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A 12-year-old in Oklahoma is in custody after she allegedly stabbed her 9-year-old brother, according to police. The Tulsa Police Department said the stabbing happened on Thursday night around 11:43 p.m. while the children's parent was sleeping. Police said that the parent learned about the incident when she was woken up by her 12-year-old, who told her that she stabbed her brother.

The Satanic Temple is dedicating the "largest satanic gathering in history" to Democratic Boston Mayor Michelle Wu after the group wasn't allowed to deliver a satanic invocation at Boston City Hall. SatanCon 2023 will take place in downtown Boston from April 28 to 30 and registered guests are required to wear masks and show proof of a COVID-19 vaccination, according to the organization.

A Wyoming church elder has had his tabling privileges revoked for a year by the University of Wyoming (UW) after he set up a table on campus calling a trans-identified male student "a male," causing a group of lawmakers to denounce the decision. According to the Star Tribune, on Dec 2, Laramie Faith Community Church elder Todd Schmidt displayed a sign in the Wyoming Union breezeway saying "God Created Male and Female and [Artemis Langford] is a male." Langford is a trans-identified male student who was accepted into the Kappa Kappa Gamma UW sorority earlier this year. Schmidt cooperated and...

A newly elected Democrat Congressman from California opted to be sworn in on a copy of the original Superman comic.In addition to being sworn in on the comic, Robert Garcia, former mayor of Long Beach, will be sworn in on a photo of his deceased parents, both of whom he lost to COVID-19 in 2020, a copy of the constitution, and a copy of his citizenship certificate. The comic will be borrowed from the Library of Congress. Garcia will be the first openly homosexual immigrant in Congress.Garcia spokeswoman Sara Guerrero, speaking with the New York Post, said that “Congressman Garcia...

On Dec. 14, 2022, one of her final days as speaker of the House, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) gave a speech in the Capitol during the ceremony that marked the unveiling of her official portrait, which now hangs in the Capitol. In that speech, Pelosi spoke about how her faith inspired her public service. “In a moment, you will hear from Father Privett, my dear friend,” said Pelosi. “As you know, my public service is based on my faith, springs from my faith. I'll never forget the prayer that Father Privett delivered on the floor during my swearing-in as Speaker...

Make Orwell Fiction Again. The Washington state Department of Health recently released a five-part curriculum, and it transcends the typical bounds of the woke agenda so characteristic of the political regressives driving public "education" into the ground. Frank Bergman's headline caught my eye, because the locations of the quotations were quite surreal: "Public School 'Climate' Curriculum: 'Emotions' Should Outweigh 'Rational Thinking.'" From the article: The health department claims the new curriculum aims to help students learn the 'intersections of biological, societal, and environmental issues.' ... In the second phase of the curriculum, 'Climate Change & Pregnancy.' educators and students are...

CNA Newsroom, Dec 30, 2022 / 08:04 am A woman arrested by British police faces charges of “protesting and engaging in an act that is intimidating to service users” for standing still and praying silently outside an abortion facility. Isabel Vaughan-Spruce was arrested in Birmingham, UK, on Dec. 6. Video footage of her arrest was published on social media. The video shows an officer asking Vaughan-Spruce if she was praying, to which she answers: “I might be praying in my head.” Following a further exchange with police, the 45-year-old was arrested and interrogated. Vaughan-Spruce is the director of March for...

Almost 40 percent of students identify as LGBTQ at liberal arts colleges, according to a report published by the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology.

A 10-year-old boy who is charged with fatally shooting his mother for refusing to buy him a VR headset seems more preoccupied with his gadgets than the murder as he faces trial, family members say. The Milwaukee boy is charged as an adult with first-degree reckless homicide in the November 21 killing of Quiana Mann, 44, who was shot in the face in their home. The boy's aunt Rhonda Reid told WTMJ-TV on Tuesday that when she talks to him in custody, he claims not to remember the shooting and quickly shifts the conversation to his favorite topic. 'When he...

In the least surprising clinical conclusion in world history, research published in the medical journal Transgender Health revealed the sizable mental health disparity between transgender and cisgender subjects:We performed a cross-sectional analysis of the prevalence of psychiatric diagnoses among transgender patients in clinical care using an all-payer electronic health record database. Of 10,270 transgender patients identified, 58% (n=5940) had at least one psychiatric diagnosis compared with 13.6% (n=7,311,780) in the control patient population (p<0.0005). Transgender patients had a statistically significant increase in prevalence for all psychiatric diagnoses queried, with major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder being the most common...

Apparently, no one is supposed to be shocked or appalled that Massachusetts public schools are sneaking around on parents to convert their children into the opposite-sex imitations known as transgenders.That's the ruling of an Obama-appointed federal judge, who ruled against the parents of two kids who suddenly declared themselves to be in "the wrong bodies" with the egging on of school officials, who concealed the matter from their parents.According to Mairead Elordi's report at the Daily Wire:A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit from Massachusetts parents who accused public school officials of hiding their children's gender transitions from them.U.S....

Reports find that while attacks on churches and pro-life institutions surge, only 37% of the US is aware of the crisis.A new report from the Family Research Council (FRC) has documented some 420 instances of attacks on churches in the United States between 2018 and 2022. While the crisis of violence against both Catholic and Christian churches is disheartening, so too is a new report from the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which recently found that only 37% of Americans have heard about the crisis at all. The FRC has been tracking attacks on churches within the US since January...

Former President Donald Trump addressed an audience gathered at his Mar-a-Lago club and estate in Palm Beach, Fla., Thursday night for the Log Cabin Republicans’ Spirit of Lincoln gala, the conservative LGBTQ group’s flagship event. “We are fighting for the gay community, and we are fighting and fighting hard,” Trump said. “Last night, we had over 450 LGBT conservatives and our straight allies join us for another amazing Spirit of Lincoln gala,” Log Cabin Republicans President Charles Moran told the Washington Blade. “While the speakers and award honorees spanned the conservative spectrum, all of them, including President Trump, articulated a...

This is getting some attention today but the actual incident happened back on October 26. That’s when a transgender student entered a girls bathroom at Edmond Memorial High School in Edmond, Oklahoma and got into a fight with two female classmates. Police were called and the information on the case comes from a police report.The attending officer noted the female victim had “several red areas” on her face, and that both of her eyes were beginning to swell. The officer conducted an interview with the victim, whose full name was redacted due to her age.The female student advised the officer...

A customer shot and critically injured a worker at a KFC in St. Louis over a lack of corn. The man was placing an order in the eatery’s drive-thru lane Monday evening when employees informed him the restaurant was out of corn, police said. The man grew enraged and threatened the employees over the drive-thru speaker box at the fast food joint located at 5020 Delmar Blvd. in the Central West End neighborhood. He then drove up to the drive-thru window with a handgun, according to cops. A 25-year-old employee went out to speak with the man and came back...

Presumed incoming prime-minister Benjamin Netanyahu says in an interview with a US television network that he will not allow any harm to come to LGBT rights in Israel. "I just won't accept any of that. It's not something I'm saying now--I have a record now and a record in general of having two hands on the wheel," Netanyahu says during the NBC show "Meet The Press," noting that "I ultimately decide policy." "I'm going to safeguard Israeli democracy, I'm going to bring peace, categorically...and I'm going to stop Iran. That's what I'm coming back for...

A 10-year-old boy is in a Wisconsin juvenile detention center on allegations he shot and killed his mother because he wanted a virtual reality headset. Children's Court Judge Marshall B. Murray is holding the unidentified boy under a $50,000 bond on charges of first-degree reckless homicide. He is being charged as an adult, which is in accordance with state law when it comes to crimes of this degree. The boy admitted to police that he retrieved the gun from his mother's bedroom and shot her on accident on Nov. 21, according to the criminal complaint. His 26-year-old sister called the...

Chemist describes ‘an atmosphere of ideological control, omnipresence of ideology’Contemporary American university life resembles education under the USSR, a Soviet émigrée professor wrote in a November 28 essay for Heterodox STEM.Anna Krylov, a chemist at the University of Southern California, left the Soviet Union in 1991, not long after the collapse of the Berlin Wall.“I thought I would never again experience an atmosphere of ideological control, omnipresence of ideology, policing of speech and thought, suppression of dissent, compelled speech, fear, and self-censorship,” she wrote.However, her life as a chemistry professor in a contemporary American university has reminded her repeatedly of...

Gay and bisexual men in monogamous relationships would be allowed to donate blood without abstaining from sex under guidelines being drafted by the Food and Drug Administration, people familiar with the plans said. The change would be a departure from U.S. policy that for many years barred men who have sex with men from donating blood. The FDA policy originated in the 1980s during the AIDS epidemic, when tests for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, weren’t considered sensitive enough to protect the blood supply. The FDA lifted the ban in 2015 but said gay and bisexual men had to...

Less than half of students at Cambridge University now identify as heterosexual, a survey has found. Around 600 undergraduates took part in the anonymous online poll for student newspaper Varsity last month. Of those, just 49.7 per cent said they were heterosexual... ...The findings of the Varsity poll also tally with a survey by Oxford University’s student paper Cherwell, which found 49 per cent of students identified as heterosexual ...