Here’s How Many Millennials Are ‘Suffering From PTSD’ Because of 2016 Election

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A new psychological study from San Francisco State University claims that a full quarter of millennials are suffering from bouts of post traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, because of the 2016 elections.

The study is by no means comprehensive — the research pool was limited to 769 students studying psychology at Arizona State University — but of those millennials chosen for the test, 25% reported experiencing “clinically significant” levels of stress, along with other symptoms of PTSD.

Students were evaluated using an “Impact of Event” scale, which measures stress levels at various times following a major traumatic event, typically a tragedy or a personal illness or injury. The results, the Washington Examiner reports, “indicated that students’ average stress score was similar to those of witnesses of a mass shooting seven months after the incident.”

“The scale is used to gauge the extent to which individuals have been impacted by an event in such a way that it might lead to diagnosable post-traumatic stress disorder,” lead researcher, Melissa Hagan said in a statement released alongside the study.

“What we were interested in seeing was, did the election for some people constitute a traumatic experience?” Hagan added. “And we found that it did for 25 percent of young adults.” (Read more from “Here’s How Many Millennials Are ‘Suffering From PTSD’ Because of 2016 Election” HERE)

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Mom’s Actions Help Stop a Potential Mass Killing in Kentucky

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By The Blaze. Police have credited a New Jersey mother with helping to thwart a man’s plans to carry out a mass killing hundreds of miles away in Kentucky.

According to a report Monday by WTXF-TV, Koeberle Bull of Lumberton, New Jersey, recently received a Facebook message from a man she didn’t know. . .

Bull took a look at the message’s contents and was shocked to discover crude, harassing language toward her and her children.

She said that she checked out the man’s profile and discovered his name was Dylan Jarrell. Jarrell claimed to hail from Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, some 650 miles away from Bull’s New Jersey home, and featured a photo of Jarrell posing with a weapon. . .

The Kentucky State Police took Bull’s complaint seriously and approached Jarrell, 21, for questioning as he was pulling out of his driveway. (Read more from “Mom’s Actions Help Stop a Potential Mass Killing in Kentucky” HERE)

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Police: New Jersey Mom Stops Potential School Shooting in Kentucky

By Fox 29. Police say a 21-year-old man was minutes away from carrying out a school shooting in Lexington, Kentucky, when federal agents arrested him. They say if it were not for a mother hundreds of miles away in New Jersey, we might be broadcasting the nation’s next mass shooting. . .

Officials also believe Jarrel was planning to carry out an attack on a local school before the FBI made an arrest. Inside his home, police found a gun, 200 rounds of ammo, a Kevlar vest and a detailed plan of attack.

“I can tell you he was caught backing out of this driveway,” Kentucky State Police Commissioner Richard Sanders told FOX 29.

On Monday, Jarrell pleaded not guilty to making terroristic threats. Meanwhile, 650 miles away, a New Jersey mother is being hailed as a hero. (Read more from “Police: New Jersey Mom Stops Potential School Shooting in Kentucky” HERE)

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Huh: Man Groped a Woman on an Airplane…And Then Blamed Trump?

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A man was arrested after allegedly groping a woman on a flight from Houston, Texas to Albuquerque, New Mexico. The most interesting tidbit? The man told authorities “the president of the United States says it’s OK to grab women by their private parts,” KTRK-TV reported.

Bruce Michael Alexander, 49, was seated in a window seat on a Southwest Airlines flight. The woman who sat in front of him told authorities she fell asleep and woke up 15 minutes later when she “felt her clothes move and a touching of fingers on her right side” near her breast, the Tampa Bay Times reported.

According to court documents, as he was being placed under arrest, Alexander told authorities that “the president of the United States says it’s OK to grab women by their private parts.”

He’s been charged with abusive sexual contact and remains in custody until a preliminary hearing takes place. If convicted, Alexander faces up to two years in prison and a $250,000 fine. . .

At what point do we start holding people accountable for their actions? It’s ridiculous that people can blame President Trump for anything and everything. (Read more from “Huh: Man Groped a Woman on an Airplane…And Then Blamed Trump?” HERE)

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Hero Who Died Fending off Potential Rapist Underscores the Dangers of Me Too

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Local reports say a man died a hero after trying to help a woman who was sexually assaulted on a street in Arlington, Virginia. It is a tragic testimony of how women need good men to protect them from the bad.

On Thursday night, Patricio Salazar, 54, noticed as a man identified as Michael Nash, 27, was walking with a woman and suddenly began to sexually assault her. Instead of staying clear of danger, Salazar rushed in to help the woman but was beaten unconscious [later pronounced dead] when Nash attacked him, according to police reports. . .

This story sadly comes at a time when stories of sexual assault are circulating in relation to the Me Too movement and men are being cast as predators or presumed guilty without corroborating evidence. In this case, we don’t have just one man—the predator—but a good man who gave his life for a stranger. Salazar’s actions remind us of the good a man can do when faced with a crisis, and how honor and strength still beat in the heart of humanity.

Salazar’s sacrifice is proof of how necessary it is for men to protect women they know are in threatening situations. As we have learned from the accounts of many in the MeToo movement, people often know abuse is happening, but they stand by and do nothing because they are too concerned about their own interests.

It’s not enough simply to be aware that sexual assault happens. We need to follow Salazar’s example and act, even at risk to our own lives or interests. To encourage men to do this, society needs to create an environment in which men will be motivated, not dispirited, from taking such actions. (Read more from “Hero Who Died Fending off Potential Rapist Underscores the Dangers of Me Too” HERE)

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Pastors Will Ask for God’s Blessing on Planned Parenthood Abortion Clinic

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It’s one of the most sacrilegious acts a religious leader could perform, but it’s happening again — this time in Columbus, Ohio. There, on the evening of November 9, the so-called Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice is planning a “blessing” of the Planned Parenthood abortion center.

This appears to be a response to the closing ceremony of the 40 Days for Life campaign. The event is called Holy Ground: Blessing the Sacred Space of Decision, and an event description reads:

During this clinic blessing, participants will gather with local faith leaders and guests to ask for God’s blessing upon Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio’s East Columbus Surgical facility, the abortion providers and staff, and all those who pass through the center.

In celebration of conscience and moral decision making, this event will include interfaith blessings, prayers, and testimonies about receiving and providing abortion care. This clinic blessing will create space for progressive voices of faith to speak boldly in support of comprehensive reproductive health care, especially abortion.

Mark Harrington, President of the pro-life group Created Equal informed LifeNews of the event. He said Planned Parenthood abortion practitioners kill babies at the abortion clinic in dismemberment abortions whey they are nearly 5 months old. (Read more from “Pastors Will Ask for God’s Blessing on Planned Parenthood Abortion Clinic” HERE)

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White Journalist Dies Months After Racially Motivated Attack

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Jerry Wolkowitz, a freelance journalist and EMT, died on Thursday months after he was attacked for being a “white man.”

Wolkowitz, 56, was attacked in New Jersey on May 1 by 26-year-old Jamil S. Hubbard.

“[Wolkowitz] was punched in the head and then dragged into the parking lot before being run over by a Chevrolet Malibu. His blue Kia Forte was then stolen,” the Asbury Park Press reported. . .

Hubbard was originally charged with attempted murder, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose and bias intimidation, and a grand jury later added armed robbery, eluding and theft.

Assistant Monmouth County Prosecutor Keri-Leigh Schaefer said Hubbard chose his victim because “he was a white man” and wanted to kill him because of his race. (Read more from “White Journalist Dies Months After Racially Motivated Attack” HERE)

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Warren Finally Admits She Is Not Native American

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. . .Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat who for decades claimed she was a Native American, has finally come out and said what we’ve all known for ages: She’s no Indian.

“I am not a citizen of any tribal nation,” Warren said during a debate on CBS Boston. “Only tribes determine tribal citizenship, it’s not done by DNA.” . . .

Warren listed herself as Native American in the Association of American Law School Directory, and according to The Boston Globe, she “had her ethnicity changed from white to Native American at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she taught from 1987 to 1995, and at Harvard University Law School, where she was a tenured faculty member starting in 1995.”

Some critics say she got the Harvard slot by claiming to be American Indian. “Harvard Law School in the 1990s touted Warren, then a professor in Cambridge, as being Native American,’” CNN reported last November. “They singled her out, Warren later acknowledged, because she had listed herself as a minority in an Association of American Law Schools directory.”

A 1997 Fordham Law Review article identified the Democrat as Harvard Law’s “first woman of color.” Warren even submitted recipes to an American Indian cookbook called “Pow Wow Chow,” which was released in 1984 by the Five Civilized Tribes Museum in Muskogee, Oklahoma. She signed her entries “Elizabeth Warren — Cherokee.” (Read more from “Warren Finally Admits She Is Not Native American” HERE)

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Trump Administration Considering Policy That Eradicates Transgender Identity

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President Donald Trump’s administration is considering defining gender as a static, unchangeable, biological fact that is designated at birth and can never be altered.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is seeking to create a legal definition of sex under Title IX, a federal civil rights law the deals with education, The New York Times reported Sunday after obtaining a memo from the administration.

HHS will define gender as determined “on a biological basis that is clear, grounded in science, objective and administrable,” according to the memo, TheNYT reported. The definition would define gender as either female or male, according to the person’s genitalia at birth. Discrepancies would be determined by genetic testing, the memo indicates.

“Sex means a person’s status as male or female based on immutable biological traits identifiable by or before birth,” the memo reads. “The sex listed on a person’s birth certificate, as originally issued, shall constitute definitive proof of a person’s sex unless rebutted by reliable genetic evidence.” . . .

“Courts and the previous administration took advantage of this circumstance to include gender identity and sexual orientation in a multitude of agencies, and under a multitude of laws … [leading] to confusion and negative policy consequences in health care, education and other federal contexts,” the memo reads. (Read more from “Trump Administration Considering Policy That Eradicates Transgender Identity” HERE)

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Sexual Assault Claims Against Dem Sen. Sherrod Brown Put His Post-Kavanaugh Hypocrisy on Display

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It’s amazing how putting a shoe on the other foot can change a man.

Let’s take Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, as an example. He’s running for re-election in a state President Trump won in 2016. The campaign of his GOP opponent, Jim Renacci, claims that he’s recently been accused of sexual misconduct by an unnamed woman.

Now let’s take a look at how this has changed Brown’s reactions to uncorroborated allegations of sexual misconduct.

First off, here’s what he said after Christine Blasey Ford testified about her allegations against now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh last month:

“Dr. Ford’s courage is inspiring and I am very grateful to her for coming forward to tell her story, even in the face of deep personal cost. She was moving, heartfelt and honest,” Brown tweeted, adding that this “was a powerful moment for our country.”

In contrast, Brown responded to the allegations put out by the Renacci campaign Thursday night by telling a local newspaper, “Renacci should be ashamed of this. He’s clearly a desperate candidate just doing whatever he can do to upend everything. There’s no truth to those.”

So here’s a question: Where exactly is the line between the moving, heartfelt, honest, and powerful and the desperate and shameful? After all, the accusations both came from sources with clear partisan motives, both have so far presented the same amount of corroborating evidence, and both became public at the 11th hour of a major political event. So why the disparate treatment?

It’s almost as if evidence and the presumption of innocence are things we ought to continue to value. Maybe. Just a thought. (For more from the author of “Sexual Assault Claims Against Dem Sen. Sherrod Brown Put His Post-Kavanaugh Hypocrisy on Display” please click HERE)

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Father Claims 13-Year-Old Son Arrested for Sexual Assault Was Falsely Accused out of Revenge for Using ‘Black’ Bitmoji

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The father of a 13-year-old Colorado Springs middle-schooler who was recently arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting female classmates says his son was falsely accused out of revenge after the boy was termed a “racist” for using a black cartoon character Bitmoji on messaging app Snapchat.

Keith Bailey was accused of unwanted sexual touching and harassment from numerous female classmates, one of whom is seeking a restraining order against him. The filed restraining order complaint from a 13-year-old classmate alleges Keith “was aggressively grabbing my boobs and butt” at a park this summer and was “aggressively petting” her in a church van after she asked him to stop, says a report from the Colorado-Springs Gazette.

The accused eighth grader’s father, Dennis Bailey Jr., says his son was the victim of revenge-like falsified accusations after “‘he made a girl mad on Snapchat’ by using a black cartoon character as his Bitmoji, a picture that represents a character,” reports the Gazette. . .

“My 13-year-old son was arrested at school,” wrote Bailey on a crowdfunding page he set up for his son. “The whole thing started with him changing his avatar on snapchat to a black person. That triggered accusations of being racist and he started getting threats at school. Still, he refused to be bullied into changing it.”

“The first girl to get triggered and some of her friends all accused him of sexual assault at school,” he said. “I honestly believe that it’s completely fabricated but in the era of #metoo they led him away in handcuffs. After hours of intimidation from a school administrator, which no one even called us or let us know what was going on, they couldn’t coerce a confession out of him so they suspended him from school anyway, and called the cops and had him arrested.” (Read more from “Father Claims 13-Year-Old Son Arrested for Sexual Assault Was Falsely Accused out of Revenge for Using ‘Black’ Bitmoji” HERE)

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