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CHINO, Calif. - State Superintendent of Schools Tony Thurmond was told to leave a school district meeting in Southern California after expressing his opposition to a policy that requires administrators to inform parents if their child identifies as transgender. Thurmond was escorted out of the meeting held by the Chino Valley Unified School District when he exceeded his allotted one-minute speaking time. He used his time to voice concerns about the policy, stating that it would violate the privacy rights of students. He described being "forcibly removed."

According to a study recently published in the journal Science, and latched onto by USAToday, more than 400,000 years ago, Greenland was actually green. Yes, scientists say, the massive island was an ice-free landscape, and was perhaps even covered with trees. This is important to know, avers study co-lead author Paul Bierman of the University of Vermont, because it tells us "Greenland's ice sheet is fragile.” Bierman stated: "All by itself, during a warm period very similar to today, the ice sheet melted away 400,000 years ago. That was without fossil fuel emissions into the atmosphere.” An ice sheet melted...

21 July 2023 Friday of week 15 in Ordinary TimeSt. Lawrence Catholic Church, Alexandria, VAReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingExodus 11:10-12:14 ©The institution of the PassoverMoses and Aaron worked many wonders in the presence of Pharaoh. But the Lord made Pharaoh’s heart stubborn, and he did not let the sons of Israel leave his country. The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: ‘This month is to be the first of all the others for you, the first month of your year. Speak to the whole community of Israel and say, “On the tenth...

James Tissot’s The Life of Christ “THE LIFE OF CHRIST” 91 "My Name Is Legion"Mark 5:1-10 92 "The Two Men Possessed with Devils"Matthew 8:28-29 93 "The Swine Driven into the Sea"Matthew 8:30-34 94 "The Good Shepherd"John 10:11-17 95 "The Daughter of Jairus"Mark 5:22-24, 35-43 96 "The Woman with an Issue"Mark 5:25-34 97 "Jesus Sits by the Seashore and Preaches"Matthew 13:1-2 98 "The Blind and Mute Man Possessed by Devils"Matthew 12:22-30 99 "Lord, I Am Not Worthy"Matthew 8:5-13 100 "Jesus Chases a Demon from a Possessed Man"Luke 4:33-37 101 "Saint Mark" 102 "The Resurrection of the Widow's Son at Nain"Luke 7:11-17...

Polling and political sentiment in Westminster predicted the ruling Conservatives would lose all three Parliamentary by-elections (special elections) being held in England, but anger in London over Labour mayor Khan’s push for radical anti-car measures upset the apple cart. Scandals and resignations have seen several vacated seats in Britain’s House of Commons in recent months, three of which were resolved with by-elections on Thursday, with one each going to the Conservatives, Labour, and the Liberal Democrats. All three had been Conservative seats, and the party was predicted to face massive swings to the opposition and lose them all, but pundits...

Loving the nation, not the empireLast week, the Family Leadership Summit and Blaze Media presented a forum in Iowa to showcase the field of primary candidates for the Republican presidential nomination. Usually these events are shallow, bordering on useless, as candidates scramble to secure 30-second sound bites while answering the carefully curated questions provided by the mainstream media, but this time things went very differently. Most of this is owed to the format. Each of the candidates who attended spent roughly half an hour in a one-on-one conversation with Tucker Carlson. Carlson, recently freed from any remaining shackles by his...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

The “public interest” does not mean “special interest.” Regulators of Colorado’s public utilities corporations should learn the difference. The full mission of Colorado’s Public Utilities Commission is it “serves the public interest by effectively regulating utilities and facilities so that the people of Colorado receive safe, reliable, and reasonably priced services consistent with the economic, environmental and social values of our state.” That means serving the highest values of nearly 6 million diverse individuals with every imaginable set of priorities. It does not mean serving the highest values of wealthy climate change activists or the political party in power. The...

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(Last Updated On: July 13, 2023) NATIONAL JUNK FOOD DAY | July 21 July 21st dedicates a giant menu of items to National Junk Food Day. Each year, the day permits us to chow down on the foods we usually don’t include in our daily diet. Junk foods, by definition, typically contain high fats, sugars, salt, and calories and very little nutritional value. #NationalJunkFoodDay With the advent of packaged foods during the late 1800s, junk food made its way into American life. Still, home-cooked meals remained the standard for several more decades. Eventually, after World War II, the artery-clogging industry...

The summer holidays are nearly here which would normally mean there's never been a better time to fire up the barbeque and line it with beef burgers. But a new study shows you might want to swap them for meat-free alternatives if you want to do your bit to save the planet. University of Oxford experts say eating just 100g of meat per day – less than a single burger – creates four times more greenhouse gases compared with a vegan diet. The researchers now want to see prompt policy action from government and organisations to trigger 'dietary shifts away...

“Today’s threat to our national security is not a matter of military weapons alone. We know of new methods of attack. The Trojan Horse. The Fifth Column that betrays a nation unprepared for treachery.” Such were the remarks from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s fireside chat on May 26, 1940. Roosevelt’s sentiments captured and propagated a growing sense of fear and paranoia that the United States was entering a covert war with a hostile foreign power. These sentiments, coupled with the steps taken by the United States government to fight them, are strikingly similar to those of today. With Vladimir Putin...

Kevin Mitnick, former 'most wanted' hacker who police said could launch nukes by whistling into a phone, has diedBy Joshua Wolens published about 22 hours ago A legend in the history of computing, Mitnick died on July 16 due to complications from pancreatic cancer.Kevin Mitnick, one of the most famous computer hackers in the world and the subject of an over two-year manhunt in the 1990s, died of complications from pancreatic cancer last Sunday, aged 59. His death has been confirmed to the New York Times. Mitnick is a legendary figure, one of those people whose life story reads like...

President Vladimir Putin on Friday accused NATO member Poland of having territorial ambitions in the former Soviet Union, and said any aggression against Russia's neighbour and close ally Belarus would be considered an attack on Russia. Moscow would react to any aggression against Belarus, which forms a loose "Union State" with Russia, "with all the means at our disposal", Putin told a meeting of his Security Council in televised remarks.

If you were to look at the “official” statistics put out by China (and endorsed by the corrupt World Health Organization), what you’d see is a claim that only 121,536 have died of COVID-19 over the course of the entire pandemic. Further, the communist nation claims that its people have only contracted 99,296,816 total cases. While that may seem like a lot, it’s actually a very low percentage when you consider China has 1.4 billion people. In other words, the “official” numbers are absolutely laughable. They are so far off of what is even possible that you’d think the Chinese...

Tony Bennett, the legendary pop, jazz, and big-band vocalist, has died. He was 96. Publicist Sylvia Weiner confirmed Bennett’s death to the Associated Press, saying he passed away in his hometown of New York. His cause of death — just two weeks shy of his 97th birthday — has not yet been announced. “I come from good Italian stock — but I’ve tried to stay fit through the years,” Bennett told me nearly 20 years ago. At the time he was a spry 72, meeting and greeting concertgoers with swagger before a benefit performance in the blazing hot Sonoran Desert...

A recent study has found that the level of sinful lust generated by Victoria's Secret mailers has plummeted a staggering 800% in recent years. Experts are now attributing this significant decline to one simple, yet profound reason: the once-sexy magazine just isn't as seductive as it used to be. "We were absolutely flabbergasted by the results," admitted Dr. Albert Jones, lead researcher of the study. "Apparently replacing beautiful, in-shape babes with obese women and hairy dudes in lingerie causes the lust factor to plummet drastically for some reason." According to sources, many participants in the study reported feeling a different...

WASHINGTON — A senior FBI official told Twitter that Hunter Biden’s laptop was legitimate on the same day The Post published the first article in its bombshell reporting series on documents linking President Biden to his son’s foreign business deals, according to deposition testimony released Thursday by the House Judiciary Committee. That confirmation was not shared with voters ahead of the 2020 election as dozens of former intelligence officials and then-presidential candidate Joe Biden falsely suggested that incriminating documents were Russian disinformation. “Somebody from Twitter essentially asked whether the laptop was real. And one of the FBI folks who was...

An Alabama attorney believes Carlee Russell should be in jail after information revealed on Wednesday disputed last week’s supposed kidnapping of the Alabama woman. Eric Guster, a former criminal defense attorney turned personal injury lawyer, was captivated by the national news of Russell disappearing that occurred near his home, but has since changed his opinion in the matter when police released more information over the last three days. “She said she was kidnapped, and a kidnapping didn’t happen. Our citizens are safe, there’s not a kidnapper out there,” Guster told WVTM 13. “So they use every other synonym for lie...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemLuke 22 The Guards Mock Jesus 63 The men who were guarding Jesus began mocking and beating him. 64 They blindfolded him and demanded, “Prophesy! Who hit you?” 65 And they said many other insulting things to him. _______________________________________________________New International Version (NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.God Bless America.ML/LTOS