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A viral post shared on X claims anti-Trump protester Maxwell Yearick opened fire on 2024 Republican nominee and former President Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, PA on July 13. (Warning: Post contains graphic content) Verdict: False There are neither credible news reports nor statements from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) linking Yearick to the […]

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Our “Top 10 Opening Tracks From 1960s Rock Albums” presents a selection of songs that we feel are the best opening tracks from 1960s studio albums. This was a particularly challenging list to compile because of the abundance of legendary albums and songs released during the 1960s. We had one rule with this list. No artist could be represented more than once. Otherwise, it would be all Beatles, Stones and Dylan songs…. # 10 – “St. Stephen” –  Aoxomoxoa (The Grateful Dead) When we’re talking about the 1960s, it’s impossible to compile a list of the best opening tracks from The post Top 10 Opening Tracks From 1960s Rock Albums appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

On the 4th of July, over 2,000 theaters across America ran the film adaptation of the incredible true story from a small town in Texas that adopted 77 of the most at-risk children from the regional foster system. Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot, recounts how the voice of God led a pastor and […] The post Families in Tiny Texas Town Have Adopted 77 Hard-to-Adopt Kids Inspired By Their Baptist Church Leaders appeared first on Good News Network.

MILWAUKEE—America came within a quarter inch of a national funeral on Saturday. If assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks’ bullet had not grazed former President Donald J. Trump’s right ear but instead struck a pencil’s width nearer his skull, this week’s Republican National Convention here would be a four-day memorial, if that. Rather than working on his acceptance speech right now, Trump would by lying in state. But with all the luck in the world, he survived. America’s toughest man, Donald J. Tungsten, stood up moments after being hit, pumped his fists defiantly, and reassured his nation that he was alive and as resilient as ever. As he now says, he is “grazed but not dazed.” Dramatic as it was, this is a scene worth not repeating. As of this writing, it is unclear exactly why Crooks fired a rifle at Trump, killed Corey Comperatore, 57, and wounded David Dutch, 57, and James Copenhaver, 74. Crooks was a registered Republican and a Democrat donor. Time will reveal if Crooks is indeed a first: a bipartisan assassin that neither side can weaponize against the other. However this mystery unravels, it surely did not help matters, that Crooks—like every other American—heard the Democrat Left chant relentlessly that Trump equals Adolf Hitler.  The Holocaust comparisons began, even before Trump was sworn in. On Jan. 5, 2017, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow told Bravo’s Andy Cohen that if she interviewed Trump, she would ask him: “Are you going to send me or anybody that I know to a camp?” Trump was president for mere minutes when MSNBC’s Chris Matthews denounced his inaugural address in the most divisive terms possible. According to Matthews, Trump’s patriotic “America First” message had a “Hitlerian background to it.” Just a month into Trump’s presidency—before he could build a death camp, even if he had wanted to—Sunsara Taylor of Refuse Fascism suggested that Trump already had exceeded the evils of the Nazi tyrant. Taylor told Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson that Trump “could arguably be worse than Hitler.” She added: “He is more dangerous than Hitler ever could have been.” “I don’t understand why people are not taking him seriously,” left-wing actor Robert De Niro said about Trump on ABC News’ “The View.” Historically, De Niro said last May 14, citizens of foreign nations did not take other dictators seriously. “I think Hitler and Mussolini,” De Niro specified. On May 21, via X, Hillary Clinton called Trump “Grifter Hitler.” June 2024’s cover of The New Republic featured an actual Nazi campaign poster with Hitler’s face doctored to resemble Trump. Just below, in a National Socialist typeface loomed the words “American Fascism.” This is sick, twisted, absurd, baseless, and potentially bloody. Anyone who has imagined piloting a time machine back to the 1920s or ’30s knows what to do if Hitler pops up: Kill Hitler! So, if Trump equals Hitler, it’s no shock that someone would decide that “it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye,” as President Joe Biden told donors last week. He now calls that remark “a mistake.” Oops. If reelected, Trump will cut taxes more than Democrats like. He will increase domestic energy more than the Left wants. He will stitch shut the southern border that they have ripped open. And he will kill race- and gender-obsession programs that Democrats caress like adult toys. Here are a few things that Trump will not do: Throw journalists behind barbed wire. Toss Democrats into gas chambers. Cremate teachers union leaders. Invade Canada and Mexico to build a greater American Reich. Will Donald J. Trump serve as a bold, conservative, patriotic Republican president? Yes. Will he rule as a Nazi dictator? No. The Left needs to abandon its venomous führer fetish or at least fiddle with it beneath the covers at night. It has no place in the public arena. Before anyone else gets shot, for God’s sake, Democrats, give it a rest!  We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Time to Pour Democrats’ Trump-Equals-Hitler Venom Down the Drain appeared first on The Daily Signal.

THE WASHINGTON STAND—Seven states have come together to fight a new rule that could force doctors into performing gender-transition procedures. The Biden administration has made it clear it wants so-called “gender-affirming care” available to all—including young children. As such, it appears it’s willing to try and make it so that medical professionals are unable to turn away patients seeking gender procedures. Experts say this is exactly what the rule change to the nondiscrimination provision of the Affordable Care Act would do. Adopted by the Department of Health and Human Services in April, The Hill reported, “The changes expand the rule’s definition of sex discrimination to include discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.” This means that, despite personal beliefs, religious convictions, or political values, it would become an act of discrimination for a doctor to refuse someone the gender-affirming care they ask for. Moreover, for doctors who do refuse, “access to federally funded programs like Medicare, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) could be cut off.” These rule changes, which are fueled by taxpayer money, are what led the states of Missouri, Utah, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Idaho, and Arkansas to file a lawsuit against HHS. The case, represented by the conservative Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom, focuses on a request for “a Missouri federal court to permanently block the HHS rule.” In addition, the seven states were joined by the American College of Pediatricians, which emphasized in a press release: Indeed, the rule requires doctors to provide and promote ‘social transitions,’ use of pronouns inconsistent with biological sex, experimental use of puberty-blockers and cross-sex hormones for ‘gender-transition’ purposes, and perform harmful, sterilizing procedures on adults and children to appear to be the opposite sex, even if state law restricts these procedures. Doctors are even required to inaccurately code their patient’s charts based on gender identity rather than biological sex. This lawsuit, however, is not the first of its kind. Since the rule was adopted in April, the states of Tennessee, Florida, and Texas have already succeeded in having federal courts block the rule from taking effect. With each effort against the change come the same cries, which are summarized in what Dr. Jill Simons, executive director of the American College of Pediatricians, said in a statement: “What the Biden [a]dministration is calling for is wrong and unlawful.” She added, “Our doctors take an oath to do no harm, but the Biden administration’s rule forces them to violate this oath and perform procedures that are harmful and dangerous to our patients—vulnerable children.” As Simons implored, doctors should “never be forced” to act against their medical judgements and convictions. Medical professionals have long been sounding the alarm on the danger of these transition procedures, arguing that they are “life-altering and sterilizing interventions.” Many who choose to undergo therapy and procedures in attempt to “change their gender” walk away with permanent bodily damage. Numerous studies and testimonies prove that rashes, infections, mental harm, and lifelong treatments are common consequences of these decisions. Julie Marie Blake, senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, stated that HHS’ rule can only be described as an “unlawful overreach” and an “attempt to hijack medicine.” She continued, “The HHS rule will harm those suffering from gender dysphoria, particularly children, and punish doctors who seek to care for them.” Echoing her sentiments, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, a Republican and co-leader of the lawsuit, wrote in a press release, “[President] Joe Biden is once again exceeding his legal authority in order to force his radical transgender ideology onto the American people.” Even though individuals such as HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra consider this rule “a giant step forward for this country toward a more equitable and inclusive health care system,” Bailey, on behalf of all involved in the lawsuit, made clear: “I am filing suit because I will not allow out-of-touch federal bureaucrats to force Missouri healthcare providers into performing experimental and dangerous gender transition procedures on the taxpayer dime.” Originally published by The Washington Stand The post 7 States Sue Biden Admin Over New Rule Forcing Doctors to Perform Gender Procedures appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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From the sandstone cliffs of continental Europe to the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, something has been leaving its dazzlingly geometric mark since the dawn of complex life. Despite finding thousands of these perfect honeycomb-shaped fossils, however, scientists are completely baffled as to what type of creature could possibly have been producing the patterns for such an unimaginably long time.Amazingly, the earliest known record of these bizarre shapes can be found in Leonardo Da Vinci’s Paris Manuscript I. Amongst a series of sketches of marine fossils sits a drawing of a connected grid of perfect hexagons, which scientists later linked to an ancient creature called Paleodictyon nodosum.The first physical traces of this enigmatic organism were discovered in sedimentary rocks that once sat at the bottom of an ocean during the Eocene, some 55 to 35 million years ago. Consisting of a net-like series of tunnels and shafts that link up to form honeycomb arrangements, P. nodosum has now been found in dried-up sediments across Europe, with the oldest specimens having been dated to the Cambrian Period, roughly 500 million years ago.What scientists can’t figure out, however, is whether these prehistoric impressions are simply burrows made in the ancient seafloor by some bottom-dwelling creature, or an imprint of the organism itself. As if another layer of intrigue were required, researchers later made the mind-blowing discovery that the creator of these perfect patterns may still exist at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.While exploring an underwater mountain range called the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the 1970s, scientists started noticing arrangements of small holes in the ocean floor that looked very much like the hexagonal designs associated with Paleodictyon. It took until 2003, however, for researchers to finally look beneath the fine layer of dust and sediment that hid whatever was making the holes.To their amazement, the researchers found honeycomb-shaped networks of subsurface tunnels that were identical to P. nodosum. However, after retrieving several samples from depths of around 3,500 meters (11,500 feet), scientists were frustrated to find that the hexagonal burrows were completely empty of any organisms, either living or dead. Even more infuriatingly, no traces of DNA could be detected within the tunnels.What all this means is that we have absolutely no idea what is generating these mesmerizing patterns, which appear to have been in continual production for around 500 million years. We still don’t even know if the net-like arrangements are burrows or the imprint of some sponge-like creature.With no option but to speculate, researchers have hypothesized that Paleodictyon may represent a cast left behind by organisms similar to glass sponges or giant, single-celled creatures known as xenophyophores. An alternative theory states that the networks are actually the remains of abandoned nests, and that the burrows are produced by hatchlings making their way through the sediment.Yet another explanation posits that the underground burrows may represent a kind of "farm", built by some strange burrowing worm to trap and cultivate the bacteria it feeds on.Ultimately, though, none of these hypotheses are free of holes, which means that whatever it is, Paleodictyon has us completely stumped.