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“Democrat Staffer Who Filmed Himself Having Sex in the Capitol Won't Be Charged.”So reads the headline reporting a video posted by the above-mentioned staffer which showed for the first time ever a nearly naked man on all fours inside the Capitol office building. The video wasn't just nude posing either. The male staffer and his boyfriend filmed themselves engaging in homosexual sexinside a meeting room of the Capitol Building. Sen. Ben Cardin, who employed the staffer, simply dropped the issue. Aidan Maese-Czeropski, the staffer in question, was defiant in the aftermath, claiming he was "being attacked for who I love...

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the woods... Today we learn that, in British Columbia, a 45-year-old "ecosexual" woman has fallen head-over-heels in love with a tree. It's unknown as to whether the tree reciprocates her feelings.A self-proclaimed “ecosexual” took nature loving to the extreme after becoming infatuated with an oak tree — which she says fills her with “erotic energy.”“There was an eroticism with something so big and so old holding my back,” Sonja Semyonova, 45, told SWNS of her forest fetish.She is a self-proclaimed “ecosexual,” defined by “Here Come The Ecosexuals” as a...

The family of the transgender student at the center of a controversy involving Monarch High’s girls volleyball team has received both of an “outpouring of support” and a loss of privacy, her mom said Monday. Jessica Norton, an information management specialist at the school, publicly identified herself as the mother of the girl for the first time Monday, through a statement...

Students at Monarch High School are mobilizing for a possible walk-out after top staff was reassigned over a transgender athlete’s participation in a girls’ sports team....

The principal of a high school in Broward has been reassigned amid an investigation into a transgender student athlete playing on a girl's sports team, sources told NBC6. The principal at Monarch High School in Coconut Creek, along with several staff members, have been reassigned to non-school sites pending an investigation into allegations of improper student participation in sports, officials with Broward County Public Schools said in a statement Monday... Students at the high school told NBC6 that the investigation involved the girl's volleyball team.

For most Americans, labels such as “gay,” “non-binary,” and even “members of the LGBTQ+ community” are generally used interchangeably to describe those preferring same sex partners. This imprecision suffices for ordinary conversation, but it fails to capture a key political distinction among today’s homosexuals, namely those embracing the label “queer.” The label “queer” may appear new, but it is decades old. In his 1995 book Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography, David Halperin explains:As the very word implies, ‘queer’ does not name some natural kind or refer to some determinate object; it acquires its meaning from its oppositional relation to...

Raquel Welch helped Bob Hope entertain the boys fighting communism in Vietnam. Jo Raquel Teqada was born on September 5th 1940, in Chicago, Illinois and died in February this year in Los Angeles. She was both willing and reluctant to be an amazing sex symbol. I call that being human. Her own words distance her from her sex goddess status without totally rejecting it: “My family was very conservative, and I had a traditional upbringing. I was not brought up to be a sex symbol, nor is it in my nature to be one. The fact that I became one...

Norma Shearer (121st birthday today on august 11, tomorrow, American time) said "A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself." And “The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.” This is easy to disapprove of. And to be drawn to. Freedom works. Morality? Whose?

Barack Obama is “as insecure as Trump,” his biographer said this week — and doubled down on his book’s revelations that the former president “repeatedly fantasizes about making love to men.” David Garrow penned the 1,472-page “Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama” in 2017, which he discussed in a lengthy interview with Tablet Wednesday. The 70-year-old Pulitzer Prize-winning historian sat with Obama for eight hours over three days for the massive tome, which received mixed reviews — and obtained letters from three of his former girlfriends. Among them was Alex McNear, Obama’s girlfriend when they both attended Occidental College***...

Peter Paul Rubens was born on the 28th June, 1577. “My passion comes from the heavens,” said Rubens, “not from earthly musings.” In Rubens world men could be men and women could be women. There’s desire. There’s the chase. There is fun. Now, in 2023, that human reality gets confused with crime. Our deep connection, in what we traditional adults are and can be, is too often lost. But life is beautiful. God made us to couple and to love.

George Orwell taught us that control over the terms used to discuss consequential subjects is a key element of tyranny. It's a lesson that the left took to heart as a weapon, not as a caution against despotism. No better example exists today than the language of sex, which the left has asserted control over, immensely assisted by its dominance of the major media organs. Calling genital mutilation "gender-affirming care" is the most blatant example of bizarro-world terminology since calling abortion "reproductive health care" and its advocacy as "choice." Virtually the entire medical, academic, and journalistic establishments employ the term...

Once the shooting begins, there is little place for rational conversation. Alas, recently in Nashville, TN, a 28-year-old disturbed woman, calling herself a male, walked into the Covenant School, which she had attended as a youth, and executed three adults and three nine-year-old children: Evelyn Dieckhaus, Mike Hill, William Kinney, Katherine Koonce, Cynthia Peak, and Hallie Scruggs. We note the names of those slaughtered and pray for their bereaved families. Recently, there has been a call to violence among progressives. Already, violent speech and the refusal of dialogue has taken over college campuses, where screaming and physical threats bring an...

As the seasons change and the weather warms, American adults are yet again being subjected to the uncomfortable spectacle of teenage girls wearing outfits more befitting a runway show than a school, a store, or any other public setting. Every winter I hope the trend loses steam or reverses, but every spring it returns worse than the previous year. I wish there were a way I could word this in a less tawdry manner, but I can’t, so I’ll just be blunt: Mom and Dad, we can see the bottom of your teenage daughter’s ass. And we shouldn’t be seeing...

Claire Windsor was born in Phillips County, Kansas, to Scandinavian parents on April 14, 1892 .......... She was married twice and well known for her love affairs ........... “Love” she said, “shouldn’t be about rules ......... When you meet that person, everything will be calm .......

From the baptism to the sermon to the blessing ceremony View of the Fifth Synodal Assembly in Frankfurt Practical consequences of the synodal path for the Diocese of Osnabrück New blessing celebrations for couples, baptisms also by non-clerics and women and men who preach in the service: These are three of the concrete consequences that the resolutions of the synodal path of the Catholic Church in Germany will have for the Diocese of Osnabrück. Other resolutions of the process at the federal level, which was concluded last weekend with the Fifth Synodal Assembly, are also to be implemented promptly in...

Sue Lyon and Blanche Baker were gorgeous in different ways as Lolita. But that doesn't make understanding the issues involved easy for anyone. I am only going to identify the 44 year old guy under arrest in Florida for firing shots into a bedroom by the one initial M. M believed he was shooting at a man who had been in bed naked with M's teenage daughter was in that bedroom. As I understand it, M called the police. Now M is under arrest. Formally, he should get the presumption of innocence. Some people will see him as a hero....

By Mary Weller for truthXchange The documentary Dead Name grips your heart from its first minutes as it tells the stories of three parents and their struggle to fight for their children, caught by the full-force push of radical gender ideology throughout our culture. Devoid of sensationalism, politicization, or manipulation this well-produced movie allows you to meet Helen, Bill, and Amy, each of whom have a son or daughter who has identified as transgender. Viewers are shown the resulting devastation this has caused them and their families. Though each story is unique, what binds the three together is the clear...

Parents and students alike are furious over a lascivious sex survey sent to 10th-grade students, roughly 15 and 16 years old. The parents were never informed that the survey was being sent to the students’ school-provided computers. The survey — part of a Healthcare class at Sachem High School East in Farmingville, N.Y. — questioned kids about their sexual preference as well as their sexual history, gender identity, and — oddly — their weight. Some of the wildly inappropriate questions on the survey include; Have you ever participated in v*ginal or an*l s*x?Have you ever participated in oral s*x?During your...

ORLANDO, Fla. – Facing blowback, the director of Florida’s high school sports governing body is backing away from using an eligibility form that requires female athletes to disclose their menstrual history in order to compete. ... a group of Democratic state lawmakers sent a letter this week to John Gerdes, the association’s president, calling the reporting requirements in the earlier proposed form “highly invasive.”

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is asking state universities for the number and ages of their students who sought gender dysphoria treatment, including sex reassignment surgery and hormone prescriptions, according to a survey released Wednesday. ...The survey is being sent to the university board of trustee chairs by DeSantis’ budget director, Chris Spencer. “Our office has learned that several state universities provide services to persons suffering from gender dysphoria," Spencer wrote. “On behalf of the Governor, I hereby request that you respond to the enclosed inquiries related to such services...