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The University of North Carolina imposes Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) throughout its medical system. Last year, vice dean for DEI at the medical school, E. Nathan Thomas, declared, “We’re infusing DEI into the fabric of the School of Medicine and the institution.” In 2021, UNC Health hired its first Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer at $126,000/year. Neither employee holds a medical doctorate; both serve the UNC School of Medicine Health Executives Committee.Executive Dean of the School of Medicine, Cristy Page, co-authored a paper about systemic racism in the healthcare workforce, which read like a wordsearch puzzle of woke...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) is privately saying he intends to run for president in 2024, according to a new report. DeSantis has played coy about his intentions in 2024, but he’s been floated by numerous Republicans as a likely candidate. He also recently released a memoir, the timing is perfect should his current press tour end with an official announcement. Former President Donald Trump already announced he’s running again and he’s spent plenty of time already targeting DeSantis.

While speaking recently on something called “The Story of Woman” podcast, Hillary Clinton said that the U.S. makes it “as hard as possible” for women to have careers.Really, former first lady and Secretary of State? There are countless female CEOs, accountants, doctors, lawyers, and store managers in the United States today. No fewer than 60% of college students are female. Roughly 86 of the approximately 328 women billionaires on Earth are American, including Oprah Winfrey. That’s more than 26% of all female billionaires alive. (There are 195 nations on the planet. Do the math.) Contrast this with, say, various Muslim...

NANGAN, Taiwan (AP) — In the past month, bed and breakfast owner Chen Yu-lin had to tell his guests he couldn’t provide them with the internet. Others living on Matsu, one of Taiwan’s outlying islands closer to neighboring China, had to struggle with paying electricity bills, making a doctor’s appointment or receiving a package. For connecting to the outside world, Matsu’s 14,000 residents rely on two submarine internet cables leading to Taiwan’s main island. The National Communications Commission, citing the island’s telecom service, blamed two Chinese ships for cutting the cables. It said a Chinese fishing vessel is suspected of...

(Daily readings from the USCCB)“Therefore, I say to you, the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that will produce its fruit.” Matthew 21:42Are you among those from whom the Kingdom of God will be taken away? Or among those to whom it will be given so as to produce good fruit? This is an important question to sincerely answer.The first grouping of people, those who will have the Kingdom of God taken away from them, are represented in this parable by the tenants of the vineyard. It is clear that one of...

Two leaked intelligence reports suggest that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may have known about allegations of Chinese interference in Canadian elections, despite insisting he did not. Prime Minister Trudeau has claimed that he was not briefed on allegations of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) interference in federal elections but two memos from 2019 and last year suggest that senior government officials may have known of the allegations. The 2019 document warned of the CCP funding “preferred candidates” around two months ahead of that year’s federal election and came from Canada’s National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP), broadcaster Global News...

SVB Financial Group the parent of Silicon Valley Bank, saw its stock tumble more than 66% in premarket trade Friday, in a continued response to reports late Thursday that several funds were advising clients to pull their money, sparking fears of a run on the bank. Bloomberg News late Thursday reported that Founders Fund, the San Francisco-based venture-capital fund co-founded by Peter Thiel, has advised companies to do just so. The report cited people familiar with the matter. It came after SVB Financial ended down a record 60% in the regular trading day after disclosing large losses from securities sales...

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the...

According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm, the February jobs report came in hot, hot, hot. One indicator that the Biden Administration will herald is that average hourly earnings rose to 4.6% Year-over-year (YoY). Too bad headline inflation is still at a whopping 6.4% YoY. More jobs were added to the US economy than forecast (311k actual versus 225k forecast). The U-3 unemployment rate rose to 3.6% from 3.4% in January. The biggest gainer in jobs? Food services and drinking places, of course, at 69.9 k jobs added. The bottom line? The Federal Reserve will likely view this...

A two-year-old girl died from an incident suspected to be an Arab-Islamic Palestinian rerror attack [other racist Arabs clapped at the "accident"] The late Hadar Nega Lavi A two-year-old girl died from an incident suspected to be an attack. The toddler Hadar Lavi from the settlement of Shiloh died from injuries caused as a result of a collision with a Palestinian vehicle that ran after the car in which she was traveling with her mother .The girl's mother claims that the Palestinian driver chased her and that this was an attack and not an accident . Idan Yosef. Died of...

Three of the five top shareholders in Norfolk Southern — the freight rail carrier under the spotlight for its saftey and environmental record following last month's toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio — have been aligned with the eco-conscious, socially aware ESG (environmental, social, governance) investing framework embraced by many leading financial firms in recent years. Asset management firms BlackRock Fund Advisors, JPMorgan Investment Management, and The Vanguard Group were all part of the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative, a coalition of ESG-minded money mangers committed to channeling investment capital to firms working toward the goal of net-zero greenhouse...

DEI has gone national. The belief that quality takes a backseat to racial bean counting wormed its way into the White House in February, when President Biden signed an executive order that promises to create a national “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” bureaucracy. As Christopher Rufo reports, the DEI diktat, “Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government,” proposes three key strategies:Creating internal cadres and power centers through the deployment of “Agency Equity Teams.”Funding third-party political activism through grants to “community[-based] organizations.”Weaponizing civil rights law by requiring federal agencies to use artificial intelligence “in a manner...

Criticism of a travel ban blocking Novak Djokovic from the upcoming Miami Open led to a return volley from the Joe Biden administration. White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre fielded the serve from Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has urged the Biden White House to rescind the prohibition of the top-ranked tennis player in the world from the South Florida tennis tourney. Djokovic has not been vaccinated against COVID-19, and DeSantis’ pleas to let the Serbian superstar into Florida for the tennis tourney were batted away unceremoniously by Jean-Pierre, as Fox News reports. “So, on a question regarding the vaccination requirement, I...

VIDEOHere is the January 6 video BANNED by Fox News. Because of Rupert Murdoch caving in to the liberals, Tucker Carlson was NOT allowed to show you the video. However, that video has been leaked and Brian Craig, co-host of the Steve Kane Radio Show, was the FIRST in the media to reveal it. This video is quite shocking not only because it is further exculpatory of the Shaman, Jacob Chansley, but also because it REVEALS that the person who was identified by the media as the face of the "insurrection" clearly understood that President Donald Trump wanted protestors at...

Voter approval of Congress has hit the highest rates in over 15 years under Speaker Kevin McCarthy's leadership, a new Rasmussen Reports poll has found. The national survey, published on Wednesday, found that 28 percent of likely voters think that Congress' performance is either good or excellent, up from 25 percent in December. Congress also has the lowest number of voters with negative opinions since 2007, with 39 percent answering that Congress is doing a poor job, down from 45 percent in December. "Not only do voters now have a higher opinion of Congress in general, but of their own...

During the first presidential debate in 2020, Joe Biden claimed that the left-wing violent movement known as Antifa was merely “an idea, not an organization.” He was trying to paraphrase a statement by FBI Director Chris Wray who had described Antifa as an ideology or a movement, not an organization, but who also referred to Antifa as a “real thing.” In other words, FBI Director Wray was taking Antifa seriously as a real movement that was of major concern to law enforcement, while Joe Biden was pooh-poohing Antifa as just “an idea.”Antifa’s decentralized network of far-left individuals and cells has...

To purchase your copy of David Horowitz’s new bestseller ‘Final Battle: The Next Election Could Be the Last’, CLICK HERE.Former President Donald Trump is praising author David Horowitz’s latest book, calling it “great” and encouraging his followers to read it.“My great friend and author of “Dark Agenda,” David Horowitz, is out with a new book, “Final Battle: The Next Election Could Be the Last,” Trump posted through his social media page on Truth Social.“It is great!” Trump wrote.In his book, Horowitz exposes the left’s plans to destroy democracy and says that the 2024 presidential election could be the nation’s last,...

New York Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik along with nearly 30 other congressional representatives on Wednesday slammed the Biden administration's proposal to reduce the amount of milk given out as part of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), arguing that it will "exacerbate the crisis families are already facing with skyrocketing prices at the grocery store." According to the bipartisan joint letter addressed to Department of Agriculture Secretary Thomas J. Vilsack, the proposed rule would "result in a substantial reduction in the maximum monthly allowance (MMA) for milk through the WIC program." "The current MMA for...

“If we were going to push for an election, then we should have made sure that we did something to determine who was going to win,” said then-Sen. Hillary Clinton in a 2006 interview with the Jewish Press. ... . ... ...Naturally, the Leftists who have seized control of America’s wallet and full-time staff have been monkeying around in other countries’ business elsewhere, too. In the run-up to Brazil’s 2022 election, CIA Director William Burns and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan both traveled to the country to lecture incumbent President Jair Bolsanaro against daring to question the results....

Saudi Arabia and Iran have agreed to restore diplomatic ties, Iran announced Friday afternoon. The two countries will reopen their embassies in Riyadh and Tehran within 60 days, Iranian media reported, claiming that the deal was reached during a recent meeting in China. The Islamic Republic and the Saudi kingdom have not had formal diplomatic ties after an attack on the Saudi embassy in Tehran and a Saudi consulate in Mashhad, prompting Saudi Arabia to expel Iran's mission in Riyadh. The attacks in Tehran and Mashhad came in response to the execution of a prominent Shi'ite cleric in Saudi Arabia....