All Schools Close in Augusta County, Virginia, over Islam Homework

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Photo Credit: CNN After a teacher at a Virginia school handed out a standard homework assignment on Islam, such an angry backlash flooded in that it prompted officials to close every single school in the county as a safety precaution.

“While there has been no specific threat of harm to students, schools and school offices will be closed Friday, December 18, 2015,” Augusta County Schools said. Extracurricular activities were shut down Thursday afternoon . . .

When the world geography class at Riverheads High School in Staunton rolled around to the subject of major world religions, homework on Islam asked students to copy religious calligraphy.

It read:

“Here is the shahada, the Islamic statement of faith, written in Arabic. In the space below, try copying it by hand. This should give you an idea of the artistic complexity of calligraphy.”

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TV Star Fires Back at Bernie Sander’s Plan for College for All Americans

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TV personality Mike Rowe has a large following on social media. He has almost 3 million Facebook fans. So, when he speaks a lot of people hear what he has to say.

Rowe wasn’t very pleased with Bernie Sanders tweet about sending people to college being cheaper than sending them to jail. Over 100,000 people like his post questioning whether a college education is the best past for most people. He is perplexed by the thought of an elected official comparing the inflated cost of a college degree diploma with the hyper-inflated cost of incarceration.

At the end of the day, providing a path to go to college is a helluva lot cheaper than putting people on a path to jail.

Posted by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders on Sunday, December 13, 2015

This is Mike Rowe’s response on Facebook. It has been shared nearly 60,000 times . . .

I wonder sometimes, if the best way to question the increasingly dangerous idea that a college education is the best path for the most people, is to stop fighting the sentiment directly, and simply shine a light on the knuckleheads who continue to perpetuate this nonsense. This latest tweet from Bernie Sanders is a prime example. In less than 140 characters, he’s managed to imply that a path to prison is the most likely alternative to a path to college. Pardon my acronym, but…WTF!?

Historically, universities have promoted themselves at the expense of many other forms of “alternative education.” The implicit suggestion, reinforced daily by a generation of well-intended guidance counselors and misguided parents, is always the same – get yourself a four-year degree, or accept one of the many “vocational consolation prizes” that result from all other forms of “lesser knowledge.”

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Planned Parenthood Unscathed in Spending Bill

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Planned Parenthood is praising Democrats in Congress after the spending bill released early Wednesday morning spared the organization from cuts.

As expected, the spending bill does not defund Planned Parenthood, a clear deal-breaker for Democrats, but the absence of spending cuts is still noteworthy given the intensity of the push to defund the group earlier this year.

Planned Parenthood Vice President Dana Singiser praised congressional Democrats on Wednesday for “holding the line against these harmful policy riders and cuts to key women’s health programs.”

“Extreme members of Congress spent an entire year targeting access to reproductive health care at every opportunity — even threatening to shut down the government,” she added. “Today’s budget bill maintains access to critical preventive health services and lacks these harmful attacks on women’s health care — at home and abroad.”

After pushing for complete defunding of Planned Parenthood ahead of the Oct. 1 funding deadline, the conservative House Freedom Caucus scaled back its demands to a call for compromise language that would give states the ability to choose to defund the group. (Read more from “Planned Parenthood Unscathed in Spending Bill” HERE)

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Chief of Spending Watchdog Says Obama’s Christmas Trip Is Too Expensive to Justify

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Barack Obama has been savaged by a top spending campaigner for taking the First Family on an eighth consecutive Christmas vacation to Hawaii, at huge expense to the American taxpayer.

The President was accused of treating Air Force One, which costs $206,000/hour to run, ‘like an Uber ride’ ahead of his next jaunt to his home state.

Fly-time alone will set taxpayers back somewhere in the region of $3.5million as Obama, the First Lady, Sasha and Malia and their two dogs jet off for around two weeks.

They have traditionally rented a luxury villa in the upscale Kailua area on Oahu, the main island, and head out for hikes, rounds of golf and restaurant meals with their friends.

Tom Fitton, the head of the Judicial Watch pressure group, said Obama’s holiday habit proves that he is out of touch – and has to stop. (Read more from “Chief of Spending Watchdog Says Obama’s Christmas Trip Is Too Expensive to Justify” HERE)

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NOT NORMAL: ‘Transgender’ Man Claims He’s a 6-Year-Old Girl. Abandons Family…

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Transgenderism is the new faux protected class that liberals want to claim are oppressed. Thanks Caitlyn Jenner. But the entire movement has become a slippery slope of weird, barreling down into the nonsensical. It has giant dress up Barbies.

Well I have a few opinions on the matter. Hopefully you were sitting down for that revelation.

“I can’t deny I was married. I can’t deny I have children,” Wolscht admits. “But I’ve moved forward now and I’ve gone back to being a child. I don’t want to be an adult right now and I just live my life like I couldn’t when I was in school.”

There it is. An admission of some mental instability. Not only that, but an admission of being a horrendously selfish human being. Oh I’m glad he’s happy.

What about the wife and children he abandoned? Are they happy?

Maybe sometimes there’s more to decision-making than what makes you happy. Sometimes you have to take responsibility for your actions, have compassion for others and do things you may not want to do.

It’s called being an adult. Boy do I wish this man’s kids had one for a parent.

Some other points:

How does one know they’re secretly a little girl? An obsession with horses via My Little Ponies?

How does a man know what it feels like to be a girl? Obviously he doesn’t, he’s basing his feelings on gender stereotypes, it’s all he’d have to go on. You’d think the SJW feminists would be all over transgender women for becoming walking stereotypes, but nah… Remember, they awarded Bruce Jenner (a dude) with “Woman of the Year.” Come on, what did you expect?

Most disturbing of all, he managed to find a new mommy and daddy. That’s another post altogether, come to think of it. Two adults opened their home to a man who thinks he’s a little girl. He’s playing with their young children…these parents need to be scrutinized. Hard. (For more from the author of “NOT NORMAL: ‘Transgender’ Man Claims He’s a 6-Year-Old Girl. Abandons Family…” please click HERE)

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Evangelical Preacher on Trial After Branding Islam Satanic

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An evangelical preacher from Northern Ireland who branded Islam satanic has been charged with spreading a “grossly offensive” message.

In a May 2014 sermon, James McConnell told worshippers at the Whitewell Metropolitan Tabernacle in Belfast: “Islam is heathen. Islam is satanic.”

The sermon was streamed online, and 78-year-old McConnell has been charged with transmitting the message over an electronic communications network. (Read more from “Evangelical Preacher on Trial After Branding Islam Satanic” HERE)

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Disgraceful White House Hanukkah Celebration

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Leave it to Barack Obama to turn what should be a celebration of the Jewish people’s survival in the face of adversity into a politicized rant celebrating the cause of the Palestinians, who want to “drive them into the sea,” as has been promised since the birth of the modern State of Israel.

Daniel Greenfield reports on what should have been the highlight of this year’s White House ceremony at Front Page Magazine:

the White House chose Susan Talve to light the Menorah. Talve is a member of the anti-Israel group T’ruah which is currently promoting assorted “soft BDS” programs. She’s also a Ferguson activist. Her behavior was deeply insulting to the religious Jewish community and made it clear that the White House was determined to hijack even a Chanukah party to promote an anti-Jewish agenda.

So the general conviviality of the Chanukah party was disrupted by a crazed rant from Susan Talve in which she seemed determined to jam as many leftist talking points as possible in her limited time. Instead of talking about Chanukah, Talve blathered on about getting, “guns off our streets” and to “clean up the fires of toxic nuclear waste”.

Talve screeched, “I stand here with my fierce family of clergy and black lives matter activists who took to the streets of Ferguson”.

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Disgusting Discovery Made at Ohio Planned Parenthood

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Many states in America have laws on the books that require abortion businesses, like Planned Parenthood, to dispose of aborted babies’ bodies in a humane manner.

Considering what we know about Planned Parenthood, we shouldn’t be surprised that laws are needed to ensure that the abortion giant treats the remains of the precious 800 babies it kills every day with respect. Nor should we be surprised when they break these laws.

Ohio state Attorney General Mike Dewine today released results of a Planned Parenthood investigation that found “that aborted fetuses are ultimately disposed of in landfill sites – apparently intermingled with other common residential and commercial trash.” He cites Ohio Administrative Code 3701-47-05, which mandates that a “fetus shall be disposed of in a humane manner.”

But this inhumane practice is not limited to Ohio.

In October, South Carolina fined a Planned Parenthood affiliate for sending their victims’ remains to the local dump. At about the same time, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards announced her organization would no longer accept money for the body parts of aborted babies. (Read more from “Disgusting Discovery Made at Ohio Planned Parenthood” HERE)

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Mother Who Delayed Cancer Treatment to Deliver Her Fourth Child Dies Just a Few Days After the Baby Was Born

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A Missouri mother’s resolute decision to risk her life to save her unborn child has ended tragically.

Cara Combs, 38, of St. Louis, was 23 weeks pregnant with her fourth child when she was diagnosed with Stage 4 Melanoma.

Against the advice of her oncologist, she chose to delay treatment for five weeks in order to deliver the baby at 28 weeks.

The brave mom gave birth to Shaylin ‘Shay’ Combs a few days early by emergency c-section on December 5, with the child weighing in at 2.1 lbs and breathing on her own that night.

She had been scheduled to start immunotherapy 48 hours later in Texas. (Read more from “Mother Who Delayed Cancer Treatment to Deliver Her Fourth Child Dies Just a Few Days After the Baby Was Born” HERE)

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Sick CDC Gives U.S. An F for Sex Ed; Too Many States Teach Abstinence, Not Condom Use

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[Editor’s note: the excerpt of this article is shared to reflect where Obama’s CDC is headed with sex education in America]

There’s no nice way to put this: Sex education in the United States sucks.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released new data today showing that fewer than half of high schools and only a fifth of middle schools teach all 16 sex education topics recommended by the agency [see below for a partial listing of these topics]. In a country where nearly half of teens report having had sex and nearly a quarter of new HIV infections occur among people under 25, that’s a dangerous level of ignorance to perpetuate.

Dr. Stephanie Zaza, director of the CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health, told The Daily Beast that, in comparison to findings from previous years, this year’s data shows a “mostly flat” trend, or “a lack of increase in the topics being taught in schools throughout the country.”

In other words, it’s not getting better.

The CDC’s findings are based on a 2014 survey that asked middle and high schools in 44 participating states what percent of schools cover essential topics ranging from the benefits of abstinence to STD prevention to condom use. These aren’t particularly radical topics; the CDC is hardly recommending that schools teach teens about sadomasochism or proper orgy etiquette. (Read more from “CDC Gives U.S. An F for Sex Ed” HERE)

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Here is a partial listing of the CDC’s topics:

*How to access valid information, products and services related to sexual health

*Preventive care that is necessary to maintain reproductive and sexual health

*Efficacy of condoms

*Importance of using condoms consistently and correctly

*Importance of using a condom at the same time as another form of contraception

*How to obtain condoms

*How to correctly use a condom