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For over a century the public health profession has successfully improved the health of the American public. Notable successful campaigns have included anti-smoking, regular vaccinations, periodic check-ups for breast and skin cancer, and promoting healthier diets. All had a common element: show the harmful consequences of a behavior and then provide ways to mitigate it. Unfortunately, the public health profession, like so many of our once effective institutions, has gone woke and may even be promoting death. Social justice has replaced sound medicine as if pathologies of the body can be cured by eliminating sexism, racism, homophobia, and all the...

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to visit Taiwan as part of her tour of Asia, according to a senior Taiwanese government official and a US official, despite warnings from Biden administration officials, who are worried about China’s response to such a high-profile visit.The stop – the first for a US House speaker in 25 years – is not currently on Pelosi’s public itinerary and comes at a time when US-China relations are already at a low point. The Taiwanese official added that she is expected to stay in Taiwan overnight. It is unclear when exactly Pelosi will land...

Samuel Sandoval, one of the last members of the Navajo Code Talkers who encrypted critical U.S. messages during World War II, has died at 98. Navajo Code Talkers famously used language based on the Navajo Nation’s native tongue to transmit messages regarding Japanese troop placements and movements during U.S. Marine assaults throughout the Pacific. The Navajo language was unwritten at the time and U.S. enemies had virtually no means of deciphering the code. Sandoval was among four remaining code talkers still alive today, from the hundreds who had been recruited during the war. The three others who are living include...

John Fetterman may still be recuperating from a stroke, but that doesn’t mean he can’t campaign. The current lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania is running for the state’s soon-to-be-vacated Senate seat, and while he’s on the mend, he’s been able to attack his opponent, Dr. Mehmet Oz, online. Fetterman is very good at social media. Oz is not. Not only has the former TV star been repeatedly humiliated, sometimes by celebrity guests, but he’s also trailing in the polls. And that’s got the GOP is worried. Sources tell Puck that Donald Trump, who enraged some of his base by supporting Oz,...

ran has earned as much money from the export of gas in the past four months as it had received during the whole last year, the oil minister said. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Oil Minister Javad Owji said the income generated by the sale of gas in the first four months of the current Iranian year (March 21- July 22) has stood at around $4 billion, equal to the total gas export revenues during the year 1400 (March 2021 – March 2022).

That 1992 event should have taught Americans that the government was out of control, but it didn’t, and we continue to live with the consequences. For those too young to remember, it was thirty years ago this month that the DOJ entrapped Randy Weaver for his Christian beliefs, issued a death warrant, killed his dog, son, and wife, and shot Weaver and his friend. Surely, the DOJ doesn’t just execute innocent people. Yet, as we learned at trial: He had no propensity to commit crimes. Never even had a traffic ticket. Never been charged with a crime of any kind...

An 18-year-old girl was allegedly shot and killed by a professor at the Georgia university that she planned to attend in the fall, according to police and local reports. Richard Sigman, 47, was arrested and charged with murder, possession of a firearm and aggravated assault in the Saturday death of Anna Jones, a recent high school graduate who was enrolled as an incoming freshman at the University of West Georgia. Carrollton police said a man had alerted security at Leopoldo’s, a local pizza place, that Sigman threatened to shoot him after the two got into an argument at around midnight....

Under the flag of Sierra-Leone, the RAZONI ship left Odesa at 9.15 on 1 August and will transport 26k tons of Ukrainian corn to Tripoli in Lebanon, Ukraine’s Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov reported. He said it will move by corridors guaranteed by Turkey and the UN. 16 more ships await their turn in Odesa ports; they were blocked there since Russia’s full-fledged invasion on 24 February. The export follows a grain export deal signed in Istanbul on 23 July. Called “Initiative on the safe transportation of grain and foodstuffs from Ukrainian sea ports,” it was signed by Turkey, the UN...

Fighting back always starts with a little flick of light, a little sand in the gears, a little disobedience, a little outright defiance. This fight against Great Reset communism is a struggle that many Americans did not see coming. As such, they're just now "awakening" to the massive globalist threat of the World Economic Forum's planned New World Order. They went to bed one night believing that most Americans shared a common sense of values, an appreciation for American history, and a patriotic dedication to liberty and freedom. They rose in the morning to discover that their Founding Fathers were...

IPray For The Peace of JerusalemGenesis 5050 Joseph threw himself on his father and wept over him and kissed him. 2 Then Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So the physicians embalmed him, 3 taking a full forty days, for that was the time required for embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days. 4 When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s court, “If I have found favor in your eyes, speak to Pharaoh for me. Tell him, 5 ‘My father made me swear an oath and said, “I...

The NATO-led Kosovo Force (KFOR) peacekeepers were spotted late on Saturday in the city of Kosovska Mitrovica, located in the north of Serbia’s breakaway region of Kosovo. The force, apparently Italian carabinieri units, were spotted guarding a bridge across the Ibar river, footage from the scene circulated by local media shows. The bridge splits the city into the northern Serb-populated part, and the predominantly ethnic-Albanian south.KFOR, the NATO-led peacekeeping mission, said in a statement on Sunday evening that it was “prepared to intervene if stability is jeopardized.”Reportedly placed on high alert, a large KFOR convoy of some 30-40 vehicles was...

Conmen have been ripping off fans outside Chicago sports venues for years. Posing as parking attendants, they lure in drivers, take their cash, and often guide them into illegal parking spots. Those fans later find parking tickets from the city on their cars. Nothing stopped the men we uncovered running an illegal parking scam - not even the different teams of officers patrolling the city streets outside Guaranteed Rate Field. The scammers are so bold they continued preying on White Sox fans - selling fraudulent parking passes last season, right in front of authorities. What happened was a bit different...

Three suspects, accused of beating 17-year-old Ethan Liming of Akron, Ohio to death, have avoided murder charges in a grand jury indictment. As Breitbart News has reported, Liming was beaten to death on June 2 in a parking lot at the I Promise School in Akron, founded by NBA player LeBron James. Subsequently, 20-year-old Deshawn Stafford Jr., 19-year-old Tyler Stafford, and 21-year-old Donovon Jones were arrested in Liming’s death and initially charged with murder to which all pleaded not guilty.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi kicked off an Asia tour Monday that's been shrouded in secrecy following an escalation in tensions with China over Taiwan. With no word on whether Pelosi will visit the island, she stopped first in Singapore, where Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong urged her at a meeting to strive for "stable" ties with Beijing. Her itinerary also includes Malaysia, South Korea and Japan, but a possible Taiwan visit has dominated attention in the run-up.

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A contentious circuit judgeship race in Hillsborough County is violating the norms of usually quiet judicial contests, as the two candidates and their supporters bash each other publicly and file or threaten ethics complaints. The bitterness stems from an overturned decision by Judge Jared Smith in a case of a minor seeking an abortion.

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“A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings” (Proverbs 1:5-6 KJV).