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As the proud parent of five adult children in a “blended family,” I shake my head as I have recently seen equity being pushed by progressives as a the “new normal.” Yes, no pun intended but I do have skin in this game, as three of my children are biracial while the other two were products of a single-parent home, yet all five are at the top of their respective professions despite overcoming major obstacles to include income disparity and racial discrimination in the South. I still remember to this day taking my oldest son and daughter for their school...

Candidates who received at least 5% in either the March or April Nexstar/Emerson College Polling/The Hill polls were invited to attend: Candidates who have committed to attend includes: Lou Barletta, Doug Mastriano, Bill McSwain, and Dave White. The candidates will debate for one hour, which will both air and live-stream in 10 markets across Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, and Maryland, reaching 9.8 million TV and streaming households in every county of the Keystone State. WHTM abc27 News anchor & Capitol Bureau Reporter Owens and WPXI Anchor Lisa Sylvester will co-host the debate from the abc27 studio in Harrisburg. The one...

Last week, the New York Post reported that Wikipedia had deleted its page dedicated to Rosemont Seneca Partners claiming it was “not notable”.A Wiki Editor told the Post that Hunter’s firm is only mentioned in relation to its famous founders, Hunter Biden, Christopher Heinz, stepson of John Kerry, and Devon Archer. But “keeping it around” would cause the page to be “a magnet for conspiracy theories about Hunter Biden.”The brief page was already scant in details.It mentioned the names of the founders and states that Heinz ended his business relationship with the firm in 2014 after Biden and Archer joined...

The Hamas advocates Killing Jews, simply for being Jews (IMRA, Monday, November 25, 2002 ) IDF Spoksperson 24 November 2002 The Iz-Adin Al Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas, published (23 November 2002) a bulletin on their official website, advocating the murder of Jews simply for the fact of that they are Jews. The bulletin was published to commemorate the anniversary of the death of Imad Akal, a senior Hamas official, killed in the Gaza Strip on November 24, 1993. The bulletin quotes Akal as saying: "We will knock on the doors of Heaven with the skulls of...

Parent: ‘Re-creates conditions that evoke so many deeply hurtful things about this country’ A San Francisco history teacher allegedly was suspended and then forced to apologize for bringing in cotton plants for a lesson on slavery and the cotton gin. Last month, the Creative Arts Charter School teacher had brought in the plants, called “bolls,” to show “the sharp edges that had pierced hands while picking cotton and pulling out the seeds,” the San Francisco Chronicle reports. It took less than a day for the school to begin an investigation into the teacher and the lesson. Although school officials “declined...

A left-wing government watchdog group with a dubious history is demanding Apple engage in mass preemptive censorship with the removal of a free-speech-branded alternative to Twitter from its app store. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) sent a four-page letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook on Wednesday urging the American tech executive to nuke former President Donald Trump’s new platform, Truth Social, from its digital marketplace despite no violations of company guidelines. “The events of January 6, 2021 highlighted not only democracy’s vulnerabilities, but also the risks associated with the current ecosystem of online speech,” wrote CREW President...

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As if anyone ever needed proof of the callousness and irresponsibility of the Biden administration regarding its open borders policy, White House spokesweasel Jen Psaki yesterday put everybody to rights.

Fox News peeled back the curtain of President Joe Biden's administration and revealed how a shadowy organization heavily funded by liberal billionaire George Soros is working behind the scenes to advance a progressive agenda.

Prince Harry signed on as the chief impact officer of BetterUp last spring, promising to help promote the startup’s mission of “mental fitness” and its army of more than 2,000 professional coaches. It’s likely a lucrative gig for the British royal: BetterUp raised $300 million at a $4.7 billion valuation in October. But just six months later, an uprising has been brewing among the company’s career coaches following BetterUp’s recent announcement that it would modify their contracts—resulting in what those mentors said was effectively a sneaky pay cut—according to six coaches who spoke with The Daily Beast. “There’s so many...

The Bible In Paintings 2 ENCOURAGEMENT FOR APPRECIATING AND APPLYING GOD'S MESSAGE R U T H CHAPTER 2 Now Naomi had a relative on her husband’s side, a man of standing, whose name was Boaz. And Ruth the Moabitess went out and began to glean in the fields behind the harvesters in a field belonging to Boaz. 1 CHARLES LANDELLE "Ruth" 2 FRANCESCO HAYEZ "Ruth" 3 MERLE HUGUES "Ruth in the Fields" 4 ALEXANDRE CABANEL "Ruth Gleaning" 5 ALEXANDRE CABANEL "Ruth" 6 ROBERT SCOTT LAUDER "Ruth" 7 Source 8 JAMES TISSOT "Ruth Gleaning" 9 10 11 CHANA HELEN ROSENBERG...

Dubbed the 'People's Convoy,' a small group of truckers that rolled through Oakland to protest a lawmaker's sponsorship of a pro-abortion bill and a Covid vaccine mandate bill, were pelted with eggs by upset residents. California assemblywoman Buffy Wicks, 44, represents the state's 15th District, which encompasses some well-known suburbs including Berkeley and Oakland. On Friday, her home was surrounded by police after it was targeted by a convoy of 20 drivers in 18-wheelers pressuring her to resign. Earlier in April, Wicks, who's held office since December 2018, sponsored a bill that would require all workers in California to receive...

The California legislature is going to miss a May 1 deadline to kill the annual summer increase in its 51-cent gas tax , Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office said. The increase goes against Newsom’s January promise to motorists that he would suspend any tax increases given that the state pays the highest amount in the nation, both in taxes and per gallon. Currently, the average price to fill up is $5.69, according to AAA . “It is clear now that the Legislature will not act in time to provide that immediate, limited relief, but we look forward to working with lawmakers...

The woman, known as Katie Grace Jacobs (@katiegracejacobs) shared the video as a stitch to another TikToker's (@oliviachow69) advice. The latter TikToker shared a viral video advising people of color, especially women, to refuse to move for white people when walking and see how many of them move out of the way. Jacobs decided to try it, saying she'd never noticed that many white people don't move for others. In her video, she covers her mouth, then gasps and laughs. The TikToker walks down a sidewalk and has to navigate between other people who refused to move for her. She...

Dashcam footage showed a police officer being run over on a busy interstate by a suspect who fled down a Tennessee highway. Roy Nicholson, 26, of Columbia, was pulled over on I-65 North between Murfreesboro Road and McEwen Drive around 10.30am on Sunday for a 'traffic violation'. He 'asked Nicholson to step out of his car after seeing a gun in the vehicle and smelling marijuana.' Dashcam footage shows Nicholson resisting arrest and fighting off with Franklin Police Officer Dustyn Stevens, who attempts to keep the man's hands behind his back. Nicholson can be heard yelling 'sir, stop,' as he...

It’s time to make sure their cultural and political defeat is painful and permanent. April 2022 may go down as the Gettysburg of the woke. African-American billionaire success story Elon Musk bought Twitter in a blockbuster deal worth about $44 billion. He went into the deal announcing he intended to restore free speech to the platform that once embodied it. “Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy,” the world’s richest man tweeted on the platform he was about to own, “and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated.” But...

Meanwhile, excessive government entitlement spending facilitated by Federal Reserve money-printing will continue unabated. The “only way” to tackle rampant inflation in America is to raise taxes on the middle class and eliminate tax cuts enacted by former President Donald Trump, according to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D). “If you wanna get rid of inflation, the only way to do it is to undo a lot of the Trump Tax Cuts and raise rates,” Schumer said during a press conference at the Capitol building on Tuesday. “No Republican is ever going to do that, so the only way to get...

A protester has launched tomatoes at Emmanuel Macron during his first election victory walkabout in France. The reelected president was meeting voters at a market in Cergy, northwest of Paris, when he was targeted. The En Marche! leader was not directly hit but it sent his security team into a frenzy, shouting 'Projectile!' as they tried to shield the leader. They opened an umbrella and Macron lifted his hands above his head as they tried to stop the rain of cherry tomatoes landing on him. The president can be heard saying, 'it's not serious', before he was ushered away by...

IPray For The Peace of JerusalemRevelation 14The Three Angels 6 Then I saw another angel flying in midair, and he had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth—to every nation, tribe, language and people. 7 He said in a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea and the springs of water.” 8 A second angel followed and said, “‘Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great,’[a] which made all the nations drink the maddening wine of her adulteries.”...

New Twitter owner Elon Musk is vowing to reform the social media platform. "Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated," Musk said in a statement after his $44 billion bid to buy the company was accepted. Many, many conservatives hope Musk succeeds. But as much as Twitter needs freer speech, it also needs to tell the world precisely what it has been doing for the last few years. That is why it should conduct a full and comprehensive audit of all...