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The Washington, D.C., public school librarian who made third graders reenact graphic scenes from the Holocaust is a Democrat who claims she ran for office in New Jersey, where she was convicted of defrauding the state through a tutoring scam and charged with several counts of animal abuse. Kimberlynn Jurkowski was placed on leave this week after parents complained to Watkins Elementary School that she made students role-play the Holocaust, assigning students to be Jews and pretend to die in gas chambers and dig mass graves, according to the Washington Post. One student was assigned to be Adolf Hitler, who...

Bidens trillion dollar American Rescue Plan expanded Technology Modernization Fund. A $9 billion investment will help the U.S. launch major new IT and cybersecurity shared services at the Cyber Security and Information Security Agency (CISA) and the General Services Administration and complete modernization projects at federal agencies. REALITY CHECK Nancy Pelosi just invested heavily into CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity firm that is an arm of the DNC. It was Crowdstrike that claimed DNC was hacked by Russia, but refused to turn over the data and hardware to the FBI. H/t Erik latranyi ================== REFERENCE Whitehouse.gov How will Biden's trillion dollar American...

Pennsylvania county election officials were caught on tape plotting to hide alleged violations of state election law. VIDEOS AT LINK............. New whistleblower videos capture Delaware County, Pennsylvania officials plotting to recreate missing election data from the November 2020 contest, with one official later bragging that the local Democrat district attorney “owes him.” These recordings represent the latest evidence of the alleged fraud officials in the Pennsylvania county undertook to hide widespread violations of the state’s election laws, according to a source familiar with the recordings. Whistleblower Regina Miller, who worked as a contract employee for Delaware County, secretly recorded the...

A father has shared how nurses insisted on calling him 'mom' during his pregnancy despite being a man. Bennett Kaspar-Williams, 37, from Los Angeles, first realised he was trans around ten years ago, in 2011, but didn't begin his transition until three years later. Then six years later, in 2017 he found Malik, his future husband - who he married in 2019. The couple decided that they wanted to have children, and weighed the options available to them, with Bennett eventually deciding that he would be comfortable trying to conceive and carrying a child.

Chuck Egerton, from UNC-Greensboro, explains why "whiteness" opposes CRT and what "whiteness" means. "...looking at whiteness as a disease. The social construct is false. There is no superiority of people with lighter skin. So it's important to see it as, really, it's a disease because it's an attack on the truth. Whiteness is not true, in terms of what it imposes on us in our culture and our society. And then racism is a symptom of the disease of whiteness, really. And that's just saying where it starts and where it leads to." So, Chuck here thinks that racism is...

Sen. Joe Manchin's announcement that he will not support the Democrats' giant spending bill should not have been a surprise to anyone who has been watching Manchin for the last few months. Yet many Democrats, especially in the White House and in the progressive wing of the House of Representatives, appeared shocked when Manchin told Fox News' Bret Baier, "I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation. I just can't." They apparently believed Manchin would ultimately come around, and do so before Christmas. When he did not, they were stunned. Their reaction is the latest manifestation of a...

When people criticize Dr. Anthony Fauci, he says: "They're really criticizing science. Because I represent science." Pretty arrogant. I assume Fauci is a top-notch scientist. My brother worked with him at the National Institutes of Health and respected him. But power tends to corrupt, and Fauci has been given a lot of power. His department directed tax dollars to the Wuhan Institute of Virology to modify coronaviruses in bats. When Sen. Rand Paul asked Fauci about funding "gain of function" research, experiments that try to learn more about a disease by making it more contagious or deadly, Fauci denied it,...

Acting out on a flight could result in getting TSA PreCheck privileges canceled, the Federal Aviation Administration and Transportation Security Administration announced Tuesday. The FAA says it will share the information of passengers who face fines for bad behavior with TSA, which could allow TSA to revoke PreCheck for those who have been cleared for the easier screening process.

I’ve been a tad occupied and I haven’t had much time to dedicate to screaming into the void of the internets. Which is perfectly fine as the noise to signal ratio on the web is higher than the crowd at a Grateful Dead show, and I’m not going to assume that my shtick is signal. But I do have a few interesting tidbits to warm your cockles and anything else that might be chilly. Vox Day linked to a piece that goes into some detail on the manner in which the medical profession has been financially incentivized to be the...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A state representative from Northeast Ohio is warning of increased attacks on healthcare workers by people related to patients who have not been vaccinated against the COVID-19 coronavirus, calling the situation “insane.” In a tweet sent out Tuesday, Rep. Casey Weinstein, a Democrat from Summit County, says he was told by an unspecified hospital CEO that hospital workers are facing an increasing number of attacks during the COVID crisis. ‘Was just briefed by a major hospital network CEO,” Weinstein writes. “It’s not just that they’re beyond capacity. The families of their unvaccinated patients are ATTACKING caregivers for...

Those who fail to comply are taken away and never heard from again. December 17 of this year marked the ten-year anniversary of the death of Kim Jong-il, father and predecessor of North Korea's current leader, Kim Jong-un. To honor the erstwhile psychopathic leader, the nation will observe eleven days of mourning, during which citizens will not be allowed to engage in leisure activities, drink alcohol, or even laugh, a resident from the border city of Sinuiju told Radio Free Asia. Citizens of the Hermit Kingdom were not even allowed to go grocery shopping on December 17, not that there...

CLEVELAND (WJW) — Ohio National Guard Major General John C. Harris, Jr on Monday offered new details on the effort to help Northeast Ohio hospitals deal with the surge in COVID cases and the testing site that opened in University Circle. Due to high demand, the line was cut off, after three hours, at the community COVID-19 testing site in Cleveland, staffed by the Ohio National Guard and the Ohio Department of Health. The two are holding the event with support from the Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals. As of 12:05 p.m., Cleveland Clinic officials said anyone not currently in...

However, his insistence on vaccines was at odds with the reality (so far) of Omicron and the virus in general. On Tuesday, Biden gave a COVID speech that essentially revolved around a single point: Get vaccinated. The unvaccinated are going to die and make everyone else miserable, so do your duty and get the experimental jab. However, there are some indications that Biden’s got it completely bass-ackwards. Because I dislike listening to Biden’s speeches, with their halting, repetitive presentation and his strange whispers and shouts, I usually read the White House transcripts. This particular White House manuscript includes an opening...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – As a record-breaking coronavirus surge rages in Ohio, local restaurants have been forced to reckon with the virus just days before Christmas. Some eateries have closed their dining rooms and continue to offer takeout, while others have temporarily closed altogether, pausing their business until after the holidays are over or until the new year. The Flying Fig in Ohio City is one of the restaurants that will remain open for takeout but has closed its dining room to customers. Owner Karen Small cited staffing shortages and coronavirus cases behind the decision. “We had a few positive cases...

Despite having been burned by a guide urging Whites to repent for systemic racism, the Salvation Army is again dipping into Critical Race Theory. The Salvation Army, despite having faced a massive backlash because of November’s “Let’s Talk About Racism” guide, doesn’t seem to have learned its lesson. It’s now announced that, in January, it will be offering a two-day racial justice forum in Illinois. This turn to the left does not bode well for an organization that has already seen a significant drop in charitable donations since it decided to embrace leftist politics. Since its founding in 1865, the...

Populism, in its economic, political, and technological forms, may be the only hope for reversing course on our society’s path toward the edge of the cliff. The Chinese Communist Party no longer acts in ways its 20th century kingpins had outlined in the party’s founding principles. Domestically, it employs technologically repressive tools to force its population to abide by ideological dictates of obedience and collectivism. However, its strategy abroad has dramatically shifted to one which relies on the goodwill, narcissism, and stupidity of global elites. In its five-year plans, China has laid out in plain sight its desire to eliminate...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemLuke 18The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector 9 To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable: 10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’ 13 “But the tax collector stood...

From the first reports out of Kenosha, Wisconsin, when Kyle Rittenhouse defended himself by shooting three assailants during the Black Lives Matter riots of August 2020, I've looked at this entire, gut-wrenching affair with the eyes of a father. Of course, I recognized that Rittenhouse appeared to have acted in self-defense based on the video evidence that surfaced within days of the incident. But, to me, this story was not the epic Second Amendment debate or divisive racial scream-fest cable news and social media demanded it to be. To me, this story was and still is about a 17-year-old boy....

Joe Manchin is a hero for holding the line and killing Build Back Better. He cited two reasons—debt and inflation—to which all of us replied: well, duh. But in today’s Democrat party, fiscal responsibility is rare and fleeting. So, we should take a moment and sing the praises of this extraordinary accomplishment in the hopes we can inspire more. Let’s start with the cost. It is often said that nothing is more permanent than a temporary government program. We’ve all been around the block; we know the game: give the public a taste of the government’s bountiful benefits and then...

Gun turn-in events, labeled with the Orwellian term “buyback” are making a small comeback in the United States. Most of them are occurring in states where private sales are not allowed by law. They are not occurring in states which require the valuable property to be sold for the public’s benefit. Illinois has a version of the law that requires private sales to go through the state website, identify the purchaser of the firearms with a Firearms Owner Identification (FOID), and be assigned an approval number. This eliminates privacy from private sales. It becomes unworkable for private purchasers to buy...