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WASHINGTON — Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed repeatedly refused to answer whether he considers Iran or Israel to be the “greater threat to the United States.” When presented with that question during his debate Thursday against Republican Senate hopeful Mike Rogers, El-Sayed ripped it as a “ridiculous hypothetical.” “Here’s what’s happening right now: our ostensible ally in Israel has lobbied us to go to war with Iran,” El-Sayed, a Democrat, replied. “We have watched as Iran has responded by bombing all kinds of countries in the Middle East and then choking off the world’s energy supply.” “This is a situation...

A Wisconsin congressional candidate has been arrested on hate crime charges after he went on a vulgar caught-on-camera rant against an Israeli dad with his young son in the car — after he was triggered by an anti-Hamas bumper sticker. Matthew Arndt, 54, allegedly cut off the 41-year-old father on a road in the Milwaukee suburb of Mequon Thursday morning, flipping him the bird and cursing at him before pulling into a gas station, where the dad followed him and began filming the explosive encounter. “Do you want to tell me something?” the father asked. “Yeah, you’re a f------ piece...

Employees at the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago are unionizing over their working conditions, claiming their benefits have been cut and workloads are increasing just four months after the center opened in June. Workers circulated a letter to staff Wednesday announcing their intent to unionize, complaining about “increasing” workloads “vague responses” from administrators to a list of complaints they’d raised, the Chicago Sun Times reported. Some of the complaints suggested that the $900 million presidential center could already be facing financial trouble. Such complaints have led to a “high turnover rate,” with exiting employees “taking with them their institutional knowledge...

🚨 WE TOOK A TRIP TO PRINCETON TO SEE IF THE LIBERAL BIAS WAS REAL… 👀 “We should resolve the Iran WAR with FLOWERS!” 💐 “Professors give us resources that are NEGATIVE about TRUMP” 👨‍🏫 “The term ILLEGAL ALIENS offend me!” 😳 “Socialism has its BENEFITS!” 🚩 “Everybody is DEPRESSED here!” 😭 SO… ANY LIBERAL BIAS ON CAMPUS? 🎓 3:34 VIDEO AT LINK OF STREET INTERVIEWS...........

Newly unsealed police bodycam footage shows the aftermath of the 2023 Richneck Elementary School shooting in Newport News, Virginia, where a 6-year-old student shot his first-grade teacher. Officers enter the classroom and secure the handgun before taking the child into custody. During the encounter, the 6-year-old repeatedly curses at officers and a teacher, challenges them, and tells police that he stole the gun from his mother. The bodycam footage was later unsealed by a Virginia court after media organizations challenged the decision to keep it sealed. The child's face and identifying information have been blurred in accordance with the court's...

Home-educated students do notably better on standardized academic tests on average than those in institutional schools, according to a powerful new study reviewing available data. For years, parents struggling with the decision of how to educate their children have wondered if homeschooling really provides as strong of an academic base as a conventional school. In the last 50 years, homeschooling has gone from being perceived as a fringe experiment to a form of education serving around six percent of American school-age children; that is about 3.4 million K-12 homeschool students. This mainstreaming of homeschooling has led to a lot of...

Female Rage Hot Sauce’s second “Hot Dogs for Abortions” fundraiser of the summer brought hundreds of supporters together to raise money for the D.C. Abortion Fund, channeling their anger over reproductive rights into advocacy. The fundraiser, held at Dew Drop Inn on Sept. 17, is the latest iteration of an event that began as a backyard party following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. What started with friends grilling hot dogs and donating at the door has since grown into a recurring fundraiser for abortion funds, raising thousands of dollars along the way. “After the Dobbs case...

When a federal appeals court known for its rock-bottom track record in Supreme Court reviews reinstated California's so-called gender secrecy policies in schools, parents and teachers ran to SCOTUS for an emergency injunction. The gambit worked, prompting a broadside by six justices against lower courts for ignoring a century of precedents. Now a mother and daughter in Washington state are seeking the same shortcut around the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which rejected their plea to force a school district and state athletic association to warn them before the girl unwittingly competes against another male in girls' wrestling, as...

Trump's fault #5673......... 1:52 video at link.............

Almost a thousand people were arrested across France on Monday as the multicultural teenager riots continue to ramp up with the backing of the far-left. At least 984 people were arrested, and 65 police officers were injured as the so-called high school protests entered their third week on Monday, in which hordes of teenagers have gone on violent rampages in cities across the country, with little in the way of a coherent message other than an apparent desire to usher in chaos. Since the riots began in mid-September, over 5,000 people have been arrested, 87 per cent of whom were...

American higher education is in retreat. It’s shrinking. The for-sale signs have gone up. It’s time for “inventory reduction.” Forty-nine colleges have closed since 2020. Forty others have merged with neighbors. The Huron Consulting Group says that 400 colleges are at risk of closing in the next decade. The prospect of insolvency has now moved beyond small colleges. Larger ones are closing programs and laying off faculty. Not counting community colleges, trade schools, online-only outfits and clandestine thinkatoriums, some 2,700 four-year institutions are currently authorized to hand out college degrees in the US. That compares with 4,150 licensed hot dog...

The Trump administration is suing the University of Delaware over a tuition policy that allows certain illegal immigrants to pay lower in-state rates while American students from outside Delaware are charged thousands more. The Justice Department argues the policy illegally gives undocumented students a financial benefit based on residency that is not offered on the same terms to U.S. citizens, making Delaware the latest target in the administration’s nationwide crackdown on immigration-related tuition benefits. The DOJ alleges the University of Delaware charges Delaware residents approximately $15,740 per academic year, compared with approximately $42,470 for non-Delaware residents, coming to a $26,730...

If THIS was your child’s teacher, would you have a problem? Saints, be honest. In this Saints in the City reaction, Pastor Rod looks at classroom clips of a teacher leading students through lessons and asks parents and grandparents a direct question: how would YOU respond? We’re talking about teacher mannerisms, classroom presentation, Christian parenting, and the questions children might bring home. Watch the clips, hear the conversation, and tell me what your answer would be based on. Let’s go to the Bible, because parental responsibility starts at home. In Deuteronomy 6:6–7, we see the instruction to teach children diligently,...

SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. - A Florida middle school teacher has been arrested under suspicion of child abuse after she allegedly grabbed a student's arm and "dragged" him out of the classroom and into the hallway, according to the Seminole County Sheriff's Office. Seminole County teacher arrested What we know: Fada Concepcion is a 7th grade science teacher at Tuskawilla Middle School and has been employed with Seminole County Public Schools for 29 years, the district said. She was arrested on Oct. 1 for suspected child abuse after a student said he was "dragged" by his arm from his desk, out...

Newly released public records obtained by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) reveal that the fetal organ-harvesting company Cercle Allocation Services billed a UCLA research laboratory $765 each for individual fetal body parts harvested from late-term abortion facilities. Peer-reviewed research confirms that Cercle, which has previously harvested organs under the name Advanced Bioscience Research (ABR), has been a source of human fetal tissue for researchers. ABR and its partners at Planned Parenthood were the subject of Congressional criminal referrals in 2016 prompted by CMP’s undercover video reporting in 2015 by David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt who exposed Planned Parenthood’s aborted...

A New Jersey student claims he was branded a “racist” and forced to drop an online course after his woke community college professor spotted a “Trump 2020” flag hanging on his wall during a Zoom call. Justin Caiazzo, 29, is suing Passaic County Community College, business professor Gladys Harris and dean Peter Hynes, arguing his First Amendment rights were violated during a July 2021 online class. Caiazzo, of Lake Hiawatha, was blindsided when Harris allegedly stopped her business statistics class after spotting the Trump banner in his background, according to the Sept. 23 complaint filed in New Jersey Superior Court....

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed for years has publicly said he’s a physician — but there’s overwhelming evidence that he’s had no experience as a licensed medical doctor. This April, he gave an interview to a local TV journalist where he talked up his credentials as a physician multiple times. In March, he told a group of Teamsters nurses that he had “been in enough codes to watch who really does the work” and said that same month on a podcast that “I’ve been a doctor my whole career.” His LinkedIn profile currently says he’s a “physician,” and late...

Miss Wisconsin is putting agriculture literacy at the forefront. Olivia Lulich made agricultural literacy a central part of her platform. She uses social media to reach the next generation who will help feed, clothe and fuel the world. The Viroqua-area schools agriculture teacher and FFA advisor has an initiative called "One to 100." It showcases how one percent of the population feeds 100 percent of our world. "I think so many of our society and generation cares about what's in our food and how it is getting to our tables at the end of the day and the best way...

A pro-Palestine group at UC Berkeley is proudly hosting Hamas sympathizer and former Columbia professor Mohamed Abdou the day before the 3rd anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks. The university confirmed to the California Post that Abdou will appear via Zoom before a group of students in an on-campus event space. He’s also set to appear before Claremont College students on Oct. 7. Abdou is infamous for writing on social media, just days after the Oct. 7 attacks, that he is “with Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad.” The post led to his firing from Columbia University. The controversial professor is...

Too many students are graduating with a college degree ignorant of this country and how it works. To remedy this, I would add three courses that should be required for graduation. These courses would go a long way toward curing the misinformation now being presented to many modern college graduates. We can add these requirements to the Illinois state schools as a minimum and as an example to the rest of the education establishment. First, require microeconomics. No student should receive a college degree without at least a basic understanding of both the laws of supply and demand and the...