In the Anglophone world, the name Patrice Alegre is far from well known. This monster spent almost a decade preying on women in the southern French city of Toulouse. Alegre would have just been another psychopathic killer in France if not for his supposed links to a conspiracy involving the European elite, drugs, and accusations […]
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If you hadn’t heard, a group of Asian-American students has sued Harvard University, alleging that the school’s admissions process discriminates against Asian-Americans through a vague “personal rating” factor, and on Thursday, the Justice Department backed the suit, filing a brief saying that “Harvard has failed to carry its demanding burden to show that its use of race does not inflict unlawful racial discrimination on Asian Americans…
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As Twitchy has reported, both The New York Times and Reuters have taken a “conservatives pounce” angle in their coverage of the Catholic Church child sex abuse scandal and Pope Francis’s knowledge of it.
Reuters even doubled down Thursday by serving up this hot take: “Conservative media move to front line of battle to undermine Pope Francis.”
We know that Pope Francis is very busy tackling things like climate change and that the media would love to shelter him from criticism, but on Wednesday, a history and theology professor at Villanova University decided to bring the “alt-right” into the equation…
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Christianity thrives around the world. People devote their entire lives to a being they cannot see, touch, or feel. They run purely on faith. There are some faithful servants, however, who endure the ultimate mark of their religion. Seen as blessed, these people bear the wounds of Christ’s crucifixion—the stigmata. Many believe stigmata to be […]
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When we die, most of us can expect the whole of our bodies to be burned or buried by our families and friends. Some cultures may favor quick burials, as in the Jewish and Muslim traditions, or they may wait three weeks or more, as is customary in Sweden. Some cultures like small private funerals […]
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When people think of wartime nurses, names like Florence Nightingale spring to mind. But countless lesser-known nurses also made valuable contributions. Unfortunately, history’s memory bank is a lot like a financial bank: when making a large withdrawal, requesting large units of currency often makes the most sense. If asking a teller for $1,000, we would […]
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The Daily Wire’s Ashe Schow has been the go-to journalist when it comes to the hot mess that is college tribunals that stand in for courtrooms when a student is accused of sexual assault. And she has some really good advice for Rolling Stone:
Maybe sit this one out, Rolling Stone. https://t.co/QzZRYNsDOn
— Ashe Schow (@AsheSchow) August 30, 2018
Yes, Rolling Stone — the magazine that published a horrific — and completely fabricated — account of a gang rape at the University of Virginia now is going to weigh in on Education Secretary Betsy DeVos bringing due process back…
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