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Last week, American Association of University Professors (AAUP) chapters and faculty unions in four Southern states released the results of a survey purporting to reinforce the notion of a higher-ed “brain drain” prompted by state legislative action and the generally conservative political climates in Florida, Texas, Georgia, and North Carolina. As the headline of one article based on the survey put it, “In These Red States, Faculty Are Eyeing the Exits.” I’m not convinced. And I don’t think state legislators will be either, despite the hopes of the sponsoring organizations. In the first place, unlike the most credible surveys, this...

When I first covered the ARK Zero electric microcar, its specs and pricing sounded too good be true. “I’ll believe it when I see it,” I quipped. Well I guess now I have to believe it, as the company says it has begun making deliveries and shared its first on-road photos. According to the company, initial deliveries of the ultra-budget vehicle have begun in the UK and France. Priced at just £5,995 (approximately US $7,500), the UK-based ARK Zero is likely the most affordable electric microcar in the west. Technically classified as a quadricycle, it is designed to fulfill the...

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Ukraine struck Russian air defense systems near the town of Yevpatoriya in the west of occupied Crimea in a long-range overnight attack on Thursday, the Ukrainian military said. -snip- A Ukrainian intelligence source told Reuters the attack destroyed a “Triumf” air defense system in a joint operation of the Security Service of Ukraine and navy. First, the source said, drones blinded the air defense system by attacking its radar and antenna, before two Ukrainian-made Neptune cruise missiles were fired at the system’s launchers. Ukraine has modified the Neptune anti-ship missile to attack ground targets, military analysts say.

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas — Investigators were called to an apartment complex in Spring Monday after they said a plumber found a fetus in a pipe. The fetus was found at about 10:30 a.m. after residents of the Glen Cove Apartments -- which is along Imperial Valley just north of FM 1960 -- had been complaining of drainage issues since Friday. The plumber was called and started working outside one of the apartment buildings. That's when the fetus, believed to be just weeks old, was found when he opened a pipe. "All I saw when I looked out my window, which...

On Sunday’s edition of Inside with Jen Psaki, the former Biden press secretary mocked a Republican strategy session where pollsters suggested the term “pro-life” isn’t helping the GOP, so they suggested the term “pro-baby” instead. This spurred Psaki to compare babies to....broccoli and a lump of coal. “I hate to break it to you, but if you call broccoli 'candy,' it's still just broccoli. If you tie a really nice bow around a lump of coal, it is still coal under there.” And to think it’s terribly dehumanizing to call a biological male “he” and “his.” Apparently, comparing a baby...

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On Wednesday night, CBS Evening News aired part two of anchor Norah O’Donnell’s sit-down interview with Florida Republican governor and 2024 presidential candidate Ron DeSantis. The interview went so poorly for O’Donnell that she was forced to leave most of it on the cutting room floor and hide it on CBS’s website where most people would never see it. The part of the interview that did make it to air was O’Donnell pestering and nagging DeSantis about his state’s 15-week abortion law. “There is new data out that the number of abortions in Florida has actually increased, and increased since...

Are you a Christian? Are you pro-life? Do you have think books in school libraries should be age appropriate? If the answer is yes, MSNBC’s Joy Reid used her Tuesday show to compare you to slave traders. During a segment entitled “the origins of white supremacy,” Reid also gave a family history lesson, “Among those who did survive was my own maternal ancestor, a Fulani Muslim woman named Yhara Waboosia, later a converted Christian renamed Mitchie Johnson. She was born in 1800 in Ghana and as a six or seven-year-old was incarcerated in one of those slave castles in Ghana...

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy Shandong Carrier Strike Group is operating in the Philippine Sea, being shadowed separately by Republic of China Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) destroyers, according to both countries. Meanwhile, North Korea fired two ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan on Wednesday – shortly before its leader, Kim Jong Un, met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Russia – marking the first time North Korea has conducted such a launch while its leader was overseas. Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense in a Wednesday social media post stated that a total of 35 PLA...

This Nov. 2, Berry Norman is scheduled for sentencing on his guilty plea for illicit sexual conduct charges related to the trafficking of two Ohio minors (ages 14 and 15) which he met in the Cincinnati area and allegedly attempted to lure across state lines. As alleged in the complaint and article entitled, “New York man charged with luring minors from Cincinnati-area for sex work,” Norman “tried to get the two to have sex with men for money and live-stream sexual activities over the Internet…” Despite being published on April Fool’s Day, this title was no joke − it was...

The new federal fiscal year begins on Oct. 1, and Congress hasn’t passed any of the dozen appropriations bills it’s supposed to enact every year. Nor has it passed a stopgap spending law to buy itself more time. That raises the prospect of yet another forced shutdown of large chunks of the federal government – which, if it happens, would be the fourth in the past decade. Congress’ chronic inability to follow its own appropriations process is hardly new. In fact, in the nearly five decades that the current system for budgeting and spending tax dollars has been in place,...

Daily dose of gloom and doom and propaganda, fog of war, gaslighting and whatever else you might want to know about Europe, Russia, and Ukraine that the mainstream media isn't tell you!! Putin, Kim, Zelensky, troop movements, two steps forward and one step back.

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is under fire for her attempt to use a public health emergency to ban people from carrying guns. A federal judge quickly put a halt to that today. But Grisham is also a hypocrite when it comes to the comparison of guns and abortions. Guns might be used to kill someone, but most all Americans who own a gun are law-abiding citizens who use guns for protection, hunting or sporting and do so lawfully and carefully. They are exercising their Second Ament right to do so. Meanwhile, abortions kill babies. With the exception of...

"Stand firm therefore . . . having put on the breastplate of righteousness" (Eph. 6:14). True righteousness begins with a right relationship with God. A Roman soldier would often engage his enemy in hand- to-hand combat. At such times, the weapon of choice was the short sword, with which he sought to penetrate his opponent's vital organs. For his own protection he wore a molded metal breastplate that extended from the base of his neck to the top of his thighs. It helped deflect any attacks aimed at his heart and abdomen. The Roman breastplate has great symbolism in Paul's...

As the House returns to session Sept. 12, there’s increasing talk of the Republican majority making moves toward impeaching President Joe Biden. House Republicans have been investigating Biden’s son, Hunter, for months. Their primary focus involves money Hunter Biden received while serving on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, while then-Vice President Joe Biden was helping shape Ukraine policy. So far, this has produced no evidence of wrongdoing by the president. A House impeachment inquiry — the first formal step toward impeachment — would expand the House’s investigative focus more directly to alleged misdeeds by the president himself....

Massachusetts National Guard members were officially deployed as "rapid response teams" Wednesday to assist with the state's bursting migrant shelters, as pressure mounts for President Biden to address the crisis in the state. The move to deploy 250 members comes as Democrat Gov. Maura Healey declared a state of emergency several weeks ago because of the strain on the shelter system. "Massachusetts is in a state of emergency, and we need all hands-on deck to meet this moment and ensure families have access to safe shelter and basic services," Healy said in a statement. Currently, more than 6,000 migrant families...

In 1948, American scholar Richard M. Weaver published a book entitled Ideas Have Consequences. In it, he argued that the decline of Western Civilization was rooted in the philosophical rejection of the notion of absolute truth. This worldview ultimately had devastating effects on western art, education, and morality.Five years earlier, the Oxford Christian academic C.S. Lewis wrote a book called The Abolition of Man, in which he discussed the consequences of higher education rejecting objective value and natural law. He likened the self-destruction of society believing such ideas to the removal of the very organs of our humanity. “We make...

resident Joe Biden made his first comments on his impeachment, telling a group of Democratic donors that Republicans 'want to impeach me because they want to shut down the government.' Biden, speaking at a fundraising reception in McLean, Virginia, specifically mentioned conservative Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and her interest in impeaching him since the day Republicans took control of the House of Representatives. 'Well, I tell you what, I don’t know quite why, but they just knew they wanted to impeach me. And now, the best I can tell, they want to impeach me because they want to...

Calvin Smith has unearthed a lie that has been in front of our eyes since primary school: most dead fish float; they don’t sink. Fossils are the result of rapid rock formations, and evolutionists know this. Now they have started to change their story and borrow from the creationist’s worldview.