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A federal judge has encouraged all of his colleagues to "carefully consider" whether the Yale Law School students who attempted to shout down a bipartisan panel on free speech "should be disqualified from potential clerkships." D.C. Circuit judge Laurence Silberman sent an email on Thursday to all federal judges in the United States, urging them to take the fracas at the nation's top law school seriously. "The latest events at Yale Law School," Silberman wrote, "prompt me to suggest that students who are identified as those willing to disrupt any such panel discussion should be noted. All federal judges—and all...

'I think it's indefinite at this point,' Dr. Ashwin Vasan said Friday during a COVID-19 briefing in Queens. 'People who have tried to predict what's going to happen in the future in this pandemic have repeatedly found egg on their face, as they say, and I'm not going to do that here today.' The woke commissioner, who lives in Brooklyn with his partner and three children, including a four-year-old son, argued he wanted to mask children because under fives are not vaccinated. 'As a father of a two-and-a-half-year old-and two other older kids, I want to keep them as safe...

The signs are abundant of how Ukraine frustrated Vladimir Putin’s hopes for a swift victory, and how Russia's military proved far from ready for the fight. A truck carrying Russian troops crashes, its doors blown open by a rocket-propelled grenade. Foreign-supplied drones target Russian command posts. Orthodox priests in trailing vestments parade Ukraine’s blue and yellow flag in defiance of their Russian captors in the occupied city of Berdyansk. Russia has lost hundreds of tanks, many left charred or abandoned along the roads, and its death toll is on a pace to outstrip that of the country’s previous military campaigns....

Sweden made the right decision not to impose a lockdown early on in the COVID pandemic, but should have introduced more measures earlier, a government-appointed commission said on Friday. The Scandinavian country made headlines early on in the pandemic by not introducing a lockdown, instead issuing recommendations on homeworking, social distancing and good hand hygiene. "In comparison with the rest of Europe, Sweden has come through the pandemic relatively well and is among the countries with the lowest excess mortality over the period 2020-2021," the commission wrote in its final report. "Focusing on advice and recommendations which people were expected...

A dog delivering a human arm to its owner set off a bizarre series of events which led authorities to explore potential links to witchcraft, devil worship and even a serial killer.A shocking series of events led to the discovery of Jeannette DePalma’s body in the woods where it had been “left to rot” but the teen’s suspected murder remains shrouded in mystery with her case still unsolved 50 years later. On September 19, 1972, a dog returned from a frolic in a wooded area with an object in its mouth, and started “playing with it” on the lawn of...

A 76- year- old man of Poya village in Shiwang’andu district has been assaulted by his wife and biological children on allegations that he was practicing witchcraft. Muchinga Province Deputy Police Commissioner, Lucky Munkondya, has confirmed the incident in an interview with Zambia News and Information Services (ZANIS) in Shiwang’andu today. Ms. Munkondya has identified the victim as Bernard Malama 76, of Poya village in chief Nkula’s chiefdom in Shiwang’andu and said the incident occurred on 15th March 2022. She said Malama was beaten by his biological children and his wife of the same residence following allegations of him practicing...

South Carolina has given the greenlight to firing-squad executions, a method codified into state law last year after a decade-long pause in carrying out death sentences because of the state´s inability to procure lethal injection drugs. The state Corrections Department said Friday that renovations have been completed on the death chamber in Columbia and that the agency had notified Attorney General Alan Wilson that it was able to carry out a firing-squad execution. The state had blocked executions last May after its new capital punishment law allowed death row inmates to choose death by electrocutions, lethal injection or firing squad,...

Vladimir Putin is in trouble. The war he expected to last a few days is now more than three weeks old and shows no signs of imminent victory being achieved. His economy is on life support, his subjects are restless, with some choosing open rebellion — despite the consequences.So Putin did what any politician in trouble would do: He appealed directly to the Russian people in a nationwide address.But this wasn’t the kind of speech “Uncle Joe” Biden would give. Joseph Stalin would have been very comfortable giving the speech Putin gave on Wednesday evening.“The Russian people will always be...

If you’re just tuning in, I’ve spent the last several columns explaining how everyday men and women can generate a seven- or eight-figure net worth. Even if they’re starting from zero. I’ve done it – and so have millions of other Americans. Last year the Federal Reserve announced that U.S. household net worth hit a record $141.7 trillion. Spectrem Group reported that approximately 1 in 8 American households has a net worth of more than $1 million. How did they do it? The stories vary, but their methods are remarkably similar. Most Americans with a net worth of a million...

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According to an Elections Commission complaint filed March 17, 2022, in the State of Wisconsin, the mayor and city clerk of Madison, Wisconsin, were involved in election bribery. Thomas More Society attorneys acted on behalf of a Madison, Wisconsin, voter in filing an election bribery complaint against Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway and Madison City Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl on behalf of the citizen alleging that they accepted private funds from the Center for Tech and Civic Life in exchange for in-person and absentee voting services. The complaint comes following legislation passed by 16 states that prohibit or regulates the acceptance and use...

Covid force to go door to door in Perth this weekend conducting voluntary tests About 875 people expected be tested for virus over the next two weekends Belmont, Bassendean, Claremont and Melville will be targeted by testing blitz WA is just days away from reaching its peak in Omicron cases, premier warns The state recorded 7,151 new cases and one Covid-related death on Thursday A Covid detection force will go door to door in Perth this weekend and conduct random testing amid fears Omicron is lurking undetected in the community. About 875 people are expected be tested over the next...

It’s worth contrasting how so-called journalists covered Biden family corruption versus real disinformation.After The New York Times quietly admitted this week that Hunter Biden’s laptop is legitimate — something the corrupt media baselessly called “disinformation” in the run-up to the 2020 election to conceal Biden family corruption — it’s worth contrasting how so-called journalists covered that story versus the Russia collusion hoax to take down Donald Trump.When it came to the legitimate Hunter Biden laptop story just one month before the November 2020 election, Big Tech, the fake news media, and Democrats blew it off and nuked mentions of Biden...

The 29-year-old, identified as Devin Overton from Telluride, was solo snowboarding in backcountry when he was caught in the avalanche south of Trout Lake, the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) said in a press release. Overton's body was discovered when an employee for Telluride Helitrax, a skiing and snowboarding guide service, noticed a large avalanche, "with a set of tracks entering a slide path and none exiting," Overton's body was found buried two meters under the snow, according to CAIC. Overton was sponsored by Venture Snowboards, a snowboarding manufacturer based in Silverton, Colorado. Overton began snowboarding when he was 6...

A state with one of the largest percentages of White residents may ban critical race theory in classrooms — an effort that doesn’t sit well with a Jewish lawmaker who wants people to remember traditionally disenfranchised communities. Wyoming state Rep. Andy Schwartz (D) stood before his colleagues on Thursday to share his concerns about moving forward with the HB97 bill, which would have banned the teaching and training of critical race theory. After reviewing the bill, Schwartz found unacceptable provisions, such as one that allowed “controversial aspects of history” to only be taught “from a holistic point of view, a...

“The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD” (Proverbs 19:3).

Senator Josh Hawley’s assessment of Judge Jackson’s record is squarely in the lane of jurisprudential analysis and the Judiciary Committee should take note. Senate Democrats have signaled their intent to begin confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s nominee to the Supreme Court, as early as next week. Thus far, the only information uncovered about Judge Jackson by the intrepid corporate press is that she will be the first black woman to serve on the Supreme Court.But research released this week by Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, calls into question Judge Jackson’s...

Two men given probation by Third District Judge Douglas Hogan after having raped an unconscious 14-year-old girl in West Jordan, Utah, originally arrived in the United States from the Central African Republic, Breitbart News confirmed. Richard Djasserambaye, 26-years-old, and Dodjim Leclair, 29-years-old, were convicted of raping a 14-year-old girl who was in and out of consciousness in 2017 after meeting her on the social media app Snapchat. Nasouh Albasis-Albasis, 24-years-old, was also convicted for filming the rape. Hogan, appointed by former Utah Gov. Gary Herbert (R) made headlines this week when he offered Djasserambaye, Leclair, and Albasis-Albasis plea bargains that...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has removed tens of thousands of deaths linked to COVID-19, including nearly a quarter of deaths it had listed in those under 18 years old.The health agency quietly made the change on its data tracker website on March 15.“Data on deaths were adjusted after resolving a coding logic error. This resulted in decreased death counts across all demographic categories,” the CDC says on the site.The CDC relies on states and other jurisdictions to report COVID-19 deaths and acknowledges on its website that the data is not complete.But the statistics are often cited...

Why Russian army is so weak? When Russia invaded, experts thought it'd win in 24-72 hours. Two weeks later the war's still going. How come? On paper Russian superiority's overwhelming Although Russia projects warlike image, its military r weak and don't know how to fight wars Notwithstanding with its warlike image, boosted by massive PR campaign, Russian military have nearly zero experience of fighting conventional wars against other regular armies. They were quite successful in suppressing civilian riots ofc, in Hungary 1956, Czechoslovakia 1968, etc Russians were less successful in suppressing guerrilla movements in Afghanistan and Chechnya. Guerillas didn't much...