Actress Details Disturbing Harvey Weinstein Sexual Assault

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A “Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights” actress claimed Harvey Weinstein masturbated on her face while his assistant waited outside a hotel room.

The woman, referred to in court as “Ashley M.,” trembled and sobbed as she testified how the disgraced Hollywood movie mogul picked her out of the cast of dancers filming in Puerto Rico in 2003 and demanded that she give him a “naked massage.”

Ashley M., who was a trained ballerina, said she was 22 years old when she worked on the “Dirty Dancing” sequel, which was produced by Weinstein’s former company Miramax.

She said Weinstein approached her as she was about to film a ballroom scene with other dancers when he took her outside for a private conversation.

“He said it would just be a naked massage … and not to worry about it,” Ashley M. said in tears. “He said, ‘Look at Gwyneth Paltrow and what it did for her career.’” (Read more from “Actress Details Disturbing Harvey Weinstein Sexual Assault” HERE)

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Scientists: COVID Restrictions Caused ‘Immunity Gap,’ Leading to Virus Uptick in Children

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Cases of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and other viruses are rising across the nation, and scientists are now saying the uptick is due to measures put in place during the pandemic that restricted immune development.

The phenomenon is called an “immunity gap,” and essentially happened when restrictions and practices that were common during the pandemic limited the spread of viruses, leading to less people developing immunity to them. When people re-entered society, the viruses were back, too.

Babies often receive antibodies for RSV through their mother’s breast milk, but even the mothers often weren’t exposed to RSV during lockdowns.

Scientists Dr. Kevin Messacar and Rachel Baker discussed the issue with CNN and wrote about it this summer in The Lancet.

“Although many infections and their associated morbidity and mortality were prevented by [non-pharmaceutical interventions], decreased exposure to endemic viruses created an immunity gap—a group of susceptible individuals who avoided infection and therefore lack pathogen-specific immunity to protect against future infection,” Messacar and Baker wrote. (Read more from “Scientists: COVID Restrictions Caused ‘Immunity Gap,’ Leading to Virus Uptick in Children” HERE)

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Presbyterian Church (USA) Adds ‘Nonbinary/Genderqueer Category’ to Denominational Statistics

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The left-wing Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is placing a “nonbinary/genderqueer category” into its denominational statistics.

“Each year, the Office of the General Assembly gathers statistical information from presbyteries across the country and provides a comprehensive breakdown on church membership, ethnicity and age distribution, as well as other information. But for next year’s update, expect to see some changes in what is reported,” a post on pcusa.org notes.

Manager of denominational roles and statistics Kris Valerius said, “we’ve always asked how many female members there are in the church. We’re now asking how many men, women and nonbinary/genderqueer members there are. We’ve never asked that question so we don’t know how many people will fill it out.”

“If we want to be inclusive, then we have to start asking because you should be aware of who’s a part of your church,” Valerius said, according to the post. (Read more from “Presbyterian Church (USA) Adds ‘Nonbinary/Genderqueer Category’ to Denominational Statistics” HERE)

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State Bill Would Allow Residents to Manufacture Unlimited Embryos and Destroy Them All

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Assisted reproductive technology is marred with ethical and moral controversy, but under a new bill that could be passed by the Illinois House of Representatives as soon as next month, procedures such as the serial manufacturing and destruction of embryos could become “fundamental rights” for residents of the state.

Margaret Croke, the freshman state representative for Illinois’s 12th district, first introduced HB 5779 in August with the intent of debating it in the legislative veto session scheduled for November. Croke wrote in her September newsletter about using the bill to enshrine abortion and assisted reproductive technology (ART), such as serial embryo creation and destruction, as “fundamental rights” for all Illinoisans. . .

The Democrat’s legislation, specifically, seeks to amend the state’s “Reproductive Health Act,” a law granting residents on-demand abortions, to add ART to the list of “fundamental rights” all adults in the state can demand.

That technology, according to the bill text, includes in vitro fertilization, gamete intrafallopian transfer, zygote intrafallopian transfer, embryo biopsy, preimplantation genetic diagnosis (which often yields incorrect results and leads to premature disposal of viable embryos), embryo freezing (which reduces the chance of an embryo surviving), problematic procedures such as supplying egg and sperm (which preys on young adults strapped for cash), and supplying embryos. (Read more from “Bill Would Allow Residents to Manufacture Unlimited Embryos and Destroy Them All” HERE)

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Joe Biden Endorses ‘Barbie Pouch’ Transgender Activist

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President Joe Biden has endorsed a transgender activist who describes women’s vaginas as merely a “Barbie pouch.”

“I feel very, very strongly that you should have every single solitary right including [the] use of your gender identity [in] bathrooms in the public,” Biden told transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney during a Sunday evening campaign event in the White House.

“It is extremely insulting for Mulvaney to be claiming to be a woman,” responded Anna Slatz, a founder of Reduxx.

“Everything Mulvaney does is a parody of womanhood because he has no ability to understand what it is to actually be a woman,” Slatz told Breitbart News. Biden’s endorsement of Mulvaney “is further driving home just how much [Biden officials] don’t care about women except for when they need us to vote for their candidates.”

Mulvaney is appropriating the cultural features of female life as he charts his day-by-day adoption of a female identity in brief videos. In the process, Mulvaney — an actor who formerly described himself as a gay man — is stereotyping women in a demeaning, sexualized, and submissive fashion.

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Data Shows Conservatives Are Happier Than Leftists

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A tweet from the researcher Brad Wilcox recently caught my attention. “Liberals,” he wrote, “are about 15 percentage points less likely” to be truly satisfied with their lives. On the same day that he tweeted out this compelling piece of information, Wilcox, a researcher studying family growth and economic trends, wrote an enlightening article expanding on this topic.

Liberals, he wrote, “are about 18 percentage points less likely to be ‘completely satisfied’ with their ‘mental health’ than conservatives.” Interestingly, he added, the issue of satisfaction, or lack thereof, appears to be especially “acute” for liberal women. According to the author, only 15 percent of liberals are “completely satisfied” with their lives and mental health. On the other hand, 31 percent of conservative women are “completely satisfied” with their lives, and 36 percent with their mental health.

As Wilcox noted, two family-related factors help explain this “ideological gap.” They are marital status and family satisfaction. In short, conservatives between the ages of 18-55 are “about 20 percentage points more likely to be married” than their liberal peers, “as well as 18 percentage points more likely to be satisfied with their families.” Marriage and family are directly associated with happiness, psychological and spiritual growth, and fewer mental health issues. Marriage is a key predictor of party identification; it’s also a key predictor of satisfaction.

The problem — one that is growing in size, I might add — facing liberals involves fully embracing a false narrative. Wilcox argued that too many on the left “have embraced the false narrative that the path to happiness runs counter to marriage and family life, not towards it.” Wrongly, they believe independence from the supposed shackles of domestic life will make them happier. They fall for the harmful narratives being pushed by mainstream media outlets, celebrating the dissolution of marriage and the rise of childless women. Wilcox criticized a recently published and widely read story by the author Molly Smith that appeared in Bloomberg. In the piece, Smith made a wholly inaccurate claim: Women who stay single and don’t have kids get richer and will continue to get richer. In reality, stressed Wilcox, married mothers tend to be richer. (Read more from “Data Shows Conservatives Are Happier Than Leftists” HERE)

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New American Values: Biden Funding Ecuadorian Drag Shows

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According to the Biden administration, drag shows are as American as apple pie.

This week, Fox News revealed that United States taxpayers’ have been funding “drag shows” in Ecuador to promote “diversity and inclusion efforts” via the State Department.

In late September, the State Department awarded a $20,600 grant to the non-profit Centro Ecuatoriano Norteamericano (CEN), Fox News’ Jessica Chasmar reported. That money will be used for “3 workshops,” “12 drag theater performances,” and a “2-minute documentary,” according to the grant’s description. The project runs until August 31, 2023.

Of course, the State Department exists to “protect and promote U.S. security, prosperity, and democratic values and shape an international environment in which all Americans can thrive.”

So what do men wearing lingerie and make-up while pretending to be grotesque women have to do with any of those goals?

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Children’s Hospitals Overflowing With Respiratory Illness Patients

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Children with a specific respiratory illness have been overwhelming hospitals, mainly in the Southern and Northeastern areas of the United States.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported recent data showing Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) cases have spiked over the past month. RSV usually causes children to contract the usual mild-cold symptoms, but the impact could be much worse for those immunocompromised or with a heart defect. . .

Dr. Juan Salazar, the physician-in-chief of Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, told The Hill that cases began exponentially rising at the beginning of September, which he claims is something he has never seen before.

Young children with the virus have swamped the Hartford-based hospital, with staff debating whether to call in the U.S. National Guard and FEMA for support. (Read more from “Children’s Hospitals Overflowing With Respiratory Illness Patients” HERE)

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School District That Let Biological Male Use Girls’ Locker Room Reportedly Punishes Father of Girl Who Spoke Out Because He Misgendered Trans Student in Question

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A Vermont school district that let a biological male who identifies as a female use a girls’ locker room punished the father of a girl who spoke out against the move because he misgendered the trans student in question, the Daily Signal reported.

The father — Travis Allen — has been suspended without pay from his Orange Southwest Supervisory District job as coach of the Randolph Union Middle School girls’ soccer team, the outlet said.

In late September, several members of the girls’ volleyball team at Randolph Union High School spoke out against the biological male using the locker room, saying the trans teammate made an inappropriate comment while they were changing.

Action was taken — but apparently not in favor of the now-uncomfortable girls’ team players.

Burlington’s WCAX-TV noted that the entire volleyball team was banned from using the locker room while officials conducted an investigation into claims that the girls harassed their trans teammate. (Read more from “School District That Let Biological Male Use Girls’ Locker Room Reportedly Punishes Father of Girl Who Spoke Out Because He Misgendered Trans Student in Question” HERE)

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Stacey Abrams Elicits Fierce Backlash After Suggesting Abortion a Fix for Inflation Struggles

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Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams, who is running for governor, said during a television appearance Wednesday that more abortion access was a solution to combatting the nation’s crippling inflation rate, a remark that prompted widespread backlash from Republicans.

Abrams was asked on MSNBC’s Morning Joe:

While abortion is an issue, it nowhere reaches the level of interest of voters in terms of the cost of gas, food, bread, milk, things like that. What can a governor, what could you do as governor to alleviate the concerns of Georgia voters about those livability, daily, hourly issues they’re confronted with?

Abrams replied:

Let’s be clear. Having children is why you’re worried about your price for gas. It’s why you’re concerned about how much food costs. For women this is not a reductive issue. You can’t divorce being forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy from the economic realities of having a child.

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