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hristopher Rufo, the conservative activist who shined a spotlight on Critical Race Theory in schools, resulting in multiple states banning the toxic curricula, has set his sights on the Walt Disney Company after Disney publicly opposed the Parental Rights in Education bill, which Florida Governor Ron DeSantis recently signed into law. The sensible anti-grooming law prohibits Florida educators from teaching or discussing sexual orientation and gender identity issues to school children in kindergarten through third grade. In response to the legislation, Disney said in a statement: “Our goal as a company is for this law to be repealed by the...

There was a time not long ago when even the most based conservative was willing to live and let live with all manner of divergent and bizarre people, but live and let live has become “I live and you submit” and that’s just not going to work out in the long run. The tolerant have been rewarded for their tolerance with intolerance, and if you look, you can already see the backlash brewing. The breaking point may have been when the man who won the women’s swimming championship and all the smart, moral people of our garbage elite demanded we...

Expensive Medical Cost Concept High prices, low value — Two new composite scores from West Health and Gallup illustrate America’s healthcare cost crisis. An estimated 112 million (44%) American adults are struggling to pay for healthcare, and more than double that number (93%) feel that what they do pay is not worth the cost. The findings come from two new composite scores developed by the nonprofit, nonpartisan organization West Health and Gallup, the global analytics and advice firm, to assess the healthcare cost crisis. The West Health-Gallup Healthcare Affordability Index and Healthcare Value Index are drawn from the opinions of...

In a day and age where freedoms and liberties teeter on the brink of obscurity, one has to wonder how tyranny regained a foothold in the nation that birthed the American Revolution. The very Declaration that announced independence reads this: But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.The signers rightly assessed that when a government is tyrannical, it is not only the right...

"There is immense pressure to toe the company line," Castillo told Fox News Digital. "However, the reality is that those drawing attention to this issue are in the minority. The Disney cast members who support the parental rights defended by HB 1557 far outnumber those who are protesting against it." Despite critics branding it a "Don't Say Gay" bill, H.B. 1557 does not ban the word "gay" in school settings. Neither does it ban casual discussions of topics relating to sexual orientation and gender identity in the classroom. It does not require schools to notify parents if their child identifies...

Composite image of solar prominence on 31 August 2012. (NASA/SDO/GSFC) The dazzling northern lights could light up the skies as far south as the northern United States after the detection of 17 solar eruptions blasting from a single sunspot, two of which are headed straight to Earth. The two Earth-directed eruptions have merged into a "cannibal coronal mass ejection" and are barreling toward us at 1,881,263 miles per hour (3,027,599 kilometers per hour). When it crashes into the Earth's magnetic field on the night of March 30, the result will be a powerful G3 geomagnetic storm, according to The National...

31 March 2022Thursday of the 4th week of Lent Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church of Transfiguration, Lviv Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet.First readingExodus 32:7-14 ©Moses pleads with the Lord his God to spare IsraelThe Lord spoke to Moses, ‘Go down now, because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have apostatised. They have been quick to leave the way I marked out for them; they have made themselves a calf of molten metal and have worshipped it and offered it sacrifice. “Here is your God, Israel,” they have cried “who brought you up from the land of Egypt!”’ the Lord...

Former Clinton pollster Mark Penn said President Joe Biden's polls are 'dire' Says the president needs to 'pivot' to focusing on issues Americans care about to improve Democrats' standing before the 2022 midterms Penn co-founded a polling firm whose clients included President Bill Clinton, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and British Prime Minister Tony Blair Penn was also a chief strategist and pollster on Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign An average polling from FiveThirtyEight shows Biden at 41.5% approval NBC poll released Sunday shows only 33% approve of Biden's performance on the economy and 38% blame him for rising inflation

Few brands are more valuable than that owned by the shareholders of The Walt Disney Company, one that now is being shattered. Few brands are more valuable than that owned by the shareholders of The Walt Disney Company, one that now is being shattered. In 2020, Forbes rated it as number seven in the world in value. But I think this may actually understate the standing of the Disney brand. Few people would want to take a vacation at a Google resort or take a Microsoft cruise, but the allure of Disney's brand is enough to attract vacationers from all...

A Texas father was arrested Tuesday after police found human remains in his kitchen — which he said were those of his son who died in 2018... When officers arrived, they asked the man if he knew why they were there. The father identified the remains as his son who died in May 2018. The father was jailed and charged with abuse of a corpse, and the body was sent to Dallas for further investigation, officials said.

resident Biden is declaring war on American energy in a time of crisis. Russia’s war on Ukraine is changing the geopolitics of the world. The delicate situation calls for agility and improvising to adjust to a crisis that could quickly become ugly. The Biden Administration and Western Europe have imposed sanctions as part of a strategy to end the war. However, the administration is also applying “sanctions” upon the American energy industry to serve the ideology of the climate-change left. America cannot win a war if it turns against itself. President Biden is waging war on American energy, and his...

The Walt Disney Co. just refuses to let it go. On Tuesday, Christopher Rufo, known for his exposés on schools and corporations under the critical-race-theory spell, released internal Disney videos in which those in charge discuss how they insert the “not-at-all-secret gay agenda” into children’s programming. Those were the words used by Disney Television Animation executive producer Latoya Raveneau, who said she is “adding queerness” wherever she can — with Disney’s blessing, as the company is “going hard” to be supportive. The shocking footage also featured Disney Parks’ diversity and inclusion manager, Vivian Ware, saying the company has “removed all...

Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem2 John 7 I say this because many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist. 8 Watch out that you do not lose what we[a] have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully. 9 Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. 10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring...

Crises demand totalizing responses: we must sacrifice as individuals and forget the idea of normal and embrace a “new normal.” We live in age of forever crises. I may not be as old as other Americans, but from my early memories and maturation, coinciding with the post-9/11 world, I have noticed that we live in an age of forever crises. These forever crises have certainly become more acute and part of public consciousness since COVID, but it goes back long before COVID. Some crises are not crises, though they may be related to critical issues we must contend with --...

OKLAHOMA CITY - Governor Kevin Stitt signed the Save Women’s Sports Act into law Wednesday morning. The law bans transgender girls from playing in women’s school sports at every academic level and requires all students to legally attest to their biological sex before playing sports. Stitt signed the bill with a crowd of female legislators and athletes around him. He called the legislation “common sense.”

Republican Senator Wilton Simpson is the current state Senate President in Florida. He is running to become the Agricultural Commissioner, who administers the Concealed Weapons Permit system. Marion Hammer excoriated Simpson and 16 other Republicans when he helped pass a major gun control bill in Florida, in a knee-jerk response to the mass murder at Marjorie-Stoneman high school. The mass murder highlighted major failures of the school administration and the Obama administration.Simpson was one of 17 Republicans who were targeted by Hammer in a memo dated April 18, 2018, to the United Sportsmen of Florida, which is an NRA affiliate...

The Memphis Appeal, of the 19th inst., says: "Our latest intelligence of the movements of the enemy is that a large force has been landed on the west bank of the Tennessee, at Chalk Bluffs, twenty-six miles from Corinth. At this point, it is said, they have thrown up defences of considerable strength and extent. They have also commenced the construction of a road in the direction of Corinth, seven miles of which have already been completed. Their force now concentrated on the river is variously estimated at from 40,000 to 60,000." The Huntsville (Ala.) Advocate of the 19th says:...

Alarm! There is a massive divergence between the collapsing US Treasury 10Y-2Y yield curve and the near-term forward spread. The near-term forward spread is the difference between the implied interest rate expected on a three-month Treasury bill six quarters ahead and the current yield on a three-month Treasury bill. As we already know, the 10Y-5Y yield curve has inverted signaling a coming recession. This divergence between the Treasury yield curves and the near-term forward spread is occurring as US inflation hits the highest rate in 40 years. Now President Biden is considering “Releasing the Kraken!” That is, releasing a huge...

Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee have agreed to pay $113,000 to settle a Federal Election Commission investigation into whether they violated campaign finance law by misreporting spending on research that eventually became the infamous Steele dossier. That’s according to documents sent Tuesday to the Coolidge Reagan Foundation, which had filed an administrative complaint in 2018 accusing the Democrats of misreporting payments made to a law firm during the 2016 campaign to obscure the spending. The Clinton campaign hired Perkins Coie, which then hired Fusion GPS, a research and intelligence firm, to conduct opposition research on...

Judges of federal courts are some of the most intellectually elite minds in the country, but they still can't get their facts straight. It’s difficult to have much faith in the judicial system when individual judges appear to be gullible consumers of fake news, swallowing media accounts of events that have been widely questioned and, at least in some cases, debunked completely. Just how gullible and uninformed even top jurists can be was seen in January at the U.S. Supreme Court, during oral arguments over the government’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate affecting nearly 100 million workers. During the arguments, the justices...