Month: January 2022

A Chicago Public Schools (CPS) training program tells teachers that sex is a “socially constructed” phenomenon and instructs them to hide students’ gender pronouns from their parents, Fox News reported. CPS told teachers that “gender and sex” are social constructs that have been “created and enforced” by society and threatened retaliatory measures if they didn’t
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Fareed Zakaria makes a point I hadn’t seen before regarding how Putin has, to his own detriment, stoked Ukrainian nationalism and taken pro-Russian voters out of the equation: “When Putin took Crimea in 2014, he lost Ukraine,” as Owen Matthews writes in a thought-provoking essay. After it declared independence in 1991, Ukraine was divided between
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In a piece published on NewsOne, Zack Linly claimed that former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson’s “entire existence in the political world is due to identity politics.” Carson, who is black, had a distinguished career as a renowned neurosurgeon before he went on to serve as HUD secretary during most of President Donald
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Once the 2022 Beijing Olympics are underway next month, people all around the globe will tune in and watch the athletic spectacle on television — but they won’t be watching at Dirty Water, a sports bar located in Washington D.C. The Daily Caller reported that the bar’s owner, Chris DeFelice, has decided not to show
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West Virginia Governor Jim Justice told Bette Midler to kiss his bulldog’s “hiney” in response to the washed up singer’s attack on the people of his state. The Republican governor flashed his English bulldog’s backside to Bette Midler and other toxic leftists attacking the good people of West Virginia. Last month Hollywood elitist Bette Midler
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The defenders of “affirmative action” (more accurately, admissions preferences for students from certain groups regarded as deserving because of the way they were treated in the past) say that their practice is laudable, since there are “educational benefits” to everyone if the student body is “diverse.” As Steven Hayward observes in this post on PowerLine,
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The director general of the World Health Organization thanked legendary musician Neil Young for taking a stand against Joe Rogan’s podcast and pulling his music from Spotify. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tweeted his message to Young on Thursday. “[Neil Young] thanks for standing up against misinformation and inaccuracies around #COVID19 vaccination. Public and private sector, in
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America’s surge in grotesque, random mayhem has become a coast-to-coast crime epic. Some examples: •Indianapolis, Philadelphia, and 10 other cities set new murder records last year. Democrats control all 12 locales. •Police accuse Shawn Laval Smith, a violent “homeless” man, of fatally stabbing UCLA graduate student Brianna Kupfer on Jan. 13 while she worked in
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Then-president Donald Trump walks with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis at Orlando Sanford International Airport in Sanford, Fla., March 9, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) Two new polls show Florida governor Ron DeSantis with a realistic shot of defeating Donald Trump in a 2024 primary.  The former president remains the strong favorite, but he’s under 50 percent in
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The teenager acquitted after shooting three people during anti-racism riots in Wisconsin has asked for his gun back. Kyle Rittenhouse, 19, killed Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum and wounded Gaige Grosskreutz during the demonstrations in Kenosha in August 2020. He was cleared of all charges including murder after arguing he fired his gun in self-defence,
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On Thursday, National Review Executive Editor Mark Antonio Wright reported: “In a ostensibly straight-news write-up on the politics of the coming confirmation of Justice Breyer’s successor, Politico reporters Meridith McGraw and Hailey Fuchs write: ‘The conservative movement has, for decades, prioritized Supreme Court fights over nearly all other forms of political battle….[but] they aren’t planning
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Mark Joseph Stern (left) and Ilya Shapiro (right) ( Frederick M. Brown/Stringer via Getty Images and Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons) One has to feel sorry for Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern, who is being criticized on Twitter and beyond for what was clearly just a big ol’ misunderstanding. There he was on Twitter, minding his own business,
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Goldie Hawn warned that the national trauma inflicted on children by the COVID-19 pandemic is approaching and “could very well surpass” the dread brought on by the 9/11 terror attacks and the Cold War. In an op-ed for USA Today, Hawn described how she saw her “entire world get ripped apart” by the threat of
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As global tensions rose and economic uncertainty plagued the American people this week, the Bidens welcomed a new four-legged friend into the White House. The first lady’s office announced that America’s first family welcomed a two-year-old gray-and-white-striped cat named Willow to the White House. Reuters reports that a spokesperson for Jill Biden, Michael LaRosa, confirmed
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Larry Fink has emerged as the point man for environmental, social, and corporate governance capitalism, broadly known as ESG. As chief executive officer of BlackRock, which holds a $10 trillion global portfolio, Fink leverages this immense power to compel companies that BlackRock invests in to comply with an aggressive climate change and diversity agenda in
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