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Scott Smith was arrested at a Loudoun County, Virginia school board meeting, a meeting that was ultimately deemed an “unlawful assembly” after many attendees vocally opposed a policy on transgender students. What people did not know is that, weeks prior, Smith says, a boy wearing a skirt, entered a girls’ bathroom at nearby Stone Bridge High School, where he sexually assaulted Smith’s ninth-grade daughter. Scott’s attorney, Elizabeth Lancaster told The Daily Wire that a boy was charged with two counts of forcible sodomy, one count of anal sodomy, and one count of forcible fellatio, related to an incident that day...

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Brits suffering from miserable colds could actually be enduring breakthrough cases of Covid-19 without realising, potentially allowing the virus to continue to spread. Over the past few weeks hundreds of thousands of people have been struck down by the fierce return of the common cold. Anecdotal evidence suggests the 'worst cold ever' has spread widely, possibly fuelled by a dip in immunity after a year and a half of social distancing and mask wearing limited its potential to infect. Rather than the usual inconveniencing runny nose and cough, the disease has been laying people out. "The worse cold I have...

Conservatives have partisan and policy issues with resident Biden’s ever changing $3.5 trillion budget plan he calls "Build Back Better." For Republicans to return to power in the 2022 congressional elections, a Democratic Party failure on their signature agenda item would be a plus. The Biden Plan has some serious policy problems because it will expand government at a time when the nation is approaching $30 trillion in collective national debt with no balance in sight. Opposing it out of hand is a no-brainer, but conservatives should recognize that reflexively opposing every element of this plan comes with some political...

The Los Angeles school district — confronted with widespread campus disruption and the firing of potentially thousands of unvaccinated teachers and other staff — has extended the looming deadline for all workers to be fully immunized for COVID-19. The prior deadline of Oct. 15 — this Friday — has been moved to Nov. 15, when employees must have received the second of two doses of either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, according to a brief district statement. The district did not clearly state a timetable for the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Interim Supt. Megan Reilly said the move represents...

Workplace chat software like Slack is probably the single most effective tool for making companies go woke. Organizing workers was a difficult challenge in companies that did not have unions. But while companies closely monitored union organizing, they actively encouraged the use of workplace chat software that made it all too easy for leftists to network, identify opponents, get them fired, and use those incidents to radicalize the company.The second most effective tool is the identity politics affinity group.Affinity groups or ERGs have become a popular tool by HR departments to organize internal woke caucuses. Corporate affinity groups are a...

It’s like Every. Single. Day. is Groundhog Day around here. Same news every morning.60,0000 migrants headed to crash our borders and take over the country (nobody seems to know why, or how to to stop it).Maybe it’s because the person who’s ostensibly “in charge” of the border is busy making videos with kids instead of meeting with the heads of state whose countries these “migrants” are migrating through unchecked. Yesterday we discovered that Kamala’s video, “Get Curious with Vice President Harris” consisted exclusively of child actors carefully selected for their diverse ethnicity – and ability to look like a STEM...

Man’s Vintage Camera Mistaken for Bomb, Causes Emergency Landing A flight was forced to make an emergency landing in NYC this weekend after a woman mistook a fellow passenger’s vintage camera for a bomb. The suspected terrorist was pinned to the tarmac before authorities figured out he was a camera enthusiast. The New York Times and NY Daily News report that American Airlines Flight 4817 from Indianapolis made an emergency landing at LaGuardia Airport at about 3pm Saturday and that a passenger had been taken in to custody on suspicion of carrying a bomb onto the airplane. The incident reportedly...

ESTACADA, Ore. — In December of 2019 there were more than 8,000 substitute teachers in Oregon. Now that number is just under 5,000. In response, the state Teacher Standards and Practices Commission filed a temporary order to establish emergency substitute teacher licenses. Under this order, the only requirements are for candidates to be 18 years of age and older and undergo a background check. That's getting a mixed response from parents. Districts will be expected to pay for these emergency licenses, certify specific administrators to support these candidates, and supervise the performance of these substitutes. The communications director with the...

This is a follow up on a post I made a few days ago about this story. Alexandra and Joshua Price just wanted flu shots for themselves and their 4- and 5-year-old kids — but they say Walgreens pharmacy gave them adult doses of COVID-19 vaccine instead. (after the shot) Alarmed, the Prices said they took their 4-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter to a pediatric cardiologist. The doctor told them the girl was experiencing high blood pressure and the boy tachycardia, a rapid heartbeat.

I admit having a special fondness in my heart for Superman. Like most kids in the 1950’s and 19060’s, I sat transfixed in front of our black & white Zenith TV as actor George Reeves flew across the 15” screen and crashed through those incredible brick walls (which I now know were plywood.) Fast-forward to 1978, as actor Christopher Reeve brought the Man of Steel to the big screen as star of Richard Donner’s smash hit SUPERMAN: The Movie. And yes, he delivered on the promise of the Italian movie poster hanging in our game room “SUPERMAN:IL FILM.. crederete che...

Welcome to our ongoing Law of Self Defense coverage of the criminal trial of Kyle Rittenhouse.As you all know, Kyle Rittenhouse has been charged with a number of crimes for his conduct in Kenosha WI on the night of August 25, 2020, amidst violent rioting in the city fomented by elements of Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and sympathizers of those groups.Most of the charges against Rittenhouse are serious felonies, including the charge of first-degree reckless homicide for the killing of Joseph Rosenbaum, first-degree intentional homicide for the killing of Anthony Huber, attempted first-degree homicide of Gaige Grosskreutz, and two counts...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemEcclesiastes 11Invest in Many Ventures 11 Ship your grain across the sea; after many days you may receive a return. 2 Invest in seven ventures, yes, in eight; you do not know what disaster may come upon the land. 3 If clouds are full of water, they pour rain on the earth. Whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls, there it will lie. 4 Whoever watches the wind will not plant; whoever looks at the clouds will not reap. 5 As you do not know...

Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time Luke 11:37-41 Friends, Jesus concludes today’s Gospel by prescribing giving alms as a key to holiness. I’ve quoted to you before some of the breathtaking remarks of saints and popes about almsgiving: Leo XIII says, "Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest of your money belongs to the poor." John Chrysostom says,"The man who has two shirts in his closet, one belongs to him; the other belongs to the man who has no shirt." The deepest root of all of this is in the prophets, who continually rail against those...

Scientists are beginning to paint a clearer picture on just how many people will be affected by climate change if current warming trends continue. About 85% of the world's population already lives in areas experiencing the affects of human-induced climate change, according to a study published in Nature on Tuesday. Researchers in Berlin compiled data from more than 100,000 impact studies analyzing detectable environmental signals of human-induced climate change, finding that the evidence for how climate change is impacting communities is continuing to grow. The new research is allowing scientists to attribute with near-certainty that global temperatures are increasing because...

With Joe Biden in the White House, the People's Republic of China ("America's #1 Adversary") is on a winning streak. America's cold war with the PRC is a 12-round fight still in the early rounds. But the Chinese Communist Party and President Xi Jinping are certainly emboldened by resident Biden's self-inflicted foreign policy disasters. The Afghanistan debacle proved Biden to be a weak and undependable ally. This perception has, in turn, opened the door to PRC aggression. The PRC won the first round of the cold-war fight in 1972 when it made a secret deal with Pakistan to help them...

Signs that soaring energy prices are putting a dampener on economic growth kept a lid on global stock market gains on Tuesday, while inflation and policy-tightening fears sent short-dated U.S. Treasury yields to 18-month highs. Oil prices rose further, with Brent crude above $84 a barrel. Coal has scaled record peaks and, while gas prices are off recent highs, they remain four times higher in Europe than at the start of the year. The impact of supply crunches in power and manufacturing components is showing up in data - figures on Tuesday showed Japanese wholesale inflation hit 13-year highs last...

Almost a quarter of the nation's roads and other critical infrastructure — from hospitals to police and fire stations to wastewater treatment plants — are at risk of becoming overcome by climate change-exacerbated flooding, a new report from the nonprofit First Street Foundation finds. The report examines risk over the next three decades, including every mile of road and major infrastructure in nearly all U.S. counties. It also examines risks for commercial and residential flooding as well as "social infrastructure" like government buildings, churches and schools. After a summer of outsized floods across the nation — from Louisiana to Michigan...

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Multiple congresswomen recently shared their personal stories about abortion. The media focused on three of them. But a fourth – a story about choosing life – should be told too. On September 30, three Democratic representatives made headlines after telling their abortion stories during a House hearing on “Examining the Urgent Need to Protect and Expand Abortion Rights and Access.” Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri, Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington, and Rep. Barbara Lee of California delivered their testimonies. Of the three, the media led with Rep. Bush’s story. After graduating high school at 17, Rep. Bush remembered joining a...