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Many patients at the Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute, an 89-bed facility affiliated with Pennsylvania State University, suffer from schizophrenia, substance abuse, depression, or bipolar disorder. They cannot complete the "activities of daily living," the hospital’s inpatient clinic states. Some are "suicidal, aggressive, or dangerous to themselves or others." During their stay, which is often involuntary, patients participate in group counseling, learn strategies for stress management, have their medication adjusted, and interact with therapy animals. They can also partake in a less orthodox therapeutic activity: registering to vote. Located in a swing state that could decide the 2024 election, the hospital asks...

Harvard University will be offering a course examining medieval texts by using “queer theory.”Harvard’s English department will be featuring a “Queer/Medieval” class in the upcoming spring 2025 semester. The course will be an “introduction to queer theory as an intellectual tool with which to read texts far removed from the political, cultural, and social discourses from which queer theory emerged,” specifically, in this case, medieval texts. “We will ask: what can queer theory offer readers of medieval literature in its explorations of gender, sexuality, race, power, narrative, trauma, and time?” the course description states.The course will use the lens of...

The percentage of uninsured Americans rose to 8.2 percent in the first quarter of this year, according to survey findings published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Aug. 6.The report estimated that 27.1 million Americans of all ages were without health insurance as of March this year, up from 25.5 million or 7.7 percent at the end of the previous year.The percentage of uninsured people earning below the federal poverty level increased from 13.9 percent last year to 15.7 percent in the first quarter of 2024, the highest percentage among income levels.Almost two-thirds (64.9 percent) of...

In 2014, Susan Stryker, an MTF transgender Professor Emerita of Gender and Women’s Studies from the University of Arizona, published an essay entitled “My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage.”* In it, Stryker declares, “I am a transsexual, and therefore I am a monster.” Stryker, identifies with the monster in Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein, whose war against his maker leaves a trail of carnage and death. Stryker seeks to detonate his “rage and revenge” against “the naturalized heterosexual order,” against “traditional family values,” and against the “hegemonic oppression” of God’s creation by sabotaging...

Various folks in the media have rushed to the fainting couches over J.D. Vance's prophecy. However, none of them have an appealing alternative explanation why Kamala Harris left Pennsylvania up for grabs to choose Minnesota governor Tim Walz as a running mate. Shapiro has success in the one state Harris absolutely has to win in November, including a significant degree of Republican approval for his work. As Vance told Hugh Hewitt this morning shortly before Harris' choice leaked, what other explanation can anyone make for this other than Shapiro's Jewishness?HH: My last question, Senator Vance. We expect a running mate...

Kamala picks Gov. Tampon Tim Walz Everything you need to know about the radical Minnesota Governor Steven Crowder Show

Stolen Valor: Stolen valor refers to the act of falsely claiming military service, awards, or decorations to obtain benefits, recognition, or other advantages. This can include wearing military uniforms, medals, or insignias one is not entitled to. It is illegal under the Stolen Valor Act of 2013, which specifically targets fraudulent claims made with the intent to gain money, property, or other tangible benefits. As many have found, I am consistently defensive of respecting fellow veterans for their honorable service, for them as veterans, regardless of role, whether in combat or not, or how long they served. I am equally...

Democrat vice presidential candidate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz once said that he was so pro-abortion that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) suggested that he moderate his position. When Walz first ran for governor back in 2018, he joked about his extreme views on abortion. “My record is so pro-choice Nancy Pelosi asked me if I should tone it down,” he said. “I stand with Planned Parenthood.” Walz, who was in the House of Representatives from 2007 to 2019, has a 0% pro-life score from the National Right to Life. After he voted for a bill in 2018 that would...

Vice President Kamala Harris, now the Democratic Party’s 2024 presidential nominee by default, did what her predecessor President Joe Biden only dreamed of when she chose Governor Mike Walz (D-MN) to be her running mate: she got Republicans and the far-Left anti-Israel “Squad” to agree on something. In the hours after media began reporting that Walz was Harris’ final choice — despite some rumblings that she might choose critical swing-state Governor Josh Shapiro (D-PA) — liberal “Squad” members cheered the addition to the party’s ticket, and Republicans cheered what they viewed as an unforced error that could make the path...

As recently as last week, Kamala Harris appeared to be on the cusp of picking Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-Pa.) as her running mate. Despite the progressive backlash against him and a slew of scandalous leaks, he was the runaway frontrunner in the betting odds as conventional wisdom held that Kamala needed a "moderate" swing state Democrat to help expand her path to 270 Electoral College votes. Shapiro's chances remained high even after he faced serious allegations by a fellow Democrat of covering up harassment in his office. The sexual harassment cover-up didn't take Shapiro out of contention, and neither did...

Minnesota’s leftist Gov. Tim Walz (D), whom Vice President Kamala Harris (D) has reportedly chosen to be her running mate, helped make his state a place where children could undergo sex changes. The Associated Press (AP) reported on March 23, 2023, “Democratic Gov. Tim Walz signed an executive order two weeks ago to protect the rights of people from Minnesota and other states to receive gender-affirming health care in the state.” Minnesota lawmakers passed legislation to make their state a “trans refuge” for young people seeking sex change surgery, Fox News reported on March 25, 2023. The outlet noted: This...

Since becoming governor in 2019, he has signed off on legislation to give numerous privileges to illegal immigrants, including access to state-funded health care and free college tuition. He also approved legislation in 2023 to give driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. “Ensuring drivers in our state are licensed and carry insurance makes the roads safer for all Minnesotans,” Walz said at the time.

im Walz may have the manner of a kindly, Midwestern dad. But when it comes to protecting the country’s children from transgender medical interventions, Walz is not interested. In fact, he wants the opposite. Vice President Kamala Harris tapped the Minnesota governor as her running mate Tuesday, prompting scrutiny of his progressive record on everything from immigration to abortion and gender ideology. Walz signed a cluster of legislation in April 2023 that established Minnesota as a haven for children who want puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or transgender surgeries. One law Walz signed allows Minnesota to seize custody of a child...

Two years ago, Jemar Tisby, the author of The Color Compromise and President of The Witness Inc. and The Witness Foundation, was wailing and gnashing his teeth into the internet ethers, insisting to anyone who might have the misfortune to stumble on his page that he wasn’t a liberal. This public rejoinder was precipitated by his belief that he was done dirty after Grove City College publicly distanced itself from him following a talk he gave about racism, which some felt leaned far too heavily on Critical Race Theory. Then he praised and platformed a Universalist Anti-Christ pastrix, removing all...

Dem veep pick Tim Walz has fawned over his time living in China, saying he will “never” be treated as well as when he was in the Communist country and hailing the repressive regime’s lack of crime. The Minnesota governor spent 1989 to 1990 teaching school in China as a part of the WorldTeach program based out of Harvard University — one of the first Americans accepted into the program, according to the Star-Herald... “They gave me more gifts than I could bring home. It was an excellent experience,” Walz said,... Walz and his wife, Gwen Whipple, went on to...

In shocking news, Trump suggested that there is a growing movement among Democrats to “bring back Crooked Joe. In a separate post, he continued his tirade: “What are the chances that Crooked Joe Biden, the WORST President in the history of the U.S., whose Presidency was Unconstitutionally STOLEN from him by Kamala, Barack HUSSEIN Obama, Crazy Nancy Pelosi, Shifty Adam Schiff, Cryin’ Chuck Schumer, and others on the Lunatic Left, CRASHES the Democrat National Convention and tries to take back the Nomination, beginning with challenging me to another DEBATE. He feels that he made a historically tragic mistake by handing...

[Catholic Caucus] The long road to replacing Cardinal O'MalleyThe announcement Monday that Bishop Richard Henning will replace Cardinal Sean O’Malley as Archbishop of Boston has ended one of the longest-running points of speculation in the Church in the United States. O’Malley steps down after more than two decades in charge of what has traditionally been one of the country’s most prominent sees. He turned 80 years old in June, aging him out of participation in a future conclave, and putting him more than five years past the nominal episcopal retirement age.The announcement of Henning as his replacement follows years of...

Rosie O’Donnell claimed that she purchased 100 “Kamala T-shirts,” and she vowed not to remove them until Vice President Kamala Harris is elected president. During a virtual call hosted by the group, “Comics for Kamala,” O’Donnell described the day President Joe Biden announced he was exiting the presidential race and endorsed Harris to be the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee as being “the most glorious act of generosity.”

Vice President Harris leads by 3 points in a head-to-head 2024 match-up against former President Trump and in a six-way contest that includes third-party candidates, according to polling data released Tuesday. A new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll, conducted Aug. 1-4, 2024, shows Harris leading Trump, 51 percent support to 48 percent, with 2 percent of respondents undecided, in a two-way race. Harris also leads Trump among independents, 53 percent support to 44 percent.

Twitter thread with source material (ammendment and video of official meetings) about H. F. No. 1655.