The Justice Department’s Kristen Clarke confirmed on Wednesday that she did not disclose an arrest and expungement during her nomination to the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division‚ alleging that she was a victim of domestic abuse. The Daily Signal reported Tuesday evening that Clarke‚ who testified in 2021 to senators that she had never been arrested for or accused of committing a violent crime‚ was involved in a violent domestic dispute with her now ex-husband‚ one in which he alleged that she sliced his finger to the bone with a knife. The Daily Signal has repeatedly reached out to Clarke about the incident since February with no response‚ though the DOJ acknowledged receipt. In a statement to CNN‚ she addressed the matter‚ saying she was not required to disclose the expungement. She also told CNN that she was “subjected to years-long abuse and domestic violence at the hands of [her] ex-husband.” NEW: DOJ's Kristen Clarke testified during her confirmation hearings that she was never arrested for or accused of committing a violent crime. I've obtained messages and records indicating Clarke may have been…less than forthcoming with this statement.https://t.co/Wxcusa4yXU— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) April 30‚ 2024 “This was a terrorizing and traumatizing period that I have sought to put behind me to promote my personal health‚ healing and well-being. The physical and emotional scars‚ the emotional abuse and exploitation‚ and the lying are things that no woman or mother should ever have to endure‚” Clarke continued. “When given the option to speak about such traumatic incidents in my life‚ I have chosen not to‚” Clarke added. “I didn’t believe during my confirmation process and I don’t believe now that I was obligated to share a fully expunged matter from my past.” Clarke has not responded to requests for comment from The Daily Signal. Her ex-husband‚ Reginald Avery‚ did not immediately respond to a request for comment. CNN’s report did not include Avery’s allegations that Clarke sliced his finger with a knife on the night of July 4‚ 2006. The CNN report also does not link to The Daily Signal’s reporting. “I was seeing another woman‚” Avery shared in a May 2021 text message exchange with the American Accountability Foundation’s Tom Jones. “She was angry. Attacked me with a knife. I instinctively grabbed it. As I said earlier‚ I’m not blameless.” “That’s the story‚” Avery insisted. “That’s what happened. She went to jail.” Prince George’s County Police Department records show that the department was called on nine different occasions by someone at Avery’s and Clarke’s Upper Marlboro‚ Maryland‚ household between May 2003 and December 2007. Seven of those calls were for a “threat” or some type of domestic violence‚ but most were cleared without a report. The July 4‚ 2006‚ call was made by “Mr. Reginald” (Avery’s first name) and accompanied by a 760 code‚ according to a mainframe print-out from Prince George’s County computer-aided dispatch system obtained by The Daily Signal. That 760 code is the department’s clearance code for “arrest‚” the Prince George County Police Department confirmed. The DOJ official’s ex-husband also shared with Jones that on the night of the incident‚ he called 911 due to his injury and the “cops came because [his] finger was cut off.” (Avery clarified to The Daily Signal that the finger was sliced to the bone‚ not cut off.) Police allegedly decided to arrest Clarke‚ and Avery said he went to the emergency room in Bowie‚ Maryland‚ for the injury. He does not have photos of the injury. During her nomination‚ Republican Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton asked Clarke: “Since becoming a legal adult‚ have you ever been arrested for or accused of committing a violent crime against any person&;#63;” Clarke responded‚ “No‚” according to responses she submitted to the Senate under oath in a document called “Questions for the Record.” She was asked by the Senate if she was ever arrested. Full stop. And she said no. In normal people world‚ we call that lying. (The lawyers call it perjuring yourself.) https://t.co/c2AlilnPx0— Rachel Bovard (@rachelbovard) May 1‚ 2024 On Tuesday evening‚ Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee called for Clarke’s resignation. “Kristen Clarke is in charge of enforcing civil rights laws‚” Lee said in a statement posted to X. “She enforces those laws aggressively against anyone who sneezes near an abortion clinic. And not at all against those who vandalize churches. She lied under oath during her confirmation proceedings‚ and should resign.” “She lied under oath to mask her arrest for committing a violent crime‚ yet she zealously prosecutes peaceful pro-life protesters‚” the senator added. The post DOJ’s Kristen Clarke Confirms She Did Not Disclose Arrest‚ Alleges Domestic Abuse appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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In a serene cattle farm enveloped by the woods‚ a heartwarming story unfolds with Adam and Emily Hopson‚ who stumble upon a newborn calf abandoned under unusual circumstances. Named James‚ this calf is a Scottish Highland with a unique survival tale. Born in a challenging setting‚ James suffered from oxygen deprivation early on‚ which led... The post Couple take in abandoned calf and now he thinks he’s a dog appeared first on Animal Channel.

In a serene cattle farm enveloped by the woods‚ a heartwarming story unfolds with Adam and Emily Hopson‚ who stumble upon a newborn calf abandoned under unusual circumstances. Named James‚ this calf is a Scottish Highland with a unique survival tale. Born in a challenging setting‚ James suffered from oxygen deprivation early on‚ which led... The post People can’t stop gushing over this adorable calf who thinks he’s a dog appeared first on Animal Channel.

Wait  -so Big Pharma isn’t right all the time&;#63; After taking a birth control pill with progesterone‚ an Illinois woman began bleeding from her backside which almost took her life. This is the pill that is promoted by the same people who think abortion is safe. The patient’s pain became increasingly worse after taking the pills for only two months. She had terrible “cramps‚ debilitating nausea‚ and blood diarrhea‚” The Daily Mail indicated. After three weeks of intense pain‚ she went to the emergency room and was “diagnosed with ischemic colitis‚ which is most often caused by increased blood clotting in the abdomen and intestines.” Doctors who treated the woman indicated that this was only the second case of its kind that they’d seen and that without circulation‚ parts of the bowl can die and therefore‚ the patient can too. Daily Mail linked to a recent study which concluded that the pill the woman was taking could lead to increased risk of blood clotting. Doctors told the patient to go off of the birth control pill and her symptoms improved in roughly two weeks. “IC [Ischemic colitis] predominantly affects young women‚ who are on hormonal contraceptives‚ particularly estrogen‚ being implicated‚” the study indicated. It also brought up another case where a similar thing happened and concluded that while much more research is needed to confirm‚ it’s likely that the birth control pill contributed to the IC. Our case presents a unique scenario of biopsy-confirmed IC after the use of a progesterone-only contraceptive‚ the second documented case as per our literature review. The first case‚ reported in 1972 by Martin D. Gelfand‚ involved a multiparous woman experiencing abdominal cramping‚ bloody stools‚ and rectosigmoid erythema after initiating Depo-Provera‚ a progesterone-only contraceptive. In cases of contraceptive-induced IC‚ patients typically recover after discontinuing the hormonal contraceptive. Similarly‚ our patient had complete resolution of her symptoms within a few weeks of ceasing the medication. The sad part is‚ these types of pills are promoted and praised throughout many feminist groups and outlets. Planned Parenthood promotes the pill so it can make money  - but rarely‚ if ever‚ warns about the repercussions.  As the left tries to cover up any adverse side effects of these pills‚ TikTok has recently begun censoring videos that warn about those side effects. In an MRCTV article published last month‚ TikTok reportedly took down numerous videos that talked about women who developed severe hormonal imbalances‚ had a weakened sex drive‚ developed depression‚ gained weight‚ had heart issues‚ had issues with fertility later on and many more from the birth control pill. TikTok also removed advertisements for a detox regime from a wellness group called “28” who wanted to help women detox from the harmful chemicals of the birth control pill. With censorship like that‚ it’s likely the story of the poor woman who ended up in the hospital will not reach mainstream media. God forbid anyone’s actually informed about their health.

The historian John Lukacs used to say all the old “isms” of politics were defunct. They’ve become “wasms‚” except one — nationalism. Lukacs died five years ago‚ but the relentless anti-Israel protests on America’s campuses today testify to the truth of his insight. So does the attempt by authorities in the capital of the European Union bureaucracy to quash a “National Conservatism” conference two weeks ago. The mayor of Brussels was quick to order police to shut down the conference that brought speakers such as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Brexit mastermind Nigel Farage to his city. Naturally‚ he claimed he was only doing this to protect everyone from the threat of radical protesters wreaking havoc on the conference and city alike — as if preemptively censoring National Conservatives with government power was the only alternative to letting violent leftists silence them through private intimidation. Yet some might wonder why a “National” Conservative conference was being held in Brussels in the first place‚ with a distinctly multinational lineup of speakers from Britain‚ Poland‚ Hungary‚ France‚ the United States and elsewhere. Critics of National Conservatism — both the conference and the coalition associated with it since the first “NatCon” gathering in Washington‚ D.C.‚ in 2019 — have often claimed there’s a contradiction in nationalists from different nations working together. Isn’t that really internationalism&;#63; The founder of the National Conservatism conference‚ the American-Israeli intellectual Yoram Hazony‚ answered that in the closing chapter of his 2018 book “The Virtue of Nationalism.” There he relates how in the aftermath of World War II — a conflict widely seen as originating in nationalism‚ though Hazony finds it a product of imperialism instead — two opposing responses to the problem of aggression arose. The European intelligentsia‚ and eventually many educated Americans as well‚ chose to reject nationalism in principle and place their hopes in new international institutions: the United Nations‚ the European Union and the abstract “international community‚” as well as what’s now called the “liberal international order.” The other response was to reaffirm a defensive and lawful nationalism‚ above all the effort to create a Jewish state — Zionism. Hazony came to perceive the continuing growth of anti-nationalist ideology in elite European and American institutions (including our colleges and universities) as a long-term existential threat to Israel. Zionism is a form of nationalism‚ and if all nationalism is bad‚ then Zionism must also be rejected by the international community and the well-credentialed Westerners who think of themselves as its leaders. Yet the opposite was really true; if Israel was to survive as a nation-state‚ defenders of the Jewish state would have to affirm not only Zionism but nationalism in general. And Israel’s best allies wouldn’t be liberal internationalists but rather nationalist conservatives in different places. Even in democratic Western nations that fought the Nazis in World War II‚ such as Britain and the United States‚ liberals demonized nationalist-minded conservatives as bigots of every kind: xenophobes‚ racists and‚ of course‚ antisemites. Hazony recognized that the greater antisemitic danger now came from the left — the radical activists in the streets and the genteel bureaucrats in control of institutions like the European Union and U.N. agencies. His vision has been vindicated in the years since he published “The Virtue of Nationalism”: Not only has the left shown its antisemitic as well as anti-Zionist inclinations‚ but the nationalist right in much of Europe and elsewhere has proved to be strongly supportive of Israel in its time of crisis. Nationalist leaders such as Italy’s Giorgia Meloni and the Netherlands’ Geert Wilders‚ not to mention Donald Trump and Hungary’s Orban‚ are staunchly pro-Israel. Just as important‚ in Hazony’s analysis‚ they are in favor of the nationalist principle that makes Israel possible. On the other side of the ledger‚ the same frenzied students and cold-blooded bureaucrats who think Israel is worse than Hamas think Western nations are exceptionally wicked in comparison to the rest of the world. Today’s protests against Israel are part of a larger campaign against the nation-state itself: against national borders‚ sovereignty‚ the right of self-defense‚ cultural continuity and assimilation‚ and well-defined citizenship. Leftists long for a post-national world of administrative zones — not nations in any meaningful sense — overseen by enlightened experts whose authority doesn’t rest on the consent of any specific people‚ but who are ritualistically maintained in office by a well-managed fluid voting pool of identity constituencies and broken individuals. The French political scientist Pierre Manent argues that without nations‚ without some specific people in a particular place‚ there can be no democracy. Nationalism has its defects‚ and National Conservatism may not always remedy them. But if there’s going to be any democracy in the 21st century — in America‚ Europe‚ Israel or anywhere — there must be nations and nationalists willing to stand for them. Daniel McCarthy is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review. To read more by Daniel McCarthy‚ visit www.creators.com