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Holden Walter-Warner
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Swimming caps designed for natural black hair won't be allowed at the upcoming Tokyo Olympics, with the sport's world governing body saying they are unsuitable because they do not 'following the natural form of the head.'
Critics have slammed the decision as racist, with one calling it an 'example of the whiteness of swimming.' The British brand Soul Cap sought to have its products officially recognized by FINA, but its application submitted last year was rejected. The company makes extra-large caps designed to protect thick, curly and voluminous hair.(Snip) The Switzerland-based governing body said Friday that it is currently reviewing the situation
Pensacola News Journal [FL],
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Colin Warren-Hicks
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A Pensacola man allegedly solicited advice from another man at a Gulf Breeze hotel about where he could purchase a “young Hispanic child,” according to an arrest report. Aleksandar Avdulaj, 49, was arrested Tuesday and charged with engaging in human trafficking for labor and services of a child.(Snip) While on scene, the officer spoke with a man who said Avdulaj asked him if he knew where to buy a child. The man said Avdulaj approached him while smelling like beer in the hotel’s parking lot and asked him “if I had a little Mexican girl that I wanted to sell for cash,” according to the report.
New York Post,
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Samuel Chamberlain
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President Biden’s nominee to be the next ambassador to Germany is an Ivy League president whose university paid him nearly $1 million for an honorary professor gig where he was seldom seen, it was revealed Friday. University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann, who has headed the Philadelphia-based institution since 2004, is the first envoy to a G-7 nation to be nominated by Biden.(Snip)In July 2019, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Biden was paid $911,643 by Penn. The student newspaper, the Daily Pennsylvanian, counted just nine on-campus appearances by the then-former senator and vice president between February 2017 and February 2019. Five of those
Daily Mail (UK),
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Gemma Parry
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Angela Merkel's immigration policies are 'fatal' and Germany is 'declining politically and economically', the former head of the country's spy agency has warned. Hans-Georg Maassen, who ran the Office for the Protection of the Constitution until 2018, slammed the Chancellor's border controls in a scathing interview. The 58-year-old blasted Mrs Merkel's decision to let in around 1.2million migrants in 2015 while he was in office under her.
He claimed Germans 'cannot understand why ever more people are coming into this country even though they obviously have no right to asylum'. His comments come just a week after a Somali immigrant
Washington Times,
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Tom Howell Jr.
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A little-noticed study says government orders to “shelter in place” during the COVID-19 fight did not save lives and spurred an uptick in excess deaths in some places, especially overseas. Researchers from the RAND Corporation and the University of Southern California studied excess mortality from all causes, the virus or otherwise, in 43 countries and the 50 U.S. states that imposed shelter-in-place, or “SIP,” policies. In short, the orders didn’t work.(Snip)Researchers counted all excess deaths to avoid a messy debate over what constituted a COVID-19 death. They pointed to reported upticks in deaths of despair—including drug overdoses, homicides, and unintentional injuries
Washington Times,
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Mark A. Kellner
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The conservative Presbyterian Church in America voted Thursday to disqualify all gay men from serving in its ministry. The 1,400-400 vote to change its governing document came at the denomination’s 48th General Assembly, held this week in St. Louis. The rule change, known as “Overture 23,” will go to local church bodies known as “presbyteries” for a vote before a second round of convention balloting next year that would place the language in the denomination’s “Book of Church Order,” which governs PCA practice.(Snip)The two votes are part of a continuing trend in the PCA, which has almost 400,000 members in the U.S., to uphold biblical views
Jersey Journal [Jersey City, NJ],
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Egan Adler
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A statue of the Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus outside a Downtown Jersey City Catholic church was vandalized and stolen Thursday night. Church officials said surveillance cameras recorded the vandalism and the Jersey City police have already been notified. “The gentleman was seen grabbing a brick and then throwing it at the statue,” said Nicholas Grillo, the church’s music director. “He broke it, then packed all the damage up and took it away.”(Snip) Just two weeks ago, a larger Virgin Mary statue, located on the opposite side of the building, was broken when someone tried to rip the statue off its pedestal.
New York Post,
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Jesse O'Neill
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A Massachusetts man was arrested for allegedly stabbing a rabbi eight times outside of a Jewish day school in Boston, local reports said.
Khaled Awad, 24, was charged with assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon and assault and battery on a police officer in connection with Thursday’s broad-daylight attack on Rabbi Shlomo Noginski, Boston 25 News reported. Investigators said Awad approached Noginski at around 1 p.m. outside the Shaloh House, a Brighton institution that serves the area’s Russian Jewish community. He allegedly pointed a gun at the rabbi and ordered him to hand over the keys to a school van, CBS Boston reported.
Washington Times,
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Dave Boyer
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President Biden couldn’t even draw a big in-person crowd at a teachers’ union convention on Friday evening, telling a mostly empty hall in Washington that teachers deserve a pay raise. Only about 50 members of leadership and staff of the National Education Association were in the cavernous hall at the Washington Convention Center when Mr. Biden and first lady Jill Biden, an educator with close ties to the NEA, took the stage. “Hello, everyone,” Mr. Biden said to laughter.(Snip)“She spoke to a largely empty hall, talking about the dedication of teachers to keeping students safe this past year, and for teaching remotely,” according to the pool report.
Washington Times,
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Cheryl K. Chumley
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In a tweet that didn’t take long to gather massive social media steam, Kirstie Alley, Hollywood’s female braveheart—brave, ‘cause she’s openly conservative—wrote: “People are becoming so ‘open minded’ that” soon enough “they will support pedophilia” as simple shows of love to children.
That ain’t hyperbole.That’s where the left indeed is headed. More from her tweet: “Down the road they will support pediphilia [sic] as people ‘just loving children.’(Snip)“Drag Queen Story Hour is just what it sounds like—drag queens reading stories to children in libraries, schools and bookstores,” the site states. “DQSH captures the imagination and play of the gender fluidity of childhood and gives kids
Washington Times,
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Douglas Ernst
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Marvel Comics is celebrating Independence Day by having the iconic hero Captain America tell readers that the American dream “isn’t real.”
The first issue of “The United States of Captain America” by writer Christopher Cantwell sees Steve Rogers, the famous red, white and blue “Avenger,” lament the nation’s “white picket fence fallacy.”(Snip) The character then laments another marketed version of America that doesn’t really exist— one with “white picket fences.” Instead, the character discusses an America that “doesn’t get along nicely with reality. Other cultures. Immigrants. The poor.” “We’re at our best when we keep no one out,” the title character says at one point.
Washington Times,
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Jessica Chasmar
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MSNBC political analyst and former Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill said Friday she and her family will start a new tradition this Independence Day by re-watching footage of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. The Missouri Democrat said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that The New York Times’s new video, “Day of Rage: An In-Depth Look at How a Mob Stormed the Capitol,” will become standard viewing at her family gatherings every July Fourth. “We’re going to start a new family tradition in my family,” Ms. McCaskill said, according to a clip flagged by Grabien Media. “On the Fourth of July and every Fourth of July going forward,
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It's OK now to admit that voting is a sham. Picture Mayor Pete, if he's tired of being Secretary of Trans, swooping in as a dark horse candidate and grabbing the ring.