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Mississippi has declared a public health emergency after infant deaths in the state surged to their highest level in 15 years. Latest data showed 323 babies died in the state before their first birthday in 2024, or a death rate of 9.7 fatalities per 1,000 births. That is up from 8.9 per 1,000 the prior year, and the highest rate since 2009 when the rate was 10.1 per 1,000. Mississippi has had the worst infant mortality rate in the nation for seven years, and was well above the national average of 5.6 deaths per 1,000 in 2023, the latest national...

Cracker Barrel has doubled down on its woke values as it defends itself from furious criticism over its new rebrand. The iconic restaurant chain recently unveiled a new logo, dumping the American hero mascot in favor of bland font on a plain background. In a statement shared Monday amid the backlash, Cracker Barrel vowed to be 'a place where everyone feels at home, no matter where you're from or where you're headed. 'What has not changed, and what will never change, are the values this company was built on when Cracker Barrel first opened in 1969: hard work, family, and...

Police officers in Jacksonville, Florida arrived at the home of a 44-year-old deaf man after a reported domestic disturbance. Despite knowing the man was deaf, officers immediately began shouting orders, which they knew could not be heard - or easily followed. Within seconds, they slammed the man onto the ground and continued shouting un-heard orders, as the man cried out that he had done nothing wrong. Afterwards, the officers mocked the deaf man, telling him that he should have "just listened."

The good news for Stacey Abrams is that despite being implicated in massive corruption she is still not in prison (although she is under investigation). The bad news is that this Democrat favorite has completely lost whatever served her as a mind: (Video on link) The lunatic views moonbats express are not merely divorced from reality; they are the diametric opposite of reality. To call Trump an ayatollah goes beyond absurd because not only is he nothing like an ayatollah, he is the one who clipped the ayatollahs’ wings by setting back their nuclear weapons program. She bleats that elections...

Burning Man is being torn apart by sand storms just one day into the iconic festival, with 50mph winds tearing up tents and trashing art. Thousands of attendees have been weathering apocalyptic scenes, with some wearing ski goggles and surgical masks to brace against the storm. The National Weather Service (NWS) warned that a 'wall of blowing dust' from Smoke Creek and Black Rock Desert would move over the site on Saturday and Sunday. Campsites which were erected on the eve of the celebration were damaged by the dust storm as it tore through the Nevada desert before the festival...

Muslim Woman FAFO when she tells Cops She’s Above Americans White Laws! **WARNING GRAPHIC VIDEO** More show notes: the dog did not charge the officer. The dog was just barking. The dog got out by mistake so the officer pulled out his gun. This all started because a 13 year old Muslim kid said the Rottie was chasing him yet he got home safely without being attacked or bitten. The officer who shot the dog was a man who lived next door.

There is a slow, deliberate purge happening in America. Not a war waged with guns, bombs, and tanks, but with erasers, marketing departments, and cultural commissars. It is the grand project of the woke movement, a full frontal assault on white European history, culture, and symbols. And the most effective battles are not fought in the streets but in the quiet removal of images, names, and figures that once stood as touchstones of identity. Wokeness, rooted in the toxic soil of Critical Theory and Marxism is a cancer metastasizing through every organ of society. Public institutions, schools, corporations. Heck, even...

Another church that once was among the largest in the Southern Baptist Convention is selling it 19-acre property and downsizing. The property of Dauphin Way Baptist Church in Mobile, Ala., is now listed for sale for $28.5 million. Current pastor Lee Merck confirmed to numerous media outlets the sale is part of a strategic plan to rethink the congregation that once was the largest Baptist church in the state of Alabama. Notable former pastors include Jerry Vines, who went on to become co-pastor at First Baptist Church of Jacksonville, Fla., and president of the SBC; Darrell Robison, a well-known evangelist...

At the intersection of moonbattery and mental illness, there you will find liberal women. A study published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research may offer insight into what makes them so crazy: [F]or every 10,000 person-years, 104 women who aborted ended up hospitalized for serious mental health issues like psychiatric disorders, substance abuse, and suicide attempts, while only 42 women who gave birth faced the same fate. … Women who had more than one abortion saw an even higher chance of mental health crises that required hospitalization. Liberals are much more likely to be crazy and to abort their children,...

Cutting-edge technology could one day transform treatment for Down syndrome, as researchers have successfully deleted an extra chromosome in lab-grown cells. Down syndrome - which occurs when a person has three copies of chromosome 21 instead of two - alters brain development and can cause intellectual disability, learning difficulties and other health challenges. It affects about one in 700 births in the US, with an estimated 250,000 people living with the condition. Scientists from Mie University in Japan have used CRISPR-Cas9, a DNA-editing tool often described as 'molecular scissors,' to cut away the surplus chromosome in cells. Their system was...

Las Vegas residents were left outraged as congregants at an Ethiopian orthodox church continue to illegally park their vehicles on lawns and driveways. Neighbors of the Hamere Noah Kidane Mihret and Saint Michael Ethiopian Church told KLAS they have repeatedly reached out to Clark County Commissioner Michael Naft and used the Fixit app as they were instructed, but nothing has changed in years. 'We document that and we provide that proof and we have found that there's no follow up,' said Daria Wu, who gathered her fellow neighbors to discuss the issues they have faced during the services at the...

A couple in Oklahoma has been arrested after an 11-year-old girl in their care gave birth at home without any medical assistance - though they insist they did not know the girl was pregnant. The young girl's mother, Cherie Walker, 33, and her stepfather, Dustin Walker, 34, are facing felony child neglect charges after they allegedly failed to provide supervision or medical care to the child, who gave birth at their house in Muskogee on August 16, Fox 23 reports. She was 36 weeks pregnant and gave birth to a full-term baby, according to court documents obtained by the local...

A petition is online for Harjinder Singh to be freed. Not kidding. "He just made a mistake" "He was just trying to feed his family" "He did not mean to kill three people". This youtuber shows the videos on the petition and what other Sikhs are saying about Harjinder. BARF ALERT.

Fox News correspondent Christina Coleman discusses an apparent attack on ICE agents in San Francisco amid President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown on ‘Fox Report.’

Video shows some on the left are starting to wake up and leave the democrat party. They are realizing the lies and that maybe Trump was correct all along. In this video even a lesbian couple speaks out against the gay book section for kids at Barns and Noble. "Gay B C's for babyies" book. Transgender New Yorker bold Don Lemon to go pound sand. One woman tells of her journey away from the democrat plantation and how it made her life a nightmare.

Cracker Barrel's decision to remove a beloved businessman from its logo has sparked fury across the United States. The company announced earlier this week it would remove the likeness of Uncle Herschel, the real-life relative of the brand's founder Dan Evins, from its iconic signage. In the old emblem, Herschel was shown sitting on a wooden chair in front of the eponymous barrel. But he is notably absent from the new logo, which features just the text of the brand name in a yellow hexagon. The change is being keenly felt by fans of the restaurant, who knew Herschel as...

Steak ‘n Shake has taken aim at Cracker Barrel, accusing the Southern country-themed chain of erasing its heritage and identity with its controversial new logo. The Indianapolis-based burger chain took to X on Thursday to slam Cracker Barrel for allegedly abandoning its roots, implying that CEO Julie Felss Masino is stripping away the identity of the restaurant and gift store chain in pursuit of short-term trends. “Sometimes, people want to change things just to put their own personality on things,” Steak ‘n Shake posted on X on Thursday, along with an image of part of the old Cracker Barrel logo....

Cracker Barrel's new logo has sparked a social media firestorm, with many comparing the restaurant chain's rebrand to Bud Light's infamous Dylan Mulvaney campaign. Memes featuring Mulvaney alongside the 'new' Cracker Barrel logo have gone viral on X since the chain revealed its redesign Tuesday. Some show the transgender influencer in mocked-up Cracker Barrel staff uniforms, while others recycle images from her 2023 Bud Light promotion — swapping beer cans for the barrels dropped from the logo. That now-infamous campaign triggered a boycott of Bud LIght that cost parent company Anheuser-Busch more than $1 billion in sales. Now critics warn...

A transgender activist was left in complete shock after a Democrat party leader confronted her for waving an overtly racist placard at a rally outside a Virginia school board meeting. Pro-trans rights protesters gathered outside the Arlington County School Board meeting Thursday evening in support of the district's policy that allows transgender students to use girls' locker rooms and bathrooms. The demonstration appeared mostly peaceful, until one woman sparked massive controversy with her placard directly targeting Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears. Earle-Sears was speaking out against the bathroom policy which has caused the Department of Education to threaten to cut off...

On Febuary 3rd 2023, one of the most controversial train wrecks in recent history would occur in a small Ohio village all because of a burning bearing on a hopper car. But digging deep into the investigation it becomes apparant this derailment and subsequent chemical spill was a lot more than just a simple hotbox as Norfolk Southern's negligent buisness practices become enlightened to the public. Probably the most anticipated documentary of all time if I'm honest. I cannot tell you how many times people requested this video to be made espesially before the NTSB final report was released but...