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Kirk Herbstreit and Desmond Howard sparked a firestorm of criticism on Saturday for their public lamentations about some college football players choosing not to play in bowl games that have no consequence to the pursuit of a national championship. The pushback that they received for their antiquated thinking shows how far the mainstream attitudes have come when it comes to players with NFL prospects preserving their ability to finally get paid for their talents, abilities, and sacrifices.

A parent in Arlington, Virginia, slammed the teachers’ union in the state by editing an error-ridden letter that demanded officials delay reopening schools and posted the corrected version on social media. “Hey @VEA4Kids, are you going to send out more of these grammar worksheets over break?” the parent wrote on Twitter. “My kids and I had a great time spotting errors! Did we find them all?” The parent rewrote the lead sentence, which includes strange descriptions and the incorrect style for the planned return to school date: “On behalf of the members of the Arlington Education Association, this dire expression...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemJohn 17Jesus Prays for All Believers 20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23 I in them and you in me—so that they may...

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I hadn’t realized, until I had lived elsewhere for some time, that I had learned to operate under the assumption that I couldn’t trust folks to follow through on their commitments. That there was always an underlying assumption that folks usually had an ulterior motive when being helpful. I hadn’t realized until I lived in a place in which folks truly value character, kindness and friendship, that I had been living in a place which prioritized material status and image. I hadn’t realized until I lived in a place with a healthy distrust of authority, that I had been living...

Experts believe that the world has entered into the quantum decade — an era when enterprises begin to see quantum computing’s business valueQuantum computing has progressed from an experiment to a tool to an apparatus that is now making advances in the venture to tackle complex issues. Experts accept that the world has gone into the ‘Quantum Decade’ — an era when ventures start to see quantum computing’s business esteem. The advances in equipment, software development, and administrations approve the technology’s momentum, which is making it ready for additional breakthroughs in 2022 and helps the market for the inevitable reception...

Ilhan Omar and Jan Schakowsky managed to get through the House a bill that promises to criticize speech with which Omar disagrees. In his 1925 autobiography, Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler spewed page after page of hatred for the Jewish people, proclaiming what he would do if he rose to power. When the Holocaust ensued, only the most uninformed or disingenuous could claim not to have realized that Hitler meant to eliminate Jews off the face of the earth. Since the end of World War II, anti-Semitism has become more indirect, with attacks upon Jews being blamed on other factors than...

Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs sent a letter Thursday to the Department of Health and Human Service and the FDA demanding answers on why they needed 75 years to answer FOIA requests for Pfizer vaccine data. “The lack of transparency from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) surrounding the information that was relied on to license the COVID-19 vaccines is astonishing,” the letter reads. “I urge you to commit significant departmental resources to ensure that the American public has full access to all information that FDA regulators relied upon in approving the...

A testament to how strongly a false idea can seem to be supported by fact. Arguments for the Flat Earth Theory and socialist doctrine share many aspects in common. At first glance, to a casual observer, the Earth really does seem flat, and for most practical purposes, that observation is sufficient to guide our activities locally. Only when one travels far enough to change time zones, or to experience a change in the duration of daylight, does the flatness theory begin to seriously break down on the local level. Most of us live in a family where socialist, even communist...

I headed into the Christmas season in a foul mood as our country’s trajectory appears to be emulating the fall of the Roman Empire. Hopelessly corrupt politicians, weak generals, barbarians swarming the borders, and a pervasive sense of moral decay all doomed Rome and are currently taking down America. When it comes to brainless incompetence, Nero and Caligula have nothing on Brandon and Kammy! Still, Christmas is a time of hope and giving and caring for others. I tried to relax and get in the holiday spirit but it just wasn’t happening. And then, on Christmas Day no less, I...

The Talk Shows January 2nd, 2022 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Guest anchor Trace Gallagher: Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R-Ark.); chief of U.S. Capitol Police Thomas Manger; Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona. Panel: Howard Kurtz; Jason Riley; Susan Page, USA Today. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Chuck U. Toad: Pathetically biased! The entire show is on last year’s Jan. 6 Capitol incursion: Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.). Rep. Peter Meijer (R-Mich.); Fiona Hill, Brookings Institution; Barton Gellman, the Atlantic. Panel: Yamiche Alcindor, PBS; Jonah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times; Garrett Haake; Brandy Zadrozny—just...

The Tournament of Roses Parade formerly was meant to be a celebration and affirmation of the new year's beginning. But in 2020, the parade included a horrifying dystopian vision on an award-winning float yesterday. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation sponsored a float title “vaccinate the world” in 2 places, featuring a robot that apparently would vaccinate all, with no human involvement needed (except as subjects, willing or not). The float was even the winner of Queen award for most outstanding presentation of roses.

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There are indications that, flush with the success of using a purported emergency to shut down Americans’ civil liberties, Democrats are ready to step up their game. We’ve learned over the last 20 months that, if a government can cause people to panic, people will readily forgo all their freedoms in return for a promise that the government will keep them safe. One man has decided that the COVID panic is a successful trial run for future tyranny based upon the allegedly existential threat of climate change. John Hinderaker, at Power Line, came across an article from Cambridge University Press...

Clark County Today Administrator Heidi Wetzler shares clinical psychology professor Mattias Desmet’s theory about the societal conditions under which a population ends up willingly sacrificing their freedom.

FDIC Chairman Jelena McWilliams announced her resignation Friday in an open letter addressed to President Biden, just weeks 'after' she warned of a "hostile takeover" of the agency by Democrats. McWilliams was appointed to the position in 2018 under former President Trump. Her resignation will be effective Feb. 4. McWilliams wrote in her op-ed. "Never before has a majority of the board attempted to circumvent the chairman to pursue their own agenda.".."This conflict isn’t about bank mergers. If it were, board members would have been willing to work with me and the FDIC staff rather than attempt a hostile takeover...

The Democrat Governor of Guam, Lourdes (Lou) Aflague Leon Guerrero, vetoed legislative bill 73-36, the “Hearing Protection Act” on December 22, 2021. The bill had passed the Senate by a narrow margin on December 15. With only 13 Senators present, the bill passed on a 7 to 6 bipartisan vote. From the americansuppresorassociation.com:Of the 15 member legislature, 13 lawmakers were present for the vote. With Vice Speaker Barnes and Sen. Terlaje absent and excused, only 7 votes were needed for passage. That threshold was met when Senators Tony Ada, Frank Blas Jr., Christopher M. Dueñas, James Moylan, Clynton Ridgell, Telo...

An Ode To Dingy Harry "The House of the Rising Sun" was a song originally written about a house of prostitution, a brothel if you will... A Nobel Laureate penned these words in the 1970's they seem to encapsulate what we deal with in the present: "adulterers in churches" "pornography in the schools" "gangsters in power" "lawbreakers making rules"... Day 656 of the Dictatorship of COVID-19, Day 656 of America and the World held hostage to COVID shots Get Your Dead Baby Boosters And Dog Torture Jabs I worked in the mainstream media years ago heck I was known as...

An FBI that seems to rely on creating crimes that ensnare ordinary folks is allegedly set to go after the big fish. In one of the more unbelievable statements from someone working in the American government, FBI Director Christopher Wray has allegedly sworn that his agency will bring down the bad guys named in Ghislaine Maxwell’s little black book. Those pedophiles are toast, right? Well, I have my doubts. To the extent that the FBI has seemed to take it upon itself to be a protector and enforcer for the Democrat party, the only way I see it following up...

Official recognition that the vaccines are not "perfectly safe." The rollout of this new policy by Australia’s federal government has been fairly quiet. It was first announced November 17, 2021. Claims made through the Federal Government’s no-fault indemnity scheme for COVID-19 vaccination will be assessed from mid-December, the Department of Health (DoH) has confirmed. A couple of weeks ago, the Australian federal Department of Health announced: The Australian Government is developing a claims scheme to reimburse people who suffer a moderate to significant impact following an adverse reaction to an approved COVID-19 vaccine. (snip) The Australian Government is implementing a...