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Who is a Person?After Roe, America will face a fundamental question.No one should be surprised by Justice Alito’s leaked opinion overruling Roe v. Wade. Sensible observers have long known that this infamous decision created an untenable “right to abortion,” one that was ripe to be repudiated or overruled by a future court. The real surprise will be what happens next. Like previous legal decisions from the era of slavery, Roe touches upon a question foundational to our constitutional order: what is a person? Significantly, it is not a question that can be answered piecemeal or by half measures. States will...

Here's a good reason for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) to eat their fruits and vegetables: It may help reduce inattention issues, a new study suggests. As part of a larger study, researchers asked parents of 134 kids with ADHD symptoms to complete a detailed questionnaire about the typical foods the children ate, including portion sizes, over a 90-day period. Another questionnaire asked parents to rate symptoms of inattention—a hallmark of ADHD—in their kids, such as having trouble staying focused, not following instructions, difficulty remembering things, and difficulty regulating emotions. Results showed that kids who consumed more fruits...

The battlefield commanders who have survived the fighting in Ukraine so far now face suspensions and firing as Putin takes greater control of decision-making in the flagging war. Russian President Vladimir Putin has lost faith in his top general and has fired other senior commanders for their high-profile and embarrassing failures on the battlefield in Ukraine, British intelligence believes. U.K. military intelligence reports Tuesday morning that the Kremlin has fired Lt. Gen. Serhiy Kisel, commander of the elite 1st Guards Tank Army, for failing to capture Kharkiv. International attention has focused on the strategically critical northeastern Ukrainian city in recent...

Three little pigs is a classic fairy tale, but when told in the language of William Shakespeare it becomes something completely different. Whether you have an extensive vocabulary or one with less words in your vernacular, you're sure to enjoy this amazing story telling experience from John Branyan.

At the onset of the Russian incursion into Ukraine I argued in my article ‘Order Out Of Chaos: How The Ukraine Conflict Is Designed To Benefit Globalists‘ that US boots would be on the ground within a few months. I was wrong – As it turns out, US and European military boots were ALREADY on the ground. Ukraine was a proxy war from the very beginning.But what is a proxy war, really? It means that Russian troops are fighting Ukrainian soldiers that are intermingled with western “advisors” and most likely US and European special forces, not to mention US intelligence...

Borrowers with limited or troubled credit histories are defaulting on credit cards, car loans and personal loans Consumers with low credit scores are falling behind on payments for car loans, personal loans and credit cards, a sign that the healthiest consumer lending environment on record in the U.S. is coming to an end. Delinquencies on subprime car loans and leases hit an all-time high in February, based on Equifax’s tracking that goes back to 2007. (Subprime defined as credit score below 620). [Snip] The jump in subprime delinquencies could reduce lenders’ willingness to make loans to riskier borrowers. [Snip] Fewer...

On Tuesday, Indigenous tribe representatives, Massachusetts senators, legislators, historians, archivists and other members of the 19-member state seal and motto commission, unanimously voted to recommend the change of what some consider an “egregious” state seal and motto, WGBH reported.

Vladimir Putin's top security officials understand that the war in Ukraine is 'lost' and a coup is now a realistic possibility, a Russian analyst has predicted. Christo Grozev, a Russia expert, believes GRU and FSB elites are the most likely to try and topple Putin, because they know the truth of what is happening on the ground. And those elites are already looking for ways to move their money and families out of the country in anticipation of Putin falling, Grozev claims. -snip- Grozev also said that defence ministry flights to a supposed command and control bunker near Ufa -...

The FDA’s Audacious Move to Boost Kids Aged 5-11yrsThis week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorised the use of a single booster of Pfizer’s covid-19 vaccine in children aged 5-11, at least five months after completion of a primary series of vaccinations. The CDC’s advisory committee is expected to rubber stamp the decision today.According to the FDA, the evidence underlying its decision came from a subset of 67 kids who were part of an ongoing trial and were boosted 7-9 months after their primary series. They showed higher antibody levels one month after the booster compared to before...

From 2013 through 2018 Hunter Biden and his company brought in about $11 million via his roles as an attorney and a board member with a Ukrainian firm accused of bribery and his work with a Chinese businessman now accused of fraud, according to an NBC News analysis of a copy of Biden’s hard drive and iCloud account and documents released by Republicans on two Senate committees. The documents and the analysis, which don’t show what he did to earn millions from his Chinese partners, raise questions about national security, business ethics and potential legal exposure. In December 2020, Biden...

A Primer on the WHO, the Treaty, and its Plans for Pandemic PreparednessThe World Health Organization (WHO), whose constitution defines health as ‘a state of physical, mental and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity,’ has recently orchestrated remarkable reversals in human rights, poverty reduction, education, and physical, mental and social health indices in the name of responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. WHO proposes to expand the mechanisms that enabled this response, diverting unprecedented resources to addressing what in terms of history and disease are rare and relatively low-impact events. This will greatly benefit those who also...

FIFTH WEEK OF EASTER JOHN 15:9-11 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus instructs us in the way of loving others with God’s love: “Remain in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.” Much hinges on that little word “remain”—menein in the Greek—which John uses frequently in his Gospel. God’s love is given unconditionally as a grace, but remaining in that love is indeed a matter of keeping certain commandments. Here is how it works: God’s love can truly dwell in us and...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has apparently unveiled a new version of the LGBTQ+ pride flag for International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOBIT) this week. Taking to Twitter, the leftist London Mayor wrote on Tuesday: “Today on #IDAHOBIT, I want to make clear that homophobia, biphobia and transphobia have no place in our city and send a message of solidarity to all LGBTQ+ communities around the world. We have to make sure that the progress of the past decades isn’t reversed.”

"Getting out of real prison is easier than getting out of Twitter prison," Shkreli, 39, wrote on his Facebook page Wednesday, referring to his ban from Twitter...In a throwback to the days when Shkreli was one of the most prominent trolls on Twitter, a friend of his tweeted a photo of them together smiling in a car after his release, with the caption: "Picked up this guy hitchhiking. Says he's famous."

What Sussmann said to Baker in 2016 meeting is at center of Durham case rmer FBI general counsel James Baker testified in court on Thursday that 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann told him that he was not representing any client when he brought him the information regarding the alleged secret communications channel between the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank. In the trial of 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann, Baker testified that he was "100% confident" that Sussmann told him he was not giving him the allegation on behalf of a client. Because of this, Baker protected...

The Wisconsin Election Commission confesses to having 7.1 million people in their database, but only 3.68 million of them are eligible to vote. WEC and Sarah Whitt, the Government Accountability Board’s “Functional Lead” for the SVRS (Statewide Voter Registration System), stored everything in one database. Even deceased voters are not excluded. According to county clerks, it simply takes two clicks to reactivate voters. Other studies have shown missing data in needed fields, thousands of identical 1918 birth dates, incomprehensible text entries, missing last names or addresses, up to 25 Voter IDs for one registration, and other egregious errors. Charging $13,500...

In the wake of the mass shooting in Buffalo by an avowed white supremacist, a number of people on social media are working overtime to tar various people and groups with the label of white nationalism. Accusatory fingers are being pointed, primarily at various conservatives, without even attempting to find out what actually influenced the gunman. (I am purposely not using his name in this essay.) If we are serious about wanting to confront and defeat this evil — as I hope we are — then it would be helpful to do so from an informed position. Then we could...

Diesel consumers on the East Coast received some news Wednesday that may suggest an easing of the tight physical market squeeze in the region. There have been head fakes suggesting a softening of markets in the weeks since the East Coast diesel market ran away from the rest of the country. But they proved short-lived, as the weekly national average retail diesel price published Monday by the Energy Information Administration was $5.613 a gallon. The East Coast price was 33.1 cents more than that after a three-week increase that took the spread from 4.9 cents on April 25 up to...

In a small study of healthy adults aged 55 and older, 5 mg of melatonin increased total sleep time compared to a placebo. Researchers conducted the study in 24 healthy, older adults to evaluate whether a high-dose or a low-dose melatonin supplement could improve sleep. The team found that the higher dose had a significant impact, increasing total sleep time compared to placebo by more than 15 minutes for nighttime sleep and by half an hour for daytime sleep. The body naturally produces melatonin, which helps regulate a person's sleep-wake cycle with night and day. Melatonin levels peak at night....

Remember when the pandemic started, how everyone was looking for the Mark of the Beast in the vaccines, and cataloguing every moment of the New World Order rising over the globe? Well, here we are on Day 793 of 15 Days to Flatten the Curve, and what’s the number one most searched topic? The defamation trial of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, could there ever be a more useless subject of discussion? Stay asleep, America, it’ll all be over soon enough. “The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.” Psalm 9:17 (KJB) One of...