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  • CNN reporter has dinner with Trump MAGA supporters, implies a Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde dynamic

    05/08/2024 10:47:46 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 21 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 05/08/2024 | Jack Hellner
    On the surface, Trump supporters are “well-educated and successful” professionals, but underneath that veneer we’re monsters… who want to make America great again.At least, that’s what Michelle Kosinksi thinks, because a first hand experience enjoying dinner with supporters of the president has left a permanent impression that will “haunt” her.Here’s the story, from Fox News:Ex-CNN reporter Michelle Kosinski wrote in a Sunday social media post that she was surprised by how ‘normal’ a group of ‘closeted’ Trump supporters seemed at a dinner she attended, which she said continues to ‘haunt’ her.‘All were well-educated and successful in careers. They seemed great!...
  • Federal Judges: No More Law Clerks From Columbia

    05/07/2024 8:30:36 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 30 replies
    Hotair ^ | 05/07/2024 | Jazz Shaw
    If you've been hoping for a solution to the spreading antisemitic protests on college campuses, help may be on the way. This is what's known as hitting them where it hurts. More than a dozen federal judges sent a notification to Columbia University Law School yesterday informing them that they will not be accepting applications from any of their graduates to be law clerks starting with the class of 2024. The judges were led by jurists from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. The letter was addressed directly to Columbia President Minouche Shafik....
  • Boy Scouts take final woke step, announce incredible name change

    05/07/2024 1:45:48 PM PDT · by fwdude · 72 replies
    World Net Daily ^ | May 7, 2024 | Bob Unruh
    In what is being viewed by many as a final plunge into wokeness, the Boy Scouts of America has announced a name change. No longer will the name include "Boys." It will be just "Scouting America." Effective next year. USA Today reported the organization said its goal is to be more "inclusive."
  • Florida Bans 'Indoctrination' In Teacher-Training Programs

    05/06/2024 6:20:25 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 25 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 05/06/2024 | Patricia Tolson
    Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill into law on May 2 banning “indoctrination” programs for teachers.The measure, HB 1291, prohibits programs, courses, and curricula in teacher training from “distorting” historical events or promoting political ideologies regarding race, sex, and gender.Accredited postsecondary institutions can seek Florida Department of Education approval to create institutes to educate teachers on improving classroom instruction and meeting requirements for certification or recertification.They can also seek approval for instruction on educating existing and potential substitute teachers on how to perform classroom duties and to teach those with baccalaureate degrees how to become certified.However, teacher...
  • The Historical Roots of the Anti-Israel Positions of Liberal Protestant Churches

    05/06/2024 12:17:21 PM PDT · by Vlad0 · 27 replies
    The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs ^ | 1 June 2007 | Hans Jansen
    The verbal attacks and boycott calls by a variety of Western Protestant, mainly liberal, denominations, as well as the World Council of Churches, have raised new interest in the origins of Christian anti-Semitism and in particular its Protestant version. Among the Protestants’ founding fathers, Martin Luther was particularly anti-Semitic. His writings were precursors of twentieth-century National Socialist texts. Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, and Julius Streicher gladly quoted from Luther’s works, even if he never recommended the physical destruction of the Jews. Luther did, however, advise burning synagogues in honor of God and Christianity, confiscating Jewish books, and expelling Jews from...
  • American Universities Are On A Death Spiral, And We Should Help Them Along

    05/06/2024 7:54:02 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 25 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 05/05/2024 | Jason Garshfield
    Everyone knows college campuses have been ideological cesspits for years, but the Oct. 7 response is our chance to burn them to the ground.On March 9, 2023, the Stanford Law School chapter of the Federalist Society invited Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals judge Kyle Duncan to give a talk on campus. Duncan’s conservative and pro-life views aroused the ire of a mob of student demonstrators, who showed up to disrupt the event with signs bearing messages including, “Judge Duncan Can’t Find the Clit.” Protesters repeatedly shouted down Duncan as he tried to give his speech; one yelled at him, “We...
  • In academia, has the monster the left created broken free?

    05/06/2024 7:44:48 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 5 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 05/05/2024 | Lewis Dovland
    In the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, the computer HAL 9000 jumped the boundaries its creators set and took control of the vessel, killing most of the crew. Are we seeing a similar situation as the little campus Marxists, the ones whom the Democrats’ elites and intelligentsia created, burst out of their academic confines? Have their little minions escaped the lab, much as COVID-19 escaped Wuhan? As it turns out, the revolutionaries have broken free, but it turns out that they and their creators are as one.Or is it a smokescreen to mislead the public and to stall for time?...
  • Lefties losing it: Rita Panahi reacts to Biden’s blunders and activist chaos

    05/05/2024 7:51:11 AM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 13 replies
    Sky News ^ | 19/4/24 | Rita Panahi
    In this extended ‘Lefties Losing It’, Sky News host Rita Panahi reacts to Joe Biden’s latest blunders, pro-Palestine activists causing chaos and MSNBC’s “delusional meltdown”. Ms Panahi claimed the US President’s cognitive decline was hitting “new lows” after he appeared to confuse the Israeli city Haifa with Rafah in Gaza. He also bizarrely claimed his uncle was eaten by cannibals after his plane crashed, however, Pentagon records state the aircraft plunged into the Pacific off the coast of New Guinea. In a separate video, the Sky News host reacted to travellers in the United States abandoning their cars after pro-Palestine...
  • Study identifies key factors boosting compersion in non-monogamous relationships

    05/05/2024 2:01:20 AM PDT · by fwdude · 36 replies
    PsyPost ^ | May 4, 2024 | Eric W. Dolan
    In a world where romantic relationships traditionally adhere to monogamy, the reaction to a partner’s intimate connection with someone else is typically assumed to be jealousy. However, within the community that practices consensual non-monogamy, a different emotional response known as compersion — defined as feeling joy when a partner is romantically or sexually involved with another person — is increasingly recognized and valued. A recent study provides insight into the predictors of compersion, revealing that emotional closeness with a partner’s other intimate connections, clear communication about these relationships, and reduced feelings of jealousy are key facilitators. The findings have been...
  • To Be Happy, Women Must Do The Opposite Of Everything Secular Western Culture Tells Them

    05/03/2024 9:50:50 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 98 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 05/03/2024 | Joy Pullmann
    Suzanne Venker’s latest book, How to Build a Better Life, distills her countercultural, practical, and effective life advice for women.Everyone wants to talk about what’s wrong with men, whether it’s “toxic masculinity,” “men without work,” “the end of men,” the longhouse, or the need for men to “clean their rooms.” Not so many people, however, want to talk about what’s wrong with women. Even the longhouse complaint is that women are too successful:As of 2022, women held 52 percent of professional-managerial roles in the U.S. Women earn more than 57 percent of bachelor degrees, 61 percent of master’s degrees, and...
  • The Case for Ben Carson and the Return of American Goodness

    05/03/2024 11:27:50 AM PDT · by fwdude · 43 replies
    Chronicles Magazine ^ | May 2, 2024 | Theodore Roosevelt Malloch
    Hiding in plain site is the singular person who could do more for the Trump candidacy, for the Republican ticket, for the party as such, and for the country, than any other. His name is Dr. Ben Carson. The obvious question is: Why is everyone missing this? Carson, without question, is a world-renowned surgeon and first-class mind. He is a gentle soul who served loyally as a cabinet secretary in the first Trump term—one of the few persons to do so for the full duration. Less we forget, he was also the dedicated vice chairman of Trump’s transition team. As...
  • Meet The ‘New George Soros’ Using Front Groups To Influence Elections

    05/02/2024 12:05:36 PM PDT · by rktman · 25 replies
    dailycaller.com ^ | 5/2/2024 1400 hrs | Scott Walter
    It’s a story that goes to the very heart of the Left’s mountain of shadowy funding and professional activism: a foreign billionaire infamous for illegally funding Democrats, enriched by selling ghoulish medical treatments that resulted in multiple deaths, and bankrolling a multimillion-dollar “dark money” campaign to transform America. Meet Swiss-born Hansjörg Wyss (pronounced “Hans-yurg Veese”), perhaps the most important mega-donor you’ve never heard of. His Wyss Foundation, founded in 1998, quietly commands a stunning $2.7 billion in assets (as of 2021) and annually pours out tens of millions of dollars to activist groups—around a billion dollars between 2002 and 2021—so...
  • Of the 300 Pro-Hamas Agitators Arrested at Columbia, Most Weren't Students(shocking?not!)

    05/02/2024 9:35:28 AM PDT · by rktman · 43 replies
    townhall.com ^ | 5/1/2024 1930 hrs | Sarah Arnold
    New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) sounds the alarm that the roughly 300 pro-Hamas protestors arrested by NYPD Tuesday night at Columbia University and City College of New York may not be students— but rather part of radical terrorist organizations. Adams said that when he became aware that the majority of the pro-terrorism protestors weren’t students but professional agitators, he promised to fight for the American “way of life” as the demonstrators continued to harass Jewish communities. “Once I became aware of the outside agitators who were part of this operation, as Columbia mentioned in their letter and their...
  • Title IX Rules: 6 More States Sue Biden Admin Over "Radical And Illegal" Changes; “The U.S. Department of Education has no authority to let boys into girls’ locker rooms...”

    05/01/2024 8:50:34 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 17 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 05/01/2024 | Katabella Roberts
    A group of six Republican state attorneys general filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration’s Department of Education on Tuesday over what they said were “radical and illegal” changes to Title IX rules.The lawsuit, led by Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman and Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti, was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.In their legal filing, the GOP attorneys general argued that the department overstepped its authority when rolling out new updates to Title IX rules that expanded protections to students by incorporating gender identity into the legal text.They further claimed the changes...
  • Fourth Circuit Appeals Court Says State Health Policies Excluding Transgender Surgeries Violate Constitution

    04/30/2024 7:55:36 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 16 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 04/30/2024 | Sam Dorman
    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled against two state-level health policies that exclude so-called “gender-affirming” treatments, teeing up potential review by the U.S. Supreme Court...Judge Roger Gregory, an appointee of Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, wrote in his majority opinion that the policies’ exclusion of surgeries such as vaginoplasties for certain diagnoses violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.“The coverage exclusions facially discriminate on the basis of sex and gender identity, and are not substantially related to an important government interest,” he said.The 8–6 decision affirmed lower court decisions against West Virginia’s...
  • Ontario Student suspended for truthful statement: The most basic of scientific realities is Kryptonite to the fascist censors of Trudeau’s Canada

    04/30/2024 9:39:42 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 8 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 04/30/2024 | Eric Utter
    Catholic teenager Malachy O’Kane was suspended from his Ontario public high school for 6 days because he wore a sweatshirt reading, “There are only two genders.” O’Kane, 16, was suspended earlier this month, the second day he wore the shirt to the Granite Ridge Education Centre in Sharbot Lake, a small Ontario municipality in between Toronto and Ottawa. One of the school’s counselors told Malachy that he was not allowed to wear the shirt because the school considers it “hate speech.” Ironically and hypocritically, the school itself, which serves children from kindergarten to Grade 12, prominently displays controversial ideological-political messaging—including...
  • There's nothing sudden about today's rampant anti-Semitism

    04/30/2024 8:16:14 AM PDT · by rktman · 26 replies
    wnd.com ^ | 4/29/2024 | Mychal Massie
    The idea that hatred of Jews has just suddenly exploded upon college campuses and other hatred-promoting institutions throughout America is a fallacy based primarily upon a priori reasoning. In brief, just because demonic hordes of satanic progeny have only since Oct. 7, 2023, erupted into violence and transpicuous displays of hatred toward Jews and Israel, that in no way precludes that said rabid hatred was not incubating just beneath the surface for many decades, waiting for the right moment to be unleashed. I submit that the hatred for Jews has been a teeming cauldron growing in intensity, waiting for the...
  • Beautiful Eva Vlaardingerbroek Delivers Historic Speech “The Great Replacement Reality” at CPAC Hungary and Euro Elites Are Losing It – Elon Musk Weighs In – VIDEO

    04/30/2024 8:08:03 AM PDT · by rktman · 27 replies
    www.thegatewaypundit.com ^ | 4/29/2024 | Jim Hoft
    CPAC Hungary was held this weekend in Budapest, Hungary. The conference was attended by conservatives from though out the continent and America. The unexpected highlight of the weekend conference may have been the riveting speech by the beautiful Eva Vlaardingerbroek. Eva did not hold back in her defense of Christian Europe and the current assault by the globalist left to destroy our civilization. Here is the transcript from Eva Vlaardingerbroek’s CPAC speech.
  • Feminism has left middle-aged women like me single, childless and depressed

    04/26/2024 4:06:17 AM PDT · by Vigilanteman · 155 replies
    The Telegraph ^ | 25 April 2024 | Petronella Wyatt
    I increasingly feel that feminism has failed my generation. It is a peculiarity of the West that it is divided into sets which differ profoundly in their beliefs. This state of affairs began with the Reformation and has grown more pronounced ever since. There were Protestants and Catholics who differed fundamentally not only on faith but on practical matters. It was among Protestant communities that feminism first emerged, and it is in Protestant countries such as America and Britain in which feminist beliefs have been at their most vocal and strident in tone, like a religion with no dilution of...
  • Mutiny In China - Youth is giving up on life "Let it Rot", CCP worried

    04/26/2024 3:18:07 AM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 18 replies
    Mutiny In China - Youth is giving up on life "Let it Rot", CCP worried