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It's important to keep elections in perspective. The Youngkin win in Virginia was a backlash against wokeness and willful societal destruction in the name of not being a horrible person. The old saying "nice guys finish last" reflects the rough and tumble world of politics. For those who would rather maintain civility, decency and self respect, it's sometimes better to lose than to get into the gutter with one's opponent just to win, depending on what one stands to win. When it comes to a bonus, or a raise, one might opt to remain decent and faithful to the virtues...

Glasgow (AFP) – Thousands of youth activists were preparing to descend on Glasgow on Friday to protest against what they say is a dangerous lack of action by leaders at the COP26 climate summit. Demonstrations are expected across the Scottish city to highlight the disconnect between the glacial pace of emissions reductions and the climate emergency already swamping countries across the world. Organisers of the Fridays for Future global strike movement said they expected large crowds at the planned three-hour protest during COP26 "Youth Day", which will be attended by high-profile campaigners Greta Thunberg and Vanessa Nakate. "This UN Climate...

resident Joe Biden returned the morning of Nov. 3 to a nation that no longer supports him or his party. Virginia, which he carried 55% to 44% in 2020, has elected Republican Glenn Youngkin as governor, Republicans for lieutenant governor and attorney general, and recaptured a majority in the House of Delegates. Even more startlingly, in New Jersey, which Biden carried 57% to 41%, Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy is currently leading Republican Jack Ciattarelli by about 29,000 votes, with a few more to be counted. New Jersey, as part of the New York and Philadelphia media markets, has long been...

Democrats will never finish their meddling work until the electorate ends them. Here is a headline: Sen. Steve Sweeney, a longtime Garden State Democrat leader, is trailing Republican challenger Edward Durr by thousands of votes. It says something about America’s current electoral system that two days after a race we can’t divine who won. Sounds like a s***hole country to me, but then I was born a long time ago. So far Democrats have offered only two excuses for the battering they took on Tuesday. Tim Kaine says that Democrats lost because they failed to pass the elephantine “infrastructure” and...

Saskatoon police and conservation officers remove a moose from inside Sylvia Fedoruk School in Evergreen after it crashed through a window. The moose was tranquilized and is being relocated. No students or staff were injured. A moose crashed through a window at Sylvia Fedoruk School in Saskatoon’s Evergreen neighbourhood Thursday morning.Just before 9 a.m., the female moose broke through the window of the school’s community room, located between Sylvia Fedoruk and St. Nicholas Catholic School, Saskatoon Public Schools said in a release.Students and staff involved in a before-school program operated by an external provider were in the room at the...

FAIRFIELD COUNTY, Ohio (WCMH) — A homeowner in Violet Township shot at a suspect who attacked her, hitting him at least three times, according to Fairfield County Sheriff’s Office. It happened Friday on the 12000 block of Pickerington Road. Deputies responded to the report of a single-car crash to find that the driver had run away, then returned to the scene. Deputies say the driver started physically fighting with a man and woman who were standing outside their home. One of the homeowners pulled a gun and told the man to stop fighting, but he began to attack her. Deputies...

I can’t begin to tell you, as an overseas observer, how refreshing it was to see the results of recent American state and local elections. As someone who had become convinced that America had gone completely off the rails in a dogged pursuit of Marxist insanity by a malevolent Politburo whose central policy was to control the people and change the demographics of the country making it impossible for them ever to lose power, it was inspiring to see the common folk rise up and express themselves in overwhelming numbers, setting back the woke regressive agenda of their leaders. It...

Engracia Figueroa, an impassioned activist for people with disabilities, died after complications from injuries she sustained in July when her custom wheelchair was destroyed by United Airlines. Figueroa's passing was announced by Hand in Hand, a national network of domestic workers who advocate for dignified working conditions, of which she was a member of the California chapter. “Engracia Figueroa, a fierce advocate for people with disabilities, passed away on Sunday due to complications from injuries she sustained when United Airlines destroyed her custom wheelchair last July.” #FlyingWhileDisabled #Disability..... "Her struggle to maintain her balance over that length of time in...

History repeats itself. History repeats itself. History repeats itself. This is because human nature does not change. This is because power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Today's America reminds us more and more and more of Germany in the early 1930s. With proper credit given to German pastor Martin Niemoller... – They came after President Trump, but I said nothing because I did not like his tweets. – They came after the J-6 protesters who have been locked up as political prisoners, but I said nothing because they seemed a little too "unwashed." – They came after the Founding...

"I don't think parents should be telling schools what they should teach." With this remark -- arrogant, dismissive, contemptuous -- in his debate with Glenn Youngkin, Terry McAuliffe committed a historic gaffe. From that debate forward, his poll numbers steadily sank until McAuliffe lost his lead, and with it, the election. And going down to defeat, McAuliffe dragged with him his fellow Democratic candidates for lieutenant governor and attorney general and watched Virginia's House of Delegates revert to Republican rule. What was McAuliffe saying, and what were Virginians hearing, in his remark? McAuliffe was saying that, in deciding what should...

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Climate change denial is spreading unchecked on Facebook, two studies by disinformation researchers have found. The Center for Countering Digital Hate and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue said less than 10% of misleading posts were marked as misinformation. It found that of 7,000 misleading posts describing climate change as "hysteria", "alarmism", a "scam", or other related terms, only 8% were marked as misinformation. Facebook pledged to flag climate denial content early this year. The CCDH looked at a sample of posts from the past year which attracted roughly 700,000 likes and shares. Researchers used social media analytics tool Newswhip to...

A judge ruled Wednesday that he'll seat one Black juror and 11 whites to decide the trial of the men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery, despite prosecutors' objections that several Black potential jurors were cut because of their race. Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley acknowledged that "intentional discrimination" by attorneys for the three white defendants charged in the death of the Black man appeared to have shaped jury selection. But he said Georgia law limited his authority... ...prosecutor Linda Dunikoski noted only a single Black juror made the panel.......defense lawyers had struck eight Black potential jurors... Laura Hogue, an...

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With every passing day, the fact that young Kyle shot in self-defense is becoming more evident—thanks in large part to prosecutorial malfeasance. On August 25, 2020, 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse, armed with an AR-15 and a medical kit, went to Kenosha, Wisconsin, to offer first aid and protect businesses against looting and arson. By evening’s end, Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber were dead, and Gaige Grosskreutz had a hole in his arm. Rittenhouse is now being tried for murder although he claims—and video evidence and witness testimony confirm—he acted in self-defense. The trial started this week and it’s been sufficiently fascinating,...

Tuesday night's GOP electoral romp in Virginia, headlined by Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin's victory over former governor and longtime Clinton crony Terry McAuliffe, ought to be a watershed moment for the trajectory of American conservative politics and the Republican Party. The sweep of the Old Dominion's governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general positions, making for the first statewide GOP victories in the once-solidly red commonwealth since 2009, amounts to a repudiation of the decades of pablum dished out by Republicans' well-paid, but myopic, K Street consultant class. That conventional wisdom, best encapsulated by the Republican National Committee's infamous "autopsy" following Mitt...

Jesse Watters discusses how the media latched on to the Russia collusion narrative on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.' Please see video at link.

That's what the global elite has in store for you. In her remarkable trilogy entitled The Bourgeois Era, Deirdre McCloskey studies the history, evolution, and importance of the middle class from its rise in Western Europe some 400 years ago to the magnificent heights of affluence and power it enjoys today. It is the middle class that made Western Europe and America the great powers they have been for centuries and that has created a standard of living beyond anything imaginable before. From the beginning, the intelligentsia, the modern-day descendants of medieval scholars and scribes, sought to undermine the middle...

Another reminder of why an alternative social media platform is needed. Apparently, reporting on the horrific persecution Christian minorities experience in the Muslim word is a punishable offense for Facebook, as that topic falls beneath the social media giant's "standards." That's what I was told when I logged onto my Facebook account a few days ago. A box popped up saying, "This post goes against our Community Standards," followed by, "Only you can see this post because it goes against our community standards," with a link to the offensive post in question. I was then locked out for 24 hours....

Jewish and anti-hate-speech groups in the U.S. are pressing lawmakers to quickly move forward on considering President Biden’s nominee for the position of special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, Deborah Lipstadt. Republicans are delaying her confirmation hearing, citing concerns over Lipstadt's tweets, including some that they say targeted members of the committee. In a letter sent Thursday, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Jewish Federations for North America and the Union of Orthodox Jewish North America Congregations of America, said “The global Jewish community needs the United States to be a leader in the fight against antisemitism and we must not...