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Kutztown University grad living the dad life. Spend my time gaming, playing sports in rec leagues, and working on websites for a living. Eagles and Phillies fan, but screw the Sixers. Everyone but Maxey sucks. Go birds! For gaming, hit me up on Xbox to play some Destiny2, COD, Halo, or Battlefield. @Drastic215
Wilson Hospital School in Ireland decided to suspend one of its teachers because he refused to use the pronoun “they” when speaking to a certain student. Enoch Burke was arrested and urged to undergo a disciplinary process. Namely, the student identifies as transgender, and Burke believes that that is against Christian beliefs. The court imposed a temporary barring order, but Burke returned to the school nevertheless, and he was caught and taken to prison. “I am a teacher and I don’t want to go to prison,” Burke said regarding the incident. “I want to be in my classroom today, that’s…
Amid a fusillade of false claims, an email sent up a flare, which was sent from an anguished Fox News news producer to colleagues in 2020. “Fox cannot let host Jeanine Pirro back on the air,” the producer warned after she spread election conspiracy theories. He continued: “She is pulling conspiracy theories from dark corners of the Web to justify then-President Donald Trump’s lies that the election had been stolen from him.” The email’s existence is first publicly disclosed by NPR in this story, confirmed by two people with direct knowledge of it. Fox News has declined comment. In broadcasting…
American actors Ben Stiller and Sean Penn are no longer allowed to enter Russia after being added to the “stop list” by Kremlin officials. They join A-list celebrities, including former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, US President Joe Biden, and fellow Hollywood actor Morgan Freeman. Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Russia and a few Western countries have been throwing rounds of sanctions at each other. Similar restrictions have been imposed on oligarchs connected to Vladimir Putin in the West. The list features names like Gina Raimondo, US Commerce Secretary, as well as six US senators and four…
The national Black Lives Matter group leader has been accused of stealing more than $10 million from the charity’s donors. The BLM Global Network Foundation and its board secretary, Shalomyah Bowers were accused by Black Lives Matter Grassroots, a nonprofit group that represents local BLM chapters across the country in a lawsuit of fraudulently siphoning over $10 million in “fees” to Bowers’s consulting firm. Bowers treated the BLM Global Network Foundation as his “personal piggy bank” and has acted as a “rogue administrator” and “middle man turned usurper,” says the lawsuit, which was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court. The…
The CATO Institute has once again named Florida as the most economically free state in the nation. For the past few years, Florida has ranked first in the CATO’s Freedom in the 50 States assessment of economic and personal freedom. This ranking is determined by economic freedom. Individuals in Florida are not subject to a state income tax, according to CATO’s ranking analysis. “Florida’s state-level tax collections are more than 1.5 standard deviations below the national average, whereas its local tax collections are a little lower than average,” the organization noted. “Florida’s fiscal decentralization does not offer a great deal…
In what a top US commander called a “flagrant” and “unwarranted” incident, the US Navy blocked an Iranian ship from taking an American marine drone in the Persian Gulf. According to a press announcement from US Naval Forces Central Command, as US forces in the area were crossing international waters, they noticed the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps support ship Shahid Baziar. Baziar was hauling the unmanned surface vessel Saildrone Explorer. The USS Thunderbolt, a US Navy coastal patrol ship, was “operating nearby and immediately responded,” the Navy stated. US soldiers in the vicinity directly engaged with the Iranians to…
Bill Clinton was spotted next to Dr. Ruth during a Serena Williams tennis match. While Serena was the star to be watched, Clinton caught everyone’s attention due to his interesting company. Namely, the 76-year-old politician was accompanied by Dr. Ruth Westheimer, a therapist who focuses on, well, you know what. A 94-year-old therapist and ton Clinton engaged in extensive conversation during the game, frequently chuckling, joking, and nodding to one another. Dr. Ruth appeared to playfully slap Clinton on the face at one point. “Who knows what they’re talking about?” said ESPN analyst and ex-tennis player John McEnroe as the…
Famous singer Mariah Carey called out Meghan Markle for being a diva and it got heated. After Mariah Carey accused Meghan Markle of “diva moments,” the Duchess of Suss-x and her “Archetypes” podcast listeners — “started to sweat.” The 53-year-old Carey interrupted when the 41-year-old Markle told her guest that she does not personally “connect to” the “diva … persona.” “You give us diva moments sometimes, Meghan. Don’t act like [you don’t],” said the singer. “What kind of diva moments did I give you?” Asked the “Suits” alum and appeared flustered. Saying she “didn’t mean” anything by the comment and…
Several 2024 presidential polls conducted by Emerson College reveal that ex-President Donald Trump could win against President Joe Biden in some very important states. According to a poll, Trump leads Biden by five points in Georgia. Six hundred potential general election voters participated in the survey, which had a margin of error of +/- 3.9 percentage points. Georgia was won by Biden in 2020 and by Trump in 2016. The winning margin for Biden in Georgia was less than 12,000 votes. According to a recent poll, Trump leads Biden by 14 points in Ohio. The margin of error for the…
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul was ripped by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for suggesting at a rally earlier this month that Empire State conservatives should take a hike. DeSantis said at an unrelated press conference: “You have the governor of New York saying all Republicans need to get on a bus and leave the state and come to Florida.” “Who would say something so ridiculous? To say if you don’t agree with me then you don’t even have a right to be here,” he added. Hochul sparked controversy by saying political opponents like Republican gubernatorial nominee Rep. Lee Zeldin ought…
Catholic mass was canceled at the NY State fair and shall return. The New York State Fair will be returning the traditional Roman Catholic Mass after what the fair’s interim director admitted was a “hiccup” that led to its previous cancellation. For nearly 50 years, the Mass has been held each Sunday during the fair. But after the parish that holds it was told by a fair official earlier in the year that it “could not be accommodated,” the Mass did not happen. Rev. Joseph Clemente at St. Marianne Cope Church in Solvay was reached out by interim 2022 Fair…
Pennsylvania Democrats John Fetterman and Josh Shapiro were possibly mixed up by President Joe Biden during a rally in which he urged attendees to vote for both candidates. Biden said to the crowd at Wilkes University in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania: “Folks, do me a favor. Presumptuous of me to say that, but think about doing me a favor…. Please, please elect the Attorney General to the Senate. Elect that big ol’ boy to be governor,” Biden said. Although Shapiro, the state attorney general, and Fetterman, the lieutenant governor, were intended to be endorsed by Biden for governor and senator respectively,…
Luke Bell, a 32-year-old country singer, was found dead in Tucson, Arizona. He was reported missing for seven days before his body was discovered near the place where he went missing. The Tucson Police Department, as well as one of Bell’s friends, Matt Kinman, confirmed the tragic news. Authorities said the cause of death is still unknown, and the investigation is ongoing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx74aUyhEY0 Bell was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and recently, according to Saving Country Music, his “mental state took a turn for the worse.” After the tragic news was announced, Bell’s colleagues began paying tribute to him on social…
White House press secretary Jean-Pierre was mocked on social media after accidentally saying “We have created nearly ten thousand million jobs since President Biden took office.” That number is clearly incorrect, but she met the face of fury in the social media comment section. WATCH HER MISTAKE ON VIDEO: The number Jean-Pierre may have meant to say was 315,00. According to an NPR report, the government suggests that amount of jobs was created in August of 2022. “Employers added 315,000 jobs in August, according to a report from the Labor Department. The unemployment rate rose to 3.7% from 3.5%…
President Biden was criticized by John Avlon, CNN’s senior political analyst, for calling the Republican Party “semi-fascist.” This criticism comes as CNN executives allegedly pressure the network’s hosts to concentrate on unbiased news reporting. “The term semi-fascist is not helpful,” Avlon said on CNN’s “New Day.” “It’s not befitting the office of president.” “You can absolutely call out the dangers to our democracy, but it makes obviously perfect sense for someone like Sen. Hassan, because look, in New Hampshire, more than 40% of registered voters are independent,” Avlon noted. “Another 30-and-change are Republicans. Democrats are the third category among registered…
The FBI is being sued by the last surviving member of legendary rock band, The Monkees, for full access to the agency’s file on the legendary rock ‘n’ roll band. A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by George Michael Dolenz, Jr., better known by his stage name, Micky Dolenz. Over a decade was needed for this litigation to come after the FBI’s partial file on the band was released and posted on the agency’s website in 2011. In the document dated July 26, 1967, “The television show…
In a world full of cancel culture, one actor is speaking out. Rob Schneider, the famous actor and comedian, said he is “absolutely” willing to lose everything for what he believes in. On an episode of “The Glenn Beck Podcast,” Schneider spoke with Glenn Beck and Beck asked Schneider point blank whether he was prepared for his beliefs to get him canceled and cost him everything. Beck asked him: “Are you willing to lose it all for what you believe?” Schneider reacted instantly as he did not even take a moment to think, saying: “Absolutely. Because if we don’t have…
Trump’s Truth Social is facing an obstacle. The app wasn’t approved by Google and is not available on the Google Play Store. According to Google, the Truth Social app does not have any effective means for moderating user-generated content. This is seen as a violation of the store’s terms of service. Truth Social was promoted by former President Donald Trump as a “free-speech” alternative to Twitter sometime after he was banned from the platform due to his tweets relating to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. In an attempt to block Congress from confirming Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential…
During the heat wave that’s expected to last through Labor Day, Californians will likely be asked to ease off on the air conditioning, and anything else that consumes electricity. Over the next several days, the California Independent System Operator, which manages the state’s power grid, warned that it probably will issue a series of Flex Alerts, in the hope to avoid blackouts. Flex Alerts are voluntary calls for conservation during the afternoon and evening hours when energy use tends to soar. The things the residents will be asked to do are to avoid using dishwashers or other large appliances, turn…
Elon Musk, co-founder and CEO of electric car manufacturer Tesla, told reporters at an energy conference in Norway that humanity needs rely on oil and gas “in the short term” or “civilization will crumble.” He has previously stated that a rise in oil and gas production would be harmful to the company, which is worth close to $900 billion. He once stated on Twitter, “Hate to say it, but we need to increase oil & gas output immediately,” The tweet was a reaction to both the sanctions imposed on Russia and the war in Ukraine. He added that the birth…
El Segundo Unified, a school district in Los Angeles, was made to pay $1 million after authorities there dismissed a teen’s bullying as typical adolescent drama brought on by a love triangle. The student, Eleri Olive Irons, had to deal with bullying for eight months in 2018 when she was 13 and 14. In April 2019, Eleri and her parents, Natalie and Christopher Irons, filed a lawsuit. According to the Irons’ attorneys, the El Segundo Unified School District said that principal Melissa Gooden was not accountable for the girl’s protection. Eleri suffered from PTSD that caused her to cut herself,…