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The Department of Education yesterday released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (full text) proposing to rescind two related rules adopted by the Trump Administration in September 2020. Those rules require that public colleges and universities which receive DOE grants (either direct grants or grants under state-administered formula grant programs) must not deny to religious student groups any of the rights, benefits, or privileges that other student groups enjoy because of the religious student organization’s beliefs, practices, policies, speech, membership standards, or leadership standards, which are informed by sincerely-held religious beliefs. According to yesterday's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Some faith-based and...

…. In January, the German news magazine Der Spiegel reported that the BND, Germany’s foreign intelligence service, is alarmed by losses the Ukrainian army is suffering in Bakhmut. According to Spiegel, in a secret meeting, the BND told a group of Bundestag lawmakers that the Ukrainian army is losing a three-digit number of soldiers every day. The BND warned that the capture of Bakhmut by Russian forces would have significant consequences, as it would allow Russia to make further advances. According to Politico, four senior U.S. Defense Department officials told House Armed Services Committee lawmakers in a classified briefing earlier...

The news comes after the National Archives was hit with a lawsuit in connection with the incident and subsequently issued a public apology.WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — The National Archives has fired the security supervisor who instructed March for Life participants to cover up or remove their pro-life hats and clothing, The Daily Signal reported Thursday. The news comes after Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Chip Roy, both Texas Republicans, penned a letter last week demanding answers. On January 20, just after the first March for Life since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, a group of pro-lifers entered the National...

Washington D.C., Feb 21, 2023 / 13:30 pm Josh Alexander, a 16-year-old student in the 11th grade at St. Joseph’s Catholic High School in Canada, was suspended this month for expressing his religious and moral objections to the school’s transgender bathroom policy. St. Joseph’s Catholic High School in Renfrew, Ontario, allows males identifying as transgender girls to use bathrooms designated for females. Alexander was first suspended for protesting the school’s transgender policy in November, on the grounds he was “bullying.” When he tried attending class on Feb. 6, he was subsequently suspended again and arrested for trespassing. He has since...

In 2020, a team of academics from the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom produced a paper, “Rationing and Climate Change Mitigation,” which argued, as the title suggests, that rationing fuel, food, and even clothes could be an effective way to reduce carbon emissions. The paper was accepted by the journal Ethics, Policy and Environment in January of 2023 and published on Feb. 19. This would seem a pretty extreme proposal, even if it came from the most zealous of adherents to the cult of climate change, but perhaps it’s another nudge in the direction of the Great Reset....

The politically connected Chinese donors who pledged $1-million to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and the University of Montreal did not only want to build a statue of the former prime minister. They also sought to erect a statue at the university’s law school of chairman Mao Zedong, the Chinese leader who brought his country under Communist control and, in his decades as the Great Helmsman, oversaw policies that led to huge numbers of deaths from famine and violence. “They suggested one of Trudeau and Mao together,” Geneviève O’Meara, a spokesperson for the University of Montreal, confirmed to The Globe...

Priest to Pope Francis: ‘Humbly admit’ you’re ‘wrong’ and that ‘Christian Tradition is right’In light of the dogma of papal infallibility and Pope Francis' public moral and doctrinal errors, we must have the courage to ask, without fear of the consequences that a negative answer may imply: Is Pope Francis a true pope of the Catholic Church? Note from the author: This letter is signed on the 29th of June 2022, Solemnity of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, as this is the date it should have been published. Media time in June 2022 and recovery time after the attack on...

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise called Democrats “disgraceful” Tuesday for skipping a series of hearings on the ongoing border crisis before warning that fentanyl overdoses are killing 300 Americans per day. “As we all know, there is a crisis at our southern border. While the vice president, who was supposed to be the czar of the border, will not go down to the border, we’ve gone down multiple times,” Scalise (R-La.) told reporters. “In just these last two weeks, we had a number of committees holding hearings at the border,” he went on. “Not only did they talk about the...

Two women who got into a fight with an airline employee were arrested on Tuesday. A Pennsylvania man was arrested after attempting to bring an explosive device on a flight on Feb. 27. Marc Muffley, 40, was arrested by FBI agents on Monday night after he allegedly attempted to bring an explosive device onto an Allegiant Airlines flight from Lehigh Valley International Airport headed to Orlando Sanford International Airport on Feb. 27. After staff with Allegiant Airlines checked Muffley's bag, TSA agents were alerted to the "presence of suspicious items," an affidavit states. When TSA agents physically inspected the bag,...

LEWISVILLE, TX — In a move privacy advocates are hailing as historic, Texas's state legislature has passed a batch of new laws allowing civilians to shoot Google Maps camera cars on sight. "These new laws will allow Texans to exercise their God-given, constitutionally guaranteed, and morally necessary rights to blow away any of these creepy-crawly Googl-y spy cars." Texas Governor Abbott spoke to members of the press outside the statehouse, resting the heels of his hands on what onlookers called "comically large guns" on a "comically large belt with a comically large belt buckle" designed to look like a longhorn...

A Texas lawsuit may be disastrous for effective abortion access and FDA's authorityIn the most consequential and controversial attack on reproductive rights since the overturning of Roe v. Wadeopens in a new tab or window, a Texas judge could ban the safest, most effective, and most common method for abortion in all 50 states. The hyper-conservative anti-abortion group Alliance Defending Freedomopens in a new tab or window (ADF) is seeking to overturn the FDA's approval of mifepristone (Mifeprex), a medication in a two-pill regimen used to terminate pregnancies through the first 10 weeks gestation. The lawsuit does not target the...

PORTLAND, OR — A local man who recently completed his transition to living as if he were a woman immediately regretted his decision to do so after seeing the line for the ladies' room at a large public event last night. "I had no idea I would have to wait this long just to go pee," said Ryanna Everhardt upon discovering the line at the restroom. "Before I transitioned, I could just walk into the men's room, do my business at a urinal, wash my hands, and be back out in two minutes. Now this? I may have made a...

Simultaneously, the demonstrators, who gathered outside France's embassy to the DRC, protested against French President Emmanuel Macron's upcoming visit PARIS, March 1./TASS/. A huge rally in support of Russia's policy and President Vladimir Putin took place on Wednesday in the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where young Congolese took to the streets carrying Russian flags and speaking up for cooperation with Moscow, AFP reported from Kinshasa. "Putin, come to help us! We need reliable partners like Russia" said the organizer of the rally, Bruno Mimbenga. Simultaneously, the demonstrators, who gathered outside France's embassy to the DRC protested...

Father David Wilton C.P.M. of the Fathers of Mercy at the Chapel of Divine Mercy in Auburn, Kentucky laid out in a homily how “wokeness is as old as the Bible itself” while also detailing the remedy on how to fight it. Father Wilton began, “If we knew our history we would know that wokeness is as old as the Bible itself as portrayed in today’s first reading, a reading from the Book of Genesis. The people of Sodom and Gomorrah had become so depraved that they looked upon depravity as good and traditional, virtuous behavior as bad. Sounds kind...

A group of bipartisan senators is quietly meeting to retool Social Security before funds run out in 2032. On the table, according to Semafor, is gradually raising the retirement age to 70 and creating a $1.5 trillion sovereign wealth fund, which would invest in stocks.

Much of the greatness of America, in my honest Australian opinion, lies in the First Amendment. In this God-given life of ours, addressing or solving most of our problems requires discussion. For quality discussion to happen, speech must be free. Jennifer Jones was a Hollywood star with an industrialist husband, Norton Simon, when she lost her only daughter to suicide. She set up the Jennifer Jones Simon Foundation to support education for mental health. God Bless Freedom It lets us be the best we can be. God Bless America Socialist Left governed Australia needs to learn from you.

Fmr. Vice President Mike Pence is declining to say whether he'd support Trump if he becomes the 2024 Republican presidential nominee, saying, "We'll have better choices."CBS News' @CHueyBurns: "That's not a yes."Pence: "I'm very confident we'll have better choices come 2024." pic.twitter.com/zXLGeRBatF— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 1, 2023

“I don’t feel that we should have forced testing, forced masking and forced vaccination” ... Following a 30 second bit on SNL where he branded big pharma as a ‘cartel’ forcing it’s drugs on people with government consent, actor Woody Harrelson has further spoken out against COVID mandates. In an interview with the New York Times, Harrelson warned that America is no longer a free country, branding COVID protocols as “rather absurd.” ... When asked what was “absurd about the COVID protocols,” Harrelson replied, “The fact that they’re still going on!” “I don’t think that anybody should have the right...

Sen. Chuck Grassley interrogated Attorney General Merrick Garland over the Hunter Biden investigation Wednesday, revealing for the first time that “over a dozen sources” had tipped off the FBI and Justice Department to potential criminal activity by the first son. “Recent lawfully protected whistleblower disclosures to my office indicate that the Justice Department and FBI had — at one time — over a dozen sources that provided potentially criminal information relating to Hunter Biden.” Grassley (R-Iowa), 89, told Garland during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. “The alleged volume and similarity of information would demand that the Justice Department investigate the...

He suffered cat-astrophic injuries. A UK man miraculously survived after sustaining a broken neck, fractured spine, smashed ribs, blood in his lungs and other “car crash”-evoking injuries from — wait for it — tripping over his cat. “I can’t remember much, just falling fast — it was quick and it was over within seconds, then I was at the bottom,” victim Chris Rowley, 59, told the Mirror. The freak “Apocalypse Meow” accident reportedly occurred on the evening of Oct. 23 while the Leicestershire-based professional musician was home alone with his hairless Egyptian sphinx kitten, Eric Morecambe. Disaster struck after the...