December 5, 2023
White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby suggested Thursday that it’s unlikely that the ideology of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas can be eradicated by Israel’s military operations. Kirby spoke a day after President Biden said he thinks Israel’s military operation in Gaza will stop when Hamas “no longer maintains the capacity to murder, abuse
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Pope Francis condemned the “very strong, organised, reactionary attitude” in the US church and said Catholic doctrine allows for change over time. Pope Francis has blasted the “backwardness” of some conservatives in the US Catholic Church, saying they have replaced faith with ideology and that a correct understanding of Catholic doctrine allows for change over
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Silicon Valley’s favourite philosophy, longtermism, has helped to frame the debate on artificial intelligence around the idea of human extinction. But increasingly vocal critics are warning that the philosophy is dangerous, and the obsession with extinction distracts from real problems associated with AI like data theft and biased algorithms. Author Emile Torres, a former longtermist
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Reader Anthony L recommended an article in the Boston Review, based on a series of speeches Angus Deaton, which extends his landmark work on deaths of despair which earned him and his co-author Anne Case a Nobel Prize.1 The latest sighting is grim. As before, Deaton ties the US record of falling life expectancy among
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A in London A Christian non-profit organization is sounding the alarm about teaching materials in thousands of British schools that suggest LGBTQ behavior is compatible with Christianity, Judaism and Islam. lesson planswhich consists of slides and activities put together by LGTBQ Just Like Us to distribute same-sex guidance to students ages 5 and up, according
READ MOREIn my first published peer-reviewed articlePeter Navarro and I have argued that both special economic interests and candidate ideology alone can explain Congressional subsidies for farm voting (we have also applied this structure to car upkeep legislation), following Kalt and Zupan (AER 1984). In the ongoing discussions about how many members of the Republican Assembly
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Writer Ben Appel says that his “biological gender was called into question” due to him growing up as a “really effeminate child”, which may have led him to run with the now-famous trans ideology. “If I went to a teacher or counselor for help and they said…maybe you really need to fix something – I
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For a lawyer Canadian A teenager who was suspended from a Catholic high school after speaking out against transgender ideologies has filed a human rights complaint alleging religious discrimination. Lawyer James Kitchen of the Freedom Coalition of Canada filed a lawsuit application to the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal earlier this month on behalf of his
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Pope Francis in a recent interview, he spoke out against gender theory, repeating his past comments expressing disapproval of transgender ideology. “Gender ideology today is one of the most dangerous ideological colonizations,” Francis said in a conversation. POPE FRANCIS WARNING THAT THE CHURCH CANNOT BECOME A “PROGRESSIVE” OR “CONSERVATIVE” “POLITICAL PARTY” Pope Francis greets and
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Christian parents in the UK accuse a Church of England elementary school of going against the Christian faith by indoctrinating young students with a transgender ideology, arguing that children as young as three can be “non-binary”. Parents Calvin and Nicola Watts picked up their three children from St. Louis. Michael at a Church of England
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