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Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland formally declared "squaw" to be a derogatory term Friday and ordered a task force to find replacement names for valleys, lakes, creeks and other sites on federal lands that use the word. The order, which takes effect immediately, stands to affect more than 650 place names that use the term, according to figures from the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. "Racist terms have no place in our vernacular or on our federal lands. Our nation's lands and waters should be places to celebrate the outdoors and our shared cultural heritage — not to perpetuate...

Recent news about the significant shift of women outpacing men in attending college—now a 60/40 ratio—overlooks one of the highest-achieving groups of all: gay men. In addition, lesbian women's level of education is not accounted for in the new figures. A new study from a University of Notre Dame researcher reveals how, without including sexuality, broad statements about gender and education are incomplete and misleading. "Across analyses, I reveal two demographic facts," said Joel Mittleman, assistant professor of sociology at Notre Dame, whose study is forthcoming from the American Sociological Review. "First, women's rising academic advantages are largely confined to...

As noted in my post this past Sunday, no amount of fake happy talk in the so-called “Glasgow Climate Pact” can obscure the obvious fact that nobody agreed to anything. To read the text of the “pact,” everybody claims to think that this whole “decarbonization” thing to “save the planet” is real. We’re all going to do something really, really significant, but it will be next year, or maybe the year after that. And meanwhile, nobody has made any remotely serious effort to cost this thing out. Are we talking about a ten percent increase in the cost of energy...

The Brute. The Buck. And, of course, the Thug. Those are just some of the names for a racial stereotype that has haunted the collective imagination of White America since the nation's inception. The specter of the angry Black man has been evoked in politics and popular culture to convince White folks that a big, bad Black man is coming to get them and their daughters. I've seen viral videos of innocent Black men losing their lives because of this stereotype. I've watched White people lock their car doors or clutch their purses when men who look like me approach....

Price inflation has rapidly eclipsed COVID-19 as an economic concern, and with good reason. Price inflation has rapidly eclipsed COVID-19 as an economic concern, and with good reason. To combat the problem, it’s important to be clear about exactly what is causing it. Federal fiscal policy -- taxes and spending -- and regulation have an enormous effect on the value of money. The current situation has everyone on edge. Consumer prices rose by 6.2 percent over the past 12 months, the worst increase since 1990. Unleaded gasoline costs 57 percent more than it did a year ago. Home heating bills...

Protests spring up in NYC, other cities in response to Rittenhouse verdict Protests sprang up in New York and other cities across the country Friday night in response to Kyle Rittenhouse’s acquittal, resulting in at least five arrests and some property damage in Queens, according to the NYPD. Police tweeted a photo of vandalized vehicles in Queens, including a car with handicap plates that had “F–k you” graffitied on the back in black spray paint. “The NYPD takes its responsibility to protect the 1st amendment rights of peaceful demonstrators seriously,” the tweet said. “Just as important is the safety of...

If you are pregnant and in need, come to the Catholic Church! That was the message of Cardinal John O'Connor 30 years ago when he founded the Sisters of Life in New York. That community of Catholic nuns were founded to protect and enhance the sanctity of human life. The Sisters today are in the New York metropolitan area, Phoenix, Denver, Philadelphia, Toronto and Washington, D.C. But they are far from the only resources available to women. There are over 2,700 pro-life pregnancy care centers in the United States. At the recent U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Kansas City bishop...

Why do so many Democrats look, sound, and act insane? Because they suffer terribly from “cognitive dissonance.” To be a card-carrying child of the Left, one must hold a variety of conflicting ideas to be true, regardless of whether they conform with each other, or worse, with reality. And when you deny reality, let’s face it, you’re mentally disturbed. For a perfect example of the cognitive dissonance loyal Dems must endure, take United States Assistant Secretary for Health and four-star admiral Rachel Levine. Start with the absurd belief that Levine should be a major player in the public health sphere....

Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble the football".... – John Heisman, first football coach at Rice ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game." – Bear Bryant / Alabama ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ " It isn't necessary to see a good tackle, you can hear it!” - Knute Rockne / Notre Dame ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money, and we don't have any." – Erik Russell / Georgia Southern ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "The man who complains about...

You might think that we’ve said all there is to say about the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse, but you’d be wrong. Not while Twitter is still out there. First there’s the batsh*t crazy leftists like Stephen King: No Stephen, the medium is the message; that’s how we got here.The ACLU, ever on the lookout for white supremacists in our midst: Gosh, remember when the ACLU used to at least pretend to support Constitutional rights?And even normies who still think we have a right to bear arms and protect ourselves were permitted to Tweet (for now):Hint: not the left, they’ve wiped...

Joe Biden's open borders policy has fattened the coffers of Mexico's notorious cartels. A couple of years ago, President Lopez-Obrador said something about promoting hugs rather than bullets as his plan for halting Mexico's notorious cartels. If you would like to comment on this or any other American Thinker article or post, we invite you to visit the American Thinker Forum at MeWe. There, you can converse with other American Thinker readers and comment freely (subject to MeWe's terms of use). The Forum will be fully populated and ready for comments by midday (Eastern time) each day. It went like...

In the desert of California, the deeply disturbing beginning stages are already underway. A few days ago, The Daily Caller released its first investigative documentary: Cartelville USA. The film is short — only 36 minutes — and you can watch it here with a subscription or free trial. There is also an interview on the Federalist Radio Hour with the director, Jorge Ventura, which is nearly as long as the documentary itself. In case the title doesn't give it away, the topic of Cartelville USA is a string of communities in the California desert that have been taken over by...

The images of despair and death they witnessed that day do not fade when the shift ends. The sounds of sobs reverberating in their ears as they told a devasted mother their child passed do not go away when their shift ends. The day's stress doesn't end after their shift ends. It never ends, and the stigma of seeking help pushes them to bottle their emotions. They bottle their feelings up until there is seemingly no way out or help to save them from taking a final drastic step. But there is help. From peers to professional support, there is...

Hollywood stars are reacting to Kyle Rittenhouse being found not guilty by a Wisconsin jury on Friday, Nov. 19. According to NBC News, Rittenhouse, 18, was "cleared on all five charges" against him in relation to fatally shooting two men—Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26—and "severely wounding" Gaige Grosskreutz, 27, during the protests surrounding the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha last August. After the verdict was read, Kenosha County Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder thanked the jury for their participation. "I couldn't have asked for a better jury to work with," he said per NBC News. "It's truly been...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemJeremiah 12Jeremiah’s Complaint 12 You are always righteous, Lord, when I bring a case before you. Yet I would speak with you about your justice: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease? 2 You have planted them, and they have taken root; they grow and bear fruit. You are always on their lips but far from their hearts. 3 Yet you know me, Lord; you see me and test my thoughts about you. Drag them off like sheep to be butchered! Set them apart for the...

Nicholas Sandmann @N1ckSandmann I look forward to getting in touch with Kyle. He has weathered this trial with grace and I will continue to help him hold the media accountable in any way I can, 2:59 AM · Nov 20, 2021

A grave deficiency of modern times is the loss of the sense that our lives are caught up in a tremendous, epic battle. Yet here we are living in the midst of a great drama—in the greatest story ever told.Behind the scenes is a deadly enemy, one of whom many rarely speak: Satan. Yet, he is active and involved, manipulating both the world and the flesh (our sinful nature). We are on the front lines of a fierce spiritual war, a war that is to blame for most of the casualties you see around you. Yes, fellow Christians, there is...

November 20th, 2021 Memorial of St. Francis Xavier Can, martyr of Vietnam St. Patrick's Church, Karachi, Pakistan Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First reading1 Maccabees 6:1-13 ©'I remember the wrong I did in Jerusalem'King Antiochus was making his way across the upper provinces; he had heard that in Persia there was a city called Elymais, renowned for its riches, its silver and gold, and its very wealthy temple containing golden armour, breastplates and weapons, left there by Alexander son of Philip, the king of Macedon, the first to reign over the Greeks. He therefore went and attempted to take the...

Whether nuclear annihilation, Y2K disrupting the world’s computer-controlled devices, climate change ushering in another Ice Age, sea level rise inundating coastal regions to catastrophic levels, or world-wide food shortages from explosive population growth—none of these apocalyptic predictions have ever come to pass. But why let portending disasters on a global scale go to waste when they sell newspapers and get their authors their fifteen minutes of fame? Such is the case for the latest impending apocalypse: Our success at engineering specific grains to feed the world’s growing population has been done at the peril of ignoring other varieties to the...