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As a libertarian, I support letting consenting adults do whatever they want in the privacy of their own home.But that’s not the case here.This happened at a public high school in North Carolina.The public high school is called Forsyth Technical Community College.Paula Dibley is the school’s chief officer of student success and strategic innovation.Underage minors were at this incident.This was a school sanctioned event.As this incident happens, the adults in the room cheer.None of the adults does anything to try to protect the underage student.I recommend homeschooling your children, or sending them to a Montessori School, a Marva Collins school,...

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday signed into law a $711 million plan to make housing more affordable for working Floridians. A priority of Senate President Kathleen Passidomo, the “Live Local Act,” will more than double funding for housing and rental programs, provide incentives for investment in affordable housing and encourage mixed-use developments in struggling commercial areas. “As demand is high to move to a place like Florida, it makes it more challenging for folks to be able to afford,” DeSantis said during a bill-signing event in Naples. “I think this is the biggest effort that's ever been done in the...

Leaders of Pennsylvania’s four state-related universities told lawmakers this week that without more support, they’ll make up the missing funding through tuition increases. The University of Pittsburgh, Penn State University, Temple University and Lincoln University testified that declining enrollment and struggles to keep graduates in Pennsylvania means that Gov. Josh Shapiro’s 7.1% funding increase won’t be enough to stave off future hikes. “Pennsylvania is going to be feeling the demographic cliff,” said Pitt Chancellor Patrick Gallagher. “It really hits the universities in 2026.”

Last week, the city of Philadelphia agreed to pay $9.25 million to 343 left-wing protesters who alleged they suffered “physical and emotional injuries” when police used tear gas and pepper spray to clear them off a major highway in downtown at a Black Lives Matter-style direct action in 2020. Videos recorded at the time showed the mob shut down the highway while vandalizing public property. As a journalist who reports on the militant far-left and its rioters, the question I’m asked most often is, “Who funds them?” Some believe billionaire George Soros is responsible. And they would be partially correct....

The Democrat-dominated Connecticut legislature is seeking to create a censorship board through Senate Bill 6410 to regulate online speech. The bill would establish a board to study so-called online “harassment” of individuals, including government officials, and recommend legislation to censor free speech by the creation of reporting guidelines. The censorship board would consist of nine members, four of whom would represent the minority Republican party.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) defended his 2016 rival, former President Donald J. Trump, on Saturday, calling Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against him “very political.” “Bragg’s predecessor didn’t take up the case. The Justice Department didn’t take up the case. Bragg first said he would not take up the case,” Bush tweeted. “This is very political, not a matter of justice. In this case, let the jury be the voters,” he added.

Professor Johns Mearsheimer on why the US wanted this war and how our government helped cause the conflict in the Ukraine.

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In the Florida Capitol Friday, trans activists wailed and chanted defiantly as state lawmakers passed a bill prohibiting school teachers from teaching radical LGBTQ and gender ideology to public school students in grades Pre-K to 8. “This fight does not end here!” one agitator shrieked inside the Florida state capitol building in Tallahassee. “We keep showing up every single day!” He led protesters in a chant: “Whose schools? Our schools!” (Tweet with video at link) The bill, which expands on the Parental Rights in Education Act, also defines “sex,” puts restrictions on pronoun usage in schools, and adds guidelines for...

SATURDAY FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT John 11:45-56 Friends, in today’s Gospel, the chief priests and Pharisees unite in a plot to kill Jesus because he raised Lazarus from the dead.The Crucifixion of Jesus is a classic instance of Catholic philosopher René Girard’s scapegoating theory. He held that a society, large or small, that finds itself in conflict comes together through a common act of blaming an individual or group purportedly responsible for the conflict.It is utterly consistent with the Girardian theory that Caiaphas, the leading religious figure of the time, said to his colleagues, “It is better for you that...

The mainstream media is apoplectic after a Tennessee congressman spoke an uncomfortable truth. Following the horrific Covenant School shooting, reporters hounded Republicans to get them to support gun control. Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett gave them the answer they definitely didn’t want. “It’s a horrible, horrible situation,” Burchett told inquiring reporters. “And we’re not gonna fix it. Criminals are gonna be criminals. My daddy fought in the Second World War, fought in the Pacific, fought the Japanese, and he told me… ‘Buddy, if somebody wants to take you out and doesn’t mind losing their life, there’s not a whole heck of...

A judge ordered Hunter Biden’s financial records to be shielded from the public in an ongoing paternity case in Arkansas. Circuit Judge Holly Meyer ruled Monday that all of the information the first son submits to the court related to his request to lower child-support payments, including financial records, will remain under seal. Only attorneys on the case or expert witnesses retained to testify will be allowed access to the financial records, Meyer ruled. In her order, Meyer addressed the political interest in Biden’s finances, which could include the names of those who bought his paintings and what they paid...

Kommodamir Ichabodovich Zelensky, HMFIC of Ukraine, claims that Ukraine is not ready for any kind of a 'counterattack' or anything like that, i.e. more tens of billions of western dollars needed...I.E. FEED ME, MORE......... Feed me,, Seymour!!!!!

Demonstrations were held Saturday evening against the government's judicial reform legislation despite the legislation freeze that was announced on Monday. According to the protest organizers, demonstrations took place in 150 locations across the country, with the central one being in central Tel Aviv as in past weeks. Prior to the demonstration in Tel Aviv, protesters marched down Rothschild Boulevard to Kaplan Street, where Natan Netanyahu, the Prime Minister's cousin, whose mother served as a Supreme Court justice, spoke. In Jerusalem, the author David Grossman and Ori Banki, the father of Shira Banki, who was murdered at the city's LGBT...

Much has been written about a National divorce. IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be...

Drag queen appears to perform lap dance on student at Pride event with high schoolers

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It is likely that a serious felony has been committed right under District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s nose and he is not investigating it. Under New York law, it is a felony to leak confidential grand jury information, such as whether the jurors voted to indict. The protection of secrecy is as applicable to President Trump as it is to anyone else. We know that the information was disclosed while the indictment itself remains sealed and before any official announcement was made or charges brought. It is unlikely that the leak came from the Trump team, which seemed genuinely surprised. The...

The American Banking Association isn’t wild about the phrase “bank failure” and is instead telling staff to give the crises at Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank gentler monikers such as “idiosyncratic liquidity disruption,” sources told On The Money. The banking trade group is telling staff to say the banks that went belly up simply “closed” and avoid phrases like “liquidity crisis” or “failure” in all speeches, emails, and conversations, a source adds. ABA CEO Rob Nichols has been trying to push the talking point over the last few weeks — and his efforts were on full display during the...

“Flourishing Palms” (Psalm 92) At the start of today’s service, with palm branches in our hands, we sang, “All glory, laud, and honor to You, Redeemer, King.” Today we’re like the crowd that greeted Jesus on his way into Jerusalem: “They took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, ‘Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!’” These palm branches befit the praises with which we hail our coming King. Today these palms are fresh and green, just as our worship today is strong and vigorous....