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Three Pennsylvania parents filed a federal lawsuit last week alleging that their children's first-grade teacher violated district policy, state law and the Constitution by teaching children about gender dysphoria and transgender transitioning. The suit, filed by mothers Carmilla Tatel, Stacy Dunn and Gretchen Melton against the Mount Lebanon School District, seeks a court order to stop the gender-related instruction at Jefferson Elementary School in Pittsburgh, or else provide parents the option to opt their children out of it. It also seeks a jury trial in federal court to decide compensating and punitive financial damages. In addition to the district, the...

Sunday 12 June 2022 The Most Holy Trinity Holy Trinity Catholic Church Gainesville, VA Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White.First readingProverbs 8:22-31 ©Before the earth came into being, Wisdom was bornThe Wisdom of God cries aloud:The Lord created me when his purpose first unfolded, before the oldest of his works.From everlasting I was firmly set, from the beginning, before earth came into being.The deep was not, when I was born, there were no springs to gush with water.Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I came to birth;before he made the earth, the countryside, or the first grains of the...

June 12 is the feast date* of Saint Eskil, a martyr to the slow Christianization of Scandinavia. Ol’ “God-kettle” was one of several missionaries known to have been dispatched in the 11th and 12th century from England to Sweden, a traffic in religious conversion across the North Sea crossroads to invert the centuries-past course of Vikingers who put so many British sanctuaries to the sack. The Northmen realms were ripe to join Christendom but sagas touching the time describe an uneven transitional period where the new and old faiths jostled for primacy. “Ingi was king for a long time, well-liked...

The supply chain crisis continues, and now women are finding it difficult to purchase tampons.On Twitter, #tamponshortage is trending, with some users calling it the latest “nightmare” for women after the Food and Drug Administration acknowledged widespread shortages of baby formula. Individuals and not-for-profit groups that collect donated feminine care products are also complaining of empty shelves where the monthly essentials are usually stocked.“I thought I was going crazy noticing empty shelves where tampons should be,” one Twitter user said.Members of an online forum for Washington, D.C.-area parents also reported problems sourcing tampons. One member said she had visited three...

In early May, 27-year-old Hayley Furmaniuk felt tired and a bit congested, but after rapid-testing negative for the coronavirus two days in a row, she dined indoors with friends. The next morning, her symptoms worsened. Knowing her parents were driving in for Mother’s Day, she tested again—and saw a very bright positive. Which meant three not-so-great things: She needed to cancel with her parents; she had likely exposed her friends; a test had apparently taken three days to register what her vaccinated body had already figured out. Tests are not and never have been perfect, but since around the rise...

Ratings for the liberal media’s prime time January 6 commission hearing took a nose dive, because it turns out Americans don’t really care about the left’s continued hysteria of the event. During the evening’s most popular time slots, ABC, NBC and CBC took major hits, as very few people tuned in for the night’s propaganda theater. According to Cable News Watch, only 4.5 million people watched the hearing on ABC, while NBC and CBC only got roughly three million viewers. The Hill’s Joe Concha said that on an average night the networks normally get about 20 millions viewers combined, Thursday...

After a decade of exuberance, Silicon Valley start-ups, venture capitalists and established tech companies alike are cutting investment and firing workers, prompting some in the tech world to openly predict a U.S. recession is on the way. Facebook and Amazon have slowed their frantic hiring paces, while highflying newer companies including scooter company Bird and email client Superhuman have laid off workers. Tesla chief executive Elon Musk recently told employees he has a "super bad feeling" about the economy, and venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners warned in a blog post that "the boom times of the last decade are...

It's been another eventful week in President Joe Biden's America. The stock market plunged 5 percent as inflation soared to new highs and recession fears continued to mount. The number of COVID-19 deaths on Biden's watch surpassed 600,000 while his approval rating fell below 40 percent. That's not great! Nevertheless, it was still a relatively good week in the context of Biden's failed presidency. Two of the most obnoxious Ivy League libs in American history—Chesa Boudin and Felicia Sonmez—were fired for reckless behavior. For a demoralized country in need of some good news, it is reason enough to rejoice. On...

President Biden said on Sunday that he plans to sign gun safety reforms proposed by a bipartisan group of senators earlier in the day, adding that he hopes legislation comes to his desk soon. “I want to thank Senator Chris Murphy and the members of his bipartisan group—especially Senators Cornyn, Sinema, and Tillis—for their tireless work to produce this proposal,” Biden said in a statement, calling the proposed legislation the “most significant gun safety legislation to pass Congress in decades.”

The British government looks set to force the likes of state schools and hospitals to source up to half their food from their local area. Britain’s public sector will soon be forced into buying locally grown produce, with the country’s environment tsar announcing plans which would see the likes of hospitals and schools required to source up to half of their food from their locality.

As one who loves metaphor, I can’t help but notice the recent and varying range of metaphorical macro warnings. JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon, for example, is now predicting a “market hurricane” ahead, which Peter Schiff has recently upgraded to a “Category 5.”Meanwhile, the always blunt Michael Burry has compared the trajectory of our market economy and macro warnings to “watching a plane crash.”In short, the bull vs. bear debate is behind us; even the TBTF banks are now openly alarmed. The Shark Fins ApproachIn fact, current macro warnings are more suggestive of a market shark rather than bear, and borrowing...

VLADIMIR Putin was spotted visibly shaking as he stood next to one of the recipients of the State Prize of the Russian Federation he awarded at the Kremlin on Sunday. Speculation about Vladimir Putin's health has been rife since before he was catapulted into the daily news bulletins because of his invasion of Ukraine in February. The Russian leader has sparked questions about his status as reports began to emerge about him suffering from cancer. Putin appeared quite shaky on his legs as he listened to Russian filmmaker Nikita Mikhalkov accept a prize rewarding his work in the arts. Footage...

“The invaders renamed Freedom Square in Mariupol as Lenin Square and displayed their tricolor over it,” Andriushchenko wrote in a post on the Telegram messenger on June 11. He suggested that the Russians would like to replace the Ukrainian inscription “Mariupol” on the square with the Russian version (as they did to the monument at the entrance to the city). “Stop destroying Mariupol. Just rename it Zhdanov again,” Andriushchenko wrote. Earlier, the invaders changed the Ukrainian name of the city on the marker at the entrance to Mariupol to Russian. However, it was done so clumsily that the name of...

Why I'm 99% certain that Justin Bieber's facial paralysis was caused by the COVID vaccine Was it vaccine related? That's what the math says. Here's my calculation. Steve Kirsch Jun 10 Executive summary The VAERS data shows that Ramsay Hunt Syndrome (RHS) is 160 times more likely after a COVID vaccination than for all the other vaccines combined in any given year. And if you exclude the anthrax vaccine from that comparison, the likelihood is simply too high to calculate (0 cases in 32 years). So the COVID vaccine should definitely be considered as a possible cause for this rare...

A Bay Area drag queen who helped launch the Drag Queen Story Hour program for kids said in a social media post Saturday that a group of about 10 people stormed San Lorenzo Library earlier in the day during story hour and shouted homophobic and anti-LGBTQ slurs.

The most important election integrity document is the voter roll. It tells election officials who is eligible to vote. It controls to who and where automatic vote by mail ballots are sent. Inaccurate voter rolls leads to chaos in elections. Clean and accurate voter rolls are essential to free and fair elections. The Public Interest Legal Foundation, of which I am President, has sued Secretaries of State across the country to remove deceased and duplicate registrants from the voter rolls. In Pennsylvania, we won litigation that resulted in removing over 20,000 deceased registrants from the voter rolls. We have similar...

<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) — Three people were killed and three others were wounded in a shooting early Sunday at a warehouse party in Los Angeles, police said.</p><p>The summer kick-off event at the warehouse in Boyle Heights was advertised on social media and featured a performance by the rapper Money Sign Suede, CBS Los Angeles reported.</p>

The Electoral Count Act is a proposed United States federal law that adjusts the procedures set out in the US Constitution for the counting of electoral votes following a presidential election. The Act was first enacted by Congress in 1887, ten years after the disputed 1876 presidential election, in which several states submitted competing slates of electors and a divided Congress was unable to resolve the deadlock for weeks. ........ Snip........ Currently, a group of Republican and Democrat senators are working together to adjust the act so that Americans can never challenge a disputed or stolen election in the future....

WASHINGTON — Key senators announced a framework agreement on new gun legislation Sunday, marking a breakthrough on a collection of measures to combat gun violence, including “red flag” laws and enhanced background checks on buyers. The chief negotiators of the deal are Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., an outspoken proponent of gun safety laws, and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, a firm Second Amendment advocate who has promised the new measures won’t impact the gun rights of law-abiding Americans. The final bill hasn’t been written yet, sources familiar with the negotiations said. “Today, we are announcing a commonsense, bipartisan proposal to protect...

JUST IN - Senators reach deal on new gun legislation in the US. 10 Republicans have signed on.