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Public schools are quickly becoming Satanic temples. Don’t believe me? Look at Edgewood Elementary in Marysville, Ohio, where they’ve rolled out the red carpet for The Satanic Temple’s new “Hellion Academy of Independent Learning.” An actual program named HAIL is now part of the school day, offering kids “off-campus” lessons from an organization that openly mocks Christianity while claiming to promote “compassion” and “empathy.” If this doesn’t raise alarm bells, you’re not paying attention. The fox isn’t just guarding the henhouse—it’s hosting workshops on critical thinking and empathy while sharpening its claws. Of course, they’ll tell you this isn’t about...

[snip] "I am pleased to announce that former Congressman Billy Long, of the Great State of Missouri, will be appointed to serve as the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Billy brings 32 years of experience running his own businesses in Real Estate and, as one of the premier Auctioneers in the Country. He then served 12 years in Congress, because he “felt it was important for his constituents to have a Representative who has signed the front of a check!” Since leaving Congress, Billy has worked as a Business and Tax advisor, helping Small Businesses navigate the complexities...

A Minnesota-based Mexican restaurant chain is preparing to reopen some locations in 2025 after it shut down 20 years ago. Chi-Chi’s trademark owner, Hormel Foods, said Tuesday it will allow the son of the chain’s co-founder to use the name for the openings, CNN reported Wednesday. Co-founder Marno McDermott and Green Bay Packers player Max McGee opened Chi-Chi’s in 1975, and the chain grew to 200 locations: However, the chain closed in 2004 following a hepatitis A outbreak at a Pittsburgh-area location traced to green onions served in its complimentary salsa, sickening about 650 people and resulting in four deaths...

Becoming Led Zeppelin Directed by: Bernard MacMahon Written by: Bernard MacMahon and Allison McGourty Cast: Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, John Bonham Becoming Led Zeppelin explores the origins of this iconic group and their meteoric rise in just one year against all the odds. Powered by awe-inspiring, psychedelic, never-before-seen footage, performances, and music, Bernard MacMahon’s experiential cinematic odyssey explores Led Zeppelin’s creative, musical, and personal origin story. The film is told in Led Zeppelin’s own words and is the first officially sanctioned film on the group.

A Minneapolis nonprofit that served food to low-income kids has agreed to dissolve itself after a state investigation found it violated laws regarding its operations and financial transactions. The move was announced Tuesday by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, whose office began investigating Gar Gaar Family Services, also known as the Youth Leadership Academy, after it was rejected from participating in a federally funded program to provide food to students after school. That denial, and the appeal process that followed, brought to light several instances of mismanagement in Gar Gaar’s operations, including a lack of accounting in how $2 million...

"Obama and Biden tried to make the US more like Europe but the 47th president is a throwback to national exceptionalism"

The Cassopaean people seem to have been derived as a branch of the Thesprotian people... They dwelt primarily in the area between the Acheron (retaining its ancient name today), the Aphas (modern Louros River) and the Sinus Ambracius (modern Gulf of Ambracia). The synoikismos of a number of Cassopaean villages in the area in the first half of the 4th century BCE resulted in the founding of Cassope, which became the chief settlement of the Cassopaeans. The city is mentioned, in passing, in Diodorus Siculus' description of the Macedonian king Cassander's campaign against Alcetas II of Epirus around 312 BCE.A...

Perdue has spent most of his international business career in Asia, and has served on the Senate Armed Services Committee, where he was chairman of the Sea Power Subcommittee, and on the Foreign Relations Committee. President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday night nominated former Republican Georgia Sen. David Perdue to serve as the United States ambassador to China. Trump has been filling out critical roles in his next administration since he won reelection last month, including selecting his presidential Cabinet, and naming a string of ambassadors. New York GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik has been tapped for U.S. ambassador to the United...

A fire at a synagogue in Melbourne, Australia early Friday morning... NASA pushing back plans to send astronauts to the Moon again... In New York authorities continue to probe the murder of United HealthCare CEO Brian Thompson... A strong magnitude 7 earthquake off the northern coast of California... Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov...interviewed by Tucker Carlson...calling President-Elect Donald Trump a "strong" and "friendly" man but not "Pro-Russian"... The anti-government protests continuing in Georgia's capital Tbilisi... France's political turmoil...tonight President Emmanuel Macron speaking...saying he will exercise his mandate as president until it ends in 2027...did not propose a new government...but the...

The union's statements come after reports that the officer who fatally shot Ashli Babbitt received special financial support from police leadership under pressure from Democrats. The U.S. Capitol Police union leader is calling out the department for providing special financial and other benefits to Capt. Michael Byrd, the officer who fatally shot Jan. 6 protestor Ashli Babbitt, that were not given to fellow officers. “What a slap in the face to the rank and file officers of the USCP, especially all who were on duty on J6,” U.S. Capitol Police union Chairman Gus Papathanasiou said in a statement Thursday to...

The federal workforce is the equivalent of the Soviet Nomenklatura. The big difference between the Soviet bureaucracy and the US federal bureaucracy is that a much larger percentage of the federal workforce gets the special benefits that were reserved for top Communist Party members in the Soviet Union. The Daily Wire's invaluable reporter, Luke Rosiak, reports on the sorry state of the federal workforce and on the Department of Government Efficiency's determination to reform a broken system. 94% of feds are still working from home--the EPA had poisonous water *in its own headquarters* because it was sitting in the pipes...

There is an ongoing disaster in north America which is not only ongoing but getting worse. And despite its geologic origin, it has been largely ignored by the public. This video discusses the sudden changing of many remote streams and rivers from a clear blue to a toxic orange color. This is not due to acid mine drainage or illegal dumping of waste, but instead something worse. [Thumbnail Photo Credit: Josh Koch, U.S. Geological Survey, Public Domain]North America's Ongoing, Ignored Disaster | 5:22GeologyHub | 327K subscribers | 267,025 views | November 30, 2024

Conservative outrage is brewing after Todd Blanche, Donald Trump’s pick for Deputy Attorney General, was spotted having a “deep conversation” during a lunch meeting with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, a known critic of President-elect Donald Trump. Collins, who has built her career on relentless attacks on Trump, appeared both relaxed and engaged, wearing a yellow top paired with black pants. Meanwhile, Blanche chose a more casual look with a button-up shirt and slacks, as captured in photos shared by journalist Raheem Kassam.

The election is a month in the rear-view mirror, but all the votes have yet to be counted, and Democrats are still picking up seats with mysterious improvements in their ballot counts. It's a mystery wrapped up in an enigma. A sixth grader could get the votes counted in some of these elections in less time than it takes California to tabulate the ballots, and in places like Minnesota we are still finding out about ballots that mysteriously disappeared into trash cans, with the result being that a Democrat flipped a state legislative seat. 20 ballots weren't counted in a...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has avoided a snap election so far but sooner or later his time is going to run out and when it does, polls suggest he and his party are going to face a big loss to the conservatives. Today the Free Press published a story helping to explain why so many young voters have turned on Trudeau. As the saying goes, it's the economy, stupid.At University Hospital in London, Ontario, Amanda Vanderley, 25, works grueling 12-hour shifts as an emergency room nurse. Each day includes not just providing critical care and assisting doctors with emergency...

If a country’s average doctor visits are high, it could be easy to assume the population isn’t healthy. At the same time not going enough may seem like there’s an accessibility issue.As with most sociological data, the devil is in the details. And differences in payment systems, insurance plans, and how healthcare is delivered all play a part into why going to the doctor is more common or not.This chart, via Visual Capitalist's Pallavi Rao, tracks the number of in-person doctor visits per year by country. Data is sourced from the OECD, as of 2021, or the latest year available....

OpenAI’s newly-released o1 model tried to avoid developer oversight and attempted to copy itself when it thought it was at risk of being shut down, the company has said. Safety evaluations conducted on the model by Apollo Research, a third-party evaluator, found that: “When o1 was led to believe that it would be shut down when acting on its goal and that its actions were monitored, it attempted to deactivate this ‘oversight mechanism’ in 5% of the time.” “When o1 found memos by its ‘developers’ that describe how it is misaligned and will be superseded by a new model, it...

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2024's Flaming Feculence Awards go to Charles P. Pierce and Ana Navarro-Cárdenas.Today’s post is not about politics but, rather, about contemporary journalism’s compulsion to besoil itself in the service of politics. The excess and carelessness engendered by political servility plopped squarely this week upon the heads of Charles P. Pierce (Esquire magazine) and Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (ABC’s The View). Both sought to justify Joe Biden’s sweeping pardon of Hunter Biden by pointing to peculiar antecedents. Pierce cited George H. W. Bush’s pardon of his son Neil, and Navarro-Cárdenas cited Woodrow Wilson’s pardon of his brother-in-law Hunter deButts. Their examples were peculiar...