On Feb. 8, the popular YouTuber Viva Frei came across a woman in downtown Ottawa with a large picture of her son taped to her car. She didn’t give her name, but she was eager to share her story. “This is my son Jake,” she said, pointing to the picture. “He was 34 years old, he died
READ MOREA teenager named Eden* sits in the assistant principal’s office at Paradise Falls High School. Her eyes are red and cloudy, and she smells strongly of marijuana despite claiming she never smokes it. “Leave me f—— alone!” she screams. With assistance from a female security guard, the administrator confiscates Eden’s weed pipe and a small
READ MORENot so long ago, Democrats seemed the party of the future. “Inevitable!” predicted some pundits, for demography is destiny. Moreover, in 2020, Democrats, who had won the popular vote six times in seven presidential elections, swept the popular vote again, by 6 million ballots. And they captured both houses of Congress. The future did seem
READ MOREMaking the news these days is the possibility of a war involving the Ukraine, America, Russia, and Western Europe, a war opposed by the vast majority of the American people. Meanwhile, China threatens the sovereignty of Taiwan. The United States has a long-standing relationship with that island country. Would we come to Taiwan’s defense? And if
READ MOREDale Farran spent a decade studying over 1,000 kids who went to a state-run pre-kindergarten—and a control group of kids that wanted to, but didn’t get in. She is shocked and dismayed by what she discovered: By 6th grade the pre-K kids were doing worse all around: worse reading, math and science scores; more learning
READ MOREWhen NBC’s Lester Holt asked President Joe Biden what might prompt him to send U.S. troops to rescue Americans fleeing Ukraine, Biden replied: “There’s not. That’s a world war when Americans and Russia start shooting at one another.” “It’s not like we’re dealing with a terrorist organization. We’re dealing with one of the largest
READ MOREThe Transition Closet (TTC) is an organization based in Fayetteville, Arkansas, with a mission that seems innocuous albeit odd: to provide “free gender affirming clothing, undergarments, and clothing consultations for Transgender, Nonbinary, and Intersex folks of all ages, world wide.” But there’s a bit more to it than that. In a TikTok video posted to Twitter by the Teachers Exposed account,
READ MOREEmily Burns had every intention of staying in Massachusetts. A longtime Boston resident, she, her husband, and three children left the city to settle in the upscale suburb of Newton in January 2020. What followed were two years of ongoing disruption and frustration. Prolonged school closures and continued coronavirus policies such as mask mandates angered
READ MOREWhite popular podcaster Joe Rogan apologized after someone posted a 30-second compilation clip on YouTube of Rogan repeatedly saying the N-word. Rogan described his uses of the word, culled from 12 years of shows, as taken “out of context,” but still apologized, now insisting “there’s no context where a white person is ever allowed to
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