Friday, October 03, 2025
The 'Chosen Family' Trope Cheapens Relationships
The danger of the ‘chosen family’ trend is not that it elevates profound friendships, but that it cheapens or even demonizes true familial relationships. - Catherine Gripp
- Three men in a polyamorous relationship in Québec, Canada made recent headlines when they legally adopted a three-year-old girl...
While two of the men are officially considered her parents, the third is pursuing recognition as a third parent, which a 2025 ruling from the Québec superior court reportedly could enable him to gain.
- Closer to home, California’s “Change of Name and Gender and Sex Identifier Act” signed by Gov. Newsome, D-CA last month added yet another brick to the Babel-like tower of legislation undermining parental agency and authority. The sunshine state’s recent legislation limits and undermines parents’ authority to object to children legally changing their name to match their perceived “gender identity.”...
September 29, 2016 - Political Correctness: Word Police Want More Than Your Words - Intellectual Takeout
Engaging in political discussion on Facebook is never a good idea. - Jon Miltimore
“You know better,” I wrote. “Trump just has you wound up.”
- But when a dear friend of mine began clogging my news feed with stories alleging the real estate mogul currently running for president rapes children, I couldn’t resist.
“You know better,” I wrote. “Trump just has you wound up.”
- She admitted she was wound up. But she then proceeded to explain that it was “borderline sexist” to say so.
Hegseth vows to restore warrior ethos and end woke military | Blaze Media
Hegseth vows to restore warrior ethos and end woke military | Blaze Media:
In a highly anticipated in-person speech to nearly every general and admiral in the U.S. military, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth laid down his marker: the warrior ethos must once again define America’s armed forces. A great nation needs a great military. That is his aim.
The audience mattered. Senior officers have lived for decades under politicized leadership that drained readiness and morale.
Send in the DOGE boys!-----A government shutdown isn't really a shutdown. Most federal employees are still working and will get paid.
The federal government continues paying its biggest bills during a shutdown, and hundreds of thousands of federal employees get a belatedly paid vacation. - Jack Nicastro 
Some federal services and agencies might be put on hold, but the vast majority of the federal government, including all of its mandatory wealth transfers and obligatory payments, will remain unaffected.
During the shutdown, agencies that don't fund themselves or haven't received additional funding via a standalone bill must furlough non-excepted employees and stop their non-essential operations...
During the shutdown, agencies that don't fund themselves or haven't received additional funding via a standalone bill must furlough non-excepted employees and stop their non-essential operations...
History for October 3
History for October 3 - On-This-Day.com 
Gore Vidal 1925
- 1863 - U.S. President Lincoln declared that the last Thursday of November would be recognized as Thanksgiving Day.
- 1941 - Adolf Hitler stated in a speech that Russia was "broken" and they "would never rise again."
- 1954 - "Father Knows Best" began airing on CBS-TV.
- 1955 - "Captain Kangaroo" premiered on CBS-TV.
- 1955 - "The Mickey Mouse Club" premiered on ABC-TV.
- 2006 - North Korea announced that it would conduct a nuclear test as a key step in the manufacture of atomic bombs that it viewed as a deterrent against a U.S. attack. A date for the test was not announced.
Thursday, October 02, 2025
Majority of Americans support deportations despite negative media campaign | Blaze Media
Majority of Americans support deportations despite negative media campaign | Blaze Media:
A new poll found that a majority of Americans continue to support deportation of illegal aliens despite a campaign in the mainstream media to criticize enforcement.
Surgeon: Medicine Is Lost in the Wilderness - Intellectual Takeout
I once was proud of my profession. - Ross Gonnering
There were warning signals, to be sure...
The policy of medicine gradually became the politics of medicine.
And as is often the case, where there is politics there is also corruption...
- I saw how money, power and flattery could cause physicians to shade their recommendations...
We reached a point where, relating to COVID, attempts to treat disease were not just ignored but penalized...
However, in COVID, Informed Consent was criminalized…but only for that disease.
- Those who still felt an obligation to their patients were, and continue to be, vilified, slandered, fired from their position, and in some cases, prosecuted.
These are the four articles that make up the Viewpoint section of the September 19, 2023 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
- Affirmative Action Ruled Unconstitutional: Options for Building a Diverse Health Care Workforce
- Eli Y. Adashi, MD, MS; Philip A. Gruppuso, MD; I. Glenn Cohen, JDThe Supreme Court’s Rulings on Race Neutrality Threaten Progress in Medicine and Health
- Harald Schmidt, PhD; Lawrence O. Gostin, JD; Michelle A. Williams, ScDThe Supreme Court Decision on Affirmative Action—Fewer Black Physicians and More Health Disparities for Minoritized Groups
- Valerie Montgomery Rice, MD; Martha L. Elks, MD, PhD; Mark Howse, PhDHolistic Admissions at UC Davis—Journey Toward Equity
- Mark C. Henderson, MD; Tonya L. Fancher, MD; Susan Murin, MD
Fact Checking Trump’s Climate Claims - I & I Editorial Board
Editor’s note: We expect that Google’s AdSense will strip ads from this page, saying the editorial contains “unreliable and harmful claims.”It’s done that to us before, many times...
President Donald Trump spoke at the United Nations last week in an address that the world needed to hear.
It was of course picked apart, particularly his claims about global warming.
- He twisted facts and made “false claims,” say the gatekeepers of the Great Climate Narrative.
Is this so?
Let’s look:
Let’s look:
- Trump called the global warming scare a “hoax.” Not a word we would use, but he’s closer to the truth than the climatistas. It’s obvious to those with open minds that the global warming tale is the product of academic fraud, gross exaggerations, and an effort to lie to the public to move opinion and force politics into what should be a scientific debate.
- Trump said renewable energy sources “don’t work,” are “too expensive” and a “joke.” They work, but not as advertised. Renewables are unreliable and they are far too costly (without taxpayer-funded subsidies they’re dead). “Joke” is another word we wouldn’t use, because the damage done by the blind drive to net zero emissions is not funny.
- “All of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong,” Trump said. “They were made by stupid people.” They are not stupid. But they are conniving, deceitful, shameless, wrong and vicious. They are also dangerous (see the point above).
- Trump called the global warming account “the greatest con job perpetrated by the world.”...
FACT-CHECK: Yes, US taxpayers fund health care for illegal aliens | Blaze Media
FACT-CHECK: Yes, US taxpayers fund health care for illegal aliens | Blaze Media:
The Congressional Budget Office found in October 2024 that the Biden administration had cost state and federal taxpayers $16.2 billion to cover Medicaid emergency services for illegal aliens since taking office.
Paul Winfree, president and CEO of the Economic Policy Innovation Center, told Fox News Digital in March that California has been "exploiting an existing loophole within law" to use billions of dollars in reimbursements from the federal government to provide illegal immigrants with Medicaid.
$2,200,000,000 solar farm in California desert switched off after failure
Experts believe at least 6,000 birds die each year after flying into the concentrated sunlight - Joe YatesA $2 billion solar farm project to combat climate change has ended in disaster, after officials were forced to pull the plug on the experiment.
After splashing $2.2 billion on the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, which is located in California’s Mojave Desert, it was hoped that the state would be able to cash in on the money it saved that would have been spent on fossil fuels...
Construction started back in 2010, and four years later it was complete, but now 12 years on, it is earmarked for closure next year, in 2026...
Despite its ambition, Ivanpah never produced the energy it promised, and quite incredibly, it also relied on natural gas to stay running - hardly the green solution it claimed to be...
After splashing $2.2 billion on the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, which is located in California’s Mojave Desert, it was hoped that the state would be able to cash in on the money it saved that would have been spent on fossil fuels...
Construction started back in 2010, and four years later it was complete, but now 12 years on, it is earmarked for closure next year, in 2026...
Despite its ambition, Ivanpah never produced the energy it promised, and quite incredibly, it also relied on natural gas to stay running - hardly the green solution it claimed to be...
Hegseth declares war on woke military policies: 'We are done with that s**t' | Blaze Media
Hegseth declares war on woke military policies: 'We are done with that s**t' | Blaze Media:
Hegseth announced that moving forward, every combat requirement will be enforced to the "highest male standard" to ensure that the American military performs at the highest level. Some of these requirements include a height and weight requirement, biannual physical tests, and rigorous combat training.
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