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Our 10 Best 1970 Rolling Stones Songs list focuses obviously (based on the article’s title) on the music the Rolling Stones released during their 1970’s period. Many would argue‚ including ourselves‚ that the Rolling Stones 1970s period was the band’s most prolific songwriters. Of course‚ The Rolling Stones released great material during their 1960s period including some of the biggest hits of their career‚ however‚ the 1970s saw the release of Rolling Stones albums such as Sticky Fingers‚ Exile On Main Street‚ and Some Girls. These are three of the best Rolling Stones albums ever released. The 1970s also included The post Our 10 Favorite Rolling Stones Songs Of The 1970s appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

As Modern Warfare 3 lives on‚ Sledgehammer games have added more creative ways to take out your enemy. From getting quickscoping kills to double kills‚ there’s no shortage of innovative ways to down a foe. For Season 3 of MW3‚ a challenge requires eliminating your enemy after you’ve died. Sounds confusing right&;#63; Well it’s called Posthumous kills‚ and we’ll show what they are and how you can get them in MW3. MW3: What are Posthumous kills and how to get them Do you remember during Halo 3 multiplayer matches when you’d kill an enemy Spartan after you’ve died and got the “Kill From the Grave” badge&;#63; In MW3‚ the rules are the same. Not to be confused with Close Call kills which are different. These kills can be hard to pull off because being dead can make them a bit of a challenge. But if you’ve played games like Halo 3‚ it might just come naturally. So that same awesome feeling you got in that game might be found in MW3. Image: Sledgehammer Games How ...

A new Memory of Chaos phase is now live in Honkai Star Rail’s Forgotten Hall‚ and Chronicle of the White Nights Dream Kingdom is one of the easiest and most straightforward challenges we’ve seen in some time. As long as you have a decent lineup of strong units‚ you should be able to clear all 12 stages of Chronicle of the White Nights Dream Kingdom without much hassle. The later stages won’t be easy‚ but thankfully‚ there aren’t many teambuilding restrictions this time around. Honkai Star Rail Chronicle of the White Nights Dream Kingdom Guide As per usual‚ Chronicle of the White Nights Dream Kingdom will be live for 42 days. This Memory of Chaos phase begins on Monday‚ April 15‚ 2024‚ and will last until Monday‚ May 29‚ 2024. That’s well into Honkai Star Rail version 2.2‚ so you can even wait for the new 5-star units from that update to debut if you want to use them in this Memory of Chaos challenge. Here’s the Memory Turbulence effect fo...

Finding the best World of Warcraft merch or gift for that WoW friend (or for yourself) can be tricky because there’s so much out there‚ both official and not-so-official. However‚ these items from Blizzard Entertainment‚ Amazon‚ Walmart‚ and Best Buy are worth checking out.  Our top picks for World of Warcraft Merch &; Gifts 1) World of Warcraft Faction Crewneck Sweatshirts Sweatshirts are always a favorite. Images via Blizzard Entertainment. Remixed by Dot Esports. Factions are an integral part of your experience in WoW. And despite the hearty rivalry between the Alliance and Horde factions‚ they’re both immensely enjoyable to play and offer unique experiences. But if you want to show your love for your faction‚ you can get the bold‚ navy blue Alliance crewneck or represent the dark side with the black and maroon Horde crewneck.  2) World of Warcraft Sylvanas Windrunner Bust Every inch of this bust is perfectly detailed and hand-painted. Images via B...

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In 2015‚ religious freedom seemed compromised when a Washington high school football coach was fired for praying with his team after a game. Joe Kennedy waited roughly six years for the Supreme Court to hear the oral arguments for his case. He was represented by a Christian nonprofit legal organization‚ First Liberty Institute‚ which took the position that “no teacher or coach should lose their job for simply expressing their faith while in public.” This was a notable case in 2022‚ and recent events have caused the issue to resurface. Earlier this year‚ Laura‚ an 11-year-old girl who attends Creekside Elementary in Washington state‚ requested to start an interfaith prayer club at her school. But her request was denied. When Laura and her mom approached the principal about the matter in February‚ they were informed that the school’s budget for clubs had been finalized in October. And according to a spokesperson for Issaquah School District‚ “[C]lubs offered are student-interest driven and meet outside of the school day. At the elementary level‚ participation in a club also requires parent permission. Once the school year begins‚ the building budget is set‚ and additional clubs are usually not added until the following school year.” But the story doesn’t end here. Laura’s group‚ which she hoped to start with her friend‚ was meant to include people of all different religious backgrounds. She shared with Fox News that she was feeling alone‚ and that she thought this would be a good idea to bring students together. “I think that this is something that I am very passionate about‚” she added. “I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t really want to make this happen‚ if I didn’t think that it would be a great opportunity for everyone.” It was later discovered that an LGBT club was approved only a week prior to Laura’s club request being denied‚ which has caused spectators to raise their eyebrows. As a result of this alleged hypocrisy‚ Laura filed a lawsuit on the grounds of religious discrimination with the help of First Liberty Institute. Attorneys pointed out in a letter to the school‚ “The First Amendment ‘doubly protects religious speech.’ These First Amendment protections extend to elementary school students expressing their sincere religious beliefs through voluntary clubs. Yet the school district flouted its First Amendment obligations when they refused to allow a student-led interfaith prayer club. Its unlawful action violates both the Free Exercise Clause and the Free Speech Clause.” Kayla Toney‚ associate counsel at First Liberty Institute‚ explained‚ “Denying the formation of a religious student club while allowing other clubs violates the Constitution‚” drawing attention to the fact that the similar case with Coach Kennedy occurred “just a short drive away” from Laura’s elementary school. And in comments to The Washington Stand‚ Arielle Del Turco‚ Family Research Council’s director of the Center for Religious Liberty‚ said‚ “The fact that Creekside Elementary denied a religious club the same month that it approved a pride club reveals a lot about American culture right now.” She continued‚ “Sadly‚ the promotion of LGBT identities is held sacred while religion is sidelined and marginalized. It’s heartbreaking that Laura‚ a fifth-grade student‚ felt alone at school as a religious believer and that she knew other students who felt the same way. She reacted in exactly the right way by making an effort to build community with religious students.” Del Turco went on to emphasize that‚ “Oftentimes‚ when people seek to prevent religious expression in government venues‚ they will use the excuse that they don’t want to imply that the government favors one religion over another.” However‚ when it comes to Laura’s case‚ she pointed out that “the school doesn’t even have that flimsy excuse because the students were seeking to start a … club that would be open to students of different faiths.” Ultimately‚ “Any school that allows other clubs while specifically denying religious clubs is acting in a discriminatory manner and violating the First Amendment‚ which protects freedom of expression and the free exercise of religion.” Del Turco concluded‚ “Christian fifth graders shouldn’t face viewpoint discrimination from their school leadership. It shouldn’t have had to come to this‚ but I fully expect this injustice to be rectified in the courts.” Originally published by The Washington Stand The post Elementary School Denies Request to Start Prayer Club‚ Approves ‘Pride Club’ appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The federal government increasingly looks like an Ivy League classroom‚ combining therapy for fragile souls with indoctrination into specious ideology. Nowhere is this more apparent than at the State Department‚ where employees are encouraged to take courses in the name of diversity‚ equity‚ inclusion‚ and accessibility‚ or DEIA‚ that stress their differences‚ trauma‚ and status on the victim-oppressor continuum.  As reported by The Daily Wire‚ the State Department spent a whopping $77 million on DEIA programs last year for its staffing shop‚ the Bureau of Global Talent Management. Just this past month‚ the State Department offered a training session called “Unveiling the Hidden Wounds: Exploring Racial Trauma and Minority Stress.” It promised a “space for empathy” where “voices are heard‚ wounds are acknowledged‚ and action is taken towards justice and equity.” Then there was “A Conversation on Racial Equity and Social Justice” with Bryan Stevenson‚ who pulled in $55‚000 in donations per minute for a single TED Talk.   Employees could also take the half-day course “Intersectional Gender Analysis Training‚” which “explores how gender and systems of power shape an individual’s lived experience.” Alternatively‚ they could attend a seminar called “Embrace Equity and Inspire Change” or a series of female empowerment sessions such as “Elevating Women in Technology and Beyond.”  Anticipating resistance‚ the State Department offered the course “Understanding Backlash to DEIA and How to Address It‚” in which psychologist Kimberly Rios claimed to “highlight evidence demonstrating that DEIA initiatives can challenge the power‚ values‚ status‚ belonging‚ and cultural identity of dominant group members‚ particularly White Americans whose racial identity is important to their sense of self.” Rios will do this‚ the announcement said with unwitting irony‚ “to promote intergroup harmony.”  Government employees are required to take a variety of training courses to advance in their careers. Even five years ago‚ most of these were about doing your job better—courses on leadership‚ management‚ and other skills. But in the “woke” era‚ employees are also subjected to ideological sessions such as those mentioned above.  Given what all these courses and speakers cost taxpayers to provide‚ is there any evidence that they are based on sound information or that they improve the workforce&;#63;  Let’s examine one offering more closely.  The State Department runs a “DEIA Distinguished Scholar Speaker Series” that “highlights cutting-edge scientific research‚” under which the agency recently brought in Yale professor John Dovidio to give a talk titled “Racism Among the Well-Intentioned—Challenges and Solutions.”   In a 2013 speech‚ Dovidio said: “About 80% of white Americans will say they are not sexist or they’re not racist … but work with the IAT will show that 60% to 75% of the population are both racist and sexist at an implicit level.”  So‚ what is this “IAT” that Dovidio cites&;#63;  Harvard’s Implicit Association Test is a favorite tool of social scientists who want to prove that people are inherently racist and sexist. This is a necessary premise for critical race theory‚ which posits that nebulous concepts such as “structural bias” and “systems of oppression” can explain all variances in performance between racial groups rather than individual factors such as education‚ industry‚ and behavior. The Implicit Association Test offers the evidence the Left needs to support this theory. But the Implicit Association Test isn’t an accepted measure of bias. One of its own inventors said‚ “I and my colleagues and collaborators do not call the IAT results a measure of implicit prejudice [or] implicit racism.” And in a 2015 review‚ Hart Blanton of Texas A&;M wrote that “all of the meta-analyses converge on the conclusion that … IAT scores are not good predictors of ethnic or racial discrimination and explain‚ at most‚ small fractions of the variance in discriminatory behavior in controlled laboratory setting.” In a 2021 academic paper‚ Ulrich Schimmack came to the same conclusion‚ writing that “IATs are widely used without psychometric evidence of construct or predictive validity.”  As far back as 2008‚ in an article for the American Psychological Association‚ Beth Azar wrote that a person’s scores on the Implicit Association Test “often change from one test to another.” German Lopez‚ writing for Vox‚ took the test two days apart and found that in the first‚ he “had a slight automatic preference for white people‚” and in the second‚ “a slight automatic preference … in favor of black people.” Summing up‚ Greg Mitchell of the University of Virginia said‚ “The IAT is not yet ready for prime time.” That’s hardly a firm foundation for using taxpayers’ money to train federal staff in a worldview that will affect their careers and lives. And of course‚ all of the hours employees spend auto-flagellating with critical race theory is paid time they are not working on matters of national interest.  One can’t put too much blame on race merchants such as Dovidio‚ Ibram X. Kendi‚ Ta-Nehisi Coates‚ and Nikole Hannah-Jones for simply trying to sell their product. But the question is: Why is the government buying it with our money&;#63;   Taxpayer-funded institutions shouldn’t pay for courses and speakers whose premises are contentious and whose efforts won’t measurably improve the workforce. Federal employees are free to explore social theory on their own time. On our dime‚ they should get on with their real job.  Originally published by the Washington Examiner The post Taxpayers Shouldn’t Have to Fund State Department’s DEI Pseudoscience appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The Biden administration released its proposed budget for the Department of Homeland Security for fiscal year 2025 last month. Coming in at nearly $108 billion‚ the budget funds numerous aspects of the department’s efforts to secure the homeland. However‚ when it comes to resolving the unprecedented border crisis DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and the Biden administration have created‚ the proposal falls woefully short—an important fact to remember as the secretary appears before the House Committee on Homeland Security this week to defend it.  First‚ consider the massive cuts it proposes for some of the most important components of DHS law enforcement. Despite aggressive messaging from the secretary and the White House about the need for “more resources‚” this budget cuts more than $1.4 billion from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) compared with what Congress provided in the fiscal year 2024 continuing resolution. It’s unconscionable when CBP is on pace to record an all-time high of more than 3.5 million encounters at our borders nationwide this year alone that Mayorkas would actively propose cutting the agency’s funding. But that’s exactly what he has done. Additionally‚ just as he did last year‚ Mayorkas has proposed taking money from the baseline budgets of CBP‚ Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)‚ and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to create a $4.7 billion slush fund euphemistically called the “Southwest Border Contingency Fund.” This use of funds through this off-budget account would be harder for Congress to track and account for. However‚ we know it will not be used to secure the border‚ but instead to fund things like transportation for illegal aliens‚ the department’s Alternatives to Detention program‚ and more soft-sided processing centers along the border. To top it off‚ DHS law enforcement would be prohibited from using the money to acquire‚ maintain‚ or extend border security technology and capabilities. The budget request also displays the two-faced nature of Mayorkas’ recent messaging about border security. Over the past several months‚ in pushing for the White House’s ill-advised supplemental spending package‚ the secretary advocated funding for roughly 1‚300 new Border Patrol agents—a number less than half that authorized by the House-passed HR 2. However‚ his official budget request only calls for funding 350 new agents. The secretary and his allies have also repeatedly called for hundreds of millions of dollars for new Non-Intrusive Inspection technology at ports of entry to help interdict fentanyl. However‚ now the budget request zeroes out funding for it. ICE detention and removals are also major losers in the president’s budget. Despite record numbers of illegal aliens crossing the border‚ whom the law requires DHS to detain‚ the budget requests only 34‚000 detention beds to be funded through ICE’s budget. That comes nowhere close to the 60‚000 beds requested by the Trump administration in its final budget‚ released in February 2020. In fiscal year 2019‚ CBP recorded fewer than 1 million encounters at the southwest border. By contrast‚ CBP recorded 2.4 million encounters in fiscal year 2023 and is on pace for 2.7 million this fiscal year. And Mayorkas isn’t even using all the beds Congress has provided. Roughly two months after the slaying of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley‚ reportedly by Jose Antonio Ibarra‚ an illegal immigrant who was paroled into the country in September 2022‚ the secretary told a Senate panel‚ “There was no derogatory information of which we were aware in our holdings to compel the detention of this individual.” Setting aside DHS’ statutory obligation to detain inadmissible aliens‚ ICE data indicates roughly 8‚100 detention beds were available at the time of Ibarra’s release. He should have—and could have—been detained.  Further‚ Mayorkas’ budget only anticipates the removal of 125‚000 illegal aliens. In fiscal year 2020‚ in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic‚ ICE removed 185‚884 illegal aliens. In fiscal year 2019‚ removals exceeded 267‚000. Sufficient detention space is not the only thing this secretary refuses to ask for‚ however. The budget request includes a mere $7.1 million for construction of new border wall system‚ a fraction of what is needed to implement more of this critical border security infrastructure. The crisis at America’s borders is not one driven by resources‚ but by the actions‚ decisions‚ and policies of Mayorkas and President Joe Biden. At the same time‚ it’s vital that lawmakers ensure that the dollars we do send to the department go to funding its vital mission—keeping our homeland secure. This budget consistently fails on that front. Biden has said‚ “Don’t tell me what you value. Show me your budget—and I’ll tell you what you value.” Going by the budget he and his own DHS secretary have put forward‚ it would seem the Biden administration does not truly value border security. That’s a travesty for the entire country. This inadequate budget makes plain that if we want to end the chaos at our borders‚ it’s up to Congress to do it—because Mayorkas and the Biden administration is clearly not up to the job.  The post DHS Chief Mayorkas’ Budget Request Is an Unserious Response to Threats to Homeland appeared first on The Daily Signal.