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Florida kindergarteners to grade threes won’t be taught sex ed at school, after both of the state’s houses approved a “Parental Rights in Education” bill in recent weeks. Awaiting a signature from Governor Ron DeSantis, the new law will come into effect on July 1. And get this: the wokerati are outraged. Those inexplicably opposed to the law have run a successful campaign to label it the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. On cue, President Joe Biden tweeted: “I want every member of the LGBTQI+ community — especially the kids who will be impacted by this hateful bill — to know...

American actor and activist Jane Fonda has launched a climate campaign group that aims to “defeat” politicians who support the fossil fuel industry. The star of Netflix comedy series Grace and Frankie and Hollywood movies such as Nine To Five announced she had set up the Jane Fonda Climate Political Action Committee to “do what it takes” to replace fossil fuel supporters with environmental champions at all levels of government. A political action committee (PAC) is a campaigning organisation that donates money to political candidates in the US or parties that support its policies. “The public is voting with the...

Israeli forces devastated an Iranian airbase recently, destroying hundreds of drone aircraft in a massive airstrike, Ha’aretz reported Tuesday morning. According to the report, six Israeli drone aircraft carried out an attack on an airbase in western Iran near Kermanshah in mid-February, destroying hundreds of drones. The incident went unreported until this week, and was first disclosed by Al Mayadeen, a Beirut-based media outlet aligned with the Hezbollah terrorist group and the Iranian government. Iran, an Al Mayadeen report Sunday said, has blamed Israel, though the Jewish state has neither confirmed nor denied the claim. Al Mayadeen linked the attack...

LONDON, March 17 (Reuters) - Consumers risk losing all their money invested in cryptoassets and could fall prey to scams, the European Union's securities, banking and insurance watchdogs said in a joint statement on Thursday. "Consumers face the very real possibility of losing all their invested money if they buy these assets," the three EU authorities said in a statement. It marks a racheting up of direct warnings to consumers about cryptoassets by EU authorities, spelling out that consumers have no protections or recourse to compensation under existing EU financial services law. Regulators are increasingly worried that more consumers are...

President Joe Biden took a turn down the dark alleys of the Internet during remarks on the Violence Against Women Act at the White House Wednesday. He spoke about people who have a 'revealing picture' taken only to be blackmailed or humiliated when it got posted online. "How many times have you heard? I bet everybody knows somebody somewhere along the line that was in an intimate relationship and what happened was the guy takes a revealing picture of his naked friend, or whatever, in a compromising position and then literally sends blackmails or mortifies that person. Sends it out,...

A military medic and mother of twelve was killed during a shootout near Donetsk, Ukraine, the Daily Mail reported. Olga Semidyanova, 48, was fatally injured while fighting Russian troops, but continued fighting even after most of her unit was killed. According to Semidyanova's family, she was killed by a shot to her stomach. The family added that the continued fighting in the area has not allowed for her body to be retrieved and buried. Speaking to the Sun, Semidyanova's daughter Julia said, "She saved the soldiers to the last. We have photos from the place of death — but due...

Russia has lost up to 28,000 soldiers killed and wounded during three weeks of fighting in Ukraine, the US believes, as Vladimir Putin's invasion stalls 'on all fronts' but shelling of cities including Kyiv continues. The Pentagon estimates at least 7,000 Russian troops have now died in the fighting while another 14,000 to 21,000 have been wounded - accounting for nearly a fifth of the estimated 150,000 men that Putin amassed on the border before giving the order to attack 21 days ago. The staggering toll is roughly double NATO losses in Afghanistan over two decades of fighting, and roughly...

As with anything the Left, and therefore the media and the teachers’ unions, supports, you’d walk away from CNN or MSNBC or NPR thinking that Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill was massively unpopular. As we reported, even U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy posted a Twitter thread blasting “Florida’s recent law restricting discussion about gender identity in school” — never mentioning that those restrictions applied to teacher- or staff-led discussions in kindergarten through third grade. A new Morning Consult/Politico poll, though, shows that most Americans asked if they supported banning the teaching of sexual orientation and gender identity from kindergarten...

1. Never take a beer to a job interview. 2. Always identify people in your yard before shooting at them. 3. It's considered poor taste to take a cooler to church. 4. If you have to vacuum the bed, it is time to change the sheets. 5. Even if you're certain that you are included in the will, it is still considered tacky to drive a U-Haul to the funeral home. DINING OUT: 1. If drinking directly from the bottle, always hold it with your fingers covering the label. 2. Avoid throwing bones and food scraps on the floor as...

Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul slammed a group of five Republican senators who voted Tuesday against his amendment to remove Dr. Anthony Fauci but had once voted in favor of impeaching former President Donald Trump. “I guess I’m not surprised that Republican senators who voted to get rid of Donald Trump voted to keep Anthony Fauci,” Paul said in an exclusive statement to the Daily Caller. “Disappointed but not surprised. I think if Republican voters in their home states learn of this vote to keep Anthony Fauci, these voters will be very unhappy.” Republican Sens. Richard Burr of North Carolina,...

Few facts, much speculation as explosions heard in Belarus Today, 12:02 am Reports indicate that booms are being heard in several areas of southern Belarus. /snip There is no confirmed reliable information about the source of the blasts, but speculation over the mystery ranges from sonic booms to a false flag attack by Russia to an internal coup. An opposition politician opposed to Minsk’s alliance with Moscow claims 30 aircraft recently took off and 6 missiles were shot near Kalinkovich, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) from the border with Ukraine. /snip

Thousands of Russians and Ukrainians fleeing their countries are choosing an unusual route to escape sanctions and war: Traveling to Mexico and then crossing the U.S. border. The numbers of both nationalities entering Mexico have soared in recent months. While some are tourists, Mexican officials believe the majority plan on migrating to the U.S., arriving at Mexican destinations like Cancún and then flying to a northern border city like Tijuana, which is across the border from San Diego. In January and February, some 30,111 Russians entered Mexico, compared with an average of 12,380 during each of the past five years,...

One -- Reassuring an enemy what one will not do ensures that the enemy will do just that and more. Unpredictability and occasional enigmatic silence bolster deterrence. But President Joe Biden's predictable reassurance to Russian President Vladimir Putin that he will show restraint means Putin likely will not. Two -- No-fly zones don't work in a big-power, symmetrical standoff. In a cost-benefit analysis, they are not worth the risk of shooting down the planes of a nuclear power. They usually do little to stop planes outside of such zones shooting missiles into them. Sending long-range, high-altitude anti-aircraft batteries to Ukraine...

17 March 2022Thursday of the 2nd week of Lent optional commemoration of Saint Patrick, Bishop, Missionary St. Patrick's High Altar & Baldachino, New York Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet.First readingJeremiah 17:5-10 ©A curse on the man who puts his trust in man and turns from the LordThe Lord says this:‘A curse on the man who puts his trust in man,who relies on things of flesh,whose heart turns from the Lord.He is like dry scrub in the wastelands:if good comes, he has no eyes for it,he settles in the parched places of the wilderness,a salt land, uninhabited.‘A blessing on the man...

WASHINGTON, Sunday, March 16. Gen. MCCLELLAN's proclamation to his army is the theme of universal conversation and enthusiastic praise. His popularity with the army is unbounded, and his friends increase by thousands among the people, who admire his patience under persecution and his single-hearted devotion to the Union. A remarkable reaction in favor of Gen. MCCLELLAN is observable in every quarter, growing partly out of public disgust for the ribald abuse of the Tribune's correspondence, and partly out of the fact that President LINCOLN has "put his foot down" on the intrigues to deprive the army of its chosen chieftain....

Ukraine has identified four Russian generals it says have been killed since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his invasion of Ukraine three weeks ago, and NATO officials have confirmed three of those deaths and Putin, one of them. "Western officials say that around 20 Russian generals were in Ukraine as part of the war effort, and that they may have pushed closer to the front to boost morale," which is sagging under the weight of heavy casualties, The New York Times reports. The slain generals were identified as Maj. Gen. Andrei Kolesnikov, Maj. Gen. Vitaly Gerasimov, Maj. Gen. Andrei Sukhovetsky,...

In a space shot across America’s bow, Chinese scientists have reportedly developed an ultra-high powered microwave device that can potentially jam satellite communications or damage sensitive satellite electronics. The device, known as the Relativistic Klystron Amplifier (RKA), is a high-power microwave (HPM) source that is widely used in high-power radars, new accelerators and new communication systems because of its advantages in high-power, high-efficiency, stable-phase and stable-amplitude of output power. According to Sichuan-based Chinese researchers, the device could generate a 5-megawatt short pulse in the Ka-band, a satellite frequency increasingly used by businesses and the military. Ka-band systems are especially useful...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemJames 5Patience in Suffering 7 Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains. 8 You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord’s coming is near. 9 Don’t grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, or you will be judged. The Judge is standing at the door! 10 Brothers and sisters, as an example of patience in the face of suffering, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the...

What did Barack Obama and Joe Biden know about the Russiagate collusion hoax their fellow Democrats ginned up to kneecap Donald Trump – and when did they know it? How much did their chicanery contribute to Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade the Ukraine? Those questions are coming into sharp relief following a definitive report by my RealClearInvestigations colleague Paul Sperry last week that places the worst political scandal in our nation’s history and Putin’s brutal war directly inside the White House. Drawing on a wide range of documents, many never previously reported, Sperry details how the Obama administration worked closely...

On March 11, 2022, the Georgia House passed the Constitutional Carry bill, HB 1358, 94 to 57, with 5 Representatives not voting, and 24 excused. HB 1358 defines a “lawful weapons carrier” as a person who is eligible for a license to carry, any non-resident who would otherwise be eligible for a license to carry, and any person from another state who has a license to carry a weapon in another state. The bill then removes restrictions from carry in many areas which were previously restricted. Here is an example, showing part of the proposed law: (f) Notwithstanding 16-12-127, any...