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  • ‘A parenting issue.’ Four girls charged in fatal Walmart stabbing, Louisiana sheriff says

    01/25/2021 8:27:15 PM PST · by ConservativeStatement · 36 replies
    Miami Herald ^ | Jan. 25, 2021 | TANASIA KENNEY
    In a call to action, the sheriff of a Louisiana parish urged parents to “take control” after a 15-year-old died from a stabbing in a fight between teens inside a Walmart store over the weekend. Four girls, ages 14, 13 and 12, are now charged in the incident, according to the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office. “It’s really heartbreaking when we have to come in and pick up the pieces, because so many families were damaged after this,” Sheriff Tony Mancuso said at a Sunday news conference. “It’s just a cycle that we have to stop, and we’re just fed up...
  • Parents Who Opt Out of Public Schools Don't Deserve Smears From Teachers Unions

    01/25/2021 4:30:04 PM PST · by tbw2 · 24 replies
    Reason Magazine ^ | 01/25/2021 | Daryl James and Erica Smith
    Union leaders shame parents, arguing that equity gaps will widen if parents pull their children out of public schools. Parents who bring their children together in small learning groups during the pandemic not only get labeled as eccentric, but also as segregationists guilty of promoting racial division in a nation with an ugly history of "separate but equal." The National Education Association lays out the talking point in a recent policy paper, and industry insiders have repeated the claim on dozens of platforms. Using loaded terms like "radical" and "unqualified," they have sounded the alarm about a massive parental revolt.
  • Your daily Dose of Correct-Think think for: Jan 25th, 2021

    01/25/2021 2:33:23 PM PST · by GraceG · 7 replies
    Individualism is Fascism!
  • Biden Has Lost 50% of His Cognitive Abilities

    01/25/2021 12:21:09 PM PST · by Red Badger · 117 replies
    https://pandemic.warroom.org ^ | January 25, 2021 | by Elizabeth
    Former White House stenographer Mike McCormick reports Joe Biden has lost 50 percent of his cognitive abilities. McCormick, who worked for Biden for six years, details Biden’s decline in his new book Joe Biden, Unauthorized. After working with Biden up close, McCormick says Biden is not the same man and has suffered at least 50 percent decline. VIDEO AT LINK....................................
  • Godiva is closing or selling all of its stores in the United States (expensive chocolate)

    01/25/2021 1:47:56 PM PST · by dynachrome · 56 replies
    cnn ^ | 1-25-21 | Alexis Benveniste
    Luxury chocolatier Godiva is getting out of the brick and mortar business. The company is closing or selling all 128 of its brick-and-mortar stores in North America, it announced in a statement. It plans to complete the closures and sales by the end of March. Godiva will keep its stores open across Europe, Middle East and Greater China. The company did not disclose information on how many employees would be let go because of the closures. Less than two years ago, Godiva was planning a massive expansion by getting into the cafe business. The chocolatier opened its first cafe in...
  • Biden’s Mask Comes Off

    01/25/2021 12:31:23 PM PST · by Heartlander · 33 replies
    The Stream ^ | January 25, 2021 | Al Perrotta
    The mask is off. You feeling snookered, hoodwinked, bamboozled yet, America?Where’s the face of Mr. Unity and Moderation? Gone. Instantly gone. Biden, the Democrats and their Big Tech and Big Media partners took only three days to pull away the mask and expose their radical, fanatical program to weaken America.In fact, Biden broke such a sweat in his rush to Make America Sad Again he had to take Saturday afternoon and Sunday off.Or maybe he just wanted to step back and admire his handiwork.War on AmericaSo what has Biden done? He’s …Begun his war on energy independence by cancelling Keystone...
  • My mom says she’ll refuse the COVID-19 vaccine. Why? She was once neglected by Canada’s health system when she almost lost her life. How can she trust them now?

    01/25/2021 12:13:18 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 17 replies
    Toronto Star ^ | Mon., Jan. 25, 2021 | Noel Ransome
    Two years ago, while on a hospital gurney, my mother told me that she had to be cynical to be Black and survive in this country. With scent of antiseptic wafting in the air and alarms blaring out codes and directions, she took the hectic moment to explain that there was a part of you — or her, anyway — that would always want to feel safe here but expect to be disappointed. You would love to trust the law, even as the regularity of police brutality built up your reasons not to. And that someday you’d find a health...
  • What the 2020 census will reveal about America: Stagnating growth, an aging population, and youthful diversity

    01/25/2021 12:12:19 PM PST · by Pining_4_TX · 14 replies
    Brookings ^ | 01/11/21 | William H. Frey
    A FIRST-TIME DECLINE IN THE NATION’S WHITE POPULATION The most recent Census Bureau estimates by race show a small decline of 16,612 in the nation’s white population over the 2010-to-2019 period. If this trend is confirmed with the full 2020 census, the 2010-to-2020 decade would be the only decade since the first census was taken in 1790 when the white population did not grow.
  • Vanity: They're gonna keep CV-19 going for years

    01/25/2021 11:46:43 AM PST · by Attention Surplus Disorder · 55 replies
    me ^ | 01/25/2021 | Attention Surplus Disorder
    I believe the time has come to realize or at least consider; whatever reaction one may or may not have; that the people in power are going to keep some variation of CV-19 going for a long, long time. Today, Newsom (CA) stated that 50% of the new cases in Los Angeles are of the new, UK, more contagious variety. It's isn't a matter of whom you are gonna vote for, or whom you wish to blame. It's a matter of the swamp et al realizing that they can now control the masses with a word: "Hey, there's a new...
  • The River of Forgetfulness

    01/25/2021 11:06:31 AM PST · by Heartlander · 4 replies
    American Greatness ^ | January 24, 2021 | Victor Davis Hanson
    The River of Forgetfulness Before we are all reprogrammed, remember for a bit longer that the reset of memory and truth is not just a political agenda, but a holistic effort to redefine our past, present, and future. Riotous rogue Trump supporters who broke into the Capitol on January 6 were properly and widely condemned by conservatives. They were somewhat reminiscent of the mobs of fanatic leftists and union members that a decade ago stormed the Wisconsin state capitol at Madison, or the unpunished hundreds of rioters who created havoc on Washington, D.C. streets during the Trump 2016 inauguration. We...
  • Why I voted for Curt Schilling to be in Baseball Hall of Fame

    01/25/2021 10:09:59 AM PST · by nickcarraway · 12 replies
    New York Post ^ | January 25, 2021 | Ken Davidoff
    SNIP I wouldn’t enjoy a celebration day for Curt Schilling, whose support for the January 6 insurrection attempt at the Capitol building marked his latest display of hellbound behavior. None of those, it should be stressed, which also include calling for the murder of journalists or mocking trans people, qualify as “conservative.” They’re just hateful. Yet can the Plaque Gallery, which already houses all sorts of bigots, miscreants and rogues — long ago rendering the ballot’s “integrity, sportsmanship, character” wording irrelevant — fully tell the game’s story without including Schilling? It can’t, in my opinion. SNIP 8. Curt Schilling If...
  • How To Stop Using Google Search On Your Computer And Phone: Data scientists say Google can shift elections based on what it shows people

    01/25/2021 8:44:06 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 24 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 01/25/2021 | Joy Pullmann
    Google controls what the vast majority of the world finds on the internet. Being put at the top of the Google results for search is not only immensely lucrative, it is also almost mind-bogglingly powerful in global affairs.Since 2016, according to multiple reports, Google’s algorithm has been increasingly manipulated to bury and elevate specific information, especially politically charged information. This appears to have strong effects on what people believe and therefore how they vote and respond to polls that inform what politicians do with their power.A 2018 Wall Street Journal investigation concluded, “The internet giant uses blacklists, algorithm tweaks and...
  • Moderna Has a Reassuring Word About New COVID Variants - Its two-dose vaccine already protects against the new strains.

    01/25/2021 8:34:47 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 29 replies
    Townhall ^ | 01/25/2021 | Cortney O' Brien
    As two new variants of the coronavirus from the United Kingdom and South Africa threaten to sweep the U.S., Moderna has released a comforting statement to suggest that their FDA approved two-dose vaccine already protects against the new strains.In trials, the Moderna vaccine did not lose any of its efficacy against the new strains, the company explains in its statement. They will test an additional booster shot of the vaccine to determine if that increases its effectiveness, and will launch preclinical studies of a vaccine booster candidate against the South African strain:"The two-dose regimen of the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine at...
  • The Israeli behind ‘game-changing’ Covid nasal spray who says it’s 99.9% effective in stopping the spread of the Coronavirus

    01/25/2021 6:56:28 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 41 replies
    Time of Israel ^ | 01/25/2021 | Ellie Jacobs
    Dr Gilly Regev, who co-founded SaNOtize Research and Development Corp, speaking during a promotional video for its nasal sprayThe Israeli co-founder of a nasal spray that kills 99.9% of the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, has told Jewish News that she believes the spray will be a game changer in the fight against Covid-19. Dr Gilly Regev, who co-founded SaNOtize Research and Development Corp. based in Vancouver, Canada explained via telephone that “If you use it daily, I really believe you won’t be affected by Covid-19. We have shown in the clinical trials that the people who used it did not...
  • Be very careful what you say online… DHS is watching…

    01/25/2021 5:58:18 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 63 replies
    Citizen Free Press ^ | 25 Jan, 2021 | Kane
    1:54 Video at link. Comrade Jen Psaki announces Biden plan to investigate ‘domestic violent extremism’. In response to the Capitol massacre, Present Xiden is ordering the FBI and DHS to investigate.
  • Right on Schedule, COVID Pivots for Biden

    01/25/2021 5:07:22 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 15 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 25 Jan, 2021 | Brian C. Joondeph, M.D.
    Imagine changing the rules in the middle of the game, so that hits rather than runs, or first downs rather than touchdowns, determine the game winner. That is exactly what is happening with COVID reporting, just as many of us predicted. This confirms the lingering question of how much of COVID was about the actual virus versus a political club to hurt President Trump and drive him from office, quite successfully. As an interesting coincidence, the first case of the novel coronavirus arrived in the U.S. on the same day the House walked articles of impeachment to the Senate. The...
  • Boycott sham impeachment

    01/25/2021 4:46:25 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 6 replies
    The Hill ^ | 24 Jan, 2021 | SEN. RAND PAUL (R-KY.
    Sometimes in Washington, the powers that be will embark on a little bit of political theater. You can always spot it, though, if you look closely enough at what's real and what's not. In the last days of the presidency of Donald Trump, the Democrats and a handful of Never Trumpers banded together to insist he be impeached, again. The first impeachment of Donald Trump in 2019 was a witch hunt filled with fabricated charges, unsupported evidence and partisan rancor disguised as legal concern. I worked against this impeachment, but I will grant it one thing — while wrongheaded, the...
  • The Wuhan virus: Did we get what we paid for?

    01/25/2021 4:38:20 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 10 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 25 Jan, 2021 | Have our own tax dollars been funding the research and development for Frankenstein viruses, by the
    I read this story in the UK Daily Mail (May 2020) and thought it was an exaggeration, too bizarre to be believed...purely tabloid material. REVEALED: U.S. government gave $3.7million grant to Wuhan lab at center of coronavirus leak scrutiny that was performing experiments on bats from the caves where the disease is believed to have originated A similar story also appeared that same month with the same confounding accusation: Here's an interesting "discovery" I just made...if you search for this controversial story using Google, it takes about 2 minutes for the page to load. If you search using DuckDuckGo(.)com, the...
  • Watching as the USA Falls Prey to the Allure of Communism

    01/25/2021 4:30:33 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 9 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 25 Jan, 2021 | Eileen F. Toplansky
    It is truly a lurching epiphany, connecting the dots as to how systematically communism has infiltrated and transformed the United States. Repeatedly, one needs to ask: how is it possible that such a vile and discredited system as communism continues to gain traction among so many people? Like others before me, I am astonished at the prescience of W. Cleon Skousen, author of The Naked Communist, who, in 1958, explained "how many well-meaning citizens have become involved in pushing forward the Communist program without realizing it. They became converted to Communist objectives because they accepted superficial Communist slogans." Skousen succinctly...
  • You Know There Was Industrial-Scale Election Fraud. What Can Be Done?

    01/25/2021 4:22:05 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 32 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 25 Jan, 2021 | Jay Valentine
    Don't believe your lyin' eyes, and certainly do not believe the scores of fellow citizens who, under oath, signed affidavits and testified about the fraud those lying eyes witnessed. Put this behind you. Move on. Just forget it. But you can't. SNIP We built a spreadsheet with about 4 million rows, one for each of the ballots. We saw a video some teenager did counting how many ballots were received before they were mailed out. That's not a typo. SNIP So we ran the test on the data we were given. Guess what! About 30,000 — more, I recall —...