The hysteria revolving around the loss of Roe v Wade was manufactured to distract American voters. Donald Trump has continuously said he would never sign a national abortion ban. The Supreme Court decided it belonged to the hands of the states, and that is where it would stay. Kamala’s proposed abortion bill is far worse […] The post Kamala’s Bill Is The Most Extreme Abortion Bill in the World appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Mystery drones flew over a U.S. military base for 17 days. The Pentagon says it’s stumped. They flew unhindered over sensitive national security sites. It sounds like the drones are taking the place of spy balloons. Why didn’t the Pentagon shoot them down and end the mystery? They are likely spycraft. Fox News and the […] The post Mystery Drones Flew Over a US Military Base for 17 Days; Pentagon Did Nothing appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

While Jason Kelce is used to fans asking for photos and autographs, he was not expecting what this adorable couple did. The former Eagles star was shocked when a man proposed to his girlfriend right at his feet. Watch the heartwarming video of Jason Kelce’s reaction to the proposal. A Proposal Made Extra Special With Jason Kelce Jason didn’t see this one coming Congrats to the happy couple! (via ig/mmammoccio) pic.twitter.com/O2bhOXZU8K— New Heights (@newheightshow) October 13, 2024 As the video begins Jason Kelce is standing next to a woman who is calling to her boyfriend. As her boyfriend enters the frame, Jason steps back and places his arms out, as if to take a photo with the pair. However, instead of posing for the photo, the gentleman surprises everyone by getting down on one knee. Jason Kelce is not expecting a proposal and steps back from the couple in surprise as he yells, “Oh my God!” This tailgate just got a lot more interesting! Cheers erupt from the Eagles fans, and Jason Kelce watches the proposal with a big smile on his face. Getting engaged while tailgating with your favorite team’s star players is an incredible way to spend the day. Good Vibes All Around As Jason begins high-fiving and shaking the hands of fellow fans, the crowd erupts into a chant. “E…A…G…L..E…S… EAGLES!” The couple was so enamored with one another that they seemed to forget Jason and the crowd’s presence entirely. The source of the featured image is here. The post Jason Kelce Stunned As Man Proposes Right At His Feet appeared first on InspireMore.

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Monday's Final Word

Breaking news from anti-DEI activist and Manhattan Institute fellow Christopher Rufo -- that Kamala Harris plagiarized five sections in her 2009 book Smart on Crime -- was greeted with contempt from the New York Times, which even hurled accusations of racism at Rufo for his past successes of exposing plagiarists in academia, including helping force the resignation of Harvard president Claudine Gay. Yes, the Times put "seizes" in its dismissive headline: Conservative Activist Seizes on Passages From Harris Book A report by Christopher Rufo says the Democratic presidential nominee copied five short passages for her 2009 book on crime. A plagiarism expert said the lapses were not serious. The Times instantly mobilized three reporters, Stephanie Saul, Vimal Patel, and Dylan Freedman on the case to neutralize Rufo’s undeniable claims under a ridiculous deck of headlines, which used a liberal media cliché (“seizes”) and dismissed the findings, courtesy of Austrian “plagiarism hunter” Stefan Weber, as a nonstory. Even the online photo caption tried to poison the findings as ideologically motivated, not a clear case of copying work: “Christopher Rufo is known for his opposition to diversity, inclusion and equity programs.” Harris's boss Joe Biden has an extensive history of taking other people’s words as well, though most often in speeches, as our own Jeffrey Lord knows very well. The story began with a label: The conservative activist Christopher Rufo published claims on Monday that Vice President Kamala Harris had copied portions of her 2009 book Smart on Crime, citing five sections that he said were lifted from widely available sites including Wikipedia and news reports. The minimization of the scandal began immediately. The passages called into question by Mr. Rufo on his Substack platform involve about 500 words in the approximately 65,000-word, 200-page book. Ms. Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, wrote the book with another author when she was the district attorney in San Francisco. In a review of the book, The New York Times found that none of the passages in question took the ideas or thoughts of another writer, which is considered the most serious form of plagiarism. Instead, the sentences copy descriptions of programs or statistical information that appear elsewhere. The five passages that Mr. Rufo cited appeared to have been taken partly from other published work without quotation marks. Jonathan Bailey, a plagiarism consultant in New Orleans and the publisher of Plagiarism Today, said on Monday that his initial reaction to Mr. Rufo’s claims was that the errors were not serious, given the size of the document. “This amount of plagiarism amounts to an error and not an intent to defraud,” he said, adding that Mr. Rufo had taken relatively minor citation mistakes in a large amount of text and tried to “make a big deal of it.” The Harris campaign in a statement rejected the accusations as a right-wing attack to try to derail her growing support. “This is a book that’s been out for 15 years, and the vice president clearly cited sources and statistics in footnotes and endnotes throughout,” said James Singer, a campaign spokesman. Known for his work opposing diversity, equity and inclusion programs, Mr. Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, published plagiarism accusations last year that helped lead to the resignation of Harvard’s president, Claudine Gay. First came the hints that Rufo was racist for exposing Harris’s plagiarism. Mr. Rufo is part of a loose confederation of conservative writers and activists who, during the past year, have tried to expose plagiarism among academics, many of whom have been Black scholars who work in the field of diversity and inclusion. …. Mr. Rufo said that while he and his colleagues had examined mostly published work by white academics, plagiarism had shown up almost always among papers written by Black scholars, particularly Black women who work in diversity and inclusion. Then came the direct accusations of racism. Some academics, however, have characterized the campaign as racist. Finally, the Times cited some examples of Harris plagiarism, though without any helpful graphics to highlight the similarities. The paragraph reads: “The drug market shut down immediately and permanently, with a sustained 35 percent reduction in violent crime. High Point repeated the strategy in three additional markets over the next three years. There is virtually no remaining public drug dealing in the city, and serious crime has fallen 20 percent citywide.” The news release [from John Jay College of Criminal Justice]: “The drug market shut down immediately and permanently, with a sustained 35% reduction in violent crime. High Point repeated the strategy in three additional markets over the next three years. There is virtually no remaining public drug dealing in the city, and serious crime has fallen 20% citywide.” By the way, the paper’s “plagiarism expert” Jonathan Bailey clearly resents conservatives for exposing plagiarism among leftist academic icons, telling the Times regarding Rufo’s expose of White Fragility author Robin DiAngelo last year, “It’s obviously got political and ideological motivations behind it, which is frustrating because as someone who takes plagiarism seriously, having it used as an ideological weapon is not encouraging….” The paper was less forgiving of similar instances of plagiarism in a Ph.D. dissertation by conservative commentator and writer Monica Crowley in 2019, in a story after an investigation based on a 2017 Politico piece. No “seizing” or “pouncing” by hostile Democrats here; the headline simply read: “Columbia Inquiry Found Plagiarism in Monica Crowley’s Dissertation -- An investigation concluded that the Treasury Department’s top spokeswoman did not commit research misconduct, but required extensive revisions.” Reporter Alan Rappeport quoted Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden grandstanding about the supposed seriousness of Crowley’s offense and how it reflected badly on the Trump administration, noting plagiarism was grounds for expulsion from college. But Wyden did not “seize,” and neither did he “pounce.” Rappeport wrote: “Plagiarism at times has been a disqualifying offense in politics.” But clearly not at the New York Times, not if you’re a Democratic presidential nominee three weeks before Election Day.

Last week, many online were treated to the unwelcome, uncanny sight of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) attempting a viral moment with the Harris-Walz base — by acting out a vaguely pornographic feeding video involving another woman on her knees and a Dorito chip. Why, God? Why? There are answers to this question, deeper than whatever superficial excuses and explanations will doubtless flow from the ick-soaked aftermath. Their health, their children’s health, everyone’s health, their very identity, justice itself demanded that we all destroy our personal and social dependence on the leadership and priority-setting of strong, competent men — because true health, true identity, true justice, true freedom, and true pleasure could only be created through artificial means.Those who have been too online for too long surely felt a pang of not-so-free association when they hazarded a click on the transgressive vid, by any measure, a first for a politician not of the late Western Roman Empire. Yes, the clip calls to mind nothing as much as the infamous old image of one girl gripping a kneeling other by the ponytail, “forcing” her (although not really) to drink deeply from a bottle of milk. But we’ve come a long way since then — milk is much too wholesome, too natural, and too (let’s face it) white to make the cut in the cursed realms of content pitched to drive votes from the swelling ranks of the willfully unattractive and deviant. Out with the milk, in with the Dorito, a meme food standby with viral lore of its own that need not concern us here. However consciously or unconsciously meditated upon by the perpetrators of the Whitmer stunt, it is a parody of the body of Christ administered at Communion for the healing of soul and body.However tasty in modest doses, Doritos are spectacularly unhealthy — because of how artificially engineered they are. An illustrative (not exhaustive) list of the product’s franken-features includes artificial ingredients, artificial colors, artificial flavors, ingredients “derived” from animals treated with antibiotics and/or growth hormones, hypertension-inducing levels of sodium, and processed sugars, fats, grains, and more, all with de minimis nutritive value. The truth about this engineered “doof” (as some call the class of fake food substitutes) is still — for now — scattered far and wide across the internet. One of the better summations of the facts comes from seven years ago on Reddit: “basically chronic disease in a bag.”So why is the parlous state of the Dorito so important in an unholy inversion of Communion involving a female “priest” and a female “communicant”? Some might answer by going off in the direction of a critique of homosexual wedding ceremonies. I’d like to go a step, maybe a leap, further. I think we have known for a long time that women are in such dire straits psychologically these days because they are now at the center of our demented elite’s plan to forcibly transform human beings away from their sacred given selves and into interoperable parts of a superorganism as artificially engineered and maintained as the Dorito. It was men who were first subject to this bio-spiritual terraforming process, and some time around the ‘90s, it became clear to the elite that the life force of men was, in this mutative processing, beginning to hit a point of diminishing returns. The yield curve was flattening; new life force was needed; it was very difficult to make any more headway unless the true guardians of the family and of public morals — women — were swiftly organized en masse for immediate processing. In order to do this, women had to be convinced that not only was this process good for them, but it was also indispensable, a must. Their health, their children’s health, everyone’s health, their very identity, justice itself demanded that we all destroy our personal and social dependence on the leadership and priority-setting of strong, competent men — because true health, true identity, true justice, true freedom, and true pleasure could only be created through artificial means that disfigured and destroyed the grip of our given sacred selves on our “choices.” There’s no need to go on and on about this — we are living out the reality of that program being well on the way toward completion. Look at (for starters) the birth rates, the prescription drug addictions, the depression, the psychosis, the ever more dramatic and disturbing forms of disfigurement and defiance of the most basic elements of the given self. Just one big thing is missing and that is to explicitly create an official religion, a theocracy, through which converts forced and voluntary, can ritually pretend to annihilate the Christian protection of the given sacred self and erect a new, artificial “sacred” — one in which the ultimate symbol and expression of the new divine order is the use of machine-made false food to seal the artificial union of post-human women into a cyber-organism productive of artificial life. The disturbing thing is that, to many, even now, this all sounds ridiculously farfetched when the basic outlines were already very well-developed even before "The Matrix" came along. Remember "Alien Resurrection" (1997)? This has all been going on for a very long time. The difference is that now we can actually start acting out in real life what was previously the province of fiction — and that, as a result, people are ready to accept it as normal, inevitable, or, indeed, the best of all possible worlds, where today’s monsters must crawl so tomorrow’s demigods can fly. Yet in that sense, there is nothing new here, no grand breakthrough beyond the ancient doctrine of redemption through sin. For feminists, women, men, and everyone else, the ultimate wages of this perverse theology are on visceral display in a theater near you in the form of the stunning fable "The Substance" — a film I would really like to know if Gov. Whitmer, who really brings that Demi Moore energy, has seen or even plans to see.