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The politicization of the education system has destroyed parent-teacher relations. Can the situation be fixed? The politicization of the education system has destroyed parent-teacher relations. Instead of encouraging healthy communication among parents, teachers, and administrators, public school officials have continued undermining parental rights and implementing their own political ideologies into coursework. Teachers unions work to vilify concerned parents and label them as "extremists" for showing up and trying to be involved in their children's educational process. Sixty-eight percent of parents surveyed by The Learning Heroes expressed concerns about politicians making curriculum decisions. Eighty-two percent of parents recently admitted in a...

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The poles are warming several times faster than the global average, causing record smashing heatwaves that were reported earlier this year in both the Arctic and Antarctic. Melting ice and collapsing glaciers at high latitudes would accelerate sea level rise around the planet. Fortunately, refreezing the poles by reducing incoming sunlight would be both feasible and remarkably cheap, according to new research published today in Environmental Research Communications. Scientists laid out a possible future program whereby high-flying jets would spray microscopic aerosol particles into the atmosphere at latitudes of 60 degrees north and south—roughly Anchorage and the southern tip of...

Joe Biden has chosen the autocrat’s tactic of marginalization of large segments of the American population; an action which can be the first step in a tragic spiral of violence and destruction. I’ve always detested people who make facile comparisons of anything that goes on in the U.S. to the manifold horrors of Nazi Germany. The freedoms and privileges we’ve enjoyed in this extraordinary nation made even the worst problems we’ve experienced pale in comparison to the brutality and death perpetrated by the Third Reich. To my mind, drawing parallels between them is a cheap, insulting, and wholly illegitimate way...

The Obama administration failed to protect thousands of Central American children who have flooded across the U.S. border since 2011, leaving them vulnerable to traffickers and to abuses at the hands of government-approved caretakers, a Senate investigation has found. The Office of Refugee Resettlement, an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services, failed to do proper background checks of adults who claimed the children, allowed sponsors to take custody of multiple unrelated children, and regularly placed children in homes without visiting the locations, according to a 56-page investigative report released Thursday. And once the children left federally funded...

Conservationists are seeking Endangered Species Act protection for a tiny snail half the size of a pea that is known to exist only in high-desert springs near a huge lithium mine planned in Nevada along the Oregon state line. The Western Watersheds Project filed the listing petition last week with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for the Kings River pyrg, a springsnail found in 13 isolated springs around Thacker Pass 200 miles (321 kilometers) northeast of Reno. It says the biggest threat to the snail’s survival is disruption of groundwater flows as a result of the 370-foot-deep (113-meter), open-pit...

A GREAT BATTLE IN PROGRESS. HARRISBURGH, Tuesday, Sept. 15. -- 8 P.M.Dispatches received from Hagerstown say Gen. McCLELLAN came up with the rear of the rebel army at Sharpsburgh, and that a battle is now in progress. HARRISBURGH, Tuesday, Sept. 16. -- 10 A.M. A dispatch, just received at headquarters, says Jackson has recrossed the Potomac, and Gen. McClellan has engaged him with tremendous force this side of Sharpsburgh and ten miles from that place. The whole rebel army in Maryland will be annihilated or captured this night. No rebels can be found about Hagerstown and Williamsport, and none two...

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During a portion of an interview aired on Friday’s “NBC Nightly News,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) argued that even though a sizable percentage of the electric grid is powered by natural gas, the grid is “ready to make the change” to a 100% green energy grid and “needs to advance that change with much more urgency,” which California is doing. NBC News Correspondent Cal Perry asked, “A large percentage of the grid is still coming from natural gas. It’s over 35%. Is the grid ready to make that change to green?” Newsom answered, “Well, it’s ready to make the...

President Biden has once again warned President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia against using unconventional or nuclear weapons to try to turn the tide of the war in Moscow’s favor, saying that such an action would “change the face of war unlike anything since World War II.” Speaking in an interview with the CBS News program “60 Minutes” that is scheduled to air on Sunday, Mr. Biden said that the United States’ response would be “consequential,” though he declined to go into detail. “You think I would tell you if I knew exactly what it would be? Of course I’m...

There is a saying that you cannot steal from a man who has nothing, and you cannot threaten a man who has nothing to lose. Of Jesus, the Son of Man who had no where to lay his head (Matt 8:20), this was surely true. The world had no claim on him, nothing to hook him or claim his loyalty. Even his life could not be taken from him for he had already laid it down freely (cf Jn 10:18).St. John Chrysostom spoke of it boldly in a sermon that paints well the paradoxical freedom of poverty and the enslavement...

September 17th 2022 Saturday of week 24 in ordinary time Church of St. Catherine, Zamość, PolandAutorstwa <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MaKa~commonswiki" title="User:MaKa~commonswiki">MaKa~commonswiki</a> - <span class="int-own-work" lang="pl">Praca własna</span>, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First reading1 Corinthians 15:35-37,42-49 ©The resurrected body is heavenly by natureSomeone may ask, ‘How are dead people raised, and what sort of body do they have when they come back?’ They are stupid questions. Whatever you sow in the ground has to die before it is given new life and the thing that you sow is not what is going to come; you sow a bare grain,...

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Meta shares dropped below the company's pandemic nadir during the day on Friday and are down more than 60% for the year...Since officially changing its name to Meta last October, the news for CEO Mark Zuckerberg and company has been almost all bad.

Imagine being loaded onto a plane and promised what? A job? A new life? A way out of a crowded refugee camp? And then landing on an island off the coast of Massachusetts where no one was expecting you and few speak your language. For more than 40 mostly Venezuelan refugees, including a number of children, who landed in Martha’s Vineyard midday Wednesday, this was no magical mystery tour. Some thought they were headed for Boston. Most had no idea where they were when they landed. No wonder the incident has caught the eye of federal law enforcement. Imagine the...

WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice is asking a federal appeals court to temporarily block a Trump-appointed judge’s ruling that prevents it from accessing hundreds of pages of classified records seized amid the thousands of pages of government documents taken from the former president’s Mar-a-Lago home. “The district court has entered an unprecedented order enjoining the Executive Branch’s use of its own highly classified records in a criminal investigation with direct implications for national security,” the Justice Department wrote in its motion Friday.

Panic and outrage were the responses from Democrats after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) arranged to have 50 willing illegal migrants flown to the posh vacation playground of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. President Biden said "the transportation of these helpless victims so far away from their homes is simply wrong. It's un-American. It's reckless." Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif) called DeSantis "soulless. Martha's Vineyard is a place of refuge for this country's elite. Former President Obama has property there. Spike Lee, David Letterman, and Carly Simon all own houses on the island. Hell, it's the place where Sen. Ted Kennedy narrowly escaped...

“He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief. He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy” (Proverbs 17:20-21).

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14)Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 1 JOHN 5:14Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

Trump’s win shouldn’t be a loss for the Department of Justice—unless the Biden administration played fast and loose with the facts.The Biden administration cannot use the documents the FBI seized from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home for criminal investigative purposes until a special master completes an independent review of the material, a federal judge held on Thursday.That decision and the court’s selection of Trump’s preferred special master candidate, coupled with the fulsome review process adopted yesterday by presiding Judge Aileen Cannon, represent a huge victory for the former president. But Trump’s win shouldn’t be a loss for the Department of Justice—unless...