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A California woman is suing the hospital that removed her breasts when she was 13, claiming her doctors pushed her into the procedure under the 'erroneous belief' she was transgender. Kayla Lovdahl, now 18, says she underwent the invasive surgery after being urged to 'entertain' the plans by medical professionals when she was just 11-years-old

[Author's note: a checklist for what all schools should offer, and thus a guide to identifying bad schools, which won't have any of the recommended items.] UNFORTUNATELY, SINCE THE TIME OF JOHN DEWEY, many schools have been obsessed with social engineering, and indifferent to what might be called intellectual engineering. This mistake in emphasis needs to be corrected. The goal of education is not indoctrination but to take each child as far as each child can go. Genuine education is the cement that holds the people in a society together, and connects past, present and future. ONLY WHEN CHILDREN acquire...

Mortality in patients with kidney failure has been found to be 23% lower among those treated with high dose hemodiafiltration compared to those treated with high flux hemodialysis, according to research. Chronic kidney disease affects an estimated 830 million people. When kidneys can no longer do their job, dialysis is used to clean the blood by removing waste products. Hemodialysis is the most common form of dialysis used in the treatment for kidney failure. Though it has improved over the years, it is not good at removing larger molecules from the blood. Hemodiafiltration is a newer technology that can remove...

Catholic convert Anna Katherine Howell’s viral tweet asking Cardinal Wilton Gregory of the Archdiocese of Washington to cancel a parish “Pride Mass” highlighted the struggles of same-sex-attracted Christians who live in accordance with the teachings of the Church. Howell, a 31-year-old convert from the Episcopal Church, talked to CNA about the path that led her to take a public stand on the Pride Mass celebrated June 14 at Holy Trinity Church in Georgetown. The graduate theology student at the Franciscan University of Steubenville has experienced same-sex attraction her entire life but has embraced God’s forgiveness, converted to Catholicism, and chosen...

The Washington, D.C., Catholic church frequented by President Joe Biden will celebrate a gay Pride Mass on Wednesday evening, and a group of conservative Catholics are planning to pray the rosary outside the church in protest. The pastor of Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Georgetown, which counts Biden among its congregants, defended the decision to have the Mass, saying it was not celebrating Pride in terms of vanity. "This celebration is an expression of our parish’s mission statement TO ACCOMPANY ONE ANOTHER IN CHRIST, CELEBRATE GOD’S LOVE, AND TRANSFORM LIVES," the Rev. Kevin Gillespie said of the liturgical celebration. "Our...

One of the Army’s most hotly anticipated new combat vehicles certainly looks like a tank. It is covered with protective armor, runs on tracks, and features a powerful 105mm main gun. But when is a tank not a tank? When it’s an M-10 Booker combat vehicle. Formerly known as the “Mobile Protected Firepower” system, the Booker is the Army’s first new major combat vehicle in two decades. It makes its debut in the midst of a raging debate among generals and strategists over the traditional tank’s future on a battlefield some say will be dominated by satellite-guided drones and long-range...

BALTIMORE — A Maryland Transit Administration bus crashed into a building, causing multiple injuries. Baltimore City police said an MTA bus collided with a Lexus around 10:20 a.m. Saturday at the intersection of North Paca and West Mulberry streets. Police said the bus then struck a Nissan and a building in the 500 block of West Franklin Street. Police confirmed that 15 people have been injured. Two of the injuries were believed to be serious and possibly life-threatening. According to the University of Maryland Medical System, five people were taken to Shock Trauma, four people were taken to the University...

A Colorado school district is suing social media companies claiming the platforms have harmed kids and left schools to pick up the pieces. The School District of Aspen on June 14 sued Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube and a number of companies connected to them. It alleges social media has hurt student mental health while these platforms have failed to intervene, leaving schools to deal with the consequences. Aspen claims that these social media companies have left teachers and schools scrambling to help struggling students without enough resources. The lawsuit makes two claims for relief — public nuisance and negligence...

“We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.” —C.S. Lewis When Donald J. Trump established himself in the president's office in January 2017, one of the first things he did was hang a portrait of President Andrew Jackson in the Oval Office. That was a signal. Andrew Jackson was an irascible war hero known for his blunt manner, explosive temper, and inclined to physical violence. He was elected President in 1828, his second attempt, as a reformer who promised to clean out the...

The blight on the landscape of abandoned and decommissioned wind turbines stimulated Colorado's U.S. Reps. Ken Buck, Doug Lamborn and Harriet Hageman, Wyoming, to introduce the Production Tax Credit Reform Act. According to a press release, the bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to require energy companies remove decommissioned wind turbines from leased land as a condition of receiving federal tax credits. Currently energy companies are not obligated to remove wind turbines from leased land once they are decommissioned, putting the onus on landowners — typically farmers and ranchers — to remove the turbines. According to the United States Geological...

Before her name became irreversibly mixed up in the Will Smith/Chris Rock slapping incident at the 2022 Oscars, Jada Pinkett Smith was known for her significant roles in films such as Scream 2, The Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions, and Girls Trip. The acclaimed actor has also voiced Gloria the Hippo in Dreamworks’ hugely successful Madagascar animated film franchise and appeared in multiple TV series, including Hawthorne and Gotham. Beyond her exceptional acting skills, Smith has also demonstrated herself as a savvy businesswoman and entrepreneur, producing the Tony-nominated Broadway musical Fela!, co-hosting and producing the Meta talk show Red Table Talk,...

If you were a major rock artist in the 1960s, you needed to come through Bill Graham‘s Fillmore East. The legendary New York concert venue wasn’t particularly big – it held less than 3,000 people at its maximum capacity. But despite its small size, the Fillmore East wound up being the perfect venue for some of the most electric live performances of all time. The great classic live albums recorded at the venue speak for themselves. The Allman Brothers Band’s At Fillmore East, Joe Cocker’s Mad Dogs and Englishmen, Quicksilver Messenger Services’ Happy Trails, Frank Zappa’s Fillmore East – June...

There is a belief in Judaism that the spirit of Esau resides in Western culture. They believe that the heir to the Edomites was Rome. The heir to Rome was Western Europe and the heir to Western Europe was the United States. Consequently, they believe that the West must be subjugated in order to be ruled by them, just as the Bible foretells that the descendants of Esau would be ruled by the descendants of Jacob.

A Texas boy has died after he was struck by lightning last month while walking home from school with his father. Grayson Boggs’ death was the fifth lightning fatality of the year in the U.S. and the second in Texas. Matthew Boggs, the 6-year-old’s father, was the state’s first this year. It was just after 5 p.m. May 15 in the small Central Texas town of Valley Mills when the bus arrived to drop off Grayson from kindergarten and his 11-year-old brother Elijah.

[Catholic Caucus] USCCB Tackles Gender Affirming Care: Satan wins againAt its annual Spring Assembly to be held this week in Orlando, FL (June 14-16, 2023), the hirelings that comprise the USCCB will vote on whether or not to amend the “Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services” to include commentary aimed at regulating Catholic institutions’ participation in what godless leftists call “gender affirming care.” Specifically, the bishops will proffer a voice vote, yea or nay, on a “Doctrinal Note on the Moral Limits to Technological Manipulation of the Human Body,” a 5,000 word text that could easily be...

A California woman whose breasts were removed when she was 13-years-old because she thought she was transgender is now suing the doctors and hospital that oversaw the procedure — claiming they were in it for the money. Kayla Lovdahl, now 18, says she was pushed to “entertain the erroneous belief that she was transgender” at age 11, after being exposed to online influencers, according to the lawsuit she filed in California State Court against Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and four doctors. “…they essentially handed Kayla the prescription pad, and allowed her naïve, emotional, childish, rollercoaster of feelings to dictate the so-called...

Right-wingers are accusing the war game of going “woke.”Here at Them, we like to poke fun at the increasingly bonkers boycotts over “woke” capitalism. But it’s starting to get out of hand. How can you engage people who earnestly believe the soyboy agenda has now infected Call of Duty? Yes, your college roommate’s favorite thing to do instead of washing dishes made headlines last week, following a show of allyship from its publisher, Activision Blizzard. It started when popular Twitch streamer Puckett shared a video on June 7 of anti-LGBTQ+ extremists assaulting counterprotestors outside a school board meeting in Glendale,...

Twister Sister frontman Dee Snider has had it with people “folding” to cancel culture — weeks after he drew the ire of trans activists for agreeing with another iconic rocker’s criticism about pushing gender ideology on kids. “You don’t have to cave, you don’t have to apologize if you did nothing wrong,” the 68-year-old Long Island native told Fox News Digital Saturday. “If you did something wrong, you know? If you did something wrong, you raped a woman, yeah, you gotta do more than apologize, but at the same time, that’s not something you stand strong about. “But if you...

“What we found is [that] the whole representation of what is happening is a lie … The U.S. government is representing to the public that this is a health event and the response to a health event. But in fact, … this is a military operation.” In this episode, I sit down with former pharmaceutical executive Sasha Latypova. She emerged from retirement during the COVID-19 pandemic to become a whistleblower after she observed the government and vaccine manufacturers veering away from established clinical research and public health protocols. “The total volume of adverse events and deaths was tens of times...

Fox News: Deep State Collaborators Waving the Flag With all that in mind, let’s think about Fox News. Starting with election night 2020, that operation aligned itself with the Deep State, the architects of election fraud, and those in the GOP who’d rather lose the country than lose control of the party to populist candidates … such as Donald Trump. (And Kari Lake, and Lauren Boebert, and Matt Gaetz.) With a few honorable exceptions (soon to be purged) Fox personalities joined in the mass gaslighting of Americans, assuring them that the 2020 election was “the most secure in history,” and...