AOL

A former Army Special Forces officer is accusing retired Marine General James Mattis, President-elect Donald Trump‘s pick to be defense secretary, of “leaving my men to die” after they were hit by friendly fire in Afghanistan in 2001.

Mattis has not commented publicly on the incident, which was chronicled in a 2011 New York Times bestselling book, “The Only Thing Worthy Dying For,” by Eric Blehm. The book portrays Mattis as stubbornly unwilling to help the Green Berets.   Continue reading “Former Special Forces officer: Gen. ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis left ‘my men to die’”

CNN

If you’re a guy mouse, the news about Zika’s effect on your sex life couldn’t be worse.

Not only did male mice infected with the Zika virus have a tougher time getting females pregnant, their levels of sex hormones crashed, and their testicles shrunk by 90%, possibly permanently, according to new research by the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.   Continue reading “Zika shrinks mice testicles, damaging fertility”

Listverse – by Jamie Frater

Unfortunately, in modern times, the responsibility of raising your children to be respectful of others has been taken over by government. In virtually every Western nation, political correctness is rife and books are being torn from the shelves by the handful. Some of these books make their way back, with revisions, but some have vanished entirely (at least for now). This is a list of the top 10 books considered to be politically incorrect.   Continue reading “Top 10 Politically Incorrect Kids Books”

KARE 11 – by Joe Sneve

The old Copper Lounge building in downtown Sioux Falls collapsed on Friday morning, sending debris onto Phillips Avenue and trapping people inside.

Jim Sideras, Sioux Falls Fire Rescue chief, said two people were trapped in the rubble. One of the people trapped was speaking on the phone with her mother as crews worked to clear the debris.

Sideras said the victim, who was on the phone with her mother while trapped, kept updating officials on her whereabouts. “She can’t see daylight so we know she’s covered by debris.”   Continue reading “Building collapses in Sioux Falls; woman, dog rescued”

McClatchy DC – by Theresa Welsh

Nearly 600 veterans could have been infected with HIV, Hepatitis B or Hepatitis C at a Veterans Affairs facility in Tomah, Wis. because a dentist didn’t properly clean his instruments.

The Tomah VA is investigating the dentist, who has not been fired but was removed from patient care. According to acting Medical Center Director Victoria Brahm, the dentist was using his own equipment for routine dental exams, then cleaning it and using it again. This violates VA rules, which require use of disposable equipment to ensure sterility.   Continue reading “VA may have infected 600 veterans with HIV and Hepatitis”

USA the Republic

Little has been published about the early life of Abraham Lincoln. However, during a search of some old property records and will in a small courthouse in central North Carolina, Alex Christopher the author of “Pandora’s Box,” in one of the old will books dated around 1840, he found the will of one A. A. Springs. Upon reading the will he was shocked and amazed at the secret that it disclosed, but one must remember that it is a known fact that wills, even though they are classified public records the same as property and corporation records, they are rarely combed through as he was doing at the time, and these records hold many dark secrets that can be hidden in public view, but are never uncovered because there are very few who research these old records.   Continue reading “The Truth About Abraham Lincoln”

College Fix – by Peter Van Voorhis

In the quest to study microaggressions, one scholar has harnessed technology to chronicle such verbal insults and unintentional slights, creating an app that allows students to not only detail the exact nature of the utterance, but its location on campus and what part of their identity was disparaged, too.

Enter MicroReport, which documented students’ claims of perceived microaggressions at UC Santa Cruz during the 2015-16 school year as part of a lengthy study into the effects of experiencing microaggressions.   Continue reading “‘Virtual safe space’: Smartphone app records campus microaggressions”

Jon Rappoport

Over the last 40 years, the assault on Western culture and civilization has taken people so far away from lucid thinking and logic, they don’t even know this discipline exists at all.

What has replaced it is entertainment.

It seems that hundreds of gimmicks and machines are now necessary, in order to keep the attention of children in school. There is a fear that without these “up-to-date” items, the kids will drop into a coma or walk out of the classroom.   Continue reading “Home-school solution for education”

Center for Immigration Studies – by Mark Krikorian

In September the media reported that the Obama administration was sitting on a damning Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report that called into question the administration’s claim that as many as 81 percent of people attempting to cross the border illegally are apprehended.

This new report, whose full text the Center for Immigration Studies has now obtained, estimates that nearly half of illegal aliens slip through the southern border undetected.   Continue reading “Damning Report on Illegal-Alien Entries Now Available”

Free Beacon – by Elizabeth Harrington

The Environmental Protection Agency is entering its second phase of a data project to collect information on the sexual orientation of its employees.

The Sexual Orientation Gender Identity (SOGI) pilot program allows EPA employees to voluntarily disclose their gender identity and sexual orientation, information that the agency says is “crucial” to an “inclusive” workplace.   Continue reading “EPA: Gender Is ‘Male, Female, a Blend of Both, or Neither’”

Free Thought Project – by Justin Gardner

Congress is ready to join the crusade against so-called “fake news,” forwarding a measure through the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to combat purported foreign propaganda and disinformation. The news comes after mainstream media have been busy promoting bogus blacklists, lashing out at those who dare question the narrative. According to VOA:   Continue reading “Congress Approves Measure for Crusade Against “Fake News” — Using DoD Funding”

LA Times – by Jerome Goner

In a year of relentless violence, Chicago this week hit another gruesome milestone, exceeding 700 homicides for the first time in nearly two decades, according to Police Department records.

The 700-mark was reached when a 25-year-old man was fatally shot about 6:20 a.m. Wednesday in the Burnside neighborhood, said Frank Giancamilli, a police spokesman. Then at about 8 p.m., a 24-year-old man was shot and killed in the South Shore neighborhood.   Continue reading “Chicago tops 700 homicides — bloodiest year in decades with a month to go in 2016”

Times of Israel

US President Barack Obama on Thursday renewed a presidential waiver, again delaying plans to relocate the American Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem for another six months.

In keeping with every other presidential administration over the last 20 years, a White House statement cited “national security interests” in waiving Congress’s 1995 decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and transfer its embassy there.   Continue reading “Obama again waives moving US Embassy to Jerusalem”

Daisy Luther

Every kid in America liked Christmas a lot, but the Left, north of Politically Correctville, did NOT.

While the holiday season used to be one of peace, love, and joy, it seems that lately, the politically correct set seems determined to crush every jingling bell under the heel of their jackboots, particularly at colleges and universities across the country.  The Left is stealing Christmas just as certainly as any Grinch in Whoville.   Continue reading “How the Left Stole Christmas from Universities Across America”

Fox News

Nearly 2,500 refugees from terrorism hotspots around the world are bound for the U.S. after being rejected by Australia, but not even top lawmakers can get answers about who they are.

In an unprecedented move, the U.S. State Department has classified details on refugees to be resettled in America via a secret deal made with Australia. The bi-lateral agreement, which Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called a “one-off,” involves 2,465 people currently being held in Papua New Guinea and Nauru who will now be transferred onto U.S. soil.   Continue reading “Obama administration stiff-arms lawmakers questioning secret refugee deal”