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The parents’ revolution has notched another win. This week, three members of San Francisco’s Board of Education — Gabriela López, Alison Collins and Faauuga Moliga — suffered overwhelming defeat in a recall election brought by angry parents who felt they were more concerned with lefty politics than with children’s welfare. The parents’ case was strengthened by the fact that they were, well, right. Siva Raj, one of the recall organizers, said, “The city of San Francisco has risen up and said this is not acceptable, to put our kids last.” ... When parents objected, they were ignored, called racists or...

BREAKING REPORT: Washington Gov. [D] Jay Inslee to END STATEWIDE MASK MANDATE March 21, Including For Schools... https://twitter.com/ChuckCallesto/status/1494455772314484743

ITEM Neustar Information Services executive allegedly wanted Clinton administration post The Biden campaign paid nearly $20,000 to a cybersecurity firm at the center of Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe. The campaign paid Neustar Information Services in 2020 for accounting and compliance work, according to Federal Election Commission records. According to Durham, Neustar’s chief technology officer, Rodney Joffe, accessed sensitive web traffic data that the company maintained on behalf of the White House executive office in order to collect “derogatory” information about Donald Trump. Joffe allegedly provided the information to Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer...

Poisonings are the number one cause of unintentional death in the United States. According to Florida Poison Control, the top form of poisoning in the state right now is analgesics– pain medicines. “One that we’re seeing a huge spike in right now is acetaminophen,” Florida Poison Control Media Specialist Mike McCormick said. “You may know, that’s the active ingredient in Tylenol.” Many people take Tylenol, and officials said that is fine. It gets dangerous, though, when you pair it with another medicine containing acetaminophen. “They’re taking the cough and cold, and they’re taking a maximum dose of acetaminophen, and when...

Black Lives Matter has turned to Hillary Clinton’s controversial campaign lawyer — the operative who commissioned the notorious Steele Dossier — to sort out the non-profit’s questionable finances. Newly released tax documents for Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Inc., reveal that Marc Elias, 53, came on board earlier this month.

Ukraine 12th May 1914 The year 988 marks the beginning of Christianity in Kievan Rus’ when Grand Prince Vladimir and his family were baptised. Kievan Rus’ was a loose federation of Eastern Slavic and Uralic people and ‘Belarus, Ukraine and Russia, all claim Kievan Rus’ as their cultural ancestor’. In 1037, Prince Yaroslav the Wise, dedicated the region to the Mother of God, making it the first European state to honour the Blessed Virgin Mary. Our Lady appeared in the village of Hrushiv some 350 years ago and a weeping willow was planted to commemorate the apparition. A spring developed...

[Catholic Caucus] Teaching on Homosexuality False? According to Cardinal Jean Claude Hollerich, Society of Jesus, synodality expert, made a member of the College of Cardinals by the man currently wearing papal white, President of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE), General Rapporteur- Relator General of the Synod of Bishops, Professor of German, French and European studies and Vice-Rector for General and Student Affairs of the Sophia University in Tokyo, President of the Council of Bishops’ Conferences of Europe’s Commission for Youth, Member of the Catholic student fraternity, AV Edo-Rhenania zu Tokio and of AV Rheinstein...

Chris Barber, a key organizer of the so-called Freedom Convoy that has occupied Ottawa streets for three weeks, has been arrested in Ottawa, CBC News has learned. Barber, who is currently in police custody and is expected to face criminal charges, has been described as one of the key leaders of the protest in Ottawa, which has now hit the three-week mark. Barber is also one of three protest organizers named in the class action lawsuit filed with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice by lawyer Paul Champ on behalf of his client, 21-year-old public servant Zexi Li. The suit...

Protesters are digging in as Ottawa police begin to roll out a plan to end the trucker protest occupation that has clogged the centre of the Canadian capital for almost three weeks. Interim police chief Steve Bell says if they want to leave peacefully, now is the time and they will be given a secure route out of the city. “If they do not peacefully leave, we have plans, strategies and tactics to get them to leave,” he told reporters, saying that action is “imminent”. Protest organiser Chris Barber was spotted being taken into police custody. A secure zone with...

Joe Biden is out of excuses. He never should have had any. He won the 2020 election decisively. He took over the White House while having both houses of Congress in his pocket. He was a veteran of the Hill who, I foolishly presumed, understood not only how things are done in Washington, but how that process has evolved since he first won elected office in 1973. Best of all, he wasn’t Donald Trump. Those are all good things, and Biden’s first 100 days showed him cashing in on all of that political capital. He presided over a comprehensive and...

SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – In a surprise announcement Thursday, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham says she is ending New Mexico’s indoor mask mandate. The governor says the state and country are trending in the right direction when it comes to COVID-19. “I’m announcing…that the mask requirement for indoor settings is gone,” said Gov. Lujan Grisham.”

The iconic Big Mac has been the head honcho on the McDonald's menu since 1967. While the recipe has remained the same over the course of its 55-year lifespan, the price of the famous burger has dramatically changed over time. And currently, it costs 40% more than it did ten years ago. According to CNBC, the Big Mac is, in many ways, a powerful demonstrator of the inflation Americans are currently going through. Since the demand for Big Mac spans the globe, The Economist even created the Big Mac index in 1986 to monitor the burger's price against other currencies....

Nearly a decade ago, Edward Snowden dropped a series of bombshell revelations on the world, chief among them revealing the presence of the PRISM program: a constitutionally dubious surveillance program under which the National Security Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Central Intelligence Agency gather and search through the emails, internet calls, photos, and chats of Americans without obtaining a warrant, usually through the backdoor of America’s major tech companies. In response, Congress passed the USA Freedom Act in 2015, a bill that amended the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to ban the bulk collection of Americans’ telephone records and...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams met with 100 chief executive officers, in an effort to cajole them “to get their workers back into the office to stimulate the city’s economy.” He told the business leaders it was time to get their workers back in offices, stating that the lack of people commuting into the Big Apple hurts the city’s economy. The mayor said, “We can’t send mixed messages,” by delaying the return to work dates. “We can’t keep kicking the can down the road.” "Let's start out with a three-day workweek, to let people see how safe it is...

A report from the city of McAllen revealed that the federal government dropped off 144,281 migrants in the McAllen area since February 2021. Of those migrants, 13,432 of them tested positive for COVID-19.

<p>Two transgender swimmers blew away the competition Wednesday at the Ivy League Women’s Swimming Championships by posting the fastest times in the 800-yard freestyle relay.</p><p>The two swimmers, Lia Thomas and Iszac Henig swam the fastest split times on Wednesday night, adding more controversy to the topic of transgender athletes.</p>

Figure-skating commentators Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir couldn’t hide their relief after suspected doping cheat, Kamila Valieva of the Russian Olympic Committee, stunningly plummeted from gold-medal favorite to fourth place in the women’s free skate event on Thursday. As the 15-year-old Valieva’s low scores were announced, and it was clear that the International Olympic Committee’s plan to scrap the ceremony and withhold medals if she finished in the top three would not be needed, Weir exclaimed, “Thank God!” “Thank goodness for all the other medalists to have that moment,” Lipinski said, to which Weir quickly added, “And to have done...

U.S. Attorney General protected Joe by hiding explosive investigation An anti-corruption task force has ripped the lid off the shocking cover-up of a federal grand jury probe into Hunter Biden's dirty deals with China that might have torpedoed his father Joe Biden's run for the presidency and changed the course of history! During the heated 2020 campaign, the grand jury's secret investigation into whether Hunter laundered money, evaded taxes, and peddled his father's influence was already well underway - and it has since widened to include other members of the Biden family. The anti-corruption nonprofit group Marco uncovered a grand...

Zoltan! Credit Suisse’s Zoltan Pozsar thinks The Federal Reserve needs to spark a market crash. Really Zoltan?? If The Fed does its expected “shock and awe” (or shock and awful), it will be more than the stock markets will crash. The housing market could crash too. Take the current US housing situation with its limited inventory of listings combined with massive Fed stimulypto. US 1-unit housing starts are down -4.1% in January. But heck, it is January! But on a year-over-year basis, 1-unit housing starts are down -2.4%. But what will happen if The Fed ACTUALLY withdraws its gargantuan monetary...

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