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Lent an opportunity for 40-day fasting

In Western churches, Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, six and a half weeks before Easter, and provides for a 40-day fast, in imitation of Jesus Christ’s fasting in the wilderness before he began his public ministry. Many Christians abstain from animal foods during Lent. However, a meat-free Lent is more than a symbol of devotion to Christ. A meat-free Lent reduces the risk of chronic disease, environmental degradation and animal abuse. Volumes have been written linking consumption of meat with increased risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke and more. In a 2007 United Nations ...

Dehumanizing effort to humanize mice

“Fresh and never frozen.” If you thought that was an ad slogan for Tropicana orange juice, you’d understandably be way off. No, no. That’s the Advanced Bioscience Resources guarantee given to the FDA. And the products they’re selling? Thanks to Judicial Watch’s March 2019 FOIA lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, of which the FDA is part of, we now know exactly what, in grizzly detail. The FDA was forced to fork over 198 pages describing a literal abattoir that involved the purchasing of “item line prices.” That is to say human ...

Reader sends a message to Biden

Dear Mr. President, On a recent newscast, I walked away from my TV sick to my stomach after listening to a speech you gave. I saw where your Health and Human Services were going to allocate $30 million to dole out clean smoking materials to drug addicts (crack pipes, maybe?). This was to make drug use safer and to advance racial equity. How do you make smoking crack safer? Anyway, I’m sure the parents who are trying to get their son or daughter off meth will be glad to hear this. “And honey, make sure you use a clean pipe this evening… have fun!” You’re concerned ...

Is anti-racism bill actually racist?

West Virginia Senate Bill 498 is a danger to all West Virginians. Behind the veneer of the name, “Anti-Racism Act of 2022” is a bill designed to put educators at risk for simply doing their job: educating. We should not be afraid to confront the demons of our past to have a better society for everyone in the future. This bill would restrict educators from speaking freely about our history and instead would instill fear that anything they said about our history could be held against them. What are we thinking? Our teachers are already spread way too thin. A pandemic, an ...

Trying to decipher deeper meanings

With the media scrambling to hide information that could hurt the Democrats in 2022, it’s no wonder people are completely ignorant about vaccines, immigration or racist statements from Joe Biden. The censorship is universal, from our local newspapers right down to and including the evening news. Facebook, Twitter and YouTube is suppressing the truth across the board, along with Google, Bing, Yahoo. All are using AI algorithms that look for particular words and phrases that violate their left-wing policies. During a video conference in 2015, Biden made the following racist ...

Reader: CRT is divisive, unneeded

West Virginia needs true equality in the classroom. We can all agree that racism and discrimination are wrong and have no place in the classroom, but neither does racially motivated propaganda. I’ve historically been critical of misleading positions from Socialist Democrats. A recent letter to the editor raising a controversy over West Virginia’s legislature’s push to ban the teaching of critical race theory (CRT) and associated ideologies in our public education system prompts this response. First, I feel there’s good reason to fear this new trend in education. ...