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David Boliek, chairman of the Board of Trustees at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill discusses the school’s recent decision to form a school of civic life and leadership. The University of North Carolina (UNC) moved against encroaching woke culture and voted to ban diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) statements and politically preferential hiring. UNC voted to ban DEI statements and compelled speech from admission, hiring, promotion and tenure at its Board of Governors meeting Thursday. The board stated the university "shall neither solicit nor require an employee or applicant for academic admission or employment to affirmatively ascribe...

A Georgia woman slammed her SUV into a Popeyes restaurant because her order was missing biscuits, according to police. Around 7:45 p.m. on Saturday, a woman ordered food at the Popeyes restaurant in Augusta, Georgia. The woman claimed that her order at the fast food restaurant was missing biscuits. A Popeyes manager informed authorities that the order was corrected and the customer was given biscuits. However, the woman was reportedly "still not happy." The woman instructed the restaurant staff to hurry up with the order "because she was coming back," according to the Popeyes employees.

We are only 20 months away from the next Presidential election, and at this stage, the Republican party should be starting to whittle down its field of contenders. Yet here we are with most of the people expected to run still sitting it out, silent. It’s true that Nikki Haley has started her campaign, as have a few outriders like Vivek Ramaswamy, to whom I wish much luck. But the serving or former officials who should have started their campaigns by now are still sitting it out. Leaving the ground open for Trump to do stunts like his Ohio trip...

*US Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro voiced concern in remarks on Wednesday *Said China has 340 active warships, compared to about 280 for the US Navy *Claimed US naval shipyards can't match the output of Chinese ones The US Secretary of the Navy has raised the alarm that China's naval fleet surpasses America's in number of ships, and is growing faster than the US has current capacity to match. 'It is no secret that the People's Republic of China seeks to upend our dominance on the oceans across the globe,' said Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro in remarks at the...

Russia became the most sanctioned nation in the world in 2022, as it was targeted in an unprecedented NATO campaign.Nearly one year later, not only has the Russian economy not been “devastated,” but it’s actually expected to see more growth than Germany and Britain in 2023...It has been nearly one year since Russia became the most sanctioned nation in the world, and not only have the predictions from the Western politicians implementing those measures not become a reality—but now even the establishment media outlets that were once cheering for the complete isolation of Russia are now starting to admit that...

[Catholic Caucus] "Why take away from traditionalists what John Paul II and Benedict XVI had granted?"(From Le Figaro, February 22, 2023) -- While Pope Francis drastically reduces the freedom of traditionalists, historian Christophe Dickès recalls the richness and fruitfulness of these minorities within the Catholic Church. Author of numerous works, Christophe Dickès has notably published "Saint Pierre" (Perrin, 2021), which received the François Millepierres prize of the French Academy 2022.The Lenten season for traditional Catholics begins with sorrow. The one in charge of liturgical matters at the Vatican, Cardinal Roche, who has never hidden his opposition to the work of...

France secretly owns 14 countries through it's banks.

U.S. government documents reveal that the Department of Defense (DoD) partnered with a pharmaceutical company linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in developing and distributing the Pfizer / BioNTech “biological warfare agents marketed as ‘Covid-19 vaccines,’” according to a prominent researcher. “It is curious that the US DoD awarded $10 billion … to a venture whose substantial equity (and IP) holder is the Chinese Communist Party,” wrote Sasha Latypova in a December 28 substack article. Latypova is a former pharmaceutical executive with more than 25 years’ experience in the industry specializing in research and development. She has been a...

Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon has suspended the attorney who prosecuted a 26-year-old trans child molester who was accused of identifying as a woman only after DNA evidence linked her to a cold case crime, according to law enforcement sources. Shea Sanna, who had been the lead prosecutor for part of the case, is accused of misgendering and "deadnaming" the convicted child molester Hannah Tubbs, who is now accused of beating a man to death in the woods with a rock in Kern County. Sanna has argued in the past that jailhouse phone calls show Tubbs, now 27, was...

A baby has been anonymously surrendered, saved, and rescued for the first time ever with a newly installed Safe Haven Baby Box in Kentucky. The Safe Haven Baby Box organization installs temperature-controlled and alarm-monitored boxes in hospitals, police stations, and fire stations to create a safer and effective method for surrendering an infant. A baby has been anonymously surrendered, saved, and rescued for the first time ever with a newly installed Safe Haven Baby Box in Kentucky. The Safe Haven Baby Box organization installs temperature-controlled and alarm-monitored boxes in hospitals, police stations, and fire stations to create a safer and...

DENVER — The family of a 12-year-old auto theft suspect in Denver who was shot and killed by the vehicle owner say the man should face criminal charges. Sometime Sunday, Feb. 5, the Denver Police Department received a report of an auto theft. The vehicle owner told authorities he was tracking the vehicle using an app, and found it later in the day. When the owner approached the car, he was "involved in an exchange of gunfire" with those inside the vehicle, according to Denver police. A juvenile male drove the car, where officers found him suffering from a gunshot...

We have said this many, many times, and it bears repeating here again in this article today on the street drug tranq. The world you live in, in 2023, is opening and fervently preparing itself to receive the coming Antichrist, and you are watching the ‘advance team’ for his kingdom assembling itself in real-time. Remember that little Greek work called Pharmakeia that we use in English for ‘pharmacy’ and ‘medicine’? The main meaning of that word is ‘sorcery’ as it relates to ‘medicine’, and if you know anyone who has been severely impacted after receiving the government injection, then you...

Town council members in the Bay Area town of Los Gatos censured one of its planning commissioners last week for writing an email that included what some say is racist language toward white people.

The New York Times acknowledged in a recent report that the Biden administration’s claims that former President Donald Trump’s administration was responsible for the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, due to it rolling back a rail safety rule was inaccurate. “The White House has pushed back on such criticism from Republicans, accusing both the Trump administration and Republican lawmakers of dismantling the Obama-era rail safety measures meant to prevent episodes like the East Palestine derailment,” the Times report said. “According to the website PolitiFact, a rail safety rule repealed as part of a broad regulatory rollback under the Trump...

Well known environmental activist Erin Brockovich is visiting East Palestine, Ohio, today, the site of a toxic chemical train derailment three weeks ago. Tonight the residents of the town will be attending a Town Hall event with local, state and federal officials. Mrs. Brockovich will also be present. In advance of the town hall tonight, Mrs. Brockovich talked to local media in Ohio. Her message is for them to “trust their instincts” and stay united in their defense of their community as they hold officials from the Railroad accountable. WATCH: A livestream link of the Town Hall event is below....

In a study Professor Dale Nyholt and QUT Ph.D. researcher Rafiqul Islam, describe using large-scale genome-wide associations studies (GWAS) summary statistics to analyze hundreds of thousands of human genomes from headache and migraine sufferers and non-sufferers. Professor Nyholt said the co-occurrence of migraine and glycemic (blood sugar levels) traits had been reported in observational epidemiological studies but it was unknown how they were genetically linked. "About 15% of the global population is affected by migraine, and as far back as 1935, migraine was described as a 'glycemic headache,'" Professor Nyholt said. "Glycemic traits such as insulin resistance, hyperinsulinemia (too much...

It appears the Biden administration owes former President Donald Trump an apology, although it’s doubtful he’ll ever get it. On Wednesday, President Joe Biden’s team attacked Trump for easing regulations concerning brakes on trains put in place by his predecessor, former President Barack Obama.

Over 178 million people reportedly watched 45th President and leading 2024 presidential candidate Donald Trump’s visit to East Palestine, Ohio, to help and meet with community members after a train derailment led to a significant release of toxic chemicals in the area.On Thursday afternoon, Trump posted the impressive “Viewership Report” on his social media platform, Truth Social. The report reveals that Trump’s trip was seen by a whopping 144,037,338 people on social media and 34,015,076 people through traditional coverage.The total number of people who saw Trump’s trip adds up to 178,052,414 people.The report “searched for the term ‘East Palestine’ +...

Horrific footage released by police shows a wheelchair-bound woman slurring and pleading with police as she is arrested for refusing to leave hospital, just moments before she died from a stroke in the back of a cop car. Knoxville Police have released their body camera video of the harrowing incident which happened at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, in Tennessee, on February 6. Lisa Edwards, 60, had been refusing to leave the hospital and was arrested on trespassing charges when she died in the back of the police cruiser – minutes after telling cops 'you're going to kill me'. The...

MORRISVILLE, N.C. — The Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority Police Department has dismissed a charge against a woman who caused a flight from Jacksonville, Florida, to Washington, D.C., to land earlier this week at RDU. Tiffany Miles had initially faced a misdemeanor charge of airport obstruction. “After continued investigation regarding the circumstances surrounding the incident and review of eyewitness statements, plus in-depth consultation with the Wake County District Attorney, RDU law enforcement have dismissed the [charge],” RDU wrote. The dismissal of Miles’ charge does not preclude further action by the appropriate federal agencies, RDU said. In a statement, the FBI Charlotte Field...