Month: February 2023

Why Poor Quality Sleep Can Be the Critical Factor Behind Any Number of Conditions: Part II

How well did you sleep last night? The question goes to the heart of how to measure your sleep quality. If you haven’t already, I invite you to shift your attention away from the number of hours you sleep and instead learn to gauge the quality of your slumber. Once you explore several dimensions of…


American School Counselor Association Teaching Radicalism, Activist Reveals

The American School Counselor Association’s (ASCA) certification test teaches critical race theory (CRT) and radical gender ideology as facts, according to documents obtained by parental rights activist Alvin Lui. “This isn’t just like 10 or 15 percent of school counselors that are very ideological and very radical,” he told The Epoch Times. “The whole system…


Federal Agency Issues Warnings Over ‘Powerful Storm System’

A​ winter storm will bring snow, ice, and winds to portions of the Midwest and Northeast United States starting Monday and lasting until Tuesday, forecasters say. “A swath of snow and ice are expected spread across the Upper Midwest, Great Lakes and Northeast today while a secondary low pressure system develops and the pair of…


Republicans Sound Alarm on Beijing’s Efforts to Spread Propaganda in Western Outlets

Republican lawmakers are expressing alarm over Beijing’s persistent efforts to use Western outlets to spread its narratives, including claims that Washington had overreacted to a “wandering balloon” and damaged the bilateral relationship. In an op-ed recently published in the Washington Post, Xu Xueyuan, the chargé d’affaires at the Chinese regime’s embassy in Washington, repeated Beijing’s…


Republicans Alarmed by Beijing’s Efforts to Spread Propaganda on Western Outlets

Republican lawmakers are expressing alarm over Beijing’s persistent efforts to use Western outlets to spread its narratives, including claims that Washington had overreacted to a “wandering balloon” and damaged the bilateral relationship. In an op-ed recently published in the Washington Post, Xu Xueyuan, the chargé d’affaires at the Chinese regime’s embassy in Washington, repeated Beijing’s…


Rep. Elissa Slotkin Entering 2024 US Senate Race for Open Michigan Seat

Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) on Feb. 27 announced she is running for the U.S. Senate. “There are certain things that should be really simple, like living a middle class life in the state that invented the middle class, like making things in America so that we’re in control of our own economic security, like protecting…


Thoughts About the ‘Rage Against the War Machine’ Rally

Commentary The Rage Against the War Machine (RATWM) rally in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 19 was, if nothing else, a case of politics making for strange bedfellows. It was organized by the emphatically pro-big-and-all-powerful-government People’s Party and the emphatically shrink-or-abolish-government Libertarian Party. The shock waves of this strange collaboration continue to reverberate. The leftists over…


How Elites Use ‘Nudge Units’ to Manipulate the Masses

Commentary Many readers are no doubt familiar with nudge theory, a concept built around achieving compliance without using coercion. Ostensibly, nudges are designed to help people make better decisions. However, when governments resort to nudging, we must ask, who benefits? Is this nudge actually a push? And in what direction, exactly, are we being pushed?…


Organized Retail Theft to Become Class 3 Felony in Virginia Amid Surge in Shoplifting

Virginia state lawmakers on Feb. 23 approved legislation that will make organized retail theft a Class 3 felony and could leave those convicted of the crime eligible for prison sentences of up to 20 years. The bill, HB 1885, was introduced by Republican delegate Kathy Byron, and will make it a Class 3 felony for anyone to conspire or act in…


‘Dilbert’ Distributor Severs Ties With Creator Scott Adams Over Alleged Racist Remarks

Dilbert comic strip distributor Andrews McMeel Universal (AMU) has announced it will no longer work with the creator of the cartoons, Scott Adams, following allegedly racist comments he made. In a statement, Andrews McMeel chairman Hugh Andrews and CEO and president Andy Sareyan said Universal is” severing our relationship” with Adams, adding that the “process of this termination will extend to all…