel Macron, are rejecting "woke" ideology that has been imported from the United States amid a breakdown in relations between the two nations. A cover story by Le Spectacle Du Monde, one of France's leading magazines, recently ran a piece titled "The Suicide of America" in which it blames the deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan on a "woke dictatorship" and questioned whether the American "empire was collapsing," Zenger News reported. Macron, who has been criticized by French progressives, told Elle Magazine this past summer that woke culture was "racializing" French society, Zenger reported. "I see...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemEcclesiastes 1Everything Is Meaningless 1 The words of the Teacher,[a] son of David, king in Jerusalem: 2 “Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.” 3 What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun? 4 Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever. 5 The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises. 6 The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course. 7 All streams flow...

The Obama-Biden administration stockpiled an arsenal of high-powered weapons in the Executive Branch based on the vision of a civilian national security force. The stockpile can outfit an army. The Biden regime controls the trigger to the arsenal. "We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded," Obama said on July 2, 2008. Non-profit OpentheBooks released a comprehensive oversight report earlier this year titled "The Militarization of The U.S. Executive Agencies" (here)....

Let's take a look at both the rules and the applications of the consequences for those who break them. Since August this year, U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Scheller had earned both fame and notoriety when he posted a series of videos questioning the military's leadership following the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan and the devastating suicide bombing at the Kabul airport, which killed 182 people, including 13 U.S. service members, and injured more than a hundred. I have been fighting for 17 years. I am willing to throw it all away to say to my senior leaders: I demand accountability....

BRIAN Laundrie's "concerned" family have revealed they think he is still in Florida and hope he'll be found alive, their lawyer said on Friday. The statement could have a huge impact on search efforts for the missing person of interest in Gabby Petito's death two weeks after he vanished. "They are concerned, but hopeful that he is found alive," the Laundries' family attorney Steve Bertolino said. Bertolino's statement to People is the first Laundrie's family has made since his disappearance, and after much attention has been brought to their home. Bertolino also confirmed that Cassie saw him with their family...

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Vladimir Putin of Russia, battered and diminished by the Trump years, is now in the catbird seat. Joe Biden is the reason why. In the midst of his incompetence, bad judgment, and quite possibly corrupt tradeoffs, he's enacted a string of bad decisions to empower the Russian autocrat. Quite unlike President Trump, who was accused by a mendacious and maddened left of being 'Putin's puppet,' Joe Biden is the real thing. Which is pretty ironic, really: For a man who wrote the gushing book blurb to the most negative portrayal of Putin I've ever read, Fiona Hill's "Mr. Putin," which...

New Forced Control: NYU Langone and other Hospitals in New York and Long Island are Forcing that if the Parent is not VAXXED they will not release Babies From NICU to Parents or after birth as per CDC Guidelines. You Need to Show VAX-Passport to see your own New Born Baby. https://twitter.com/DRAFZALNIAZ2/status/1443896839569346563 @DRAFZALNIAZ2 Link to this doctor's resume: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Afzal-Niaz

California voters had a chance to get rid of Governor Gavin Newsom, their COVID tyrant. They chose not to do so. Since his victory, Newsom has come for the children. First, he signed (rather than vetoed) laws ensuring that parents cannot know whether their children are having abortions or messing with their gender. And on Friday, he issued a mandate declaring that all California children 12 and over, whether attending either public or private school, must have a COVID vaccine (with the mandate extending to kids five and up as soon as possible). If parents had any doubt, it’s now...

There is no question, that, taken as a whole, our society is getting dumber. Recent IQ measurements support that assertion. It is a remarkably damning indictment of our public school system and current culture that the more years of schooling one has and the more information we have access to, the less actual knowledge and wisdom one tends to possess. To paraphrase something Mark Steyn once observed, eighth grade Americans built the most successful country the world has ever known, and eighteenth grade Americans may well destroy it. The Founders were worried about “The tyranny of the majority.” Yet today...

I learned the other day on one of the mainstream media sites (CNN) of a former ICU nurse, a young woman named Allie Rae, who quit her nursing job because she discovered she could make much, much more money by becoming a "content creator." This is the term she and the media site use to describe what she does to make all that money. Content creator. I admit that I am solidly on the benighted side when it comes to social media–related terminology, so I wondered what that curiously vague term means. Perhaps she gives instruction in some craft? Exercise,...

There was a lot of evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 election, despite what the mainstream media has been telling you. One glaring example occurred in Georgia: Newly discovered security footage from Georgia’s State Farm Arena showed dozens of ballot counters, media, and Republican observers leaving en masse at the same time from the ballot-counting area for Fulton County. After they left, a small remnant of about four workers began pulling trunks containing thousands of ballots from underneath a table with a long tablecloth and running them through machines. The footage supported claims from Republicans that they were told...

They're not pretty, but they sure are descriptive. Not "E Pluribus Unum" or even "Black Lives Matter" — these little phrases explain a lot that's going on. They are guiding lights of the Progressive movement. We define everything A colossal blunder that costs American lives and credibility is a "success," a desertion of materiel and citizens is "mission accomplished"... Ignoring the natural immunity of COVID survivors in further mandates is "following the science." In fact, we define science: no longer a fact-based inductive pursuit of the truth wherever it leads, science is now a dog wagged by the tail of...

Progressives are by their very nature contemptuous of the natural order of things. Everything can be improved by their superior intellects. By virtue of the purity of their motives and the advanced understanding we have these days, they can impose policies that violate human nature, and, they think, prevail. The Marxists are explicit in their promise that communism will create a “new man” (now updated to read “new person”). Self-interest would no longer operate in the communist utopia that would follow the supposedly transitory period of “dictatorship of the proletariat.” “From each according to his abilities, to each according to...